mechanist, for certain improvements in machinery for producing knitted fabrics.

William Ryder, of Bolton, roller and spindle-maker, for certain improved apparatus for forging, drawing, moulding, or forming spindle-rollers, bolts, and various other like articles in metal.

William Henry Fox Talbot, of Locock Abbey, Wilts, esq., for improvements in obtaining pictures or representations of objects.

James Whitelaw and George Whitelaw, engineers, of Glasgow, for a new mode of propelling vessels through the water, with certain improvements on the steam-engine when used in connection therewith, part of which improvements are applicable to other purposes.

James Ransome and Charles May, of Ipswich, machine-makers, for improvements in the manufacture of railwaychairs, railway and other pins and bolts, and in wood fastenings and trenails.

George Edward Noone, of Hampstead, engineer, for improvements in dry gas

John Rand, of Howland-street, gentleman, for certain improvements in machinery for the manufacture of framework knitting or hosiery.

John William Neale, of Williamstreet, Kennington, engineer, and Jacque Edouard Duyck, of Swan-street, Old Kent-road, commission agent, for certain improvements in the manufacture of vinegar, and in the apparatus employed therein.

Benjamin Smith, of Stoke Prior, near Bromsgrove, butcher, for an improved apparatus for making salt from brine.

Anthony Todd Thomson, of Hindstreet, Manchester-square, doctor of medicine, for an improved method of manufacturing calomel and corrosive sublimate.

Thomas Clark, professor of chemistry, in Marischal College, Aberdeen, for a new mode of rendering certain waters (the water of the Thames being among the number) less impure and less hard

for the supply and use of manufactories, villages, towns, and cities.

Joseph Maudslay, of Lambeth, Surrey, engineer, for an improvement in the arrangement and combination of certain parts of steam-engines, to be used for steam navigation.

Laurence Kortright, of Oak Hall, East Ham, Essex, esq., for certain improvements in treating and preparing the substance commonly called "White Bone," and the fins and such like other parts of whales, and rendering the same fit for various commercial and useful purposes.

Joshua Field, of Lambeth, engineer, for an improved mode of effecting the operation of connecting, and disconnecting, from steam-engines, the paddle-wheels, used for steam navigation.

Anthony Theophilus Merry, of Birmingham, refiner of metals, for an improved process, or processes for obtaining zinc and lead from their respective ores, and for the calcination of other metallic bodies.

David Napier, of Mill Wall, engineer, for improvements in propelling vessels. Achille Elie Joseph Sovitas, of George-yard, Lombard-street, chant, for improvements in apparatus for regulating the flow of fluids. (A communication.)

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Morris West Ruthven, of Rotherham, engineer, for a new mode of increasing the power of certain media, when acted upon by rotary fans or other similar apparatus.

Goldsworthy Gurney, of Bude, Cornwall, esq., for improvements in the production and diffusion of light.

Alexander Parkes, of Birmingham, artist, for certain improvements in the production of works of art in metals by electric deposition.

James Furnival, of Warrington, currier, for an expeditious mode of unhairing, mastering, and tanning various descriptions of hides and skins.

William Jenkinson, of Salford, machine-maker, for certain improvements in machinery for preparing and spinning flax, silk, and other fibrous sub

stances.

John George Bodmer, of Manchester, engineer, for certain improvements in the construction of screwing-stocks, taps, and dies, and certain other tools or apparatus, or machinery, for cutting and working in metals.

James Anderson, of Newcastle-upon

Tyne, engineer, for improvements in windlasses.

Jonathan Beilby, of York, brewer, for improvements in brewing.

Christopher Edward Dampier, of Ware, gentleman, for improvements in weighing machines.

Frank Hills, and George Hills, of Deptford, manufacturing-chemists, for certain improvements in the manufacture of sulphuric acid and carbonate of soda.

Henry Brown, of Codnor-park ironworks, Derby, iron-manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of steel.

Lancelot Powell, of Clydach Work, Brecon, iron-master, and Robert Ellis, of Clydach, aforesaid, agent, for certain improvements in the manufacture of iron.

William Petrie, of Croydon, Surrey, gentleman, for a new mode of obtaining a motive power by voltaic electricity, applicable to engines and other cases where a motive power is required.

Benjamin Rankin of College-street, Islington, gentleman, for a new form and combination of and mode of manufacturing blocks for pavement.

Alfred Jeffery, of Prospect-place, New Hampton, gentleman, for a new method of defending the sheathing of ships, and of protecting their sides and bottoms.

Joseph Gibbs, of Kennington, civilengineer, for a new combination of materials for making bricks, tiles, pottery, and other useful articles, and a machine or machinery for making the same; and also a new mode or process of burning the same; which machine or machinery, and mode or process of burning, are also applicable to the making and burning of other descriptions of bricks, tiles, and pottery.

