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HOUSE OF LORDS.-.--FTWA.Y.
Lord SCDNEY presented a petition from his relative, Lord
Charles Townshend, only brother and heir-presumptive of
the Marquis Townshend, which, from the extreme novelty
of the circumstances, as well as the character of the applica-
tion, excited much interest. The petitioner stated that his
',rother had, in 1807, married a Miss Gardner, of Chat-
'hom, however, he separated almost immedi-
, A suit in the Ecclesiastical Courts
marriage was commenced, but while it was
the Marchioness eloped with a person named
to whom she was married at Gretna-green in 1809.
.n this person she continued to live, adopting his name
nd passing as his wife until 1823, and by him she had six
children, all of whom bore the name of their father until
1823, when they were baptized as the children of the Marquis
Townshend. These facts he claimed to be allowed to prove
before their lordships, that the testimonies of the witnesses
o whom the circumstances were known might be perpetu-
ed, and the more especially as the title of Earl of Leicester,
second in his family, had been wrongfully assumed b;
hon. member for Bodmin.

.ely after

r union

,oine conversation

sued as to the manner in which an

trivestigation so wholly unprecedented should be proceeded
with, and a committee was ultimately appointed, at the
suggestion of Lord BROUGHAM, to search for precedents.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

sion took place as to whether Mr. C. Buller's
motion, respecting the bribery alleged in the petition of Mr.
Warburton to have taken place at Bridport, could be consi-
dered in the light of a question of privilege, so as to take pre-
cedence of all other business.

Some disc

Oe SPEAKER decided that it could not come under the
stions of privilege ; and Mr. BULLER, therefore,
ave notice that he would bring it forward on Thursday next.
Mr. MITCHELL and Mr. B. COCHRANE complained that
he petition bad been printed in the Morning Chronicle,
;ontrary to the understanding usually acted upon in such
gases, and said it was hard upon them that they should not
have an earlier opportunity of defending themselves from the
gross charges made agoinst them in that petition.
Mr. C. BULLER said Thursday was the only day he could
bring it forward, the others being order days.
In reply to a question from Lord PALMERSTON,
Sir R. PEEL said that_ the commissioners who had been

class of qt

nt out by the noble lord to examine into the North Amer--
n boundary had made their report within the last few days,
t the annexes to that report were net yet completed. When
ose annexes were ready, the whole would be laid upon the

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table of the house.
Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN asked the noble secretary for

Ireland if it was intended to proclaim the county of Tippe-
rary where so many outrages had recently taken place.
Lord ELIOT said that those statements were much ex-
aggerated. During the first four months of the year 1841 the
number of offences in Tipperary was 305. During the same
period of 1842 the number was 327, but the number of the
more serious offences was materially diminished. The go-.

vernment had sent an increased force into the county, and if
that should not be sufficient a still greater number would be
ded. He felt confident, however, that the exemplary con-
'fie catholic clergy, in denouncing all illegal pro-
ceeaings from the altar, would ultimately be attended with
the success which their exertions merited.

duct of

The house then resolved itself into a committee of supply,

Capt. BOLDRRO proceeded with the ordnance estimates.
. conversation arose respecting the non-adoption of Capt.
T's projectile, in the course of which
Sir R. Past. said he had caused an offer to be made to
..:apt. Warner to make a trial of his invention upon a large
scale at the expense of the government; but this he declined
doing except certain conditions were attached, to which the
government did not think it advisable to accede.
Mr. BROTHERTON expressed his satisfaction at finding that
neither the late government nor the present government had
rewarded this gentleman for his infernal invention. (A laugh.)
The ordnance estimates having been gone through,
Mr. S. HERBERT moved the remaining navy estimates,
which we'

e all agreed to
lief) the house

resumed, and the report was ordered

to be received on Monday nex

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 nest.

oving 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.
Mr. 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 o►► a former
occasion Lord Stanley had declared that such increased
value given by

Sir J. GRAHAM, in

an act of parliament could not fairly be con-
sidered as church property, and that it was quite open to be
'` with by parliament as it pleased. This principle he
It good, and should adhere to it although it would seem
was abandoned by the noble lord.
J. GRAHAM denied that by the law of this country
any maximum beyond which church property
increased, or which authorised the state to take all
led any given amount.
said that the right hon. baronet was, by his
the state to deal with this contemplated increase
of corporations aggregate, and yet he left the in-
ached in the case of corporations sole. This in-
ncy he thought required explanation, apart from any
sideration of the propriety of the suggested appropriation.
Mr. WAKLEY said that he understood that by this bill
property in the possession of corporations sole would
mmously increased, and yet the whole increase was to
i to the individual, and not to be touched by the state.

