In 1867 the “dominion of Canada” was created by the Imperial Act of that year, which united all Her Majesty’s North American Colonies. It was then found that printing had become much cheaper in Canada than it was in the United States; and amongst the earliest Acts of the first session of the Canadian Parliament two statutes were passed—one, “An Act respecting Copyrights;” and the other, “An Act to impose a Duty upon Foreign Reprints of British Copyright Works.” Under the first of these Acts, no work of “any person resident in Great Britain or Ireland” is to be entitled to the protection of that Act unless “the same _shall be printed and published in Canada_.” And under the second of the above Acts it is sought to keep alive the injustice of allowing “_foreign reprints_” to be imported into Canada as a basis for that resolution of the Canadian Parliament to which we have called attention. Such are the facts which preceded the Canadian “Correspondence.” It commences with the resolution which, in effect, advocates “the _justice and expediency_” of enabling Her Majesty’s Canadian subjects at their discretion (and without the permission of the owners) to confiscate the property of authors of British Copyright works upon the terms of the publisher paying such authors a royalty of 12½ per cent. upon the price of the Canadian reprints, that being about _one-tenth_ of the publication price of the work in England! It appears the “justice and expediency” of adopting this Canadian resolution has been pressed very strongly upon the authorities at the Colonial-office, and likewise at the Board of Trade, by the Hon. J. Rose, the Canadian “Minister of Finance.” He frankly admits that the policy of the Act of 1847 (so far as respects the protection of British authors) has long been an utter failure; that the amount of duties received for their benefit “is a mere trifle;” and that “it is next to impracticable to enforce the law.” These statements are confirmed by a letter, dated June 11, 1868, from Mr. John Lovell (a Montreal publisher) to Mr. Rose, and which appears in the Correspondence. Mr. Lovell says: “At present only a few hundred copies pay duty, and many thousands pass into the country without registration, and pay nothing at all; thus having the effect of seriously injuring the publishers of Great Britain, to the consequent advantage of those of the United States. I may add that, on looking over the Custom-house entries to-day, I have found that not a single entry of an American reprint of an English Copyright (except the Reviews and one or two magazines) has been made since the third day of April last, though it is notorious that an edition of 1,000 of a popular work, coming under that description, has been