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London, England, 1866-10-26 00:00:00

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quite evident that the A 1211601111 public do not st all
untleretand• the actual position of the questioll-
In replying .to our argument on the in-
justice of the present state of the law,
the New York Times thinks "to quoque "
to be conclusive end sufficient. Our eoutempo-
rely admits the injustice of the present state of
things, but thinks it enough to reply that the
injustice which British law does to American au-
thors is as great as that which American law
inflicts on British authors. But such a reply only
strengthens our position instead of weakening it,
for the defect in the law is not on our side, but
upon theirs. Our law gives the Americans the
power of protecting their authors if they will avail
' themselves of it by protecting ours. The Cramp-
ton-Everett Treaty of 1864 was fully approved
on this side, but was rejected by Congress, and
any Government on this aide has the power and
the will to settle the matter on the basis of reci-
procal protection and equal justice whenever the
Federal Government will enter on the negotiation.
American authors can have in this country all the
rights of British authors whenever Congress will
give to British authors the same rights under
American law which their own authors enjoy. It
is, therefore, only on the American side that new
legislation is needed. The injustice which is done
to American authors in this country is entirely the
fault of American law.
The literary man of the United States do not
need to be reminded of the true state of our copy-
right relations. But it is evident that one of the
first things they have to do is to instruct public
opinion on the subject. So long as any large por-
tion of the American people think that English
legislation is responsible for the present unsatis-
factory condition of things, they will never seri-
ously attempt to remedy the defect of their own
law. But when once they know that the whole
remedy is in their own hands, and the whole
fault is at their door, they will have substan-
tial justice done. A nation that has so nobly
striven for justice to the newly emancipated
slave can never be content to appropriate the
labour of the literary class of a kindred people
without acknowledgment or reward, or to sub-
ject their own literary men to the reaction of such
injustice. The present Congress, before which the
whole subject will probably be brought, is known
to be the moat eminent, cultivated, and earnest of
any that has assembled of late years ; and the
next Congress to which the subject may be re•
mitted will be none the less distinguished, for in
them both the best mind and the most earnest
convictions of the people will be represented and
embodied. Literature has as much to hope as
politics from such Congresses. The appeal of the
literary men of the United States cannot be with-
out its effect, and we shall be glad to find that it
leads not only to discussion, but to speedy action.
Our peoples have a common history, and speak a
common language. The great inheritance of
English literature, as of English law and free-
dom, belongs to both ; and there is no reason
why in this matter of literature they should not
still be one.

Tau Evunto, 1111; ZYkELANciouTE. Mews. C. Ma-
thews, Buckstone, Chippendale, A,c, ; Mesdames C. Mathews,
Chippendale, Wright, kc. —A Ballet Diverdasement. the Alms
Feeley.—TlLE CRITIC—And MY HUSBAND'S 0110 Sr,

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TN!! EvireutO, BRUTUS AND CESAR. M 1 Bearade.—And
TILE LONG STRIKE. Messrs. D. Beech:AWL Emery, Whid'comb.
Cowper. do. • . Mrs. D. !touch:ann. —Concluding Pith TWEEDLE-
TOYS TAIL COAT. Mr. H. Widdlcomb.--Comuseace at 7.

STRAND.
TIDS EVZPITNO, THE MARRIED BACHELOR.-IN THE
WRONG BOX.-DER FREISCHUTZ : OR, A GOOD CAST FOR
A, PIECE-AM WAITECCI YOR THE UNDERGROUND.

HOLBORN.

Tem Itvimnto, at 7, LAFaint LOVE LETTERS. Mr. Bel-
lmore and Miss C. nr.unders.—And FLYING SCUD. Messrs.
Neville, Belmore, Blake, Voltaire, &e. ; Mesdames F. Josephs,
C. Saunders, Beale Foote, Ftddes, Lennox, Raymond, le.

BRITANNIA.

TIM Enarrao, THE 0171V-Wiiiii TREE Mrs. Lane—The
Wondrous Brothers Vletorell1; Mister George Perks Mr. N.
Ogden, " Kind Ohl Daddy ;" Paul Deuliu.—And TUN BRIDE
OY ALDGATE.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tate DAY —Monnog, llat Afternoon. at 320.
TO-110anow—Morning, 311. s:m Afternoon. 4h. leo.

LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26.

