tern is. We have used this pattern and have had it divided. It has been divided probably in a dozen different places in the course of the weft, and yet we have preserved the pattern quite sufficient to distinguish what it is, as it is here.

It imposes, perhaps, more care upon the weaver?-More care upon the weaver, decidedly.

Do you consider this invention a valuable one?—Yes, very valuable.

Are fancy goods in silk more valuable than fancy goods in cotton ?—They are much more expensive.

Have English goods, since the use of this pattern, been more saleable than before. Have you had a greater demand for them?-There has been a very great demand for these silks, because it opened, as I said before, a sort of new era in the trade. Every thing of this sort gives a new impetus to it.

Has it enabled you to compete more successfully with foreign manufacturers ?-Yes.

Lord Brougham: When you say that you consider the invention very important and very valuable, is that as originally used, or in the application of it to silk?—In the application of it to silk; I speak of it as a silk manufacturer. Mr. Teed: Would the same effect be produced in the ordinary mode of printing upon silk?—I am not aware.

They can print upon woven silk?—Yes, but then the pattern would only be presented upon one side.

That is a piece of printed silk? [Shewing a pattern to the witness.]—Yes; this I apprehend to have been printed upon the cloth.

Is that the same pattern with a difference of ground?—It appears to be the

same.

Then on both sides the effect is, that one is a hard outline and the other very soft?-Yes, there are cases in this work in which it does not appear on both sides, such a case I will just present. This will give an idea of it. With this bouquet of flowers the pattern is very imperfect upon the other side. [To be continued.]

List of Patents

That have passed the Great Seal of IRELAND, from the 17th March to the 17th of April, 1841, inclusive.

To William King Westley, of Leeds, in the county of York, for certain improvements in cleaning, combing, straightening, and preparing for spinning, hemp, &c.-Sealed 25th March—6 months for inrolment.

James Davis, of Walcot-place, Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, Esq., for improvements in the manufacture of soap.-Sealed 25th March-6 months for inrolment.

John Wertheimer, of West-street, Finsbury-circus, in the city of London, printer, for an invention of certain improvements in preserving animal and vegetable substances and liquids,

being a communication from a foreigner, residing abroad. — Sealed 25th March-6 months for inrolment.

Charles Payne, of South Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, gent.,

for improvements in salting animal matters.-Sealed 25th March-6 months for inrolment.

Frederick Steiner, of Hyndburn Cottage, near Accerton, in the county of Lancaster, for improvements in looms for weaving and cutting asunder double piled cloths; and a machine for making wefts used therein.-Sealed 25th March-6 months for inrolment.

James Molyneaux, of Preston, in the county of Lancaster, linen draper, for an improved mode of dressing flax.-Sealed 26th March-6 months for inrolment.

William Mc Murray, paper-maker, at Kenleith Mill, near Edinburgh, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, for certain improvements in machinery used in manufacturing paper. -Sealed 1st April-6 months for inrolment.

Charles Cameron, Esq., lately in Her Majesty's 18th Regiment of Foot, and at present residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Edinburgh, for certain improvements in engines to be actu-, ated by steam or other elastic fluids.—Sealed 14th April-6 months for inrolment.

Francis Sleddon, Junr., of Preston, in the county of Lancaster, machine-maker, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for roving, slubbing, and spinning cotton and other fibrous substances.—Sealed 14th April—6 months for inrolment.

List of Patents

Granted for SCOTLAND, subsequent to March 22nd, 1841. To Joseph Stubs, of Warrington, file manufacturer, for certain improvements in the construction of screw wrenches and spanners, for screwing and unscrewing nuts and bolts,-being a foreign communication.-Sealed 26th March.

George Henry Fourdrinier, and Edward Newman Fourdrinier, both of Hanley, paper-makers, for certain improvements in steam-engines for actuating machinery; and in apparatus for propelling ships and other vessels on water,-being a foreign communication.-Sealed 31st March.

William Mc Kinlay, of Manchester, engraver, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for measuring, folding, plaiting, or lapping goods or fabrics.-Sealed 31st March. Charles Green, of Birmingham, gold plater, for improvements in

the manufacture of brass and copper tubes.-Sealed 1st April. Henry Newson Brewer, of Jamaica-road, London, mast and block-maker, for an improvement or improvements in wooden blocks for ships' rigging, tackles, and other purposes where pullies are used.-Sealed 7th April.

John Barber, of Manchester, engraver, for certain improvements in machinery for the purpose of tracing or etching designs or patterns on cylindrical surfaces.-Sealed 8th April. George Blaxland, of Greenwich, engineer, for an improved mode

of propelling ships and vessels at sea, and in navigable waters. -Sealed 8th April.

James Pilbrow, of Tottenham, London, engineer, for certain improvements in steam-engines.-Sealed 8th April.

Robert Pettit, of Woodhouse-place, Stepney-green, for improvements in rail-roads, and in the engine carriages and wheels employed thereon.-Sealed 12th April.

William Samuel Henson, of Allen-street, Lambeth, engineeer, for certain improvements in steam-engines.-Sealed 14th April. Henry Bessemer, of Perceval-street, London, engineer, for a new mode of checking the speed of, or stopping railroad carriages, under certain circumstances.-Sealed 20th April. Hugh Graham, of Bridport-place, Hoxton, artisan, for an improved manufacture of that kind of carpeting usually denominated Kidderminster carpeting.-Sealed 21st April.

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To BENJAMIN HICK, of Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, engineer, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for drying cotton, woollen, and other fabrics, and other fibrous substances or materials. [Sealed 25th May, 1839.]

THESE improvements in machinery or apparatus for drying cotton, woollen, and other fabrics, and other fibrous substances or materials, consist in the arrangement and application of machinery and apparatus, whereby a stream or current of atmospheric air is brought into contact with, and along the surfaces of the goods to be submitted to the process of drying during their continuance and passage in and through a confined vessel or box, in such a manner that the moisture in them may be rapidly taken up and carried away, or any required degree of dampness or "condition,"

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as it is technically called in the trade, may be left in the goods, and thus the process of drying may be performed more efficiently and advantageously than has hitherto been accomplished.

I will first describe one method of carrying my improvements into practical operation in drying cloth, and afterwards explain the arrangement of the machinery or apparatus more particularly by reference to the drawings,—see Plate IX.

The cloth to be dried is brought from the mangling, stiffening, or any other wet process, being wound upon a roller, and forming what is usually called a "catch." This catch or roll of cloth is placed upon a frame, and so arranged that the cloth may be unwound and extended or drawn horizontally along and through a chamber or vessel, which I call a drying-box, and wound upon corresponding rollers at the contrary end of the drying-box.

The figs. 1 and 2, shew a method of treating such rolls of cloth or batches on the frame, the cloth from each being drawn through the vessel one above the other, at about two inches apart, and supported at intervals by small rollers.

The air will in most states of the atmosphere, and with most descriptions of cloth, require to be heated, or otherwise dried, to increase its capability of absorbing moisture, for which purpose an ordinary coal or other stove, or a hotair furnace, called a "cockle," may be used.

This stove or furnace is situated near one end of the drying-box, having suitable flues for conveying the heated air into the box, through which it is drawn in a continuous and uniform stream, by means of an exhausting fan, placed near the other extremity of the drying-box.

It is necessary here to observe, that I prefer to draw the cloth through the drying-box, in a direction contrary to the current of the air; and also that the air must be introduced