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THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1851.

imiffaation of this bill, that we should extend its restraints
is a part of her Majr.ty's dominions to which that rescript
We mit any possible application.
"8. Because it. bas been admitted in debate, on high !e-
-ra authority, *that the penalties of this bill ire limited to
what are d,:scribed ss being ' pretended sees,' while other
sees or 4istriets are subjested only tp the elms 'ewe Basel-
th alksek• IV., chap. T. Lt therefore- 111 mas
t state OF UM Will tin England I[,Y[ is;
11 so in different parr of Irelatd, p •
contradietionsitteollgatiblis with sount%
rity of the law and is penalties not
6a nature of the imputed neencs, but accord.
_graphical limits within which such imputed
may have been committed.
"9. Because, if it should be true, as has been stated in
debate by the supporters of this bill, that if it becomes a
law it cannot be carried into effect, but mast remain' a
dead letter,' we consider that it is still more inconsistent
with sound legislation to pass a bill which, without giving
any security whatever, tampers with all the principles of
religious freedom, creates discontent and alarm, and, by
bringing the law into contempt, lessens its farce and right-
ful authority.
" 10. Because a determined resistance has been offered to
all suggestions made during the progress of the bill for the
correction even of obvious and verbal errors, as wed as for
the amendment of certain provisions of which uo justifica-
tion has been attempted ; and because the reason assigned
for taking this course, arising from the possible inconveni-
ence and delay apprehended if this bill were returned to
the House of Commons, is inconsistent with the free delibe-
rations of this house and derogatory to its just rights and
authority as a branch of the legislature.
" 11. Because, upon these grounds, we cannot but con-
sider the passing of this bill to be most inispedient and
most unjust. We consider it ill-adapted to protect either
' tho prerogative of the crown or the independence of our
country, while edealated to revive civil strife and se :tartan
diermations
_• we paiessa against it. likewise, as a departure
tom those WO pdasilies of religious liberty to which our
greatest states ea bays devoted their intellect, their genius,
and *dr sobisat mantissa

don;the

LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 31.

740NTEAGLE of Brandon.
" VAUX of llarrowilcu.
LOVAT.
"CAMOYS.
" MONT EAGLE (M. of Sligo).
"ROSSIE (Kinnaird).
" FINGALL.
"CHABIEMONT.
"LEITRIM.
PETRE."

" Dissentient.—l. Because no such measure as eat present
is consistent either with justice or expediency.
"2. Because tho bill appears to have been misnly dictated
by the excitement which has recently prevailed—an excite-
ment which it was the duty of the government and the
legislature rather to allay than encourage. Any attempt
to interfere with doctrines by act of parliaraent is not only
likely to fail, but may even promote what it is intended
to repress.
" 3. Because it is most unreasonable and inconsistent to pro-
fess to grant full toleration to the Roman catholic religion,
and at the same time to prohibit that species of communica-
tion with the see of Rome which is indispensable (or its per •
feet discipline and government.
" 4. lke.tufn• the undue assumption of power involved in
the terms of the Papal rescript of the 25tli of September,
Imo, and of other documents connected therewith, however
justly open to exception, can supply no reason for depriving
her Majesty's Roman catholic subjects of a regular and or-
dinary part of their ecclesiastical organisation.
" 5. Because the appointment of ecclesiastical officers is
essentially a matter of religious concern ; and although it
may be expedient in particular cast that such appointment
should be under the controul or influence of the civil power
—and although it is the undoubted duty of the legislature
to provide that no temporal powers are exercised, and DO
temporal rights impaired, under the pretext of ecclesiasti-
cal regulations, yet to restrain a religious community not
established by aw in the management of its religious con-
cerns, otherwise than by confining them within the sphere'
of religion, is inconsistent with the spirit of all our recent
legislation. Such restraint involves the principle, and may
lead to the practice, of religious persecution.
"6. Because the set of the 10th George IV., chap. 7,
which, fur the first time since the Reformation, secured to
the Roman catholic subjects of the crown an equality of
political rights, constituted a solemn expression of the in-
tention of the legislature, and a pledge to the Roman catholic
community that they should thenceforward enjoy a full
religious toleration.
. .

