Star.
London, England, 1825-12-31 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Tbe Don, HALL, lipis Mirantichi to Leith, ltas pat iptifShleMs,
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FALMOUTH. Dec. 29.—Wind variable, Rik airs.l-Aalosed the
Newton, FuasTra, from Memel.; Compeers, ilocatest,frons Lon-
don ; Brothers, Jesus, frwn Milford ; end the Goat; Cons, floss
W e :ford.
PLymoirrn, Dec. 29.—Wind •il.N.E.—Artived the Elisabeth,
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ILIWZELL, from Pkout in 23'days, for Newcastle; Ls.
mostobum Memel ; and-the ()opt passport, frOm • fit& -..
Sailed the Medea, —, for St. Übes; and &With*, roe,
• ' 'for Tetra Vecchia. •
o,Posxsuouve, Deo. -36.—Wind N. with a thick SYg.-tt•Ardved
the Laurel, —, from Cork. Sailed his Majesty% attar-
Oss for Bermuda; and the Czar. Raines, for Sierra .
DIAL, Dsc. 30.—Wind N.W. light airs, with Alkek Mal WM-
Iher, and snow.— Arrived the Marwood, PacsaxtrAhat &..iskis'a
foe Hull; and the Cordelia, WATSON, from --.-. -Erased theorist)
from the River, the Juno, Srona, for Meant ; and Pak% •■•••-•.--s
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flir Gibraltar.

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m . re', Oy the ivogitation in the N4.,rtatids amounted
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NEW WEIGHTS AN•D MEAStiIIES' ACT.

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The new Cu.toms Act contains two tables of duties,
the one fixing the deity to be paid according to the
present weights and measures, and the other provid-
'erg new duties, to be estimated according to the new
.antlards, :cid to commence from and after the 1s: of
ennary next, at which time the former table ceases to
perat .
By this second table, many articles estimated by mea-
sures of capacity are continued at the old duties, and
hence the public gain in the proportion that the capa-
city of the new measure exceeds the old.
Thus wheat imported from the British possessions in
North America, apples dried and undried, French
beans, buck wheat, oysters, lentils, medlars, nuts of all
kinds, onions, pears,•rice, tares, and flax and hemp
seeds, ate to be cominned at • the old duty per bushel,
amf Which ii fully equivatent to a reduction of three
guineas per cent.
Again; oil,• both train and spermaceti, and blubber,
are to be continued at the same duty per tun, which is
equivalent to a reduction or full 201. per cent.
Also cranberries, rennet, and Cologne and other
mineral waters, are to be continued at the same duty
per gallon, being a redUction of 201. per. cent.
Thr duty on wines to bit raid as under :
Cape wine, present duty, Gs. per galL to be 2.5. sd. per impl. gall.
Yrench wines . . 6i. . . 7s. 3d. pti ditto.
Purtegal and other win* 4s. 4s. 10d. per ditto.
The Cusoms gain the fullowiag fractional advantages by the
new duties; viz.
Ott Cape Wine, four-sevenths of a farthing per gal-
lon; French ditto, one-fifteenth ditto; Portugal and
other winest six fifteenths ditto. The new duty on rum
is to cAurdince on the Ist of January, and is to be
Bs. 6d. per imperial gallon, which is about equal to,
7.; Id. on the present gallon: the spirit to be exactly',
proof; or if above or below, to be cha,ged or allowed
an pr9portion.
Accordiog to the London Price current for last week
-the pikes of,Jamaica rum, in bond, vary from 2s. 7d.
to Sr. 63., per gallon: Assuming that their values re-
main stationary up to the Ist of January, their prices
ought th,irto be, for imperial Won, for the minimum,
lid, and lot the maximum, 4, qd. Again, (torn
11."%h6 samesource, we learn the price of Cognac brandy
Af) IV $e titi. tb•S‘6l Per gallon, which, per imperial
gyelbin„.would be Ss. I Id. and 4.5. 2d.
Supposing a dealer to have a stock of liquors bought
by ihrpiesent gallon; in ceder to get the saute profit
in retailing them by the new imperial gallon, he ought
to charge Is. for every tenpence of his present charge.
• Supirosiag a farriiiy consumes a gallon of spirits per
.week, they might to consume six pints and a half and
halt a Tsai tern- of the new measure, or exactly five gal-
Los in six weeks.

