Esq., for certain improvements in carriages, which may also be applied to ships, boats, and various other purposes, where locomotion is required.-Sealed 3rd October.

William Baker, of Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, in the county of Middlesex, surgeon, for certain improvements in the manufacture of boots and shoes.-Sealed 4th October. John Anthony Tielens, of Fenchurch-street, in the city of London, merchant, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for knitting,-being a communication from a certain foreigner, residing abroad.-Sealed 8th October.

Thomas Banks, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, engineer, for certain improvements in the construction of wheels and tyres of wheels, to be employed upon railways.-Sealed 8th October.

William Revell Vigers, of Russell-square, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., for a mode of keeping the air in confined places in a pure or respirable state, to enable persons to remain or work under water, and in other places, without a constant supply of fresh atmospheric air,-being a communication from a certain foreigner, residing abroad.-Sealed 8th October.

Eugene de Varroc, of Bryanston-street, Portman-square, in the county of Middlesex, Gent., for an apparatus to be applied to chimnies to prevent them taking fire, and for rendering sweeping chimnies unnecessary.-Sealed 8th October.

Thomas Bell, of St. Austell, in the county of Cornwall, mine

agent, for improvements in the manufacture of copper.-Sealed 8th October.

Julius Seybell, of 11, Golden-square, in the county of Middlesex, manufacturing chemist, for certain improvements in the manufacture of sulphate of soda and chlorine.-Sealed 8th October.

Isham Baggs, of Wharton-street, in the county of Middlesex, chemist, for improvements in obtaining motive power, by means of carbonic acid.-Sealed 8th October.

Thomas Marsden, of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, machine maker, and Solomon Robinson, of the same place, flax dresser, for improvements in machinery for dressing or heckling flax or hemp.-Sealed 8th October.

James Whitelaw, of Glasgow, in the county of Lanark, engineer, and James Sterreit, of Paisley, in the county of Renfrew, manufacturers, for improvements in rotary machines, to be worked by water.-Sealed 18th October.

List of Patents

Granted for SCOTLAND, subsequent to September 22nd, 1842.

To Charles William Firchild, of Wesley Park, Worcestershire, for an improved propelling apparatus for marine and other purposes. Sealed 26th September.

Edwin Ward Trent, of Old Ford, Bow, London, rope-maker, for an improved mode of preparing oakum and other fibrous substances, for caulking ships and other vessels.-Sealed 29th September.

Peter Kagenbusch, of Wetter on Rhur, in Westphalia, in the Kingdom of Prussia, dyer, now residing in the parish of Lythe, Yorkshire, for certain improvements in the treatment of the alum rock or schist, and in the manufacture and application of the products derived therefrom.-Sealed 29th September. Henry Bewley, of Dublin, licentiate apothecary and chemist, for an improved Chalybeate water.-Sealed 4th October. Alfred Jefferey, of Lloyd-street, Pentonville, London, for a new method of preparing masts, spars, and other wood, for shipbuilding and other purposes.-Sealed 18th October.

Claude Edward Deutsche, of Fricour's Hotel, St. Martin's-lane, London, for improvements in combining materials to be used for cementing purposes, and for preventing the passage of fluids, and also for forming articles from such composition of materials, -being a communication.-Sealed 18th October. John Ridsdale, of Leeds, for improvements in preparing fibrous materials for weaving, and in sizing warps.—Sealed 20th October.

Samuel Carson, of York-street, Covent Garden, London, for improvements in purifying and preserving animal substances.— Sealed 20th October.

Henry Brown, of Selkirk, and Thomas Walker, of the same place both manufacturers, for improvements on woollen carding engines. Sealed 20th October.

Alphonse de Troisbrioux, of Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, London, for improvements in lithographic and other printing presses, being a communication from abroad.-Sealed 20th October.

New Patents

SEALED IN ENGLAND.

1842.

To Edward Bell, of the College of Civil Engineers, Putney, Professor of Practical Mechanics, for improvements in applying heat in the manufacture of artificial fuel, which improvements are applicable to the preparation of asphalte, and for other purposes. Sealed 29th September-6 months for inrolment. Samuel Henson, of New City Chambers, Bishopsgate-street, engineer, for certain improvements in locomotive apparatus, and in machinery for conveying letters, goods, and passengers, from place to place through the air, part of which improvements are applicable to locomotive and other machinery, to be used on water, or on land.-Sealed 29th September-6 months for inrolment.

