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After which the house resumed, and the report was ordered
' ived on Monday next.

to be ri

The report on the Colonial Passengers Bill was brought up,
the amendments were agreed to, and the bill was ordered to
be read a third time on Friday next.

Sir J. GRAHAM, in moving that the house resolve itself
into committee upon the Ecclesiastical Corporations Bill,
said that its object was to enable ecclesiastical corporations,
whether corporations aggregate or sole, to grant leases of 99

years, and to apportion the increased value thus given to
church property to the augmentation of small livings. He
was sure there could be no objection to the details of the bill,
and the discussion on the principle might be taken on the
report on the third reading.

"Slr. HAWES thought that such an appropriation of the
increased value would not give satisfaction to the public.
When a similar measure was formerly before the house, the
increased value was to be applied to supersede the necessity
of church rates. It was to be recollected that on a former
occasion Lord Stanley had declared that such increased
value given by an act of parliament could not fairly be con-
sidered as church property, and that it was quite open to be
dealt with by parliament as it pleased. This principle he
thought good, and should adhere to it although it would seem
that it was abandoned by the noble lord.
Sir J. GRAHAM denied that by the law of this country

was any maximum beyond which church property
should be increased, or which authorised the state to take all
led any given amount.
said that the right hon. baronet was, by his
state to deal with this contemplated increase
)f corporations aggregate, and yet be left the in-
tched in the case of corporations sole. This in-
_, he thought required explanation, apart from any
deration of the propriety of the suggested appropriation.
Mr. WAKLEY said that he understood that by this bill
me property in the possession of corporations sole would
enormously increased, and yet the whole increase was to
given to the individual, and not to be touched by the state.
Sir J. GRAHAM said this bill applied only to leases for
ilding purposes, where the land for such purposes was va-
aeless unless a lengthened lease could be given.
It was eventually arranged that the discussion was to be
taken on the report, and the bill then went through com-

Mr. ROEBC

rease unt

Mr. ROEBUCK moved the first reading of a bill to prevent
bribery and corruption at elections, by giving indemnity to
a. The bill had already passed the House of Lords,
ould for the present answer his purpose, though be
Paid hereafter bring forward the one of which he had given

The bill was read a first time, and ordered for second r ead-
ng on Monda
The of

orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the house adjourned.

COPPER ORE AND TIN

(From the Mining Journal.)

From the

official returns made to parliament, we find that
Auantity of foreign copper ore imported in the year end-
g sth of January, 1842, amounted to 973,701 cwts.,
which, at 21 cwts. to the ton, would give 46,366 tons, which
thus enumerated :—Cuba, 653,186 cwts.; Chili, 217,720
; Colombia, 34,362 cwts. ; Peru, 32,404 cwts. ; and
from various other parts, 36,029 cwts. The quantity of un-
wrought copper imported is stated at 10,186 cwts. ; 7,650
cwts. being from Chili and Peru, and 2,526 cwts. from Swe-
den. Of this quantity 6,448 cwts. were imported into
Liverpool; and it is further worthy of remark, that no less
than 184,908 cwts. of copper ore, or one-fifth of the entire
quantity imported, also came into that port. The quantity
of copper smelted in the United Kingdom from foreign ore
was, in the twelve months, 10,087 tons 3 cwts. 1 qr. 21 lbs.,
of which about one-seventh was smelted in Liverpool. We
now arrive at the exports, which, of foreign copper un-
wrought, are stated at 570 tons—being a slight excess on the
imports of foreign copper, exclusive of the ore, the produce
of which, as already stated, was upwards of 10,000 tons of
cake copper smelted in bond. The exports of British copper
amounted to 5,926 tons, of which 432 tons were unwrought,
5,032 tons sheets and nails, the residue being otherwise
wrought. Of this quantity 394 tons of unwrought, and
2,032 tons sheets and nails, were shipped to Asia, in addition
to about 150 tons of other descriptions of wrought copper.
,d States took 906 tons of sheets and nails ; Ger-
,6B tons ; Brazil, nearly 300 tons ; the remaining
being less important in quantity.
4uantity of foreign ore imported in the twelve months,
for the purpose of being smelted in bond, or for home con-
sumption—which latter is now to be dreaded—is represented
as being 971,935 cwts., or 48,596 tons. These precise figures
we were not able to furnish, while any approximation must,
as in other instances, be found slightly at variance with the
fficial returns, arising from the circumstance of the returns
ing made up from different sources. It will thus be seen,
t the quantity of copper smelted in this country from
.gn ore, during the past twelve months, exceeds our es-
as our returns have been confined to sales at public
and, therefore, not including the ores smelted at

