The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-09 00:00:00

COPYRIGHT.

Mr. GODSON said he would not occupy the House for any
length of time with regard to the Bill relating to the copyright
of books, of which he had given notice. lie. did not intend his
Bill should apply to the extension of the copyright, but its object
was to secure the property in copyright which already subsisted,
by having all copyrights registered in the Court of Chancery, the
assignments of them, and any mortgage, upon them, in order
to facilitate lawsuits, and to know in whom the copyright was
vested. He intended his Bill should render property more se-
cure, and the public would be also benefited' by knowing in
whom the copyright subsisted. He wished it to be understood
that he did not mean to interfere with any Member who might
be desirous of bringing forward a Bill for the extension of
copyright. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving for
leave to bring in a Bill for the better securing the property in
the copyright of books.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL seconded the motion.
Mr. COCHRANE. proposed as an amendment, the intro-
duction of a proviso to facilitate the extension of copyright.
—( as we understood). •

Mr. WA KLEY said, if the Bill was framed upon the
same principle as that of the last Parliament, he should give it
his opposition. He thought those authors who were possessed
of talent were amply reward, d, and those who were not
possessed of talent ought to remain a 3 they were.
Mr. GODSON said the present Bill was to define the pro-
pert y of authors in their works.
COcHtIANE said he hoped the Hon. and Learned
Member would name an early day to bring the Bill before
the House.

Mr. GODSON said he shonld bring the Bill in directly, as
he had it.ready,to do so.
Leave was given to, bring in the Bill.
MUNICIPAL REGULATION BILL.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL rose to m.,ve for leave to
bring in a Bill to explain the Municipal Regulation Act.
There was a clause in the Act which precluded persons
holding leases of land in boroughs from sitting in corpora-
tions, and provided that every person so sitting in such
corporation was liable to a penalty every time he took his seat.
He Lad called the attention of her Majesty's Government to the
subject, and the answer given by the then Attorney-Genera
was, that he ( Sir F. Pcllock) need be under no apprehensions
as to the operation of the 13th. Unfortunately, a case had lately
occurred its the Court of Queen's Bench, by which the clause
he had referred to had been put in operation, and by which a
member of a Town Council had been incapacitated from taking
his seat. It was, therefore, the object of this Bill to remedy
that evil.

Mr. JARVIS fully concurred in the object of the Bill.
Leave was given to bring in the Bill.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved f,,r leave to bring
in a Bill to allow of a 'vvrit of error in any case of a judgment
of the Court of Queen's Bench upon an application for a
mandamus. The forms of the. Queen's Bench admitted this
in some cases, and there was no reason why,. on principle, it
should not be extended to other cases.—Leave was given.
Dr. BOWRING, in the absence of Mr. Hawes, moved for
a statement of the quantity of sugar, distinguishing that im-
ported from the British West Indies, the Mauritius, the British
possessions in-India, and from foreign countries, upon which
duty W 3,4 paid in each month, from January, 1831, to Decem-
ber, 1841, both inclusive. Also the average price of British
Plantation Sugar, as advertised in the London Gazette, in
each month during the above period. Also, a statement of
the population of the United Kingdom in 1831 and 1841, and
for each of the intermediate years, assigning one-tenth of the
increase between these years as the annual increase.-.-Ordered.
Sir G. CLERK moved that Mr. William -Williams -be
added to the Select Committee on Public retitioni.i i
Mr. WA KLEY seconded the motion.; :and. In-doing so he
sincerely wished that every man in that House could claim-to be
as good a Radical as Mr. Williams was.—Ordered.
COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.

On the motion for the House going into a Committee of
Supply,
at any length into the
Mr. WAKLEY rose and said he took that fitting opportu-
country.
nity to enter his protest—his solemn and serious protest—
against the mode in which the Queen's Speech hadbeen framed
in the present Session, and for some years past. He would-not
detain the House by ping
subject, but he did think that the manner in which
Latterly
that Speech was framed was unbecoming the character
of that House, and was inconsistent with the power,
the dignity, and the interests. of the
excuse for adopting that mode, and upon which the House was
unanimous. lii consequence of our young and beauteous Queen
the commencement of every session had brought with it
some
coming to the Throne, it was considered ed ont that occasion that
no difference of opinion should exist
asi. to he
Q: , ,
that
the out
the utmost 'imam nity should prFnt. Ih. came another
event—the marriage of this beautiful young tads—d nothing
could be a greater blessing to the House than unanimity nn
that occasion. 'then came the results of that results . at marriage.—
(Laughter. ) First, they had . Yrbincess, and now they
had a Pi ince, and it was incuom e nt°
n the House
blessings, and he was
fully aware that the feelings of the House on that occasion
to express its gratitude for these
the
were the feelings of the country. But on occasions of this sort
Speech
when the Commons of England were assembled for the pur-
pose of promoting the public interest,
ho did think it was
_,,,fit-
ting—he thought it was the duty of the. framers of the
—that such expressions should be introduced in the Speech
from the time e, and made to that House, as would be
worthy the attention of the world, and command for that Hoeft
the respect and admiration of a large portion of the universe.
Instead of that, the Speeches year after year were
genera i
made up of unmeaning 1 ies .
They could
not put a finger upon any part t
that was worthy
of that House. After the House had heard the Speech,
the House adopted an Address the echo of the Speech, and he
thought nothing could be worse planned than the Speech and
did n
Address of the present Session. He not say the present
Government was worse than the preceding 1
one, but tfuring the
late Administration the present Government
~., was liberal enough
of their condemnation of the former Government, and yet,
when they, the present Government, came into power them-
selves, they adopted the precise course of their predecessors.
Now he (Mr. Wakley) wanted to see an improvement, he de- •
sired to see some change, some alteration ; not to go en, ear
after year, in expressions of unmeaning generality ies,
making the speech from the Throne . - thing to be
laughed at, instead of being a State digenwnt to be
respected and admired. The liiglit Hoilktrable "Pt
4, rout, the
First Lord of the Treasury, had given notice at the
opening
of the Session, of his intention of snaking an exposition of his
views. He (Mr. Wakley) recollected that, at the close of last