The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1850.

let any apps f• it to a specified paw
roe may affiebinidif .7 Ate piaci*
ttasU.time
hr au could
at any time hive steam gene-
rally,norany of b peepaedei bat the application of
it a. moving,pewor,-with• deruiption of any putt-
cols muds-du applying it, might bur roamed on
the original inventor the monopoly of steam power,
however crude and useless his pn of applying it
might have been: 'Thu had the beautiful invention
of Wm bat followed close cia the almost worthless
bet original steam engine of &vont, he could not
have breaght it into use without the permission of the
mmingeliser of steam. • baboon of the obstruction
tehlqwevement by the claims of patentees to the ex-
am*, SU ef natural agents are d frequent occur-
t ; darll paleshe can skim not only the applica-
tion' ienael In die speciflcsUon of his invention, but
ha applierden in any manner to effect a similar object.
It is serif uses me these that make monopoly othoos.
But the ingenious inventor is mole strongly oppored
than the petite can be to these patent drags on im-
provement, the it is he who suffers most, and be looks
eagerly far anainuidment of the law which will give
effectual preeseden to meritorious inventions and pre-
vent obstreseive monopolies.
The pitted laws of this country are as absurd as
they are Winking and unjust. Her Majesty's litters
patent, granting "our especial license, full power,
sole privilege, and authority," to " make, use, exer-
cies, and vend," any invention may be obtained, by
payment, for the most ridiculous and impracticable
schemes. It an application for a patent is not op-
posed by some oempeting inventor it is granted as a
matter of course, without any inquiry. We doubt
not, indeed, that her Majesty's especial license and
full power and authority would be granted to any
applicant for a railway to the moon. Yet, notwith-
standing this facility of monopoly in foot, there is
the pretence of the most scrupulous inlairy. The
application has to pass through numerous offices,
different documents are drawn out and signed
and sealed, but for no other purpose than to exact
fees. Bo little, indeed, is known of an invention
claiming monopoly that no description of it is re-
quired till six months after the patent has been ob-
tained. Numerous instances occur of the injustice us
well as of the absurdity of this proceeding. We be-
lieve it is not uncommon for persons who have an
inkling of an invention by another to obtain letters
patent with a comprehensive title, in the hope that, by
the expiration of the six months allowed for specift-
don, they may obtain such an insight into the nature
of the invention as to enable them to forestal the real
inventor.

They manage these things better abroad. On the
Continent and in the United States the specification
of an invention must be lodged at the time
of the application for the patent. Officers are
specially appointed to investigate the asters of the
invention and to determine whether it possess stiffi-
eject merit and novelty to justify the grant of the
patent applied for. Common sense as well as justice
dictate a similar course in this country ; but so little
regard is paid to the novelty of the invention that
patents upon patents would be unhesitatingly granted
for exactly the same inventions, Bs long as they were
applied for and not opposed. Considering the high
pnoe charged for her Majesty's letters patent, the
purchasers have surely a right to obtain something more
for their money than a sheet of parchment and a pound
of resin impressed with the LORD CHANCELLOR'S seal.
They ought to be assured that the privilege granted to
them is not invalidated by a corresponding privilege
previously granted to another; and they should have
the assistance of qualified officers in drawing up their
spwifications in the manner required for perfecting
the grant. The protection afforded should be what it
professes, a " grant for the encouragement to all arts
and inventions which may be for the public good,"
and cot be obtained by purchase without inquiry.
Both to inventors and the public the patent laws are
most unratisfaotory. To the former they give but
the semblance of protection, whilst the indiscriminate
sale of monopolies operates as a dead weight on
manufacturing industry.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TIIIII/DLT EVINI2IO.