Miles Berry, of Chancery-lane, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for making or manufacturing nails and brads.

Charles Thomas Holcombe, of Bankside, Southwark, iron-merchant, for certain lubricating or preserving matters for wheels and axles, applicable also to the bearings, journals, or other parts of machinery.

Philemon Augustine Morley, of Birmingham, manufacturer, for certain improvements in the manufacture of sugar-moulds, dish-covers, and other articles of similar manufacture.

Edmund Taylor, of King Williamstreet, gentleman, for certain improvements in the construction of carriages used on railroads. (A communication.)

Joseph Woods, of Laund-place, Lambeth, civil-engineer, for certain improvements in locomotive engines, and also certain improvements in machinery for the production of rotatory motion for obtaining mechanical power, which improvements in machinery are also applicable for raising or impelling fluids.

William Lewis Rham, of Winkfield, Berks, clerk, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing land and sowing or depositing grain, seeds, and manure.

John Whitehouse, of Deptford, engineer, for an improved method of making boilers to be used in marine steam-engines.

William Joest, of Ludgate-hill, merchant, for improvements in propelling vessels.

George Bent Ollivant and Adam Howard, of Manchester, millwrights, for certain improvements in cylindrical printing machinery for printing calicoes and other fabrics, and in the apparatus connected therewith, which is also applicable to other useful purposes.

William Hannis Taylor, of Lambeth, esq., for certain improvements in propelling machinery.

Joseph Gibbs, of the Oval, Kennington, civil-engineer, for certain improvements in roads and railways, and in the means of propelling carriages thereon.

John George Bodmer, of Manchester, engineer, for certain improvements in machinery for propelling vessels on water, parts of which improvements apply also to steam-engines to be employed on land.

Edward Palmer, of Newgate-street, gentleman, for improvements in producing printing surfaces, and in the printing china, pottery-ware, music, maps, and portraits.

Alexander Horatio Simpson, of New Palace-yard, Westminster, gentleman, Peter Hunter Irvin, and Thomas Eugene Irvin, both of Charles-street, Hatton-garden, philosophical instrument makers, for an improved mode of producing light, and of manufacturing apparatus for the diffusion of light.

William Petrie, of Croydon, gentleman, for improvements in obtaining

mechanical power, which are also applicable for obtaining rapid motion.

Sir Samuel Brown, knight, of Netherbyers House, Ayton, Berwick, for improvements in the means of drawing or moving carriages and other machines along inclined planes, railways, and other roads, and for drawing or propelling vessels in canals, rivers, and other navigable waters.

Joseph Gauci, of North-crescent, Bedford-square, artist, and Alexander Bain, of Wigmore-street, Cavendish square, mechanist, for improvements in inkstands and inkholders.

Miles Berry, of Chancery-lane, patentagent, for a new or improved engine, machine, or apparatus, for producing or obtaining motive power by means of gases or vapours produced by combustion.

William Walker, the elder, of Standish-street, Liverpool, for an improvement or improvements in the manufacture of the detached lever watch.

George Thomas Day, of Upper Belgrave-place, Pimlico, gentleman, for an improved apparatus for creating draft, applicable to chimneys and other purposes.

John Henry Le Keux, of Southampton-street, Pentonville, for an improvement in line engraving, and in producing impressions therefrom.

Robert Stephenson, of Great Georgestreet, Westminster, civil-engineer, for certain improvements in the arrangement and combination of the parts of steam-engines of the sort commonly called locomotive-engines.

John Chater, of the Town of Nottingham, machine-maker, and Richard Gray, of the same place, lace-manufacturer, for improvements in machinery for the purpose of making lace and other fabrics, traversed, looped, or

woven.

Willoughby Methley and Thomas Charles Methley, of Frith-street, Soho, ironmongers, for improvements in machinery for raising, lowering, and moving bodies or weights.

William Losh, of Little Benton, Northumberland, esqr., for improvements in the manufacture of railway wheels.

Nathaniel Benjamin, of Camberwell, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of type.

William Knight, of Durham-street, Strand, gentleman, for an indicator for registering the number of passengers

using an omnibus or other passenger vehicles.

William Thomas Berger, of Upper Homerton, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of starch.

Robert Mallet, of Dublin, engineer, for certain improvements in protecting cast and wrought iron and steel, and other metals, from corrosion and oxidation; and in preventing the fouling of iron ships, or ships sheathed with iron, or other ships or iron buoys, in fresh or sea water.

Andrew M'Nab, of Paisley, North Britain, engineer, for an improvement or improvements in the making or construction of meters or apparatus for measuring water or other fluids.

Charles Wheatstone, of Conduitstreet, gentleman, for improvements in producing, regulating, and applying electric currents.

