To Thomas Birch, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, machine-maker, for his invention of certain improvements in carding engines, to be used for carding cotton and other fibrous substances.-Sealed 18th November-6 months for inrolment.

To Elisha Haydon Collier, of Globe-dock factory, Rotherhithe, formerly of Boston, North America, for his invention of certain improvements in machinery applicable to the raising fluids and other bodies.-Sealed 21st November-6 months for inrolment.

To Christopher Nichols, of Guildford-street, Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, gentleman, for his invention of improvements in embossing or impressing the surfaces of leather and other substances, applicable to various purposes.-Sealed 21st November-6 months for inrolment.

To Elisha Wylde, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, engineer, for his invention of certain improvements in locomotive and other engines.-Sealed 21st November-6 months for inrolment.

To James Matley, of the city of Paris, in the kingdom of France, and of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, gentleman, for his invention of certain improvements in machinery for the operation of tiering, used in printing cotton, linen, and woollen cloths, silks, papers, and other articles and substances, to which block printing is or can be applied.-Sealed 23rd November6 months for inrolment.

To James Jamieson Cordis, of Idol-lane, in the city of London, merchant, for his invention of an improved mortar, for dressing rough paddy, or redressing rice. -Sealed 25th November-6 months for inrolment.

To Henry Purser Vaile, of Oxford-street, in the

county of Middlesex, civil-engineer, for his invention of improvements in rails for rail-roads.-25th November

6 months for inrolment.

To Richard Tappin Claridge, of Salisbury-street, Strand, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for a mastic, cement or composition, applicable to paving and road-making, covering buildings, and the various purposes to which cement, mastic, lead, zinc, or composi tion are employed, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-Sealed 25th November

6 months for inrolment.

To Samuel Cocker, of Porter-works, Sheffield, in the county of York, manufacturer, for his invention of improvements in making needles.-Sealed 25th November-6 months for inrolment.

To Thomas Moore, of Ison Green, in the county of Nottingham, lace-manufacturer, for his invention of improvements in machinery for framework-knitting.Sealed 27th November-6 months for inrolment.

To Samuel Draper, of Basford, in the county of Nottingham, lace-maker, for his invention of certain improvements for producing ornamental lace or weavings. -Sealed 27th November-6 months for inrolment.

To John Dover, of Thames-street, merchant, and William Jones, of Bartholomew-close, chemist, both in the city of London, for their invention of improvements in filtering fluids.-Sealed 28th November-6 months for inrolment.

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AURORA BOREALIS.-The Aurora on the evening of the 12th, from 5 till after 10 o'clock, was remarkably brilliant; the coruscations, thoughfew, were vivid, and of a deeply red colour. Again, on the evening of the 15th, about 7, when it was even more splendid, the coruscations which were white, and also more numerous, vivid, and extensive, and apparently based upon a deep crimson ground.

About 8 on the evening of the 12th a brilliant meteor passed through Ursa Major.

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Recent Patents.

To THOMAS GAUNTLEY, of the town and county of Nottingham, mechanic, for his invention of certain improvements in machinery for making lace and other fabrics, commonly called warp machinery. [Sealed 15th August, 1836.]

THESE improvements in warp machinery employed for making lace and other fabrics, consist in the adaptation to that kind of machinery of a series of thin blades, which are denominated thread-carriers, being for the purpose of lapping the threads upon the bearded needles, and thereby superseding the necessity of the guides passing between and over the needles, as in the ordinary modes of working that sort of machinery.

In the accompanying drawings, see Plate IX., figs. 1, and 2, represent, in two positions, a series of these 2 c

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