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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 6.

WHAT'S in a name I No one who has perumed
the " Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select
" Committee on Trade Marks Bill" will have the

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least hesitation in concluding that in large
branches of British trade there is almost anything
in a name but truth. A name is an invention for

disguising, nat for describing, s thing ; and the
better the name the worse the thing. Names are

not only articles of exportation, but a most flourish-
ing contraband industry. The evidence on
Trades Marks supplies a companion picture to the
analytical disclosures which, a few years ago, made
us all feel that poison and dirt were our daily
food and drink ; and that " what to avoid"
in-
cluded everything that enters into the ordinary
consumption of the dwellers in cities. You buy
Buss's beer that is pale, but not ale ; Dublin
stout that is only small porter ; Sheffield files and

tools of Prussian make and quality ; old brown

Windsor soap of German origin; Valenciennes lace

and Brussels carpets which have been sent across
the Channel and back again ; not to speak of the
_ .

sparkling Champagne that is rhubarb, the Eau-de-
Cologne that is Thames water, the pure Bordeaux,
eightpence a bottle at home, with a dub of the
English " body " in it ; sherry that hails from
South African stores, and all the other 'strange

device@ and denominations in which a public that
loves to be deceived rejoices perpetually.... The

British public believes in a name on s bottle, a
knife, a packet of needles, or a lump of soap as
devoutly as it believes in its " Peerage;" and
a faith so accommodating is not easily dis.
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appointed. The system of Trade Marks which
some eminent witnesses before Mr. Rozauex's
Committee are BO anxious not only to protect

by penalties, but to develop by an elaborate pro-
cess of registration, seems to be cunningly
adapted to the maintenance of the prevailing su-
perstition. Not one purchaser ins hundred, per-
haps,talresthe trouble toexamine the device which
servesasthe distinguishing flag of the house. The
name is enough, and the name at any rate repro-
gents an aristocracy of fortune, which began
at least by being an aristocracy of merit. In this
case it is the stamp that is the rank, and not the
rank that is the stamp. People are so wedded to
certain names that they ask for So-and-So's bear's
grease or So•and-So's "Entire," and never fail to
get it duly labelled. The trade mark is the coat
of arms which covers all antecedents. or is the

public the only dupe or victim of the delusion to
which it lends itself so eagerly. For in truth
great names in trade do represent great qualities
and substantial virtues which are often hereditarily
transmitted with far more regularity than old
family virtues. But the first dupe and victim of a
name is often the firm that has justly rendered the
name illustrious. Its mark becomes the common
label of every cheap imposture. In Germany it
is the habitual practice of some wholesale
houses to keep a large stock of English labels for
their wares, " so that their customers"—that is of
course the retail sellers, not the publio—" can
" select any mark and label they wish." At a
particular town in Prussia it is the rule, and not
the exception, to strike the mark of Engl;sh
makers on their goods. The German, not con-
tent with appropriating the English manufacturer's
superior reputation, destroys it by selling his own
cheap bad wares dear under an English label ; so
that the English manufacturer loses all the value
of his trade mark, and is liable to find himself
undersold, say in the South American markets,
by articles of foreign make labored with an Eng-
lish name, and which have probably been tran-
shipped from an English port. Indeed, in the
English market itself it is no uncommon thing for
the English purchaser to buy a foreign article
marked " Sheffield."
It is true foreign goods passed through an
English port for transhipment are liable to con-
fiscation by the Customs ; but this is a risk
which the foreign manufacturer is content to run.
Against these frauds the English manufacturer is
at present, to all intents and purposes, powerless,
and his foreign friend and customer is quite aware
of the fact. A worthy citizen of Remscheid tells
a Sheffield agent—" We make files o: tLree quell-
" ties ; the first we mark with our own name, and
" the third with yours." In other words, "We
" take your name in vain, and we ruin your repu-
" tation." The consumer in both countries is
comparatively guiltless of the fraud ; not so the
retail buyers and sellers, who have a cordial
understanding with the foreign manufacturers, and
combine to make a meal of the consumer,
with-
out respect to his nationality. These piracies, in
fact, are common to all civilized countries, and
against all the native manufacturer is disarmed
except where an international treaty provides an
expeditious and easy remedy. At home the pro-
secution of a counterfeit is a most uncertain and
expensive process, and the foreigner will give no
redress where he can get none.
It is with these flagrant evils that the Bills
settled by the Select Committee propose to deal.
Several able and influential witnesses who attended
before the Committee expressed themselves in
favour of a summary jurisdiction against the
vendor, if not also against the manufacturer of
counterfeit articles, and in favour of a system of
registration of trade marks. There are obvious
difficulties, however, in punishing the vendor, and
embarrassments to business in a registration, which
were stated with great force by more than one
witness. The danger in legislating on this most
serious question, in which are involved the reputa-
tion and the property of some of the most im-
portant commercial interests in this country, is,
perhaps, the danger of effecting nothing by attempt-
ing too much.

