The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-11 00:00:00

FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

Twenty-one persons were summoned before the
justices in petty sessions for the Holborn division,
on Tuesday, at the Freemasons' Tavern, 19 of
whom were fined as under :—Licensed Victuallers
—Robert Sewell, Duke of Clarence, Eyre-street-
hill, five unjust measures, fined £2. Cornelius W.
Avis, Blue Posts, Mount Pleasant, Laystall-street,
four measures, fined £2. John Burge, General
Wolfe, Little Gray's-inn-lane, four measures, fined
it les. Eliza Pugh, Horse Shoe and Magpie,
Middle-row, Holborn, two measures, fined
Frederick Stratton, the Hole-in-the-Wall, Glo-
cester-street, seven unjust measures (all quarts),
fined £5. (This person was reported by
the Inspector as having been fined £3 on
July 12, 1864.) John Dodson, Fox, Duke-street,
St. George, Bloomsbury, three measures ; fined
£2los. Thos. Wood, Two Brothers, George-street,
St. Giles's, 11 measures, consisting of seven quarts,
three pints, and one half, all short of the legal capa-
city ; fined £4. Benjamin Scatchard, Crown, Great
Ormond-street, seven measures, all short, namely,
three quarts, two pints, and two half-pints ; fined
£2 ss. Henry Finch, George, Middle-row, Hol-
born, seven unjust measures, some of them with
holes in the sides near the handle ; fined £3 10s.
In this case Mr. Child, the solicitor of the Licensed
Victuallers' Institution, appeared, and stated that
his client had purposely made the holes, the mea-
sures being condemned to be broken up, but that
they had accidentally got into use again ; the Act,
however, is peremptory, and the ab ove fine was
inflicted. Mary Ann Rogers, chandler, Lawrence-
street, St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, six unjust weights
fined 15s. Catherine Brown, 1, George-street, St.
Giles's, three light weights ; fined 10s., or three
days. Frederick Byles Pavage, 220, Holborn, and
1, Little Queen-street, tobacconist, three light
weights (two cases) ; fined in each case ss. Robert
Barnes, greengrocer and coaldealer, St. George's-
terrace, Kilburn, an unjust weighing machine ;
fined £l. William Gibbon, shrimp seller, 10, Vine-
street, Holbozn, for using one pint short of the legal
quantity, at a stall in Leather-lane ; fined £l, or 14
day's imprisonment. Charles Maynard, shrimp
seller, of 12, Pear Tree-court, Clerkenwell, for
having in use one half-pint short of the standard,
at a barrow in Liquorpond-street ; fined 10s., or
eight days' imprisonment. Time in both cases
granted to pay the fines. Two not making their
appearance in answer it was ordered that they
should be again served with process.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

SALISBURY.—TuEsDAy.

The supply of wheat shown was limited, in fact shorter
than has been known for years past. Farmers whose re-
serves are not exhausted are now holding out for higher
prices, and the business done was against buyers. Barley
was also slow at late quotations. Oats, beans, and pee°
were moderately dealt in, but not quotably cheaper.
The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised fro'll
58s to 70s ; barley, 31s to 375; oats, 26s to 33s ; beans, 464
to 565; and peas, 40s to 48s per qr. Taros, from 5s 6d to
7- 6d per bushel ; Best bread, 16d ; household ditto, 151
per 81b loaf. Flour, 46s to 50s per sack.