The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENJNG, DECEMBER 7, 1850,

knowledge, and a luminous commentator on the prin.
ciples of mechanics, he must entertain a feeling of
earnest solicitude for the interests 4.f men engaged in
congenial pursuits. Out of this personal sympathy
on the part of Lord BROUGHAM for inventors and
discoverers, we look forward with double satisfaction
to the time when his efforts in behalf of that intelligent
class shall be manifest in the Upper House of
Parliament immediately on the re-assembling of the
Legislature. With the Committee of the Society of
Arts labouring outside, and Lord BROUGHAM labour-
ing inside the House of Peers, and the Press more
or less energetically forwarding the cause by written
argument, there can be little doubt but that ulti-
mately the patent laws of the United Kingdom will
be properly reformed and re-organized.
Is there any question as to whether the necessity
of the case relating to scientific inventors is urgent
and peremptory ? We subjoin as an answer to any
such inquiry the following tabular statement, ex-
tracted from the pamphlet just issued by the Society
of Arts at the instigation of the Committee
" A RECITAL OF THE OFFICIAL STAGES, SO TAR AS THEY
CAN BE MADE OUT, WHICII AN INVENTOR ➢IUST
UNDERGO IN OBTAINING LETTERS PATENT Ft R AN
INVENTION IN ENGLAND ONLY, PROVIDED HIS AP
PLICATION IS UNOPPOSED.
Stages.
1. Inventor prepares humble petition to]
the Crown,
2. Which he must fortify by a declara-
tion taken before a Master in Chan-
cery, and pay
3. He delivers petition and declaration to
the Home-office, in Whitehall, and
pays
4. Home Secretary signs petition after
some days, and refers it to Attorney
or Solicitor-General ...

£0 1 6

2 2 6

5. Petition taken to the Attorney or So-
licitor-General, at their chambers,
and the fees paid to them and clerks

6. Attorney or Solicitor-Generrl reports
in favour of petition, as a matter of
course,
supless opposed ...
7. Report taken back to the Home-office,
in Whitehall.
8. Home-office prepares a warrant, which
echoes the report, and is ...
9. Sent to the Queen to sign •• •
10. Returned to Home-office, and ...
11. Home Secretary countersigns warrant,
and the tees paid are
12. Warrant taken to Patent-office, in Lin-

coin's Inn.
13. Clerk of the Patents prepares a draught
of the Quoen's bill and docket of the
bill, and the fees paid are ...

4 4 0

7 13 6

5 10 6

14. And engrosses two cnpits of the bill.
one for the Signet-office and one for'
the Privy Seal-office, fees
15. Stamp duty on each ...
16. Engrossing Clerk of the Patent-office
engrosses Queen's bill for signature,
fees
17. Stamp for the same ...
18. Queen's bill taken to Attorney-General
or Solicitor-General and signed by
them, fees ...
19. Taken back to Home Secretary ...
20. Sent by Home Secretary to the Queen I.
21. Signed by the Queen ...
22. Returned to the Home Secretary, and I
the fees paid are
23. Queen's bill taken to Signet-office, in")
Somerset-house... I
24. Clerk of the Signet prepares a signet }
bill for the Lord Keeper of the Privy I
Seal, sad the fees paid are ...
25. Clerk of the Lord Keeper of the Privy
Seal prepares a Privy Seal bill for
the Lord Chancellor and stamp: fees
paid are ...
26. Privy Seal bill delivered to the Clerk-
of the Patents
27. Clerk of the Patents engrosses the I
patent, and fees paid are
Stamps for the patent, &c.
28. Clerks of the Patents prepares a docket
thereof
29. Stamp for the docket of patent ...
30. Boxes for the patent ...
31. Fees to the deputy(?), the Lord Chan-
cellor's Purse- bearer ... 2 2 0
32. Fees to the Clerk of the Hanaper ... 7 13 0
33. Fees to the Deputy Clerk of the Hanaper 0 10 0
34. Recipe of the Lord Chancellor for the
Privy Seal bills which he signs 1 11 6
35. Fees to the Deputy-Sealer and Deputy-
Chaff Wax ...

