Zollverein (Customs' Union), an important Commercial Union originating in 1823; embracing in 1833 all the German States, except Austria, Leichtenstein, Holstein, the two Duchics of Mecklenburg, and the three free cities of Hamburg, Lübeck, and Bremen; dissolved with the close of the year 1865, and held together only by temporary agreements until Nov. 1, 1867, when a new Commercial Treaty was concluded between the North German Confederation and the South German States. The unit of weight is the zollpfund (customs' pound) of 500 grammes

Zollpfund, of 30 zoll-loth,- 7716.1744 U. S. grains, kilogramme.

Elle,
Brabantine elle,

HAMBURG.

51.0683 lb avdp.,
12.81 lb. troy,
0.628354lb troy,
0.94021 foot,
0.62681 yard,

Fass,
Ohm (4 ankers),

0.75815 yard 1.5597 bushel,

-481.60945 grainmnes.

233.85489 grammes.

0.28657 meter.

0.57314 meter.

0 69141 meter. 54 9615 liters.

38.2782 gallons, 144.8906 liters.

HANOVER. (Like PRUSSIA.)

HAVANA. (Island of CUBA )

Castilian weight (See SPAIN.)

Weights of Smyrna.-The following standard, reported by the U. S. Consul at Smyrna, was adopted by the Treasury Department June 7, 1876. (S. S., 2846.)

"In reply I have to state that the most accurate information I have been able to obtain upon the subject has been derived from a table of equivalents in standard weights, prepared several years ago by Edward Purser, chief engineer and director of the Smyrna and Aidin Railway, and which has been adopted by both of the Ottoman railways and by the leading merchants of Smyrna.

"The standard oke of Turkey, by this table, is equal to two pounds and eight hundred and thirty-one thousandths avoirdupois (23), consequently the Smyrna kintal of forty-five okes (45), of three hundred and eighty drachms (380), is equal to one hundred and twenty-one and twenty-five thousandths pounds avoirdupois (121,880).

"It is proper that I should mention that the legal kintal of Constantinople is forty-four okes (44) of four hundred drachms, equal to one hundred and twenty-four and five hundred and sixty-four thousandths pounds avoirdupois (124,564), as given by Mr. Purser in the table of equivalents above referred to The Constanti nople kintal, however, has not been adopted at Smyrna in wholesale transactions."

TABLE OF MISCELLANEOUS WEIGHTS AND

MEASURES,

WITH EQUIVALENTS.

[The data for the following table are derived principally from Alexander's “Universal Dic tionary of Weights and Measures," published by D. Var Nostrand, New York.]