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last place of residence of the deceased-such particulars, in short, as may enable the registrar to obtain from the proper parties the requisite information for registering the death. I am, Rev. Sir, your obedient servant,

THOMAS MANN.

The Rev. T. Wilkinson, Ulting, Maldon. The Derby Mercury states that "several persons who have had their children baptized at the Church of England have been fined by the corporation magistrates in the sum of 2s. 6d. each, for neglecting to register the names and sexes of their children within forty-one days after their birth with the superintendent registrar." Paragraphs similar to the above are continually appearing in the provincial newspapers. Whether they owe their origin to the wilful misrepresentation of interested parties, or to the accidental misapprehension of the publishers, it is quite certain that they are calculated to mislead the public. The Registration Act does not impose any obligation on parents or relatives to register births of children with the superintendent registrar; but it does impose an obligation on them to furnish information to that functionary on his applying for it. The object of these erroneous statements appears to be, to transfer the trouble from the registrars to the public.

THE HEADS OF MR. SERJEANT TALFOURD'S COPYRIGHT BILL.

1. Repeal of former Acts, 8 Anne, c. 19; 41 Geo. III. c. 107; 54 Geo. III. c. 156 (extending copyright in books).

2. Interpretation clause.

3. Copyright in any book hereafter to be published to endure to the author for life, and for sixty years, commencing at his death.

4. In cases of subsisting copyright in the author, the same shall continue for his life, and for sixty years from his death. And if the author be dead, and the copyright in his representative, such representative shall have the same for the residue of the term of sixty years from the author's death.

5. In cases of subsisting copyright which has been assigned, the assignee shall enjoy it for the author's life, or for twenty-eight years, and it shall afterwards revert to the representative of the author for the residue of the sixty years from his death.

6 Proviso, that if a book has been published in parts, the term of the copyright shall run from the publication of the last part.

7. Proviso for the sale of copies printed during the interest of the assignee. 8. Proviso for books stereotyped before the passing of this Act.

9. Whenever five years shall elapse after the expiration of the twenty-eight years, or the author's death, without publication of any works out of print, any one may petition the Lord Chancellor, &c. for liberty to republish the same, and republish the same on such permission.

10. One copy of every book to be delivered at the British Museum.

11. Mode of delivery at the British Museum.

12. Four copies of every book to be delivered within a month after demand, for the use of the following libraries: Bodleian Library, Public Library at Cambridge, Advocates of Edinburgh, Trinity College, Dublin.

13. Publishers may deliver the copies to the libraries, instead of the Stationers' Company.

14. Penalty for default in delivering copies for the use of the libraries. 13. Book of Registry to be kept at Stationers' Hall.

16. Party making, or causing to be made, a false entry in the Book of Registry to be guilty of a misdemeanour.

17. Entries of copyright may be made in the Book of Registry.

18. Any one aggrieved by any entry in the Registry Book may apply to the Lord Chancellor, Master of the Rolls, Vice-Chancellor, or Court of Common Law, to order it to be altered or expunged.

19. Remedy for the piracy of books or parts of books by action on the case. Proviso for Scotland.

20. No person shall import into any part of the United Kingdom for sale any book first composed, &c. within the United Kingdom and reprinted elsewhere. Penalty on importing, selling, or keeping for sale any such books, forfeiture

thereof, and also 101. and double the value. Books may be seized by officers of Customs or Excise, who shall be rewarded. Not to extend to books not having been printed in the United Kingdom for twenty years.

21. Property in articles in periodical works to be in the publisher; but may be in the editor, or reserved to the author.

22. Term of the exclusive right in the representation of dramatic works extended to that of authors.

23. Where the sole liberty of representing a dramatic piece now belongs to the author, it shall endure for his life and for sixty years from his death; and if the author is dead, his representative shall have it for sixty years from his death. 24. When the right of representing any dramatic piece shall have been assigned, the right shall continue in the assignee for twenty-eight years, or for the life of the author, and afterwards shall belong to the representative of such author.