Wheat
Barley
oats
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A pipe of Port wine contains about 138 gallons of
the present measure, and will be equal to 115* imperial
gallons ; a pipe of Sherry, 130 present gallons,
and will be equal to 108 3-10,.hs imperial gallons;
a pipe of Lisbon or Bucellas, 140 present gallons, and
willkbe equal to 116 6-lOths imperial gallons; a pipe
of Vidonia, 12U present gallons, equal to very nearly
JOO imperial gallons ; a pipe of Madeira, 110 present
'gallons, equal to 91 6.loths imperial gallons; a hogs-
held of Sherry, 63 present gallons, equal to 52* im-
pel sal gallons.
From these calculations it will be seen that six gal-
lons of the present measure are very nearly equal to
five gallons of the new m. asure, the latter only ex-
ceeding the former by thirty-seven hundredth parts of
a Cubic inch.
Tht Excise duties have also been adjusted to the
new nreaarre—that oa malt 1-.eing, after the Ist of
January, 2s. Bd. per bushel, which is an advance of
about three guineas per cent. The duty on beer is to
be 9s. per barrel, instead of 9s. 2d. The duty on Bri-
tish spirits is to be 7s. per imperial gallon of hydrome-
ter proof, which. is equal to a duty of ss. 10d. on the
old gallon.
Tne new imperial gallon .contains 277,274 cubic,
iuches, being 4:'726 cubic inches less than the old beer
measure; consequently 60 of the new gallons are al-
most precisely equal to 59 of the old beer gallons.
'Therefore, supposing a family at present to consume
a gallon of be-fr per day, and to continue the s.tme
noniiir.:l quantity throughout
_the coming year, they
wi:l at the end of the twelvemonth have only consumed
a quantity equal to 2(.)9 or the present gallons, conse-
qbently their consumption will have been lessened to
the extent of silt gallons.
:lire present charge made by the London brewers for
a barrel of beer, containing 36 gallons, is 21. 3s. 4d.
from which deduct the duty, and we find the net price
td be U. 14s. 2J. Now the new barrel will only b:
eqaal to 35 gallons and 4-10ths of the old measure,
c.aiseouentty the price ought to be 11. 135., Md. to
m add.9s. for the new duty, and we have 21. 2s. 70.
for the price at which- it ought to be charged to the
publican, being a reduction per barrel of B:ltd.—not
quite a farthing per pot. Admitting, therefore, tl,e
lattegise to have been necessary, it is obvious that the
present prices cantv.t be reduced w the Public, and the
question therefi.re arises, whether the 81d. per band
will find its way into the pockets of the publican of the
• brewer ? If infer the pocket of she litter, the advantage
pre annum to each of the great. London brewers will be
respectively as under, supposing them to biew the same
number of barrels at during the present year:
Barrels. s. d.
Bard* and Co. 556,261 at old. each 12,618 5 8k
Banbury and Co, 215,317. • 7,62.5 16 si
aWhitbread and Co. 206,082 7,298 14 9
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Reid and Co. 190,615 6,750 18 irk
Conihe and Co. 131,930 4,672 10 1
Calvert and Co. 108,669 3,838 13 104
Dleux and Co. 108,594 3,838 19 1
1 loare and Co. 70,060 2,481 5 10
Elliot and Co. 64,777 ' 2,294 3 84
Taylor and Co. 58,757 2,080 19 Of
'Deka 22,559 799 5 if
liodgsk•ir . 18,306 6-18 6 9
groat 16,664 ;;;I;it 5 8

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1,568,391 55,547 3 66
If the brewers should de ermine owing this 4onus
to the publicans, the total shews the amount that wou:d
be dist' ibuted among them. -
The calculation is exclusive of the advantage IPhich
a.crue up,sis every barrel of ale, and which will
probably be equal to half as ILLICI) mole.
Th.: Irish liquid gallon contains 217.6 cubic itches,
consequently 2.5 i Lists gailons will be equal to 20
.11.100 th Imperial gallons. The Scotch gallon conrainsi
840 cubic inches, and is equal to rather more than duee

Imperial gallons.
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the gallon, it thdll, after the
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ments relating thereto, !Iran be according to such fro-1
perial gallon, anyabingiii any Act or Acts thereof to
the contrary.
.notwithstanling. .
We neat proceed to sbew the operation of the new
measures on the prices of corn and other commodities
usually sold by measure. The present bushel measure
conraias 2150.4 cubic inches, and the new 'one will
contain 2218.192 cubic inches, con.equent'y, a clatter
measured by the new standard will contain 542.336
cubic inches more than one rintas-ured by the old ; or,
in more popular terms, neatly one gallon, S quirts,
and,li pint.
• The consequence will be an advance in the nominal
-price of,grain to the amount cf full Si. 3s. per ern,.
and as, after the Ist of January next, the averages will
be ascertained according to the new measure, the effect
will be equivalent to a lowering to the extent of Si. 3-.
per cent. of the prices at which foreign coin may be
imported. Thus, taking the ptices,of corn as given by
the Ciazetle for the week eliding Saturday, December
17, and supposing no variation to take place between
then and the Ist of January, the prices would, on the
latter day, owing to the difference of the measure, be
advanced as under :

Per present Ought to be per Ins-
Quarter. perisl Quarter.
635. 4d. • • 6s. 4d.
41$. 4d. . . 425. 74d.
265. sd. • • 275. sd.
465. sd. . . 47.. 11 d.
455. 64.1. . . 464. io.,d.
495. 54.1. . . Si 4. Od.

