Star.
London, England, 1826-01-06 00:00:00

NEW IfVF.IGIITSr AND MEASURES.
Yesterday a tradesmao came before,the.Lord,Maypr,
to complain that the City Officers had refused *tu sltipp
a measure, although it was accurate in. its dimensions
according to the legal measure. He produced an iron.
eessel, on which was inscribed, gi Imperial Half Peck."
He had, he said; come all the way from, Ireland, 2nd
had procured 141 of, those vessels 14): be made of
wrought iron, as the least petishable material, for the
use of the Government Officers at the Otiaports, to save
as standards. The Hall.keeper of Guildhall, however,
positively ref used.to stamp the, veakels,,althoogh he ad-
mitted they were perfectly accurate... NO reason V. as
assigned for the refusal, except that it was contrary to,
practice to stamp iron vessels, but there was a pro-
digious outcry against such vessels by the makers of
wooden measures, who exclaimed against things Of so
durable a nature -as A ruinous innovation. 'Mr. Temple,
the Hall-keeper, was sent for, and be said he had ob
jected to stamp the iron measurer on the ground of
custom. There was no instance of the stamping of
iron measures, and the process was extremely difficult
and inconvenient. The City Lands Committee had
declined to stamp such measures.
The LORD MAYOR rematked, that a variety of things
were now made of iron, and he' considered that the
measures should be stamped upon the payment of a
proportionate fee.for the extra trouble.
Mr. Temple said, the matter must be sumbiued to
the City Lands Committee, and with regard to com-
plaints having been made of measures not being
stamped, he said that the measures were stamped in
turn, and only a certain number for each person.—
The City SolicitOr, on several . points relative to the
New Measure Act, has pronounced. that old pewter
pots, if they be reduced to the. stet:laid size, and the
old mark be erased, may be stamped, and that the same
may be done with respect to the coal measures.
There are, upon the best calculation, 1,800,000 ale
and beer measures in the City and suburbs. Of these,
49,040 pots have been stamped at the Measure-office,
from the 28th of November to the 51st of December.
'As they have not so many persons employed at the
Measure-office, Westminster, it will be some time be-1
fore the whole are completed; and the publicans, if the
Act were to be put in execution, are liable to the penal-
ties. affixed to non-compliance. There have been
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stamped 2,660 great mine measures, 3,268 pints, and
9,495 small measures and other measures, in the whole
22,992. The new standards are about one-sixth let ger
than the old wine measutes, and one-sixtieth smaller than
the old beer measures. The new dry =mile is about
one thirty-sec( rid part larger than the old. Great quan-
tides of the old beer measures are made to serve, by
having the bottoms a little 'raised. The poorer classes
are much discontented with the new n ensures, as they
conider they will suffer by the regulation, rebile.the
trine-drinkers will gain. The trial of the measures in
the City is extremely strict, as in the olden time, and.
the capacity of every pot is tried by water from the
standard measures, while at Westminster, only half-a-
dozen, or little more, are trier:lout of each lot, and the
rest are stamped on the faith of those which were tried.
Such is the popular reliance placed on the superior
attention, given, time immemorial, by the Corporation,
with respect to the full and legal -measure far the use
of his Majesty's subjects, that during the last fortnight
a number of measures which had been tried at Weat=
spinster, sere afterwards brought to Guildhall, in order
that the City Seal might be impressed upon them. The
feu in the City for trying and stamping pewees pots,
are three'pence per dozen. Tho.e opoe the aseritirttion
of weights are precisely similar. The littoui'-ii;biihis
alldwasce, barely-paid. The fees paid elsewhere are
bight r. In all cases of reference to *local custom; its
ratio to the new standard is to be specified in the eon-
tract, or the contract to be void. Local measures Pray
be used, .if their proportion to the new standard !inns-
certaitied and impressed upon them. The proportions
are not easily ascertainable by those in the country.
Numbers of local measures have been sent to Guildbill
to be stamped, but their have been rejected. ' f,
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Messrs. BARCLAY and Co. the brewers, yesterdige
morning Limed a circular, announcing that a reduCtionl
of ss. per barrel has taken place on porter and stout. .
