Smithfield Club.

The annual exhibition of prize cattle took place on Friday, December 16, in Wootton's Yard, Smithfield, and the next day the club met at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. There was a numerous and respectable attendance; the Duke of Bedford was in the chair. After dinner the chairman rose to state to the company the manner in which the prizes for the last year had been adjudged.

Mr. Gray (of Tracey Park, near Bath) mentioned to the company a remedy for the disease of scouring in cattle, which had been found to be of the most efficacious kind. Several of his cattle had been attacked with this disease, and he had, applied various remedies: all of them had, however, proved ineffectual, till he had made trial of Mr. Bellamy's Bath Powder, the effect of which had been so direct and immediate, that he felt it his duty to recommend it to the attention of the public.

Lord Somerville corroborated this opinion of the efficacy of Mr. Bellamy's powder for the cure of the above disease in cattle. He thought it deserved the serious attention and support of all those of whom the Society was composed.

New Thermometer.

M. De la Lande has presented to the Institute a new thermometer, the degrees of which appear to the author more conformable to philosophical principles, and more convenient, than those of Reaumur. He places Zero at the temperature of 91, and 31 instead of 26. He remarks, that the numbers 30 and 40 are those of the degrees of heat in summer and cold in winter, 30 for moderate summers and mild winters; 40 for hot summers and intense winters. Mossy, the most celebrated maker of thermometers at Paris, known for the accuracy of his works, has already begun to execute the new ther

mometers.

Society

Society for improving the Condition of Chimney Sweepers.

The following persons have undertaken to sweep chimneys by mechanical means, in pursuance of the plan prescribed by the Committee of the Society for superseding the necessity of climbing boys, by encouraging a new method of sweeping chimneys, and for improving the condition of children and others employed by chimney

sweepers.

Richard Page, chimney-sweeper, No. 23, Colonnade, near Guildford-street, Foundling-Hospital.

Thomas Wood, No. 36, Poland-street, Oxford-road. Thomas Taylor, No. 9, Wells-street, Oxford-road. George Smart, No. 15, Great Bell-alley, Colemanstreet, at his timber-yard, Pratt's-place, Camden Town, and at Ordnance-wharf, Westminster-bridge.

George Turner and James Laver, Walthamstow.

Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

The annual meeting of this Society was held at Bath, December 13, 1803. Many lots of neat cattle, sheep, and pigs, both fat and for breed, having been exhibited in the usual manner for the premiunis, committees of inspection were appointed to report on the respective merits; competent committees were also chosen, for the purpose of ascertaining the merits of the several agricultural implements, &c. produced by the Society, as well as for the inspection of cloth and wool.

At this meeting, premiums to the amount of 209 . 2 s. d. were adjudged.

The Bedfordean gold medal will be presented to the author, who, at or before the first meeting in November, 1804, shall produce to the Society the best essay, founded on practical experience, on the nature and propertie

of

of manures, and the mode of preparing and applying them to the various soils; in which essay shall be pointed out the best and cheapest manner of collecting and preparing the different kinds of manures, and of the state, season, and quantity, in which they should be applied.

List of Patents for Inventions, &c.

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BOOTH HODGETTS, of Dudley, in the county of Worcester, Nail Ironmonger; for machinery for rolling iron for shanks, and for forming the same into shanks for nails. Dated November 8, 1803.

RICHARD YOUNGER, of Pittman's-buildings, Old-street, in the county of Middlesex, Gentleman; for an improved method of extracting worts from malt, barley, and other grains and substances. Dated November 12, 1903.

WILLIAM FREEMANTLE, of Bunhill-row, in the parish of St. Luke, Old-street, in the county of Middlesex, Watchmaker; for improvements in the construction of steam-engines. Dated November 17, 1803.

JAMES BEVANS, of Castle-street, City-road, in the county of Middlesex, Carpenter, being one of the society of the people called Quakers; for methods of applying machinery for the purposes of more expeditiously striking, or sticking mouldings, and for rabbetting, ploughing or grooving, fluting, and excavating, wood, in every manner, now usually performed by any kind of plane. Dated November 19, 1803.

GEORGE PENTON, of New-street-square, in the city of London, Brass-founder; for an improvement on lamps, commonly called Argand's lamps.

Specification of the Patent granted to STEPHEN HOOPER, of Walworth, in the Parish of Saint Mary, Newington, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman; for certain Machines or Machinery, upon improved Principles, and Methods of using the same, for the Purpose of cleansing of dry and other Harbours, Rivers, Creeks, Bars of larbours, and preventing Bars from making, reducing Banks or Shoals, opening a Channel through Sands at Sea, or clearing away the Sand or Beach to get off Ships grounded by Accident or Stress of Weather on Sands, and for other Purposes, Dated February 3, 1803.

With a Plate.

To all to whom these presents shall come, &c. Now KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I the said Stephen Hooper do hereby declare that my said invention is described by the above drawings, and the following explanation thereof; that is to say: Fig. 1 (Pl. VII), the apparatus for the back water and the reservoir, which may be erected either in a concave form, or any other which VOL. IV.-SECOND SERIES.

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local

local circumstances may require, in any place where the waves of the sea come up to the harbour's mouth or near to it, as at the letter A. It may be built of any dimensions with timber or other materials; but the larger the reservoir the greater will be the force of the back water, and the proportion should be about thirty feet in length to twenty in breadth. If built of timber, a number of square piles B must be placed at about two feet asunder. and of such a length as, when driven sufficiently deep, to leave the upper part of them on a level with the top of the pier-head. A row of these piles being placed in front, another row must be driven close to the pier-head to answer to it, and a range to form each end. The front and back rows must be strongly fixed or locked together by timber C, framed across and keyed, and the piles at the ends in like manner; for the whole must be suffici ently strong to confine the body of water contained in it; and to withstand the action of the sea against it, the front part of the reservoir, and the end next the sea, must be supplied with a number of blocks or pieces of timber D, about twelve inches square, framed between the piles from the bottom to the top, to be flush or square with the inside of the piles, for valves to shut against; these blocks must be placed about one foot asunder, and thus openings will be formed between the piles of about two feet wide, by one foot deep. The whole of the front and the end next the sea must be formed with these openings, to each of which a flap, or valve E, must be so fixed, that it may open inwards, and freely admit the water, when the waves drive against the reservoir; and then, by closing when the wave draws back, prevent the water from returning. Thus a large quantity of water will be continually collecting. The bottom of this reservoir must be covered with stones or boards to prevent the

water