To Edward Holte, of Arundel-street, Strand, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., for his invention of improvements in making sugar from sugar-cane, and in refining sugar.-Sealed 24th February-6 months for inrolment.

To Moses Poole, of Old-square, Lincoln's Inn, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for his invention of improvements in preserving wine and other fermented liquids in bottles, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-Sealed 24th February— 6 months for inrolment.

To John Houlston, of Bradford, in the county of York, printer, for his invention of improvements in apparatus for stopping or retarding carriages.-Sealed 24th February-6 months for inrolment.

To Ambrose Ador, of Leicester-square, in the county of Middlesex, chemist, for his invention of certain improvements on lamps or apparatus for producing or affording light.-Sealed 24th February-6 months for inrolment.

To John Thomas Betts, of Smithfield-bars, in the city of London, rectifyer, for improvements in the manufacture of gin, which he intends to denominate Betts's patent gin, or Betts's patent stomachic gin, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.—Sealed 24th February-6 months for inrolment.

To Michael Wheelwright Ivison, silk-spinner, residing in Hailes-street, Edinburgh, for his invention of an improved method of consuming smoke in furnaces other places where fire is used, and for economising fuel, and also for applying air, heated or cold, to blasting or smelting furnaces.-Sealed 24th February6 months for inrolment.

CELESTIAL PHENOMENA, for March, 1838.

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