is or are also applicable to other purposes, to which the power of steam is or may be applied.-Sealed 4th November-6 months for inrolment.

To Ernst Adolph Ortman, of Stockholm, in the kingdom of Sweden, now of Ebenezer-place, Limehouse, in the county of Middlesex, for his invention of a method or methods of freeing wholly or partially, wooden or other porous vessels from certain foreign matters or substances which they are liable to absorb, and of turning to a useful account the foreign matters or substances so liberated or extracted.-Sealed 4th November-6 months for inrolment.

To George Deakin Midgley, of the Strand, in the county of Middlesex, chemist, and John Howard Kyan, of Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester, Esq., for their invention of an improved mode of extracting or obtaining ammonial salts from liquor produced in the manufacture of coal gas.-Sealed 4th November-6 months for inrolment.

To William Arthur, of Glasgow, N. B., machinemaker, for his invention of improvements in spinning hemp, flax, and other fibrous substances.-Sealed 4th November-6 months for inrolment.

To Tobias Michell, of Kingsland-green, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for his invention of improvements in washing and purifying smoke and vapours evolved from furnaces of various descriptions.-Sealed 7th November-6 months for inrolment.

To Thomas Hughes, of High Holborn, in the county of Middlesex, truss-maker, for his invention of an improvement in stocks, cravats, and stiffeners.-Sealed 7th November-6 months for inrolment.

To Charles Francois Edward Aulas, of 38, Grand Rue Verte, Paris, in the kingdom of France, but now

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of Cockspur-street, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for a new and improved method of cutting and working wood by machinery, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-Sealed 7th November-6 months for inrolment.

To Charles Francois Edward Aulas, of 38, Grand Rue Verte, Paris, in the kingdom of France, butnow of Cockspur-street, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for an improvement or improvements in preparing writing-paper, so as to prevent the discharge of the ink therefrom without detection, and to prevent the falsifi cation of writing thereon.-Sealed 7th November-6 months for inrolment.

To John Potter, of Ancoats, near Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, cotton-spinner, for his invention of an improvement or improvements in the process of preparing certain descriptions of warps for the loom.Sealed 9th November-4 months for inrolment.

To James Slater, of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, gentleman, for his invention of certain improvements in steam-engines, and also in boilers and in furnaces used for the generation of steam, or other useful purposes.-Sealed 9th November-6 months for inrol

ment.

To Charles Wye Williams, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, gentleman, for his invention of certain improvements in the means of preparing the vegetable material of peat-moss or bog, so as to render it applicable to several useful purposes, and particularly for fuel.-Sealed 11th November-6 months for inrolment.

To Henry Crosley, of Hooper-square, in the county of Middlesex, civil-engineer, for improved means to be employed in manufacturing beet-root and other vege

table substances, for the purpose of obtaining saccharine matter therefrom, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-Sealed 11th November-6 months for inrolment.

To Hamer Stansfeld, of Leeds, in the county of York, merchant, for certain machinery of a tappet and lever action, to produce a vertical or horizontal movement through the medium of ropes or bands working over, under, or round pulleys, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-Sealed 14th November-6 months for inrolment.

To William Coles, of Charing-cross, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., for his invention of improvements in gunnery, and in gun and other carriages, and in the means of connecting the same.-Sealed 14th November -4 months for inrolment.

To Robert White, of Nottingham, lace-maker, for his invention of improvements in the manufacture of ornamental lace.-Sealed 14th November-6 months for inrolment.

To Robert Whitfield, of Hercules-buildings, Westminster-road, in the county of Surrey, gentleman, for his invention of a composition which he denominates an indelible safety and durable black fluid writing ink. -Sealed 14th November-6 months for inrolment.

To John Jeremiah Rubery, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, umbrella-manufacturer, for certain improvements in the manufacture of part of the furniture of an umbrella, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.-Sealed 14th November-6 months for inrolment.

To Joseph Birch Mather, of Nottingham, mechanic and setter-up of hosiery frames, for his invention of

certain improvements in machinery employed in manufacturing hosiery goods, or what is commonly called frame work-knitting.-Sealed 14th November-6 months for inrolment.

To David Shaw and Benjamin Ledger Shaw, of Huddersfield and Holney, in the county of York, manufacturers, for their invention of improvements in preparing woollen and other warps.-Sealed 14th November→→ 6 months for inrolment.

To William Neale Clay, of West Bromwich, in the county of Stafford, manufacturing chemist, and Joseph Denham Smith, of St. Thomas's Hospital, in the borough of Southwark, student in chemistry, for their invention of certain improvements in the manufacture of glass. Sealed 16th November-6 months for inrolment.

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To William Herapath, of the city of Bristol, in the county of Somerset, philosophical chemist, and James Fitchew Cox, of the same place, tanner, for their invention of certain improvement or improvements in the process of tanning.-Sealed 16th November-6 months for inrolment.

To William Fourness, of Leeds, in the county of York, painter, for his invention of a certain improvement or improvements in ventilating pits, shafts, mines, wells, ships'-holds, or other confined places.-Sealed 16th November-6 months for inrolment.

To James Buckingham, of Miners'-hall, Strand, in the county of Middlesex, civil-engineer, for his invention of certain improvements in the means of ventilating mines, ships, and other places, and in apparatus. for effecting the same.-Sealed 16th November-6 months for inrolment.

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 Lancas ter, 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