The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-09 00:00:00

AN ANTI-POOR-LAW TOP-KNOT.

" It's a pity 'tis pass'd, that pauper wo !
So rife with murder, poisonings, hearts broke—rack !
Authors of England why are ye so slow ?
Gentlemen of England why are ye so slack ?
Awake ! arise ! expose ! ward off the blow,
Ere yet it comes down thundering on your back—
Let its cruelties continue, and grow like weeds,
And, I can only say, look to your title-deeds."
We thus take leave of Mr. Baxter, and seize this
opportunity of expressing great regret that his valua-
ble work had so long escaped the notice it deserved.
It lay all but a " sealed book," among many others of
a very different kind which had been duly honoured,
and might have remained there for months had not
our attention been roused by a short, but powerful
letter which only such a writer could indite. May
he be rewarded for his labours ! "Macte nova virtute,
peer, sic itur ad astra."

FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS. Part 12.
Virtue, London, 1842.
A new edition, in cheap monthly parts, of a work
once highly popular, but scarcely worthy of republica-
tion, from its uniformly painful, and even repulsive
character.

CARPMA EL ON THE LAW OF PATENTS
The best panegyric on Mr. Carpmael's hook ap-
pears on his own frontispiece, whereby the public
demand for his work has already caused it to arrive
at a third edition. The branch of law on which it
treats, unsatisfactory and insecure as it was of late
years, has by more recent decisions in our law and
equity courts, assumed validity and importance, as-
suring security, protection, and recompense to the
ingenuity of inventors. Twenty-one years appear to
have been the original term granted to patentees by
the Crown, as an exclusive privilege for their origi-
nation of new manufactures ; but, after the reign of
James 1., this term was abridged to fourteen years,
is consequence of abuses. By 'careful specification
and right entitlement now, there can he no liability
of failure on the part of patentees at present. The
dictum of Lord Tenterden set the honourable quali-
fications of the patentee in their true light ; " the,
man," said his Lordship, " who makes an experiment
with a new material that is successful, though it is for
a purpose that is old, though it be with a view to pro-
duce that which has been produced before, is entitled
to the protection of the Crown and to the thanks of
the public." To the recommendation that a com-
mission of scientific persons should ordinarily from

'.judge and jury for the adjudication of patent rights,
:‘Tr. stak,,a "`.etion P7.fir
colourable ; he also apprises his readers of a recent
decision, by which an inventor, intending to take
patents in England, Scotland, and Ireland, must have
them all sealed before putting the invention into public
use, and before enrolling the specification in either
country ; so that an invention, being in public use in
England before the sealing of a patent in Scotland,
renders the Scotch patent void ;—of this patentees
will make due observance. In conclusion, we have
to advise Mr. Carpmael's book as one highly valuable
to all more or less interested in patents.

REGISTRATION OF DESIGNS, IN ORDER
TO SECURE COPYRIGHTS.
The object of this sixpenny pamphlet is to elucidate
the sections of the last and preceding Parliamentary
Acts relative to the registration of designs ; and it
carries out its purport in a commendable and twofold
manner by pointing out not only the true and un-
mistakeable sense of their divers clauses, but also the
erroneous constructions which have been put upon
them, thereby to guard against untoward repetition,
or committal of the same.