The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-03 00:00:00

TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

My Lord Duke,—Pray excu.e this intrusion on your
time and attention. Your Grace can, and I doubt not
will, appreciate an effort of he nest, though it may seem to
you mistaken zeal ; and, if the circumstances of the case
do not plead my apology, I should in vain attempt to
make one with words.

My Lord, the fate of your country is once more placed
in your hands; and for more permanent good or evil, I
sincerely believe, in June, 1345, than it was in June,
1815. 1 feel assured that you have not taken your pre-
sent position without what seemed to you good and suffi-
cient reasons. Still, it is not derogatory to even your
Grace's sagacity to re-examine your position before it is
too late. Perhaps it may be strengthened ; perhaps it
ought in some p,in's to be changed. Your Grace is a
straightforward, unprejudiced men. not to be deceived by
mere talk, however plausible, and not willing to shut
your eyes or ears against good sound sense, though pre-
sented in a homely garb or from an obscure individual.
The notice of Lord Roden for Monday evening contains
a fair and frank request. lie proposes the suspension of
the dismission on the Maynooth Endowment Bill until a
committee of the House of Lords shall have inquired into
and reported upon the course of education which the state
is about to endow. He oujecs to so important a step
being taken in the dark. He objects to public money be-
ing voted away for purposes of which the public are kept
in ignorance This is businesslike, and will meet with
your Grace's approbation. It is, in fact, very like one of
your own plain point blank movements. Are we going to
pay £26,000, and to bind ourselvr s to pay the like sum
annually! Then, clearly we audit to know what for.
Can any really sound objection be offered to this?
Your Grace ie fully aware that it cannot with fairness
or truth be urged that a sufficient inquiry has already
been made. It is. ii.deed, true that an official return has
been made of the class-books used in the College of May-
nooth (a most valuable preliminary to the proposed in-
quiry), but no adequate investigation of their contents has
ever been ordered by the British Parliament.
Your Grace is a man of too much experience to doubt
for a moment that, on a subject involving alike the public
morals and national allegiance of so large a class of our
fellow-subjects, it is the duty of the government to proceed
with cautien, and not to pledge the state to the support,
by public money, of wie:t may possibly, on further inquiry,
be discovered to be prejudicial to the public good. Omit-
ting for the present, all other matters, it is alleged, and
I think can be proved, that doctrines subversive of the
British monarchy are inculcated in the class-books of
Maynooth as laws which it is reeresented to be the reli-
gious duty of the Roman Catholics of Ireland to obey, as
soon as they c tn acquire the power to do so.
Your Grace cannot be insensible to the startling fact,
that within the la4t few weeks above 1,200,000 of the adult
male pupal vine of this kingdom have recorded (in peti-
tions to the House of Commons) their conviction that the
contents of the Meynooth class books are evil. Are all
these pwitioziers mistaken ? It so—if the impression on
which thee have acted, and by which atey are still very
powerfully influenced, be indeed an erroneous one, how-
ever prevalent, surely the friends and favourers of the
College of Meynooth, instead of resisting, ought to be the
most zealous in forwarding an inquiry : instead of resenting
it as in any degree detracting from the grace of the con-
cession, as Roman Catholics trey ought to hail it as a
boon, becete,e its result would be their most triumphant
vindication; and as patriots, they ought to urge it as a
duty, because its result would allay the apprehensions and
tranquill ze the minds of their excited fellow-subjects.
Is it too much, then, to expect from your Grace's mag-
nanimity and f tirnees, that, instead of availing yourself
of a ready mej.,ri'v to reject so reasonable a proposal,
Von will accede to Lord Roden's motion, and thus con-
vince the couirtry that her Majesty's Government, though
possessed at present of a giate.'s strengtb, is not disposed
to use it as a giant, but rather as an honest Englishman,
who is not expected to pay his money year after year
without knowing to what purposes it is applied, especially
when many of his most respectable and best informed
neighbours assure him that it is applied to purposes evil
in themselves and dangerous to his welfare and the pros-
perity of his family ?
All eves will be fixed on your Grace on Monday even-
ing. You can sway the house in this matter like a mar-
shalled la' st on the battle-field. Give but the word, and
no aporeheneion of a change r.l Ministers, no fears for
agricultural protection, will produce even a murmur
mongst your best friends and supporters. Will you
then, my Lord, afford the country satisfaction on this
important subject ? or will you, by pleading the sup-
posed state nec ssity at all hazards, reject a proposal
which need occasion but a brief delay if your cause be
righteous, and which cannot lead to a final defeat, unless
your cause be proved to be such as you ought not to ad-
vocate ?

