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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1845.

The House of Lords did not meet yesterday.
The House of Commons met at Four o'clock.
The Statute Labour (Scotland) Bill passed through
Committee.

Mr. LIDDELL moved the second reading of the Dog.
stealing Bill.
Mr. HUME thought persons should take proper care o'
their dogs, and moved, as an amendment, that the Ba
be read a second time that day six months.

whatever at home deserving our care) on anti-slavery
squadrons, for watching half the coasts of the world ;
on mixed Commission Courts, for trying the cases of
captured slave ships ; on compensation to the owners,
whose captured ships had eluded the condemnation of
the Courts ; on support to the Africans we have libe-
rated ; and on other parts of the costly slave-trade
suppression machinery. On these and similar devices
we have annually expended about half a million of
money, and in some years we have maintained them
at even double that expense. In 1839, Sir FOWELL
BUXTON calculated that the aggregate expenditure of
Great Britain, on slave-trade suppression alone—to
say nothing of the enormous sum paid for eman-
cipating the West Indian negroes—exceeded 15,000,0001.
sterling ! Doubtless, this is a wise, judicious, and
honest application of public money. Who can ques-
tion it ? We have no sufferers at home on whom
these millions could, in any way, have been bene-
ficially bestowed. We have long covered our land with
well-appointed schools for the instruction of our la-
bcurers—we have thrown open throughout the country
baths, gardens, grounds for recreation and amusement,
where the toiling millions of our crowded and smoke-
dried towns may feel the invigorating influence of
healthful exercise and innocent excitement. We have
abundantly provided them with ventilation and whole-
some water within their dwellings, and drainage and
other sanatory contrivances without. Expense never
deterred us from zealously pursuing the first of our
interests, the first of our duties, and the greatest
of all charities—the moral and physical improve-
ment of our industrious poor. Towards them
we have long since discharged every obligation ;
Great Britain has no taxes, cramping and ob-
structing the exertions of industry or seducing the
peasantry to the desperate immoralities of smuggling,
which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER professes
the beggar's inability to redeem. Our Excise and
Customs duties are no where a tribute wrung from
misery—they are the cheerful contribution of a grateful
people, grateful for parental protection and good govern-
ment aff)rded them in substance and not in name.
Examine those lanes and alleys of misery which in the
great seats of British commerce used to huddle together
so large a portion of the whole populat'on.
Visit now the narrow and deadly coal-beds of
Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Scotland, the factories of
Manchester, and the cheerless hovels of Dorset—as-
suredly no human victims are there. The happy condi-

did, all idea of looking to any " powerful protection out
the House."

The Bill was supported by Captain BERKELEY and
Major BERESFORD, and opposed by Mr. WARBURTON.
Sir Jas. GRAHAM would vote for the second reading, re-
serving to himself the right of examining the details of
the Bill before going into Committee.

tion of the men, women, and children of our own coun-
try leave nothing for justice or generosity to bestow,
and it is, therefore, only proof of designing clamour or
ignorant impatience of taxation to hesitate about squan-
dering our money on the suffering people of Africa. We
bow to the truth. We humbly admit our ignorance and
proneness to error, but being vulgar and arithmetical in
our habits we wish to see the credit as well as the debit
side of our accounts. Since we can do no good with our
money at home, we shall not object to " the wisdom
of Parliament" sending it abroad, only we like to have
something to show in exchange for it. Spend it, there-
fore, great lords and gentlemen, spend it in suppressing
the slave-trade, only hand over your vouchers, and show
us that you have suppressed the slave-trade by spending
our money. We have heard it said that you are prac-
tising a delusion—that the slave-trade, so far from being
suppressed by your philanthropy, never was more active,
more cruel, more destructive of human life, than it is
now, after forty years' trial of your system. This is a
very serious matter. Are we really playing over again
the game of the fanatical LAS Cans, and has all

