improvements in castors, applicable to cabinet furniture and other purposes.-Sealed 14th January-6 months for inrolment.

William King Westly, of Leeds, flax machinist, for certain improvements in carding, combing, straightening, cleaning, and preparing for spinning, hemp, flax, and other fibrous substances.-Sealed 14th January-6 months for inrolment.

William Kenworthy, of Blackburn, spinner, and James Bullough, of the same place, overlooker, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for weaving-Sealed 14th January-6 months for inrolment.

Charles Cameron, Esq., of Mount Vernon, Edinburgh, for certain improvements in engines, to be actuated by steam and other elastic fluids.-Sealed 14th January-6 months for inrolment.

Samuel Hall, of Basford, Nottingham, civil engineer, for improvements in the combustion of fuel and smoke.Sealed 14th January-6 months for inrolment.

Alexander Jones, of King-street, London, engineer, for improvements in the manufacture of copper tubes and vessels.-Sealed 14th January-6 months for inrolment.

Edward Foard, of Queen's Head-lane, Islington, machinist, for an improved method or improved methods of supplying fuel to the fire-places or grates of steam-engineboilers, brewers' coppers, and other furnaces, as well also to the fire-places employed in domestic purposes, and generally to the supplying fuel to furnaces or fire-places in such a manner as to consume the smoke generally produced in such furnaces or fire-places.-Sealed 16th January—-6 months for inrolment.

John Annes, of Plymouth, painter, for a new and improved method of making paint from materials not before used for that purpose.-Sealed 16th January-4 months for inrolment.

James Smith, of Deanstone Works, Kilmadock, Perth, cotton-spinner, for certain improvements in the preparing, spinning, and weaving of cotton, silk, wool, and other fibrous substances, and in measuring and folding woven fabrics, and in the machines and instruments for these purposes.-Sealed 19th February-6 months for inrol

ment.

Thomas Robinson, of Wilmington-square, Middlesex, Esq., for improvements in drying woollen and other fabrics.-Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment.

Thomas Vaux, of Frederick-street, Gray's-Inn-lane, worsted manufacturer, for improvements in horse-shoes.— Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment.

Caleb Bedells, of Leicester, manufacturer; Christopher Nickels, of York-road, Lambeth, Gent., and Archibald Turner, foreman to the said Caleb Bedells,—for improvements in the manufacture of braids and plats,-being partly a communication.-Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment.

John Barber, of Manchester, engraver, for certain improvements in machinery, for the purpose of tracing or etching designs or patterns, on cylindrical surfaces. Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment.

Frederick Steiner, of Hyndburn Cottage, Lancaster,— Turkey-red dyer, for improvements in looms for weaving and cutting asunder double piled cloths; and a machine for winding weft, to be used therein,-being a communication.-Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment.

John Cox, of Gregorie Mills, Edinburgh, tanner, for improvements in apparatus for assisting or enabling persons to swim, or float, or progress in water.-Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment.

Charles Berwick Curtis, of Acton, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., for a method or methods of making signals by self-acting apparatus, to be used on railways, for the

purpose of obviating collisions between successive trains.Sealed 19th January-6 months for inrolment.

Angier March Perkins, of Great Coram-street, engineer, for improvements in apparatus for heating by the circulation of hot water, and for the construction of pipes and tubes for such and other purposes.-Sealed 21st January -6 months for inrolment.

John Melville, of Upper Harley-street, Esq., for improvements in propelling vessels.-Sealed 21st January6 months for inrolment.

William Hill Darker, Sen. and William Hill Darker, Jun., both of Lambeth, engineers, and William Wood, of Wilton, carpet manufacturer, for certain improvements in looms for weaving.-Sealed 21st January-6 months for inrolment.

John Bradford Furnival, of Street Ashton, Warwick, farmer, for improvements in the construction and application of air vessels,-being a communication.-Sealed 21st January-6 months for inrolment.

William Cooper, of Layham, Suffolk, iron-founder, for an improved method of constructing thrashing machines and other agricultural instruments.-Sealed 21st January -2 months for inrolment.

Isham Baggs, of Cheltenham, gentleman, for improvements in printing.-Sealed 23rd January-6 months for inrolment.

Peter Fairbairn, of Leeds, engineer, and William Suttill, of the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, flax spinner, for certain improvements in drawing flax, hemp, wool, silk, and other fibrous substances.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment.

Edward Henshall, of Huddersfield, carpet manufacturer and merchant, for certain improvements in making, manufacturing, or producing carpets and hearth rugs.-Sealed 26th January-4 months for inrolment.

Nathaniel Lloyd, of Manchester, and Henry Rowbotham, of the same place, calico printer, for certain improvements in thickening and preparing colours for printing calicoes and other substances.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment.

Nathan Waddington, of Hulme, Lancaster, engineer, for certain improvements in the construction of steam-boil-. ers, and furnaces for heating the same.-Sealed 26th of January-6 months for inrolment.

Cornelius Alfred Jaquin, of Huggin-lane, for improvements in the manufacture of covered buttons; and in preparing of metal surfaces for such manufacture, and other purposes.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment.

John Bradford Furnival, of Street Ashton, farmer, for improvements in evaporating fluids, applicable to the manufacture of salt, and to other purposes where evaporation of fluids is required,-being a communication.-Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment.

Richard Jenkyn, of Hoyle, Cornwall, machinist, for certain improvements in valves, for hydraulic machines. Sealed 26th January-6 months for inrolment.

William Gall, of Beresford-terrace, Walworth, gentleman, for certain improvements in the construction of locomotive engines, and of the carriages used on railways, applicable in part to carriages used on common roads,-being a communication.-Sealed 28th January-6 months for inrolment.

William Currie Harrison, of Newland-street, Eatonsquare, Pimlico, engineer, for an improved turning table, for railway purposes.-Sealed 28th January-6 months for inrolment.

Joseph Prior, Wendron, Cornwall, builder, for an improved thrashing machine.-Sealed 28th January-6 months for inrolment.