The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-06 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION OF DESIGNS.

A statement has been issued by the Royal Commission,
tog that arrangements have been reads to !genital.*
the registration of designs proposed for exhibition, with a
view of protecting them from piracy.
The provisionil registration lasts for 12 months from the
date of registration, and may be exteoded for a further period
of six en,ciths, by order of the Board of Trade.
The necessary forms and conditions having been observed,
the right of the proprietor of the design is proreeted from
piracy by a penalty of from 61. to 301. for earn offence, each
tadivi - nal illegal ; üblicatiln or sale of a design constituting
a senerate offence. The penalty may be recovered by the
aggrieved party, either by action in the superior courts, or
by a summary proceedi7g before two magistrate,.
In order to effect the registration, both before and after
the period when the articles eau be received at the building,
three erectly similar copies or drawings of the designs, or
actual specimens of manufacture, as in woven fabrics, mast
be prepared according to certain rules, copies of which may
be obtained at the Designs-ofllee, 4, S merest- place, Somer-
set house, from 10 to 4, and at the cffi.e of the Executive
Committee for the Exhibition from 10 to 6.

Verse of applicatims to register des4as us published by
Meson. Chapman sod 1141, 193. Piccadilly, and may be ob-
taloa' of all stationers and bosksellms. Tee secretary of
every lotal sommitwe has been furnished with a copy for
seanlatios.

MAIL STEAMERS.

The Bran'lien line of steamers which commence
running from Southampton on the 9th inst. are likely to
be crammed with passengers. Between 30 and 40 have
been booked in Llndon for the Tevici,„ which leaves libuth-
ampton on Thursday for Rio de Janeiro. and about 30 have
been booked at Lisbon. Some difficulties have unexpectedly
arises with the Bres.lian government as to the eonveyance
of cargo by them stamen, but negotiations have already
been entered "into, and there is not much doubt but these
d:fficalties win be overcome.

The Times stated on Saturday that the new West India
and Brasilia's mail contract commenced on the 2nd iaet.,
and that the Severn was the first steamer that took the
mails under the new contract, and then gives eons, par.
ticalare of the route, and stoppages of the steamers, uU
the new route was about to be tried for the ant time.
This, however, is not the Cu.. The new route has bees
tried ever due August last, and the Severn will do pre-
duly as the six previous steamers which have lett Satlx-
, unreel. have done. The saw eleven years' mail contract,
1 which the West India Company have entered into with
the government, commenced oa the Ist inst., and not on
the 2nd.
' The West India steamer Tay, which should have been
dee yesterday, k not expected for a day or two, on account
of the Treat, which left Southampton on the 17th Nov ,
having been obliged to put into Torbay, booms of the
fearthl plea which :aged in the Chaanal ausedicely slier
the started ea her voyage. The B erbedoes boat was there-
fore delayed at Bt. Thomas seth the Trent arrived at the
latter place; and as that Barbadoes steamer is the one that
will briog up to St. Thomas the Demerara mails for the
Tay, the latter will not be able to cart from St. Thome at
the proper WIN ; and hence her upected late arrival at
Soatharaptos. •