William Smith, of Grosvenor-street, Camberwell, Gent., for improvements in treating certain animal matters, to obtain products, applicable to the manufacture of candles and other purposes. Sealed 29th September-6 months for inrolment. John Rand, of Howland-street, Fitzroy-square, artist, for improvements in making and closing metallic collapsable vessels. -Sealed 29th September-6 months for inrolment. James Hyde, of Duckinfield, Cheshire, machine-maker, and John Hyde, of the same place, cotton spinner and manufacturer, for a certain improvement or improvements in the machinery used for preparing cotton, wool, silk, flax, and similar fibrous materials for spinning.-Sealed 29th September-6 months for inrolment.

John Ridsdale, of Leeds, in the county of York, for improvements in preparing fibrous materials for weaving, and in sizing warps.-Sealed 29th September-6 months for inrolment. John Fry Wilkey, of Mount Vernon, St. Leonard, Exeter, commission agent, for improvements in carriages.-Sealed 29th September-6 months for inrolment.

John George Shipley, of Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, saddler, for certain improvements in saddles.-Sealed 6th October-6 months for inrolment.

John Oliver York, of Upper Coleshill-street, Eaton-square, in the county of Middlesex, engineer, for improvements in the manufacture of axles for railway wheels.-Sealed 8th October-6 months for inrolment.

Wilton George Turner, of Gateshead, Durham, Doctor of Philosophy, for improvements in the manufacture of alum.-Sealed 8th October-6 months for inrolment.

Claude Edward Deutsche, of Fricour's Hotel, St. Martin's-lane,

for improvements in combining materials to be used for cementing purposes, and for preventing the passage of fluids; and also for forming or constructing articles from such compositions of materials,-being a communication.-Sealed 8th October-6 months for inrolment.

Samuel Dotchin, of Myrtle-street, Hoxton, jeweller, for improvements in paving, or covering and constructing roads, ways, and other surfaces,-being a communication from his son, lately deceased.- Sealed 8th October-6 months for inrolment. Charles Thomas Holcombe, of Valentines, near Ilford, Essex, Esq., for an improved mode of using certain materials as fuel; also an apparatus or method for collecting the smoke or soot arising from the combustion of such fuel, which apparatus or method is applicable to collecting the smoke or soot arising from the ordinary combustion of fuel; and also the application of the products arising from the combustion of the first mentioned materials as a manure, and for other useful purposes. -Sealed 13th October-6months for inrolment.

William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancerylane, patent agent, for certain improvements in the manufacture of artificial fuel,—-being a communication.-Sealed 13th October-6 months for inrolment.

Robert William Sievier, of Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, Gent., for certain improvements in looms for weaving, and in the mode or method of producing plain or figured goods or fabrics. Sealed 13th October-6 months for inrolment. Peter Kagenbusch, of Lythe, in the county of York, for certain improvements in the treatment of the alum rock or schist, and in the manufacture and application of the products derived therefrom.-Sealed 13th October-6 months for inrolment.

Henry Brown, of Selkirk, manufacturer, and Thomas Walker, of the same place, manufacturer, for improvements on woollen carding engines.-Sealed 20th Oct.-6 months for inrolment. Thomas Seville, of Royton, Lancashire, cotton spinner, for certain improvements in machinery used in the preparing and spinning of cotton, flax, and other fibrous substances.-Sealed 20th October--6 months for inrolment.

John Palmer Budd, of Ystalyfern Iron Works, Swansea, merchant, for improvements in the manufacture of iron.-Sealed 20th October-6 months for inrolment.

William Longmaid, of Plymouth, accountant, for improvements in treating ores and other minerals, and in obtaining various products therefrom, certain parts of which improvements are applicable to the manufacture of alkali.-Sealed 20th October6 months for inrolment.

James Statham, of West-street, St. Giles', Venetian lock maker,

for improvements in the construction of locks for Venetian blinds, used in carriages.-Sealed 20th October-6 months for inrolment.

Gilbert Claude Alzard, of Tichborne-street, Gent., for certain improvements in bread, biscuits, macaroni, vermicelli, and pastry, and in the mode of making the same.-Sealed 20th October-6 months for inrolment.

George Hazeldine, of Lant-street, Southwark, coach manufacturer, for certain improvements in omnibuses.-Sealed 27th October-6 months for inrolment.

James Gardner, of Banbury, ironmonger, for improvements in cutting hay, straw, and other vegetable matters, for the food of animals.-Sealed 27th October-6 months for inrolment. John Mullins, of Battersea, surgeon, for improvements in making oxides of metals; in separating silver and other metals from their compounds with other metals; and in making white lead, sugar of lead, and other salts of lead, and salts of other metals.-Sealed 27th October-6 months for inrolment. Rowland Williams, of Manchester, fustian shearer, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for raising, shearing, and finishing velvets or other piled goods, by power.-Sealed 27th October-6 months for inrolment.