"7. Because the 21th section of the 10th Cizorge IV.,
which prohibits all persons, other tlam those thereunto
authorised by law, from cumin the titles of archbishops,
bishops, and deans of the national church, affords no pre-
cedent ter this bill, inasmuch as the former simply defends
from 111%14411 certain known legal titles already appro.
priated, and importing high digaitics and eulnahle rights,
whereas the latter amounts to the total prohibition of a
diocesan episcopate.
"8. II cause the penal prorisions of this bill not only
differ in the above-- wed respect from those of the 10th of
-

George IV., but they differ further to the prejudice of our
Boman catholic fellow-subjects, inasmuch as they are pre
ceded by recitals and declarations of law, concerning which
the 10th of George IV. was silent, whereby a new and ex-
tended construction may be given both to tho penal provi-
sions of this measure and likewise retroactively to those of
the 10th George IV.
"9. Because the ancient statutes against the exercise of a
foreign jurisdiction, or restrictive of the importation of
balls, brick, and restripts, which are cited in justification of
the present bill, are unavailable for such a purpose. These
statutes hal, long been sun: red to remain in.:lesuctudo. If
now revived, they may be found to assert powers for the
crown which would b• destructive of the religious liberties
secured to protestant dissenters as well as Boman catholic's.
They have no 'meth' reference to the establishment of pnn
winces or revs or to the asesnnpp•.o of title., but arc equally
and indifferently directed against nil exercise of jurisdiction,
whether by diocesan bishops or by vicars-apostolic, and are
therefore incompatible with our recognised principles of
toleration and religious freedom.
" 10. Because there is a peculiarly harsh and ungracious
character in the present prohibition of dioctwut government
of the Roman catholic community as it is not disputed
that at various period..s from the Reformtion down to a
recent date, the secular clergy, and more especially the
Boman catholic laity, have sought for the introduction
among themselves of a diocesan episcopacy, with the
approval and encouragement of the British government.
•' 11. Because there ire prt sumptive grotads for believing
that the late measures of the Pope have been adopted under
the persuasion that, if be should do what in his judgment
was requisite fur the spiritual wants and intereshi of I.is
own communion, the advisers of the crown not only would
have no desire, but had in fact publicly ditchtimed all in
tention and all title to interfere.

" 12. 14ecuuse this bill, while it professes torefcr to Roman
catholic titles, enacts a further and wholly gratuitous inter-
ference with religious freedom, by forbidding the assumption
of episcopal titles on the part of any other ?ersons than the
prelates of the tatablishen church and the prelates of the
Scottish episcopal communion. lty the exception from its
provi,ions of the mast-named prelates, who ate appointed in-
dependently of the royal authority, the bill plainly admits
that the appointment of biahops is, in its essence, •
spiritual matter, and thereby condemns it own principal
provisions,
. . .

"13. Because it is inexpedient to protect he rights of the
episcopate established by law, by needless ind unjust re-
straints upon the religious freedom of others. Such protec-
tion is likely to weaken rather than to atreagthen the na-
tional church, in its proper office of maintaining and en-
larging its influence over the people by moral and spiritual
meaty.

.14: Because the bill, besides being unjust to principle,
greatly endangers the peace and harmony of the various
classes of her Majesty's subjects in the United Kingdom,
and especially in Ireland. Should the measure he carried into
actual operation, it may engender the most serious political
and social evils; while, if it should not be put in force
against the use of titles openly assumed, its introduction into
the statute book will have tended to disparage the dignity
of parliament and the authority of the law.

" GORDON (Aberdeen).
"NEWCASTLE.
" CANNING.
. ST. GERMANS.
" WHAIINCLIFFE.
" LYTTELTON.
" MONTEAGLE of Brandon."

CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL.—
Yesterday a meeting of the governors, medical officers,
medical students, and friends of this institution was held in
the board room of the hospital, tor the annual distribution
of prizes and testimonials Of honour to the students most
distinguished for their acquiremeidsin the various branches
of medical study. The Rev. 11. Mackenzie, the Rector of
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, presided, and on taking the
chair expressed his diffidence in occupying such a position,
hut on reflection he considered that he was only following
the example of his Master, who sent out hie disciples to heel
the sick, and in such an institution science and faith should
be combined. The Charing Cross medical school,
ho said, had grown up with the hospital, and
now bore a high rank among such institutions
The distribution of praes then took place as follows :—Ma-
feria Medico : Silver medal, Thomas Terry ; certificate,
Fred. !Alton. Anatomy, senior : Silver medal, John Wil-
-1 Rams ; oertilicatc, David Thos. Morris. Anatomy, Junior :
Bream inedal, F. Dalton ; certificate, J. W. Barney. Mid •
wLfery, w odor: Silver medal, T. W. J. Goldsboro; certifi-
eak., J. K.,sig. Midwifery, Junior : bronze medal, J. I).
Tacker ;
oe,lilcate, Thomas Simpson. Physiology, senior :
Silver medal, John Williams. Physiologyounior : Bronze
medal, R. Fi.011; certificate, Fred. Dalton. Medicine,
I senior Silver nvelad,D. T. Morris; certificate, John Wil-
liama mecum,. kritior : Bronze medal, John B. Tucker ;
certificate, Ante& :Harvey. Surgery, senior : Silver medal,
H. P. certificate, W. H. Felker. Surgery,
junior : Bronze mode John W. Barnes ; certificate, J. B.
Trucker. Botany giLser medal, Thomas Simpson ; certiti-
eate, Charles gerington. Medical Jurisprudence : Silver
I medal, T. W. J. GoldsLyro ; certificate, Alfred Harvey.
Clinkal : Silver medal, W. 11. Folker ; certificate, C.
Ricketts. General Proticieisej: Gold medal, J. Williams ;
wee, medal, D. T. moms. itiltace and Good Conduct :
Honorary testimonials,H. P.e er, T. W. J. Goldsboro,
Henry deorge, C. Ricketts. The prizes in chemistry were
I not awarded, on account of the a Nance of the gentlemen
who had to make the awards.
Tug WATER Commirrse.—Yesterday the inqui-
ries of the committee were directed into the chemistry of
the water supply of the dlift.rent comrades, and )lestrs.
Taylor, Ai kin, and Cooper were examined Nit' chemi-
cal, aaimalcsile, and microscopic peculiarities.

gite erpreligi. up their clothes. In consequence he was detained
JO days at HAnr*erg, supplying their places just
tat that efielffi when the south-western monsoon
e' TO COWREEDONDENTS.
was about to set in. Ile procured infer iorsubstitutes,
•
I es at ll.rprw. ,s.mee.es weak and debilitated men, and had to give them
pataished every Tuesday sal Edney eight, is time higher wages. These men he attempted to discharge
for pee. at 1 lams, but was prevented by the authorities
Advermeements Intended tor t' The Espress," London Evening pager, „
mom be el the (floe, 10. Bouserte-street, or Two °VW; on the there. W When off the Cape of Good Hope, he en-
emy at rabliattlew. countered a heavy gale; with such a crew he had great
difficulty in managing the ship, which was in a
HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. sound state, and no fewer than 11 became
Tuts Dar—Morning. 3il. 49. r Afternoon, U. I Im.
To.sfotnow—lioeting, 4h. 35m. Afttl9ooll, 45.38 m. unlit for work by sickness. Near Algoa Bay, the
Anna Robertson was hailed by her Majesty's
steamer Hermes which offered to tow her in. The
offer was accepted, and in twenty hours the Anna
Robertson was got fairly into the Bay without the
smallest difficulty or the least danger.
For this service the master offered the Hermes
5001.; the offer was refused by the QUEEN'S officer;'
he wo•did, he replied, take nothing less than the law
woritd give him. He arrested the ship, and pro-
ceeded in the Vice-Admiralty at the Cape for 3,0001.
The court awarded him 1,500/. The master had no
credit for that sum, and, failing to raise it, part of
the cargo had to be sold; the vessel was detained
for four months by the captain of the Hermes in the
open roadstead of Algoa Ray, 500/. had to be drawn
on the owners for her current expenses; and the
total loss to all concerned is estimated at 3,000!.
Such is the salvage practice lind system of which
our merchant service complain ; and well they may
when they contrast the treatment they receive at
the hands of foreign ships of war with that they
suffer from their own. kor the Neptune steamer,
being lately wrecked on its passage to St. Peters-
burg, was aided, protected, and succoured by the
Mulish naval authorities, and neither fee nor reward
was asked or expected.

