vessels,-being a foreign communication.-Sealed 23rd Jan

uary.

Thomas Thompson, of Coventry, weaver and machinist, for certain improvements in weaving figured fabrics.-Sealed 23rd January.

Julian Edward Disbrowe Rodgers, of Upper Ebury-street, London, chemist, for certain improvements in the separation of sulphur from various mineral substances.-Sealed 25th January.

New Patents

SEALED IN ENGLAND.

1843.

To John Heathcoat and Ambrose Brewin, of Tiverton, lace manufacturers, for certain improvements in the manufacture of ornamented net or lace.-Sealed 28th February-6 months for inrolment.

Gottlieb Boccius, of the New Road, Shepherd's Bush, Gent., for certain improved arrangements and apparatus for the production and distribution of light.-Sealed 28th February-6 months for inrolment.

George Bell, of Dublin, merchant, for certain improvements in machines for drying wheat, malt, corn, and seeds, and for bolting, dressing, and separating flour, meal, and other like substances.-Sealed 1st March-6 months for inrolment. John Frearson, of Birmingham, machinist, for improvements in fastenings for wearing apparel.-Sealed 2nd March-6 months for inrolment.

Thomas Simpson, of Birmingham, for a certain improvement in buckles. Sealed 2nd March-6 months for inrolment. Masta Joscelin Cooke, of Gray's-inn-square, solicitor, for certain improvements in the manufacture of artificial fuel.-Sealed 2nd March-6 months for inrolment.

John Keely, the younger, of Nottingham, dyer, and Alexander Alliott, of Lenton, bleacher, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for drying or freeing from liquid or moisture, woollen, cotton, silk, and different fibrous materials, and other substances; and also for stretching certain fibrous materials,--being a communication.-Sealed 2nd March-6 months for inrolment.

William Walker, of George-yard, Crown-street, Soho, coachsmith, for certain improvements in the manufacture of springs and axles for carriages.--Sealed 2nd March-6 months for inrolment.

Charles White, of Noel-street, Islington, engineer, for certain improvements in machinery for raising and forcing fluids.-Sealed 2nd March-6 months for inrolment.

Rober Stirling Newall, of Gateshead, Durham, wire rope manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of wire ropes, and in the apparatus and arrangements for the manufacture of the same.-Sealed 6th March-6 months for inrolment. William Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for making pins,-being a communication.-Sealed 7th March-6 months for inrolment.

James Pilbrow, of Tottenham, engineer, for certain improvements in the application of steam, air, and other vapours, and gaseous agents, to the production of motive power, and in the machinery and apparatus by which the same are effected.-Sealed 7th March-6 months for inrolment.

William Betts, of Ashford, in the county of Kent, railway contractor, and William Taylor, of the same place, plumber, for improvements in the manufacture of bricks and tiles.-Sealed 8th March-6 months for inrolment.

William Kenworthy, of Blackburn, in the county of Lancaster, cotton spinner, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus called "beaming or warping machines."-Sealed 11th March-6 months for inrolment.

Charles Chilton, of Gloucester-street, Curtain-road, and Frederick Braithwaite, of the New-road, engineer, for improvements in machinery for cutting or splitting wood for fuel and other purposes.-Sealed 16th March-6 months for inrolment. Arthur Chilver Tupper, of New Burlington-street, Middlesex, for improvements in the means of applying carpets and other coverings to stairs and steps, and in the construction of stairs and steps.-Sealed 16th March-6 months for inrolment. Alexander Angus Croll, superintendent of the gas-works, Bricklane, and William Richards, of the same works, mechanical inspector, for improvements in the manufacture of gas, for the purposes of illumination, and in apparatus used when transmitting and measuring gas or other fluids.-Sealed 16th March6 months for inrolment.

Angier March Perkins, of Great Coram-street, engineer, for improvements in the manufacture and melting of iron, which improvements are applicable for evaporating fluids and disinfecting oils.-Sealed 16th March-6 months for inrolment.

