health of the sheep, and that the extinction of moles by traps, and of worms by irrigation, may have given encouragement to the disorder. The Annat Barley, a new Variety of Barley. This new and seemingly superior variety is the produce of three ears which were picked by Mr. Gorrie, Annat Gardens, in a field on the farm of Flawcraig, Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, in the harvest of 1830; since which period it has been grown at Annat Gardens. Hence its name. Last season it was sown on a ridge in the middle of a field, with common barley on one side, and Chevalier on the other. In bulk of straw it seemed to have the advantage of both these kinds; it was five days earlier ripe than the former, and about a fortnight before the latter; and it was also 24lb. per bushel heavier than the Chevalier. From the Annat barley being of so recent introduction, it will be two years at least before a sufficient quantity of seed can be produced to render it the subject of extensive cultivation.-Quarterly Journal of Agriculture. The Champagne Vintage.The following is a statement of the champagne vintage of the pre sent year;-Verzenay 3,000 casks, Verzy and Willers-Marmery 1,500, Relly, Chigny, and Lude 1,000, Bouzy 1,000, Ambouney 1,000, Ay 10,000, Mareuil and Acenay 3,000, Haut-villiers, Dizy, and Cumieres 4,000, Epernay 4,000, Pierry 4,000, Moussy 2,500, Choilly 1,500, Cramant 2,000, Avize 8,000, Oger and Mesnil 16,000, Vertus 2,000 — total 64,500 casks, containing 220 bottles each, making in all 14,190,000 bottles. According to the estimate of the number of bottles which can be procured at the different manufactories, it appears that next year, when this vintage comes to be bottled off, there will be a deficiency to the number of 3,390,000. The manufactory of M. de Poilly can furnish 2,000,000, that of M. Dauhe 1,500,000, that of M. de Colout 1,200,000, that of M. de Violaine 1,800,000, that of Messrs. Palier and Calegois 600,000, the Auzit factory 400,000, two others in the north 600,000, the four Lorraina factories, 2,500,000, and then of Croyeny 200,000 total 10,800,000. The number required is 14,190,000; deficiency 3,390,000.-Le Reformateur. PATENTS. To John Hearle, of Devonport, engineer, for certain improvements in engine-pumps, applicable to ships, and every other purpose that a pump can be applied. To Joseph Gibbs, of Kennington, engineer, for improvements in carriages, and wheels for carriages. To Samuel Bagshaw, of the parish of St. James, Middlesex, for an improved filter for water and other liquids. To Peter Rothwell Jackson, of Bolton-le Moors, Lancaster, engineer, for improvements in hydraulic presses and pumps. To James Walton, of Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire, cloth dresser, for improvements in the machinery used for raising the pile of woollen and other cloths. To Daniel Rutter Long, of Bath, chemist for a new mode of applying certain antiputrescent and flavouring substances to meat. To Jean Michael Cramer, of Leicester-sq., mechanic, for an im proved steam-engine. To Charles de Bergue, of Clapham, engineer, for improvements in machinery for spinning or twisting cotton, flax, silk, and other fibrous substances. To Lemuel Wellman Wright, of Slone-terrace, Chelsea, engineer, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for making paper, being partly a communication from foreigner residing abroad. a To Edward Galley Giles, of Lincoln's-inn-fields, for certain improvements on apparatus for engraving on copper and certain other substances. To Samuel Garner, of Lombardstreet, for an improvement in the art of multiplying drawings and gravings, or impressions. en To William Crofts of New Radford, machine maker, for his improvements in machinery for making figured or ornamental bobbin-net. To William Wells, of Salford, machine maker, and George Scholefield, of the same place, for an improved apparatus for cutting the pile or cords of fustians and other fabrics manufactured of cotton, wool, and other fibrous materials. To Robert Whiteside, of Air, for certain improvements in the wheels of steam-carriages, and in the machinery for propelling the same, also applicable to other purposes. To Alexander Craig, of Edinburgh, for improvements in steam-engines. To James Lutton, of Tudor-place Tottenham Court Road, chair-maker, for certain improvements on castors for furniture. To Robert Joseph Barlow, of Rudley, Yorkshire, for certain improvements in springs applicable to carriages, and other purposes. To James Couch, of Stoke, Devonport, Captain in the Royal Navy, for certain improvements in ships' channels. To Jacob Tilton Slade, of Carburton-street Fitzroy-square, for an improved metallic sheathing for the bottoms