divisions called demi-boisseau, quart de boisseau, must have their relative capacity in litres written on them : This measure serves for the sale of corn, coals, salt, lime, &c. Its form and dimensions are fixed by a regulation, dated 18th of December, 1812. LIQUID MEAsure. The government has allowed that, for the retail sale of wine, vinegar, brandy, milk, the litre should be divided into as the pint was formerly; but, at the same time, it has insisted upon the litre being the only denomination used. Great confusion would have arisen if the merchant had been allowed to adopt a unit different from the one used by the excise officers. It is directed that all casks and barrels shall bear, in legible characters, the number of litres they contain. The government has also determined, in the most precise manner, the form and dimensions of vessels employed in the retailing of wine and spirits. They are to be made of pewter, not having more than from 165 to 180 parts of alloy. Their form is to be cylindrical, in height double to their diameter. The litre is a little larger than the "pinte de Paris," it is equal to 1.074 pinte; it contains, as we have already seen, 1.761 English pint. The Tonneau de Bordeaux contains 931.318 litres, or 1640 pints English. The unit used in weighing is the kilogramme. It has been fixed by, and is equal to, the specific weight of the distilled water contained in one cubic decimètre. The centigrade thermometer being at 4 degrees (3.937079 inches English), about 40 of Fahrenheit, it has been ascertained by repeated and elaborate experiments, conducted by M. Lefèvre Gatineau, that, at that temperature, water had its maximum of density, and is the only fluid whose densities are uniform in similar temperatures. The kilogramme was found to be equal to 2 livres, 5 gros, 35 grains, poids de marc, and to 2 lbs. 8 oz. 3 dwt. 6.355 grains troy weight, and 2 lbs. 2 oz. 4 drams, 16 grains avoirdupois English. Bread, meat, butter, and most things of daily consumption, are sold by the weight, and generally in small quantities. Here, therefore, greater difficulties arose in establishing the decimal system. It was found impossible to make the purchasers, mostly composed of the lowest classes, understand the new nomenclature and its subdivisions. The old denomination of toise has been tolerated, taking the kilogramme for its basis. The kilogramme is divided into two livres, the livre is subdivided into 16 ounces, the ounce into 8 gros, and the gros into 72 grains. This new livre has been found to exceed the old one (poids de marc) by 1, so that to reduce kilogrammes into old measure, you have only to multiply by 2, and add Ĭ。. HAVING given, in our former Companion, a general view of these valuable Establishments, and the Rules by which they are now governed, we are induced to pursue the subject, by printing the following short summary of the routine of business and present classification of deposits and general result. of the Bank carried on at 50, Southampton Row, Bloomsbury. This Bank was established on the 10th of February, 1817, and is open to the public on Saturday evenings from seven till nine, and on Monday mornings from nine till eleven o'clock; the rate of interest allowed is 37. 8s. 51d. per cent. per annum, (being the highest rate authorised to be paid by Act of Parliament); and the following is a classification of the depositors, and of the state of the Accounts as submitted to the Trustees and Managers at an Annual General Meeting held on Tuesday, the 10th of February, 1829, viz. Classification of Depositors who have opened Accounts. Deposits made during one year, viz. from 19th Nov. 1827 to 17th Nov. 1828. Deposits of 1s. and not exceeding £1 4879 Above £1 5 Accounts remaining open on the 17th November, 1828. 4558 whose respective balances on the 17th Nov. 1828, including interest, did not exceed £20 each £31,179 15 7 Total Amount of Capital in each successive year, from the commencement on the 10th of February, 1817. XXII. BILL OF MORTALITY FOR LONDON. THE following is a general bill of all the christenings and burials within the city of London and Bills of Mortality, from December 13, 1827, to December 12, 1828: In the 97 Parishes within the Walls In the 17 Parishes without the Walls In the 29 Out-Parishes in Middlesex and Surrey Christened. Buried. .988....1125 .4922. .3853 .16300...12832 In the 10 Parishes in the City and Liberties of Westminster..4335....3899 Christened Females 13185) Males..111121 26545 | Buried Whereof have died, Under Two Years 6389 | Thirty and Forty. 1790 Betw. Two & Five 2326 Forty and Fifty... 1985 Five and Ten... 878 | Fifty and Sixty.. 1845 Ten and Twenty. 861 Sixty and Seventy 1891 Twenty and Thirty 1488 | Females 10597 21709 Seventy & Eighty 1540 Decrease in the burials reported this year 583. 1 ** We are endeavouring to prepare an article on the Bills of Mortality for a future Companion; for, imperfect as they are, they still afford some valuable materials for computations on the duration of life. We think it right to mention, that even these documents are not preserved for reference so as to be accessible. There is not a series in the British Museum. XXIII. CONSUMPTION OF COALS IN LONDON. A STATEMENT of the adjusted Importation of COALS to London since 1801, and the probable Population in each year, for the sake of showing the consumption per head. The consumption in 1801 appears small, because the Import of 1800 was very large. (From Mr. Charles Perkins' Evidence before the Lords' Committee.) The total Import of Coal in twenty-eight years has been 32,580,515 Chaldrons; the Import in each year has occassionally been over or under the proper quantity; the amount, therefore, against each year, in the foregoing Table, has been an apportioned one, to ascertain, so nearly as possible, the consumption of Coal per head per annum. On the gross average, if 28,868,085 persons consume 32,580,515 chaldrons, each person consumes one chaldron andths. XXIV.-LIVERPOOL DOCKS. A Comparative Statement of Rates and Duties received in the year ending on the 24th June, 1828 and 1829. Years. 1828. 66,128 18 103,159 11 0 £. S. d. L. 8. d. 78,400 7 9 81,198 6 1 2,797 18 4 7,193 16 0 3,159 2 6 2,798 15 0 493 4 6 445 3 3 An ABSTRACT of the CUSTOMS' RETURNS at the Port of GooLe, from the commencement of its Foreign Trade on the 5th of April, 1828, to the 5th of July, 1829, inclusive. |