T:
Tex history of hunswo filly would sass winch
in the absence of the lit/ reiseele which daily isp-

pear in the newspapers. The Court of Exchequer
was occupied on Wednesday in a case which much
tried its gravity. The learned judges were called
to decide between the quarrelsome members of a
family about their right to the possession of a title
of gentility. It seems that a few years ago a
tradesman, bearing the homely name of Swan,
having prospered in business, found himself in
possession of a considerable sum of money, and
wisely resolved to work no more. Would that every-
body could follow his example as life wears away.
STUBBS, however, could not be content merely to
enjoy the fruits of his toil in an easy generous, old
age. The evening of life was troubled with
regrets and compunctions. He reflected that '
he was nothing but a retired tradesman, and his
plebeian origin filled him with shame. But in
this perplexity that help which never fails the rich
was forthcoming ; a friend one day told him how
even a STUBBS might make his life sublime, showed
him a fountain in which the baseness of nature is
for ever purged away. On Benet's-hill a stately
building shelters a brotherhood whose business
it is to guard the portals of gentility.
Garter, with his associates, Clarencieux and
Norroy Kings of Arms are so learned in
genealogies that no presumptuous wight
may arrogate to himself so much as a goat's head
without detection ; but withal so kindly and discern-
ing that they will supply the defects of history,
or, if need be, correct the injustice of birth, and
fit anybody with a patent of minor nobility for
less than the value of a good day's work on
the Mart or at the Exchange. To these good
people STUBBS applied, and in due time received,
on payment of 791. 135., a piece of vellum with a
coloured border enclosing the " STUBBS' arms" and
a grant from the College of Arms entitling the
grantee, and after him his brother's sons, to wear
coat-armour. Provided with this precious piece of
sas's skin, STUBBS felt that he was now a "gentle-
" man born," ended his days in peace, and dying,
bequeathed his honours to his nephews. Perhaps
it was at the worst a very harmless vanity, tend-
ing to the transfer of Bank notes to Kings of
Arms, Horrid', and Pursulvanta, not too much
encumbered with such gear. And it is as well
that a man who grows old in money-getting should
feel that if that is all something is still wanting to
entitle him to the regard of his fellows.
Tastes, however, vary. While the lawyers
were enjoying their laugh on Tuesday at old
STUBBS'S weakness, ten or twelve thousand people
were met in Warwickshire to do honour to the
memory of another tradesman lately deceased.
Birmingham had gone out to see the unveiling of
the statue of a fellow-townsman, JOSIPH Sruaos.
If put to the question STUBOZ must have con-
fessed that he, too, was no better born than any other
son of ADAM ; probably it would have been diffi-
cult to make him understand that such a thing
was possible. He was a corn merchant, and
never aspired to more honour than could
be obtained in the honest pursuit of that
trade. Indeed the thought of aspiring to any
honours at all was foreign to his character. If he
could but be what he wished, he would leave the
seeming, and the reflection of that seeming in
men's minds to take care of itself. Symms de-
voted all his life to the promotion of justice and',
charity. These were the key words of his life as
a politician and as a religious man. It may be
admitted that he often sought to realise them in
ideal forma, which society can only hope to reach
by slow and painful stages; but it will take a great
many idealists to balance the dead weight of the
servile masa who are ready to bow down before
any insolent and outrageous wrong which can
claim to be a " great fact." It belongs
to men of other gifts to regulate the
stages of the march, but it is for men such as he
to mark the goal. Justice, peace, equality—con-
tradicted as they are daily by a thousand events,
resisted as they are by powerful interests—are, as
one must be blind not to see, every day becoming
more and more mighty moral forces, before which
the conceits of the doctrinaire and the jealousy of
the exclusionist will be as the chaff before the
wind. Sri: aos'a opinions, different as they were f rom
many of his neighbours, were interpreted by the
light of a useful, transparent, and noble life. Thus
it was that men of all ranks in society, of a"
classes of political opinion, of all varieties of
religious and irreligious belief, united last Monday
to claim a title in him. This is true nobility.

