John Groom, of Oldham, mechanic, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing, slubbing, and roving cotton, wool, and other fibrous materials.-Sealed 22nd November.

New Patents

SEALED IN ENGLAND.

1844.

To George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vauxhall, Gent., George Gwynne, of Princes-street, Cavendish-square, Gent., and James Pillans Wilson, of Belmont aforesaid, Gent., for improvements in the manufacture of night lights. Sealed 29th October-6 months for inrolment.

Alexander Parkes, of Birmingham, artist, for improvements in the manufacture of certain alloys or combinations of metals, and in depositing certain metals. Sealed 29th October-6 months for inrolment.

George Robert D' Harcourt, of Old Jewry, Gent., for improve

ments in ascertaining and checking the number of checks or tickets which have been used and marked, applicable for railoffices and other places. Sealed 29th October-6 months for inrolment.

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Thomas Squire, of Warrington, Lancashire, tanner, for improvements in tanning hides and skins. Sealed 29th October-6 months for inrolment.

Thomas Fuller, of Manchester, engineer, for certain improvements in machinery, tools, or apparatus for turning, boring, and cutting metals and other substances. Sealed 29th October6 months for inrolment.

William Crofts, of Nottingham, lace manufacturer, and James Gibbons, of New Radford, machinist, for certain improvements in the manufacture of figured or ornamented lace or net of various textures. Sealed 31st October-6 months for inrolment.

George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vauxhall, Gent., George Gwynne, of Princes-street, Cavendish-square, Gent., and James

Pillans Wilson, of Belmont aforesaid, Gent., for improvements in treating fatty and oily matters, and in the manufacture of candles. Sealed 31st October-6 months for inrolment. George Beadon, of Taunton, Somersetshire, Gent., for improvements in life boats or rafts, and in apparatus for raising or lowering the masts of vessels; which improvements in raising or lowering, are applicable to other purposes. Sealed 31st October-6 months for inrolment.

William Newman, of Birmingham, brass-founder, for a certain improvement or certain improvements in window blinds.— Sealed 2nd November-6 months for inrolment.

Charles Smith, of Newcastle-street, Strand, Gent., for new and improved methods in the construction and application of a variety of cooking, culinary, and domestic articles and utensils, some of which are applicable to cleaning, and a variety of similar useful purposes. Sealed 2nd November-6 months for

inrolment.

Jean Baptiste Maniquet, of the Sabloniere Hotel, Leicester-square, Gent., for improvements in doubling, twisting, and reeling silk, cotton, and other substances. Sealed 2nd November6 months for inrolment. William Bewley, of Dublin, Gent., for improvements in fastenings for doors, windows, and other places where fastenings are used. Sealed 2nd November-6 months for inrolment. Thomas Brown Jordan, of Cottage-road, Pimlico, mathematical divider, for improvements in the manufacture of blocks or surfaces for surface printing, stamping, embossing, and moulding. Sealed 2nd November-6 months for inrolment.

William Brunton, Jun., of Pool, near Truro, Cornwall, engineer, for improvements in apparatus for dressing ores. Sealed 2nd November-6 months for inrolment.

Thomas Unsworth, of Derby, silk weaver, for an improved manufacture of elastic fabric. Sealed 2nd November-6 months for inrolment.

Joseph Thomas, of Finch-lane, publisher, for a new and improved tube, being a communication. Sealed 5th November-6 months for inrolment.

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Henry Atkins, of Nottingham, lace manufacturer, for certain improvements in the manufacture of net lace. Sealed 5th November-6 months for inrolment.

John Groom, of Oldham, Lancashire, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing, slubbing, and roving cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances. Sealed 7th November-6 months for inrolment.

Stephen Geary, of Hamilton-place, New-road, architect and engineer, for certain improvements in the machinery, apparatus, and arrangements for the supply and distribution of water for public and private uses, but more particularly in cases of fire. Sealed 7th November-6 months for inrolment.

Henry Borriskill Taylor, of Piccadilly, lamp manufacturer, for improvements in apparatus for transmitting light from lamp and other burners. Sealed 7th November-6 months for inrolment.

Daniel Chandler Hewitt, of Hanover-street, Hanover-square, musical instrument maker, for improvements in certain stringed and wind musical instruments. Sealed 9th November- - 6 months for inrolment.

David Auld, engineer, of Dalmarnoch Road, and Andrew Auld, engineer, of West-street, Tradestown, Glasgow, for an improved method or methods of regulating the pressure and generation of steam in steam boilers and generators. Sealed 9th November-6 months for inrolment.

William Prosser, jun., of Windsor-terrace, Pimlico, Gent., for improvements in the construction of roads, and in carriages to run thereon. Sealed 9th November-6 months for inrolment. Richard Harris the elder, of Leicester, manufacturer, for improvements in machinery employed in the manufacture of looped fabrics. Sealed 9th November-6 months for inrolment. Charles Derosne, of Rue des Batailles, Chaillot, near Paris, Gent., for certain improvements in extracting sugar or syrups from cane juice and other substances containing sugar, and in refining sugar and syrups,-being an extension for the term of six years from the expiration of the term of the original letters patent. Sealed 9th November.

John Dearman Dunnicliff, of Nottingham, lace manufacturer, William Crofts, of New Lenton, Nottingham, lace manufacturer, and John Woodhouse Bagley, of New Radford, mechanic, for certain improvements in the manufacture of lace and other weavings. Sealed 13th November-6 months for inrolment.

Mark Freeman, of Sutton, in the county of Surrey, Esq., for improvements in working or dressing the surface of stone. Sealed 14th November-6 months for inrolment.

Fredrick Steiner, of Hyndburn Cottage, Lancashire, Turkey-red dyer, for a new coloring matter to be used in dyeing certain colors on cotton, woollen, silk, and linen fabrics. Sealed 14th November-6 months for inrolment.

William North, of Stangate, slater, for improvements in covering roofs and flats with slate. Sealed 14th November-6 months for inrolment.

Isaac Farrell, of Great Brunswick-street, Dublin, architect, for certain improvements in machinery whereby carriages may be impelled on railways and tramways by means of stationary engines or other power, including certain apparatus connected with the carriages to run on same. Sealed 14th November6 months for inrolment. Francis Watteen, of Finsbury-square, merchant, for improvements in preventing incrustation in steam boilers and steam generators. Sealed 16th November- 6 months for inrolment. Joseph Maudslay, of Lambeth, engineer, for certain improvements in steam engines. Sealed 16th November-6 months for inrolment.

Francis Higginson, of Rochester, Lieutenant in her Majesty's navy, and Edward Robert Coles, of Rochester aforesaid, merchant, for certain improvements in the construction of buildings generally. Sealed 21st November-6 months for inrol

ment.

David Metcalf, of Leeds, dyer, for a mode of manufacturing or preparing a new vegetable preparation, applicable to dyeing blue and other colors. Sealed 21st November-6 months for inrolment.

John Spencer, agent of the Phoenix Iron Works, West Bromwich,

Staffordshire, for improvements in manufacturing or preparing plates of iron or other metal for roofing and other purposes to which the same may be applicable. Sealed 23rd November6 months for inrolment.

CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR DECEMBER, 1844.

687 in conj. with the D diff. of dec. 16 3 22

in conj. with the D diff. of dec. 22 13
4. 42. S.

Venus R. A. 14h. 57m. dec. 14. 26 7 38 2's first sat. will em.