I 7 6

6 0 0

1 1 0

1 10 0

6 0 0

7 13 6

4 7 0

4 2 0

5 17 6
30 0 0

0 9 6

... 010 G

X 99 7 2
Exclusive of fees in cases of opposition and for enrol-
ment of the specification."

From this authentic testimony it will be seen that
the grievances of which unfortunate inventors have
reason to complain are in no respect imaginary. They
are of a kind the least easily avoided by the indigent
and the most irksome of all to such as, themselves
without means, are desirous of turning a happy con-
trivance into a profitable speculation. The annoyance
of these expenses being immeasurably enhanced by a
knowledge that the moneys are frittered away into
the pockets of subordinate workers of the administra-
tion—being, in fact, a huge agglomeration of fees
and perquisites. Such evils have been experienced
too long and too grindingly to be endured with-
out complaint from its victims. An opportunity
is at length offered them of ridding themselves from
its pressure. Let them combine all their efforts to
swell the tide of. opposition and to encourage those
who are now manfully battling against the perpetua-
tion of these lamentable enactments. The Committee
of the Society of ♦rts hive commenced. Their
example will be speedily followed, we are sure, in the
House of Peers by. Lord BUOUGHAM, and aided by
the united endeavours of the advocates and the great
leader of Law Reform, the triumph of the cause
cannot remain doubtful. Preventive measures will
be adopted against the renewal of so much piracy
and imposition. Precautions will be taken, securing
to men of science the enjoyment of the pecuniary pro-
ceeds of their ingenuity. And while thus throwing
the shield of its protection over the interests of in-
ventors, the law of patents will at the same time ma-
terially forward the interests of invention.

most plaintive of all articulations of love (the letter of
" Eloise to Abelard"), the most minutely finished
and perhaps the most graceful of our pastors (that on
" Windsor Forest"), the two most withering satires in
our Anglo-Saxon tongue (the " Dunciad" and the
" Imitations of Horace"). An intellect capable of
throwing off such a prodigal abundance of poetic
treasures, all of them of unimpeach4ble, and some of
them of matchless, merit, must be allowed a
prominent and lofty place in the Wal-
halla of our national literature. Well, there-
fore, did the Earl of CABLISLE choose in selecting
POPS as the subject of his congenial and esthetic cri-
ticism ; well did he illustrate by remarks and
quotations the reasonableness of his panegyrics ; well
did he, in testimony that those panegyrics could in no
respect be considered as exaggerated, challenge the
whole world to adduce from any poet, ancient or
modern, more sublimity of thought than has been con-
densed by POPE in that incomparable couplet, in which
(describing the operations of the DEITY) he says that
OMNIPOTENCE—

" Build.; life on death, on change duration founds,
And gives the eternal wheels to know their rounds."
A close scrutiny of the subject and of the lecture
itself vk ill only tend to confirm the judgment still
more and more in its reverential homage for the ge-
nius of POPE, anti in an appreciative admiration
for the eulogist of POPEi the amiable and gifted Earl
of CARLISLE. At a time when so many are
striving to provoke class against class and
party against party, it is well to find a
Minister of State, throwing aside all considerations of
jealousy in a burning devotion to the really true and
beautiful—to find an Earl deeming it no diminution
of his dignity to lecture on the works of a poet within
the walls of a Mechanics' Institute. For inasmuch
as Lord CARLISLE has acted thus, and done so, like-
wise, gracefully and admirably, we would, as one
among the organs of public opinion, proffer him our
most earnest and unaffected felicitations.

TUE SHARE MARKETS.

BRITISH RAILWAYS

Rail ways.

Paid.

Nominal Prices.

10 to 10%
1% —1% dis.

6 —5% dis.

Bi - 1 P.

