The Sun. — 1841-02-17 (London, England)

TIIE NON-INTRUSIONISTS.—WC have only room to call attention to the proceedings of a public meeting held here last week. The exposure and defeat of the Non-Intrusionists ryas complete. But for their agitation there is no likelihood that the Dissenters would have moved; and we have only to look to the respective numbers who attended the two meetings, and the different complexion of the proceedings, to see on which side public sympathy and sentiment preponderate. After nearly a week's notice by placards, and intimation from the pulpit, only about 300 muttered to hear Mr. Crichton, the knighterrant of Non-Intrusion, and these consisted chiefly of females and children, with not a few Dissenters. The other meeting, called on the spur of the moment, after public notice of only a few hours, was attended by upwards of a thousand people, the great majority of whom were male adults, and the sense of the meeting was appealed to, and triumphantly obtained, at every step of the proceedings. We recommend the perusal of ,the speeches to our readers, and especially to Mr. Macgill Crichton and the Non- I ntrusionists. —Kelso Chronicle.  WILFUL MunnEn..—A Coroner's inquest has just been held az. East Hagbourne, near Wallingford, on the body of a labouring man named Cornelius Rymes, who died under most suspicious circumstances. It appeared that frequent quarrds took place between the deceased and his wife, in consequence of the letter having carried on an illicit intercourse with a man residing in the same parish named Grace ; and that on the day only before his death he WB3 taken exceedingly ill, having been previously in good health. He called in Mr. Breech, a mefiical man, who, presuming. he was labouring under the effects of dysentery, prescr.bedfor him accordingly. The next day, however, the man died, and a Jury Was immediately summoned to inquire into the cause of his death, suspicions having been entertained .that the deceased had been murdered, in consequence of his wife having i'etused to suffer any of her neighbours to see him during his illness, and it having been ascertained that shortly before she had purchased some poison. —Mr. Breech deposed, that, assisted by another medical gentleman, he had opened the body of the deceased, and that. upon analysing the contents of the stomach, large quantities of poison were 'discovered, which had clearly caused death. The Jury, after a lengthened inquiry, returned a verdict of " Wilful anurthr against [fennel Rymes, the wife, as principal, and against Julin Grace, as an accessory before the fact." The Coroner immediately issued his warrant for their committal to Reading gaol, to take their trials at the next asSIZe3 for the county of Burks, which will commence on the 2.lth inst.  The Copyright Bill has been rejected by the House of Commons by a small mojority on the second read. ing. This augurs badly for all attempts to atain inereased protection for inventors ; the same principle being involved in both cases. A measure for extending the copyright of patterns on printed calicoes and muslins has been since introduced into the Commons, and, judging from the opptiiition it met with on the first reading, it appears to have little chime. of success. The Cu. rious oinjection urged by Mr. Mark Philips, forms the strongest argument that could be adduced in favour of increased protection. lle admits that the extension of copyright in designs would be the moans of improving- the manufacture ; his singular objection is, that ' they would be improved too much. The French manufacturers, lie says, would then be induced to copy our patterns, and would send t%eir imitation goods, at a cheaper price, to the English market ! We could not wish to see a more complete illustration of the advantage of increasing the protection to inventors than such a state of things as Mr. Philips deprecates.—lnventors' Advocate.