The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-28 00:00:00

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
PLIVOITTH—Wind N., calm—foggy.
B MOUTON—Wind N.. gentle breeze—overcast.
N.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
SouTitasivTos—Wind N. W., gentle breeze—foggy.
ForamsToaa—Wind N., gentle breeze—overcast.
Tuirs ELDOE--Wind S.W., calm—overcast.
E ENWlCH—Calm—foggy.
STROUD —Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
S ietst Calm—frost.
Commorraa—Wind S. k., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
CA.mnanaog—Wind W.,.gentle breeze—cloudy.
ILLPMOT‘TIi—Wind W., calm—foggy.
LA Ica;sTaß—Wind N.W., calm—foggy.
S—
wind N.N.W., calm—bard frost.
Bitz.-rrocK—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

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The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Wednesday morning at nine
o'clock :
La kl-Aracm—Wind S.W., calm—cloudless.
POOLE—Wind N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Llotlnman—Wind N., strong breeze—rain.
LIVERPOOL—Wind N.\Y., gentle breeze—cloudy.
LANCAST LAS—Wind W., calm—foggy.
WinTßY—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
DARLlNGras—Wind V .N.W., gentle breeze—overcast, frost.

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sufficiently removable to justify us in demanding its
instant and effectual dissipation.
That there should be no reciprocation of the benefits
resulting from copyright between this country and
the United States is lamentable undoubtedly—but,
for a thousand reasons, the existence of the evil is at
the same time very comprehensible. That there
should in the same manner be no literary or artistic
exchange of this character between Germany and
Great Britain is, in an almost equal degree, matter
for regret, but cannot fur an instant be matter of sur-
prise. Remembering the difficulties which have
hitherto interposed between any such cordial alliances
as this between the rival powers of Christendom, it is
assuredly easy enough to understand at a glance the
cause of this prolonged and obdurate estrangement.
But that our Legislators have heretofore in no way
secured to each and all of the subjects of the British
Crown the rights and privileges of the nature here
intimated is, it must inevitably be admitted, cause
for very serious complaint, and reason for very
accountable amazement. According to the system,
or rather, we should say, according to the no-system
heretofore in vogue, it is of course sufficiently
easy for an author, an engraver, or a mu-
sical composer to obtain for himself the
security of copyright by entering at Stationers' Hall
the production of his art, his genius, or his ingenuity.
Not so, however, with those equally faithful lieges of
the SOVEREIGN who may by ill-luck happen to be
resident in one or other of her Britannic MAJESTY'S
remote possessions. There may be little difficulty in
forwarding a book, a print, or a ballad to Stationers'
Hail from the "Row" or from any other of the localities
for publication either in England, Ireland, or Scot-
land ; but it becomes a rather serious matter when
the printing-office may happen to be in some back
street of Sydney or in some one of the industrial
quarters,of Calcutta. The truth is, there should be
some reasonable provision made in this respect for the
authors and artists who may happen to dwell in our
colonies—in the mushroom towns and advancing
settlements of Canada, or of Australia. As it is—and
we can vouch very positively for the accuracy of our
present statement—a draughtsman may sketch views
of the scenery of New South Wales and publish those
views in a lithographic form, say at Adelaide for
example, and on his arrival in the mother country,
some time afterwards, find those same identical
drawings pirated very coolly, not by an engraver, a
lithographer, or a painter, but actually by an oil-
cloth manufacturer. A circumstance of this kind
really occurred not long since, and the unfortunate
victim upon the occasion found himself, from the pe-
culiarity of his position (as one practising his pro-
fession in a distant colony) left without any redress
whatsoever. In order to obviate the annoyance—and
not only the annoyance, but the injustice—of such a
transaction, the artist or author living in Australia
would have to transmit the result of his labour by a
voyage both tedious and expensive across thousands of
miles of ocean to be duly entered at Stationers' Hall
.a proceeding manifestly impracticable for ordinary

