The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

INTERNATIONAL COPYItIGIIT.

The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
having had under their consideration an application, from
an eminent firm, requesting that Prussian books may be
admitted into this country at the reduced rates provided
in the treaty of international copyright, recently con-
cluded between this country and Prussia, notwithstand-
ing that the said books may have been stamped at
Leipsic, and not at a town in Prussia, the Commissioners of
the Customs Department have received a communication
from Mr. Parker, one of the Secretaries to the Treasury,
stating that he has been commanded by their Lordships
to transmit, for their information copy of a letter from
the Board of Trade on the subject, and to desire that
they would admit the Prussian books with the stamp of
' the Saxon authorities thereon, which have been already
imported by the memorialists, at the low rate of duty.
Mr. Parker also intimated to the Commissioners in this
communication that he had received directions from their
Lordships further to state to them, that their Lordships
concur in the opinions expressed in the Board's report
and in that of the Board of Trade, namely, that books,
published in Prussia and stamped in Saxony, or any
other State which may have acceded to the Convention.
should be treated as Prussian, and vice versa; and that it
was their Lordships' desire that the Board would give
the necessary directions to their officers to admit the
same at the duty prescribed by the convention to be
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" Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall.

" am directed by the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter, enclosing a report ef the Customs on an
application of certain parties for the admission, at the
low duty, of Prussian bi+olts, stamped at Leipsic, and I
am to state to you, for the information of the Lords
Commissioners of her M.:jest y's Treasury, that my Lords
of the Board of Trade are of opinion that the Commis-
sioners of Customs have put a right construction upon
the instructions which have been issued to them with
respect to the admission of Prussian and Saxon books.
The books mentioned in the memorial under notice are
clearly not Saxon books,' because they were not pub-
lished in Saxony, neither are they entitled under the
Convention to be regarded as 'Prussian books,' because,
although published at a town or place within the deo.nu-
nions of Prussia, they have not been
dulyfs such stamped
by
the proper municipal or other authority
Cthounsven
tion. Had they been so stamped,
might un.
they
place,' as is required by the sth article
ac-
quired a perfect Prussian character,
questionably lehaoodfththeey
d from Saxony, and not from Prussia
although imported
meaning of the sth article of the
itself, which is the
have claimed admission at the low duty,
treaty. —mY Lords are, however, of opinion, that
would be no objection to allowing books published in
there
Prussia and stamped in Saxony, or vice versa, to be ad-
mitted at the low rate of duty, and as both the Act of
Parliament and the Orders in Council are perfectly ge-
neral in their terms, they would suggest that the in-
structions which have been issued to the Commissioners
of Customs may safely be modified, and the Commis•
sioners informed that they may treat as Prussian books
published in Prussia, and stamped in any state which
may have acceded to the Convention; and as Saxon hooka
published in Saxony, and stamped in any such state.
" I am, &c.
(Signed) " STAFFORD H. NORTHCOTE.
" T. C. E. Trevelyan, Esq."

In pursuance of this order of the Lords of the Trea-
sury, the Commissioners have caused copies of the same
and of the communication from the Board of Trade to
be issued to the principals cf the several departments in
London, and the collectors and comptrollers of the out-
ports throughout the United Kingdom, for their informa-
tion and future government in this important matter.

A. few days ago, while the workmen on the New-
castle and Berwick Railway were excavating a portion
of the line near to Botha' Castle, they found the skeleton
of an animal having a single horn growing from the
centre of the forehead. The workmen generously made
a present of it to Mr. John Cragg, watehipaker., Mor-
peth, a well-known naturalist, who often superintends
the herculean works going on in that locahty.—New7
castle Chronicle.