The Hull Election Committee adjourned on Monday, to the '25th
iestant, in consequence of the absence of Mr. Dundas, one of the 31 embers, whose mother is ill.
The Iilternational Copyright Bill has been printed. It authorizes tbs Queen in Council to give authors of books first published in foreign coontries, the same copyright to which British authors are entitled. 3 his is to be the extent of the privilege conferred; but it is provided that the orders in Council may specify different periods few different foreign countries. It is also provided that no order in Council shall have any effect " unless it be therein stated that due protection has been se- cured in such foreign countries for the authors of books first published in the United Kingdom." Translations are net affected by the bill.
'ineige troths to be entered at Stationer's Hall ; and copies to be de- livered to the warehouse-keeper of the Company, and to the British 1%1 u scum.
The Times announces the formation of a lay association for the defence of the Church ; the right to membership costing an annual subscription of one guinea, or donation of ten guineas.
We perceive in the Tory prints, announcements of a series of lec- tures by Dr. Chalmers, on the expediency of a national church, for the special edification of Peers and Members of Parliament, designed to furnish the zealous but uninstructed pillars of Toryism in either House with irrefragable arguments in favour of a liberal grant in aid of that Church with which Dr. Chalmers is connected. Failing in his efforts to convince the Scotch nation of its doleful and destitute condition-
viug expehenced in his proper person that a prophet has but small 1 enour in his own country—he has come to London to reap what ho- soars await him here, and to excite the ready sympathies of Tory lezi=latcl.s in favour of additional endowments for the Kirk. He has riot come, however, uninvited. The " Christian Influence Society" has requested his services. What sort of society this is we confess ourselves not quite able to comprehend; but with this, as is, prompter, aedlawmakers for his audience, the reverend doctor is to demolish ,of tie: he would all the obstacles which prejudice and penury have opposed to he's' cess of his mission, and to carry back to Scotland the Thalia!, the welcome shape of a profuse vote of public money.—.6/0Ce:Pim° ha There is a talk of again bringing forward the Slavery question fte. the recess ; a kind of promise was given by Mr. O'Connell that a — lend his services for that purpose. With the recollection man's pledges on the Canada Bill, and the manner in which he act gienitt; to shuffle out of them, our hopes of any assistance from him to cause of Emancipation, or any other cause to which Lord John n;:a may happen to be opposed, are exceedingly faint. Even if' by a mare i. fraction of the rule which regulates the conduct of the Liberal Iriai' Members, Mr. O'Connell should fulfil his promise,—even if he sa di resolve on jeopardizing the fate of such political purists as Lod se- merston, Lord Glenelg, Sir John Hobhouse, and Mr. Spring Rice.,.. (men who prefer principle to life l)—we fear the chancel of Emancipationists will not be much mended. The other Irish Ma': hers will still find, and, if they cannot find, they will create, an e for not following their leader's example.—Birminyhanz Journal. I —
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