THE VICEROY OF EGYPT AT WOOLWICH.—His
Highness Mahomed Said Facia, Viceroy of Egypt, with his
officers and attendants, remained during the whole of yes-
terday on board the state steam yacht moored off the Hopi
Arsenal Pier. His highness has sot yet received any mei-
tors, and in accordance with his with to remain for the pro-
mpt entirely secluded, a police-officer is stationed on the
pier to prevent the admission of persons who might wish to
obtsin a near view of the splendid vessel, the decks of which
are surrounded by curtains. It is expected that his high-
ness will inspect the several departments of the Bevil
Arsenal this dry (Friday), and he will not leave Woolwich
during the present week. Arrangements are in progress for
holding a grand military review at Aldershott during the
present mouth, which will be attsoded by his highness and
other distinguished foreign visitors.
ETON C.,oLLEGE.--Srazcit DAY.—The annual
festival established at Eton College on the 4th of June,
*early a century ago, in celebration of the birthday of
C the Third, a great patron of the college, was role-
with the usual ceremonies, yesterday, the sth iost.,
instead of the 4th, being postponed from the customary day
to suit the convenience of the large number of nobility and
gentry, principally friends of the students, who are in the
habit of visiting Epsom on the Derby-day.
Visiyoan' ADDRESS BOOK IN THE INTERNA-
TIONAL EIHIBMON.—In addition to the various other fa-
cilities afforded to visitors to the Exhibition by the rail-
way inquiry-offloe arid letter-writing room in the north-east
tower, a book has now been established in the Mae room, in
which visitors, upon payment of an extra fee of Id., may
ester their names, the date of their arrival in London, the
place from which they lest c.une, the 'Wrens at which they
are to be found in London. and the probable duration of
their stay, for the information of friends who might othe. -
wise be ignorant of their sojourn in town, and their tempo-
rary place of residence. Those persons who prefer sending
their names by poet to be inserted in the book, can have
their wishes complied with by forwarding the mammy par-
ticulars, together with a couple of postage stamps, to tit'
" Superintendent of the Railway and Steam Packet Inqur-y-
-office, Intonational Exhibition, South Kensington." or
yyeerrsaoooose from the country who are contemplating a visit to
I oscine shortly can have their names Minted in the book,
with the probable date of their arrival in London, be, for
the same small fee. The usefulness of • book of this kind
is so obvious, that we should think it can hardly fail to be
extensively used sod referred to.
NATIONAL SCHOOL EDUCATION SOCIITIT.—The
50th anneal meeting of this associating was Paid yeetorday
at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, the Archbishop of York in
the chair, supported by a large body of the clergy and laity
interested in the camas of educatioo. The report stated
that the result of the exertions made during the past year
to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the society has been a
considerable addition to the income of the year. The total
number of schools now united to the society is 11,909 of
which 184 have been added during the year. Since the last
audit the sum of 4,5111. has been paid on account of 175
school-rooms, calculated to accommodate 19,451 children,
and AO teachers' residences, and 156 grants In aid have been
mute.) The sale of the monthly paper earthmen to increase,
30,000 copies of which are now circulated, sod the steady in-
crease of besieges in the depository has bees maintained,the
sales during the year amounting to upwards of 26,0001.,
being 2,0001. over those of the preceding year. The report
then referred to the successful progress of the three training
institutions in connexion with the society, at St. Mark's,
Batteries, and Wbkelands, and meat es to review mo-
rally the odutotkoral puller throughout the oniony, with
an especial Warne, to theoroceedings of the society in ap-
parition to the revised code, in which It Y aorposetal that
alterations will be made, rendering it more soispimile he
the society. The report was moved by Mr. lialthead, /LP,
seconded by the Rev. Mr. Monroe, sad earrisel.
THE GILT EARTERN.—The Mersey Doak Board
have mode arrangements for visitor to embark from the
south end al the great lauding stage during the Great
lastenem Way laths Nancy.

