The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-07 00:00:00

Mr. W. WILLIAMS condemned the Government for
pushing such an important measure through the House
at the eleventh hour. He contradicted the statement of
Mr. Labouchere that ho was the only Member in the
House who was opposed to cheapening the price of ob-
taining patents. His whole object was to prevent persons
obtaining patents for worthless articles.
Mr. RICARDO was willing to sacrifice his whole in-
terests as a patentee, in order that the whole system of the
patent laws might be altogether abolished.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL observed that the
• Bill left the patent laws entirely where they stood at
present, it being confined to legislation in regard to the
cost of patents.
Mr. HENLEY considered the House had great rea-
son to complain of the Government. The President of the
Board of Trade had thrown the responsibility of delay
on the House, but the fact was, the clauses might have
been got through by this time had that Right Honourable
Gentleman not made certain observations as to Members
availing themselves of the forms of the House in order
to prolong their opposition.—(Hear.)

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After some further observations, /
Sir J. GRAHAM thought it right the public should '
understand that the real cause of the delay was to be at- '
tribuied to the Government. Hon. Members had been I
led astray on the subject under discussion by the impu- I
tation of motives which were thrown out right and left I
' by the President of the Board of Trade. He hoped the '
irregular discussion would now terminate, and that the
House would proceed calmly to ,consider the clauses of :
- the Bill. , • .
Lord PALMERSTON .again accused Sir James ,
..
'Graham Of heing out of order, obseeving that when a
charge was disclaimed by, an Hon. Wernher, it was
.against the rides-, of, the, House to again refer to the
subject. He denied and repudiated the imputation that
the Government had obstructed the measure by intro-
ducing topics which did not belong to the subject under
immediate discussion. That charge rested with the
othe': side. If the measure did not pass, the public:
' sho,ald know that the fault rested not with the
Ge;vernment, but with the Right . Honourable
Baronet and those .who took part with him. On theus
rested the responsibility,. .and he (Lord Palmerston)
1 . 'would not swept it oa the part of her Majesty's Go-
, „ ,vernment, who were there to do their duty.
. Mr.,LABOUCHERE said it was useless going on with
.the Bill under the circumstances.—(Cries of " Proceed,"
and "Go on.") Ho was entirely in the hands of the
'Reuse. If anything had fallen from him to which ob-
jection might be justly made,, he begged to express his
regret, and to withdraw wthit he had said. ,
'The avian as amended was then agreed to.
' Clauses 19, 20, 2i, 22, 23,, and 24 were agreed to;
and 'after a brief discpssion, ~
Clause 25 was struck out, on the motion of the
• ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
The remaining clauses, up to the clause which pro-
vides for the compensation of officers paid by fees in the
varioaa patent offices, were agreed to.
. On clause 47,
Sir J. GRAHAM wished to know the probable
amount which would be required to give compensation
to persons for loss of office under the Bill. He en-
tertained a strong opinion that the patent laws would
soon disappear from the statute-book, and supposing
that opinion to be correct, the compensation
awarded to these officers, instead of coming
out of the funds voluntarily paid by
persons who wanted patents, would fall on''.the public
purse. He confessed that he had himself made a mis-
take in regard to the compensation of the six clerks in
Chancery, but the error he had committed ought to act
as a caution to the Government not to proceed with the
clause without some consideration.
The ATTORNEY.GENERAL Raid, as many of the
' old officers 'would be employed under the new system,
' the amount of compensation would be very small.
_ Mr.. C. LE 'IS also considered that the compensation
would be very limited in amount.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS thought the Government ought
to give a more explicit answer to the question. He re-
collected that the Six Clerks' Bill was brought in at the
ead of a session and pushed on with great haste. In
• reply to a question which he pat, one of the Government
' iotthat day answered that the compensation under the
-am would be between 500/. and 700 L a-year; but the
fact was that these clerks received about 7,0001.
part ot the Consolidated Fund: The most reprehensible
k4rt of the proceeding was, that the compensation was
Pailf,st seven years after their death.
-fur; ,acme further discussion,
, • 50..? 14 a tg,
would Consider the subject, OtICHERE promised that the Government
e subject, and state what alterations
. they proposed •
In the clause on bringing up the report.
The clause was then agreedan tot.h e
The remaining
paased, the House resumed, preamble were then
progress. and the Chairman reported
REGULATIONS TO BE
PROROGATION,
AT THE
Lord J. RUSSELL brought n OtNh.
. lect Committee appointed to incl'airee
intoreport of the Se-
. manta, on the occasion of this aousee the arranges
•
by her Majesty to attend
. the Houseb in summoned
of Lords,which
stated that the Committee had come to a resolution, that
in order to ensure regularity, all Members who wished
• to attend the opening or prorogation of Parliament
• should give previous notice in writing of
1 k of the House. their
intention to the clerk That the
i' should immediately folio
• Cabinet Ministers the
s of the other Members
* - Speaker, and that the name
d that the order in
should be put into a glass,
and
the order in
h le
they Were drawn should regulate P . c the
Members ought to occupy in the procession. The
reso-
lution farther required that Members should not cross
House and
or renross any of the passages between this
.t .the House of Lords. w to move
/3o
3 ' Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he had
he should
- that, the report be printed, and to-morrow .
desirable
" ' lawns that it be adopted. It was exceedingly
- ethat-sueh- a scramble should be avoided as took place
at the opening of this session.
Mr. V. Mali said he should have acme objections