Mr. ROEAUC

Sir J. GRAHAM said this bill applied only to leases for
building purposes, where the land for such purposes was va-
lueless 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-
mittee.

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

witnesses
and it

The bill was read a first time, and ordered for second i ead-

The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and

the lieu

ljourned

COPPER ORE AND TIN

(From the Mining Journal.)

Prom the official returns made to parliament, we find that
quantity of foreign copper ore imported in the year end-
the sth of January, 1842, amounted to 973,701 cwts.,

, at 21 cwts. to the ton, would give 46,366 tons, which

,
are thus enumerated :—Cuba, 653,186 cwts. ; Chili, 217,720
cwts. ; 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 furiher 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.
The United States took 906 tons of sheets and nails ; Ger-
many, 368 tons ; Brazil, nearly 300 tons ; the remaining
exports being less important in quantity.
The quantity 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

s tieing 971,935 cwts., or 48,596 tons. These precise figures
were not able to furnish, while any approximation must,
'n other instances, be found slightly at variance with the
"al returns, arising from the circumstance of the returns
made up from different sources. It will thus be seen,
.at the quantity of copper smelted in this country from
foreign ore, during the past twelve months, exceeds our es-
timate, as our returns have been confined to sales at public
ticketing, and, therefore, not including the ores smelted at
Liverpool or elsewhere by private contract. This will be
found to increase the evil, we apprehend, and, at the same
ime, proves that we have not exceeded our bounds in the
-,entations made of the copper smelted in this country
-- which, we repeat, is returned at 10,087

rrom foreizn or
tc

, and previously assumed by us at 8,488 tons—a matter
of considerable moment, as amounting to nearly 20 per cent.

We now 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
Company's territorities, exclusive of Singapore. The exports
for the like period were 1,167 tons of British, and 1,267 tons
of foreign tin—in all 2,434 tons.

IFORMITY OF CLOCK TIME THROUGHOUT
GREAT BRITAIN.

(From p, 0
• liter's lecture at the Birmingham Philosophical
Now that railway Institution.)
kingdom,, aLway travelling has become so universal in the
time became 1:1" much to annihilate space, the question of
-mg been of opinion of considerable importance, and he had
-it the errors anA?t•lthat some plan must be adopted to pre-
setting it, ei:tronvenience of every town in the king-
- other place out 7 a meridian of its own, different to
at of the evil to white same longitude. To show the
.aficient for him to state he
adverted, it would perhaps he
minutes 28 sec. between the 't
them was a difference
almouth of 25
000 nones of Dover and F ;
that is to say, when it was
Thearte Falmouth, it was 25 min.
28 sec. past noon at Dover.
and was nearly a minute diffe-
'rice in time between the east
eaesstt of London, and about
uarter of a minute between the
west of Birming-
The railway directors had endeavae?arudred to remedy this
tiittations; but there
by keeping London time at all th
great,dthat all persons
9 great inconvenience attendin
tables
of being
to (4 the Great
ipil west of London were in
- . On all the time_
remedy this
j an endeavour was made
~ printing the correction for longituder.e It occur-
.,,m a year or two ago, that it would be
a very :_excel.
hout the kingdom ; and I;,",,,t'un of
_.i. plan if government wguld recommend thea
one uniform time throng
Dent had turned his glad
to find that his friend `lr•
.that the
attentionto
him they
the same subject, and .he gaits agreed with
ought to adopt one meridian as an universal standard, and
-ening to mention this subject
call it" Brit;

le trains

,ish time." ar pp
Mai
ad Mr. Rowland ter of some imor.
baffice department, hep in-
connection with the po
as it embodied a
im that he had received a letter from Basil
1840, on this very
point ;
ting it, he would, with
Ir. Osler) could say respec
.mission of the audience, read the letter to them. The
..curer then read the letter of Captain Basil Hall. The idea
of the adoption of a general standard for time throughout
Wollaston who
Great Britain originated with the late Dr.
diffe-
rent counties should be kept at London time, a measure which
be considered might be very easily accomplished, and which
would greatly simplify
all those arrangements of the post-
office in which time was included a& an element. He pro-
posed to regulate all the post-office clocks in the kingdom
by means of the time brought from London daily by the mail
coach chronometers ; and he had no doubt that, ere long, all
the 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
time.

Hall, in 1
that he (A

The price of timber fell ten per cent. in the Limerick mar-
ket last week.