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IMPEUI4L I'AtCLIAMENT.

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APPF.,It..

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the day in hearin* the vremaneutli of ('‘tolibri fur the Ito-
apnwlents in the tatehrateJ Seals Ca lOW, 11 vecting the
Queewdperry Estattm—'the heating was adjouratcd to
3luutlay next.

R F:rult Ng.
Mi.. Walpole, Antn filet/thee of the .9errrtary of sine.- fir
the II Departuarut, peeeented nu Afrilloo.l Abets us:: the
Amount of Fees pavable on going out Pardon% under the
Great Seal, the modes in which the at eclat items are p,ay-
•!.le, and al.° the number of Pardons sued out during the
Lett tell year..
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per.' were ordered to be printt-il.
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up
three private Bills, to which they desired llsor Lunitihipa.
conrur melee .
1 hr billy were aeivrilly read a firat I
The House then adjourned to Monday.

HOUSE OF CO%IMONc, FRIDAY, APRIL 17.

Lord STANLEY presented a Petition front the Attorno,
and SOll6lOlll of the roots of Weld 00000 in Lowirshir., prey.
ing that persons not rrtml,irly e.lorated for the prof,..inu
the Petitioners should be prevented from practisin; therein.
This Petition WA% ordered to be priiitvd.
SOUTIIIVAIIK BRIDGE BILL.
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Hr. H. SUNNEIt in the Suuthwurl: Bridge Bill,
which was Iced a first time.

DUTIES ON RAPE SEED.
Lord L —ASCELLt.s pret.rtned a Petition from the
Clothiers Hod Broadcloth %Yorkers of the twig ll•
bourhood of Leeds., Ili-Hying for the repo.d of the
Act of 1816, which enacted the present Duty on
Itupe Seed. The Noble Lord stated, that the
duly, as it now stood, not only materially atfreittl
the Crude of this Petitioners. but also the sgricul•
turd interests of the country, for the (lost of the
rape .red eras ti%tal ;at manure sifter it hall us tier.
gone it• prove.. with the tionsufat•ttirer.. So issjo_
nous did he conc. sve these duties. that lie scoop
submit a motion to the !louse tot their repeal utt
Tinaolay next.—(h ear.)
Mr. Cnxs: continued the statement made by the
Noble Lord of the injuritousoperation of the nape
Seed Duty on Agrict:sitte.
Mr. CUltlffrA concurred in this mew of the
subject. •
The Petition was then ordered to be printed.

scoTcll LUNATIC ASTLUNIR.
Mr. DRUMMOND pot-vented or Pttitions from the.
Proprietors in Kincardine, against the
Scotch District Lunatic Asylum Bill.--Enid on
the table.
COPYRIGHT.
IlTr. Lams Tow loo•e to present a Petition, to
which, from !lie imputtasice of thr %object, lie ear-
'testi', invited the attention of the Ile Wit 4
the wore anxious that the statement contained in
the Petition should l*distinCtly in% of„,
great question on the subject stood loor e 1 mr.u3,3,,,,
this evehotsK. The Petoboisers were Messrs. [ind-
well and Nlartin, eminent hoo6ellers. coml.
planted of the grievous operation of the Copyright
Act as atfecting their trade and iirripeiiy. it 9 the
law now 140011, they wese Sinnott to ft.ronsh to certain
public bodies deceit copies of every new wink 'key
published, no minter what was its nature, Hood tli••
annum! of ;ts expense. The Petitioners, aturingot!ier
injuries received from this iiiiirokie te~ulauo n,
stated same paiticular instances, to .hew the extrot
of the dello:sloth Illade ul them rondo". the Set.
'Flier had lately puldoshed a wink, c ‘• Views
in hdy," with platys, and the rap:, they err,
obliged to deliver amounted to /0/. in value. 'Fli,'
expense of the COp. es they must furnish of si iviii I.
called i‘ Antiquities of Greece," wit!' drdw ,414+
Athens, would amount to :ma The value 1,1
work was so well appreciated ilrat tili• author wit.
Weird permission to publish it iu France.. lice vf
the duties on works vent from another country, if
he wool.' send Ow work there. lii lldr ud e cnuntry
but i:s the other a goitrous and op •
siot4iScitio;toildirtiuguevnit.it by the Tenn.-into of heavy dunes

itressive tax was imposed upon pohlo.lters for the
benefit of bodies who had ample f Is fur the par-
chase of any work% they requited.
The Petition was then brought up sod read. It
"r: fortis the grievances Witched upon by the Hon.
Member who introduced it. _ _ _