The supposed state n tcessity is rap'dly advancing to
an agg•avated state embarrassment. The integrity of the
British Empire and the Protestantism of the British
Crown must be, maintained in any event. Your Grace
will say so, and wilt your accustomed emphasis. If,
then, there be persons accused of systematic and pledged
hostility to that Protestantism, I venture, with unfeigned
respect, to ask, is it wise, is it politic. is it right in the
British government, without any public investigation of
the charge, to invest those persons with increasing powers ;
to animate them by fresh encouragements; to proceed
with what may prove a serious aggravation of the evil ;
and thus eventually to involve the country in a struggle
incalculably more dreadful than anything to be appre-
hended now, I say not from inquiry only, but even from
detection of the suspected danger, if it really exist, and
consequent resistance to its progress ?
My Lord Duke, your Grace's responsibility on Monday
evening is one of the most overwhelming character. May
Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, direct your
decision, and overrule its results, immediate and remote,
to the advancement of His own glory, the good of his
church militant here on earth, and the safety, honour, and
welfare of our aivereign arid her dominions.
Who I am that have ventured thus to address your
Grace is a question not worth answering, or even asking.
The question is, have I said anythirrs worthy of your
Grace's attention? But, as I disapprove of anonymous
letters—as lam conscientiously persuaded that the ques-
tio❑ at issue involves the great and sacred principles to
which I, as a clergyman of the Church of England, am
solemnly pledged, and as I do not feel that I need be in
any respect afraid or ashamed of a respectful appeal to
your Grace in the present crisis, I have the honour to
subscribe myself
Your Grace's faithful and obedient servant,
Liverpool, May 30. H UG El 111'N EI LE.

The ministry of Sir Robert Peel is at length pre-
cisely in the position which an apostate from party
and from principle ought ever to occupy. The
Premier himself, moreover, has arrived at a know-
ledge of such position. He feels, and during
Wednesday night's debate acknowledged the fact,
that althntigh cetioniAhly wielding the power of go-
vernment, he is of himself powerless. He has the
confidence of neither of the great parties in the legis-
lature or in the country ; and that whether in his
policy he turn to the right or to the left, he earns
the hatred of the one party without any .counterba-
lancing love or respect from the other.
Humiliating as such a position must be ac-
knowledged to be to any sensitive mind, it must
have been additionally galling to the right honour-
able baronet to be twitted before the assembled
House of Comtnons by the leader of the Opposi-
tion, Lord John Russell, with the fact that he is
only used as an instrument to carry out Whig mea-
sures, and that he is distrusted by those who use
him : that he is regarded only as the betrayer of a
place of strength confided to him for defence is re-
garded by the enemy who profit by his betrayal.
Let Sir Robert Peel contemplate his position, as
thus painted by Lord John on Wednesday :
" As Sir Robert Peel had himself adverted to that sub-
ject, he would be frank, and inform him at once, that he
(Sir R. Peel) ha.l not gained his (Lord John Russell's)
confidence. He disagreed with Sir John Tyrell, when he
said that the introduction of the tariff and the existing
Corn-law had been injurious to the farmer; but when the
honour.ble baronet went on to assert that he had been
taught by ministers, when in opposition, to expect that
they would be in favour of protection and against free
trade, he was prepared to contend that Sir John Tyrell
was perfectly justified in such an assertion. At the same
time, he would add, that if Sir John Tyrell were to pro-
nose a vote of a want of confidence in tier Majesty's mi-
nisters, he would Pot support it ; for what he had now to
consider was bow he could best carry the measures which
he deemed conformable to his own principles. If he and
his friends were to propose measures similar to those now
proposed by Sir R. Peel and his colleagues in the govern.

rnent, he knew that they would he opposed by Sir J.
Tyrell arid many of the gentlemen who were now in office.
He, therefore, thought that the best mode of carrying out
his own principles would be by opposing Sir J. tyrell on
any such motion, and by leaving mPasures founded on his
principles to be proposed and carried by the party now
in power. There could be no doubt that Whig princi-
ples were better cap ried out at the present moment by the
opponents of the Whigl, than they could be by the Whigs
themselves.