of ships and vessels. To John Donkin, of Blue-anchorroad, Bermondsey, civil engineer, for certain improvements in machinery for making paper. To Andrew Smith,of Princes-street, Haymarket, engineer, for a new standing rigging for ships and vessels, and a new method of fitting and using it. To James Stewart of George-street, Euston-square, piano-forte maker, for improvements on the mechanism of horizontal, grand, and square pianofortes. To Alexander Shanks, jun. flaxspinner, in Arbroath, North Britain, for certain improvements in machinery for preparing and dressing hemp, &c. To James Cherry, of the city of Coventry, painter, carver, and guilder, for his invention of certain improve ments on bedsteads or apparatus applicable for the ease and comfort of invalids and others. To William Houston, of Fleetstreet, printer, for certain improvements in type-founding. To John Streets, jun. lace manufacturer, and Thomas Whitely, mechanic, both of Nottingham, for certain improvements in warp machinery, employed in the manufac turing of lace and other fabrics. To John Jervis Tucker, of Trematon Hall, Cornwall, Esq. for certain improvements in tea and coffee urns. To John Day, of York-terrace, Peckham, for an improvement in the construction of rail-ways. To John Budd, of Liverpool, merchant, for improvement in printing silk, cotton, calico, or other fabrics, and in the manufacture of blocks, cylinders, or rollers, used for such purposes. To Isaac Dodds, of Horsley Iron works, Tipton, engineer, for certain improvements in machinery for cutting and shaping wood and other materials, part or parts of which machinery are applicable to other useful purposes. Francis Humphreys, of York-road, Surrey, engineer, for certain improvements in marine steam-engines, applicable also to steam-engines for other purposes. Philip Augustus de Chapeaurouge, of Fenchurch-street, for a machineengine, or apparatus for producing motive power, which he denominates a self-acting motive power, and is called in France, by the inventor, Voland Moteur Perpetual. John Fenton, of Sydenham, Gentleman, for a composition or material to be used as, or as a substitute for, soap. Henry William Nun, of Newport, Isle of Wight, lace manufacturer, for improvements in manufacturing the ornamental parts of lace, and producing ornamented or embroidered lace. Robert Gillespie, of Piccadilly, merchant, for certain improvements on trusses or instruments for the cure of hernia or rupture. Donisthorpe, of Leicester, Worstead Spinner, and Henry Rawson, of the same place, Hosier, for certain improvements in the combing of wool and other fibrous substances. James Hardy, of Wednesbury, Stafford, for improvements in axletrees for carriages, and other cylin drical or conical shafts. Miles Berry, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer and mechanical draftsman, for certain improvements in the construction of rotary steamengines; and, also, for certain improvements in the construction of printing machinery or presses. Hugh Ford Bacon, of Christ's College, Cambridge, for an improved apparatus for regulating the flow of gas through pipes to gas-burners, with a view to uniformity of supply. Samuel Parker, of Argyle-place, Regent-street, Middlesex, bronzist, for an improved metallic air and water stop and stopper. John Ingledew, of Brighton, engineer, for an improved metallic safetywheel and revolving axle. Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, engineer, for certain improvements in machinery for spinning and doubling cotton flax, wool, silk, and other fibrous substances. Henry Booth, of Liverpool, gentleman, for compositions or combinations of materials applicable for the greasing of the axle-bearings of carriages, and the axle-spindles and bearing parts of machinery in general, which he intends to denominate the pa. tent axle-grease and lubricating fluid. James Boydel, jun.,of Dee Cottage, Chester, esq., for improvements in machinery or apparatus for tracking or towing boats and other vessels. Alexander Stocker, of Yeovil for improvement in machinery for manufacturing horse-shoes and certain other articles. To William Johnson, of the Horsley iron-works, in the parish of Tipton, gentleman, for improvements in boots and shoes. To William Lucy, of Birmingham, miller, for certain improvements in steam-engines. To Theodore Schwartz, technologist, formerly of Stockholm, but now of Bradford-street, Birmingham, for a practical application of known principles to produce mechanical power. To Charles Appleby, of Sheffield, merchant, for certain improvements in manufacturing files. To John Lane Higgins, of Oxfordstreet, for certain improvements in the construction of, and in working vessels for navigation. To James