ments in manufacturing oxide of lead, applicable to making paints, and to other purposes; also, certain improvements in the process of bleaching and purifying oils, suitable for mixing paints and other oils and fatty matters.Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment.

To John Murray, of Fitzroy-square, in the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for his invention of certain improvements in the construction of carriages.-Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment.

To Moses Poole, of Lincoln's Inn, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for certain improvements in ordnance and other fire-arms, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-Sealed 19th January-6

months for inrolment.

To Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnell, of Bayswater terrace, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., for his inven tion of certain improvements on snuffers.-Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment.

To William Stedman Gillett, of Guildford-street, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for his invention of improvements in trimming and facilitating the progress of vessels in water.-21st January-6 months for inrolment.

To Julius Oliver, of Castle-street, Falcon-square, in the city of London, gentleman, for a certain improvement in the filters employed in sugar refining, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-24th January-6 months for inrolment.

To Joshua Cuttel, of Hollingforth, near Huddersfield, in the county of York, woollen manufacturer, for improvements in producing slubbings of, and in spinning wool, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.— 26th January-6 months for inrolment.

To James Hellewell, of Springfield-lane, in the borough of Salford, and county of Lancaster, dyer, and Aaron Fearn, of the borough of Salford, and county of Lancaster, dyer, for their invention of certain improvements in the process of dyeing and scouring piece goods and other fabrics, and in the machinery or apparatus whereby the same is performed.-Sealed 27th January-6 months for inrolment.

To Miles Berry, of the office for patents, Chancery-lane, in the county of Middlesex, patent agent, for an invention of certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for making or manufacturing metal screws, part or parts of which are also applicable to shaping metal for other purposes.-Sealed 27th January-6 months for inrolment.

CELESTIAL PHENOMENA, FOR FEBRUARY, 1837.

METEOROLOGICAL

JOURNAL,

FOR DECEMBER, 1856, AND JANUARY, 1837.

The sudden and great fall of the thermometer on the morning of the 2nd, has not been equalled since February, 1830; the rise on the same day was even more rapid.

Edmonton.

CHARLES HENRY ADAMS.

Latitude 51o 37 32 N.

Longitude 3 51 West of Greenwich,

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Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures.

CONJOINED SERIES.

No. LX.

Recent Patents.

TO WILLIAM CHURCH, of Heywood House, Bordesley Green, in the county of Warwick, gentleman, for his invention of certain improvements in apparatus to be employed in the conveyance of goods and passengers by land or water; part of which said improvements are also applicable to the ordinary purposes of steamengines and other steam apparatus. [Sealed 16th March, 1835.]

(Continued from p. 265.)

THE improvements in locomotive carriages, which form the third head of the present inventions, are exhibited in the several figures of Plate XV. First, in reference to the construction of the boilers for steam locomotive carriages to be employed on common roads: fig. 1, is a plan or horizontal view; fig. 2, is a side elevation; fig. 3, is a longitudinal section taken vertically; and figs. 4, and 5, are horizontal

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sections of the same: a, a, a, are the various water chambers of the boiler, surrounding the furnace flues, and fuel or coking chamber; b, the steam chamber, where the safety valves and steam gauge should be placed; c, the furnace or fire-place; d, the firebars, which are composed of tubes filled with water, and connected to the transverse water chambers e, and f The bridge is shown at g; and h, h, are flues passing upward through the main water chamber, delivering into the chimney i. The fuel is supplied to the furnace through the hopper k, furnished with double shutters, and opening into the coking oven or chamber 7, where the coal becomes coked, and partly ignited; the flame, smoke, or gasses, produced by the coking of the coal, passing through the opening m, to the ignited fuel in the furnace, where the smoke becomes consumed in its passage to the chimney; and through this opening the coked fuel descends to supply the fire. The aperture n, is for supplying the coking oven with air to produce partial ignition; and o, is a forked holder, which retains the fuel in the oven during the time of stoking, and is moved over the aperture m, when required, by a rack and pinion, or by other means; p, p, are the doors which allow of the tubular flues being cleaned when requisite ; q, q, are standards bolted on to the top part of the boiler, to which the cylinders of the engine are attached; r, r, are steam-ways, connecting the top of the coking oven with the steam chamber. As the same description of boiler is shown, connected with the other parts of the locomotive carriage in the drawings hereinafter referred to, no particular description is necessary.

In reference to the arrangements of the various parts of a locomotive engine, intended to run upon common roads, to propel carriages, fig. 6, is a side elevation of the loco