This is certainly stated clearly enough, and it
ought to be intelligible to the constituencies of the
empire as well as to the minister. Those consti-
tuencies bargained for a Conservative government.
They struggled through years of difficu!ty for that
object. And they have got in its stead a Whig go-
vernment, and SOMETHING MORE. We ought to
thank his lordship for his candour.

The news by the Ilibernia steamer may be re-
garded as of a pacific and satisfactory character.
The war mania has in a great measure subsided.
America has discovered that she has vast interests
depending upon the preservation of peace; and she
is therefore anxious to have the questions between
herself and this country settled by an amicable ne-
gotiation, to forward which, it is said that Mr. Cal-
houn will be despatched on a special mission to the
British court, with very full powers and even per-
mission to make some small concessions to effect so
desirable a consummation. So far, then, all is well ;
and if the intelligent and honest portion of the Ame-
rican people is to have a voice in deciding the mat-
ter, all will remain well. On the contrary, if the
ultra-democratic classes of America gain the ascen-
dant, we are not at all so confident that peace be-
tween the two countries can be preserved. If nego-
tiation is to be any thing better on the part of the
American government than a mere subterfuge to
gain time for the preparation of other and more vio-
lent measures, we must see much of the insolent
pretensions with which the question at issue is now
treated by the American people, and even by the
press of the American government, materially
abated. Great Britain cannot consent to negotiate
at all with an envoy who, we are told, is to hold in
one hand " a broad. and comprehensive icommercial
treaty," of American dictation, with a very " small
portion of the Oregon territory," and in the other, as
the result of our refusal to accept an offer so com-
plaisant, a declaration of war. If anything like these
are to be Mr. Calhoun's instructions, he had much
better stay at home.

Whilst the government of this Protestant coun-
try is actively engaged in endowing and assisting to
strengthen the position of the Church of Rome in
the British Empire, it may be interesting to examine
what is the position of that Church throughout the
world. Is Rome extending her boundaries, or is
she retrogading in influence and in the numbers of
her followers ? We believe she is retrogading ; and
that at this very moment she is tottering to her fall.
In France the conflict between the University and
the Church threatens to inflict upon the latter irre-
parable injury; and the first popular movement
which shall arise to unsettle the Orleans dynasty
must inevitably destroy all traces of an establishment
in that country. And whilst the Church there is
thus menaced by infidelity, another encroachment
upon her privileges and po.ver is silently being made
by the rapid spread of the principles of the Reforma-
tion. Philosophy on the one hand, and the truth of
the Bible on the other, aft working her overthrow.
In Switzerland the Jesuits, ever busy when Rome has
great objects to achieve, or isin great emergency, have
brought upon themselves the popular indignation. In
the United States Romanism has arrayed against it
the fierce hate of democracy ; and even in its very
strongholds, Spain, Portugal, and Italy itself, the
light is slowly, but surely, breaking in, and its
haughty pretensions are being scrutinized, and are
only submitted to with murmured dislike.
In Germany we see commencing a new religious
movement, which threatens to produce results re-
sembling those which followed the exertions of
Luther and Calvin. From within her own pale a
Reformer has sprung up, M. Ronge, and has re-
ceived powerful support from large and influential
members of his co-religionists. More than one
sovereign is already arrayed with him in the prose-
cution of the objects of which he is in search, the
principal of which is the freedom of the German
Catholic Church from the power and the interference
of the papal see. In addition to this emancipation,
the Reformers seek to abolish the use of the Latin
language in their church ; to do away with the con-
fessional ; to permit the marriage of the clergy, and
to withdraw all restrictions on the marriage of indi-
viduals of different religions :
"This reformer (writes the Paris Constitutional,) ap-
peals at the same time to Catholics and Protestants. To
the former he offers a religion, in his opinion, more easy,
freed from auricular confession, augmented by the marriage
of priests, and relieved of many other regulations. To the
Protestants, M. Ronge presents a form of worship more
apparent than their own, and appealing more to the senses ;
he offers them in addition, he says, a certain unity
which would put an end to the differences now giving
birth to the innumerable sects that at present split Pro-
testantism into pieces. Thus recruits are found in both
camps. Protestants and Catholics place themselves under
the banner of M. Ronge; and his standard-bearer, M.
Czersky, another fugitive from the Catholic Church,
serves him with effect in his conquests. The inferior clef ay
are more particularly appealed to, and in various districts
they seize on the opportunity of escaping from the yoke
of authority and discipline. The movement is propa-
gated throughout all Germany, and it is even penetrating
into Austria, notwithstanding the precautions taken by
the Government to arrest its progress. The Austrian
journals are forbidden to mention the name of M. Ronge
and bis adherents; the police and the censorship aid each
other to crush the new doctrine in the bud. The King of
Hanover prosecutes it as anti-monarchial, and the King
of Bavaria as communist. The German Catholics of
Saxony have addressed a protest to the Minister of Wor-
ship, and call on the Saxon government to ask Bavaria
for explanations on the Pleasure which sbe proposes
taking; and they defy the Bavarian government to find a
trace of communism in their doctrines. In his last dis.
course, Cz-rsky has given his partisans notice to prepare
for persecution. It appears, in fact, that Austria intends
proposing to the Diet severe measures. In other places,
(Prussia, Saxony, and other states of the German confe-
deration) the temporal power has shown itself indulgent."
Against these significant evidences of decline we
have only to set the partial success of her desultory
efforts to extend her power in distant regions—in
India andsi,China, and even in less civilized and
wealthy lands. The limbs of the system are length-
ening, but the heart and the entire body is dis-
ordered.

