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to hasten home the Frec-Trader, a sister vessel to the
Eider, end she is to be brought round to Woolwich
to he fitted at this port with the least possible delay.
ProviAions of every description are being prepared nt
Dep:ford and at Portsmouth, and no time will be lost
in putting them on beard when the vesself. are
ready to receive them. The sailing vessels, the
inempnt they are strengthened by Mkssrs. Wigram
and Mr. Green, will he brought to Woolwich, where
their stores, &c., will be put on board. Captain
Austin is not only in high spirits, but most enthu-
siastic in the cause he Ins undertaken, and unremit-
ting in Lis exertions to get the expedition ready for
sea.

DEATTI OF REAR-ADMIRAL SIR GORDON BRE-
MER, K.C.B , K.C. 11.—Intelligence was received at
Woolwich ye3tei day morning of the death of this
gallant officer, on Thuraday, at three o'clock a.ar, , at
tiffs ra!,idence at Compton, near Plymouth. Sir James
John G irdon Bremer entered the navy as first-class
volunteer in 1791, on board the Sandwich flag ,ship,
at the Nora, of Rear- Admiral Sketlingion Lutwijgc,
from which he was discharged in June. 1795 ; be-
came, Oct. 8, 1797, a student of the Royal Naval
College, at Portsmouth, and ra-embarked April 8,
1802, as midshipman on board the Endymion, 40,
Captain Philip Charlet Durham. He afterwards,
until July, 1805, served in the IsiF, flag-ship, in
succession of Vice-Admiral Sir James Gambier and
Rear-Admiral Edward Thornbrough, on the New-
aandland and North sea stations ; Windsor Castle, 98,
end Deflancr, 74, both commanded by Captain Dur-
ham, under whom he latterly saw much boat service
in the Bay of Biscay; and Prince George, 98,
Captain Gorge Losack. Ho was then (having but
a short time previously paused his examination)
.appaint,:d sub-lieutenant af the Rapid g,unabrig, and
on the 3d of August, 1805, was made full lieutenant
into the Captain, 74, Captain Stephens, part of the
Hon. W. Cornwallis's force in his ensuing pursuit of
the French fleet into Brest. On the 9th of May,
1806, he was appointed to the Diana, 33, Captain
Thomas James Malings, on the Mediterranean
station, whence he afterwards proceeded to .Davis'
Straits; Oct. 6, 1806, to the Imogene, 16, Captain
Thomas Garth, in the Mediterranean ; and May 28,
1807, to the Psyche, 36, Captain William Wood-
ridge, stationed in the East Indies, where he was ad-
vanced on the 13th of October following to the com-
mand of the Rattlesnake, 18. Returning to England
early in 1810, Captain Bremer, on the 13th of Aug.,
1812, joined the Bermuda, of 10 guns, in which
sloop, when in company with the Dwarf and Pioneer,
he captured, on the 11th of September, 1812, oft •
Boulogne, Le Bon Gepie,,,,Ofal.6 glans and 60 men;
and on the Ist of, January;, 1813, he assumed
the command of the,iioyalista 18. While in that
vessel he took four large American schooners,
and aided at the capture of .four others ; was alio
present, end bore a very conspicuous part, at the
gallant defence of Castro, when besieged in May,
1813, by a French army of at least 10,000 men. On

the 21st of October following he co-operated with the
Scylla, 18, at the capture, in sight of the Rippon, of
the French frigate, Le Weser, of 40 guns, and 340
men, after a severely-contested action, and a loss to
the Royalist of two killed and nine wounded ; and
in April, 1814, participated in the operations at the
entrance of the river Gironde, under Rear-Admiral
Charles Vinicombe Penrose. He was nominated a
C. 13. on the 4th of June, 1815, and subsequently
appointefl, on the 29th of August, 1815, to the Lee,
on the Irish station; on the 30± of May, 1816, to
the Comas, 28, in which he was wrecked on a reef
of rocks off St. Shotts, Newfoundland. In February,
1824, he was sent to establish a colony in Melville IN-
land, Australia, whence he r.ferwards proceeded to
India, and there joined in the closing scenes of the Bur-

mese war. On January 25th, 1836, he was created
a K.C.11.; and on the 12th of July, 1837, he was
appointed to the Alligator, 28 guns. After again
viiting New Holland, and founding the settlement
of Port E;sington as it at present exists, he once more
arrived in India, where, on the death of Sir Frederick
Lewis Maitland, in 1839, he became Commander-in-
' Chief, and continued to discharge all the duties of
that important post until Oztober, 1841, latterly with
his broad pendant in the Wellesley, 72. He lfrft Sin-
gapore in 1840, on the mission of triumph and glory
in China, until the final capture of Chusan in 1841.
Her Majesty testified her gracious approbation of his
valour in conflict and his discretion as her plenip.-
tentiary in council by conferring upon him the dig-
nity of a K.C.B. He was subsequently Commodore-
Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, until he re-
tired, on the 13th of November, 1848, and attained
the rank of Rear-Admiral osi the 15th of September,
1849. A good service pension becomes vacant by hip
decease.