he treasure and humanity we have lavished upon

Now this is all matter of very legitimate statement
for any Peer or any Member of Parliament, in the inde-
pendent discharge of his important trust and duty, to
take care that the public money be disbursed only under
the control, through the instrumentality, within the cog-
nisance, and by responsible officers only, of the appoint-
ment of the Legislature, or of the Government, under its
sanction. But it is very essential that there
should be no misconception in respect of so
important a principle. Its enunciation should not be
confounded with any intention to manifest personal dis-
respect for his Royal Highness—an intention which
must be quite foreign to the desire of Lord BROUGHAM,
or any other Peer. But it is really high time, as we
before argued, to impress Mr. BARRY with the convic-
tion that his primary object should be to consult the in-
terests of the public in the speediest possible accomoda-
tion of the Legislature, not the making provision and
providing scope for the development of artistical objects,
or purposes, interesting and even important as acces-
sories, but altogether subsidiary and secondary to the
completion of the general fabric, to such an extent as to
allow of the dispatch of business. Now, Mr. BARRY'S
irregular defence, in his letter to Lord WIIARNCLIFFE,
and that Nobleman's remarks in support of such defence,
were addressed specifically to the remarks that had fallen
from the Learned ex-Chancellor. But Lord BROUGHAM
said there was not a single Peer of the Lords' Committees,
or of those who had sat with him on the subject of his
complaint, who did not concur in every word of his state-
ment. Accordingly, we find the Marquis of CLANRI-
CARDE complaining that the House (of Peers)
appeared to possess very little power or con-
trol in this matter to accelerate the progress
of the structure, or to obtain satisfaction from
Mr. BARRY ; that Mr. BARRY had, in almost those
words, told them so when under examination. The
Noble Marquis animadverted on the fact, that the only
reason assigned for the perpetual delays of the often-
promised term at which the Lords should be accommo-
dated within the new walls was, the desire to meet the
views of the Commission on Fine Arts ; but " that the
Fine Arts should be made subservient to the accommoda-
tion of the Parliament—not that of Parliament to the
Fine Arts." Nothing, certainly, can be more reason-
able than this proposition ; but we must enter our pro-
test against the assumption that the cause of the Fine
Arts is to be served by the over-done tracery, and
endless badges, and blazonry, and those " heraldic ano-
malies" we indicated in a former article, to the comple-
tion of which Mr. BARRY and the Fine Arts' Commission
appear to attach a paramount importance over every
other object to be accomplished on that national fabric.
Now, we can imagine nothing so corrupting to any true
taste for " Fine Art" as the overlaid display, or elabo-
rate sculpture, of interminable quarterings, devices,
crests, mottoes, and supporters, which fritter away the
majesty that would otherwise attach to so vast an
extent of frontage as that which Mr. BARRY
has raised on the banks of the river. The tracery,
properly so called, from the great scope afforded for
various and symmetrical design, is of course not liable
to this objection. It was not without reason that Lord
CAMPBELL contrasted the expedition with which Mr.
HianwicKE had raised the beautiful Tudor Hall for the
Society of Lincoln's Inn, commenced only a year and a
half ago, and to be entered upon by the Society in about
a month from this time, with the tedious procrastination
of Mr. BARRY'S work, magnificent and vast though it
be. The great reason for urging Mr. BARRY to accele-
rated progress remains to be noted ; and it clearly is—
the little confidence which the public can repose in Mr.
BARRY'S abstinence from unnecessary, and even un-
authorised expense—whilst his works are still only in
progress towards completion, after the memorable affair
of the new gallery, the most costly and unwarrantable
excrescence ever superadded to the execution of a
settled and authorised design for any public building in
England. , -

the negro only proved to him a source of fresh
and aggravated calamity ? Let as examine the
authorities on this subject. By authorities we do
not mean the statements of economists and
mal-contents, however well they may have qualified
themselves to pronounce upon the question. Our autho-
rities shall be men who are above every suspicion of un-
duly
preferring the interests of England to what is
called the great cause of negro happiness and
civilization. Such witnesses as are without exception
What says FOWELL BUXTON on this subject ? We are
quoting from his book published in 1840 :—" The
traffic," says this gentleman, " has not been extinguished,
has not been diminished. By the latest accounts from
which any estimate can be formed, the numbers ex-
ported have increased—the destruction of human life,
and all the guilt and misery consequent thereon, have
been fearfully augmented, at the same time it may be
stated, that the numbers exported from Africa are, as
compared with the year 1807 (when the Abolition
Act was passed), as two to one, and that the
annual loss of life has risen from seventeen to