In this crisis of her position Rome turns her
anxious eye to Great Britain for strength. She
clutchei Ireland with one hand, whilst with the
other she throws her baits into England herself;
and she is aided in her efforts and caressed with
fondness by a government calling itself Protestant.
But is she secure even here ? Are the gigantic
efforts she is making for the subversion of the Bri-
tish empire to her yoke the promptness of vigour-
ous health and superabundant vitality, or are they
the violent convulsions of conscious decay? We
maintain that they are the latter. We say give
Protestantism a fair stage and no favour, and even
in Ireland the fate of Rome is sealed. Abstain
from propping up the tottering fabric of her
power; above all, give protection to those who
abjure her errors, and the truth must speedily
triumph. We may refer to an extract in another
column, from the Dublin University Mayazine for
this month, in support of these statements.
Whilst upon this subject, we may mention that a
public meeting will be held in this town on Tuesday
evening week, the 17th inst., when a number of
distinguished foreigners will detail the wide-spread
and increasing separations from the Church of Rome
which are at present taking place in France, Ger-
many, and other portions of the European continent.

The memorial presented by the Roman Catholic
bishops of Ireland, conveying their objections to
the government scheme of academical education,
contains amongst its immodest demands one decla-
ration which ought to be instructive to the states-
men and the people of this country, as sheaving that
Popery and the free and full spread of enlighten-
ment are regarded by Romc herself as incompatible.
It is not the unmutilated Word of God alone which
she fears to see placed in the hands of her followers.
It is not religious truth alone which she wishes to
tamper with at its fountain, and mingle with her
own fables, but every kind of knowledge, by which
the reasoning powers can he aided and invigorated,
and correct views of man's nature, and of the laws
of mind and matter, conveyed to man. Here is the
confession of Romanism that it cannot bear the light,
as stated broadly by her prelates, whose memorial,
amongst other things, humbly sheweth :
" That the Roman Catholic pupils could not attend the
lectures on history, logic, metaphysics, moral philosophy,
geology, or anatomy, without exposing their faith or mo-
rals to imminent danger, unless a Romati Catholic pro-
fessor will be appointed for each of those chairs."

" History," " logic," " metaphysics," " moral phi-
losophy," " geology," " anatomy" ! These, studies

one would imagine common to all sects and classes
in an enlightened age, Rome would permit to be
doled out to her enslaved followers only in homoeo-
pathic doses, or diluted, under the watchful super-
intendence of Roman Catholic professors. There is
imminent danger" to Popery in her youth being
admitted to a knowledge of the world's annals or the
world's structure. There is " imminent danger to
faith and morals" in logic, metaphysics, anatomy,
and moral philosophy ! Well may we exclaim,
What a faith must that be, which is thus sedulous
to shut out the truth, and dare not contemplate, ex-
cept through a darkened glass and in a tortured
form, either the records of history, or the beauties
and the wonders of creation itself—which dare not
either inform or elevate the mind of its believers !
Who can say, with this unblushing confession be-
fore them, that Romanism is changed ? We see
here the very spirit which struggled through the
dark ages to repress the free and unfettered spread
of knowledge--which denounced the early printers,
and even in later days has trampled on the press, in
whatever country it has exercised supremacy.