Benjamin Beale, of East Greenwich, engineer, for certain improvements in engines, to be worked by steam, water, gas, or vapours.

Thomas Peckston, of Arundel-street, Strand, Bachelor of Arts, and Philip Le Capelain, of the same place, coppersmith, for certain improvements in meters for measuring gas and other aeriform fluids.

Andrew Smith, of Belper, Derby, engineer, for certain improvements in the arrangement and construction of engines, to be worked by the force of steam, or other fluids; which improved engines are also applicable to the raising of water and other liquids.

John White Welch, of Austin-Friars, merchant, for an improved reverberatory furnace, to be used in the smelting of copper ore, or other ores which are or may be smelted in reverberatory furnaces.

Anthony Bernhard Von Rathen, of Kingston-upon-Hull, engineer, for improvements in high-pressure and other steam-boilers, combined with a new mode or principle of supplying them with water.

Joseph Ratcliffe, of Birmingham, manufacturer, for certain improvements in the construction and manufacture of hinges for hanging and closing doors.

John Lee, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, manufacturing chemist, for improvements in the manufacture of chlorine.

James Warren, of Montague-terrace, Mile End-road, for an improved machine for making screws.

William Craig, engineer, Robert Jarvie, rope-maker, and James Jarvie, rope-maker, all of Glasgow, in the king dom of Scotland, for certain improvements in machinery for preparing and spinning hemp, flax, wool, and other fibrous materials.

Samuel Brown, of Gravel-lane, Southwark, engineer, for improvements in the manufacture of metallic casks or vessels, and in tinning or zinking metal for such and other purposes.

John Seaward, and Samuel Seaward, of the Canal Iron Works, Poplar, engineers, for certain improvements in steam-engines.

John Harvig, of the Strand, gentleman, and Felix Moreau, of Holywellstreet, Millbank, sculptor, for a new or improved process or processes for sculpturing, moulding, engraving, and polishing stone, metals, and other sub

stances.

John Thomas Carr, of the town and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for improvements in steam-engines.

Frederick de Moleyns, of Cheltenham, gentleman, for certain improvements in the production or development of electricity, and the application of electricity for the obtainment of illumination and motion.

William Walker Jenkins, of Gred, in county of Worcester, manufacturer, for certain improvements in machines for the making of pins, and sticking the same into paper.

Edmund Morewood, of Highgate, Middlesex, gentleman, for an improved mode of preserving iron and other metals from oxidation or rust.

Richard Whitaker, of Cambridge, machinist, for improvements in cutting the edges of books, and paper for other purposes; and in impressing ornaments, letters, and figures on the binding of books and on other surfaces.

Theophile Antoine Wilhelme Count of Hompesch, of Mivart's Hotel, Brookstreet, Middlesex, for improvements in obtaining oils and other products from bituminous matters, and in purifying or rectifying oils obtained from such matters.

John Grafton, of Cambridge, civil engineer, for an improved method of manufacturing gas.

George Wildes, of Coleman-street, merchant, for improvements in the manufacture of white lead.

Joseph Drew, the younger, of Saint

Peter's Port, for an improved method of cutting and rolling lozenges, and also of cutting gun-wads, wafers, and all other similar substances, by means of a certain machine designed by him, and constructed by divers metals and woods.

Richard Else, of Gray's-inn, esq., for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for forcing and raising water and other fluids.

William Fairbairn, of Millwall, Poplar, engineer, for certain improvements in the construction and arrangement of steam-engines.

Miles Berry, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for a new or improved method or method or means of, and apparatus for, cleansing typographical characters or forms of type, after being used in printing.

Oglethorpe Wakelin Barratt, of Birmingham, metal-gilder, for certain improvements in the precipitation or deposition of metals.

Joseph Garnett, of Haslingden, dyer, and John Mason, of Rochdale, machinemaker, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus employed in the manufacture of yarns and cloth, and are also in possession of certain improvements applicable to the same.

Edward Loos de Schelestadt, engineer and chemist, and Etienne Sterlingue, tanner, of Regent's-square, in the county of Middlesex, for certain new or improved machinery or apparatus and process for tanning skins or hides, and preparing or operating upon vegetable and other substances.

Alphonse René Le Mire de Normandy, of Redcross-square, Cripplegate, doctor of medicine, for certain improvements in the manufacture of soap.

William Crosskill, of Beverley, ironfounder and engineer, for improvements in machinery, for rolling and crushing land, and in machinery to be used in the culture of land.

William Hickling Bennett, of Ravens bourne Wood-mills, Deptford, gentleman, for improvements in machinery for cutting wood, and in apparatus connected therewith, part of which may be applied to other purposes.

Charles Louis Stanislas Baron Heurteloup, of Albany-street, Regent's-park, for an improved manufacture of continuous priming for, and improved mecha nism for the application of the same to, certain descriptions of firearms.