twenty-five per cent." The opinions thus put
forth by one who had been among the most ac-
tive supporters of the measures of which here he so
frankly and honestly admits the fearful failurp, have
been corroborated by the venerable Mr. 'IHO3IAs CIA UK'
SON himself, and other abolitionists. We have, even on
the same side, the high authority of Lord Jour; 11 us--
SELL, who, when Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies, stated, in an official letter which he communi-
cated to the Lords of the Treasury, that the importation
of slaves from the western coast of Africa alone,
" involves a waste of human life, and a degree
of human misery, proceeding from year to year without
respite or intermission, to such an extent as to render the
subject the most painful of any, which in the survey of
mankind it is possible to contemplate."
Well, then, the system has failed—failed, even in the
opinion of those who have hitherto been its warmest
advocates—and are we still to carry it on ? We have
just commenced a fresh act in this ill-fated drama by a
new treaty with France. Is our folly to last for ever ?
The man, who in the zeal of blundering humanity,
endeavoured to straighten the humped back of
a traveller, rendered insensible by a fall —at
least desisted from his torturing kindness when
he discovered his mistake. Our conduct is more inex-
cusable—more pregnant with mischief, and with folly,
than that of the philanthropist in ./Esop. We are pur-
suing a course in relation to the African, which, under
the delusion of assisting him, augments his sufferings,
and enlarges the field in which he suffers ; and which,
at the same time, robs our own countrymen of their
heritage, and has a direct tendency to condemn to moral
and physical destitution around our very homes, those
beings whom we are bound to love and to cherish, by
every obligation of humanity, and by the first principles
of our Christian faith. Is it possible that such a country
as this, can persist —knowingly and wilfully persist—
in such measureless folly, cruelty, and injustice ?
We see so much indolent pertinacity in error—so much

disposition to bow down with uninquiring submission to
the dictation of prejudices assuming the garb of sanctity
and humanity, that we hesitate to reply.
But, at all events, we conclude as we began. We are
glad that Mr. Hurl., disregarding the allurements of
party politics—(we presume he does not expect his
motion to find favour with all on his own side in
Parliament)—disregarding, too, the certain clamour of
the pseudo-philanthropists, has determined to bring
this great national but novel question under public
and Parliamentary discussion. And let him take
courage. There are many to whom his opinions
may not be acceptable, but who think too well of him to
doubt that one only motive could have induced him to
make his contemplated exertion—an honest and irre-
sistible impulse of public duty.

A somewhat irregular statement, on Monday night,
in the House of Lords, by Lord WHARNCLIFFE, on
behalf of Mr. BARRY—apologetic and explanatory
provoked a smart renewal of Lord BROUGHAM'S attack
on the ill-advised architect whom the Learned Lord is
desirous of immortalising as the impersonation of
"delay." It is not Lord BROUGHAM'S custom to slacken
his second fire in an engagement where his adversary
has not retired before his first ; and we cannot con-
gratulate Mr. BARRY on the wisdom of his epistolary
plea put in for him by Lord WHARNCLIFFE, or OR its
successful issue. Better for him to have been content
with his first rough handling than to have challenged a
second, in which the Marquis of CLANRICARDB and
Lord CAMPBELL successively rode in upon him after the
ex-Chancellor. Our readers will perceive that the com-
plaints we have felt it our duty to urge against the con-
duct of Mr. BARRY, and the defence which, on a former
occasion, he attempted to establish for his very inju-
dicious, offensive, and costly departure from the plans
discussed, settled, and determined upon between him-
self and the Lords' Committee charged with the
duty, in conference with a Select Committee of the
House of Commons, to superintend and revise the
erection and decorations of the new Houses of Parlia-
ment, are precisely those which the Peers in question
continue to bring forward whenever accident offers the
opportunity for doing so. On a subject which we felt it
our duty to allude to very recently, in no feeling of dis-
respect for the eminent personage referred to, but with
a strong conviction of the very serious liabilities Mr.
BARRY had incurred, one of the Noble Lords spoke in
very express and remarkable terms. Lord BROUGHAM,
repeating his declaration that Mr. BARRY seems to think
very lightly of the censure or approbation of their Lord-
ships, added that he looked much more to the Commis-
sion on the Fine Arts. This was, the Learned Lord ad-
mitted, a powerful body; but why? Because his Royal
Highness Prince ALBERT was at the head of it. He had
said the same thing, in so many words, on a former even-
ing ; and Mr. BARRY was welcome to put any construc-
tion on them he pleased, when disclaiming, as he now

