The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-09 00:00:00

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LATEST FORF.TI

PARIS, Juir 4. Per Var amount,.
masa,. ilighea. Lua44. Clasfas.
3 per Ceuta.
5 per teats ... 144 40 4460 .4 6.3 IS 30 44 30
per Wats. New Loan . .
4 per Cents.
44 prt Crsts

atm Cents. . ..
~, ..
Exchange on Leedom : 'lt .61011, 25; ! doss. 21 524.
Belgian, 5, 1801 Bil Nameg, 1 Napon Kenn. • . ..... - Money.
Do. 5, 154 — ... tlt 'wan Loan, 1851 .. 73 ~
Do. 44
Do. 24 — Trvaaury Bond* —
Piedmont sp. Cent. 14 IS ... lt mk Aar e 0 .
PARIS, Jon' B.—St. Germain, 415; Versailles (right
bank), 261 50; Ditto (left b nk), 110; P.ari. and Organs, 0.015;
Pada and Roue, 66J 50; Houen and Havre, .52 50; Nuvelllts
and Avignon, 110; ihraaboura and 3aale, Nal, Ce re, 441 23;
Boulogne and Auden., 157 50; Orleans end Bowden:v., 386 251
Northern, 47115; Part, and itravhiug, 372 S:J; Tours and Nantes.
17613; llordeanx and Teat., 51 Su.
MADRID, JULY 3.—Three per Cents., 37 1.16; after
Bolsa, 37 cash, 371 paper. Four per Cents., 15. Five per
Centr., 17i ; atter Bola, 171 paper. Coupons 81 ; alter
Bola, 81. Passives, 71; after Bolos, 71. bank cf St.
Ferdinand, 100. Exchange on Loudon, 51 rash.
BERLIN, JULY s.—Voluntary Loan, 107; New Loan
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 191¢ ; National Delit,B9l; COMA
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mereial Marine Society's Premium, 125; Bank Shares, 90 .
VIENNA, JULY s.—Five per Cent. Metalliquen, 97 ;
ditto Four-and.ii-llalf per Cent., 841; Bunk Shares, 126 ;
Exchange on London, 12.4.

A VERY VALUABLE GOLD MUSE, writes our Malta
correspondent, on the 2nd inst., has, according to news
just received at this island, been duirovered at a point
equi-distant or nearly so between Tunis and Algiers. The
French and the Bey of Tunis equally claim it, and some
very sharp letters on the subject have passed. Unless
matters can be adjusted, a serious disturbance may probably
result.

PATENT LAW AMENDMENT AiSOCIATION.—Last
evening a public meeting of the members of this associa-
tion was held at the Belle Sauvage, Ludgate-hill, to con-
sider the New Patent Law Amendment Bill now progress-
ing through parliament, and to take steps to secure the
abundonment of certain clauses, which it was stated threat-
ened to render the 01,0111[10D of the law highly injurious,
both to inventors and the public, and to hasten the enact-
ment of a real Patent Reform Bill. Mr. Alderman Sidney,
M.P., occupied the chair, and observed that though he was
very little acquainted with the nature of the patent laws,
he felt the greatest pleasure in presiding on this occasion,
an he should be enabled to glean much information, which
would be of use to him in his place in the House of Com-
mun, lie could not but regard the present patent laws
as being in a moot anomalous condition, and calcu-
lated to produce great evil, not on 4 to inven-
tors, but to the public generally. 'f he present systeta
had the effect of " tying up" the talent and genius of the
country, and it was next to impossible for an inventor to
obtain a rumuneration for his labour. Instead of making
patents expensive, government ought to give every pos-
sible protection to inventors, exacting only such a sum as
would defray the incidental costs. Ile would ask why the
cost should be so enormous in this countxy, consideri-g
that the cost of a patent in Belgium, France, Den-
mark, and America, did not amount to more than 101.
Ile contended that tke patent laws were altogether detic•
five, and he did not know any subject which required more
attentive consideration on the part of the government. Mr.
Shepheid proposed the first resolution to the effect that, it
having been already acknowledged by government and the
public that the patent laws required amendment, the
meeting was of opinion that the bill now before parlia-
ment should effect an efficient amendment forthwitb,,,and
that if thin be not done, inventors who had previously re-
gistered and exhibited new inventions at the Great &chi
bition, under an implied promise from tho (government,
that the attainment of letters of patent would be rendered
less coal y would be sahjected to the injustice of having
been induced to publish their inventions without reason-
able means of protection from the legislature. The
mestion was seconded by Mr. Keene, and supported by
Mr. Rogers, and after some diteussion, was carried.
A resolution was then passed, that it was contrary to the
intmeeta of the inventors and the publio that the new
pleat law, which proposed that a patent should be granted
Mlnaideration of a series of payments, should require
*OM the inventor more this a few shillings in the first
iastanee, so as to cover the expense of recording his de-
mand, and that if the protection of patent rights in courts
of law be not rendered more certain, the law would still
remain in a very defective state. It was next resolved that
the foregoing resolutions be embodied is apetition,"
Plunged 03 the House of Commis, end the tseeting
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