When the arch-agitator of Ireland asked for the
erection of " Normal Schools of Agitation" in Ire-
land by the agency of the Whig Municipal Reform
Bill, he expected, no doubt, to find these bodies
useful and subservient allies ; and as such they have
proved and are proving themselves. He didn't ex-
pect town-councillors to be either gentlemen or re-
flecting beings—patterns of politeness or of wisdom.
But we much question whether he anticipated these
negative qualities in such an excess as they have just
been di: played in the Town Council of Sligo. We
give a few extracts, as specimens of the qualities of
a Sligo Town Councillor, from the proceedings of a
meeting of that body held last week. The vestion
before them is the adoption of a petition for an assi-
milation of the Municipal Laws of England and
Ireland :
Loquitur his Worship the Mayor.—" They wanted to
blacken our popular member, and bring in some per-
son that would more freely minister to the mercenary
cravings of certain persons."
Council/or Verdon.—" You and your party got more
than any others. Poor men refused to vote against Mr.
Somers, thoudi offered £5O to do so; but Mr. Andrew
Walker would not give him a vote without receiving a
bribe of £l2O a-year."

Alderman Walker —"You made Mr. Somers pay more
dearly than any man in Sligo; having become your se li-
rity to a tea company in London, by which he suffered to
a large amount, you having become insolvent. The Messrs.
Madden and others got government situations for their
friends previous to my having obtained one."
Councillor Verdon.—" Your conduct has been base all
through." &c., &c.

Pleasant constituents the member for Sligo must
have if these pay thriots be a fair sample ! But pro-
ceed. The question is, that a deputation be sent
from the Town Council to attend O'Connell's levee
in Dublin ; and, after some discussion as to how
robes to go in were to be got,

Councillor Verdon says,—" Then I meet your resolu-
tion with a direct negative:"

Mayor.—" I am a member of the Repeal Association ;
you are not." _ _

Councillor Verdon.—
prietor."
Mayor.—" You never paid a guineas to O'Connell in
your life. Even your expenses to Dublin were always
old."

•" Because I am a newspaper pro-

Councillor Verdon.—" We will remove the mask from
pseudo repeaters. To send you to Dublin would be only
a mockery and a delusion."

Councillor Henry.—" You were a pretty repealer, Ver-
don, when you wore an orange lily in your breast through
the streets of B dlina."
Councillor Verdon.—" You are a I—r."
Councillor Henr✓.—" You are a scoundrel and a I—r."
Councillor Verdon.—" You dare not use such language
to me, only you know how I am situated."

After some more skirmishing of the same polite
description, in which one Councillor reminds an-
other of having lent him a wardrobe to go to Dub-
lin, Mr. Alderman O'Connor, apparently the only
sensible person present, remarked," it is no wonder
that the enemies of Ireland say we are unfit for self-
government. This day is powerfully confirmatory
of the argument. They may well laugh at us,"—
an opinion in which we feel disposed to join. The
reporter of the Sligo Journal, who describes this
scene, states, that so violent was the conduct of the
parties that it was expected every moment that from
words they would have come to blows. The Repeal
Association, he adds, is about to send down a paci-
ficator, Mr. Dillon Brown, to investigate the cause
of the differences amongst the Sligo repealers."

It is said to be the intention of a number of gentlemen
who are at present in business as sharebrokets in this
town. but again.t whom the Stock Exchange of Liverpool
is rigidly closed, to ass )ciate themselves into a rival body.
The foundation-stone of a new National School, for the
populous and increasing district of Stanley, the Old Swan,
&c., null be laid to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, imme-
diately after a sermon in St. Anne's Church, by the Rev.
Hugh M'Neile.

THE KING OF THE FRENCII.—A report was current
on 'Change yesterday of the death of the King of the
French. For some time it excited considerable attention,
but it could be traced to no credible source, and the si-
lence of the morning papers completely set it at rest.
The rumour, probably, arose from some misapprehension
of the abdication of Don Carlos.

MORGAN'S IMPERIAL HOTEL.—The following have
been among the fashionable arrivals :—The Earl of Meath,
Earl of Gosford, Major Mc Mahon, Lieutenant Smyth,
R.N., Capt. Boilean and Son, Rev. G. Laurie, Rev. Mr.
Wright, Wm. C. Duckett, Esq., Lady and Family, J. F.
Collings, E•q , G. J. Dore, Esq., Messrs. Poingdester,
Monsenatt, &c.

