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Institutio s-Table Talk.-Correspondence. 
Arts-affecting to judge of all arts-     having a head among them. But the
painting, sculpture, architecture, &c., four opposition failed. Among
other elec- 
artists certainly is but a small proportion;  tioneering follies paraded
on this occa- 
yet it is a good beginning. Even this    sion, some parties went about canvassing
fraction of common-sense was unpalate    against manufacturing exhibitions!
the 
able to the old party, chiefly of mechanical  success of these very exhibitions
having 
tendencies, who had dragged down the     been the positive salvation of the
institu- 
Society almost to death. A strong oppo-  tion. The other changes made in
the list of 
sition was generated and a counter-list  Vice-presidents were the elections
of Earl 
prepared, which, if it had been carried,  Granville and Lord Colborne, and
of Mr. 
would certainly have led to the absolute  H. Minton, the latter honourably
repre- 
dissolution of the Society.  The ma      senting British manufactures. 
jority of this list could hardly boast of 
gabi t    alk 
Our Paris correspondent informs us, 
that the building for the reception of the 
works forming the quinquennial exposi- 
tion of industrial art in Paris is now far 
advanced in its erection, in the Champs 
Elysbes. It is on a scale of equal mag- 
nitude to that of former years. Although 
the building will doubtless be well filled, 
still the untoward events of the past year 
have had a depressing effect upon pro- 
ductive enterprise, and we must not look 
for much that can be regarded as specially 
prepared for this exposition. 
The Pu nS which held the set of coins 
placed by Prince Albert in the foundation- 
stone of the Great Grimsby Docks was of 
white silk, in which steel beads formed 
part of the knitting and the design of the 
ornament. After the ceremony the purse 
was handed to the Prince's secretary, to 
be by him conveyed, as we were informed, 
to her Majesty. 
It were to be wished that Messrs. 
BAceHus had been a little earlier in 
the manufacture of their GTAss PAPER 
WEIGHTS, for the specimens we have 
recently seen at their works are quite 
equal in transparency, colour, skilful 
arrangement of parts, and ingenuity of 
make, to the foreign works with which 
stationers' and fancy shops have been 
and are so crowded. 
PIRACY OF A REGISTERED DESIGN.- 
BROADHEAD    AND   ATKIN  V. WOLSTEN- 
HOLX. -Comparing the       two articles 
alluded to, of which we shall give en- 
gravings in our next, there can be no 
doubt that a flagrant act of piracy had 
been committed. The facts are these. 
The plaintiffs, who are the proprietrs of 
the design   of " the Anglo-Argentine 
Boudoir Candlestick," registered under 
the 5th and 6th Vict. c. 100, complained 
before the magistrates at Sheffield, on the 
19th of March, that their design had been 
unlawfully imitated by Mr. J. Wolsten- 
holme, also of Sheffield, Britannia metal 
manufacturer. It was proved that the 
plaintiffs' design was original; thatithad 
been duly registered; and that the de- 
fendant had been making and selling 
candlesticks precisely the same in design, 
though alittle different in detail, under the 
name of" toilet candlesticks." The proof 
of the imitation was curiously confrmed 
by the fact that, when he was applied to 
for one of his own " toilet candlesticks," 
Mr. Wolstenholne in one case actually 
supplied one of Broadhead and Atkin's 
"boudoir candlesticks." For the defence 
it was argued, that the plaintiffs' design 
was not original, but taken from a French 
pattern, published in the Art-Joitnal; 
though it was admitted that the idea of 
Wolstenholme's candlestick, which he 
also had registered, was taken from 
Broadhead and Atkins'. The magistrates 
decided that the plaintiffs' was an original 
design, within the meaning of the Act; 
that the variation in the style of orna- 
ment introduced by defendant did not 
render his the less an imitation; and that 
it was not protected by the subsequent 
registry on his part: so they inflicted a 
penalty of 151. and costs. We congratu- 
late the plaintiffs on following up this 
case to a successful termination. If all 
manufacturers would act thus, we should 
soon have a better morality on the sub- 
ject. 
Q1rortspontente. 
SEc RETS OF THE TRADE.-Being em-      producers, and also to stimulate attention
barked in the trade immediately remarked  to the subject of design which
your Jour- 
upon and illustrated by your Journal, I  nal proposes, I still think that
such may 
purchased this second number, and oh-   be done without exposing business
se- 
served that you inserted and noticed pro-  crets, such as the printer's or
producer's 
ductions in which I am interested. Now,  name, as I see you are prone to
do. I 
anxious as I am to advance the taste of  am one of those who t   that a man
in