87 CELESTIAL PHENOMENA, FOR FEBRUARY, 1833. 00 Clock before the 13 m.57 s. 1 0 0 Orises 7h. 41 m. sets 4 h. 48m. 1 0 0 D. H. M. 15 0 0 rises 7 h. 17 m. sets 5h. 13 m. R. A. 19 h. 40 m. dec. 15 0 0 Drises 4 h. 55 m. A. M. sets 22. 27. S. 1h. 4 m. P. M. 0 0 R. A. 3 h. 24 m. dec. 15 0 0 R. A. 21 h. 11 m. dec. 18. 1 0 0 R. A. 3 h. 46 m. dec. 15 0 0 R. A. 0 h. 43 m. dec. 5. 8. 59. S. 1 0 0 Pallas R. A. Oh. 24 m. dec. 15 0 0 Juno R. A. 15 h. 30 m. dec. 100 Ceres R. A. 2 h. 23 m. 15 0 0 Pallas R. A. 0 h. 44 m. dec. 10. 12. 33. S. dec 9.41. N. 0 O Saturn and Jupiter in opposi 15 0 0 tion. rises 1 h. 11 m. p. m. sets 17 00 4 h. 30 m. A. M. 17 13 0 D in Apogee. 18 7 38 in conj. with long 19. 3 14 0 perihelio. 3 14 0 in conj. with Jupiter long. 4. in Leo, lat. 54. N. in Aquarius, D lat. 2. 13. S. lat. 2. 5. S. diff. of lat. 8. enters Pisces. Ecliptic conj. or rises 7 h. 7 m. 22. m. new moon. 14 m. 2 s. sets 5 h. rises 7 h. 47 m. A. M. sets 6 h. 7 m. P. M. 21 6 16 Jupiter's second sat. will em. 21 20 30 D in conj. with Jupiter, long. 27. in Pisces lat. 4. 48. S. Jupiter, lat. 1. 7. S. diff. of lat. 3. 41. 23 8 22 D in conj. with Q long. 21. in Aries, lat. 5. 8. S. lat 1. 24. N. diff. of lat. 6. 32. 6 230 7 2 47 passes the meridian. 76 29 passes the meridian. 7 235 2 passes the meridian.. 25 0 7 14 27 passes the meridian. 10 0 0 Clock before the 14 m. 34 s. 10 0 0 Orises 7h. 26 m. sets 5 h. 4 m. 25 0 0 0 Clock before the 13 m 21 sec. Orises 6 h. 56 m. sets 5 h. 31 m. Drises 9 h. 27 m. A.M. sets 11 h. 48 m. P. M. in or first quarter. in conj. with long. 9. in Gemini. lat. 3. 37. S. lat. 2 2. N. diff. lat. 5. 39. 28 0 0 and ♂ in quadrature. J. LEWTHWAITE. Rotherhithe. The height of the Barometer during the early part of January is worthy of particular remark, it having on the 8th attained a greater altitude than at any time within the last five years. On 28th December, 1827, it was 30,58. On the evening of the 22d, about half past seven, a remarkably brilliant meteor was seen in the North, rather to the Eastward of Cygnus. Edmonton. CHARLES HENRY ADAMS. Latitude 51° 37 32 N. 3 51 West of Greenwich. To WILLIAM CHURCH, of Bordsley Green, near Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Esq. for his having invented certain improvements in apparatus to be employed in the transportation of goods or passengers; parts of which said improvements are also applicable to the ordinary purposes of steam engines.—[Sealed 9th February, 1832.] THE objects proposed under this Patent we alluded to in our comments upon an article written upon steam carriages, in the First Vol. of our Conjoined Series, page 144. We then gave a general idea of the construction of Doctor VOL. II. N Church's new steam coach, and of the peculiar features which it embraced; the following Specification will exhibit its details: These improvements in apparatus to be employed in the transportation of goods and passengers, parts of which are also applicable to steam engines, apply particularly to the construction of locomotive carriages intended to convey passengers and goods on ordinary roads by the agency of steam, and are comprehended under the three following general heads: First, the construction of the framing of the carriage which is to support the bodies of the vehicle, and enclose the machinery by which it is impelled, and the manner of connecting the ribs or rails for the purpose of giving great strength from a comparatively small weight of material ;— Second, the peculiar construction of the boilers and flues, by which a sufficient quantity of water may be converted into steam to work the engine ;-Third, the construction of the running wheels of the carriage, designed particularly to prevent concussions, as they pass over inequalities on the surface of the road, which are made with elastic rims, that bend into oblate figures or flatted curves, as they come in contact with the ground, thereby preventing the wheels from sinking or sliding round. In constructing the framing of the carriage for the purposes stated under the first head, I have endeavoured to form, arrange, and connect the timbers, ribs, rails, rods, tubes, or bars of the same, so as to constitute a skeleton framing, which shall be trussed, and supported in every part and way that is likely to be exposed to pressure, strain, or twist, occasioned by weight, unequal force, or vibration: in order that each timber, rib, rail, rod, tube, or bar of the framing may receive and sustain its due proportion of weight or strain, and thereby relieve and support the part on which the force immediately acts; or in other words, that the strain or force may be as equally diffused as possible over all parts of the skeleton frame. And further, I so construct the said skeleton framing, that I am enabled to enclose within it the boilers, engines, and machinery for propelling the carriage, and also to support by it the carriage bodies for the reception of passengers and luggage. In arranging the parts of the skeleton framing, I form what may be called an engine room, or space for the reception of the engines, boilers, and machinery, about equal in height to that of the bodies of the intended vehicle. In the accompanying drawings (see Plate IV.) fig. 1,represents a side elevation of a complete skeleton framing for a carriage constructed upon the principles above set forth. Fig. 2, is a horizontal view of the same as seen on the top. When the framing is constructed of wooden rails, as represented in the figures, I connect or unite them together by clips or clamps of iron or other metal, by which means, I avoid the necessity of morticing and tenoning the joints of timber, and retain the entire substance and strength of the wood without having injured the fibres. The framing may be constructed by connecting rods, ribs, bars, or tubes of metal upon the principles here set out, the junctions being secured by socket joints, fastened by cotters, a specimen of which is shown at a, a, in fig. 1, which are there adopted for the convenience of more readily attaching and detaching the working cylinders and their appendages. In describing the peculiar construction of the boiler, furnace, aud flues, it is to be first observed, that the boiler consists of a combination of tubes filled with water, arranged in vertical positions side by side, in circular or polygonal ranges, so as to form or constitute a furnace, the |