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It is obvious from these calculations, that tl,e price
of coin will teach the maximum at which its irnpoita-
tion is to be alloyed sooner under the new system than
it would under the old, and therefore, shoal.: the real
value of corn be increased, the public will gain no
slight advantage by the change. From the total silence
of the landed interest during the last Session of Parlia-
ment on this stibitt, it should appear that this opera-
tion of the Atth..d wholly escaped their nctire.
In the merstning of coals, the height to which the
cone is to be raised h defiiied by the Act ; and the dia-
meter of the measure being enlarged, the public will
gain about 68, solid inches of coals in every bushel, and
which will. be equal in the chalchon, m oire bushel all
but half a peck. If, however, the cone is not thus
raised, the difference in a chaldron will not exceed halt
a pint, as the. contents r:f the new buslui, exclusive of
the cone, are only half a cubic inch more than the
old one.
In a commercial ccuntry like 016, it is of course im-
portant to have accurate tables of the effect of all the-se
various changes, exhibited more in detail, ani more
adapted tor practical purposes than those we have given;
and it may, therefore, be acceptable to many to be in.
formed that Mr. Gutteridge,the conservator of weights
for Middlesex, has now in the press, a work, contain.
inga series of tables, skewing the proportion which
the new measures bear to the present standards, and
and to those of all foreign countries with which Great
Britain has any commerce, and also to the local mea-
sures in use in various districts in England, Scotland,
and Ireland.

Thursday was the anniversary of the Royal Society,
being instituted, in 1660; of the birth of J. PHILLIPS,
poet, 1676 ; and of the death of ROBERT BOVA phi-
losopher and chemist, 1689.
The Moniteur of Tuesday contains a Royal Ordinance,
granting a pardon, (as we stated the King would) to
the following condemned persons : Benjamin Fnure,
Felix Cossin, Gaspard Lavaca!, and Joachim Arthaud.
They are to remain for five years under the surveillance
of the high police.
Letters from Italy state, that the mail-post which
left Altorf on the 12th inetant, was overwhelmed and
buried under an enormous avalanche on the Italian side
of St. Gothard. The men accompanying it effected
their escape by a precipitate flight. It is doubtful
whether the effects can be recovered. A letter from
tLe Hospice of St. Gothard, dated the 6th of December,
says, that on that day the snow had risen as high as the'
roofs of the houses, and that a transport of recruits for
the Neapolitan service were prevented from passing
the mountain. _
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Mr. ATCHESON, an attorney, well-known, especially
in the political circles about the Parliament Houses, and
as the founder of the Pitt Club, was on Wednesday
buried in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.
An aged and respectable member of the law pro-
fession in Glasgow, who died lately, bad engaged
tradesmen about twelve monThs ago, to place an ele-
gant railing around his burying ground, in the High
Church-yard, in chat city, but they ueie prt vented by
other engagements from finishing it at once, and thus
put their employer to the trouble of many visits, fur the
purpose of hastening the work, and at last he was
oblistd to threaten that he would engage the services of
others. Tiiis had the deli ed effect. The job was
completed on Saturday week, and the owner died on
Monday morning.
Tuesday, the 6th instant, the wife of a workman in
the vicinity of Paisley, observed her yotingest child,
about six months of age, somewhat uneasy : on exami
nation, she found a piece of sewing thread sticking in
its back. She suspected that a nee ile,or piece of a needle,
had entered the child while lying in her 1 !p. The
thread was pulled away, but n rthing c tare along with
it. The child was pretty well on the reinaiader ofAbie.
day, and in the forenoon of Wednesday, but towards
evening it became rather fretful anti uneasy, and passed
a very restless night. The mother became alarmed,
and on Thursday morning catried the chill to a Stn.
geon, by whom an incision was made over the part
where the needle appeared to have entered, but no
needle could• be felt there. T:.echild grew gradu.illy
worse on Thursday evening, and expired before mid- I
day on Friday. For several hours before death it la-
boured with disttes,ing,and violent palpitations of the•
heart. On examination it was found that a slender
needle, about au inch and a quarter in length, hid en-
tered between its shoulder-blade and spine, passed
between its third and fourth rips, and pen. crated
its heart, thus occasioning the death of a fine infant.
MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE.—A warper in the em-
ploy of Messrs. KERR and Co. of Glasgow, had a erild
which died on Thursday, after lour d ys'
occasione ! by the blow of a game cock, having struck
his spur in the child's head while in the act of cm eepiig
ins feet and hands.
PoT ST En Li \ o.—An elderly man, named tdru-ks alias
Lush, was brought to the Mat y•la•bon..e Otli.e, and
fully committial to the Sebli rats fur this offenc.. ye.ter-
day. I appeared he had been before in custody rn a
barge-of similar charge. and was deter led cairyitig
, 11' *lf, from the house of Nit. Lowder, the flea:,
in the New-road, a ;situ apt, and upon belle, searched
several others were found slung uudu au aer on round
biS waist.

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By a crau.e in the new Exi
is declareclopthat in all Acts ri
which mention is made of the
Ist of January next,- be take
Imperial gallon,. and all dut
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