proved apparatus for vaporizing benzole, or other suitable volatile hydro-carbon, and mixing it with atmospheric air, so that the mixture may be burnt for the purposes of illumination or otherwise.-April 29.

1049. James Bristow, of Bouverie-street, and Henry Attwood, of Holland-street, Blackfriars-road, for improvements in the means of consuming smoke.-April 29.

1064. François Monfrant, of Paris, for improvements in lubricating materials,-being a communication.-May 2. 1089. Thomas Masters, of Oxford-street, for improvements in apparatus for freezing, cooling, and churning.-May 4. 1122. William Longmaid and John Longmaid, both of Beaumontsquare, for improvements in treating waste products obtained in smelting and otherwise treating ores and minerals, and in producing a valuable product or products therefrom.-May 6. 1135. John Fisher, of Liverpool, for improvements in machinery for propelling vessels, and in the mode of manufacturing the same.-May 9.

1149. George Roberton and Alexander Roberton, both of Bradford, Yorkshire, for improvements in apparatus for drying and finishing woven fabrics.-May 10.

1151. John Henry Johnson, of Lincoln's-inn-fields, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for effecting agricultural operations,-being a communication.-May 10.

1156. Marie Pierre Ferdinand Mazier, of Aigle, France, for a machine for cutting and reaping corn, corn crops, and other plants.-May 11.

1159. Henry Potter Burt, of Charlotte-row, for improvements in portable houses.-May 11.

1187. Edward Taylor Bellhouse, of the Eagle Foundry, Manchester, for improvements in steam-boilers.-May 13. 1236. Edward Briggs, of the Castleton Mills, near Rochdale, for improvements in the manufacture of pile fabrics, and in the machinery or apparatus employed therein.-May 18.

1245. Charles De Bergue, of Dowgate-hill, for improvements in the permanent way of railways, and also in chairs, and in sleepers for permanent way.-May 19.

1258. William Chisholm, of Holloway, for improvements in the purification of coal-gas for the purposes of illuminating and heating, and obtaining by the ingredients used therefor, manures, salts of ammonia, and sulphur.-May 21.

1293. Charles Cowper, of Southampton-buildings, for improvements in the manufacture of iron,-being a communication.May 26.

1351. John Robert Johnson, of Stanbrook Cottage, Hammersmith, for improvements in the manufacture of type and articles used in letter-press printing.-June 2.

1353. Richard Longden Hattersley, of Keighley, for improvements in machinery for forging iron and other metals.-June 2.

1359. William Boyd, of Belfast, for improved apparatus for manufacturing chlorine or chlorides.-June 2.

1519. Juste Giret, of Paris, for certain improvements in artificial and malleable stones, and in the apparatus to be used for such purposes.-June 21.

1613. Thomas William Kennard, of Duke-street, Adelphi, for improvements in iron bridges.-July 6.

1623. John Knox Stuart, of Glasgow, for improvements in hats and other coverings for the head.-July 7.

1656. Andrew Burns, of Glasgow, for improvements in constructing iron ships, boats, boilers, and other metallic structures.— July 12.

1697. William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, Chancery-lane, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for digging, excavating, and removing earth,-a communication.July 15.

1698. Edmund Reynolds Fayerman, of Shaftesbury-crescent, for a method of and instrument for keeping time in music.July 16.

1709. Thomas Wood and George Wade, both of Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for opening, cleaning, carding, or otherwise preparing cotton, or other fibrous materials to be spun.-July 18.

1713. Richard Dart, of Bedford-street, Covent-garden, and Edward Silverwood, of the same place, for the adaptation of loom machinery to the purposes of embroidery for badges worn by the police, railway officials, and other officers, and which require a succession of figures.-July 19.

1734. Mary Ann Rylands, of Kingston-upon-Hull, for improvements in yards and spars of ships and other vessels,-being a communication.-July 22.

1738. Frederick Warner and John Lee, of the Crescent, Jewinstreet, for improvements in water-closets and urinals.-July 23. 1740. James Murdoch Napier, of York-road, Lambeth, for improvements in letter-press and other raised surface printing machines.-July 23.

1747. Robert Bitten, of Dartford, for improvements in apparatus for ascertaining and indicating the supply of water in steamboilers. July 25.

1748. Warren de la Rue, of Bunhill-row, for means of treating and preparing certain tar or naphtha, and applying products thereof.-July 25.

1749. John Ferguson, of the Heathfield Brick and Pottery Works, Glasgow, for improvements in kilns for baking or burning clay. July 25.

1750. Charles Frederick Spieker, of New York, for improvements in generating and fixing ammonia.-July 25.

1751. William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, Chancery-lane, for improved machinery or apparatus for stopping cables, being a communication.-July 25.

1752. Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents, Chancery-lane, for an improved manufacture of cutting tools,being a communication.-July 25.

1753. John Dawson, of Linlithgow, Scotland, for a new instrument or apparatus for the purpose of preventing fraud in drawing off liquids.-July 26.

1759. Farnham Maxwell Lyte, of Florian, Torquay, for improvements in obtaining iodide of potassium when treating certain metals.-July 26.

1760. Joseph Barrans, of Peckham-lane, Deptford, for improvements in steam-boilers.-July 26.

1762. Lansing E. Hopkins, of New York, for the manufacture of hat-bodies of fur and other like substances.-July 26. 1763.-Alfred William Warder, of Sydney-street, Brompton, for improvements in gas-stoves.-July 26.

1764. Francis Arding, of Uxbridge, for improvements in threshing machines. July 27.

1773. Theodore Dethier, of Pimlico, for an improved machine for mortising, drilling, and boring.-July 29.

1775. James Edward Mc Connell, of Wolverton, for improvements in steam-engines and boilers for marine purposes.-July 29. 1776. James Mackay, of Aigburth, near Liverpool, for improved apparatus for propelling vessels.-July 29.

1790. John Gray, of Rotherhithe, for improved apparatus for consuming smoke.-August 1.

1791. Philipp Schäfer and Frederick Schäfer, of Brewer-street, for an improvement in travelling bags.-August 1.

1795. Augustus Russell Pope, of Massachusetts, America, for a new and useful or improved electro-magnetic alarm apparatus, to be applied to a door or window, or both, of a dwellinghouse or other building, for the purpose of giving an alarm in case of an attempt to open said door or window.-August 1. 1796. Robert Griffiths, of Mornington-road, Regent's-park, for improvements in the manufacture of rivets and bolts.-Aug. 1. 1797. Charles May, of Great George-street, Westminster, for improvements in the manufacture of bricks.-August 1. 1798. Richard Holme, of Kingston-upon-Hull, for improvements in the manufacture of gas.-August 1.

1814. Charles Frederick Stansbury, of Pall-mall, for certain improvements in machinery for tempering clay and pressing or converting it into bricks,-being a communication.-August 3. 1815. William Sargeant Roden and William Thomas, both of Ebbw Vale Iron Works, for improvements in rolling metals.— August 3.

1824. Richard Brown Roden, of Abersycham Iron Works, near Newport, Monmouthshire, for improvements in rolling iron and all other malleable metals and alloys.-August 4.

CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR NOVEMBER, 1853.