On the question that it do lie on the table—
Pix it trrrrroseand ousid.that the Petitioners
get forth losses in particular instances of 70/. and
of 3001. Now lie should with to know how they
estimated thew losses. It was one thing for the
publisher to state the sale price of his work at a
tenant calculation ; and it•inther. to state his actual
Iwo tin the terms imposed upon him. It was one
thing to say, that so many customers had been with-
drawn from the market by the delivery of the
eleven copies ; and another, to bay what *as his
:seta'sl bona fide loss.
Mr. Lasicrom was really unable to give the
explassat required of him. lie could not state
the mode of calculation adopted. but it was quite
clear that when the publisher was called upon to
give gratuitously eleveu copies of each work he
toildislied, to the value of these eleven copies, be
it 70/. or 300/. lie was most unjustifiably injured—
the money was clearly lost to him of such copies
a., by disposing of lit the usual course of trade, he
might th rive a pr"tit froin.—/ Hear, hear.)
Sir EGERTON Bay ooEs thought the Right Non.
rod Learned Gentlein in could not .be serials. in
the distinction lie had attempted to draw between
the first coot and the sale price. 'lire losses were
'Mt greet. hr could assure that Right Hon. Gentle-
Matt, as the principle on which they were taken
was unfair nod oppressive. At any calculation, it
must be obt•ious that the author and tl►e publisher
must be greatly injured.—(Herne.
Mr. PLua[ETT said, that on inquiry it would be
found the calculation of injury was made at an ex-
orbitant rate, by arrangements made by the parties
thentselveri iu the mode of conducting their trade;
for instance, in the mode of striking off editions.
Sir EGERTON BRYDGES said, that if the original
arrangement were fur the printing of 150 copies, the
addition of the eleven under the Copyright Act
would cost the publisher the same as if he had to
print off a fresh number of the entire.
Mr. PLUNKETT eßpluined, that that was what he
alluded to, fur it now was clear the grievance arose
Gone uu arbitrary rule laid down by the booksellers
. themselves. This rule was. that if an additional
copy was struck off beyond the number of the ori-
ginal edition, it would cost as much as if you were
t.► reprint the original number. Now, the proper
way of remedying the evil would lw, for the book-
sellers to rescind their own rule, iiisteuil of calling
n,)))0 Parliament fur a legislative measure, such as
that propusell.
Sir EGFItrON 8111111061 replied, that the pnh-
lishe►s hail nothing to do with the rule, which, in
point of fort, belonged to the printers, and until
the Legislature adopted a rule to rotund and alter
the existing IA( s of usages, the arrangement com-
plained of most he acted upon.
turd A Lit:sap was clearly of opinion that the
publoliers were harshly used by this law ; as to the
quantum of the injury it mattesed little—it was
set oppressive, mid universally an from the extent of
its operation. %Vali respect to the Right lieu. and
Learned Criteria:air observation on the mode of
calculating the evil, all 1w would say was this, that
if a bushel of wheat were taken from a certain
portion of the stock of every farmer in the coun-
try, tl►e imposition of the burden would be equally
siajust and oppressive, whether it entailed a smaller
or larger expense on the sufferer. ( Ilene, hew%)
Mr. GURNEY concurred iu this objection to the
law as it now stood.