Isr enumerating the other day the just grievances
of British shipowners, we included the heavy charges
made by Queen's ehips, under the name of mirage,
for assistance rendered to them in cases of distress
and difficulty. This claim is, we venture to think,
notwithstanding Admiral Duxuss's passionate de-
fence of it, not very sound in principle, very oppres-
sive in amount, besides being a burden exclusively
borne by the marine of this country.
The enormous royal navy maintained by England
during times of peace, and stationed in every sea, is
always justified, when objected to, on the ground that
it is needful for the protection of our extended com-
merce. Yet fur any aid or assistance seven by a ship
of war to an English merchantman, an extravagant
and increasing payment is required by Queen's offi-
cers, and is awarded by the Queen's Courts of Ad-
miralty. So that the country has first to pay heavily
fur OAPs of war to protect our trade ; and then the
shipowner has individually to pay still more heavily
for any protection, however trifling or unsubstantial,
that the ships his country has already paid for may
afford him. This system has the effect of reducing
gentlemen bearing her NiAJEsTT's commission very
decided, we live chiefly by levying extortionate tribute on first time to be have any
should elect to
nearly to the level of Deal and Margate boatmen, WHETHER, if the whole matter were now for the
who
practical and scientific authorities entertain
Channel. grayest
the vessels they assist in hazy mornings in the patent laws at all, is a question upon which the
On so precarious an element as the sea, where dun-
ger is so sudden and aid so scarce and valuable, the regard the views of men so competent
mro c i
principle of salvage remuneration even to Queen's judgment on the point as Mr. BRUNEL,
deliberation, : Ur ITT,
the most opposite opinions. It is impstiblefit)ornellisa-
cunty to commercial shipping, and as a stimulus to
ships may perhaps be admissible as a means of se -
have conic to the conclusion that the w c prin-.
exertion in the royal service ; though the admissionprinciple namely ot
ciple of the patent law—the
limited . , a
and Lord GitesiviLee, whot after mature itl
refined and exalted claim of honour and duty which monopoly in the fruits of their inventions—is
of such a principle is scarcely compatible with those securing to inventors for a tented .
are occasionally advanced on its behalf. The false and erroncent ; that it neither effectually eft-
objection is rather to the practice than to the prin-
mutates, nor effectually rewards, and confers no benefit
ciple. The merchant service, prepared to pay for the on the inventor at all proportionate to the inconve-
succour it receives in times of danger, objects to deuce which it imposes on the public. On the other
the excessive amount it is made to pay; to the arbi-
hand there is, to say the least of it, much plausi-
trary powers exercised against it to enforce payment ; bility in the arguments which, as a question of right,
and to the fact that the (Luger in which it is placed maintain that the originator of a useful practical
when the claim for salvage accrues, is not unfre- invention has the same title to be rewarded for this
quently produced, as we shall show a flagrant ex- applicatiou of his intellect, as the author of a sue-
ample of, bv the temptation which a clause in Mr. LA-
, cessful literary work, and by the same means; while
BOCCIIEROS recent act holds out for the desertion of regarded as a question of expediency, it seems, at
their men in ports where they cannot be replaced. all events, highly probable, that the public good
'flume, we submit, are objections so reasonable and will, on the whole, be best promoted by a,
weighty, as to require sonic more serious considera-
system of law which holds out the hope of eventual
Lion from Lords of the Admiralty than angry and money remuneration to those who, by the exercise of
rude reelamations such as Admiral Desires in
their ingenuity and inventive genius, have contri-
in, when his temper is ruffled by a collision with bitted to the happiness of mankind. hi this, as in all
General Ei ANS. practical questions, we must look to the balance of
The salvage sv`lem is a grievance of . modern evils : and it certainly seems a less evil that the
growth. Formerly no such claims were made for public should have to pay for 14, or even for 21 years
services rendered to merchant-ships; it was con- 80111 CM hat more dear:yfor a useful invention, than that
sidered part of the public and professional duty of they should abandon a system which offers the in-
' ship* of-war to aftbrd such aid without any charge.
r ducements without which they might never have had
Hut now, if they throw a line or a hawser to a the benefit of the invention at all.
trader, it is made the groundwork of an exorbitant Even conceding, however, that the arguments upon
claim for salvage ; and, if resisted, the trader is
the abstract question may be more evenly balanced
thrown into the Court of Admiralty; or, if abroad, than they appear to us at present, there is one
into what is even worse, one of its vice-courts, practical point on which the minds of all parties are
' presided over, in all probability, by a coke unanimously agreed, and that is, that the existing
