The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-10 00:00:00

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LONDON. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 10.

Moan law for the Royal British Bank. The shat-
tered planks of this wrecked iostitation are drifting
about at random on a vexed sea of litigation, cud it is
becoming more and more evident that the beet part of
the salvage will eltiruately be the spoil of the lawyers,
The Royal British Bank was yesterday adjudicated to
be bankrupt under the provisions of an Act is that be-
half made and provided, to wit, the 7 and 8 Vic, a. 111.
The date of the act of bankruptcy relied en being the
9th of September last, and the order of the Vim-
Camicaixon for bringing the Company under the
Winding-up Acts not having been made till the24th,it
seems likely,supposing the statute in question to prove
applicable to the case, that the whole concerns of the
great swindle will have, after all, to be gone into
before one of the Commissioners of Bankruptcy in
Besinghall-street, and not before one of the Masten
in the Winding-up offices. Seven days, however, are
allowed to the lawyers wbo represent the Company
to dispute the adjudication. That they will do so is
a matter of course, and the only certainty involved
by this fresh step on the road to ruin is that of a keen
and costly encounter between legal wits,as to the sods
of jurisdiction and the class of pnotitioners in which
the law of the land has vested the right of grinding
costs out of the shareholders and depositors of the
defunct Company.
The result of the decision is of sufficiently little
importance to any parties except the law adminis-
Wore. 'wait in Bertans may be said, almost
without a metaphor, of the ill-advised depositor who
is rash enough to rush with any hope of effective
relief from Lincoln's-inn to Basinghail-street. The
delay, the vexation, the costliness of the process
are pretty much alike in both cases, or semi sup•
posing the balance in these respects to be rather in
favour of the Court of Bankruptcy, we confess that,
as at present advised, we do not very clearly see how
the powers of that court can possibly be brought to
bar on say other property than the actually existing
assets of the Bank at the period of its stoppage. To
declare what shareholders are to be contributeries,
and to enforce from them the payment of calls With*
"last shilling and last acre" fund be exhausted, is,
as far as we understand the matter, the peculiar pew
repave of the Court of Chancery under the Windier
up Acts. Be this, however, as it may, one thing at
all events is clear, that the fresh litigation sure to
arise out of this new step taken in the stales of the
Royal British Bask is far more calculated to benefit
the lawyers than the shareholders or depositors of that
tilleastrous concern.

Us impotency of the law to protect inventors is
universally acknowledged. Events illustrating Wean
of sonstant occurrence. We teal), alluded to the case
of Mr. COIL A mach strum example of the evils
et the law is to b 3 mien by perusing the muds of the
hot pest wog eeso—that of His=s arose Meerut.
The tint legal preesedinp oesuseted with this sae
look pits, in 1843, mad the lest in 1865. The potato
et the cue ere btlelly Hesse :—A Mr. HUM
et the civil service in India, had hie M-
ention directed to the feet that the teem of hake
did not make such good steel as that peediesed floe
Swedish or Russian iron. He theeight that the
resources of chemistry ought to enable Male esmely
this defect. He retnrasd te Emende eledled maw
the best chemists, and, thee nemesese espedammte,
discovered that the promisee a swain gismtity of
carburet of manganese in the melting pet produced
from Britiek•tros a steel equal to that produced from
ohs best marks of Russian or Swedish boa. Here
wee a discovery which not oely led to a vast develop.
seat of British industry by enabling as tow our own
boa, but furnished us with the means of saklageteel
at about half the ordinary cost. Now there Demi=
been any doubt about theme Sete. Nobody denies
that beton Mr. HUTU published this property of
°shunt et manganese it was not knows. Nobody
denies the saving of fifty per cent. Nobody denies
that a very ,hart time atter the discovery the tree.
masters employed Mr. HEATH'S process, and made
immense fortunes by it. But, says the reader, why
were the manufacturers allowed to do thief Why
did not Mr. BRASH protect himself by a patent?
Mr. HEATH did take out a patent, bet be did
not by that means protect himself. Cabaret of
manganese is a compound body. Mr. HUTH dis-
covered very shortly after taking out his patent that
if the elements of the cartniret were placed in the
melting pot instead of the carbon: Itself the same
effect would be produced. The separate eratinfse•
tare, therefore, of the urbane was rendered nam-
es/eery ; and is this manufacture was suasively
expensive, the saving in the msoufacture of
the iron wan very great. This Cauvery was
jest as much Mr. Hunt's as that of the
properties of the carbaret. It was, however,
a most unfortunate discovery for him. Is the
innocence of hie heart be communicated this to
the manufacturers. They received the Worm.
goo joyfully, commenced using the elements of
the earboret instead of the carboret itself, and
refired henceforth to pay him the royalty de-
nuded. They had agreed to pay for the where,
net for the elements of the carburet It was replied
that the elements combined in the melting pot, and
formed the carboret The insolent spouse was that
nobody could look into the melting pot sod see "tat
was going on. It was urged that the inventor had
a still further claim for proteetloo, as his diseovery
of the use of the elements made the process
of manufacture so moth cheaper. It was absurdly
replied that the elements being oat of all properties
cheaper than the oarboret itself, the use of such ele-
ments in the manufacture woo a new diseovery, ear
isvention, and not within the letters palest. What
we have spoken of as the issoient repases and the
absurd reply, formed the substance °ILA A8H143111111
judgment in the Court of Exchequer, on the Int aces.
mos of Mr. Heart's bringing as esti= for the
infringement of his patent. He woe punished ke discovering too much. This eeatenee against which Mr.
limits appealsd,ws. the isms at of a wisdom

which lasted twelve years, and aeoupied the attention
of eighteen learned judges, privy councillors, and
noble lords. Mr. Huta died before the cgs WU ski-
mutely decided, literally woes eat with tbs.
and difficulties of the litigation, a Memorable le
of the protection which tblaketish liter to
le
some of our greatest naticail bensfactorif4 . .
Surely it is time tbit smith& if shouirbileds to
protect inventors against the unjust appropriation of
their labours by others. Material property is toler-
ably well protected ; intellectual property, or the pro.
duct of a man's brain, brought before the public in a
printed book, is well protected; let us try whether
we cannot protect the property of tholes by whose
scientific labours the comforts of life are indefinitely
augmented.