The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-15 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE•

COURT OF CIIANCERY—(This DAY.)
JUDGMENT—THE LANCET.
The Soracrrort-GENERAL resumed, his argu-
ment, on the part of Mr. Abernethy, against the Publishers
of the Lan:yr to restrain them from publishing that Gentle-
man's Medical Lectures, and contended, at very great length,
that it was by no means a legal question to suppose, that any
student should take notes of these lectures for the
purposes of
publication. If such were the opinion of that Court, no Lec-
turer or Professor could give his lectures, unless indeed under
the impression of being plundered of his own copyright. The
Learned Counsel enforced a variety of points upon this posi-
tion, and cited the cases of Lord Carrington, Mr. Pope's Let-
ters, and the cases of Miller and Taylor, where publishers had
been restrained from publishing on, he conceived, precisely the
same grounds.
The Lour) CHANCELLOR, in commencing his judgement
in the case, took a review of the arguments on each side, ob-
serving it was not merely the question whether the defendant
should be restrained, but whether as a matter of equity it would
be expedient to advance a point under such circumstances, as
he conceived there being no copyright proved, he could not
grant an injunction on the ground of literary property, the
lectures being delivered and taken by the defendant or pupils
in short hand-
and then given by them to the world. Ills
Lordship staled the law of equity as regarded copyright, breach
of contract, and his opinion of the bear.' igs of the case in
another Court.,
and
observed,
as the case was one of infiniteimportance
3
he
houig FakeWWl Friday to give his judgment
upon it finally.

1ig1147, StTN.

SOLE)! QUIS DICEfII F.41..517,1 .411DEAT ?

LONDON.
IVEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1825.

The French Papers of Sunday, which arrived
last night, contain no confirmation of the reported
victory of the Greeks over the Egyptian fleet, nor
any news worth extracting. The Official Gazette
of Madrid, May 30, states, that his M. EsTY,
out of friendship for the. King of FRANCE and the
union between the two nations, ordered Madrid
to he illuminated yesterday evening, in honour of
. the Coronation, and that the hells of all the
churches should be rung. .oappily, as the fete of
St. FERDIN AND and the Kixilrls birth-clay are to-
day, we have an uninterrupted series of re-
joicings. The Duke of NOIZTIIUM BERLAND'S fete
will he on Wednesday. The DAUPHIN and the
DA UPUIN rss, and the Duchess of Bratty, will
honour it with their presence.

Mr. LITTLETort last night presented a petition
from the Artisans of the town and county of
Nottingham to the House of Commons, praying
that the Muse would not repeal the laws against
the Exportation of Machinery. Under existing
circumstances the expediency or non-expediency
Of this repeal, either in whole or in- part, is a
question of the greatest importance. It in-
volves the. interests of the manufactories of
the country, and the consideration as to how
far it is possible to execute and enforce such
a law ; a difficulty that is obviously increased
in case it shall be deemed advisable to
permit a partial exportation. That the ex-
traordinary prosperity of this country is
mainly derived front the manufactures, no one
can doubt, and that the gr,at demand abroad
for British manufactured goods, is attributable
to their cheapness, a quality they attain by the
use of machinery is equally ,clear; but it may
perhaps be questioned whether (laying cheapness
aside), foreigners would not • be able to bring
some branches of their manufactures to as high
state of perfection, without the aid of machinery
as the British do with it, and if they could,
upon that ground they might enter into com-
petition with our merchants. But, taking it for
g
granted that at present they cannot, yet how fun
will England be able to hold this exclusive per-
fection to herself ? Ts there any thing in nature
that throws an insurmountable objection in the
way of the foreigner attaining by practice and ex-
perience a similar perfection ? if not, it is clear
that unless England goes on suggesting and
adopting further improvements in the art of ma-
nufacturing, the foreigner will soon reach her, and
thus be placed upon an equality with her. Now
the only object of prohibiting the exportation of
machinery is to prevent the foreigner from com-
peting with us in the Foreign Markets, if,
there-
fore, it was possible to restrain all exportation of
machinery, and also to confine inventions and dis-
coveries solely to this highly-favoured island
there is no queStion but that such a law would be
both wise and expedient, notwithstanding that it
would deprive us of another branch of trade and
manufacturing, viz. machine making. But look-
ing at the question according to the fact, that
such a law could not be enforced m every case,,
and that inventions and discoveries are made and
protected in foreign countries, what is the effect ?
Why, that we have driven our own artisans
to
lucrativetrade by stealth as
it were under the fear of
heavy penalties, and
carry
and o is a Very
yet foreign countries not only get machines con-
structed in England on the Most approved prin.:

ciples, but have inventions of their own to boot,.
both conspiring to defeat the very object of our
prohibition ; so that whilst the law operates to
depress the exertions of national industry, it
makes no visible impression on the state of the
foreign manufacturers. If there is any mann-
facture in the British Islands, in which we
eminently excel, in which, indeed, we stand
unrivalled, and far before all the rest of the
world, it is in hardware and machine making;
the very manufactory it is thus sought to de-
press and confine to the limited demand that
may exist at home. It would be very easy to
enlarge on this most interesting. subject, but want
of room obliges us to be brief, and we conclude
with this observation,—that time best way to en-
sure superiority and cheapness to British made
goods is to keep down the price of labour to the
level, or nearly so, of other countries; and that
can only be done, in justice to our own country-
men, by keeping down the price of corn.

We are happy to see that we may expect the
Report of the Committee on Combinations in a day
or two at most ; anti that a Bill is soon to be
brought in on the subject. This, like the exporta-
tioi► of machinery, is a question of the highest
importance, nearly connected with the most vital
interests of our manufacturing system, and yet
presenting difficulties to legislative interference
of no ordinary nature. A reenactment of the
ancient laws arc, for many reasons nut desirable,
but we see no objection to the restoration of the
ancient Cowmen 1,3 w. We shall defer our re-
marks until the. Bill is before the House.