WINDSOB.CABTLE, Joss 5.

Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Alice
sad Prisms Haloes, drove oat in a amine and tour yes-
terday.

the Hon. H. D. de Roe attended on

The Queen and the Princess Louie. walked and drove in
the grounds this morning.
Princess Alice and Princeav Helena, attended by Lady
Caroline Barrington, went to London this morning and
visited the Great Exhibition.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. H. D. de Roe was also in
attendance.

The Judge Advocate* General had an audience of the
Queen.

Despatches were received' yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of Yalta. Deffetohee were sent to the
Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, St. Helves,
and Ganda.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the
Princess Mary, honoured Sir John and Lady Harrington
with their presence at an amateur concert, at their residence
in Eaton-plans, on Tuesday.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland
intend to give a grand entertainment ea the 18th inst., to
their Royal Highnesses the Dunham of Cambridge nixl the
Princess Mary, the Duke of Cambridge. and the Hamditary
Grand Duke of liecklenburgatrelits, at Northumberland
Roam After the banquet the duchess will have an
assembly.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke are ex-
pected to arrive to-day or to-morrow from Germany. The
noble earl hes derived much benefit from his !brit to the
Continent.
The Countess de Flahault had an assembly last
evening at the residence of the French embassy, Albert-
gate House, which was moat numerously and fashionably
attended.

Viscountess Palmerston's assembly, announced
for to-morrow evening, is postponed.

A marriage is arranged to take place shortly
between Viscount liolmeadale, eldest son of the Earl sad
Countess Amherst, sad Lady Julia CoruwsUis, only child
of the late Fail Centralia. .

Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald entertained at
dinner last evening, at their residence an Carlton Home-
terrace, the Duke of Leioster, the Earl Aimeeley, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, the Hon. Colonel and
Mrs. Curzon, the Hon. W. and Mrs. Wroth*ley, Mr. and
the Hon. Mrs. Egerton, Sir William and Lady Somerville,
Colonel and Mrs. Baring, Hon. Mr. Fitzgerald, and Colonel
Frazer.

