Tho following just and equitablo decision given by Mr Justice Hannen, set:, at rest the question of fancy bread. Xc Raid : " The main object of the Legislature was to protect tho general public in the pur chase of household broad. This bread has a smaller surface exposed, from which evaporation and consequent loss of weight can take place, but it was noo thought necessary to protect in the same way thoso persons who desired to havo a more costly bread, and therefore the baker was oxomptod from selling by weight that kind of loaves, which, b ; i being baked apart,, occupy more space in the oven, and. lose more of their -weight by evaporation." In deliver ing judgment on an appeal by tho Crated Bread Company on tho same point, Mr Justice (now Lord) Blackburn said : "I think my brother Justice Batmen's opinion is tho correct one."

There ia more to be said, and tho im portance o f the subject must be my excuse for writing at such length. 1 shall crave space for .mother letter, and concludo with the opinion thab as the matter of bringing hop beer under tho provisions of tho Beer Duty Act was deemod worthy of editorial comment, surely this is not less so. There have already been five convictions under tho amendment, and Sergeant Gamble might easily convict every baker in tho city every day in the wook. Whab do you, Mr Editor, think of ib?—l am, etc., « Am'd. Cowley, Wellington-street.