AMONG the subjects discuased at the late meet-
ing of the Social Science Association at Manches-
ter was that of " International Copyright." _ In

the paper by Mr. AtrrnowY TwA;tiorit, which
formed the basis of such discussion as took place,

the question was treated in its immediate practical
bearing on our litentry relations to the United States.
Those relations are by far the most important to
literature of any that we sustain, but they are by
far the most unsatisfactory and injurious. With
other countries, so far as literature is concerned,
our copyright arrangements are tolerably satisfac-
tory and complete. But a copyright which can
only amount to a reservation of the author's rights
over translations of his works, which translations
must usually be executed by another hand, is of far
less value than one which would preserve to him

a property in his owu works when repro-
duced in his own language. Nearly seventy
millions of people now speak the English language,
and form the public to which the literature of our

tongue appeils. About half of these belong
to the Britishempire, andhalf to the great Republic
of the United States. But by the present lawless
condition of copyright arrangements between the

two countries every author who writes in the Eng-
lish language is denied a right of property in his
works by one half of tho great public for whom
he writes, and to whom ho speaks. LONGFELLOW
and TENNYBON, for example, are universally read
on both sides of the Atlantic, but the American
professor has no claim that he could enforce to
any profit on the large circulation of his works
in this country, nor has the English Laureate any
right that he could assert over the wide reproduc-
tion of his poems on the other side of the Atlantic.
But neither the American nor the English public
is at all inclined to deny to authors • right of
property in their works. An intellectual people
will always be proud of their literature, and will
be glad to see that not only honours, but large
pecuniary rewards are reserved for literary industry
and genius. It is not from • any want of apprecia-
tion of literary merit that the present state of
things exists. There is a certain practical con-
venience to a reading people like the Americans in
having the works of British authors cheaply repro-
duced for them, and the satisfaction they feel in
their quick and easy access to English literature
has hitherto prevented them from appreciating the
injustice which is done to the authors themselves.
On this side of the water the cheap reproduction
of popular American books is taken by the British
public as some compensation for the injustice
which the American laws inflict on our own
writers. Each nation makes free with the
literature of the other, and though on both
sides the public gain a little, they gain
it at the expense of injustice to those
whose genius they admire, and by whose industry
they profit. Nor is the gain to the public free
from a very considerable drawback. The dear-
ness of American books may be in part due to
other causes, but it is evident that if an author,
in publishin.4 a new work, had the public of both
nations for his customers, he would print a larger
edition, and fix the price considerably lower than
he can venture to do now that his copyright is
confined to his own country. A copyright which
extended to both nations would make the boobs
of each nation rather dearer to the other than
they now are, but it would also tend to cheapen
for each nation the works of its own authors by
doubling the area from which their remuneration
would be drawn. Each nation would support the
literature of the other, instead of preying upon it,
as is now done, and British and American authors
would have fur their one public the whole Eng-
lish-speaking race.
We saw, with some satisfaction, that at the
Social Science meeting Mr. DUDLEY FIELD, of
New York, expressed himself in favour of an im-
mediate effort to procure the settlement of this
question. Ile believed that the American people
were quite willing to do justice in this matter,
and that if an appeal were made to Congress it
would be willing to pans a law giving protection

rameseally to the sanim of _ Autry. ,
dispasations of Providence who would not pray to escape cap
the evil fortune of inventiniAnithing that benefited this Matters sesame every day a more threatening aspect in
country 1 Owe • clews man hu the idea of • Pinstisshi• this country, and the military as...meats which follow
and Profitable novelty, in anon in shiPbadinlir to sal each other uninterruptedly indicate that in Ramie certain
department over which government preside', ke is—these eventualities are believed in. For ten diys there have
is no blinking the matter—as good u leak A laudable been incessant arrivals at Warsaw, from the interior of
ambition curios him fanned to his destruction, and a re- guru, of tnina filled with troops, who, after a short rat,
moresloss fate, or slither an insensate government, insves took the direction of the Galli:den frontier. A considerabie
him to unrequited labour and anstayed ruin. I portion of the garrison of Worley has also been sent to
, that quarter. The Governor of Poh®d and three eminent
pnerals have been called to St. Petersburg—li fact which
people connect with the state of affairs in Chinch'. Yoder
the pretext that the Poles are in a condition of great
excitement, and that they are dreaming of the speedy re-
establishment of their country, the Marian government is
urging forward vigorously the work of Eussitication, and
favouring as much as possible conversion to the orthodox
rite.

SHE MONIST MARKET.