John Thomas Betts, of Smithfield Bars, Gent., for improvements in the manufacture of metal covers for bottles and certain other vessels, and in the manufacture of sheet metal for such purposes; being a communication.-Sealed 16th March- 6 months for inrolment.

Frederick Cook Matchett, of Birmingham, manufacturer, for certain improvements in the manufacture of hinges.-Sealed 16th March-6 months for inrolment.

Martyn John Roberts, of Brynycaeran, Carmarthenshire, Gent., for improvements in the composition of ink, blacking, and black paint.-Sealed 16th March-6 months for inrolment. James Malam; of Huntingdon, gas engineer, for improvements in the manufacture of gas retorts, and in the modes of setting gas retorts.-Sealed 16th March- -6 months for inrolment. William Laycock, of Liverpool, merchant, for improvements in constructing houses and such like buildings.-Sealed 16th March-6 months for inrolment.

Wakefield Pim, of the Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, engineer, for certain improvements in the construction or formation of buoys and other water-marks.-Sealed 18th March—6 months for inrolment. Alexander Simon Wolcott, of City-terrace, City-road, machinist, and John Johnson, of Manchester, machinist, for improvements in photography, and in the application of the same to the arts.— Sealed 18th March-6 months for inrolment.

William Barker, of Manchester, Millwright, for certain improvements in the construction of metallic pistons.-Sealed 20th March-6 months for inrolment.

Solomon Robinson, of Dudley, Worcestershire, roll turner, for certain improvements in the manufacture of shot.-Sealed 20th March-6 months for inrolment.

Joseph Needham Tayler, of Chelsea, captain in Her Majesty's Navy, and William Henry Smith, of Fitzroy-square, civil engineer, for certain improvements in breakwaters, beacons, and sound-alarms; also in landing or transmitting persons and goods over or through strata, or obstructions of any nature, all of which may be used either separately or in combination. -Sealed 21st March-6 months for inrolment.

Andrew Barclay, of Kilmarnoch, Scotland, brass-founder, for certain improvements in lustres, chandeliers, pendants, and apparatus connected therewith, to be used with gas, oil, and other substances; which invention is also applicable to other purposes. Sealed 24th March-6 months for inrolment. Gregory Seale Walters, of Coleman-street, merchant, for improvements in the manufacture of chlorine and chlorides, and in obtaining the oxides and peroxides of manganese, in the residuary liquids of such manufacture,-being a communication.-Sealed 24th March-6 months for inrolment. Alfred Hooper Nevill, of Chichester-place, Gray's-inn-road, corndealer, for improvements in preparing lentils and other matters for food.-Sealed 24th March-6 months for inrolment. Nicolas Henri Jean François Comte de Crouy, of the Edgwareroad, for certain improvements in rotary pumps and rotary steam-engines.-Sealed 25th March-6 months for inrolment. Robert Faraday, of Wardour-street, Soho, gas-fitter, for improvements in ventilating gas-burners and burners for consuming oil, tallow, or other matters,-being a communication.-Sealed 25th March-6 months for inrolment.

Sir Samuel Brown, Knt., commander in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, of Blackheath, for improvements in the construction of breakwaters, and in constructing and erecting light-houses and beacons, fixed and floating, and in apparatus connected therewith; and also in anchors for mooring the same, which are applicable to ships or vessels.-Sealed 27th March-6 months for inrolment.

John Sylvester, of Great Russell-street, Middlesex, engineer, for certain improvements in producing ornamental surfaces, on or with iron, applicable in the manufacture of stoves and other uses; and for improvements in modifying the transmission of heat.-Sealed 28th March-6 months for inrolment. Arthur Dunn, of Rotherhithe, soap-boiler, for improvements in treating, purifying, and bleaching fatty matters.-Sealed 28th March-6 months for inrolment.

CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR APRIL, 1843.