At)VlCE TO JUDGE AND JURY. 
39S 
The Jurist should remember the words of 
Shakespeare — 
“ I have seen, 
When, after execution, Judgment hath 
Repented o’er his doom.” 
We are aware that archdeacon Paley ob- 
jects to the maxim that we ought to bear 
in our minds, that it is better that many 
guilty escape than one innocent man suffer. 
But Male, the able author of Juridical and 
Forensic Medicine, quoting the work entitled 
Considerations on the Criminal Proceed- 
ings of this Country,” still maintains that 
the maxim is a good one. 
On the conclusion of Dr. O’Shaughnessy’s 
experiments, Mr. James Prinsep proceeded 
to show the intense heat produced and 
directed on different metals, by a jet of flame 
consisting of hydrogen and oxygen gases. 
The gases were discharged from separate 
gasometers, and brought in contact at 
the orifices of small diameters. The Drum, 
mond light,already described in our Journal, 
was exhibited. Dr. Wallich attended with a 
most perfect Ross’s microscope, through 
which was distinctly seen the circulation or 
living principle of plants. The skeleton of an 
ox, prepared and set up by Mr. Pearson ; nu- 
merous fossils ; varieties of the Assam silk 
moth; Dr. MacClelland’s collection of birds ; 
very valuable specimens of Bactrian and 
other coins, collected by Mr. Prinsep, Col. 
Stacy, and Capt. Cunningham, and several 
plants, among which was the tea plant of 
Assam, were also exhibited. The whole party 
appeared much delighted, with the interest- 
ing and instructive entertainments. 
LAW OF PATENT, TO USE NEW 
MANUFACTURES REQUIRED FOR 
INDIA, 
So long as such a law is not mischievous, 
by raising prices of commodities, or hurtful 
to trade, we consider that it is essentially 
necessary for the protection of the property 
of individuals in this country. We should be 
glad to see a legislative enactment in favor of 
inventors, that those who labour with the in- 
tellect may be entitled to as effectual a pro- 
tection as those who labour with the body. 
We are led to the foregoing observations 
from having observed, in the London Jour- 
nal and Repertory of Arts, &c. for May last, 
a patent granted to Mr. Newton in M arch 
1835, for a method of preparing animal milk, 
and bringing it into such a state as to allow 
of its being preserved for a certain length of 
time. We republish the article, in order to 
show our readers, that this, with very little 
alteration, is the mode by which Mr. Previte, 
now about to embark for England, has pre- 
pared his pulverized milk. We have ob- 
tained from Mr. Previte some information 
as to the cause of his not obtaining the 
patent to which he was so justly entitled,, 
for his important discovery, which, being of 
interest to the British community in India, 
we do not hesitate to lay before them. 
Mr. Previte’s discovery being sub- 
jected to the examination of several eminent 
medical men was, after many experiments, 
pronounced to be pure milk in a dry 
state, retaining the flavor of milk in full per- 
fection, imparting it to tea and coffee, as 
well as all culinary preparations where milk 
is required ; and being, from its nutritious 
properties and freedom from acidity, well 
adapted for children and invalids. 
As much attention, labour, and expense 
had been bestowed in prosecuting the ex- 
periments which led to the discovery, he 
applied, in a letter dated 14th May, 1834, 
to the Government, through the Secretary in 
the General Department, for a patent. The 
reply was thatno law existed under which pa^ 
tents could be given by the Government of In- 
dia to secure to the projectors or inventors of 
new machinery, or preparations of any kind, 
the property and exclusive benefit of their 
inventions. The propriety of eventually 
passing such a law, to give to the Govern- 
ment such a power, was to be considered by 
the Right Hon’ble the Governor Gene- 
ral of India in Council. Two years and seven 
months have passed away, however, and the 
result is that the patent has been obtained 
by another person in Europe, — one who is 
not the inventor ; for he acknowledges that it 
was a communication from a foreigner rg- 
siding abroad. And thus it is, that unless the 