Mr. WYNN, at a hatter hour in the evening,
suggested the propriety of postponing the motion
ou this pies:ion, as the motion relative to the Cot-
ton 'Trade, which would necessarily occupy some
time, had precedelice; sa that the Coryright MO.
trati,.if entered upon at all, most be discussed at a
very late hour. Cutler these circumstances, would
it not be as well to postpone the question until a
fame day ?—((lerre.)--fle would take this op-
portunity of recommending that the subject should
be referred to a Select Committee up stairs, who
could rero. t to all the practical information which
tenor Gentlemen appeared to wish for. This would
groutly fwilitate the general discussion cm the
merits or the riiierion before the Douse.
Mr. CKOKER thought this would 1w the better
course. Ile had no objection to the second reading
a the Nun. Baronet's (Sir E. Bodges) Bill ; but
on this cuwhtion, that Ito Gentleman who held the
opinion which lie did on the subject, should he un-
derstood es compromising that opinion, in allowing
the second reading without oppositiori, or in agree-
ing to the Committee up st sirs.—(Hear. hear.)
Sir EGEKTON lIKYDGES had not the least objec-
tion to refer the matter at issue to a Committee up
stairs, mill on this understanding he would consent
to take the second reading in the manner it was pro-
posed to him. Ile would therefore now move,
that the Bill be read • second time.
3lr. PLUNKETT would not inferfe:e with that
which seemed to be the understanding •f the Douse.
AN the rrpreernhalive of one of the Universities
ithat of Dublin) whose rights were to be affected
by the Bill. he would put in his protest oganist it.
The subject was one entitled to serious attention,
and it was not generally understood, or else the
iliffcrenett of op' i which prevailed would nut be
so wide fill the occasion.—(/(tar, hear.)— It may
he right to state that previous to the Act of 1802,
(rep unl was unaffected by the Act of Aime winch
prevailed here, and the Irish putili•lii r mesa at pei-
feet ll,lttly to pout there toy hook or Imoks which
were published iii England, without incurring any
penally for a piratn al invasion of the author's pri-
vileges, Si, exiethhive was this trade of reprinting
cOned oil at Ili, time to which lie alluded, that
It was a positive fact, most or the literature of Eng-
land found its way to the United Slates of America,
CirOUgli the medium of the printers in Ireland.
‘Vhesi the alteration took place after the Union,
this most valuable trade, which had been actually
nod profitably exercised, was given up; and were
the lovvisiutis then entered into to be now repealed,
itleaut the parties standing in shalt quo, after the
manner of their respective relatious, when the
present measure was enacted ? Ile was sure the
English booksellers would nut take the repeal
on the *crass of reverting to the former plan—
t.iey knew their interest much better. To re-
la al this A .t its the manner proposed, would
mice be to commit au act of ustioual Injustice

