The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE DAILY PArERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
Beyond the limits of his constituency, Mr. Ainsworth,
the Member for Bolton, is not a personage likely to excite
the :lightest interest ; and we take it for granted that
the Bolton Liberals have their eyes open upon the votes
which Mr. Ainsworth deems it consistent to give with
the professions he made at the time of his election, and
whk h obtained for him the support which sent him to
Parliament. By voting in direct opposition to those
professions, he has enable*d the Bolton Liberal electors
to estimate him at his real value to the cause he was
sent to the House of Commons to support. Does Mr.
Ainsworth imagine that a vote on free trade, or a stray
vote with the Radicals in a small minority, will be
regarded as a setoff against vot:ng with the Tories
on such a question as that which was the subject
of discussion during last week, and which involved
in its results the important issue, whether Ire-
land should be mocked with the form, but be
deprived of the exercise, of .a popular franchise ?
We presume that Mr. Ainsworth is aware of his
position at Bolter) ; that if not taken up by the Tonic',
his poker of damaging the cause of Reform, by strength-
ening the lands of' its er.emiez, will terminate with the
present Parliament; fur, assuredly, no Liberal who
looks to tire division lists will so stultify himself as to
record his vote for a nominal Reformer—who votes
with the Tore., against a Bill, the object of which was
to preserve the Reform Bill from being teutral.zed in
Irclaad, and the defeat of which involved the fate of a
Liberal Administration. We were gratified to see the let-
ter of Mr. Swynfen Jervi., in which he ascribed his ab-
sence from the division, without a pair, to sudden illness,
but for which he would have been in his place, and voted
for Lord Morpeth's Bill. We hope that the lion. Mem-
ber's reAorati m to health will be complete ; and that no
future al:err:tiring from the course of political consistency
will excite susp'cions of the sincerity or strength of his
!released attachment to a Liberal Government.
(From the Standard.)
We were enub:ed to state yesterday what the Minis-
terial Journals could not or would not make public—the
important fact, namely, that the further consideration of
Lord Morpeth's Bill would be postponed until after the
Easter recess. Accordingly, Lord John Russell last night
fixed the Committee for the Bill for the :713d day of April
next. The Noble Secretary for t!.e Colonies made a speech
upon the occasion, in which lie confessed that the vic-
tory of Friday muraing was so like a defeat that he had
little hope of carrying the measure through, but he
professed to hope for 507.0 advantage from further
information. Further information upon a subject
upon which Ministers base brew pledged to make
inquiry during nine long years, upon which they
have brought lin a'ready Jour bills, and which
was v7gorously de. ated during the grea'Ar part of the
last s.ssion. 1.)..es Lord John Russell forg t that he
brought in a till rev,lutionisir g the parliamewary
constitution of England within three months of the
accession of Li; party to office? There was no want
of time for that further information which, it appears,
is indispensable, ecen after the lapse of nine jears,
and after the' debating of five bills (Lord Stanley's
excluded) in several of these nine years, to come to
set about an Irish Registration Act. But what is this
further informa ion to illustrat.! ? Not the value
of b/. sterling, or the duration of fourteen solar
years—these arc things already fixed and ceitair.
Not the numbers of the hish population, the pro-
portions of the several proprietary or non-proprietary
classes, or the number of electors—full informa ion in
these respects may be had from parliamentary returns.
We imagine that the further information must con-
cern the definition of the fianchise qualification.
Have the minority come to a sense of their duty, and
declared that they will administer the law ; as it is
hoped, by . placing Mr. O'Connell and a few more
corrupt persons on the bench to convert the minority
into a majority? This, however, is trifling—the postpone-
ment is a clear unequivocal confession of aefeat—a diAiirct
abandonment of the Bill—a declaration that its only pur-
pose was to embarrass and reta-d the Bill of Lord Stanley
by chicanery and vexatious delay, in the hope that that Bill
may Le evaded this year, as it was last year, by a dilatory
process.

(From the Courier.)
To-morrow is the day fixed for the second reading of
Mr. Emerson Tennent'a Bill, called the " Designs
Copyright Bill," which, as it would seem on its f ice
disentangled from any mere party involvements, it may
be hoped rather than expected will escape not only the
direct opposition of Ministers, but that indirect and not
less efficacious, however paltering, hosti ity which
is shown by taking pains that a House shall not
be tnade to entertain the question on its merits.
It may seem strange that, at this time of day, it
should be found necessary to frame and pass laws for
securing to a certain class of artists or artisans the
right of property, for the iaaignificant term of one
year, in what is and should ba their own by the most
sacred of all rit'e,, for we know of no title so sacred as
that establishei by genius or ingenuity in the produce
and sole profit of its own ins entions, discoveries, or im-
pr:vements. It is, however, exactly of this most incon-
testable of all rights, that the calico printer or pattern
designer is defrauded by the present state of the law on
copyright in designs. The a tilt gifted with taste and
skill may, and does, from his humble studio, labo-
riously contribute in every way to the arts, elegan-
cies, and pleasures of refined society, as well as to
the enjoyments and comforts of more humble life,
by the magic creations of his pencil, and the
brilliant and ever-varying combinations of his colours.
but he is not the labourer counted legally worthy of his
hire, but made rather the special mark far dishonest
dulness to copy, and unprincipled pirates to plunder
with impunity. The parsimonious protection dealt out
to the pattern designer and calico printer for the choice
productions of art and ingertuity extends to three
months only, co that just when the arduous labours, anxiety,
and expenditure of many previous months should
reap their reward in the commencing appreciation of
the public, their quarter's patent expires, and the
pirate who has already been at walk in copying the
fashion stamped pattern, the sole hope of return profit
to the propriet,,r out of various designs, all, per-
haps, but this unsuccessful, and in the preparation of large
stocks produced at the the ipest rates, si‘xe at no cost for
original designs and printing them on inferior qualities of
cloth, is enabled to overlay the market with his lower
priced imitaf on goods, and so despoil the skilful and en-
terprising calico printer and pattern ins entor of the just
fruits of his talent and industry.

The Queen-Dowager has been graciously pleased
to become the patroness of the East Sussex Infirmary.
The Duchess of Kent is expected to leave In-
gestre House, and take possession of her new reiilence,
Clarcnce House, about Easter. Workmen are engaged
in making extensive a!terations, which are likely to be com-
pleted about that period.
IMPROVEMENTS AT NEWCASTLE.—There
has been planned and built nine new streets, extending
collectively t..) or.e mile and the sixth part of another ; and
these contain three extensive markets, under one general
roof, which, with the fourteen entrances from the sur-
rounding streets, comprise an area of upwards of two
acres; the 3 contain also d Central Exchange, since con-
verted into one of the most splendid news-rooms and
coffa-rooms in Europe; a new theatre and new dispen-
sary ; a music -hall, a lecture-room, incorporate company's
hall, two chapels, two auction-marts; ten inns and twelve
public-houses ; four banks, forty private dwellings of the
first &a., and three hundred and twenty five houses wits
shops ; the whole of which already realizes a rental of
18,000/. a-year, and when completed will realize, according
to valuation, forty thousand, exclusive of many valuable
properties sold, such as the markets, the theatre, two banks,
and two chapels. In one word, the new property already
cranted by Mr. Grainger's vast conceptions, first formed
ill 1833, and still in progress of extension, has been valued
at 995,0001., or one million sterliig. —Granvilles Spas
of England.