purposes.
Against the continuance of this evil there is left us,
however, one very evident means of reformation. Let
it be decided by the Imperial Legislature that any
work of the kind indicated may be entered at the
Council of Local Administration, precisely as it is
with ourselves in entering the same kind of produc-
tions at Stationers' Hall, and the whole of the very
considerable grievance complained of might at once,
and effectually, become dissipated. It would be pos-
sible then for the colonial administrators to commu-
nicate periodically through their dispatches a cata-
logue of the books, prints, songs, &c., so entered to
the central or supreme Government. Some alteratio❑
of the nature here intimated has become, in truth, by
this time absolutely essential. And remembering the
extraordinary benefits about to be conferred upon both
France and England by the Literary Treaty
before adverted to, it would be scarcely
decent to delay some reform of this par-
ticular description in reference to the artists
and authors living in the colonies of the latter
country. Our sense of the injustice of the arrange-
ments now in existence is, in truth, of a kind such
as induces us to look forward with some degree of
anxiety to conduct in this matter to be decided
upon by the two Houses of Parliament. Something
must be done, and that speedily, to the end that our
colonies may acquire the privileges and the protec-
tion of a literary and artistic copyright; and there-
fore we await with all eagerness the course which
may be resolved upon by our rulers on the next
re-assembling of the Legislature.

Among the railway projects of which notice has
been given for the ensuing session, there is one de-
serving of especial notice, not merely for the advan-
tages it is calculated to confer upon the community
in general, by a considerable extension of railway
accommodation in a very important district, hut also
for the prospects which it opens to the shareholders
in a railway company which, having started under
the most favourable auspices, and at one period com-
manding very considerable premiums for its shares or
stock, has long been unduly depressed. The under-
taking, too, will be beneficial to all the surrounding
companies, so that while it affords to the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company, a reason-
able prospect of obtaining fairly remunerative returns
on its existing and future outlay, it cannot be consi-
dered as injurious to any of the great companies by
which it is surrounded. _ _

The plan to which we would thus direct the public
attention is the contemplated continuation of the
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
from Wolvercot, near Oxford, to Isleworth, in the
county of Middlesex, and which may be denominated
the Oxford and Brentford extension of the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway. The
new line will not only materially shorten the distance
from Oxford to London, bringing the former city in
communication with the Euston-square Station by a
direct road, twenty-one and a half miles shorter than
the present route, via the London and North-Western
Railway, but it will enable passengers to proceed, or
goods to be conveyed to either side of the river, to
Euston or Waterloo, and thus afford vast accommo-
dation and a great saving of time and expense. It
will al.o give direct railway communication to the

towns of Heston, Norwood (Middlesex), Crawford,
Harlington, Hayes, West Drayton, Cowley, Hilling-
don, Uxbridge, Beaconsfield, Wycombe, Marlow,
Princes-itisborough, 'Tame, and Oxford, be-
sides the important districts traversed by

the parent line. It will lie midway between the
Great Western and North-Western lines, at
about the same distance from, and holding a simi-

lar position with respect thereto, to that occupied lay
the Great Northern Railway in reference to the
London and North-Western and Eastern Counties
lines. _ _ _

We shall now look to the actual saving of distances

. _
that will be effected when the plan to which we are
alluding is carried into execution. The contemplated
road will be from the north side of Oxford to the
junction at Brentford, 47 miles. Brentford is 1
miles from the Waterloo station, and 10f from Eus-
ton-square. The distance from the north side of
Oxford to the former will then be .581 miles, to the
thisl;
latter,
who
be el
travel
n vo
05n7e then,lAtpresent, from the north side of Ox-
ford to Paddington is 64 miles. There will on
ot
be a saving of 54 or Gi miles; but
to
lessv t
i the
than iNorth-Westernllmiles,
theldiniset,anthcee
saviugt will
from Oxford to Euston-square, by Bletchlev at
present travelled, being 79 ." ' -
while the same point
will then be reached within 57-i miles. It is unne-
cessary
formationy to dwell
of h
on th et greate
entirevalue Oxford,
i alt eration.
T
and Wolverhampton line may now be regarded as
virtually accomplished. The total cost, when it is
completed, will amount tc, 3,100,0001., 0f which
2,300,000/. has been already expended. For this the
earthworks, masonry, tunnels, and viaducts are either
constructed or nearly so; and when we consider that
the works are now in the hands of Messrs. l'Exo and
BETTS, and Messrs. TREADWELL, we cannot doubt
that all will be brought to a satisfactory conclusion
without any unnecessary delay, even of a single day.
The estimated cost of the contemplated extension
will be 800,0001. The outlay on the entire line from
Wolverhampton to Brentford will thus be under four
millions sterling (3,900,0000.
For this sum the shareholders will have an exceed-
ingly eligible line from Wolverhampton to London,
with the choice of the beet metropolitan termini—a
line taking in and accommodating the important

