The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-06 00:00:00

COPYRIGHT AND NATURAL RIGHT.

The following correspondence appears in a recent
lumber of the New York frobstat
Brunswick, Maiee, Sept. 12, 1152.
111 r. Greeloy,-1 have received the subjoined letter
from an English publisher, and it struck me so so truly
noble in its spirit that I have inclosed it to you fee pub-
lication. I wish very needs that you would make some
lemarke upon it, in answer to the following quitiune:—
" I. Have any American publishers shown a similar
liberality with regard to English authors?
" 2. Is there or is tuft not a truth in the sentiment of
the author of this letter, that the imperfect state of out
copyright law doss not alter the right of the thing. nor
lAA. it just fur a publisher to avail himself of an author's
taken for his own purposes without olfcriug him a fair re-
muneration ?
" 3. Might a man honourably andjastly seise outwits/it's
estate, because some legal imperfection a the title allowed
him to do so ? and is it any brute to seise on the avails of
his talents ?
" It has seemed to me that a spontaneous adherence to
simple honour and justice on both sides of the water might
rfar toward revoking the national injustice of copyright
w.. 0 Yours, very truly " M. B. thow—a."

THZ LETTER.

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" Madame—l beg reirectfully to address you, os
the subject of your work, ' Cale Ten's Cabin, en
adios of which I ant now panties fee sale in this
eetiatry. There have been two editions published
here u yet, but both of thou in very inferior
style. sad I thought there must yet be room kr a well-
prated edition. Ido not think it right, however, to avail
waif of the present defective state of the copyright awe,
mad to reprint the works of an author, though belenglog
to another country (which, in my opinion, does not miter
the principle of the thing at without making hia or
her a fair remuneration. 1 beg, therefore, to offer yes a
' royalty' of threepence es every copy sold, which I shall
have much pleasure in traumata( to you in any way you
atairequat. My anti" ow, of oars, be a cheapest,
as the work is being printed in this snotty ter Sunset,
bet„,it will be printed well, and have in every newt a era.
disable appeareau. As yeti will probably not know say
lame, I may mention that I succeeded the late Mr. Fraer.l
who established sad woo the ptsprisist of Freeerl=l
boo bow to boo, madam, your mare
wryest Tacoma. %SWORN'.
6 " London, 215, Regentetreet, Aug. 13, 1852."

Tue FINE Aare Pi= FCNDIauCIATIOn in gen-
seines with the eakihhiens of the Moab.hoes &slag of
Artiste have 'wankel their prise of slay gainer (Wind
M the artist of the hint *tam minedbmilell to the .alai.
tioa of the Sodeq of Artists) to_ I. X. weed, A.M.A., for
his picture of "Omelette Corday pies to Elevation."
The jury, at the some time, their award with
oa unanimous expansion of their eggieseisties of the
smite of Mr. Millais' " Opbetia."
littronM OF HUNAN FaCCIL—Tho Queen of Por-
tugal Me jest anted est a postal eroppiag or trimmlag of
beards sad ineeMeshios were by the army, her own Kee-
bead met begin been maenad bra its operation. The
deems while h aims this reform ordains that the forests of
board srhidtireorapeeed the fame of meet Portuguese °Man
that NI mist the sweep of the razor, sad that nothing
shIM lamereMirtis he warn but mosietackios and imperials,
the shape and disesmices of which or. prescribed with the
and taste of one who is a ciannoissear la ruck ma-
71=ats, general officers abet being @Sowed to Indulge
lathe hairy of whiskers, which, her , ore to be of a
certain pattern, as& not to exceed so many inches in lemtb.
The Immediate effect of this reform has been to predate
earls a usatanwerphcals in the human face divioe, that the
warm and dearest friends pass each other in the streets
without the heat sign of meted recognition. The measure,
however, is a very good one, end one which summon seam
sad osouncio &inhume have Wag called for.
AFRICAN 131. are Thanz.—The following reply to
the Memorial of the British sad Foreign Anti-Slavery
Satiety, remonstrating egaisse or act recently poised in
Jamaica for the purpose of eesenmelag immigradon into
that island, sad 5e presses the Wavy of immigrants, has
been received fees the :—" ForeiramMee,
Sept. 2s, 1852.—5ie,-1 am Biased by the Earl of Maims-
bin" to mknow the teaa4t ef year letter, retelved or
the 21st inst., n ipkehesiaff Vain, subjects relatinz to the
Afrinut slave trade and M elemey, orbsells the British and
Foreign Anti. Slavery Bedety has 111$ tiMhseat times brought
under the notice of her Melesty's gevenseent. And I am
sow to state to you, for the information of that auciety,
that her Majesty's gov. raiment will tmotinue to take arch
measures for the soppreuion of the slave trade, and for the
liberation of negroes wrongfully held in elarery, as may be
compatible with eaieting treaties between Great Britain
and foreign states, and with the law of natione—l cm, sir,
etc. (.igned) StANLtY. To Juba Scoble, Esq."
Tug CMILIMA.—The latest reports from the die-
triet. of Central Europe when the cholera ha• prevailed
are more f ble they, previous ones. In Konigsberg,
from the 29th to the :10..h Sept. wilier, only eight CAWS are
reported, and tee deaths. In Birnbaum the disease has
abated. In ()mows only isolated eases are reported. A
similar re-art is given from (Weisberg, where the epidemic
bra been particularly severe, not -eighth of the inhabitants
hating died from it. From Posen ao more reports will be
wide, the disease baring ea moth deer-need as to reader it
la the opinion of the &calico ills s limiters try. Up to the
30lb September there had been iu MI 2,371 rases and 1,3.10
deaths, ezeloslve of the fatal caws among the troops,
wkieh are retuned at 200 more. Posen contains 40,000
tababitus.