The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-08 00:00:00

INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT,

ACCESSION of the KING of SAXONY to the
CONVENTION CONCLUDED MAY 13, 1846,
between GREAT BRITAIN and PRUSSIA, for
the ESTABLISHMENT of INTERNATIONAL
COPYRIGHT. SIGNED at BERLIN,
_AUGUST
24, 1846.
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the King of
Prussia, having concluded at Berlin, on the 13th of May,
1846, a convention for the reciprocal protection of copy-
right against piracy, and it having been stipulated in
Article 8 of that convention, that tnose German States
which, together with Prussia, compose the German
Union of Customs, or which may hereafter join that
Union, should have the right of acceding to the said
convention, their Britannic and Prussian Majesties have
addressed to his Majesty the King of Saxony the invita-
tion to accede thereto ;
And his Majesty the King of Saxony being desirous
of availing himself of the opportunity thus afforded to
him of acceding to the said Convention ;
The respective plenipotentiaries, that is to say—
On the part of her Majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Hon.
John, Earl of Westmorland, Lord Burghersh, a peer of
the United Kingdom, a member of her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Privy Ccuncil, a Lieutenant-General Commander
of the Military Order of the Bath of England, Grand
Cross of the Order of the Guelphs of Hanover, her Bri-
tannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the King of Prussia:
On the part of his Majesty the King of Prussia, the
Sieur Erasmus Robert, Baron de Patow, his Privy Coun-
cillor of Legation, and Director of the Department for
Foreign Affairs, Knight of the Orders of the Red Eagle
of the third class with the clasp of Prussia, and of the
House of Ernest of Ducal Saxony:
And on the part of his Majesty the King of Saxony,
the Sieur John de Minckwitz, his Minister of State, a
Lieutenant. General and Aide-de-camp-General, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to their
Majesties the King of Prussia and the King of Hanover,
Knight of the Military Order of St. Henry, and Grand
Cross of the Orders of Civil Merit of Saxony, of the Red
Eagle of Prussia, of Leopold of Austria, of Civil Merit
of Bavaria, and of the White Falcon of Grand-Ducal
Saxony; decorated with the Medal of Military ,lerit
of Grand-Ducal Saxony, Grand Cross of the Order of
the House of Ernest of Ducal Saxony, Knight of the
Order of St. Anne of the first class of Russia, Grand
Officer of the Legion of Honour of France, Grand
Cross of the Military Order of St. Benedict d'Aviz of
Portugal :
Met together, for thepurpose of recording in due form
the accession of his Majesty the King of Saxony, as well
whiehat printed copy
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as the acceptance, by her Britannic Majesty and his
Prussian Majesty, of the said accession on the part of
his Saxon Majesty.
The plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Saxony
in consequence declares, in virtue of his full powers,
that hisM •
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the said Majesty accedes both to the convention of
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and
to the special provisions contained in section 1-4 of
the separate protocol signed on the same day, of which
a copy is hereunto annexed; promising that the sti.
pulations of the said convention which shall come
into operation in the kingdom of Saxony, from and
after the Ist of September, 1846, as well as those
of the separate protocol, shall be carried into execution
by his Majesty the King of Saxony in all points, so
far as they may be applicable to the relations which
subsist between the Saxon Government and the British
Government and its subjects ; subject, however, to the
express reservation, that Article 11. of the Convention
shall be modified, with regard to Saxony, in the follow-
ing manner, that is to say :
No person in either of the two countries, either in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in the
kingdom of Saxony, shall be entitled to the protection
stipulated by Article I. of the Convention, unless the
work to be protected against piracy shall have been
registered by the author or his agents, in the following
manner

1. If the work has first appeared in the dominions of
his Majesty the King of Saxony, it must have been
registered in the register-book of the Company of Sta-
tioners in London.
2. If the work has first appeared in the dominions of
her Britannic Majesty, it must have been registered in
the register-book kept by the Royal Direction of the
Circle (die Bucherolle) at Leipsig.
Nor shall any person be entitled to the protection
aforesaid, unless the laws and regulations of the re-
spective States shall have been duly observed in regard
to the work to be protected ; nor, in cases where there
are several copies of the work, unless one copy of the
best edition, or in the best state, shall have been de
livered gratuitously to the authorities appointed for that
purpose by the laws of the respective countries.
A certified copy of the registration in the aforesaid
register-book of the Company of Stationers in London,
beat' be valid in the Lit dOWIIIIOIiS as prow of the
exclusive right of publication, until a better right shall
be established by any other party before a court of jug.
tics ; and the certificate given under the lews of sauDys

of the registration of any work in the'aforesaid register-
book at Leipsig, shall :be equally valid in the dominions
of his Saxon Majesty.
The plenipotentiaries of her Majesty the Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of
his Majesty the King of Prussia, in virtue of their full
powers, accept the accession of his Majesty the King of
Saxony, promising that the stipulations of the conven-
tion of the 13th of May, 1846, as well as the special
provisions which are contained in the protocol of the
same date, and those which form the reservation above-
mentioned, shall be carried into execution by their re-
spective Sovereigns in all points, with regard to the
Saxon Governnn,nt and its subjects, in the same manner
as between the British and Prussian Governments and
their subjects.
In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries
have signed the present act, and have affixed thereto the
seal of their arms.