25. The proprietor of the right of dramatic representation shall have all the remedies given by the Act 3d and 4th of William IV.

26. No assignment of copyright of dramatic piece shall convey the right of representation unless an entry to that effect shall be made in the Book of Registry. 27. Act of the 5th and 6th of William IV. c. 65, respecting lectures, extended

to sermons.

28. Power to the Lord Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Master of the Rolls, and Court of Law, to grant injunction in case of piracy. Proviso for Scotland.

29. Books pirated shall become the property of the proprietor of the copyright, and may be recovered by action, or seized by warrant of two justices.

30. No proprietor of copyright, commencing after this Act, shall sue or proceed for any infringement before making entry in the Book of Registry. Proviso for dramatic pieces.

31. Clergymeu may lawfully dispose of copyright or copies of books of which they are the authors.

32. Copyright shall be personalty.

33. Saving the rights of the Universities and the Colleges of Eton, Westminster, and Winchester.

34. Act to extend to all parts of the British dominions.

35. Act may be amended or repealed during the present Session.

HOME MISSIONARY ON THE SEVERN.-The Rev. Frank Hewson, B. A., of Trinity College, Dublin, and late Curate of St. Mary's, Birmingham, has been licensed by the Bishop of Worcester to act as a Home Missionary amongst the watermen on the Severn and Birmingham canal; and the Church Pastoral Aid Society is understood to have contributed liberally towards a chapel and stipend for the Minister.

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.-The following thesis has been selected by the Rev. Vaughan Thomas, of Oxford, as the subject of the Warneford Prize Essay for the present session:-" The valves of the veins anatomically and physiologically described for the manifestation of the wisdom, power, and goodness of God as revealed in Scripture." The award to be made in August next by the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Lichfield, the Rev. Chancellor Law, Edward Johnstone, M.D., the Rev. Vaughan Thomas, John Eccles, M.D., and W. S. Cox, F.R.S.

CAUTION TO MILLERS.-During the last year, Mr. C. H. Amos, a miller, residing at Westwell, appeared before H. W. Carter, Esq. to answer a complaint which had been preferred against him by the Rev. J. A. Ross, the curate of that parish, for having worked a mill, belonging to him, on the Sabbath. The defendant was constantly in the habit of using his mill on that day, but, at the request of Mr. Ross, who told him what he should feel it his duty to do, if he continued this practice, promised to desist for the future. This, however, he failed to do; as on several subsequent Sundays the mill was allowed to work; and Mr. Ross, having previously frequently warned him, very properly summoned him for the offence. He was convicted of three distinct cases, in the penalty of 5s. each, together with the costs which had been incurred.

POPISH FEES.-One of the witnesses on the trial of the recent action for libel, instituted by a Roman-catholic priest against Major Bingham and several of his

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tenantry, in the county of Mayo, deposed that the following charges were made by the parish priest, and that most of the parishioners were not willing to pay them, but that they were compelled:"

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Baptism

Consecrated clay at burials

Extreme Unction

Legacies for the deceased

Annual salary from each householder

And twenty sheaves of corn, or

Yearly salary for a child of ten years of age going to confession
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SIR C. SMITH'S PRIZE.-Sir Culling E. Smith's prize for the best essay on "Schism as opposed to the Unity of the Church," has been awarded by the adjudicators to the Rev. Professor Hoppus, of University College.

RETIREMENT OF THE ORDINARY OF NEWGATE.-We hear that the Rev. Mr. Cotton, who has so zealously and efficiently fulfilled the duties of this office for the last twenty-five years, is about to retire upon a pension from the Court of Aldermen. We are told that, so far from the reverend gentleman having realized a competency, he has found it necessary to consign his very curious library, which he has been all his life collecting, to Mr. Leigh Sotheby for immediate sale.

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