Madrid journals of the 4th inst. have been received, and
we are glad to find that several of them begin to display
great spirit and a firm determination to resist the arbitrary
proceedings of the Government. The Clamor Public°, the first
that suffered by the, arrest and deportation of two of its
conductors, announces the complete union of all sections of
the Liberal party, and in a tone of just indignation ex-
claims Does the Government think that it is able to
impose silence upon the independent press, and to prevent it
uttering a cry of alarm at the sight of the dangers impending
over the country? A formidable tempest is preparing—may
Gon preserve Spain from the perils which menace her !"
The Espectador warns the adherents of ESPARTEIZO that a
plot is laid against them, and that emissaries have been sent
forth to get up a manifestation in order to crush the friends
of the QUEEN and Constitution.
The Funds still remain depressed, but the Herald°, a
Ministerial paper, asserts that the fall has been caused, not
so much by political events, as by a combination tf
capitalists. " Many persons," says that journal of the 4th,
" believed that the Three per Cents. would this day have
fallen to 30. However languishing they were at the opening
of the Bourse, they recovered towards the close a certain de-
t;ree of firmness ; they were demanded at 60 days, and there
we're few sellers at this date. We do not mean to insinuate
that a rise in these funds may soon be expected, but every-
thing mends to prove that the actual depreciation is owing
to a corn bination of capitalists, upon which political events
have not ,I)een without influence. As it is impossible that
paper, the interest of which is religiously paid, can remain atv
the actual prisp we feel justified in believing that sooner or
later a rise must take place." The Gazette publishes a bul-
letin, dated Valen,lia, the Ist inst., and signed by NARVAEZ,
announcing that the' QUEEN was to leave that place on the
2d, and sleep at Castdlon de la Plana, and proceed next day
for Barcelona. A rumitir prevailed at Madrid that some
serious disturbance was a:iticipated in that city on the ar-
rival of the Court.

The Three per Cents. closed at 31i for cash, and 32i at
60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 22 at 60 days; the Pro•
visional Debt, at 7:4 at 60 days; an,rl the Vales at 9 for cash,