Done at Berlin, the twenty-fourth day of August, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty-six. (Signed)
WESTMORLAND. PAToW.
(LS.) (L.S.)

DE MINCEWITZ
(L.S.)

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND NORTH- WESTERN AND GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAYS.—We are authorised to state—and we do so
with very sincere regret—that all negotiations between
the London and North-Western and Great Western
Railway Boards are at an end, and are not likely to be
renewed.— Railway Record.
MIDLAND RAILWAY. COMPANY.-1.-Tie half-yearly
meeting of this company was lately held at Derby, for
the transaction of general business. George Hudson,
Esq., M.P., presided on the occasion. The report,
which was of great length, included those of Mr. Burton,
the resident engineer, and of Mr. Kirtley, the super-
intendent of locomotives and carriages, and contained the
following passages:—" Ihe balance in hand, after pay-
ing, in addition to the former payments, the fixed inte-
rest on the Leicester and Swannington Railway Stock,
and the rent due to the Leeds and Bradford Railway
Company, will enable you to declare a dividend of
31. 10s. upon each 1001. of the Midland Consolidated
Stock; of 31, 10s. upon each 109/. of the Consolidated
Preferential Stock, and after the same rate of 71. per
cent. per annum for five months, upon 101. of each of
the 401. shares; of 21. 16s. 3d. upon each 109/. of the
Birmingham and Derby Consolidated Stock, and leave
a balance in hand of 13,040/. Bs. Id. The increase in
the gross receipts from traffic, over the corresponding
half of last year, from various sources specified (in.
eluding 29,4801. 9s. 6d. from passengers) amounted in
the gross to 55,8981. 2s. 10d. ' The Chairman gave a
most elaborate detail of the proceedings, and the report
was received, adopted, and confirmed.
NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK RAILWAY.—At the half-
yearly meeting of this company, held at York, on Mon •
day last, George Hudson, Esq., M.P., in the chair, the
report of the directors was read, which stated that, after
paying interest at the rate of Si. per Cent, to the holders
of the (guaranteed) shares in that railway, a surplus of
2,637/. 14s. 7d. will remain to the credit of the New-
castle and Berwick Railway Company; that the portion
of the line which extends from Newcastle to Morpeth
will be ready for opening on the Bth instant, and a por-
tion of the northern end of the line, exceeding twenty
miles ist length—viz., from Tweed Mouth to Chat Hill,
is in such a state of forwardness that the requisite
month's notice of its opening will be forthwith given to
the Board of Trade. The report was unanimously
adopted; and it was further resolved that interest at 51.
per cent. par annum be paid on the 16th day of February
instant to the holders of shares in this company in re-
spect to the North Shields capital; and that in order to
raise an additional capital of 775,0001., the directors be
empowered to issue scrip for new shares, in the pro-
portion of one new share of 251. to every two original
shares, at such time as they might think expedient.
SOUTH-EASTERN NORTI KENT LINES. —The Morn-
ing Herald states—" We are informed that the last con-
tract fur the construction of the North Kent line was
yesterday (Tuesday) let by the directors of South
Eastern Railway Company to Mr. John Brogden, jun.
This contract extends from the Grand Surrey Canal to
Erith ; from thence to Rochester the line had been pre-
viously contracted for—via., from Erith to Gravesend,
to Messrs. F. and T. Tresiwell ; and from thence to
Rochester, including the filling of the canal and widen-
ing of the railway, to Mr. Brogden, jun. There is little
doubt that the entire line from, London to Rochester will
be opened for public traffic within a year. We under-
stand that there has been great competition among the
contractors for these works, which are under the super-
intendence of Mr. Robert Stephenson and Mr. George
Bidder.

SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—We hear that, a few
days ago, an order was issued from Mr. Macgregor to
the effect that, should a passenger take out a day-ticket
for (say) the third-class, and on his return, at any part
of his journey, be driven by stress of weather, or any
other cause, into a superior class, the charge is to be, not
the added increase between the classes for the up train,
but the addition both ways—going and returning.—
Railway Record.
LEEDS, WAKEFIELD, AND MIDLAND RAILWAY
COMPANY.—On Thursday Cockburn Curtis, Esq., a
surveying officer from the Admiralty, attended at the
Court Rouse, Wakefield, to examine into the above pro-
ject, so far as it interfered with the Aire and Calder
Navigation Company. Mr. Webster attended on behalf
of the Railway, and Mr. John Hope Shaw on behalf of
the Navigation Company. The proceedings occupied
but a very short time, an arrangement having been come
to between the two solicitors to settle any differences
between themselves ; but if they could not agree upon
any given point, then to leave it to the decision of Mr.
Curtis.—Leeds Mercury.
FARES ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—AS the high
fares on the Midland Railway have been often and justly
complained of, it is right to state that at the beginning of
the present year the fares were greatly reduced. The
first-class fare to London, which was formerly 475., is
now 40s. 6d.—Leeds Mercury.