The C immittee of Permanence met again to-day
to resume the adjourned deliberations of the sitting of
yesterday, and to hear the explanations of the Mi-
nister ot War and of the Minister of the Interior
relative to the motives for removing General Neu-
mayer from Pada, and to the secret sittings of the
Society of the Dix-Decembre. M. Dapin not having'
arrived in Paris, the sitting was presided over by
Leon Faucher. The debate was more animated than
yesterday. General Schramm did not make his appear-
ance, it having been decided this morning in a cabinet
council, held at the Elysee, that it would be better
and more prudent to confide the explanations to a
more adroit and wary speaker than the Minister
ot War, erle e t soldier-like bluntness and want of
tact might compromise the government on this deli-
cate question. M. Baroche was therefore charged to
give the explanations required on both subjects. The
Minister of the Interior having informed the commis-
sion of this after his own way, the debate opened
upon the subject of General Neumayer's removal.
The question was stated categorically thus: M. Be-
rale was called upon to answer "yes" or" no "to the
following question : Wu General Neamayer replaced
in his command of the first division because he had
refused to be instrumental in ordering the troops to
cry " Vive l'Emperenr !" at the review of Satory ? M.
Baroche, in a speech of considerable length, answered
in a vague and evasive manner, and sought to embroil
the question. He was brought back, however, to the
matter by several members, aced was called
upon several times to answer by a plain 0 yes" or
"no" to the above question. M. Baroche having re-
fused to do this, M. Mole, and after him M. Odilon
Barret, declared emphatically that they accepted M.
Baroche's refusal to give a categoric answer as an ad-
mission of the reason supposed. The Commission was
of opinion that it was better not to come to a con-
clusion on the question of convoking the Assembly
before the appointed term. In the meantime they
appointed a committee, consisting of M. Molt, bl.
Oddon Barret, M. Leon Faucher, and two or three
others, to draw up an opinion upon the explanations
given by the Minister of the Interior. This opinion
will be presented in the next sitting of the Com-
mission, which is adjourned till Saturday. It will
without may doubt be then inserted in the precis-
resbai of the sitting. The great importance of inch a
result is, that there will be a motion made when the
assembly meets for the printing of all these precis-
arbour, which will be equivalent to a string of'
mum censures upon the government, and derogate
Isensiderably from the dignity of the President of the
Republic, whose course of action will be roundly
taxed with aiming at sovereignty by illegitimate
means. The Commission next entered upon the ques-
tion of the sitting of the Dix-Decembre. M. Baroehe
was more fortunate in his oratory upon this @abject
lie accused the statements of the police eanunisseey
of gross exaggeration, and said that he had already
instituted • searching inquiry as to the propped-
ings of the meeting in question. Not only this, but
the government was already occupied with the doings
of the Dix-Decembrs, and bad appointed an emirate
for the purpose of thoroughly sifting the objects of
that society, and finding out whether it was a boa
fide charitable institution and meted aid society, oe
had political aims in view, such as were attributed to
it. The Commission was content,to receive for the
the present these explanations, and then adjourned
until Saturday. Upon the accuracy of these details
you may place the strictest re lance.
I have already indicated what will be the nature
of the sitting of Saturday. The report of MM.
Molt, Odilon Barret, and Faucher, will be read,
and after due revision inserted in the precis-
rerbal. You may be quite sure that there will
be no extraordinary convocation of the Aseembly ;
unless some unforeseen event should Nipper. M.
Duple is expected to preside at the sitting of Satur-
day. The sitting to-day lasted from half-past 12
tills.

After the sitting of the Committee of Permateues
cabinet council was held at the Elysie, in which M.
Baroabe stated the result of Lis mission.
I was not mistaken in announcing to you yester-
day, that for the moment a truce had been concluded
between Changarnier and the Elysee. The former
accepting as a satisfaction the promotion of Gene-
ral Neumayer to a higher grade, is content to
overlook all that appears aggressive in the
removal of that officer from Paris. • Re has
exerted himself to overcome the scruples of Gen.
Neumayer to accept the sort of honourable difigraoe
conferred upon him, and begged him not to sacrifice

