Star.
London, England, 1825-11-22 00:00:00

ALTERATION or WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

The Chief Magistrate of a considerable town in'
Buckinghamshire, hating heeti frequently applied to
by the townspeople and others attending the in irket,
for a concise and clear explan non of the effect to he
produced by the Acts of Parliament for a c• training
arid establishing uniformity of weights and measures,
has circulated among them the follow-M.l analysis,
which we publish tor general informati••o.
liy the sth Geo. IV. chap. ;5. and the rith Gen. IV.
clia,s. 12, it is enacted, 'foal from and alter tie • I.t of
January, 1826, all cPntracts fur goods and me chaadise
that are sold or delivered by weight or measure, shall
be deemed and construed to be made according t. the
standards established by chase Acts, urile.s a
agrcement is made to the contrary; and in al: cites
where any spejal agieement shall be made with te-
letence to any weight or measure established by local
custom, the rate or prop-rtion that such weights and
measures •hall bear to the s•andari.ls now estab'ished,
shall to expressed, or such agreement shall be null and
void. Persons ate at liberty to o'-e the weights and
measures in their possession, it the ratio or ptopottion
they bear to .he new standards is pairtvd or marked
upon then:; but makers of weights a.id measures are
not peimitted to make any weights or measures alter
the Ist of J rnuary Lett, except in confornity w ith the
standards now to be established.

A:1 the fume:, and regulations contained in the
various fotmer Acts, authorizing the searching for,
seizing, and destroying of weights and measures not
cord-mai:11)1e to the standards, are, with the penalties
acid foxleitures, declared to apply to standards esta-
blished by these Acts.

The stand otd of weight is the pound troy, of 5,760
gra'ns, and the avoitc!uvis pound i • de chrt.d to con-
tain 7,000 of such pi:ins. T!:e Lep,:i!atute has, there-
foie, tna2e no alteraticn b the sAtigits ; hut an altera-
tion, to the en= ot of about o'le g:ain in me avtii do-
poi, poun,l, has become necesEaly, Pont some ,iippo,ed
inaccuracy in the olt.: stand4rds kep: is :i.e Excbetpier.
T' e measui es foe leiv,;th ,n 2 c; tices an c 11.4 .elver: J.

foe standard measuies t't Cii:m;;;;y, ;;s er, lot
uids as dry goofs, ate all loatt.'.e,i on the imp Tial
gallon, established by these Ac.s, :and di.cc.ed to con-
tain 1011). avoirdupois of dit;lled water, at sixty mu
degrees of heat, the b.rometer being a: chit t) ine.es;
the saute being in bulk equal to 077.274. cubic Indies :
and all other measures are to be taken in puts or mul-
tivles ot the Ind tailor,.
'llie quart to he one-fourth part of the gallon, and to contain
69.3185 cubic inches, or 211bs. of water.
The pint to be one-eighth part of the gallon, and to contain
34 65915 cubic inches, or I Alb. of water.
Two gallons to be a peck, and to contain 554 348 cubic inchci,
or 20Ibs. of water.

Eight gallons to he a bushel, and to contain '2218.192 cubic
inches, or ti.O.b. of water.

Eight bushels to bra quarter of corn, or other dry goods.
No particular form or proportion is dirrcted for the
bushel or other tnea.nres used for corn or o her good-,
usually sold by str ake measure. The strike is dnrec•cd
to be round, straight, and of the same diameter from
end to end.

The standard frr coals, lime, fruit, and other goods
coininonly sold by heaped n easine, is the afoiesaid
build, to be made round (we must presume cylindrical),
with a plain and even botany, and 911 incites di tnie.ei
from outside to outside ; .and when used,. to be heaped
in the form of a cope; such cone to be of the height of
at least six inches, the outside of the bushel being Oic
extremity or the base of such cone, and, including the
cone, it will contain 2815.-1887 cubic inches, which gives
597.2967 cubic inches, being 26 and 12-1:Itlis per cent.
in 2 and ‘2-13tIts of a palm, above the corn burd.el, for
the contents of the Cone.

All other ineaststes used for cods and other goods
sold h) he.►led mta•utr, are to he 11144.1 e c)ltnuttc.d,
with dt:tmi tel. at the ted.L double tt.e d..pth tie• cot,
and Elie height of the Cthie 011 et: :Jut the the oecth of the
rne.t,,ure.

The proportion that the new imperial measure of capacity bears
to the various 041 mea,ures 1, f01k.% s:—

1-31.75, say a part, or 31th per cent. (being one quart in a
bushel) Firger than the corn bushel.

1-x.992, say a sth past, or WS per cent. larger than the wine
measure.

1-59.67, say a 60th part, or one two-thirds per cent. smaller than.
.the beer measure, which dlfferince is equal to little more than one
cubic inch in a quart.
The Mill renee from the old coal measure will I,e very trailing, it
being only 7.-sth, of a pint larger in a chaldron.

A Ito .lien alteration is made, by inference from the
declared proportions of t' c weight and cubical contents
'al the ins;,erial g tllmi, "'Lich 1,, interesting to scientific
men, viz. that the specific gravity of .water,„liitherto
estahlislied at 10th) ounces per. cubic faot, is now Cal-
culated at t! e rated 9117.1361 ounces per foot.
Mau istrates are directed to procure, by the Ist Nov.
neat, models of the standards for their respective dis-
tr,cts, towns, &c. proterly compared and verified at the
Exchequer, the expense of which is to be paid out of the
county rate: and it appears that the cost of the standards
and indenturer.l correctness will be r.e.rly 1001.
The malt duty will be raised very nearly four per cent. by the Act
Grit Geo. IV. chap. .58, which was passed to adjust the amount of
duties to the new standard of nieasure.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.