A committee of the booksellers and publishers of Paris was
re- ceived last week by the President of the Council of Ministers, and presented an address, with 146 signatures, in favour of the project of the Customs Union with Belgium. The document complains of the piracy practised in Belgium ; the best French works being im- mediately reprinted in that country, and not only sold there at an exceedingly low price, but even introduced into France. Any measure which could prevent such a line of proceeding, says the address, would be advantageous to the Paris book-trade. The President of the Council listened with great attention to the Committee, and promised that he would adopt such measures as should put an end to that state of things. The Committee was also received by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the Interior, Commerce, and Public Instruction ; all of whom expres- sed sympathy for the interest of the book-trade.
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