In the French Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, Admiral
MAcKnu, the Minister of Marine, present ed a Bill for increas-
ing the navy and maintaining twenty-six- vessels of war on
the coast of Africa, in virtue of the treaty concluded at Lon-
don between France and England for the suppression of the
slave .trade. This announcement excited a gel, oral move-
ment of satisfaction, and immediately afterwards M. GUIZOT
entered the Chamber, and took his seat for the firet time
after his illness. Many Members crowded round him, and
offered their congratulations on his recovery. The scenel.'as
heightened a little by the gratifying announcement made 13)"
the gallant Admiral, who at the same time presented a copy
of the convention, and the instructions prepared for the officers
who are to command the fleet on the African coast. M,
TRIERS took the opportunity of putting a question to the
Minister of Justice relative to a resolution adopted by the
Chamber, for carrying into effect the laws against the Je-
suits, and wished to know whether any steps had been taken
in accordance with the wishes of the Chamber. The Minis-
ter M. MARTIN (du Nord) said no new proceedings had
taken place which called upon the Government to enforce
the law, but he was aware of the importance of the subject,
and the Government would be prepared to act, should cir
cumstances arise, calling for their interference. The discus-
sion on the Budget was then resumed, and on the clause rela-
tive to the maintenance of the clergy being read, M. Dunces
complained of the number of congregrations established in
various parts of France. The Minister of Justice said the
Government had a return of all those establishments, and
were prepared to suppress those who had not complied with the
laws for the institution of religious establishments. The con-
version of the Five per Cent. Stock was adverted to by MM.
BINEAU and CREMIEUX, and a motion made to the effect,
that as the Finance Minister had refused to give any distinct
pledge that he would present a Bill to that effect next
session, the question be referred to the Budget Committee.
A division tock place, when there were for the motion 134,
and against it 143 ; so that it was rejected br a niajority of
only 9. This may be regarded as decisive proof that the
conversion will take place next session.
The clause fixing the estimates for the foreign department
next came under discussion. M. BILLAUI.T began the de-
bate, and in the course of his speech roamed over Switzer-
land, Belgium, Spain, Syria, Morocco, Greece, and Texas.
M. GUIZOT, in reply, said he would not treat of all the dif-
ferent questions adverted to by M. BILLAULT, because most
of them had been settled. As to Texas, France had acknow-
ledged its independence, but France had no position in that
country, although she had general interest. Three great
Powers only, viz., England, Spain, and America, had
superior interests in the Texas question. France had no
right to interfere, and he believed the great force of
France to be in the observance of a strict independ-
ence and neutrality in matters that did not regard
them. M. GUIZOT afterwards defended the conduct of
the French Cabinet in Switzerland, and passed to the
Spanish question. Ile maintained that the abdication of Don
CARLOS did not effect in any way the Spanish Government.
The Government had always considered both the interests
and dignity of the country in their foreign, as well as home
policy, and he was certain the Chamber would continue
their confultuce to it.
The Journal des Debate announces that, on the 7th inst.,
the ratifications of the new Convention were concluded in
London, at the Foreign-office, between Count Sr. AULAIRE
and the Earl of ABERDEEN. The Constitutionnel says the
reply to the communications made to the Court of London
respecting Don CARLos arrived on Monday, and gives it in
these words :—" The English Cabinet sees no objection in
granting passports to the Spanish Prince and his family, and
approves the resolution of the French Government to con-
sult the Madrid Cabinet, on the subject, previous to the
adoption of a definitive resolution." It adds, " Consequently
as soon as the intentions of the Government of Queen ISABELLA
are known, passports will be delivered to Don CARLOS for
Rome, wherethe Prince and his family intend to fix their re-
sidence for some time."
The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 30c. ; the New Loan,
at 84f. 45c.; the Five per Cents. at 1221. 40c. ; Orleans Rail-
road Shares 1,225 f. ; Rouen, 1,107 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 820 f.;

The Bill was opposed by Mr. WATSON, Mr. RICARDO,
Mr. ESTCOURT, Sir G. STRICKLAND, Mr. FOSTER, and
Mr. BRIGHT and supported by Mr. AGLIoNBY.
On a division, the second reading:of the Bill was carried
by a majority of 44.
Sir J. Y. BULLER moved the second reading of the
County-rates Bill.
Mr. M. GIBSON objected to the subject being left in the
hands of amateur legislators, and urged the Government
to take it up.
After a few observations from Lord EBRINGTON, Mr,
DARBY, Mr. BROTHERTON, Mr. HENLEY, and Mr. HUME,
Sir J. GRAHAM said that he looked forward to being
able to introduce, at an early period, a measure for
placing the subject of county rates upon a firm and
settled footing.
The Bill was then read a second time.

The House was counted out, at a Quarter after Seven
o'clock, while in Committee on the Smoke Prohibition
Bill.

We have observed, with great satisfaction, that Mr.
Burr, the Member for Gateshead, has given notice that
on Tuesday, the 24th instan, he will ask the House of
Commons to agree to the following resolution :—" That
the course pursued by Great Britain since 1814, for the
suppression of the slave-trade, has been attended by a
large expenditure of the public money, and serious loss of
life to the naval forces of this country, and that it has
not produced any mitigation of the horrors of the
middle passage, nor any diminution of the traffic in
slaves." Mr. BUTT'S resolution stands first on the list
of motions for Tuesday week, and we presume there-
fore it is sure to come under discussion. We are re-
joiced to find that at last somei),leim mrtbpeoroafnPt Parliament
has amlocnt
has been found to bring this highly
neglected subject to the test of public wastingexam theination
we have gone on
Year after year
treasure of Great Britain (as if we really had nothing

E SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. JUNE 12, 1845.