Fergusson Saunders, of Tenterden-street, Hanover-square, for improvements in clarifying raw cane, and other vegetable and saccharine juices, and in bleaching such raw juices. To John Joseph Charles Sheridan, of Walworth, Surrey, chemist, for an improvement in the manufacture of soap. on To William Mason, of Brecknockterrace, Camden Town, engineer, for certain improvements wheels, boxes, and axle-trees of carriages for carrying persons and goods on common roads and rail-ways. To Joshua Procter Westhead, of Manchester, small-ware manufacturer, for certain improvements in the manufacture of small-wares, and an improved arrangement of machinery for covering or forming a case around any wire, cord, gut, thread, or other substance, so as to render the same suitable for various useful purposes. NOTE.-The Law of Letters-Patent.-Rules to be observed in proceedings before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, under the act of the 5th and 6th of William IV., entitled "An Act to amend the Law touching Letters-Patent for inventions." (cap. 83.) Rule 1. A party intending to apply by petition under section 2 of the said act, shall give public notice by advertising in the London Gazette three times, and in three London papers, and three times in some country paper published in the town where, or near to which, he carries on any manufacture of any thing made according to his specification, or near to or in which he resides, in case there shall not be any paper published in such town, that he intends to petition his Majesty under the said section, and shall in such advertisements state the object of such petition, and give notice of the day on which he intends to apply for a time to be fixed for hearing the matter of his petition (which day shall not be less than four weeks from the date of the publication of the last of the advertisements to be inserted in the London Gazette), and that on or before such day notice must be given of any opposition intended to be made to the petition, and any person intending to oppose the said applica tion shall lodge notice to that effect at the Council-office on or before such day so named in the said advertisements, and having lodged such notice shall be entitled to have from the petitioner four weeks' notice of the time appointed for the hearing. 2. A party intending to apply by petition under section 4 of the said act, shall in the advertisements directed to be published by the said section, give notice of the day on which he intends to apply for a time to be fixed for hear ing the matter of his petition (which day shall not be less than four weeks from the date of the publication of the last of the advertisements to be inserted in the London Gazette), and that on or before such day caveats must be entered; and any person intending to enter a caveat shall enter the same at the Council office on or before such day so named in the said advertisements; and having entered such caveat shall be entitled to have from the petitioner four weeks' notice of the time appointed for the hearing. 3. Petitions under sections 2 and 4 of the said act must be presented within one week from the insertion of the last of the advertisements required to be published in the London Gazette. 4. All petitions must be accompanied with affidavits of advertisements having been inserted according to the provisions of section 4 of the said act, and the 1st and 2d of the rules, and the matters in such affidavits may be disputed by the parties opposing upon the hearing of the petitions. 5. All persons entering caveats under section 4 of the said act, and all par ties to any former suit or action, touching letters patent, in respect of which petitions shall have been presented under section 2 of the said act, and all persons lodging notices of opposition under the first of these rules, shall respect. ively be entitled to be served with copies of petitions presented under the said sections, and no application to fix a time for hearing shall be made without affidavit of such service. 6. All partics served with petitions shall lodge at the Council-office, within a fortnight after such service, notice of the grounds of their objections to the granting of the prayers of such petitions. 7. Parties may have copies of all papers lodged in respect of any application under the said act at their own expense. 8. The Master of the High Court of Chancery, or other office to whom it may be referred to tax the costs incurred in the matter of any petition presented under the said act, shall allow or disallow in his discretion all payments made to persons of science or skill examined as witnesses to matters of opinion chiefly. Council-office, Whitehall, Nov. 18, 1835. |