The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-17 00:00:00

FRAUDULENT TRADE MARKS.

The following address has been presented to the
Right Hon. Earl Russell, K.G , Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by
the Master, -Wardens, Searchers, Assistants, and
Commonalty of the Company of Cutlers in Hallam-
shire, in the County of York.
That the said Company of Cutlers was incorporated by
act of Parliament in the reign of King James 1., and a
principal object of the act was to secure trade marks to the
manufacturers of cutlery and other goods of hardware, to
be stamped upon their goode, namely. a symbol or device,
thereby to indicate by whom such goods are made, and to
provide a summery remedy for prot-cting the several manu-
facturers in the sole and exclusive use of the trade marks so
granted to them respectively, and the marks thus granted
have always been enrolled in the b ioks of the company.
That every mark, when so granted and enrolled, is and
becomes the personal property of the manufacturer, and is
transmitted as such to his personal representbt ve, reserving
to his widow the use of the mark during her life.
That many of such trade-marl:a now in use are of ancient
date, and from the superior quality of the goods known to
bear them, have become and are now very valuable.
That your memorialists view with great alarm the 28th
Article of the Franco-Prussian Treaty, upon which model
they are informed a treaty is in a short time contemplated
to be made between Great Britain and the States of the
Zollveroin.

By the latter clause of the 28th Article it is declared that
no legal proceedings shall be valid against the imitators in
one of the two countries of the trade marks of the other
when such trade marks shall have been created or established
in the country of production at a period anterior to the ap-
propriation of such trade marks (by registration or otherwise)
in the country of importation.
According to the law as it now stands, the British menu•
facturer has no power to appropriate his trade mar in
Germany by registration er otherwise, while the practice of
imitating British marks and applying them to worthless
manufactures is going on daily in Germany to an extent
almost incredible. Hence, therefore, if the proposed treaty
with the Zollverein is ratified containing the clause above
mentioned, all the valuable trade marks which British
manufacturers have acquired by long-continued skill and
probity will be taken away from them at once and handed
over to Germany, and German-made goods of inferior cha-
racter, but marked with the names or symbols of the most
celebrated English makers, may then be sold even in Eng-
land with impunity.
Your memorialists cannot but denounce the article of the
treaty above mentioned, calculated to countenance and en-
courage the grossest frawts.

It is the opinion of your memorialists that whatever ad-
vantages in other respects the proposed treety might conter
they would be far too dearly purchased by the loss of the
valuable trade marks of Great Britain.

Y,)ur memorialists therefore most humbly pray that her
Majesty's Government will riot on any account sanction a
treaty containing so objectionable a clause as that alluded
to, but that, on the contrary, in the treaty which may be
contemplated due provision may be made for the protection
of all British trade-marks.

By order of the Master, Wardens, Searchers, and Assist-
tants of the said company,at their Common Hall in Sheffield
assembled, the 13th day of December, 1864.
CHARLES ATKINSON, Master Cutler.

Disgraceful Conduct at Mr. Spurgeon's
Tabernacle.

Yesterday the Rev. John Gurney, curate to the Rev. Mr
Green, incumbent of Trinity Church, Carlisle-street, Lam-
beth, was charged before Mr Yardley, at the Lambeth
Police-court, with creating a disturbance at Mr Spurgeon's
Tabernacle, and assaulting Mr Thomas Trenton Price, a
City missionary, and Mr John Claverhouse, a member of
Mr Spurgeon's congregation, a surveyor of Government
stores.

The court was much crowded by the members of the
Tabernacle and the friends of the prisoner.
Mr Culverwell, on being sworn, said he was employed to
keep order at Mr Spurgeon's chapel, and on the night
before between the hours of seven and eight o'clock, and
during the performance of divine service he was called to
the first gallery, where he found the prisoner tipsy and
creating a disturbance in a sort of growling noise, which dis-
turbed the service, so that public attention was drawn to it
while prayers were being offered. He (witness) asked the
prisoner repeatedly to leave, and not to disturb the congre-
gation, but he would not, and ho was ultimately obliged to
be removed by force, and in the struggle to get him out he
struck him (witness) a blow on the eye, from the effects of
which he was still suffering.
Mr Thomas Trenton Price gave evidence to the same
effect, and said that officers belonging to the church begged
the prisoner to desist, but he would not, and was ultimately
removed from the building to the gate, where ha had a des
perate struggle with those removing him. Ile placed his
foot against the iron railings, and by this means resisted his
removal, but they ultimately gut hint out. Knowing him
before as the curate of Christ Church, Blackfriars-road, the
witness recAa mended him to take a cab and go home, but
he refused, and insisted on going into the tabernacle again,
and used filthy language and swore very much. A friend
of his (witness) called a cab, and requested the prisoner to
get into it with his wife and go home, but he refused to do
so, and still insisted on going into the church.

