Sheets or pipes of moderate dimensions L 1. 25 White lead 2.60 Ordinary printing characters 4.90 The smallest type 28.30 The price of copper was L5 2s. per cwt. Copper worth L1 became when manufactured into Copper sheeting L1.26 Household utensils 4.77 Common brass pins tinned 2.34 Rolled into plates covered with 1/20 silver 3.56 Woven into metallic cloth, each square inch of which contains 10,000 meshes 52.23 The price of tin was L4 12s. per cwt. Tin worth L1 when manufactured into Leaves for silvering glass became L1.73 Household utensils 1.85 Quicksilver cost L10 16s. per cwt. Quicksilver worth L1 when manufactured into Vermilion of average quality became L1.81 Metallic arsenic cost L1 4s. per cwt. Arsenic worth L1 when manufactured into White oxide of arsenic became L1.83 Sulphuret (orpiment) 4.26 The price of cast-iron was 8s. per cwt. Cast-iron worth L1 when manufactured into Household utensils became L2.00 Machinery 4.00 Ornamental. as buckles. etc 45.00 Bracelets. figures, buttons. etc. 147.00 Bar-iron cost L1 6s. per cwt. Bar-iron worth L1 when manufactured into Agricultural instruments became L3.57 Barrels, musket 9. 10 Barrels of double-barrel guns. twisted and damasked 238.08 Blades of penknives 657.14 razor. cast steel 53.57 sabre, for cavalry. infantry, and artillery. etc. from 9.25 to 16.07 of table knives 35.70 Buckles of polished steel, used as jewellery 896.66 Clothiers' pins 8.03 Door-latches and bolts from 4.85 to 8.50 Files, common 2.55 flat, cast steel 20.44 Horseshoes 2.55 Iron, small slit, for nails 1. 10 Metallic cloth, iron wire, No. 80 96.71 Needles of various sizes from 17.33 to 70.85 Reeds for weaving 3-4ths calico 21.87 Saws (frame) of steel 5. 12 for wood 14.28 Scissors, finest kind 446.94 Steel, cast 4.28 cast, in sheets 6.25 cemented 2.41 natural 1.42 Sword handles, polished steel 972.82 Tinned iron from 2.04 to 2.34 Wire, iron from 2. 14 to 10.71 215. The following is stated by M. de Villefosse to be the price of bar-iron at the forges of various countries, in January, 1825. per ton L s. d. France 26 10 0 Belgium and Germany 16 14 0 Sweden and Russia, at Stockholm and St Petersburg 13 13 0 England, at Cardiff 10 1 0 The price of the article in 1832 was 5 0 0 M. De Villefosse states, that in France bar-iron, made as it usually is with charcoal, costs three times the price of the cast-iron out of which it is made; whilst in England, where it is usually made with coke, the cost is only twice the price of cast-iron. 216. The present price (1832) of lead in England is L13 per ton, and the worth of L1 of it manufactured into Milled sheet lead becomes Ll.08 The present price of cake copper is L84 per ton, and the worth of L1 of it manufactured into Sheet copper becomes L1.11 NOTES: 1. A still finer chain is now manufactured (1832). 2. Memoires de l'Institut. 1826 Chapter 19 On the Division of Labour