26% - 29%
27 -28

8- 9 p
6% - 734 p

10 -11

71 -73
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5 - 534

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12% - 13

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2 -2%

1% - IX
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10X 1134xd.

55 -57
56% - 56
4 -6 p

7% -7%(

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4% - Sli

19 - 1914
10% - 10%
2% -

30 - 30%
25 -26
6 -6%

1%:.- 2
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15% - 15%
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loq IN
124 12%

89 -40
3i - XP•
,242 - 245

7314 73%
—4% dis.
93 100
49 0
21% 22%
65 —67
25 265% p
,p
54 —52
1214 11% dis.
74 dia.
I% 1% dis.

Business done
to-day.

10 101,i
1% dia.

2% %

19% M % U%

15% 16

6% ;i

11 x. d.

1034 11

7% 14

120 119 k

71 )4 72%
2,3

24 %

44 Ni

14% X
49

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MINES.

Paid. Nominal I rices.
E usineas done
to-day.
Anglo•Mexican(is. 51. p.) 100 ..
Asturian •• • • 15 ..
Australian ............ 4 3 31,(
Earossa Range .. ..... 113 0 334 —3%
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal 50
Bolanos Scrip ..........
I iritish Iron.: .......... 13 5 ..
Brazilian Imp. (is. Si. p.) 24%
Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba 30 3%
Do. St. John del Rey.. 15 14% —l5 16%
Cobre Copper - • •• • 40 32% —33
Coplapo • 5% 5
General.... 13% 13%
Real Del Monte, Unreg. tA,
Do. Black Debentures.
Do. Red Debentures .. .. .„
Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 9 —9M
Tin Croft .. • ..• • • .• .. • • 7 10% 11
United Mexican-- • • ,28 28% —6%
MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada . 32% 41% 42%
Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% 27
Penin. & Oriental Steam. 50 79% —Bl 63
Royal Mail Steam 60 66% 68
(We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists.]

WONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The riles of Co,ton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at from 5,000 to 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 were
taken for export and on speculation. The market
closed firm.—Railway Shares wire quiet at rather lower
prices.

The Bank of England weekly statement to the 30th
ult. presents at last the feature of a very decided reduc-
tion in the amount of bullion, the exports baying acted
upon it. while the imports have not proved sufficient to
meet the foreign demand. From the turn that affairs
have taken on the Continent it is probable that this
downward movement may be speedily arrested, and in
any ea,e another million sterling, with the prospect of
remittances from California, might be easily spared. The
increased demand for money is shown by the large ad-
ditional sum advanced upon other securities, chiefly
Stock and Exchequer-bills probably. The amount to
the credit of Government increases, and the quarter's
revenue may be expected to prove satisfactory. The
balances of private parties are likewise being judiciously
strengthened to meet Christmas payments. Compared
with the previous return the following results are ex
hibited
Notes Issued ...
Decrease ...
Rest

... 29,369,785
• 215,085
... 3,085,738
53.502
9,398,752
358,171
,789,794
230,975
,265,406
9,903
... no alteration
▪ 12,461,368
... 741,998
... 10,762,335
... 220,770
• 16,009,871
... 210,57 S
... 18,607,450
... 5,685

Decrease ... ..,
Public Deposits ... ...
Increase ... ...
Other Deposits ~,
Increase ... •••
Seven Day and other Bills
Decrease ...
Government ecurities
Other Securities ...
Increase ... ~.
Notes ...
Decrease ... ...
Bullion ... ...
Decrease . . ...
Active Circulation ..,
Increase ... ~.

... 9,

... 1

The Foreign Exchanges were negotiated yesterday
afternoon at steady rates on the principal continental
cities, but there was no alteration in the quotations
worth specifying, except Amsterdam being more favour-
able to remitters. It is concluded, nevertheless, that the
exchange of gold for silver cannot have been completed
by Holland, and that as occasion serves there will be more
taken from us. At Hamburgh last Tuesday the rate on
London improved to 13.2, and bills were scarce and in
request. This is a good sign, and is probably occa-
sioned by the efforts making in Austria to check the en-
hancement of specie, for although coercive measures
will not accomplish such an object, there would be more
confidence upon the prospect of peace that has arisen
this week.

