The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-27 00:00:00

SHORT WEIGHT.

Fifty-two tradesmen were fined at the Newing-
ton sessions this week for having in their posses-
sion unjust weights, scale; and measures. The list
comprised 19 licensed victuallers and beer retailers,
7 grocers and cheesemongers, 4 butchers, 1 ham
and beef dealer, 1 oilman, 6 bakers, 2 chandlers, 6
coal-dealers, 1 corn chandler, 1 marine-store dealer,
2 leather merchants, 1 iron merchant, and 1 copper-
smith. The fines amounted to £7B 6s. The wife
of one of the defaulters, Mrs. Scott, 205, South-
ampton-street, Camberwell, appeared to plead her
husband's cause, and behaved in such a disrespect-
ful manner to the bench that the chairman threat-
ened to have her removed. She held that the
inspector ought to have warned her first ; and
flatly declared that the law was unjustly car-•
ried out. "It is scandalous," she added " that
people who pay rent and taxes should have
to come here." Evidently, Mrs. Scott thinks
she 'ought to pay rent and rates out of the
profits gained by unjust weights. There were
several very bad cases brought to light. Edward
Sturley, grocer, Princes-street, Walworth-road, had
placed a piece of putty under one of his scales—a
proceeding which the chairman justly termed a
" gross robbery." Henry J. White, grocer, Hill-
street, Newington, had inserted a penny under one
scale and a farthing under another, and actually
pleaded badness of trade as an excuse. John R.
Hennessey had a machine in his possession with a
piece of soap under it, and tried to put the blame
upon his wife. John Wright, grocer, Wyndham-
road, Camberwell, was fined £5 (second offence)
for having ioz. weight of cards under a machine.
Donald Scott, baker, Kent-street, a member of St.
George's vestry, was fined £2 10s. for having six
unstamped weights in his possession, while all the
weighed-up flour was found to be deficient in
weight. This " gentleman" supplies the workhouse
with bread—about 1,500 loaves per week. Evi-
dently, imprisonment without a fine is the only
punishment that will prevent cases like the fore-
going.—South London Press.

THE SLADE CASE.,—A_paragraph which originally
appeared in the Owl, and has been copied into otherpapers,
to the effect that this case has been compromised, is a inis-
representation of the true facts, which are as follow:—Bo-
fore the trial commenced an arrangement was made by the
plaintiff and son with the defendant that the unsuccessful
party lathe Court of Exchequer, if he chose to accept the
'civeisii:;ti as final within 23 days This
of lodgment, should.bave
a right to Slade to his costs from the successful party.and his
arrangement has been acted upon by
sop, who have announced their intention of not appealing,
and will sign a deed confirming Sir A. Slado's possessions.
BROADHEAD AND THE SAWORINDERS. —A meet-
ing of the saws'' and
trade was held on Tuesday night•
and spoke for nearly au hour
Broadhead was present,
The burden of his speech was that he had sacrificed him-
self to the trade. Ile said that he had injured his
character and pis prospects for the good of the trade ; and
he frequently made pathetic ejaculations, intending to
work upon the sympathies of hie hearers, iu which, .as wo
are informed, he, to a very large extent., succeeded. lie
terminated his speech by an appeal to his hearers that they
oend
persons
either keep him or allow him to re-enter the trade.
We believe that the latter part of his request was
to. Some of the rsons present expressed their o
that he was the best man in the trado.—Sknie Daily
Te YIirh.MURDER AT LICHFIELD Yesterday, at
! ;fi n;
tho Staffordshire Midsummer Assizes, before Mr. Justice
Slice, Martin Concaunon, 33, labou'rer, was charged with
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the manslaughter of James Frain 'flag grand ury had
ignored the bill for wilful murder, and being convicted of
the minor offence, ho was sentenced to four mouths'

prisonmen t.
THE BIRMINGHAM MURDERER.—The execution
of James Scott, who was recently sentenced to death at
the Staffordshire Assizes, for the wilful murder 04, Air.
John Pryse, at Birmingham, is to take place in front of
the new county gaol at Warwick on Moisday morming
next. No reply has yet been been received to the memo-
rial sent up by a large number of the inhabitants of Bir-
mingham, praying for.a commutation of his sentence. ll°
is visited in the condemned cell three times a day by the
chaplain, to whose ministrations he is invariably very
attentive.
THE SCARCITY OF HARVEST LABOURERS.—The
scarcity of laboureis competent to reap the corn in southern
counties has iLduced farmers to f)rm small companies for
the purchase of horse reaping-machines to cut the corn at
the approaching harvest. Many of these " reapers" will
clear 10 to 15 acres a-day, and women and children are
employed in tying the corn into sheaves. Much of the
corn is now lodged by the rain, and fine ripening weather
Daucli 1109494 tit PIT the crops.