The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-20 00:00:00

COPYRIGHT BILL.
WEDNFBIDAY, FEB. 19.
Order for Second Reading read ; Motion made, and Ques-
tion proposed,—" That the Bill be now read a second time : "
and an objection having been taken to the further proceeding
upon the said Bill on account of the subject, being a matter of
trade, not having been considered in a Committee of the whole
House. pursuant to the Standing Order of the House, before
the Bill was ordered to be brought in, and Mr. Speaker having
been desired to give his opinion whether the said Standing Or-
der applied to the subject of the said Bill, stated, that, in his
opinion, the Standing Order which had been referred to applied
to those Bills alone which interfered directly with trade, and
that the Bill now before the House, not being one of that de-
scription, had been properly ordered to be brought in without a
previous consideration of the subject in a Committee of the
whole House :—Question again proposed, " That the Bill be
now read a second time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out
the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the
words " upon this day six months :—Question put, " That
the word now ' stand part of the Question :"—The House
divided,

'MAJORITY—AYES, 51.
Acland, Sir Thomas Gordon, It. Parker, R. T.
Acland, T. D. Goulburn, H. Figot, D. a
Aglionby, Major Grimsditch, T. Plumptre, J. P.
Arbuthnot, Hon. H. Grimston, Lord Pringle, A.
A ttwood, NV. Handley, H. Pusey, Philip
Bagge, Wm. Henniker, Lord Round, C. G.
Bailey, Joseph, jun. Howard, P. H. Round, J.
Barry, G. S. Ingestre, Lord Shaw, F.
Blair, J. Inglis, Sir R. H. Sibthorp4Colonel
llroalwood, H. Jernayn, Earl Stanley, Edward
Buller' C. Knatchbuil, Sir E. Strickland, Sir G.
Cole, Lord Knight, Henry Gaily Stuart, W. Vi•lien
Conyngham, Lord A. Lincoln, Earl of Sutton, H. T M.
Darby, George Lowther, J. H. Teignmouth, Lord
Du Pm, George Mackenzie, Thomas I Turner, E.
Eastnor, Viscount Mackenzie, W. F. I Wood, G. W.
Ekiot, Hon J. E. Maunsell, V. P. 1 Wyse, Thomas
Filmer, Sir E. Milnes, It. M.
Frcslifield, J. VV. Mordaunt, Sir J.
Gaskell, J. M. Pakington, John S
Gladstone, W. E.

Baines, E.
Blake, W. J.
jrotherton, J.
Bruges, W. H. L.
Dennistoun, J.
E xart, W.
Greg, R. H.
Grote, G.
Hawes, B.
Hector, C, J.
Hobhouse, T. B.

:NORITY-NOES,
.Jervis, J.
Lushington, Charles
Marshall,
:Mintz, G. F.
Pryme, G.
Salwey, Colonel
Smith, Itenjamin
Stock, Dr.
Strutt, E.
Style, Sir Charles
Thornely, Thomas

TELLERS.
Talfourd, Serjeant
Mahon, Lord

29.
Turner, W.
Villiers, Charles 'I.
Wakley, Thomas
Wallace, R.
White, Andrew
William,, W,
Yates, John A.

TELLS
Warburton, H.
Hume, Joseph

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SJa,—Having read in The Evening Sun a denial of the
truth of the forthcoming opera at Drury-lane being the
production of the musical genius of his Royal Highness
Albert, Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha, I venture to en
gege your attention for an instant to the real state of the
case. I have had for some months in my possession a
numerous assortment of vocal music, embracing almost
every species of melodic composition, from the cantata and
the preghiera to the simple ballad. The name of his
Royal Highness is affixed to these publications, and the
poems are contributed by his illustrious brother Prince
Ernest (himself a composer), and many of the most dis-
tinguished German poets. It having been suggested to
me that the ♦ariety and excellence of these compositions
afforded ample and appropriate materials for the construc-
tion of an opera, they were placed by me at the disposal
of a musician of eminence, who, with the assistance of one
of our most popular dramatists, produced an opera, which
was immediately approved of by the Drury-lane authori-
ties, and consigned to them in consequence.
I felt it my duty to trouble you with this statement, in
order that your readers may have the truth of the report
imparted to them in your valuable columns.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN LIMBIRD.

143, Strand, Feb. 19, 1840.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Ste-I find in the Times of Thursday last, the 13th
instant, the following " Distressing Family Bereavement,"
when four children were carried off by croup in fourteen
day. How was it that no inquest was held in such a
dreadful case ? Was it because the sufferers had been
treated according to art ? Is there no power on earth
capable of showing up such murderous professional prac-
tice in medicine—not even surpassed by the Druidical
human sacrifices of our forefathers ? Yet the members of
the m7dical profession unblushingly come before Parlia-
ment, praying to have the people enslaved to their odious
doctrines.—.l ate, Sir, yours, &c.

JAMES MORISON, the Hygeist.
Paris, No. 2, Rue des Pyramides; and
British College of Health, New-road,
London. Feb. 15, 1840.