In the City article of the Times the explanation that the I
present prostrate condition of the market% is owing to the
tremendous losses of the pest year and the heavy amounts
people have to pay for calls is disputed. The money that
has changed hands went for the most part from
individual to individual in this country. Even in
the case of the London. Chatham, and Dover Company
no outflow of capital is involved which could diminish the
Investing power of the country. The money now daily
raised to pay calls which press upon hundreds of families
will nearly all go to creditors at home; and in a commercial
point of view the Board of Trade returns and the
almost entire absence of failures in legitimate mer-
cantile establishments show that the annual profits
of the nation must be steadily accumulating.
Under these circumstances, the conclusion seems inevit-

able either that some new species of investment must mon
be discovered, or that there will be • strong renewal of
demand for those that already exist. Of course, if the
public will not boy stocks or shares their unemployed
funds mud lie in deposit with the banks, and in that case
the demand for commercial bills for disoonnt will increase
to a point that will enable, as was the ease in 1855 and
1856, every speculative clerk who chooses to start in
basins., and aspire to the character of an extensive mer-
chant to obtain whatever accommodation he may require.
Public undertakings at home and abroad, and loans to
honest governments are obviously the only sound methods
open to us, and these cannot take place so long as all such
investments are regarded as at present with total and
indiscriminate aversion. Consequently until a better
feeling shall arise, the tendency must be for money to
seek the discount-market, and thus to stimulate a renewal
of that system of commercial competition on the part of
new firm', without real capital, which is always in the
end more hurtful than anything else to our regular trade
as well as to our mercantile repute. It is this tendency
at present that is causing the daily decline in all descrip-
tions of securities.

(he Court.

OCTOB:

BALSIORAL, Ocr. 24.

The Queen, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice,
rode up Glen Gelder, on ponies, and drove back by Alt•na-
Guithasaoh, where Princess Christian met her Majesty and
the Princesses.
Prince Leopold went to Knocks Cutle.
The Duke and Duchess of Anmale dined with the Queen
and the royal family.

We extract the following paniage from s pastoral
which Mgr. Corti, Bishop of Mantua, has addressed
to his flock :

A Committee of the Lords of her biajesty's Mort Honour-
able Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber,
Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The
Lords present were the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole,
the Right Hon. H. Corry, and the Right Hon. Stephen
Cave. Mr. Harrison and Colonel Harness attended the
committee. . .

..,. .--- -- •
Victor BOIMA3IIIOI is our legitimate King; you know it
sad you rejoice at it. Pay, therefore, to him, to his repre-
sentatives, to his government, and to his laws, an affec-
tionate and conscientious obedience. Let none of you,
therefore, my children, listen to the evil inspiration of those
who, dwelling on the real or supposed mistakes of the go-
vernment, attack it with violence and seek to dis-
credit it.

IN'rEL LIG]

OF RIIRSIAN TROOPS TO
POLAND.
Warsaw, in the Augsburg Gazette,

ITALY.

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Deepatches were sent yeeterday from the Colonial-office
to the Governor of Canada.
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.. - ---- -. ------.
Summonses were issued yesterday for a Cabinet Council,
to be held at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury, in Downing-street, on Wednesday next, the 31st
instant.

The Inman steam-ship City of New York, from
New York on the 13th inst., arrived here at 3.20
a.m. to-day, with 360 passengers and 49,200 dollars
in specie. She landed 68 of the former, and pro-
ceeded at 4 a.m. for Liverpool.
(By Atlantic Telegraph.)
NEW YORK, Ocr. 24, Evans°.
The excitement in Baltimore has greatly sub-
sided.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, Ocr. 26.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Gold, 147. Exchange on London, 1601. 5-20
U.S. Bonds, 1141.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left !
town yesterday on a visit to their Royal Highnesses the I
Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham, after which
the Duke of Cambridge goes to General Hall's seat, near I
Newmarket, for shooting.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will arrive ;
at Staffold House, St. James's, on the 30th inst., from
Scotland, and then go for a few days on a visit to their •
I Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at
Sandringham.
His Royal Highness the Duc d'Aumale, her I
Serene Highness the Princess Salerno, and the Duo de I
Guise, have reached Edinburgh from Abergeldie on their
way to the south.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and suite
arrived at Kingstown on Wednesday from England.
The marriage of Captain Hayter with Miss
Hope, which was fixed for the 31st instant, has been post-
poned till the 7th November.
Nine Fenian convicts, soldiers and civilians, were
despatched from Kingstown on Wednesday morning in
charge of the deputy-governor of Pentonville Prison.
Mr. Gladstone, M.P. for Chester, is at present
in the Highlands of Donegal. He visited Belfast and
Londonderry on his way.

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