The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-13 00:00:00

TRADE MARKS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR brought in a bill which
would prove of ?slue to the mercantile community. It
afforded protectiorr. not from competition, but from fraud.
The object of tho bill was to provide a remedy for the
forgery of trade marks. According to the law
as it at present t stood, it was very difficult to
proceed against the perpetrators of the offence, but in
place of the present expensive and dilatory process, the bill
now in his hand declared the forgery of a trade mark a
misdemeanour, and punishable by fine or imprisonment.
Another kind of fraud was the labelling articles as
of greater quantity than they really were. The new bill
made that also a misdemeanour. Then there was another
false mark in which a well-known artist's monogram was
imitated on works of art. That species of fraud, like
those he had already referred to, was made likewise a mis-
demeanour, arid punishable as the other cases he had men-
tioned.
The bill was read a first time.
FICTITIOUS SAVINGS BANKS.
Lord MONTEAGLE moved the second read-
ing of this bill, which was to punish as a
misdemeanour all parties establishing banks called
savings banks, which were not properly certified as
such. He had heard there was a Government bill now
before the other house, in which there was a clause which
would meet the object he had in view, but that was a por-
tion of a very complicated measure, and he thought it
should not prevent their lordships from reading this bill.
Earl GRA.NVILLE said a bill affecting Savings Banks
was before the other house, and he thought it would be the
better course to pass the present bill through the house, in
order that it might be sent down to the other house, where
it could be either agreed to as a separate measure or in.
corporated with the bill now in progress.
The bill was accordingly read a second time.
THE COUNTY OF LEITRIM.

The Earl of LEITRIM presented a petition from the
farmers and inhabitants of the southern part of the county
of reitrim, praying for protection and that the laws might
be properly administered. The noble earl was of opinion
that, if the law was fairly administered, the evil of riband
societies would be put down.
After a short discussion, their lordships adjourned•

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YEsTERDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS. _ .

The following private bills were read a second time :
Alcester Railway Bill.
Berwick, Norhaass and Islandshires Roads Bill.
Bishop's Castle Railway Bill.
Bishop Stortford, Dutusow, and Braintree Railway Bill.
Blackpool and Lytham Railway Bill.
Blyth and Tyne Railway Bill.
Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds Railway Bill.
Bristol and South Wales Union Railway Bill.
Cleveland Railway Bill.
Cockermouth, Keswick,. and Penrith Railway Bill.
Cradlay Heath and Dudley Railway Bill.
Dewsbury, Batley, and Heckmondwike Water Bill.
Dublin Corporation Water Bill.
East Suffolk Railway Bill.
Edenfield Chapel to Little Bolton Road Bill.
Great Western Railway Bill.
Hereford, Hay, sad Brecon Railway Bill.
Kilkenny Market Bill.
Kingston-upon-Hull Docks (Capital) Bill.
Kingston-upon Hull Docks (New Works) Bill.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Branches to Shaw-
forth, &c.) Bill.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Extension to Settle)
Bill.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (New Line dec.) Bill.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Wigan to Clifton,
&c.) Bill.
Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction Railway Bill.
Liverpool Cemetery Bill.
Llantrissant and Taff Vale Junction Railway Bill.
Ludlow and Clee Hill Railway Bill.
Lynn and Hunstanton Railway Bill.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Addi-
tional Works) Bill.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Man-
chester Extension) Bill.
Mid Devon and Cornwall Railway Bill.
Midland Railway (Ashchnrch and Evesham Line) Bill.
Monmouthshire Railway and Canal (New Lines, &c.)
Bill.

Monmouthshire Railway and Canal (Purchase, &c.) Bill.
Much Wenlock, &c. Railway Bill.
Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway Bill.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Derwent, and Weardale Rail-
way Bill.
North Eastern Railway (Blaydon to Conside) Bill.
North-Eastern Railway (Extension to Otley, &c.) Bill.
Oswestry and Newtown Railway Branches, &c.) Bill.
Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurch Railway Bill.
Sherbome Railway Bill.
Shrewsbury and Welchpool Railway Bill.
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Ellesmere Railway Bill.
South Eastern Railway (Capital, &c.) Bill.
South Eastern Railway (Folkestone Harbour, &c.) Bill.
South Wales Mineral Railway Bill.
Sowerby Bridge Gas Consumers Bill.
Stockport, Timperley, and Altrincham Junction Rail-
way Bill.
Stockton and Darlington Railway (New Railway at
Musk° and Skelton, &c.) Bill.
Stockton and Darlington, South Durham and Lancashire
Union, and Eden Valley Railway Companies Amalgama-
tion Bill.
Swansea and Neath Railway Bill.
Swansea Harbour Trust Bill.
Tyne Coal Drainage Bill.
"- Ware, Hulharo, and Buntingford Railway Bill.
'Vaveney Valley Railway Bill.
West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway (Capital, &c.)
Bill.

West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway (Running
Powers, &c.) Bill.
Worcester, Bromyard, and Leominster Railway Bill.
Wrexham and Miners Railway Bill.
The standing orders were deelaredito have been COM.
plied with in the case of several railways and other private
bills.