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Cap. LXXIV. For ascertaining and 
establishing uniformity of We eights and 
Measures. 
It enacts, that from and after the Ist of 
May 1825, the standard brass yard made in 
1760, at the temperature of 62° by Fahren- 
heit’s thermometer, shall be, and be deno- 
minated, the “ Imperizl Standard yaRD,”’ 
and shall be the unit or only standard mea- 
sure of extension, whereby all other mea- 
sures of extension, whether lineal, super- 
ficial, or solid, shall be computed and as- 
certained, according to the proportions for 
certain measures of extension specified in 
the act. 
And that if the said imperial standard 
yard shall be lost or injured, it shall be 
restored by making a new standard yard, in 
the proportion of 36 inches to 397¢¢%5 
inches, when compared with a pendulum 
vibrating seconds of mean time, in the lati- 
tude of London, ina yacuum, at the level of 
the sea. j 
It enacts, that after the Ist of May 
1825, the standard brass weight of one 
pound, troy-weight, made in the year 1758, 
shall be the “ Imperial Standard TROY 
POUND,” and shall be the unit or only 
standard measure of weight, from which all 
other weights shall be computed and ascer- 
tained, according to the proportions for 
certain other weights specified in the act. 
And that if the said imperial standard 
troy pound shall be lost or injured, it shall 
be restored by making a new standard 
troy pound, bearing the same proportion to 
the weight of a cubic inch of distilled water 
as the said standard pound, thereby esta- 
blished, bears to such cubic inch of water, 
that is to say, 5°760 cubic inches of distil- 
led water, weighed-in air, at the tempera- 
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ture of 62° of Fahrenheit’s thermometer, 
the barometer being at 30 inches, each 
such cubic inch of water, when so weighed 
by brass weights, being equal te 252 7o%>'5. 
grains, and that 7,000 such grains shall be 
one pound avoirdupoise. 
And it enacts, that after the Ist of May 
1825, the standard measure of capacity, 
as well for liquids as for dry goods, not 
measured by heaped measure, shall be the 
gallon containing ten pounds ayordupoise- 
weight, ascertained as before-mentioned, of 
distilled water weighed in air, at the 'tem- 
perature of 62° of Fahrenheit’s thermome- 
ter, the barometer being at 30 inches ; and 
such measure, when made, shall be the 
Ff Imperial Standard GALLON,” and shall be 
the unit and only standard measure of ca- 
pacity, from which all other measures of ca- 
pacity shall be computed and ascertained, ac- 
cording to the proportions for certain other 
measures of capacity specified in the act. 
And it enacts, that the standard measure 
for goods, and things commonly sold by 
heaped measure, shall be the BUSHEL, con- 
taining eighty pounds avoirdupoise of dis- 
tilled water, the same being made round, 
with a plain and even bottom, and being 
19} inches from outside to outside, and the 
goods and things shall be duly heaped up 
in the form of a cone, such cone to be of 
the height of at least six inches, and the. 
outside of the bushel to be the extremity _ 
of the base of such cone. 
And the act directs how copies and 
models of the said imperial standard 
weights and measures shall be distributed 
and brought into general use, and how 
local disputes, respecting the correctness of 
measures of capacity, shall be locally ad- 
justed ; and it repeals all former. statues on 
the subject specifically. 
VARIETIES, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS ; 
Including Ni otices of Works in hand, Domestic and Foreign. ~ 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
IR Humphry Davy has arrived at 
his house in Grosvenor-street, from 
Denmark, after a stormy passage across 
the North Seas, in the Comet steam- 
boat. Sir Humphry has been engaged, 
during the months of July and August, 
in pursuing various philosophical re- 
searches along the coast of Norway, 
Sweden, and ‘Denmark, for which the 
Admiralty granted him ‘the use of the 
Comet steam-boat. He has ascertained, 
we understand, that his principle of 
preserving the copper sheathing of ships 
by the contact of 1-200th of iron, suc- 
ceeds perfectly in the most rapid sail- 
ing and in the roughest sea. During this 
expedition, . Dr. Piarks has connected, 
by chronometrical observations, the tri- 
angulation of Denmark and Hanover 
with that of England; and, by the de- 
sire of the Admiralty, various points of 
longitude have been determined by their 
chronometers, of great importance to” 
navigation ; amongst others, that of the 
Naze of Norway. 
Extraordinary Phenomenon.— On the 
20th instant, at Haworth, five miles 
south of Keighley, i in the West Riding 
of York, and on the borders of Lanca- 
shire, about six o’clock in the evening, 
a part of the high lands on the Stan-' 
bury-toor opened into a chasm, and 
sunk to the depth of six yards, in some. 
places exhibiting a ragged appearance, 
and forming two principal cavities — 
the one was about 200 yards, and the 
other not less than 600 yards in circum- 
ference, 
