civil engineer, for certain improvements in the construction of weighing machines.

T. Welch, of Manchester, cottonspinner, for a new method of taking up, for power and hand-looms.

W. T. Young, of Liverpool, merchant, for a machine or apparatus for equalizing draft, chiefly applicable to the towing of barges and other floating bodies on water, and moving or drawing carriages on land.

J. Maudslay, of Lambeth, engineer, for an improvement in the structure of certain boilers for producing steam for the working of steam-engines.

G. Gurney, Bude, Cornwall, esq. for certain improvements in musical in.

struments.

R. Stephenson, of Newcastle-uponTyne, engineer, for a certain improvement in the locomotive steam-engines now in use for the quick conveyance of passengers and goods upon edge railways.

R. B. Cooper, of Battersea Fields, esq. and G. F. Eckstein, of Holborn, ironmonger, for an instrument or apparatus for pointing pencils, and certain other purposes.

S. Hutchinson, of Pall Mall East, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for manufacturing gas for illumination, and in the mode or means of supplying gas to the consumer; and also in the construction of gas-burners, parts of which improvements are ap plicable to other useful purposes.

R. Barnes, of Wigan, engineer, for a certain machine and apparatus for producing, by the combustion of gas or oil, heated air for warming the interior of buildings, and which machine and apparatus may be employed at the same time to give light.

J. Tennant, merchant, and T. Clark, chemist, both of Glasgow, for a new or improved apparatus to produce or evolve chlorine for manufacturing purposes.

C. Attwood, of Wickham, near Gateshead, glass-manufacturer, for a certain improvement or improvements in manufacturing or purifying soda.

J. F. V. Gerard, Mile End, for an improvement applicable to the Jacquard looms for weaving figured fabrics.

T. A. G. Gillyon, of Crown-street, Finsbury-square, engineer, for improvements in ordnance, and on the VOL. LXXV.

carriages and projectiles to be used therewith.

H. Hendriks, of Dunkirk, in the kingdom of France, but now of the Strand, in the county of Middlesex, gent. for certain improvements in manufacturing prussiate of potash, and the prussiate of soda, and improvements in dying blue colours without indigo.

J. Joyce, of South-row, New Road, St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex, gent., for a certain improvement or improvements in machinery for making nails.

David Redmund, of Wellington Foundry, Charles-street, City-road, for improvements in steam-carriages, and applicable to other purposes.

George Frederick Muntz, of Birmingham, for an improved manufacture of boilers for generating steam.

Charles Joseph Hullmandel, of Great Marlborough-street, for improvement in the art of block printing, as applied to calico, &c.

Hugh Lee Pattinson, of Summer Hill Terrace, Northumberland, for an improved method of separating silver from lead.

Jacob F. Geither, of New Cavendish street, for improvements in pianofortes, and other stringed musical in

struments.

J. Travis, jun. of Shaw Mills, near Manchester, for improvements in machinery for spinning wool, cotton, &c. &c.

Wm. Brunton, of Charlotte - row, Mansion House, for an apparatus to facilitate the excavation of ground and the formation of embankments.

Dominick Stafford, of Duke-street, Adelphi, for an improvement in fuel.

Joseph Wass, of Lea, Derbyshire, for certain mechanical powers applicable to various useful purposes.

Richard Holme, of Kingston-uponHull, for improvements in apparatus and means of generating steam, and also for producing heat.

H. Robinson Palmer, of Fludyerstreet, Westminster, for improvements in the construction of roofs, arches, and other parts of buildings.

Peter Ewart, of Manchester, for improvements in the spinning machine called the mule.

John Pair, of Bury St. Edmund's for improvements in or additions to horological machines. 2 K

Robert Wm. Brandling, of Low Gorforth, Northumberland, esq. for improvements in applying steam and other powers to ships, boats, &c.

J. Cooper Douglas, of Great Ormond street. for improvements in the construction of furnaces for generating heat.

The same, for improvements which prevent the explosion or the collapse of steam and other boilers.

Morrel Roman, of St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, for improvements in throwing or winding silk, &c.

Bartheleury Richard Comte de Predaval, of Leicester-place, Leicestersquare, engineer, for an engine for producing motive power, applicable to various purposes.

Stephen Perry, of Wilmington-sq., Edward Massay, and Paul Joseph Gauce, for certain improvements in pens and pen-holders.

Daniel Ledsam and W. Jones, of Birmingham, for improvements in machinery to be used in manufacturing pins and needles.

J. Cooper Douglas, of Gt. Ormondstreet, for depriving vegetable juices and fermented and distilled liquors of their acid qualities, also of their colouring matter, and essential oils.

H. Hardingham Leggett, of Fulham, for improvements in the art of printing

in colours.

Thomas Parsons, of Newport, Salop, for improvements in locks for fastenings.

John Hall, of Breezes hill, Ratcliffhighway, sugar refiner, for certain improvements in filters for sugar and other liquids.

Joshua Wordsworth, of Leeds, for improvements in machinery for hackling flax, hemp, and other fibrous substances.

Ernest Wolff, late of Leeds, now of Stamford Hill, Middlesex, for a mode of supplying stoves with heated air without blowpipe or bellows.

John Wisker, of Vauxhall, for improvements in machinery for grinding covers or stoppers for jars, bottles, or other vessels made of china, stone, or other earthenware.

John Bapt. Constantine Forassa, of Newington, Paul Isaac Mieston, of Austin Friars, and H. Walker Wood, of do. for improvements in making white lead or carbonate of lead.

Thomas Affleck, of Dumfries, for improvements in deepening and excavating the beds of rivers, removing sand-banks, bars, and other obstructions to navigation.

Riley Carr, of Sheffield, for certain improvements in machinery for cutting, cropping and dressing woollen and cot. ton cloths.

Robert Stephenson, jun. of Devonshire Hill, Hampstead, civil engineer, for an improvement in the mode of supporting the iron rails for edge railways.

S. Willman Wright, of St. George's, Southwark, for improvements in machinery, whereby certain well-known agents may be employed in producing power, and in the mode of effecting the same applicable to various useful purposes.

Thomas Sunderland, of Blackheath, for improvements in propelling vessels.

Charles Chubb, of St. Paul's Church Yard, patent detector lock manufactu rer, and Ebenezer Hunter, of Wolver. hampton, for improvements in locks.

David Rowland, of Crawford-street, Marylebone, for improvements in sextants, quadrants, circles, and other instruments for taking observations and

surveys.

Louis Quainten, of Leicester-square, for improvements in the construction of carriages

James Hamilton, of Threadneedlestreet, for improvements in machinery for sawing, boring, and manufacturing wood.

Thomas, earl of Dundonald, of the Regent's Park, for improvements in the construction and operation of rotatory engines and apparatus connected therewith,

Josiah Gilbert Pierson, of New York, but now residing in London, for improvements in the construction of bolts and latches, to be attached to doors, &c.

J. Paul Newmann, of Cornhill, for improvements in making leather from hides and other skins.

J. Howard Ryan, of Upper Bakerstreet, for a new combination of machinery to be applied to the present purposes of steam navigation.

George Dickenson, of Buckland, near Dover, for improvements applicable to making of paper.