R. Wornam, of Wigmore-street; for improvements on piano-fortes.-July 4. P. Groves, of London; for improvements in making paint or pigment, for preparing and combining a substance or material with oil, turpentine, or other ingredients. July 10.

B. Lowe, of Birmingham, for improvements in useful and ornamental dressing pins.July 14.

J. Guy and J. Harrison, of Workington; for an improved method of preparing straw and grass to be used in the manufacture of hats and bonnets.-July 14.

J. Palmer de la Fous, of Georgestreet, Hanover-square, and W. Littlewart, of Saint Mary Axe; for an inprovement in securing or mooring ships and other floating bodies, and apparatus for performing the same.-July 14.

E. Bayliffe, of Kendall; for improvements in the machinery used for the operations of drawing, roving, and spinning, of sheep and lambs' wool.-July 14.

J. L. Higgins, of Oxford-street; for improvements in the construction of catblocks and fish-hooks, and in the application thereof. July 14.

J. Barron, of Birmingham; for a combination of machinery or apparatus for feeding fire with fuel, which apparatus is applicable to other purposes.-July 24.

W. Johnston, of Caroline-street, Bedford-square; for improvements in inkholders. July 24.

W. Robinson, of Craven-street; for a new method of propelling vessels by steam on canals or navigable rivers, by means of a moveable apparatus attached to the stem or stern of the vessel. July 24.

W. Parsons, of Portsmouth; for improvements in building ships or vessels, which improvements are calculated to lessen the dangerous effects of internal or external violence. July 24.

W. Davidson, Glasgow; for processes for bleaching or whitening bees' wax, myrtle wax, and animal tallow. August 1.

T. J. Knowlys, of Trinity College, Oxford, and W. Duesbury, of Bousal, Derbyshire, for improvements in tanning. August 1.

Count A. E. de Rosen, of Princesstreet, Cavendish-square; for a new engine for communicating power to answer the purposes of a steam-engine.

J. B. Wilks, of Tandridge Hall, Surrey; for improvements in producing steam for steam-engines, and other purposes. August 2.

L. W. Wright, of the Borough Road; for improvements in the construction of trucks for carriages, applicable to useful purposes.August 2.

J. Williams, and John Doyle, mechanist, both of the Commercial-road; for an apparatus and process for separating salt from sea water, and thereby rendering it fresh and fit for use, August 4.

E. Hazard, of North America, but now residing in Norfolk-street, Strand; for a method or methods of preparing explosive mixtures, and employing them as a moving power for machinery. Partly communicated to him by a foreigner.-August 12.

J. T. Thompson, of Long Acre; for improvements in making or manufacturing metallic tubes, whereby strength and lightness are obtained, and for applying them, with various other improvements, to the constructing of the metallic tube and other bedsteads.August 17.

J. C. Schwieso, of Regent-street; for improvements on certain stringed musical instruments.August 22.

T. Burstall, of Leith, and J. Hill, of Bath; for improvements in the machinery for propelling locomotive carriages. August 22.

J. Yandall, of Surrey; for an improvement in apparatus for cooling. and heating fluids.-August 24.

F. Halliday, of Ham, Surrey; for improvements in raising and forcing water.-August 25.

W. Downe, Senior, of Exeter; for improvements in water-closets. August 25.

R. Busk, and W. K. Westley, of Leeds; for improvements in machinery for heckling or dressing, and for breaking, scutching, or clearing hemp, flax, or other fibrous substances,-August

29.

W. Day, of the Strand; for improvements in bedsteads, which improvements are also applicable to other purposes. August 31.

T. R. Williams, of Norfolk-street, Strand, for a machine for separating burs or other substances from wool, hair, or fur.--September 18,

The same; for an improved method of manufacturing hats and caps, with the assistance of machinery.-September 18.

J. Riste, of Chard, Somersetshire, lace-manufacturer; for improvements in machinery for making net commonly called bobbin or twist net.-October 4. F. Halliday, of Ham, Surrey; for improvements in apparatus used in drawing boots on and off.-October 4.

T. Jones, of Coleman-street, London; for an improvement in wheels for carriages.-October 11.

W. Mills of Bisley, Gloucestershire; for an improvement in fire-arms. October 18.

W. Church, of Birmingham; for improvements in printing.-October 18.

S. Pratt, of New Bond-street; for improvements in beds, bedsteads, couches, seats, and other articles of furniture.-October 18.

W. Busk, of Broad-street; for improvements in propelling boats and ships, or other vessels, or floating bodies.-October 18.

J. Viney, of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, Colonel in the Royal Artillery, and G. Pocock, of Bristol; for improvements in the construction of cars or other carriages, and the application of a power hitherto unused for that purpose, to draw the same, which power is applicable to the drawing of ships and other vessels, and for raising weights, and for other useful purposes.-October 18.

B. Newmarch, of Cheltenham; for improvements in fire-arms.-November 7.

E. Thomason, of Birmingham; for improvements in the construction of medals, tokens, and coins.-November 9.

H. C. Lacy, of Manchester; for an apparatus on which to suspend carriage bodies.-November 18.

B. Woodcroft, of Manchester; for improvements in wheels and paddles for propelling boats and vessels-November 18.

T. Machett, of Berners-street; for improvements in apparatus applicable to the burning of oil and other inflammable substances. December 1.

R. Dickinson, of Southwark; for the formation, coating, and covering of vessels or packages for containing, preserving, conveying, and transporting goods and products, whether in liquid or solid forms, and for other useful VOL. LXVIII.

purposes. Communicated to him by a foreigner-December 8.

C. Pearson, the younger, of Greenwich, R. Witty, of Stanley, and W: Gillman, of Whitechapel; for a new or improved method or methods of applying heat to certain useful purposes.December 13.

C. Harsleben, of Great Ormondstreet; for machinery for facilitating the working of mines, and the extraction of diamonds, and other precious stones, gold, silver, and other metals, from the ore, the earth, or the sand, which machinery is likewise applicable to other purposes. December 13.

J. Costigin, of Colton, Ireland; for improvements in steam machinery or apparatus. December 13.

P. Mackay, of Great Union-street, Borough; for improvements, by which the names of streets and other inscriptions will be rendered more durable and conspicuous. Communicated by a foreigner.-December 13.

W. Johnson, of Droitwich; for improvements in the mode of process and form of apparatus for the manufacturing of salt, and other purposes.--December 18.

Maurice de Tongh, of Warrington; for improvements in machinery, or apparatus for preparing rovings, and for spinning, twisting, and winding fibrous substances. December 18.

C. Harsleben, of Great Ormondstreet; for improvements in construct.. ing or building of ships and other vessels, applicable to various useful pur poses; and in machinery for propelling the same. December 20.

T. Quarrill, of Peter's Hill, Doctors' Commons; for improvements in the manufacture of lamps.-December 20."

W. Kingston, Portsmouth, and G. Stebbing, of Portsmouth; for improve-" ments in instruments, or apparatus for the more readily or certainly ascertaining the trim and stability of ships or other vessels.-December 20.

M. Wilson, of Warnford-court, London; for improvements in machinery for cleaning rice. Communicated by a foreigner.-December 20.

C. Seidler, of Crawford-street, Portman-square; for a method of drawing water out of mines, wells, pits, and other places. Communicated by a foreigner.-December 20.

F. Andrews, of Stanford Rivers, Essex; for improvements in the construcM*