his prideisional prommotir to a question of amour-
props. The promotion eittlen. Neatuayer to the unt-
amed of the 14tk sad 18th military divisidas was
tattled in the third embiast council, held late on the
sight befit last.
Conektediossosi gives the following details eon-
arming the displasomant of Goo. Nenosayor :
This measure had bees dieeessed os several occasions
during the ministry of Gee. dllauspoeth Geo. Numayer,
it was thought, might he removed without nixing objests
hoes the part of Gen. Canaria:sr, as the latter had not
bees instrumental in Mailing him is the pat which he haLd.
Du intention had been entertains* to replace Gen. Nen-
mayor by Gee. Canaille. who Weedosinted the more suited to
sash I position, as he had Igelei at the bead of the aunt:
eipal guard, sad was t peritintly cognisant of the
duties of the hew post. Aftsr the satinestion—for nth it must
M considered—had been oitered,w Gemehengarntw of Gen.
d'liautpoure diewbeal, the sena& st Wakens took up again
the qaestios of Gen. ffiesmayer's displausunt ; and this
measure was resolved in the eosaeffi. Bat, ma soon as Gen.
Chaogarnier wm bloused of the resolution, he took
loudly the port of as alias not of his own choice.
All explanations were gives with readiness, and the
President added :—" There is uniting, geniis'!, in
this oeuvre which can wound yon. We tad fixed urns
G I Carnet ; bat to prove the high confident* with
which ion in, pin me, here is a list sufficiently nusurous of
smash who are qualified by seniority for being promoted
to the command of the first divines. &lest ; I sanction
your choice," Geo. Mummies bowed and abstained. It
is needless to add that neither the President nor his ministers
had the least idea of restricting in any way the extensive
powers enilded to General Changemier, which ate such
that while there is no one at the Elysie charged to command
or to move a single regiment, General eintrigarnier has
alone under his guard the President and the whole gonna.
sent. . . . .

General Carrelet, who replaom General Neumayer
in the cammand of the first military division, was
nominated Lcatenant-general the 10th July, 1848,
by General Cavaigoac, then chief of the executive
government. He ia a grand officer of the legion of
honour. _ _

It is said that M. Davergier d'Hanranne and M.
Bidault, who were members of the Constituent, will
be the candidates of the party of order for the depart-
ment of the Cher at the ensuing election.
The dfuniteur contains a long report from M. rayon
to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. giving
an account of the mission conferred on him of visiting
the turf-making establishments in the vicinity or
Dublin. M. Payee minutely describes the method of
proceeding in these concerns. By the new system of
turtmaking employed by Mr. Roger., the head in-
spector of the principal establishment, " the turf,"
M. Payee say., " may be formed into a dense sort of
coal, richer in carbon, and more solid for conveyance
than carbonised turf; comparable, and in some air-
, cumatances preferable, to the beet charcoal." He
' concludes by saying that the union of the Irish and
I French systems would enable the extensive turbans
of France to be turned to good account.
M. Dreyfus, a French merchant established at Rio
Janeiro, has just arrived in Faris, on a commercial
mission from the Brazilian government. He hu
already been received by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs.

The Gazette of Lyons states that arrests continued
to be made in that city in connection with the recelitly
discovered conspiracy. A member of the council-
general, a member of the municipal council, and the
proprietor of a printing and lithographic establish-
ment, were amongst those taken into custody. The
Notteelliste of Marseilles also announces thb arrest in
that city of a M. Tunnel, of Toulon, for participation
in the same affair.

Domiciliary visits were made a few days since at
the residences of nineteen citizens of Toulon. Among
those persons thus visited were M. Pons, the editor of
theiDemoerate, and some others connected with that
publication. These visits were followed by the arrest
of three individuals, named Bourgeois, Cavalier, and
Mealy.
The Count de Montalembert embarked on the 25th
at Toulon on board the Dauphin steamer, fur Ctvita
Vecchia, on his way to Rome.

PARIS, OCT. 111.

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