LONDON,

towns and surrounding districts of Bils-
ton, Tipton, Dudley, Stourbridge, Kidder-
minster, Stourport, Bewdley, Droitwich, Stoke,
Worcester, Pershore, Evesham, Camden, Morton,
Woodstock, and Oxford, besides the towns we have
already enumerated as situate on the extension.
The moderation of these charges will be best under-
stood by a comparison with the prices of the existing
communications with Wolverhampton, that by the
Great Western having cost no less than 10,000,0001.
sterling, and that by the North-Western more than
11,000,0001. The heavy iron traffic from Wolverhampton
may thus be brought to the Nine Elms station (the
value of which may be appreciated when we consider
how many of the great iron masters' depUts are situate
on the banks of the Thames), or to the docks, viii
the " North-Western" and the "East and West India
Dock" railways. The Droitwich salt, the Stourbridge
fire-bricks, and a variety of the native productions
from the hives of industry, above referred to, may be
brought in like manner. It is true that the distance
from Wolverhampton by the new route will be 148,
while by the North-Western it is only 127 miles;
but this is not so important for the heavy traffic.
From Worcester, however, the distance will be but
105 miles in place of 149 miles by the present route,
a saving of 44 miles to the inhabitants of that city.

While we have thus pointed out some few of the
almost incalculable advantages that will be derived
from the extension by the shareholders of the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company, and by the
inhabitants of the districts traversed by the line, we
would show that it is also beneficial to the Great
Western Company. The proposed line will join that
of the last-mentioned company at Drayton, and the
distance between Oxford and Paddington will thereby
be shortened ten miles. The road from Paddington
to Birmingham, at present 126 miles, will thus be
reduced to 116, or only 3i miles more than from
Easton-square to Birmingham. When we consider
the circuitous route of the Great 'Western system to
Birkenhead, from Wolverhampton via Shrewsbury,
the saving will be of the utmost value—it will
reduce the distance to Birkenhead and the
Cheshire side of the river to about the same
as that now required to Liverpool and the northern
side by the North-Western. The distance to Ireland
may also be materially shortened, and the communi-
cation greatly improved by the formation at some
future time of a branch from Llangollen to Abergele.
These various points will not be overlooked by the
directors of the Great Western Company.
It will also prove beneficial to the London and
North-Western Company. The main line, via Bir-
mingham and Rugby, is scarcely adequate to carry
safely at this moment the present enormous and
rapidly increasing traffic. The proposed line would
form a second route to Birmingham and Wolver-
hampton, taking a considerable portion of the goods and
cattle traffic collected in the South Staffordshire mining
district, and relieving the main line to that extent,
and thereby enabling the North-Western Company to
convey its passenger traffic, and the enormously in-
creasing coal traffic from Lancashire to London with
a degree of safety and punctuality which, despite the
indefatigable, energetic,and highly meritorious exer-
tions of the officers of the North-Western Company,
can scarcely be accomplished under existing circum-
stances. It will also be very useful to the Midland
Company, with whose interests the North-Western is
closely connected, if not identified, by enabling that
company to take a large portion of the Bristol, the Glou-
cester, and the Cheltenham passenger traffic, and it will
only require a short junction between the Birmingham
and Gloucester, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton to effect it, whereby the distance from Lon-
don to Cheltenham would only be 95 miles, to
Gloucester 104, and even to Bristol only 138.
We have thus briefly pointed out some of the pro•
minent features in this well-devised and judicious
undertaking sufficient to ensure it a safe passage
through Parliament, and, we trust, a completion with
all convenient speed. It is of a character very diffe-
rent indeed from the majority of those brought under
the legislative notice some five or six years since, and
against which such numerous and well-founded com-
plaints were justly preferred.

