William Church, of Birmingham, civil engineer, and Jonathan Harlow, of the same place, manufacturer, for certain improvements in the mode of manufacturing metallic tubes, and in the mode of joining them or other tubes or pieces, for various useful purposes.-Sealed 16th December-6 months for inrolment.

Thomas Starkey, of Birmingham, copper cap manufacturer, for improvements in percussion caps for discharging fire-arms.— Sealed 16th December-6 months for inrolment.

John Americus Fanshawe, of Hatfield-street, Christ Church, Gent., for an improved manufacture of water-proof fabric, applicable to the purposes of covering and packing bodies, buildings, and goods, exposed to water and damp.-Sealed 16th December-6 months for inrolment.

William Buckwell, of Trinity-street, Borough, civil engineer, for improvements in scaffolding or frame-work, for building purposes.-Sealed 16th December-6 months for inrolment. Charles Loosey, of Half-moon-street, Piccadilly, civil engineer, for improvements in steam-engines, and which improvements are also applicable in raising or forcing water, and propelling vessels.-Sealed 16th December-6 months for inrolment. John Bould, of Ovenden, Halifax, cotton spinner, for an improvement or improvements in condensing steam-engines.-Sealed 16th December-6 months for inrolment.

Antoine Jean François Claudet, of High Holborn, glass merchant, for certain improvements in the process or means of, and apparatus for, obtaining images or representations of nature or art.-Sealed 18th December-6 months for inrolment. Henry Hough Watson, of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancaster, consulting chemist, for certain improvements in dressing, stiffening, and finishing cotton, and other fibrous substances, and textile and other fabrics,-part or parts of which improvements are applicable to the manufacture of paper, and also to some of the processes or operations connected with printing calicoes and other goods.—Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrolment.

William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for certain improvements in lamps and burners, and in the means of supplying air and heat thereto, for the support of combustion,-being a communication.Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrolment,

William Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery-lane,

civil engineer, for certain improvements in cleansing wool, and facilitating the operation of dyeing; and also in washing and bleaching cotton yarns or fabrics,-being a communication.— Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrolment.

Ovid Topham, of Whitecross-street, engineer, for improvements in engines, machines, apparatus, or means for extinguishing or stopping the progress of fire in any room or part of different buildings, which may have become ignited, such as noblemen. or gentlemen's mansions, houses, factories, store and warehouses, and consequently preserving them from destruction, and preventing the loss of life.-Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrolment.

Ceorge Palmer Henry, of Peckham, chemist, for improvements in apparatus, to be applied to the glass chimneys of gas burners.-Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrolment.

John Cox, of Gougie Mills, Edinburgh, tanner and glue-maker, for certain improved processes of tanning.-Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrolment.

John Oliver York, of Upper Coleshill-street, Eaton-square, engineer, for improvements in the construction of railway axles and wheels.-Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrolment. William Carron, of Birmingham, lathe-maker, for improvements in the construction of clogs and pattens.-Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrolment.

William Henry Smith, of Finsbury Chambers, Bloomfield-street, civil engineer, for certain improvements in the construction and manufacture of connectors or fastenings, applicable to garments, and other uses.-Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrolment.

Adolphe Fourment, of Museum-street, engineer, for improvements in castors for cabinet furniture, and other purposes.Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrolment.

Thomas Wright, of Church-lane, Chelsea, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and Alexander Bain, of Percival-street, Clerkenwell, mechanist, for improvements in applying electricity to control railway engines and carriages, to mark time, to give signals, and print intelligence at distant places.-Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrolment.

Henry Alphonse Bonnevialle Bouveiron, of Trevor-square, merchant, for improvements in axletrees,-being a communication. -Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrolment.

William Burge, of Bristol, sign painter, for improvements in propelling vessels.--Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrol

ment.

William Carr Thornton, of Cleckheaton, machine-maker, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for making cards for carding cotton and other fibrous substances.-Sealed 21st December-6 months for inrolment.

John Watson, of Chorley, Lancaster, Gent., for improvements in the construction of filters, used in the manufacture of sugar.— Sealed 23rd December-6 months forinrolment.

William Baillieu, of Gloucester-street, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, musician, for improvements in apparatus, to expand the human chest.-Sealed 23rd December-6 months for inrolment.

CELESTIAL PHENOMENA

Jupiter's Satellites are not visible until the 18th of this Month, Jupiter being too near the Sun.

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1st August 1841