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off the value of each house, so that the valuation of the
two kinds of property was considered to be very fairly
poised. With regard to the townland valuation, which
was taken five years ago at 25 per cent. under the real
value, perhaps that was now the actual value, and there
was no reason to suppose that five years hence it m ght
not be 25 per cent. under the real value again. With
reference to towns, however, they were by the Bill to be
subjected to taxation according to their full value, and
the 33 per cent. was not to be struck off. He protested
against that proceeding, and indeed against the whole
principle of the Bill. The only thing ho could say in
favour of the townland valuation was, that it was unin-
telligible—so unintelligible, indeed, that it could not be
appealed against.
An HON. MEMBER here moved that the House be
counted. More than 40 Members being present,
Sir D. NORREYS resumed. He contended that thi
present was a most improper time to commence a valua
Lion in Ireland, and entreated the House not to go on
with the Bill, or at least only to adopt that portion that
applied to the townland valuation; and, with regard to
tenements, to be satisfied, in the meantime, with the
poor-law valuation.
Sir J. YOUNG considered the opinion of the Hon.
Baronet to be of great weight on this question. He
hoped, however, the House would not listen to his re
commendation, but allow the Bill to go into Committee,
where all the objections of the lion. Baronet could be
best discussed.—(Hear, hear.) What the Hon. Member
for Tipperary had mentioned with reference to the scale
of agricultural prices would also be discussed with great
propriety in C, mrniitee,
Mr. S. CRAWFORD considered the present law of
valuation in Ireland to be in a most anomalous state; yet
he did not think that the Bill of the Government met the
evil. On the contrary, he thought it decidedly wrong
in the principle. They ought to postpone every measure
of this kind till they had discovered a mode of ascer-
taining correctly what the averages were.—(Hear.)
Mr. E. B. ROCHE said, they very much wanted a fair
system of valuation in Ireland, but it was one of those
very desirable things that seemed to be next to impos-
sible. The present was the most inopportune period
that could be thought of for commencing a valuation in
Ireland; and he would rather go on a year or two as
they were than make things worse, as he was afraid they ,
would do, by this Bill. Let them wait till the affairs of
the country in some measure subsided, and then make
a fair valuation for Ireland, though he was afraid that,
even then, it would be found very difficult.—(Hear.)
The House then went into Committee, and the Bill
was passed pro forma, to be committed again on a future
day.

BOUVERIE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
consolidate and to continue for a time to be limited the
Copyhold and Enclosure Commissions.
The House then adjourned, at Half•past Five
o'clock, till to•morrow (this day) at Twelve o'clock.

HULLABALOO ORATORY.
At a high Protestant meeting lately held at the
Rotunda in Dublin, the Rev. Ilugh Prior, in sup-
porting a resolution, said "Ile had no speech
prepared; but if he wanted a speech, there was
his speech—holding up an orange lily. (Loud
cheers.) He was not ashamed of that tiny flower—he
was not ashamed of the principles it bespoke, and he
hoped he never should, so help him God."—(Loud
cheers.) And Father Malone, at a meeting in the
Roman Catholic cathedral of Ballina, where the Roman
Catholic Bishop, Dr. Freeny, was present, is thus re-
ported, in the Tablet, to have spoken:—"Let the Minis-
ter carry his iniquitous measure into law, and let there
be a community of religious ladies in this town to-
morrow, and let him appoint the day of visitation for
his official, I, too, would be there on that occasion, and
I would expect that, it necessary, there would be there
also, five hundred of the good, and virtuous, and
the brave young men of this parish.—(Loud cheering.) I
would take my stand upon the very threshold of the
door, and defy the Russell beadle to enter.—(lmmense
cheering.) I would put him to the necessity of bringing
one hundred of her Majesty's forces to effect his entrance ;
and should he demand access to the innocent victims of
his wanton barbarity, I solemnly say, before this august
assembly, I would stand between him and them, and
only give him access by the sword or the bullet.—(lmmense
sensation.) Depend upon it they are not now the clays
of Smith O'Brien and the Ballingarry affair; neither is
the occasion now such as it was then."

When the reverend and loyal orator terminated his
harangue, the aforenamed

"Di. Feenv stated that, for the benefit of persons un-
acquainted with the use of tropes and figures, he had to
say that when Mr. Malone made reference to the sword
and spear, he did so not in a literal but a spiritual sense."

PATe:NT LAW AMENDMENT ASSOCIATION.

On Tuesday a public meeting of the members of this
association was held at the Belle Sauvage, Ludgate-hill,
to consider the New Patent Law Amendment Bill
now progressing through Parliament, and to take
steps to secure the abandonment of certain clauses,
which it was stated threatened to render the
operation of the law highly injurious both to
inventors and the public, and to hasten the enact-
ment of a real Patent Reform Bill. Mr. Alderman Sid-
ney, M.P., occupied the chair, and observed that though
he was very little acquainted with the nature of the pa-
tent laws, he felt the greatest pleasure in presiding on
this occasion, as he should be enabled to glean much in-
formation, which would be of use to him in his place in
the House of Commons. Lie could not but regard the pre-
sent patent laws as being in a most anomalous condition,
and calculated to produce great evil, not only to inven-
tors, but to the public generally. The present system
had the effect of " tying up" the talent and genius of the
country, and it was next to impossible for an inventor
to obtain a remuneration for his labour. Instead of
making patents expensive, Government ought to give
every possible protection to inventors, exacting only
such a sum as would defray the incidental costs.
He would ask why the cost should be so
enormous in this country, considering that the
cost of a patent in Belgium, France, Denmark,
and America, did not amount to more than 101.?
He contended that the patent laws were altogether de-
fective, and he did not know any subject which required
more attentive consideration on the part of the Govern-
ment. Mr. Shepherd proposed the first resolution, to
the effect that, it having been already acknowledged
by Government and the public that the patent laws
required amendment, the meeting was of opinion
that the Bill now before Parliament should effect
an efficient amendment forthwith, and that if this
be not done, inventors who had previously registered
and exhibited new inventions at the Great Exhi-
bition, under an implied promise from the Government,
that the attainment of letters of patent would be ren-
dered less costly, would be subjected to the injustice of
having been induced to publish their inventions without
reasonable means of protection from the Legislature.
The motion was seconded by Mr. Keene, and supported
by Mr. Rogers, and after some discussion, was carried. A
resolution was then passed, that it was contrary to the
interests of the inventors and the public that the new
patent law, which proposed that a patent should be granted
in consideration of a series of payments, should require
from the inventor more than a few shillings in the first
instance, so as to cover the expense of recording his de-
mand, and that if the protection of patent rights in courts
of law be nut rendered more certain, the law would still
remain in a very defective state. It was next resolved
that the foregoing resolutions be embodied in a petition,
and pesented to the House of Commons, and the meeting
separated.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN

THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1551.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*214
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 46
Tubercular Diseases ... ... ... 202
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 132
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 33
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ..• ... ... 114
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ... ... ...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• ...
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations... „, „, „, „,
Premature Birth ...
Atrophy
Old Age ... ... ... ...
Sudden ... „,
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Causes not specified

... 68

... 27
... 23
... 40
... 16
... 60

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ...
Populatien Deaths in come-
Enumerated, spending week
1841. of 1880.
- -

1,003
Death*
in the
Week.
167
194
176
186
280

West Districts... 301,189
North Districts.. 376,568
Central Districts 374,199
East Districts ... 393,067
South Districts .. 503,346

136
146
119
166
227

Totals...
Males ...
Females ...