Havre, 888 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 1,0301. ; Basle 273f'. 75c. ;
Spanish Actives, 39% ; Ditto Three per Cents, 42% ; ditto
Passives, 7%.
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The following arc the quotations for the new lines:-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 220 f. premium ; Boulogne, 130 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Montcreau, 47f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), 201.; ditto (Colon), If. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron),
10f. 50c.; Northern line (Lail-lite), 331. 75c, ; ditto (Ito-
samel), Bf. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 101. ;
ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 7f. 50c ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 20f. ; ditto
(Talabot), 41f. 25c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 10f.;
Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 6f. 50c. ; ditto and
Cette (Espeleta), 161. 25c ; Creil and St. Quentin, lf. 50c. ;
Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), llf. 25c; Dijon and Mul-
hausen, 21. 50c.
MARSEILLES, JUNE 6.-Marseilles and Avignon, 1,0451.;
Boulogne, 6401.; Orleans and Bordeaux, 7401. ; Vierzon,
820 f. ; Avignon and Lyons (Talabot), 5381. 75c. ; ditto (Se-
bastiani), 520 f. ; ditto, (Compagnie Meridionale), 507 f. 50c.;
Bordeaux and Cette, 515 f.

SHERIFFS' FUND.—We wish to draw the particular
attention of our readers to an advertisement which ap-
pears in another column, of the first dinner on behalf of
the Sheriffs' Fund, which will be held on Tuesday next,
at the London Tavern, the Duke of Cambridge in the
chair. This excellent charity, the object of which is to
reclaim those who have strayed from the paths of recti-
tude, has paramount claims on the attention of every
Christian philanthropist, for we are told by the highest
authority that " there is more joy in Heaven over one
sinner that repented), than over ninety and nine just
persons that need no repentance."

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)

IN TILE MATTER OF CHARLES CARUS WILSON.-HABEAS CORPUS.

The writ of habeas was granted in this case yesterday. There
was one point, however, reserved for the consideration► of the Court,
and on this point judgment was given this morning by
Mr. Baron ALDERSON, who said there could be no doubt but that
if application were made to a single judge at chambers during the
♦acation, the writ could be made returnable in vacation before such
judge, although it had been issued in term by all the judges sitting
in banco.

CIIIAPMAN P. PURDAY-JUDGMENT RELATIVE TO THE LAW OF COPY.

RIGHT AS REGARDS FOREIGNERS IN THIS COUNTRY.

At the sittings of the Court this morning the Lord Chief Baron
proceeded to give judgment in this case, which was an action
brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, the well.known music
publisher, in Oxford.street, for an alleged infringement and piracy
of the copyright, of which the plaintiff was assignee, of the overture
and other portions of the music in Auber's opera of Fra Diavolo.
The cause h..d been tried, and a verdict given for the plaintiff,
upon which Mr. Jervis, who appeared for the defendant in the
last term, obtained a rule nisi for a nonsuit. That rule had
been ably argued by counsel for both sides, Mr. Jervis
and Mr. Martin. The Lord Chief Baron, in the course
of a most lucid and elaborate judgment, proceeded
to discuss the principal question in the cause, and the general and
common law right, as also the meaning and intentions of the seve-
ral Acts of Parliament relating thereto, particularly the Bth of
Ann and 54th Geo. 111., whether a foreigner who composes or
writes a work, and publishes it in a foreign country, has any right,
either statutable or at common lady, to a copyright publication of
such work so published in a foreign country, and by him subse-
quently published in this country, or in any part of the United
Kingdom, and cited the cases and the arguments and decisions of
the judges in Miller v. Taylor—A'Beckett v. Donaldson—Clementi
and Ward, '2 Barn. and Cress.—Page v. Townsend—D'Almaine v.
Bossey, and the dictum laid down by Lord Brougham and Lord
Abinger, as also the Vice-Chancellor of England in the several
cases brought before them and bearing on the subject. The Chief
Baron concluded his judgment by stating that the Court were
unanimously of opinion that a foreigner who composed or wrote a
work, and published it in a foreign country, was not, either by
the common or statutable law of this country, entitled to a copy.
right of such a work in this country, and entitled to maintain an
action for an alleged infringement or piracy of such work, and that
the plaintiff; being as assignee, was in the same position. The rule
nisi for a nonsuit must, therefore, he made absolute.
The other Judges acquiescing, the rule was made absolute.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff KENNEDY.)
HARDING V.BOURNE.—LOAN SOCIETIES.