Among the Benchers of the Inner Temple are now
numbered three of our most distinguished celebrities
in literature—Mr. Warren, Mr. Adolphus, and Mr.
Hallam. The two former were elected on Friday
last, with several other gentlemen, their names ap-
pearing in the following order :—Seven Q.C.'s—Mr.
Mellor, Mr. Warren, Mr. Bramwell, Mr. Atherton,
Mr. Headlam, M.P., Mr. Pashley and Mr. Hargreave ;
and Three Stuff Gowns—Mr. Crompton, Mr. Adol-
phus, and the senior member of the bar, Mr. Har-
rison. Remembering that Mr. Hallam, the historian,
had already been elected a Bencher of the Inner
Temple, it is gratifying to observe among the re-
cipients of the same graceful tribute a writer of
such intelligence as Mr. Adolphus, and an author of
such eminence as Mr. Warren, the former a very
accomplished man of letters, and the latter one of the
most conspicuous ornaments of our imaginative
literature.

Tan TYROLESE MINSTRELS.—HoIans's celebrated
troupe of Tyrolese Minstrels have been engaged by Mr.
Mitchell, and will make their debut at the St. James's
Theatre this evening. These celebrated performers of na-
tional music had the honour of performing before her Ma-
jesty, Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent at Windsor
Castle on the 21st ult., and the Royal party expressed their
high approval of the admirable performance of the company.
They have testimonials from the Emperor of Russia and
from almost every Sovereign in Germany.
WANT OF VENTILATION IN THE JUSTICE-ROOM OF
THE MANSION-HOUSE.--It is expected that the Committee of
General Purposes, of which
in Mr. Knott is the very active and
intelligent chairman, will immediately cause some improve.
ment to be made the mode of ventilating the Justice-room
of the Mansion-house, which is at present, and has been for a
great length of time, in a deplorable state. Strangers com-
plain of it, but what mist Le the sufferings of those who are
hourly doing duty there?
KOSSUTH'S DISINTERESTEDNESS.—We are enabled
(says the Hampshire Independent) to state, as a positive fact,
that KossutAi so entirely disregarded all personal considera-
tions and comfort, that having brought a small fund to Eng-
land ';or his personal necessities, he has, in consequence of the
disappointment in promised subscriptions in England to the
Kossuth fund; devoted the whole of those resources to the
patriotic objects above alluded to, and left England on
Thursday with literally only 101. in his pocket.
FURTHER REDUCTIONS IN OMNIBUS FARES.—
Yesterday those omnibus proprietors and conveyance compa-
nies who have hitherto been strongly opposed to the public
demand for cheap carriages, were compelled to reduce their
fares, in some instances from sixpence to threepence, and in
others from fourpence to twopence. This reduction must
not be attributed to any desire on their parts to benefit the
public, but being apprehensive of meeting with a powerful
opposition from the new cheap cab companies, they consider
it preferable to yield to public opinion with a good grace,
than be driven off the roads. Omnibuses running between
the Elephant and Castle, Newington-butts, and the corner
of the Hackney-road, Shoreditch, a distance of nearly two
miles and three-quarters, carry passengers for twopence
each ; from the Bank to Clapton-gate, and vice versa three-
pene.e each ; from the terminus of the South-Eastern Railway
tet King's-eross threepenee each ; from the Bank to Islington,
King's-cross or Portland•road, and vice versa, threepence.
The Camberwell, Fulham, Turnham-green, Hammersmith,
Kensington, and Bayswater omnibuses, have made a consider-
able reduction in their fares, although no opposition exists
on these lines of road. The public has derived a very great
advantage from the reduced fares, as a person can now ride
from Tyburn-gate (the Edgeware-road) and Mile-end-gate
for fivepence, the charge some little time ago being a shil-
ling. He is conveyed in the first instance to the Bank for
threepence, and from thence in another omnibus to Mile-end
for twopence.

