The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-18 00:00:00

TIVSPAPER STAMP DUTIES BILL.

CLAUSES TO BE PROPOSED IN COMMITTEE
BY THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EX-
CHEQ UER.
(Actions or suits may be carried on in the names of the
registered proprietors of newspapers or other periodi-
on behalf of themselves and co-pro.
cal publications,
prietors.)
And whereas it is proper and expedient that the per-
sons who for the time being may be registered, under any
such declaration as aforesaid in that behalf made, as the
proprietors of any newspaper or other periodical publica-
tion, should be enabled to maintain any action or suit in
their own names, for and on the behalf of themselves and
of other proprietors of such newspaper or other periodical
publication in co-partnership with them, be it enacted,
that in any case in which a newspaper or other
periodical publication shall have been registered,
and such security as aforesaid shall have been
given in respect thereof, in pursuance of the said
several acts before mentioned, or of this act,
any action, suit, or other proceeding at law, or in equity,
or otherwise, to be commenced or instituted for or on
behalf of the proprietors of such newspaper or other pe-
riodical publication in co-partnership against any person,
for recovering any debt, or enforcing any claim or de-
mand, due to such copartnership in relation to the
concerns of such newspaper or other periodical pub-
lication, shall and lawfully may be commenced,
instituted, and carried on by and in the
names of the proprietors of such newspaper or other
periodical publication, who for the time being shall be
registered as such proprietors, or as two or more of
such proprietors, by or under any such declaration as
aforesaid in that behalf made, in pursuance of the
said act of the sixth and seventh
.years of his said
late Majesty, or of this Act ; and the death, bank-
ruptcy, or insolvency of any such registered pro-
prietor, after such action, suit, or ether proceeding com-
menced or instituted, shall not abate or prejudice the
same ; and in any such action, suit, or other proceeding
as aforesaid, a copy of any such declaration, certified in
the manner directed by the eighth section of the said
last-mentioned act, upon such proof as therein mentioned
shall be evidence that the persons named in such certified
copy as proprietors of the newspaper or other periodical
publication to which such declaration may relate are
duly registered as such proprietors, in manner afore-
said ; and a certificate at the foot cf, or indorsed upon,
such copy of a declaration, signed by the commissioner
or officer, or person described as such, who shall certify
the raid copy, and stating that security has been duly
given in respect of such newspaper or other periodical
publication,, in pursuance of the statute in that
behalf, shall be evidence that such. security as
aforesaid has been duly given in respect of the same.
And be it enacted, That the proprietors of every news-
paper shall, for the purpose of protection against piracy,
be entitled to a copyright in every original article, letter,
paragraph, communication, and composition which shall
be for the first time published in such newspaper in this
country, a a

And be it further enacted, That if any person shall,
within twenty-four hours after the first publication of
any original article, letter, paragraph, communication,
or composition in any snch newspaper, print and pub.
Hill any c.)py of such original article, sletter, paragraph.
communication, or composition, or of any material
part thereof, or any colourable abridgment or
alto-aim-1 of the Fame, such rperson shall for
every such offence firfeit a sum of not less than
five pounds, nur exceeding thirty pounds, to the proprie-
tors of the newspaper against whom such offence has
been committed ; and it shall be lawful for the printer
or publisher of such last-mentioned newspaper, on behalf
of the proprietor,. ther:mf, to recover such penalty by a
suintnary. proceeding before a stipendiary tha4istrate
who has, or two ju-ticeg who have, jurisdiction where
the party offending residetf, who shall issue a summons
requiring such party to appear on a day and at a time
and place to be named in such summons (such time not
being less than two days from the date thereof) ; and
every such summons shall be served on the party ofend-
ing either in person or at his usual place of abode ;
and, either upon the appearance or the default to
appear of the party offending, such rnagis•
trate or justices may proceed to hear the com-
plaint ; and, upon proof of the offence, by confession, or
upon the oath of one or more credible witnesses (which
oath such magistrate and justices are respectively here-
by authorised to administer), may convict the offender
in a penalty of not less than five pounds, or snore thin
thirty pounds, as to such magistrate or justices may
seem fit ; and, if the amount of such penalty and the
costs of the proceeding, which shall be assessed by such
magistrate or justices, shall not be forthwith paid, the
same shall be levied by distress and sale of the
goods and chattels of the offender, and such magistrate
or justices shall graat warrants accordingly.

