86 loaves have been made from a sack of flour, and sometimes hardly 80.

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LEGAL ADULTERATION OF BREAD.

Within the city of London, and in those places in the country where an
assize is not set, it is lawful for the bakers to make and sell bread
made of wheat, barley, rye, oats, buckwheat, Indian corn, peas, beans,
rice, or potatoes, or any of them, along with common salt, pure water,
eggs, milk, barm, leaven, potato or other yeast, and _mixed in such
proportions as they shall think fit_. (3 Geo. IV. c. 106, and 1 and 2
Geo. IV. c. 50.)

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HIGH PRICE OF COALS IN LONDON.

Much has frequently been said of the monopoly of coal-owners; "but,"
observes Mr. Macculloch, "we are satisfied, after a pretty careful
investigation of the circumstances, that no such monopoly has ever
existed; and that the high price of coal in the metropolis is to be
ascribed wholly to the various duties and charges that have been laid
upon it, from the time that it has passed from the hands of the owner,
to the time that it is lodged in the cellar of the consumer."--_Dict.
Commerce, &c._ 1832.

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