. The letters received yesterday give a gloomy p:cture
of many oa'rts of the cruntry. Anis:the and labourers
ih general have been thrown out of work .in great num-
bers. In Gloucestershire, 1800 have been discharged
by one firm, and 600 by another.
On the morning at Friday, the 16th init. two young
couples presented theMselves before Hymen's sacred
altar, at Abergele, in North Wales, to ratify their
plighted troths of connubial fidelity, u till death them
should part." The first couple that entered the Gordian]
knot were Mr. Edward Jones, of Tyn-y-coed, new
Abergele, and Miss Elizabeth Williams, of Moelvre,
dress-maker. The second, Mr. William Jones, of Aber.
gele, painter and glsziet, and Mies Ann Hughes, of
the same place, another dress-maker. Such a day was.
naturally anticipated as one of jny and hilarity : but,.
'alas ! how uncettain are human affairs! The run
people of both parties, with their friends, had made
,arrangements to spend the afternoon at ti e houses of
their respective parents ; but, on their road thither, both
brides were taken very ill ; and the formr died before
she leached home, ant seas canvoyed thither in a cart!
The 1 steer was obliged, with difficulty, to :emir to
Abetgele, where she lay ill for several days, but is
since tecovet ing.
PARISIAN STATISTICS.—CaIcuIAtiag t' e number of
inhabitants of Paris according to the births of 1824, or *multiplying
the number by thirty-three, we shall end, in round numbers, Mt.
the—inhabitants amount to 059,000, being an . augmentation of
256,000 persons in lure natl. fhis imuctsf agrees with the con.
conption—that of 1824, belhg greater than that of 182.3, by 7,000
head of horned cattle, and 26,000theep In 19e4, there was drank,
in Paris, without including the gnomons consumption aubide of
the barriers. 5,1110,000 bottles. wiwine more than in 18.4.
The following curious statistical accyunt if given in the asset
drhian.l4.; for the year 1826 :—The 100'moAt populous cities on the
globe are----Jeddo, in Japan, 1.680,000 inhabitants; Pekin,
I .sOO,BOO ; London, 1,214,000; H asts-Ischeo,., 1,108,000 % 41-
tutu, 900,000; Madras, 817,000; Nankin, ammo; (Alga ,
lichen, 61/0,000 ; Pari5,717,300; Wets Cheri, 600,000; Ct'n.tu-
tinople. 597,800; Benarss..s.slll,ooC Kio, 920.726; Su „...,.,
„a
500,000; Houng Isamu, 500,000; i11e.4.c. The f tit toitine
list is Berlin, containing 1e3,045). and the last,: .0-.3.6
Amoiq the 100 cities, dove contain more than• a WV Vine
from half a rtlilliall to a =Kinn ; 23 from '2.09,009.16010, '.A).01113•'
ssi front to t:4q,otAl ; six front 87 to 100,000. 0f,,1l legait..kti
cities, .55 are iu Asia, and 32 in Europe; of which. four wmio eis..'i
many; four in France i five iii Italy ; eight in likiglanil A these its
Sp .in ; Eve in Africa, snd five in America. A list of the P
•ti,m A* 64 suites b rivets; the follow rig. it an extract L—tt
I ?.64,LC0,000 ; British Empire, 136,500,000; ilusaia,•s9.ooo,ool4_
Japan, 40,0()0.000; France, 31,500.800; Austria,3o 000,000; Turk.
hit Empire, a4,E00.000; Anent, 23,000,000; Spain, 15,1100 000 ;
44 orocco, 16,000,000 ; Persia, 13,500,000; Atghauistait,.ll4B4,k).ooo;
Low Camp les, 12,800,000; Buriutse 19.4 00;' Vorea,
12,000,000; T ' hibet 12,000,900; Prussia, 11,370,0u0; lkaittil
:States, 10,645,000; Napluir.-7,300,,000 ; &Jail, 5,306,001 k ,l'he
principality St Lichtenstein contains the smallest number of tnlta-
Imams out of the 94 states, having.only moo itihabitauts.