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rpo-ol or elsewhere by private contract. This will be
found to increase the evil, we apprehend, and, at the same
time, proves that we have not exceeded our bounds in the
representations made of the copper smelted in this country
from foreign ore, which, we repeat, is returned at 10,087
tons, and previously assumed by us at 8,488 tons—a matter
of considerable moment, as amounting to nearly 20 per cent.

Wnow approach the question of tin, from which we find
that the quantity imported was 1,422 tons in the past twelve
months, nearly two-thirds of which was shipped from Singa-
pore, 310 tons from Java, and 175 tons from the East India
ermPny's territorities, exclusive of Singapore. The exports
offthe.hke period were 1,167 tons of British, and 1,267 tons
oreign tin—in all 2,434 tons.

ITORMITY OF CLOCK TIME THROUGHOUT
GREAT BRITAIN.

From P. Osier'
s lecture at the Birmingham Philosophical
so_travelling
Now that railway Institution.)
<ingdona, doinghas become so universal in the
tome been a nutul2th to annihilate space, the question of
long been of opinion' tonsiderable importance, and he had
-..f. the errors and intaat some plan must be adopted to pre-
etting its clock trenienee of every town in the king-
other place out of Ima eridian of its own, different to
of the evil to which hesan.ie longitude. To show the
!nt for him to state, tha;tdtvlrted, it would perhaps be
ere vvas a difference of 25
.8 28 sec. between the titneast Ft Dover and Falmouth ;
to say, when it was noon
past noon at Dover. There a mouth, it was 25 min.
tov a minute diffe-
wan „earl .
a time between the east and westof
wndon, and about
er of a minute between the east and
remedy this
The railway directors had endeavoured of Binning-
keepingbut there
London time at all their
istt,attit;
'qt inconvenience attending
-t of London were in great daZtearil persons
On all the time-tables o: the Greate
i endeavour was made to e
t•e correction for longitude. It Leth,.is
a, that it would be a vet), excel..
„anent would recommend the adoption of
Dent Lad turned his attention to
time throughout thet kingdom ; and he was glad
tatt his friend Mr. —en
agreed with him that they
me subject, and he quite
to adopt one meridian •
to mention this subject
as an universal standard, and
Happening
" British time."
friend Mr. Rowland Hill, as a matter of some impor-
IR connection with the post-office dep
I him that he had received a letter from Cap
embodied all
Captain Basil
in 1840, on this very point ; and as
! (Mr. Osler) could say respecting it, he would, with
'
'mission of the audience, read the letter to them. The
r then read the letter of Captain Basil Hall. The idea
adoption of a general standard for time throughout
3ritain originated with the late Dr. Wollaston, who
e
ted that all the post-office clocks throughout the cliff- -
3unties should be kept at London time, a measure which
,nsidered might be very easily accomplished, and which
.d greatly simplify all those arrangements of the post-
ein which time was included as an element. He pro-
,ed to regulate all the post-office clocks in the kingdom
means of the time brought from London daily by the mail
.iach chronometers ; and he had no doubt that, ere long, all
tie town clocks, and eventually, all the clocks and watches
of private persons, would fall into the same course of regula-
tion ; so that only one expression of time would prevail over
the country, and every clock and watch indicate by its hands
the same hour and minute at the same moment of absolute

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