The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-13 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

THE HAGUE, APRIL B.—ln the sitting of the Second
Chamber of the States-General to-day, the project of
law on civil pensions, was adopted by a majority of 36
to 16, after a discussion, in which several Members de-
livered their opinions, and the Minister had answered
the objections made to the law.
The HAGUE, APRIL B,—The President of the Second
Chamber of the States-General proposed to-day, and
the Chamber agreed, that the debates on the projects
of law, respecting an indemnity for the military inun-
dations, shall commence on Monday, the 20th of this
month.

APRIL 9.—The accounts from the river announce an
extraordinary rise of the Rhine, which, on the 6th of
this month was at 18ft. Bin. at Cologne, had risen on
the following day to 23ft., and on the Bth, was at
23ft. 9in.

AMSTERDAM, APRIL B.—To-day being the 22d anni-
versary of the birth of her Royal Highness the Princess
Sophia, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimer, was
observed with the usual festivities.
Welch, the shopkeer, and his son, who ha been in
prison about three months, on account of the fire which
took place in December last, have been set at liberty
by order of the tribunal of this distriet, as there did not
appear sufficient grounds for further proceedings against
them.

APELDOORN, APRIL B.—We are assured that her
Royal Highness Princess Albert of Prussia, intends to
favour us by stopping two or three days at the Loo, on
her journey from the Hague to Carnenz.
ALPHEN EN RID, APRIL 6.—We learn that last night
about fifty persons, each carrying a bundle, and coming
from Belgium, passed over the heath, and were attacked
by 11 police officers on the line, who, by raising an alarm
and discharging their pistols, dispersed them, and ob-
tained possession of 26 bundles of the value of 5,000
florins.

THE HAGUE, APRIL 9.—Mr. Gevers, his Majesty's
Minister, President to the Courts of Baden, Bavaria,
and Wurtemburg, has been honourably discharged from
his officer as Minister of the Court of Baden, by a reso•
lution of his Majesty of the 31st of March, with thanks
for the services he has rendered.

By the same resolution Mr. T. G. Trours, his Majesty's
Charge d'Affaires at the Court of Athens, is appointed
Minister Resident to the Court of Baden, with direc-
tions to have his residence at Mannheim, there to act as
Consul General, and M. T. M. Roist Van Lunburg, at
present acting as Counseller of Legation to the King's
Embassy at Vienna, is appointed Charge d'Affaires and
Consul General at Athens.

His Excellency 3EMercier, Plenipotentiary of his
Majesty the King of the Belgians, with an extraordi-
nary mission to the Court of the Netherlands, arrived
at the Hague yesterday evening.

CAUTION TO DISHONEST BREAD

BAKERS.

In so numerously a populated place as Hull, there are
thousands of persons who have not the profitable oppor-
tunity of baking their own bread, and such persons (and
they are mostly of the poorer classes) are frequently
liable to the dishonest stratagems of bread bakers. Of
late, numerous have been the complaints, not only in
letters addressed to ourselves, but at the weights and
measures office, as well by persons who have purchased
of the bakers and in provision shops. of loaves of bread
considerably deficient in weight. Those parties have
urged LB to expose the bakers and dealers, and they
have urged the inspectors to summon such shopkeepers
before the magistrates ; but the inspectors find that this
would be wholly beside and beyond their sphere of
duties, and we believe they hare usually intimated
to the complainants that the remedy is wholly in their
own hands. But it seems to be very little known, that
there is an Act in existence which imposes a penalty on
any bake, selling bread otherwise than by weight. We shall
therefore, notice two or three of the yrincipal provisions
of this act (the 6th and 7th W. IV. cap. 38)' which
passed in July, 1836, and is usually called " the Bread
Act." This statute, after repealing the several acts
relating to bread to be sold beyond the limits (specified)
of the city of London, including those which enacted the
assize of bread, by the second section makes it lawful to
make and sell, offer or deliver, bin ad made of flour or
meal of wheat, barley, rye, oats, buck-wheat, Indian-
corn, peas, beans, rice, or potatoes, or any of them,
and with any common salt, pure water, eggs, milk,
barm, leaven, potato, or other yeast, and mixed in such
proportions as they shall think fit, and with no other in-
gredient or matter whatever. The 3d section authorises
bakers to make bread of any weight and size. The 4th
section is the important one. It enacts!—
" That from and after the commencement of this Act,
all bread sold beyond the limits aforesaid, shall be sold
by the several bakers or sellers of bread respectively
beyond the said limits, by weight; and in case any baker
or seller of bread beyond the limits aforesaid, shall sell
or cause to be sold bread in any other manner than by
weight, then, and in such case, every such baker or
seller of bread, shall for every such offence forfeit and
pay any sum not exceeding forty shillings, which the
magistrate or magistrates, justice or justices, before
whom such offender or offenders shall be convicted, shall
order and direct: Provided always, that nothing in this
t contained shall extend or be construed to extend to
prevent or hinder any such baker or seller of bread from
selling bread usually sold under the denomination of
French or fancy bread or rolls, without previously
weighing the same."
The Stn section requires bakers to use the imperial
avoirdupois weight of 16oz. to the pound, and its aliquot
parts; and imposes a penalty not exceeding 51, or less
than 40s. for using any other weight. Then the 6th
section requires:—