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—We observe that the
Rev. F. Bingham, Incumbent of Harwood, is to deliver
a lecture at this institution, on Tuesday evening, upon
poetry, and that owing to the indisposition of Mr. Row-
ton, his place will be supplied by the Rev. Dr. Hume, on
the dialects of the Engli,h language ; and by Mr. Day,
on warming and ventilation. The exchange will doubt.
less be very acceptable to the friends of this institution
from the popularity of the substitutes.

RADICAL. PROFESSIONS AND PRACTICE.—The boast
of the Radical party in Liverpool has ever been their
patronage of Townsmen in preference to strangers.
" Ewart and Townside" was one of their favorite electio-
neering mottoes. Their practice has been just the re-
verse of their professions. When in a majority in the
Council they inundated the town with strangers. Their
police was almost to a man Irish. And scarcely have
they got their fingers into the management of the affairs
of the parish than they are found displaying the same
anti local bias in their appointments. Only a week or two
ago a gatekeeper was to be appointed at the Workhouse;
and one would imagine that some decayed native of
Liverpool could have been found quite capable and worthy
of the office. The appointment would have fallen to the
lot of a stranger, a native of Buckinghamshire, had it
not been for the Conservative patronage of a townsman
for we find every member of the Radical portion of the
Vestry voted for a stranger. This is their mode of
carrying out in power their professions when out of it.

THE ABDICATION OF DON CABLOS.—Few events of
equal importance have presented themselves under more
difficulties to the speculator than the abdication of Don
Carlos, says a Paris letter. "No man can foretel the
consequences. It is for a great good or a great evil. One
thing only is clear, namely, that it is not the work of
French intrigue, being, on the contrary, diametrically
opposed to the views that France has so long entertained
upon Spain. It is notorious in the precincts of the Tuile-
ries, that previous to the unexpected arrival of the Envoy of
Don Carlos with his abdication, and which you announced
two days before it was known here, the Duke de Ne-
mours proposed to be at Bayonne about the middle of
August, and to visit the Queen of Spyin at St. Sebastian.
This was, it is asserted, with a view to promote the inte-
rests of the brother, tho Duke de Montpensier, who
aspires to the hand of the Infanta, the sister Queen Isa-
bella. Tlic abdication of Don Carlos and the pretensions
of his son are calculated, however, to bring about changes
and events in that respect, and in others of vast magni.
tude. One of them will probably, in any case, be the
withdrawal for ever of Queen Christina from Spain, but
it is really premature and a loss of time to attempt to
speculate upon this new phase in Spanish affairs, and
upon which you are likely to bear more than upon any
other subject far months to come."

INFRINGEMENT OF TIIE COPYRIGHT-OF A DESIGN.--
Ye,terday, at the Police-court, Mr. Bateson, solicitor,
laid an information before the magistrates, on behalf of
the Carron Iron Company, against Mr. Rigby, iron-
founder of this town, for an infringement of a copyright
of a decorative design for a stove parlour, or drawing-
room grate. lie stated that several Ober copy Lthts of
the same company had been pirated by the defendant,
who had hitherto been forgiven, so that in this instance
they could not altogether overlook the delinquency. The
des gn was produced, represented in a small engraving or
drawing. Mr. Green, ironmonger, Leece-street, said
he had in February purchased from defendant three
grates, or rather fronts and parts of grates, of the same
pattern as that produced, and he afterwards found the
words "Carron Company" raised upon them, though he
believed they were cast by Mr. Rigby. A defence was
attempted for Mr. Rigby, by Mr. Payne. who pro4ced a
book on the laws relating to copyrights, publisnd by
Neaton and Co., and from which it appeared that a
government mark was required, as well as the company's
name, to enable them to maintain the patent. This was,
however, overruled as erroneous, by Mr. Bateson showing
a clause in another act. Mr. Payne said that his client
had acted in ignorance ; but if be had really committed
himself he would consent to pay the lowest penalty, £5
(the highest being £30); and, as the object of the company
was, he had learned, more to give the case publicity, as a
future warning, he hoped this would be acceded to, parti-
cularly as the patent would die out at the end of the
present mouth. After some good-humoured conversation,
this was agreed to, and the defendant, ;being convicted,
paid £5 and costs.