The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-16
ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
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The Details Of the News BY the America.


ton shortly before noon yesterday, and packages b.
reached this city about midnight via the New Have
RAaEosA Tho most important features Of the nsws b.
this steamer have already been anticipated BY telegraph
The following dstais however are not BY any means do
void of interest.
Atssgrsphc despatch dated at Paris ON the LIST inst
ct p. n, states that the American government ha.
CONSENTED to indemnify the owners of French vessel
which had been seized in California.
letter from Naples of March the 18th, says tina
Southern Italy u in far alarming state than
any time since the reaction. Some Of the most eminen
lawyers OF Naples were among the arrested, Of whom
there were hundreds.
Further sdvices from Berlin give the particulars of tn
discovery Of the conspiracy there Nearly all the ultr,
democratic leaders under arrest, among than DR.
Falkentha late President of the Democratic Union DR.
Goldman, several merchants, and member of the As
sembay. All kinds Of weapons and revolutionary pam
pallets found.
International Copyrisht-1he Rights Of A"-
From the London Times, March n
The time has 1T length arrived when the legitimate
rights OF authors who the English language in the
Of their works about to be recognised
either side of the Atlantic The solution of this ques
tion did involve ny great difficulty in theory in
detail IL simply required little exertion of common
policy common sense and, above all, common honesty.
We have urged the matter with any great affects
ton Of zeal, not because did not sympathzs with the
victims Of the fraud but because we wore profoundly
convinced of the inutiity of remonstrsnce We we're
wei aware that time must come and 1t has come
at last, when men Of letters in the United States
would feel the Wholesale system of literary piracy
statement may be permitted without involving any
dsparagement Of those ilustrious names which al.
States, but it scarcely possible for American
authors, when placed under commercial dissdvan.
Wsy on hs
railroads Of the United States two dollars for the
auctions even of Prescott Bancroft, Bryant Washing
ton Irving, when they could Purchase for half quar-
ter Of the sum, the works of Groe Macauay Byron
MckensY All that an American publisher required for
his stock in trade listed OF few of dirty pa
per few forms Of bad type and disregard
OF the rights of authors His MSS to hand with
out the delays annoyance of the
expenditure of single cent We are of course fully
Of all the shifts to which authors and Of
copyright have had for the protection of their
property but all in vain So long the New York
publishers chose to persist in their evil coursesin other
words go long as their acts received countenance from
the government and population of the Statesit i'm
possible for English authors their assgnees the
stream The arguments in favor of the pratcal act
population of country. In the first place there was
the feeling Of spelling the Amalek,es and of driving
kt be asked why should they pay at the rate Of
shilling a number for OF Mr.. Dickens monthly
numbers when Of their publishers would
them up dirty reprint the matter at about
quarter Of the cos How the English author hurt
because the American reader benedttedY Why take
science and literature out of the ordinary catagore Of
commerce. Poetry and breadstufs astronomy and mo-
asses after all much the thing in the eyes of
commercial man. Or, granting that Engish au
thors ght in degree not exactly be injured but
might not receive the same full of benefit
s Gr the
isss the literature Of the United States and
tiers would get straight In the long Throughout the
long and frequent discussions that have taken place upon
this subject cannot call to mind that the dsputants
the side of the Union have used arguments
pertinent than thote mentioned above. They did not
oresee that time might when the case would not
simply be though Highland gentleman should flch his
pra II has now assumed other ions The moor IS,
man setting up as q gentleman himself, and finds him
self brought into competition with the possessors Of in
herted fortunes who meet him at every turn upon his
own ground without any necessity for paying tax
quren any other OF the fiscal burdens against which
he 10 called upon to contend
This in point Of fact has been the result of what can
not DO considered in any other light than as an act Of
thors have been smothsred under the works Of English
authors in the American markets. The first could Ak a
price upon their second we're as casta-
perty in the hands Of the "wreckersn They were
without remedy redress But not only did this whole
sale system of piracy most affect the interests
OF living American authors, but it had tendency to
dwarf down the original literature OF the United States to
Of the national mind If citizens Of the great republic
msde up their minds to grow and smugge science
TO export cotton and import lterature-why taey must
abide by the consequences Of their Growers
and exporters Of cotton they must remain TO the
end Of the chapter No doubt they would drive
thriving trade in the articles the more
petey they rvitted their attention to the production OF
produce alone but their wish to rise in the
scale of patons-to rise Al nations have risen which
have given birth to great philosophers and poets and
INSTRUMENTATION every measure which could encour-
age original thought and original pure
and racy of the so-was worthy of their serious aten
ton Certainly the act OF OVERLAPPING American geaus
by English genius was not wise measure in this
direction American literature has already paid heavy
penalty for this act OF intellectual cowardice not to
of moral turptu3e Take the essayists, and poets and
many of their compositions undoubtedly are and if
their thought and dcticn do not in English mould
the glory OF their future and so FORTH which are the
natural consequence Ct the extraordinary history and
position of their country but do not find originality
Of thought find II in the literature of Germany
France or Italy, compared with Nor can we
for moment permit it to be said that such originality
il to be looked for because American and English authors
use the same language. study the same models, and
are Of common descent. We reply English litera
ture at the Ezabethan is thing, English lite
ginning Of the present century and throughout the
Regency the literary productions Of the period difer
widely in sentiment and opinion from those OF the present
day. Nov have risht expect that author who
is brought up the citizen OF republic should write in
dieren. t. ne from the ubject of mixed monarchy and
that New York novelist should regard the world in
different point of view from his London contem
authors which have already cited, tell them that
they have not thrown off English swaddDg clothes. As
Ii giish authors they might occupy distinguished place
in EDgfh literature but they have not yet made proof
Of nationality. When that work lately reached us
which smacked strongly of American feeling and
opinion, how it ran through Europe like wild6re
rWell, then, there is to be treaty at last upon
thi. subject, by which English and American
respectively, in England and in the United States
It win be a bright spot in the history Of the Lat
Daniel Webster that his bograpber will have t.
record, that nearly his Last act before the Hines
which terminated fatally was the execution of tina
treaty He and Mr. Champion signed for their respective
governments The treaty transmitted to England 20
approval which IL received matter Of course and ha
been sent back TO America where 1t formally remain
under the consideration OF Mr. Everett Mr.
Champion In point of fact, it does but await the ra
cation OF the Senate, the body which, in America Is
stitutonsly charged with tho duty Of final sanction Il
such matters We look for ward with the greatest salts
faction 70 ie moment when the treaty will become Law
not only because the will act most beneficial
the interests of Englsh sutbors-for it is ngh
matter to enlarge their public by a population
1000 which contains quite the English average
readers-but because unfeignedy OF opinion tina
the cause Of literature and scence-in other words til
cause OF intellectual progress in the United States-wi
derive the greatest advantage from this tardy act of jus
hoe. We doubt not that brilliant and glorious
destiny awaits the United States in these respects
Others Let American authors feel assured that we aha
be the first to glory in their success