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Lady Moleeworth entertained at dinner last
emaing—Visconnt Falkland, the Duchess of St. Albans and
Lady Dime Beanelark, the Earl of Wicklow, Vimounteu
Oombermere, Lord and Lady Aveland, Lady Rolle, Lord
and Lady Egerton of Tattoo, Lord Duakellin, M.P., Sir
Ralph and Lady Howard, Hon. Harris Temple, Hon. Evelyn
Ashley, Lord Londesborough, the Right Hon. Sir Hamilton
Seymour, Mr. Lane Fox, &c.
Lord and Lady Thomas Cecil arrived at the
Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Wednesday.
The Marquis Camden gave his first ball this
seems hat evening, at the family mansion in Grosvenor
square.
The Countess Apponyi gave a grand bell last
evening at Mambo HMSO. The Duchess of Cambridge
and Primes Mary, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-
&relit; Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar,
honoured the reunion with their presence. Prince Louis
de Rohan, Prince Arthur de Bohan, Princess Bresesheim,
Prince Paul Metternich, Prince and Princess do Sagan-Talley-
rand, and Prince Gortchakoff were also present.
On Wednesday last the Rev. Richard Hamond
Gwyn, 8.A., was instituted to the rectory of South Repps,
in the county of Norfolk, on the presentation of her Most
Gracious Majesty the Queen, by virtue of her duchy of
Lancaster.
Yesterday afternoon Dr. Lyou Playfair.delivered
the fifth lecture of bin course at the Royal Institution, on
the progress of some of the chemical arts since the Great
Exhibition of 1851; the immediate subject being "rap
and bones," showing how waste substances, when properly I
applied, become industrial utilities.
The members of the Atheneum Club, desirous
of showing their respect to the numerous foreign gentle-1
men of distinction in science and art who are now in Lon-
don, have invited them to two conrenazioni, to be held on II
the 11th and 18th instant.
The conservatives iu Ireland, and their organs in
the press, occupy at the present moment rather singular
relations towards Lord Derby and his English followers.
Whilst still regarding the noble earl as their leader, and
expressing a natural anxiety for his return to office, they
constantly and emphatically protest against his foreign
policy in particular, and also his home policy, as far as it
involves a coalition with the Irish Ultramontanists. One
is as repugnant to them, in fact, is the other, and if a
general election were to take place next week, not a single
conservative would be returned who did not plc ige himself
to maintain the freedom of Italy, and oppose the alliance of
his party with the clerical faction in Ireland.
The City Press states that Mr. Panirsi., the prin-
cipal librarian to the British Museum, has been elected •
vestryman of the parish of St. George's, Bloomsbury. Mr.
Midis, the librarian, has been re-elected • vestryman of the
same parish.
Sir Stafford Northcote will this month publish a
" Review of the Financial Policy of England from 1842 to
1861 "
" The Life and Times of Sir James Graham," by
W. Torrens M'Cuilagh, is announced by Messrs. Saunders,
Otley, and Co.
Lord Stanhope's "Life of Pitt" has appeared in
• French translation made under the supefmtendence of M.
Guisot, and presided by a preface from his pen. Forty
years ago, he says, he ehou'd have r:goottraged such a pub-
lication in France; but now times are changed, and it is
right that Frenchmen should learn to appreciate
fairly one who was their untiring adversary. The
study of the " Life of Pitt" is also at the present moment one
of the utmost value to France, in the opinion of H.
Guisot ; because, under one form, or one name or another,
France has always been, since 1769, and is still, seeking
political liberty as the guarantee of all other rights and
liberties, and nowhere rs the course of such a pursuit
so well illustrated as in the history of Wil'iam Pitt
and of England under his sway—" a government grappling
with the spirit of revolution, but never doubting itself, com-
bating, repressing, subduing anarchy with the arms of
liberty." For, concludes Y. Ouixot, "in my opinion, Pitt
was the greatest minister who ever governed England ; he
maintained her in the path of order in the midst of the tem.
pest of Revolution, and made her greater whge he left her
free."

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We (Critic) understand that at and after Midsum-
mer next the Stationers' Grammar School, in Bolt-court,
Fleet- treat, will be thown open to contributory scholars in
the snore way as Merchant Taylor's and other public schools
of this clam in Loudon. Hitherto it has been been purely •
foundation school, restricted to the sons of the livery of the
Stationers' Company. Although it has not been more than
twelve months open, the demand for admission has been
so great, that the Stationers' Company, after duly pro-
viding for the wants of their own livery, have
resolved on removing all restrictions to admission,
and it will accordingly henceforth be open to any respectable
applicant provided with a nomination from • member of the
Court of Common Council. The education given in the
school is identical with that of the City of London School,
on which it has been modelled, while the fees are somewhat
leas. Members of the company are entitled to priority of
admiesion and to certain privileges on the foundation.
The one hundred and eighth anniversary dinner
of the Society of Arts will take plate in the refresh-
ment room over the central entrance from the Interne-
t:load Exhibition building to the Horticultural Gardens.
on Tuesday, the 24th instant, at ball-put 5 for 6 o'clock
punctually. The Right Hoe. W. E. Gladstoos, M.P., will
preside. The second and third ceneersiszions of the present
salon will be held at the South Kensington Museum on
the 9th of July and the Sthof October.
giomury FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE FINE
Aare.—Last in ring, at the society's rooms, in Conduit-
street, Mr. Ottley 'mad • Meters on the modern schools
of Germany, Flanders, and Holland, being the concluding
lecture of • eerier on the modern schools of Europe, having
particular reference to the works is the International Sabi-
, bition. This lecture concluded the regular lectures of the