IMPORTANT TO INNKEEPERS.
A case of considerable importance came bt-fire the
magistrates at the Trowbridge Petty Sessions, Wilts,
on Wednesday. Messrs. Saxty, Garrett, Cox,White,
Allen, Hayne, Vincent, Cuff, and Foreman, and Mrs.
Hall, innkeepers of that town, appeared to answer
informations laid against them by Mr. John Foley,
inspector of weights and measures, for having in
their possession and using certain vessels intended to
represent pint and other measures, which were unjust
and not according to the imperial standard. Mr. 1-1.
K. Norris, of Devizes, supported the information,
and the defence was conducted by Mr. IL Miller,
of Frome, and Mr. Stack, of Bath. As the cases in-
volved complex and difficult questions of law, J. Ra-
venhill, Esq., the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions,
attended to assist the Bench in coining to a decision.

It was resolved to take the case of Mr. Cuff first,
who, Mr. Norris said, was charged with having in
his possession and using six pint measures, and
two quart measures, which were deficient. The
sth and 6th William IV., chap. 63, sec. 21,
enacted that every person who should use any
weight or measure other than those authorised by
that Act, or which should be found unjust, should, on
conviction, forfeit not exceeding 51. Mr. Norris
said he had taken the opinion of Mr. Bodkin and
other counsel on this point, which justified him
in submitting that it was not necessary to prove
a user by sale, but that any other user in the trade
would suffice. But, even should the Bench decide
against him on this point, the defendant was clearly
liable under the 28th section of the Act, which
enacts that if any measure shall be found by the in-
spector unjust, it shall be seized and forfeited, and
the person in whose possession the same shall be found,
shall, on conviction, forfeit not exceeding .5/. A wit-
ness, who went with the inspector to the defendant's
house was then called to prove that several of the cups
found in the bar were deficient in measure,
and not according to the imperial standard.
The solicitors for the defence then addressed the
Bench successively, contending that the infor-
mation could not be sustained. By the 6th sec-
tion of the etatnte, it was provided that nothing
therein contained should prevent the sale of any arti-
cles in any vessels, where such vessel was not repre-
sented as containing any amount of imperial mea-
sure. The vessels in question were earthenware
cups, end not measures; nor were they represented
to contain any particular measure, any more than
glasses, which were used when customers asked for a
glass of beer or other liquor, and were served with
such a vessel accordingly. If a customer asked for a
cup of beer, he was served with and charged for a
cup full ; so for a glass ; and if for a
pint, or a quart, a pint or a quart measure
full, according to the imperial standard. The false
representation was the cheat, and it was clear that the
Legislature did not mean to apply its penal pro-
visions to cups or glasses either, unless they were
represented as containing what they really did not
contain, imperial standard measure. Customers
might prefer a cup to a pewter-pint, and if they were
told a cup contained a pint, the 21st section enabled
them to demand a comparison with an imperial mea-
sure ; and if the cup was found defective, then, and
only then, or in cases of like nature, where a fraudu-
lent misrepresentation was either actually or impli-
citly made, did the law subject the innkeeper
to penalty, By the same section an express excep-
tion was also made as to the stamping of earthen-
ware cups, and it was therefore no offence to have
such unstamped. At the same time, as the
innkeeper was denied by that exception, op
portunity of testing !the cup before the inspector at
the time appointed for stamping pewter measures,
he had not the advantage, as to earthenware cups, or
an ordeal which would enable him to satisfy himself
whether the cup was according to the standard or not,
and to have in his possession a defective earthenware
cup was, per se, no offence at all, and only became
criminal when the possession was for a fraud upon
the public, which was proved by a false representa-
tion that such a cup was not defective, but was capable
of containing the full measure, according to the
imperial standard. The Learned Gentleman alluded
to the great importance of the present case to the pub-
lic, and also to the defendant, who had borne a good
reputation as an honourable tradesman, and who, they
assured the magistrates, would be sorry to avail him-
self of such means es those alleged, for gaining his
The magistrates, after considering the
case, thought the law doubtful, and gave the defen-
dant the benefit of the doubt. This information hav-
ing been dismissed, all the other cases were with-
drawn.

THE CHANCELLOR OF TEE EXCHEQUER.—On -
quiry last evening at Sir Charles Wood's official resi-
dence, in Downing-street, the answer was that the Rigbt
Hon. Baronet was pregressirg most satitLeorily to-
wards recovery.
EAST INDIA RAILWAY COMP ANT.—The seventh
report of the directors of this raloay, to 1,0 submitted to
the half-yearly meeting on Wedue:d.:.y next, has just
been issued. It stet-s th,,t the emount received in call
ned in anticipation of sill,, is 229,912/. The remaining
c ills era to h, mode at intervals of three rnontlii, unless
rhrre shnold be nn y extra,r,Tinary rep.son foe
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on the 25th of next month.

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