Police-constable Gales, 243 P, said that while Mr Spur•
geon was reading a chap,er in the Bible the prisoner called
ou►, "It's a lie; you had better leave off; that will do."
Those expressions could ba heard by the minister (Mr
Spurgeoc), who called on the officers to turn him out, and
he (witness) assisted in doing so. The prisoner helloed out
at the top of his voice that he was a church of England
minister, and demanded an explanation from Mr Spurgeon,
and made a great disturbance. He damned Mr Spurgeon
several times.

Police-constable Thomas Shannor, 145 L, said at half-
past 10 o'clock the night before the prisoner was locked up
in a cell by himself, and the moment he was put in he corn-
mmeed knocking and kicking at the door so violently that
he broke the lock. He kept calling out at the top of his
voice, " Let me see Spurgeon, I want to see Spurgeon," for
a length of time, and was much excited.
Inspector Meath, of the L division, here declared that the
prisoner was the most desperate man he had to deal with in
all his experience of police matters. In fact, he was more
like an untamed savage than a rational being, and it re-
quired the united exertions of four powerful men to remove
him from the charge-room to the cell. The damage he had
done to the cell amounted to 10s., and there could be no
doubt that he was mad drunk.

Mr John Addington, a member of Mr Spurgeon's con-
gregation, said he knew the prisoner well as a general at-
tendant at the tabernacle, and had always observed that he
behaved exceedingly well until the evening before. He had
also known him to be a minister of the church of England.
The prisoner, who complained of his suffering in both
body and mind, said that much of what had been stated
appeared to him like a dream, as he had no recollection
whatever of it. It was true, he said, that he had been In
the habit of going to the chapel of Mr Spurgeon, but so Gr
from differing from that gentleman, he was ready to ac-
knowledge that he not only agread with but admired much
of what he said, and theretore he was at a perfect loss to
account for bis conduct. He would admit, however, that he
had been drinking before he went to the chapel.
Mr Yardley here inquired it there were any of the friends
of the prisoner present, as he should wish to know some-
thing of his recent character.
A young woman, who gave the name of Catherine Wake-
field, got into the witness box, and_ said the prisoner, his
wife, and two children lodged at the house of her father, 15,
Union-street, Lambeth. In reply to a question from the
magistrate, the witness reluctantly admitted the had seen
Mr Gurney the worse for liquor, but added that she believed
he strove earnestly to do better.

Mr Yardley observed that the cause for the prisoner's ex•
traordinary and disreputabl3 conduct was quite apparent,
and the fact of his being a clergyman, so far from being an
extenuation, was a considerable aggravation of his offence.
Had a poor, illiterate, and ignorant man. been guilty of
similar misconduct there would be no hesitation in punish-
ing him ; and why, he should ask, should there be any hesi-
tation in punishing the prisoner, who from his position in
life and sacred calling as a minister of religion should not
only have known better, but have set a better example.
Under all -the ciicumstances, he felt bound to commit him
to seven days' imprisonment.

The prisoner appealed to the magistrate to be more leni-
ent, saying he had a wife and two children depending on
him for support, and if sent to prison must lose his appoint-
ment.

Mr Yardley refused to remit the sentence, remarking
that if the question was put to him, he would say that he
was not a fit person to hold the position of a clergyman.

MR. LINCOLN'S FINGER AND 'THUMB.—As we
were riding back to Hagerstow❑ we fell in with
Col. Wickham, who commands a brigade of Stuart's cavalry,
in connection with whom the following story was told me :
It will be remembered that Virginia was one of the last states
to secede, and did not do so until she hid exhausted every
Elba to effect a compromise—and when she did so, the few
Southern states that were still hesitating followed her ex-
ample, and the war became inevitable. Matters were coming
to a crisis when the leading men of Virginian nt a deputa-
tion of three of their number to wait on the President, Mr
Lincoln. They tried to impress him with a sense of the gravity
of the situation, and urgently entreated that ho would do
something to calm the excitement amongst the people,
whose irritation at the threats, of the Administration
and of the Northern States was getting beyond control.
It was just after the taking of Fort Sumter, and Lincoln's
having called out 75,000 men to coerce the South. "But
what would you have to do ?" said Mr Lincoln. "Mr
President," replied one of the deputation, " I would beg
you to lend me your finger and thumb for five minuted,"
meaning, of course, that he wished him to write something
that should allay the prevailing excitement. But Mr
Lincoln did not choose to understand him. "My finger
and thumb l" he repeated—" my finger and thumb 1
What would you do with them ? Blow your nose ?" The
deputation retired in disgust, arid Virgiaia seceded.--
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