" That every baker or seller of bread beyond the limits
aforesaid shall cause to be fixed in some conspicuous
part of his, her, or their shop, on or near the counter,
a beam awl scales with proper weights, or other suffi-
cient balance, in order that all bread there sold may from
time to time be weighed in the presence of the pur-
chaser or purchasers thereof, except as aforesaid ; and,
in case any such baker or seller of bread shall neglect
to fix such beam and scales, or other sufficient balance,
in manner aforesaid,or to provide and keep for use proper
beam and scales and proper weights or balance,or shall have
or use any incorrect or false beam, or scales, or balance,
or any false weight not being of the weight it purports to
be, according to the standard in the Exchequer, then,
and in every such case, he, she, or they, shall for every
such false beam and scales and balance, or false weight,
forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds, which
the magistrate or magistrates, justice or justices, before
whom such offender or offenders shall be convicted, shall
order and direct"

The ith section requires bakers and sellers of bread,
delivering by cart, &c , to be provided with scales,
weights, &c., for weighing bread ; and imposes a penalty
for refusing to weigh, if required, any bread purchased
or delivered out of such cart, in the presence of the
purchaser. Then follow various clauses relating to the
adulteration of bread ; and the 10th requires all bread
made of mixed meal or flour (other than wheat flour)
" to be marked with a large M, under a penalty not ex-
ceeding 103." By the 20th section, informations may
be laid before the acting magistrate or magis-
trates of the district (or borough), any one of whom
msy issue a summons, and, on hearing, convict; the
25th section giving an appeal against such conviction to
the quaeter sessions, whose decision is to be final. It
is, therefore, clear that any person finding that the
bread purchased by him is deficient in weight, may pro-
ceed at once by i.nformation at the borough police•court;
and this appears to the only way in which frauds of
this nature can be hiyestigated and punished.—Hull
Packet.:

A rumour is current in nailitary circles, which we
notice with the utmost reluct,lncey
and in the hope that
this public allusion to it m,AY elicit some authorised
contradiction or explanation. It. Alt! the recent victoriesst have struck our
readers that in the official accounts Ot
in India the praise so justly bestowed on the extraor-
dinary valour of her Majesty's 3d Dragoons, 6th Lancers,
and other cavalry regiments, did not inet:lde the 9th
Lancers. This latter corps must be well known to
our metropolitan readers; it was frequently review're6 on the
parade in St. James's Park by his late Majesty 011 his
revered consort, Queen Adelaide, and the distinctu:ll. of
" Queen's Own" was conferred upon it. The regiment, befo.we ,
its departure for India, was commanded by Lord Rosyln, the
present master of the Queen's Buckhounds, aid no body of
men could havebeen in a higher state of discipline and efficiency.
It is, therefore, with !surprise and regret we heare thalt in the.
late transactions it-wholly disappointed the
ation, that this circumstance is attributed togthneeiticeaaeil.
ness of one of the superior officers of the corps, and that
it
has been deemed necessary by Sir Hugh Gough to direct a
court of inquiry into his conduct.—Observer.
A laughable incident occurred at Romsey Abbey
Church, on Sunday morning last. An out-asked couple, a
" navie" and one of the factory ladies, presented themselves
to be united in the indissoluble bond of matrimony. The
ceremony performed, the officials naturally looked for their
fees—the lert„eyman received his, but the clerk and sexton
heard iv di rueful countenance that none were forthcoming
for them the husband stating that the parson was quite
enough to marry him, " without them other two fellows."
As neither threats nor entreaties could prevain on him to
alter his determination, it was resolved to try the effect of a
little confinement, so the happy couple and their attendants
were locked into the vestry; but 'Jere, however, consolation
under trials was not wanting, for being armed with their
pipes and a match, they comfortably enjoyed themselves for
more than hour, till the arrival of veople for morning ser-
vice compelled them to be dismissed; the fumes of the to-
bacco rather offending the olfactory nerves of some of the
more sensitive part of the congregatioit.--Brighten Gazette.
HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTI)N.—A t a recent meeting
of the poffimittee of Management of tl Y.e Hospital for Con-
sumption and Diseases of the Chest, 1 ield at the Hospital,
Chelsea, the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop
of Durham, offered to,
contribute 501., providing nine similar s labscriptions could be
procured, for the especial purpose of a (ding the fund for
tusnishing of the new hospital, recently 'erected at Brompton
His Lordship's benevolent intention h as been followed, by.
Philip Rose, Esq., Robert Vyner, Esq James Alexander,
Esq., Mrs. Elizabeth Vaughan, Sir R .c.bert Fitz Wygram,
Sir John Kirkland, and It. Beazon de 1 :eauvoir, Esq.
EASTER TERM.—The ensuing ter. 2 t will commence on
Wednesday sext, upon which day the Lord Chancellor will
entertain the Judges and members of t be. inner bar with the
usual Easter Term deleziner at his Lor dAtup,l house, whence
they will proceed to Westminster Hall, .about one o'clock.
Cußrors DiscovEitv.—On Wed itesday, while some
men were engaged in removing a he lige in the vicinity of
Wi.eeler's-street, Birmingham, they, iiscovered two copper-
plates, evidently constructed for forgi sg 11. and 21. notes of
the Bank of England, of date 1814.
[here appeared to have
been a quantity of what are believ tel to be forged notes
placed betwean the plates ; but ow 'ing to the length of
time they have been concealed, they Pvere almost reduced to
powder. The plates have been forw .arded to the Bank of
England.

THE SUN, LONDON