The Honourable East India Company have, within
the last fortnight, drawn bills upon Bengal to the amount
of 143,084/., Madras 19,861, and Bombay 1,739.
Sufficient time has not yet elapsed to test the working
of the very judicious arrangements recently adopted
among the Scotch iron trade of checking the circulation
of a paper currency not based upon real business trans-
actions, although ostensibly representing them. Mr.
W. Short, a broker, informs us upon this subject, and
the metal trade generally, that—" Welsh bar iron has
gradually advanced to 4/. 15s. per ton in Wales, which
is now the nearest price. Rails are in good demand,
4/. 17s. 6d. per ton has bt en paid for flange pattern; and
as it is reported that large orders still remain to be
executed, an advance on that price is looked for. A very
important movement has taken place during the pest
month, having for its object to substitute storekeepers'
warrants, not to be issued until the iron is delivered into
yards, for the maker's engagements or scrip heretofore in
use. Since the meetingthe market has nominally stiffened;
but small transactions have taken place, nor can we look
for large transactions until the improved plan has had
time to become consolidated. The larger description of
buyers abstain from acting to any extent at the advance
suugbt to be established, and it may be questioned that
they will do so (in the face of a largo weekly increasing
stock) at the rates asked, viz., 425. 6d. to 435. per ton
for mixed numbers, free on board, cash, against bill of
lading 435. to 431. 6d. for storkeeperie warrants, free on
board, and 445. 6d. to 455. for number one Gartsherrie.
In other metals there is scarcely any change to notice."
In the Lancashire and Yorkshire districts trade con-
tinues as good as could be reasonably expected at this
time of year, and there is no fair ground of complaint,
except tbat the raw staples rule di-proportionably high.
The Railway receipts of the net k, taken collectively,
do not stand much above those of the correspoLding pe-
riod of 1849, allowing for increased mileage. On par-
ticular lines, that are becoming more developed, there
is, however, a gratifying augmentation.
_ _

The Amsterdam -Stuck Market o❑ the sth inst. was
buoyant. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. advanced
to 56. Mexican Stock was in request at 301.
At Frankfurt on the 4th inst. Austrian Metallics were
75f
Thy quantity of silver exported direct from London
this week has been 313 0x.., and of gold 5,852 oz. and
2,2001.

The Funds are well supported, but there is not much
doing. Consuls have beet' 97f f, and are now 97f f for
this time, aid 97i to 98 for January. The New Three-
and-a-Quartar per Cents. have been quoted 98f to
and tie Three per C,n,s. 964 y. Exchequer-bids have
been 645. to 675., and India ainds 83s. to 85s. premium.
Foreign Securities have been very quiet. Mexican
have risen to 32f 1. Portuguese Four per Cents. are
34i, and Spanish 1 hree per Cents. 39k. Brazil Bonds
have realised $5 f. Duch and Russian Bonds are firm.
Railway Shares, in some instances, are looking up,
but Caledonian, York, and North Midland, and North
British, are not so good. Midland and North Stafford are
higher.

Consols ...
Ditto Account

I,ls become a tot,tl wr47ck; one passenger drowned; part
of cargo expected to be saved.
RAMSGATE, DEC. '6.—The Violet schooner, of 'Xis-
beach, Marseilles to Hull, which put in here 20th ult.,
is very leaky; cargo di charging, part damaged.
WHITEHAVEN, DEC. s.—Tue Eleanor, Dublin for
this port, capsized and sank in a squall off Bee's Head;
crew saved.

WHITEY, DEc. 6.—The Maria, of Aberystwith, from
Newcastle, got on the Rock last night, but came off and
proceeded. The Minerva, of Wisbeach, also got on
shcre, but came off.