I demur. Is there anything in the _Statute_ to prevent a person _importing_ articles and _vending_ them though the same as the privileged person is alone allowed to _make_ or _work_? In point of fact that surely might, when the statute was passed, be done from Scotland and Ireland as to manufactures not patented in these countries, but patented in England. [Page 18.] The number of Patents granted in the first fifty years after the Statute of Monopolies was seventy-two, or at the rate of less than one and a-half per annum. [Page 19.] The following list of applications for Patents up to the end of 1862, in several classes, is abridged from Mr. Edwards’ interesting treatise on, or rather against, “Letters Patent for Inventions:”— Oct., 1852, to Before Dec. 31, 1862. Oct., 1852. Total. Railways and Railway Carriages 1,418 630 2,018 Telegraphs 558 109 667 Steam and Steam Boilers 1,293 377 1,670 Steam-engines 1,228 704 1,932 Spinning 1,837 1,120 2,957 Electricity, Galvanism, and Electroplating 662 38 700 Sewing and Embroidery 352 40 392 Heating and Evaporating 1,108 373 1,481 Fireplaces, Grates 317 169 481 Flues and Chimneys 278 75 353 Fuel 227 129 356 Ventilating Buildings, Carriages, Ships, &c. 392 81 473 SUGGESTIVE EXTRACTS FROM DR. PERCY’S WORKS ON METALLURGY. [Page 34.] THE COPPER TRADE. It would be sheer waste of time even to notice many of the mis-called improvements in copper—something for which Patents have been granted in this country during the last twenty years. Some of the patentees display such deplorable ignorance of the first principles of chemistry, and such utter want of practical knowledge, as would seem hardly possible with the present facilities of acquiring information.