The plaintiff in this action is the proprietor of Anderton's Hotel,
Fleet-street, and the representative of a Loan Society. The de-
fendant was a borrower, and the action was brought to recover the
sum of 41. 10s., the balance of a bill of exchange for 151. Proof
was adduced of the loan, and signature to the bill ; but for the
defendant it was urged that this was a Society, although without
a name, and not incorporated by any Act of Parliament, therefore
that the action by one individual, in behalf of the rest, was not
sustainable. It was urged that juries should protect unfortunate
persons who, under the allurements held out by loan societies,
bound themselves to pay extortionate demands; and that they had
been made was proved by the Secretary, who admitted, that al-
though one bill had been paid and the same securities given," hard
cash" was demanded to the amount of 13s. for inquires, besides a
charge of 10 per cent. per annum, and the " rules" charged for
again. The Learned Counsel said that a loan socitty was the short
road to ruin. . . . .

The UNDER-SHERIVF said that some of the points might have
been raised legally by pleas. _ . .

The defendant's COUNSEL said it was competent for the jury to
say whether the sum paid was not sufficlent, the whole 151. not
having been advanced, but " inquiries" deducted, and 10 per
cent. interest, being exorbitant.
The Learned UNDER. SHERIFF thought the matter of fact for the
jury was, whether or not the defendant had " undertaken and pro-
mised to pay" in the manner set forth in the declaration.
The Learned COUNSEL said other actions were pending on the
same Bill. Surely the jury might reduce the damages if they
thought proper—if they saw it was a system of extortion to get costs
over and over again.
The UNDER-SHERIFF said the jury could only consider the issue—
had the defendant made the bill? There were suggestions raised for
a defence and pleas on other grounds, but as the case stood there
appeared to be no difficulty.
The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was rather
active. Sales, 10,000 bales, including 1,000 bales of American
on speculation, and 1,000 bales for exportation.- I'he Share
Market was brisk,with a considerable amount of business doing.
Bandon and Bantry, 9s. 6s. ; Barnsley Junction, 6% 1..; ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 31/4 ; Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction,
10 9% ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 134 ; Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington, 8 Is. 3d. ; Blackburn, Darwen, and
Bolton, 5 ; Belfast and County Down, 395. 425. ; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 17 15124 ; Caledonian, 1114 ; Ditto
Extension, 2% 575. ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 41/.L ./4 ; Cam-
bridge and Oxford, 6s. 6d. Bs. ; Chester and Birkenhead, 601/
65 ; New Shares, 58 ; Half Shares, 30%; Churnet Valley,
5%; Clitheroe Junction, 214 6s. ; Clydesdale Junction, 8% ;
Cork and Bandon, 8% ; Coventry and Nuneaton, 4; Dublin
and Belfast Junction, 103/ ; Dundee and Perth, 3%; Dublin,
Mullingar, and Athlone, 4%; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 51/s ;
Eastern Counties, New Shares, 10% % ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 67 ; Edinburgh and Northern, 2 ; Ely and Bedford,
21/ ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 16s. 15s. ; Glasgow, Paisley,
and Greenock, 161 ; Half Shares, 814 ; Grand Junction,
Eighth Shares, 203/4 1/2 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3%;
Great Western, 210 209; Goole and Doncaster, 265.; Hud-
dersfield Canal and Railway, 614 ; Hull and Selby, Half
Shares, 2316 ; Inverness and Elgin, 114 ; Inverness and
Perth, 2 1/8 ; Licester and Birmingham, 18s. 16s. ; Limerick
and Waterford, 81 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares,
40 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% ; London and
Birmingham, 241; Ditto, 321. Shares, 461 ; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 34% ; London and Brighton, 69 %; London and
Croydon, Third Shares, 7 ls. 6d. ; Londonderry and Coleraine,
4% Bs. 6d. ; London and York, 4% 1/4; Direct Northern, 3%;
Leeds and Bradford, 473/4 ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 8% 9 ;
Leeds and Thirsk, 6% 9 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
7 % ; Manchester and Leeds, 168 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 75
76 ; Matlock and Midland, 51/4 1/8 ; Midland Railway, 182 ;
Ditto, 401. Shares, 261,4 114 ; Newcastle and Berwick, 17% ;
Newry and Enniskillen, 5% Is. 3d. ; North British, Half
