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London, England, 1841-03-04 00:00:00

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from al
individual in the parish of St. Pancras, in favour of
Medical Reform.
Lord STANLEY presented a petition from the
county of Roscommon, against any &taratio❑ in the
qualification of voters.
Mr. KELLY presented a petition from Chelsea in
favour of the Copyright Designs all.
Mr. G. W. WOOD presented several petitions from
manufacturers, calico-designers, and engravers of Man-
chester, and other piano, to the same effect.
Lord CASTLEREAGH presented several petitiors
from places in Devonshire, against Church Intru-
sion in Scotland ; also a petition from the same ccurty
in favour of the Copyright of Designs Bill.
Lord CLEMENTS presented petitions from the
county of Leitrim against Lord Stanley's, and in favour
of Lord Niorpeth's, Irish Regiatretion Bill.
Mr. MARK PHILLIPS presented petitions from
manufacturers in Lancashire in favour of the Copyright
of Designs B 11.
Lord FRANCIS EGERTON presented petitions
from Bolton and other places in favour of the same Bill,
Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from Glas-
gow also in favour of the Bill.
Mr. EMERSON TENNENT presented petitions
from numerous manufacturers in England and Irtl Ind,
in tavour of his Bill for the protection of Copyright of
Designs.

CONSTABULARY FORCE.

Lord G. SOMERSET seeing the Under-Secretary
of State for the Home Department in his pl ice, wished
to ask him when it was likely the returns relative to
the Constabulary. Force, which had been moved for,
would be laid on the table of the House?
Mr. F. MAULE said be could not directly answer
the NoVe Lord ; he would, however, make inquiries
on the subject, and would lay them on the table ae soon
as possible.
Mr. WALLACE presented petitions in favour of
the Coypright of Designs Bill.
Sir ROBERT PEEL presented a petition from the
inhabitai,ts of Tring, stating that they lived only six
miles from Aylesbury, and praying that the Sheriff of
the county of Buckingham might be empowered to
summon them as Jurors for that county. •
Lord JOIIN RUSSELL brought in a Bill to make
further provision for exercising the right of voting for
Members of Parliament.
The Bill was reads first time.
Mr. WALLACE gave notice that, on the bringing
up of Lord Keane's Annuity Bill, he would move an
amendment, to the effect that, in the event of the ad-
visers of the Crown recommending to their Sovereign to
confer the honour of the peerage for s•gnnl services to
the state on any person, his private fortune should he
prei•iously ascertained, in order that it might be
known whether he could, without a pension, support I
the dignity of a Peer.
Sir CHARLES DOUGLAS gave notice that, in
the event of the Bill of his Learned Friend the Mem-
ber for Ipswich, for' the Abolition of Capital Punish-
ment, being read a second time, he should move in
Committee that all persons should be exempted from
the provisions of the Bill who had committed a capital
assault on a female under twelve years of age.
Mr. FIUME gave notice of a motion for certain re-
turns ri Ming to the inclosure of waste lands devoted
to purposes of public amusement.
Sir ROBERT PEEL presented a petition from the
Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow in favour of the
Copyrght of Designs Bill.
Mr. MILNES and Mr. HonsoN presented similar
petitions, but the names of the peitioners were not
heard in the gallery.
Mr. HU'IsTON presented a petition to the same
effect from the paper-stainers of Dublin.
Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition from cer-
tein calico printers of Manchester again:t the Bill.
COPYRIGHT OF DESIGNS BILL.
On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the
Order of the Day for the second reading of the Copy-
right of Designs Bill was read, whereupon
Mr. EMERSON TENNENT said that in moving
that the Bill be read a second time, he would not oc-
cupy the House with any observations, as he understood
that her Majesty's Ministers were in favour of the
principle of the Bill, and be thought that any-diffe-
rence on minor points would he matter of consideration
in the Committee.
Mr. WILLIAMS said that when he was on the
Committee appointed to investigate this subject he had
paid the greatest attention to the evidence. It appeal el
to him that there was no branch of coanufactuies
which had been, up to the present time, mare
prosperous than the cotton manufacture. There was
no branch in which larger fortunes had been made,
or in which greater success had attended the outlay
of capital; and he thought that before so great a change
was proposed it should be shown that it had now
declined in prosperity. When" the manufacture was in
its infancy there was a protection of two months ex-
tended to the copyright. An application wes made for
an extension of the term, and the Parliament extended
the period to three months. As a proof of the ex-
traordinary progress which had been made by this branch
of our manufacturer, he would state that the products
in 1800 amounted to thirty-two millions of yarns ; in
1814 to one hundraand twenty-four millions ; and in

1830 to three hundred and forty-seven millions of yarr.s.

Up to the last-mentioned period the exact quantity pro-
duced could be ascertained by the duty which was then
levied upon the calicoes. The trade All progressed as
rapidly as at any former period. The sma►l-
est estimate gave four hundred and twenty mil-
lions of yarns, or fifteen millions of pieces. The
evidence which had been given before the Committee
by gentlemen who were deeply interested in the matter
ought to be carefully weighed before the House
ventured upon the change proposed by the Hon-
ourable Member for Belfast. Many persons
who were connected with the trade had seats
in that House, and were looked up to as
authorities on the commercial affairs of the country.
If those individuals had thought that this branch of ma-
nufacture swould be benefited by the extension of the copy-
right, and had stated their opinion, Parliament would, in
all probability , have adopted their suggestion. But no such
proposition bad been made during a period of 30 years.
When it was considered that the object for effecting this
great and important change was, that a few indivi-
duals, and a very few, might be enabled to sell very
small and circumscribed productions at a higher price,
and thereby get a larger profit, he thought the House
would hesitate before it effected so great a change.

(Cries of " Hear.") What was the property in respect
of which an extension of the Copyright was sought ?
It had been admitted by all the witnesses, both for and
against the measure, that the patterns now produced
were taken from old patterns, and so great was the
quantity of patterns produced that it had been esti-
mated the number produced in Manchester alone
amounted to 520,000 a year. It had been computed that
30,00Q000 of patterns had been produced, which em-
braced almost every object, device, and form which the
imagination of man could suggest. The only resource for
forming new and original patterns was the old patterns.
The late Boroughreeve of Manchester, an Aldcrmr.n
in
and a Magistrate, who had been thirty gar, had
the trade and produced 3,000 patterns every 3 had
stated to the Committee that during i
h
__s eZporlellee of
thirty years he had not seen two p
cwh h be
'could call original patterns, If the. enange tha,c, wpls
now sought to be made in the copyright were. eiiecteu,
it would inflict a most severe blow upon an important