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14,782 tons, upon which the net amount of duty was 14,5631. The exportation
of
that staple produce of our own country, British iron, was as follows : Bar-iron, 176,14tons; holt and rod, 22,625 tons; pig-iron, 154,770 tons; cast-iron, 16,449 tons; i r ° nwire, 1,508 tons ; wrought-iron, consisting of anchors, grapnels, &c., 3,058 tons ; hoops*14,591 tons; nails, 6,020 tons; and all other sorts, except ordnance, 44,577 tons; oliron for manufacture, 5,924 tons; and unwrought steel, 3,199 tons. Those pl ac6which have taken the greatest portions of this produce are—Russia , 10,963 tons of t> ar 'iron ; Denmark , 10,447 tons har, and 7,010 tons pig; Prussia, 12,009 tons bar, l7,l^ (ltons pig; Germany, 13,298 tons har, 6,322 tons pig, 1,339 tons cast; Holland , lL® U ‘tons bar, 75,953 tons pig, 4,317 tons cast; Belgium, 4,279 tons cast; France , 4,237 tonhar, 22,103 tons pig; Italy, 21,930 tons bar , 3,982 tons bolt and rod, 3,005 tons P 1 *’Turkey , and Continental Greece, 6,412 tons bar; East Indies and Ceylon, 20,620 t°®har, 2,967 tons bolt; British North American colonies, 6,837 tons bar, 1,995 tons caS Igforeign West Indies, 5,043 tons bar, 1,646 tons cast; and to the United States , 21tons bar, and 7,148 tons pig. The largest quantity of unwrought steel ha3 been to thlatter place—viz., 1,336 tons.
Of British hardware and cutlery, we exported in the year, 17,183 tons, valued 111,745,5181.; the principal of which has been—to Germany , 1,237 tons, value 159,88”‘‘ ’East Indies, 1,402 tons, value 142,6071.; British North American colonies, 1,129 to#"’value 102,260/.; British West Indies, 997 tons, value 80,040/.; foreign West Ia“ ,e ’657 tons, value 48,609/.; United States, 4,282 tons, value, 448,341/.; Brazil , 943 to# 1 ’Udlue 80,070/.; and divers other places, varying from 100 to 500 tons. r
We now come to copper. Of foreign copper ores, we have imported 55,720 tons ; 8 ^of metallic copper, unwrought and wrought plates, and coins, 805 tons. Of the or -•the greatest quantities have come from Cuba and Chili. e
We have exported 1,819 tons of British , and 650 tons of foreign tin; of which Fr* 8has taken 626 tons, Russia 480 tons, Italy 183 tons, Turkey 250 tons, and the rein® 1der distributed among twenty-seven places.
Of foreign zinc, we have imported as follows:—
Countries whence imported.
Prussia -
Total import of foreign zinc
Tons.
cwt.
qrs.
lbs.
- 268
19
2
21
- 6,860
15
3
22
- 3,000
1
2
11
20
3
2
1
21
9
0
9
1 .
15
0
15
Tons 10,173
4
3
23
r W» S
Of this, we retained for home consumption 4,102 tons, on which the net ^ u ?Ljirn223/. 2s. 10<Z.; and we have exported 1,395 tons of British , and 6,445 tons of ‘° 3spelter. a „d
Of foreign lead, we have imported 2,863 tons—of which 2,775 tons weresheet, 68 tons ore, and 19 tons white lead ; 157 tons were retained for home cons f r ee,tion, on which the duty was 165/.; and we imported from the Isle of Man , d ut y j,jie2,415 tons of lead ore. Our exportation of foreign lead amounted to 2,439 tons;of British , we exported 176 tons of ore, 14,610 tons pig and sheet, 378 tons litharg j ytons red lead, and 1,224 tons of white lead: making a total of 17,097 tons.—A®and Commercial Gazette , May 18, 1844. aff' ne
METER, GAS. Since the article Gas was printed, I have had occasion t0 . eX r gns-very carefully the construction, performance, and comparative merits, of the .'th e
metres most generally used in Great Britain , and have been led to conclude t ((g osurmises concerning the correctness of the indications of several of them are ^ nC \v,well founded. The instruments on which my observations were made were aand just out of the hands of their respective patentees. , . . jjy ad'
1. The meter of Mr. West is, no doubt, accurate while the water-line is rx=^^ aS t
justed; hut as I find that it will admit an extra pint of water, it may be rendere , gJl9 a-toward the consumers of gas; and then if it receives a little more water by p° ^ jiietion of vapor, or by accident, its siphon gets filled, which causes the extinctwlights. , j et ting
2. The meter of Mr. Bottom has also several defects, and occasions nuisance j
its overflow-water trickle upon the floor. p u ]]y 2®
3. The meter of Mr. Crossley may be made to err in its measuremen c(n ,pa'per cent, by dexterous repletion with water, and that in favor of the g a
nies. . , , ... t ™st and sti clci
These three meters are furnished with the vertical float-valve, so apt to rust