Shares, 5% ; North Union (A), 157 ; Ditto (B), 881/2 ;
North Wales Mineral, 15% ; Ditto, New Shares, 5%; North
Western, 44% ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton,
5% % ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 15% ;
;Sheffield and Lincoln, 21,4 2; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire,
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 4% 1/4 ; South-
Eastt.7 and Dover, 461,E % ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 1, 184 ;
Ditto, NT.,:w Shares. No. 2,161 j; 17 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3,
1/,2 T,•ent Valley Continuation, 245. 235. 6d. ; Ulster, 50 ;
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 171/2 ; Welsh Midland,
4%; West YoOkshire, 375. ; Worcester and Tring, 48s. 6d.
51. 3d. ; York an,:.l Carlisle, 235. 11/3 ; Central of Spain,
' 4s. • Oreans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 10% ; Paris and Lyons
(Laflitte's), 60s. 595. ; Ditto (Ganneron's), 2% 565. 6d. ;
Verona and Ancona, 2% 21/1.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 11.-The sales are
-Barnsley Junction, 6%; Ditto, half Shares, 31%; Black-
burn, Burnley, and Accrington, 8% ; Blackburn, Clithero,
and North -Western Junction, 1% prem. ; Blackburn, Dar-
wen, and Bolton, 4% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 141%
% ; Caledonian, 11 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 44 1A; Cli
theroe Junction, 31/ ; Direct Northern, 31/2 ; Ely and Bed-
ford, 21 ' • Erewash Valley, '23 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 15s.
14s. ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 6%
; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 51/ 3/4 ; Leeds and
Thirsk, 6%; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 9 1-16 9 ;
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 8 71/g ; Leicester and Bir-
mingham, 1% 15.16 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
2% ' • London, Worcester, Oxford, and Rugby, 2%; London
and York, 4y,, %; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 16%;
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 51/4 ; Manches-
ter and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction_, ;
Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 25 ; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 314 ; Newcastle and Ber-
wick, 17% ; North British, New Shares, 6%; North Staf-
fordshire, 4% %; North Western, 41/8 ; Preston and Wyre,
5 per cent. guaranteed and dividends, 53 ; Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire Junction, 2 ex new; Shrewsbury, Herefordshire,
and North Wales, 16s. 6d. 20s. prem. ; Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union, 2% ; South-Eastern and Dover, 46% ;
Ditto, No. I, 18 ; Ditto, No. 3, 81/4 ; Trent Valley Continua-
tion and llolyhead Junction, 2% ; Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole, 14% ; Welsh Midland, 4 ; West Yorkshire, 2 1% ;
Whitehaven and Furness, 2 15-16; York and Carlisle, 11A
prem.
This being the grand day at Ascot, a great number of the
most influential members of the Stock Exchange are absent,
and very little business has been done in the Public Securities,
or in other branches of City trade. We quote Consols at 99
to 99%, and Reduced Annuities at 991/3 /I. There has been
scarcely any business transacted in the other Public Secu-
rities, but Exchequer-bills have varied from 59s to 61s prem.
Bank Stock is lower by one per cent., having been done
at 211.

In the Foreign Market a very limited business has been
transacted to. day. A transfer has been made in Austrian
Five per Cents. 15 per cent. above par. Spanish Consols,
after touching 291/s, have receded to 28%. The other quota-
tions have been so slight as not to require notice.
The old lines of railway are rapidly rising in value. As an
instance, the London and Birmingham have touched 147
premium.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock

~ 212 211

3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 991414
New 314 per Cent. Annuties
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 ll 7-16
India Bonds 1,0001 74 72
Ditto under 1.0001 74 72
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. 11hd.
1,0001.
5001.
_ _

Ditto Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ll5
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.... 43
Columbian Bonds. 16%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred Stock .. 20%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1843 —
Ditto for the Account 28% 29% XBl
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1841 k.614