received and sold within the last few days by one bookseller in this city.” In support of the Canadian resolution, the Hon. J. Rose likewise urges the greater cheapness now of printing in Canada than in the United States. Upon this point he is also confirmed by Mr. Lovell, who says: “It is undeniable that Canadian printers would be enabled to comply with the requisite conditions (that is, of paying a royalty of 12½ per cent. to the author), and produce books, thanks to the local advantages, at a much cheaper rate than they can be produced in the States, _and so bring about a large export business_.”... This application on the part of the Canadians is answered at considerable length by the Board of Trade; the substance of that answer being “that the question raised is far too important, and involves too many considerations of imperial policy, to render it possible to comply with that application. My Lords, however, fully admit that the anomalous position of Canadian publishers with respect to their rivals in the United States of America is a matter which calls for careful inquiry; but they feel that such an inquiry cannot be satisfactorily undertaken without, at the same time, taking into consideration various other questions connected with the imperial laws of Copyright and the policy of International Copyright Treaties, and they are, therefore, of opinion that the subject should be treated as a whole, and that an endeavour should be made to place the general law of Copyright, especially that part of it which concerns the whole continent of North America, on a more satisfactory footing. The grievance of which the Canadian publishers complain has arisen out of the arrangement sanctioned by Her Majesty’s Government in 1847, under which United States reprints of English works entitled to Copyright in the United Kingdom were admitted into Canada on payment of an import duty, instead of being, as in the United Kingdom, absolutely prohibited as illegal.”... A circular by Mr. Purday contains the following:— A fact transpired only a few days since of an order being sent for some of the musical works published in Bond-street, on which it was stated that they _must be “American printed copies”_.... It is said that the Americans have the means of disposing of 30,000 or 40,000 copies of any popular book or song they choose to reproduce. This, of course, is a fine premium for supplanting the English publisher in the sale of his own Copyright works in his own colonies. FROM A MANUSCRIPT STATEMENT BY MR. PURDAY.