LICENSING-DAY IN THE CITY OF LONDON.—A
special general session, for the purpose of granting licences
to persons being about to keep inns, 'alehouses, and victual-
ling hcases, in the city of London, to sell exciseable liquors
by retail to be drunk or consumed on the premises therein
specified, and also to persons being about to keep public bil-
liard tables and bagatelle tables, is appointed to be holden at
the Guildhall of the said city of London, on Saturday, the
13th day of December next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon
precisely.
ROBBERY ON WIMBLEDON COMMON.—The metro-
politanthere was stolen from the stables of Charles Freshfield, .Esq.,
police have received information that on the 22d inst.
solicitor to the Bank of England, the following property : —A
black cloth sack coat, with pockets at the sides; two silk
pocket handkerchiefs, one marked "T. 8.," and a double-
bottomed silver watch, No. 7,963, with silver guard chain
and gold key attached.
SUPPLY OF COALS TO THE METROPOLITANS.—
Within the last twelve months, in consequence of the faci-
lities afforded by railways for the cheap and speedy transit
of coals from the various parts of the kingdom to the metro-
polis, the inhabitants of London have enjoyed cheap fires as
well as cheap bread. We perceive that the supply is on the
Counties will
whichl
increase, and consequently we look forward to a further re-
duction of price. The Great Western and Forest of Dean
Coalt.a Company has been established to supply the coals of
be brought htmany extensive seams cfcoal.of
first-rate quality. The West, the North, and the Midland
into active competition in
the Lorulon market,g
and the public must necessarily reap
the benefit.
AIanRIAGE IN thou LlFE.—Yesterday forenoon
the marriage of his Serene •
and Lady Augusta Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-
Weimardaughter of his Grace the;?)utiti Katharine Gordon Lennox,
with unusual eclat at St. George':,, ,oet,',ltigmond, was celebrated
he
presence of a numerous and distinguished a
cvierre-aseqoufaiirei,e
nit?
s.t
At the rising of the Central Criminal Court on
Wednesday Lord Campbell gave directions that a sum of
151. should be paid to Earthy, the police-sergeant who was
shot by a robber at Acton, and 5/. to Bayley, a constable
who was with him, its a reward for their meritorious conduct
upon the occasion.

EVENING-1

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
In the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday the dis-
cussion on the Paris to Lyons Railway Bill was brought
to a close for the present, by a credit of 16 millions
being voted to the Government to continue the works
from the Ist of January next. The interpellations of
M. CREMIEUX relative to the intention of sending
out to Nouka Hiva the three prisoners condemned at
Lyons to transportation, for a plot against the State,
were then brought forward, and after a short discus-
sion, in the course of which the Ministers of Justice
and the Interior declared that the present was not a
case for indulgence, the order of the day, pure and
simple, was adopted by 417 votes to 235.
In the division it was observed that M. MIER%
voted with the Republican opposition against the
order of the day, pure and simple.
An order of the day motivh presented by M.
CANET to the following effect, "The Assembly, con-
sidering that the right of commutation belongs to
the PRESIDENT of the Republic, passes to the order of
the day," was, it is said, drawn up by M. TRIERS.
The object of this amendment was to throw on the
PRESIDENT of the Republic the sole responsibility of
carrying the very severe sentence passed upon M.
GENT into effect.

The members of the Republican opposition met on
Tuesday evening at Lemerdelay's rooms, under the
presidency of M. MICHEL (de Bouges). It was re-
solved that if urgency were demanded for the Bill
fixing the responsibility of the PRESIDENT and Mi-
nisters, the Republicans would support
,the demand.
Upwards of 150 representatives were present.
On Tuesday evening a grand dinner was given by
the PRESIDENT of the Republic at the Palace of the
Elysee, to the exhibitors at the London Exhibition,
who had been decorated with the Legion of Honour.
The President of the National Assembly and several
of the Ministers were also present.
A circular of the Minister of the Marine, and another
of the Director of the Customs, prohibits any of the
officers engaged in th Customs service on the coast
from occupying themselves with fishing at sea, or
carrying any nets or fishing apparatus on board their
boats.

NOVEMBER 283 1651.

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