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towards !who'll, who, ladi.re the Union, might
print from nighob copies as the publishers here
do from those of France or any other country,
without incurring my penalty for so copying. Ile
would reserve his objeetimis to the principle of
the Bill, and not interpose to prevent its second
Trading.
Mr. PEEL willingly acquiesced in the mutter
being sent to a Committee up stairs, though lie
bilged to record his objection In the principle of
the Bill, slid to exnress his determimoiou to op-
pose the Bill in every stag... lie would soggest,
however, the propriety of po.tpoiii ig the se I
reading of the Bill fors fortnight, so as to enable
the Committee up stairs to sit first. Nothing
would be lost by this course, us the second reading
bring unw only taken pro forma. did not advance
the progress of the MlL—Wear.)
Dr. PHILLIMOSE approved of the Committee
Op stairs.
Mr. %Vrrwo observed. that in point of form the
proper time of having the Committee up stairs
would be between the sec ((((( I reading of the Bill
and its committal in the House. It would there-
fore be roper that die serum! resale% should now
take place. He larked forward to some vrrange-
' meut through the medium of the Committee lip
stairs, by whirls the great injury suffered by pub-
lishers might be considerably obviate without
trenching on the ptivileges secured for the Univer-
sities and other public bodies. One half the
books taken from publishers were of no use to
the bodies receiving them, though the loss was
still occasioned by those who hod to furnish them.
as to the former Act in Irelands there were no
greater sufferers by it than the entightened natives
of that country, who emtributeil their portion to
the literature of this side of the water—for instance,
ore what Burke and Or. Whlsitiith must have
suffered by the practice of reprinting among their
own countrymen, from English editions. He was
sure that an arrangement of an equitable mature
might be obtained on this ore:aims.
Lord PAtHERSTON freitl, that the voila at issue
was not as to any measure or compensation, which
could he reduced to a medium. lie was one of
those Who contended against the whole principle of
the proposed Billt mitl could lint admit it under
any qualification. As it could lit no inconvenience
to posopotie the steroid reading. lie thought it
would be the better course to send the subject at
once to a C 00000 'suttee up stairs.
Sir JOHN Naweoter remarked, that his Right
lion. and Learned Friend had made rather a strong
charge against the former practice of rei oo ioo nog in
Ireland, when lie derciilwil it as a piratical pro.
ceeding. It did not deserve th.it epithet, when it
violated no known law, any inure than the practice
of the English publisher would deserve censure for
copying f a French work. The Irish printer,
before the Uuiou, hail the same legal right to copy
from an English woik, as the Bugled' rioter still
had to copy room it French one.
Sir Ws+. SCOTT would oppose the Bill in its pro.
per stage of debate. At present, it was immaterial
to lion which of the two courses of postponement
Serf' adopted.
11r. J. Suitt's! (of Cambridge) was against the
second reading of the Bill until its principle was
discussed. It was in fact a repetition, in a more
detailed form, of is anise which had been ineffectu-
ally tried in the House three tears ago, lie had
no oitiretton to the proposed Committee, though
he could not consent to the second reading without
a discussion on the merits of the case.
Lord CAsTLEREAGH suggested to the Hon.
Ba-
rnuet (Sir E. Bridge) to postpone the second read-
ing, as nothing would be pitied by pressing the
point further at 'lir ittesritt moment.

Sir EGERTON BRY DG ES replied, that on the sub.
ject of referring the matter to a Committee up
stairs, he would be happy to comply w.th the real
sense of the Mouse; but as to the rest, the post-
( ))))) einem of the second reading, be could not coo-
Prot to it, alter the arguments with which the dis-
cus.iou hail been anticipated, for the purpose of
prejudicing the general question. lie could not
accede to the terms proposed of postponing the
secolid reading, unless it should be iitspo.ved upon
him by the general expression of the Mouse. A
Right lion. and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Plunkett)
hail said the subject was but little understood, awl
had expressed a a ish to be cumin )))) icatire nn th...!
real bearings of the question. Now lie (S.r Eger-
ton) fully agreed with him, that it never had been
sufficiently understood ; but he differed with loin
in his conclusion, for lie thought that the moment
the nature of the subject was sufficiently tinder.
stood, that instant the existence of the evil must be
admitted, and a remedy forthwith applied to the
sufferers.—(Hear, hear.)_

Sir S. Rostit.t.v thought there was nothing more
important than that a lit opportunity should be
allowed for the discussion of the principle of this
measure. Some Gentlemen opposed the principle
of the proposed plan, because they Kahl it was an
iiivasion of certain rights; he opposed the principle
of the existing law, because ►t was an unjust and
unfair tax upon literature. The s could reading
by no means called for an admission of any parti-
cular principle. or a compromise of individual
opinion. The 'louse hail allowed the second read-
ing of the lode. 0000 ity Bill, pro forma, and taken
the debate ut a future stage. This bad been done
on several highly important occasions without any
&bine, mill ought to be done on the present occa-
sion.—lllear.j
Mr. J. P. GRANT expressed his determination to
oppo►e the proposed Bill, %heti the proper tune fur
discussion at rived.

Mr. PELL now expresped his readiness to have
the Bill read pro forma a second time.
Mr. Smyrn (of Cambridge-) would not consent
to the second reading.
The second reading was then agreed to, and
the Bill ordered to be committed on Monday
Mr. WYNN gave notice, that on Monday next
he would move forfora Select Committee to cuiebider
the Copyright acts.