! aid secretary, burgeon, or attorney, by whom
the most extravagant claims are allowed and patent laws mid their administration constitute an
evil so enormous, that something must at once be
• awarded, not one penny of which goes into the Ha-
done by way of remedy.
tional treasury, wliidi pays for the maintenance The geovenment bill for the amendment of the
' of tho Royal Navy; all is divided in amounts very
patent Taw, which passed through committee seater-
, disproportionate amongst the officers and crews of day, must, we Willi, le' regarded rather as a measure
f the ship of war lucky enough to have lent a helping calculated to mod the immediate urgency of the oc-
r hand, without making any allowance to the public ca.sion than as a permanent adjustment of the whole
liar the wear and tear of the public vessels. . question. Regarded in the former point of view
• .
Ihe system has of late yours grown rapidly. It there can be no doubt that it is in many respects a
was only in 1838 that the law was satisfactorily and considerable improvement upon the old system.
r lucidly expounded by the lute Sir JOHN Nienoet, in Instead of being compelled, as formerly, to take
the nee of the Rapid, which, being on shore in the out separate patents for England, Seenland, and
Gulf of Smyrna, was assisted by her Ma:esty's ship Ireland, at a collective cost of about 300/., the whole
Sapphire. buring the efforts so made by the ship of of withal, had to be paid down in one sum, before
war to get off the merchantman, the tide suddenly sealing the 'intent, the government hill proposes that
, ears-Will her into saki). Now, it is remarkable that there shall be one office and one patent for the whole
• tied only 12 years ago, Captain Rowtev, of the empire—that the total cost to the patentee for the
' Sapphire,l was under the impression that it was his e hole period over which his patent right is to extend
duty to render salvage service to British merchant- shalt be 1701., payable, not at once, but in the feli-
ne:li without remuneration ; and it was not until lowing instalments : For the first three years,
after considerable delay that he commenced legal pro- 2.5/. (20/. in fees, 51. stamp), to be paid on seal-
ceedings. Sir JOHN NICHOLL, however, dismissed ing the patent ; at the end of the third year .50/.
the claim, observing that (40/. fees, 101. stump) to be paid for an udditional
To entitle her Majesty's ships to salvage remuneration coneession of four years' patent right; and at the
foe ~ervices to a private ship, the service must be ice- expiration of the seventh year a final sum of 10(1/. 1 portant, and even then the remuneration would be less than
(toff:. fees, 20/. stamp) for the residue of the period.
to a merchant ship; and the same principle applies in wur
an be no doubt that the admission of the
salvaae; and hoe nosy reasons—they lose no time and they 'here e"
run no risk of property—both arc at the expense of the instalment principle is a great step gained. The op-
public. preasivenes.s of the existing system nminly consists
This was, however, in 1838. Since then the law in a man's being compelled to pay down a large
and practice, of salvage remuneration have been sum in hard cash for a right which may turn out
greatly expanded and stretched; as a few instances totally valueless. The graduated increase in the
of need occurrence will show. (hi the 23rd July, scale of payments is also perfectly just and
1818, the brigantine Sappho was stranded on the reasonable. A vast majority of patents turn out
English bank ut the mouth of the Plate, on her worthless, and it is a fair presumption that in three
voyage from Liverpool to Buenos Ayres. The master years' time a patentee will be enabled to discover
' proceeded at once to Monte Video, and there ob- whether the concession for which he has made one
, tained the assistance of her Majesty's steamer Lizard, payment is worth a further outlay: if not, he will be
the merchant brig Arno, and a couple of launches; only a loser to the limited extent of the first exmodi-
. for the service of the Arno he engaged to pay 10/. a ture : if the reverse, he cannot reasonably object to
day. By their conjoint aid the Sappho was light- paying a higher price for what is proved to be, to a
cued and wits then towed off by the Lizard. That certain extent, a valuable privilege. The same rea-
being accomplished, she proceeded to Buenos soiling applies with greater force to the progressive
Ayres, where she arrived on the 10th of August. On increment in the third payment at the cud of the
this service the Lizard was altogether engaged five first seven years. A patent which at the end of that
' days, yet for it her commander put in a cluim for time is worth paying anything for is worth paying a
salvage of one-third of the value of the ship and cargo; good deal for.
and the consignees ultimately paid 15 per cent. of But conceding all this, we must yet most
the value of both, amounting to 2,6001., in addition decisively record our opinion that the first payment,
to 65/. for the fuel used by the Lizard. at any rate, is fixed far too high. What objec-
Now our readers must mark how one exaction Lion on principle could there be to acting on the
