1424. Christopher Nickels, of Albany-road, Surrey, and James Hobson, of Leicester, for improvements in the manufacture of carpets and other piled fabrics.-June 11.

1438. Robert William Sievier, of Upper Holloway, and James Crosby, of Manchester, for improvements in looms for weaving. -June 14.

1440. John Henry Johnson, of Lincoln's-inn-fields, for improvements in railway-brakes,-being a communication.-June 14. 1441. Thomas Richardson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for improvements in the manufacture of certain salts of magnesia, and a red coloring matter.-June 14.

1442. Joseph Leon Talabot, of Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, and John Davie Morries Stirling, of the Larches, near Birmingham, for improvements in the manufacture of iron.-June 14.

1443. Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents, Chancerylane, for an improved mode of manufacturing cast-steel,-being a communication.-June 14.

1453. James Dilkes and Edward Turner, of Leicester, for improvements in door-springs.-June 15.

1455. William Gossage, of Widnes, for improvements in obtaining certain saline compounds from solutions containing such compounds. June 15.

1458. William Baddeley, of Angel-terrace, Islington, for an improved label damper.-June 16.

1463. James William Gibson, of Long-acre, for a new method of pavement, tending to secure the evenness of the road and proper adhesion to the foot.-June 16.

1465. Joseph Ilsley, of Lisbon, for improved telegraphic apparatus.-June 16.

1469. Clinton Roosevelt, of New York, for an invention for reducing the friction of the journals of railway and other carriages; which is also applicable to the journals of machinery.

-June 16.

1471. Benjamin Finch, of Dublin, for improvements in apparatus for supplying water to steam-boilers.-June 16. 1490. James Shanks, of St. Helen's, Lancashire, for improvements in the manufacture of alkali from common salt.-June 18. 1497. Samuel Schofield, of Oldham, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing and spinning cotton and other fibrous materials.-June 18.

1504. William Hodgson and Henry Hodgson, both of Bradford, Yorkshire, for improvements in machinery for spinning wool, hair, silk, flax, and other fibrous substances.-June 20. 1507. William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, Chancery-lane, for an improved manufacture of handles for knives and other similar articles,-being a communication.-June 20.