THE PREFECT OF THE SElNE.—Yesterday evening the
Sheriffs of London and Middlesex—Henry Muggeridge,
Esq., alderman, and Charles Decimus Crosley, Esq.—
gave a magnificent entertainment at the Albion Tavern,
Aldersgate-street, to the Prefect of the Seine, M. Delangle,
Senator Pelouse, Senator Thayer, Senator Germain Thi•
bault, M. Perrier de Tourette, and M. Mille. There were
also present—The Lord Mayor, Mr. Under-Sheriff Far-
rer and Mr. Under-Sheriff Crosley, the Rev. Mr. Gre-
gory and the Rev, Mr. Bridge (chaplains to the respective
sheriffs), the Rev. Mr. Moon, Sir R. W. Carden, Sir J.
Duke, M.P., Alderman Cubitt, M.P., T. Hankey, Esq.,
M.P., Sir J. Key, Bart., Alderman Salomons, Alder-
man Wire, Alderman Carter, Alderman Wilson,
Holt, Deputy Harrison, Deputy Dakin, Deputy Rath-
bone, Deputy Kebbell, Mr. Anderton, Mr. Lloyd, Mr.
Phillips, Mr. Moon, the Remembrancer, Mr. Nichols,
Mr. T. Tyrell, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Maguey, Mr. Ain•
brose Moore, Mr. T. Uzielli, and Mr. C. Uzielli. Mr.
Sheriff Muggeridge, 'who, presided, having proposed the
usual loyal toasts, which were duly reaponed to, Mr.
Sheriff Crosley proposed the health of "The Emperor
and Empress of the French," which was drunk with the
greatest enthusiasm. The 'Prefect of the Seine, in re-
turning thanks, expressed his strong conviction that
the interests of both countries, and espec;ally the
interests of humanity, pointed out the alliance of
England and France as the surest means of preserving
the peace of the world. The Prefectleis loudly cheeredt
throughout his speech, and at the conclusion of
nit, one
company, upstanding, gave three hearty cheerse a a e'
cheer more for the Emrerar and Empress of
ith Freinne,
The other toasts Were " The PrJect of f cipai
`,` The Members of the Legislative .an f Dian
London,"
Bodies," " The Sheriffs and Corp tl 1
ineenatr
stmsilde:
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did
was
not
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numbere atje°
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night.Bsc., and
The
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dinner,n:pa
beeare the guests as-
was not ordered till a fewnrthn .
A Delicooinostapiateti
ambled to partake of it., a
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increased from 60 to near: lc"'
"y. thousand cures have been
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—from the Dowager
).
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uero;,u3, without
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<5J,612.
bilbus, and
re ii„rveor.co_t.nphunis, Darelysi; &c. W.
County of Down,
Dowager Countess of
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Of dyspepsia, from the Rightandderived
tsHwonere.dt.h"e Cure
Lord i
Stuart7l.d—•
Inquiries will be
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yourselves and the
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of
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—Maria Jolly, Wortham, Ling, oLoar.ni-r,,stion
anti
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Barrvls
gene-
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.1. n cans.
11 climates and , with full instruc•
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lions —11b.,25.
6d• ,
9d.- 21b., 4s. 5.b., 1 I.s. ;121b., 225.
' 2113 , 11s. • 22
bib., B. j 101 b., 335.'
super-refined, a1b.,68.; ' )
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street, London;
her MajestKPiccadilly
, 182,
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Oxford-street ; 55, Chmiiiii.cross;
4,
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25
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_ 154, VpperßAkoar•Ftreet.