Want of room obliges us to defer an article on
the subject of the Scotch Jury Courts, and the
LORD ADVOCATE, who is, however, no advocate
—for the introduction of this highly beneficial
measure into Scotland. The article arises out of
proceedings in Parliament so long ago as the 30tli
of May ; but ne trust the importance of the
subject, and the fact, that the circumstance we
complain of did not come to our knowledge until
yesterday, will be deemed sufficient reason for
the delay. We propose to take it up to-morrow.

INovEtc, JUNE B.—Royal Ordinances of the
! 2d of this month, by the advice and concurrence of the States
of the Kingdom, ordain :__.
1. The collectin:r of the land-tax on the same footing as
hitherto for the year 1025.6.
2. An additional import duty on foreign articles.
3. The levying of a tax on ornamented rooms for the year
1325-6.
This last new tax, which is 8 good groschen for each room,
is to cover the extraordinary deficiency in the amount of the
taxes which must be expected in the inundated provinces. The
increa"e of the import duties is thought necessary for the inte-
rest of the. National Manufactures, &c.
The prokent land tax is continued, because the new regula-
tions, by which it is expected that the tax will be imposed in a
mere equitable manner, cannot yet be carried into effect..

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.

.11.4.3ruuRcir, JUNE 10.-35, 2 Us. 35 A.
PETERSBURGII, MAY 27.-10. 1-16.
VIENNA, .JUNE I.—Three Months, 9. 35.
LEIPSIG, JUNE 6.—Three Months, 6.124.
J UNE 7.—Three Months, 6. 19}.

COPENHAGEN, JUNE 4.—A new Decree rela-
tive to the law of Bills of Exchange has been published here,
which abolishes all the preceding regulations in those matters.
It appears from official accounts that the sum of 208,643 rix,
dollars is the amount of the charitable donations for the suf-
ferers by the inundations in Jutland and the Duchies.
OERLIN, .JUNE 7. The celebrated -Poet,
CHARLES WILLIAM JALICE CONTESSA, died on the 2tl of
this month, of a consumption, in the 48th year of his age.
Sr. PETF.RiBURGH, MAY .--Her Imperial
Highness the Princess of OFANOE has purchastd the rich col-
lection of Minerals of our Mining corps, for 22,000 rubles.---.
His Majesty the EMPEROR. is expected in the middle of next
month. Ile was at Warsaw on the 28th of May.
Captain KOTZEBUE, after contending with
terrible storms in the South Sea, arrived on the 29th of June
last year, at St. Peter and St: Paul's harbour, in Kamtschatka,
whence he sailed, on the Ist August, for Silka.
Mr. DItAFFEN, the King's Messenger, .was
sent ofron.Sunday night from the Colonial Office,
with dispatches for the Lord High Commissioner
of the lonian Islands.

We are. happy to learn from Elsinore that Sir
WILLIAM CURTrs passed through the Sound for St. Peters-
burgh in his yacht on the 29th May. The yacht of Loyd
WII.LOUGIIRY Di Baoxr wai in company. They sailed
from Gravesend on the 24th May.
The limitation of the subscription at Liverpool
for a piece of plate to be presented to Mr. Husxissos, having
been removed, a further subscription is going on. Several in-
dividuals andassociations have put down 10U guineas each, and
the amount subscribed exceeds 2,8701.
TUE THEATRE.-The new piece of The Devil
and Dr. Faustus was folloWed last night at
Drury-lane Theatre, sby a new Melo-drama
entitled The Recluse. It is a translation of a
French drama which was so popular in Paris as
naturally to excite a hope, that it would be
equally successful on the London Stage. The
plot consists of the discovery of a murder, and
the union of two lovers who had been separated
from each other by mysterious appearances.--
fIoRNE, HARLEY, Miss PovEY, and Miss
GRAnDox exerted their several talents with zeal,
but the piece did not make a favourable hnpres-
sion on the audience. In fact, strong symptoms
of disapprohation appeared, and though it may
be repeated, it is not likely to experience a more
prosperous fate.

The demand in France for English riding
horses is increasing in a most unprecedented
manner. For two months past, there have been
daily arrivals at a restaurateur's, in the Hay_
market, of French horse-dealers who have come
hither for the express purpose of purchasing
riding and cabriolet horses.
It is said that JOSEPII Esq. 111,P. in.
tends offering himself as a candidate, at the ensuing election,
for the representation of the town and port of Dover ; but
(ete. 1
nET a pro-
bablyde-
cided the Freemen of that ancient town will not return a Mem-
ber who has uniformly supported the cause of the Roman Ca-
tholics. At the ensuing general election, we trust that the
people, wherever they have an opportunity, will mazket
cided stand against those candidates who would consent to, or
support a measure that.
;ntiw days since a
s 9 directly tends to endanger, if not de-
stroy, 7r
BY
f.
thunder storm passed over Sudbury, in Suffolk. The light-
ning struck a young man, named DIxEY, who was carrying a
hoe upon his shoulder, and passed down through one side of
him, to his shoe, which had nails in it, and was torn from his
foot. He was killed on the spot.
It will be seen by the Recorder's Report that.
Probert is ordered for execution on Monday next.
It is said that when the awful tidings
Were com-
municated to him by the Ordinary of -NT
ewgate,
he discovered much surprise and anguish of mind,
as he had fondly cherished a hope that his life
would be spared. He immediately sat down to
write letters to his wife and aged mother, inform-
ing then) of his melancholy .fate.