EXHIBITION OF THE BRITISH
INSTITUTION.

From the inviting character of the weather the rooms
of this institution were so thronged on Saturday, that it
was with considerable difficulty we could observe any
single picture from a convenient distance. The glimpses,
however, which we wero able occasionally to obtain of
the collection for 1847, were frequently " glimpses of
the beautiful and good." Since the opening of the in-
stitution, in 1806, there can scarcely hare been a more
unequal exhibition, an exhibition more unequal in its
evidences of talent. Evidences of "genius" this year
there is not one. Among the various associations which
have been formed for the promotion of the fine arts in the
United Kingdoms, none attracts a more peculiar interest
than the British Institution, in Pall-mall, and none de-
serves more. For the facilities afforded by the
annual exhibition of their productions the artists of
Great Britain generally express their acknowledgment
by the display of their peculiar powers upon canvass.
This season they appear to have concentrated their

energies upon the manifestation of their industry gene-
rally, irrespective of any other quality. That they have
been eminently succassful in this particular is ostensible,
first, in the crowded appearance of the walls of the ex-
hibition rooms, and, secondly, in the fact of four hundred
pictures having been returned from lack of superficial
space. Among the most striking pieces in the collec-
tion, we observed
66. " Mornlng," by J. Sant, a fanciful illustration of
the old verse.

"It is the lark, the herald of the morn."
The attitude is characterised by much grace, while
the flowing of the drapery is quite the reverse. Another,
170, of " Evening," bythe same artist, is however marvel-

lously inferior. The most successful composition from
the easel of Mr. Sant is unquestionably No. 185, " She
hangs upon the cheek of Night."

259. " The Frugal Meal," by J. F. Herring, is
a group of three horses' heads, chomping a bundle of
sorrel and grass, with an impertinent pigeon in the fore-
ground. The picture is rendered very beautiful by the
predominant characteristic of this artist—the most in-
valuable characteristic of all—Nature. Tho horses are
pencilled with a keen and admirable truth.
366. " The Temptation," by A. Keeson, representing
Christ and Satan upon the pinnacle of the mountain
If there be little sublimity in the conception, there is a
wonderful hardness in the execution.

554. " The Straw-yard," by W. and H. Barraud.
I Worthy to be hung in the same apartment with Her-
ring's " Frugal Meal ;" not so much in the representa-
tion of individuality in the animal, as in the beauty of
the manipulation. The bay horse on the left of the
painting is brilliantly coloured.
386. " A Savannah on Fire by Moonlight," by E. A.
Goodall. It only wanted this subject to come under the
brush of Mr. Turner to afford us a combination of colours
and an exaggeration of effects hitherto unexampled in
the art of painting. The theme, as treated by Mr.
Goodall, is poetical and effective.
Besides the pictures already enumerated we observed
a charming " Musidora," (from Thomson's " Seasons,")
by A. Jerome, 398; an eccentricity called
a " Frost Scene," by C. Branwhite, 451; a wonderful
distortion of nude figures, by E. W. S. Hopley, 461; a
production worthy of being baked into Worcester ware,
by J. D. Wingfield, 493, with sundry exquisite fruit-
pieces, especially one, 516, by 11. Iteekers.
A stray bust and a casual group of figures near the
staircase constituted the exhibition of sculpture.

CHILD-STEALING.—Thursday afternoon, as a little
girl named. Ann Edwards was nursing a female infant
three months old, the daughter of Mr. Laidlaw, of No. 40,
Wellbank-street, Dover-road, Southwark, when opposite St.
George's Church she was accosted by a tall lady-like female
dressed in deep mourning, who, after inquiring the child's
name and address, took it from her arms to nurse it, and
walked towards London-bridge. On passing a confectioner's
shop she asked the girl to partake of some pastry, and
they both entered the shop. The lady tendered a sovereign
in payment, saying to the girl that she would walk on to-
wards the church, and she was to overtake her with the
change. Some time elapsed in procuring it; when the girl
reached the appointed place no trace of the lady was to be
discovered, and it was ascertained that a lady answering
the description was seen to enter a cab with an infant which
was driven towards Westminster-bridge.
A letter from Vienna states that the loan of forty
millions of florins, which has been for some time talked
of, has been concluded at five per cent. with the 11C41405 of
19akichild, big* k.