becomes a precedent for another. On the 26th suggestion thrown out by Mr. RouNosar. PALMER,
of March following, the William Pelle grounded and allowing specifications of inventions for which
on the same bank. Again the master went patents are required to be registered in the first in-
to Monte Video for aid and secured that of titmice for five shillings, just as jut the ease of inven-
her Majesty's steam tender Harpy. Before, how- them of designs for manufacturing purposes ? The
ever, the Harpy readied the grounded vessel, ATTORNEY-GENERAL, indeed, alarmed the house by
the merchant schooner Pio Norio, and a launch sent predicting an enormous increase of litigation WitlCOD-
down by the consignees, had greatly lightened the sequence of making the first concession of patent
William Pelle of cargo. On the arrival of the Harpy rights too cheap. But were not the same
alongside, a stream cable was sent on board the predictions indulged in when the Registration of
William Peile, the Harpy put on her steam, and (the Designs Act was under the consideration of the
crew of the William Pelle assisting) in three quarters house, and has not experience shown that those pre-
of an hour she was got into deep water. dietious were utterly unfounded? We trust that
Thence she was towed to Monte Video by , this scale of payments will undergo rigid revision in
the Harpy, where she arrived early on the , committee, The ATTORNEY-GEM:Im himself inti-
27th of March without damage to ship or cargo. ' muted a hope that the amount proposed to be taken
For this service the commander of the Harpy in fees might in course of time be considerably re-
claimed 3,1461. ; and the ground on which he made duced ; but o" cial hopes, in matters of this kind, are
that claim ho thus stated in a letter dated the 17th I apt to be fallacious, and we should infinitely prefer a
lof April:—The Lizard obtained 13 per cent. salvage !little legislative certainty. As to the hint that
for services rendered to the Sappho; and, fortified as ! a margin must be taken in order to pro-
'we are by competent opinions, that we should not . vide compensation fur the abolished fees
demand - less without subjecting ourselves to ten- of the Clerk of the Hanaper and Deputy
utei-ciedparpatariffanannf amsaitiilaefringidaulel
sure from these immediately interested, as well . Chaff Wax, the example of the low scale of payments
maainveger reduced
1 wouldadopt
i nr
remain as to avoid a precedent which may injure others 'in the United States proves, beyond a doubt, that by
netiat annirty4fuitusrperrixre,rinodt.
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and
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rodarctswat
rynrecetlemivaned also
full sum he demanded, viz., 3,146/. Isuch pious uses. That the British public di . ldhave
The next case on our list is one where a Queen'S 'to pay a round SUM for permission to abolish what
Iship received a large sum for doing nothing, and I ought never to have existed, is too customary and
where the cargo was an entire loss, very much in I constitutional a practice to excite more than a mur-
consequence of her doing nothing. The John Dalton, . mar ; but the venerable and interesting Incubi of the
; from London to Sydney, was wrecked off Rio de : Petty Bag office might spend the residueof their
'Janeiro. The crew ft h • Majesty'sship Alfred ;da •at thepublic •• •
o her ith-',
I came to her assistance, and were in a position to out the necessity of imposing on British inventors a
have rendered a great deal; but the Brazilians . tax of 23/. for permission to exercise for three years
claimed the right of interference, and British aid was a right which may never be worth three fart=gs.
withdrawn. The result was the loss of every thing, ! Upon the important question, as to the in
and heavy Brazilian charges; subsequently, however, • which it is babe determined whether a is or
a demand on behalf of the Alfred for 400 L, which was ,is not entitled ton patent right—the " provisions of
compromised by its commander accepting 100/. ; the government measure are an undoubted improve--
NI, e now come to even a more flagrant instance, rent on the present practice, but cannot be regarded
that of the Anna Robertson, which has caused so as a final solution of the difficulty. In lieu of the
much indignation wherever the fads have become present system of rareols and secret hearings is the
' known. That vessel only has recently arrived in ' offices of the Attorney and Solicitor-Gennai. a'
London from Chian and India. When at Hong new tribunal is to be constituted, cementing
Kong ten able bodied seamen deserted, under Mr. • besides those law officens, of certain sci ' Oil-
LABOCCIIERCS act, and were received on board her tific • • •
commissioners . the app licaut for a patent,
Majesty's steamer Medea; and soon afterwards three on lodging in the office of these commissioners
more, including the cook, quitted, and entered her provisional • • • " •
specification," is to receive from them $
Majesty's ship Royalist. The Anna Robertson
thus certificate of " provisional protection," valid for a
lost the best half of her crew; • her • either •
yet master period of nine or six months. During this'
vas compelled to pay them their wages and to give time the applicant may make his invention known to