The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year

The same; for an improved method of manufacturing hats and caps, with the assistance of machinery.-September 18.

J. Riste, of Chard, Somersetshire, lace-manufacturer; for improvements in machinery for making net commonly called bobbin or twist net.-October 4.

F. Halliday, of Ham, Surrey; for improvements in apparatus used in drawing boots on and off.-October 4.

T. Jones, of Coleman-street, London; for an improvement in wheels for carriages.-October 11.

W. Mills of Bisley, Gloucestershire; for an improvement in fire-arms.-October 18.

W. Church, of Birmingham; for improvements in printing.-October 18.

S. Pratt, of New Bond-street; for improvements in beds, bedsteads, couches, seats, and other articles of furniture.-October 18.

purposes. Communicated to him by a foreigner-December 8.

W. Busk, of Broad-street; for improvements in propelling boats and ships, or other vessels, or floating bodies.-October 18.

C. Pearson, the younger, of Greenwich, R. Witty, of Stanley, and W. Gillman, of Whitechapel; for a new or improved method or methods of applying heat to certain useful purposes.December 13.

C. Harsleben, of Great Ormondstreet; for machinery for facilitating the working of mines, and the extraction of diamonds, and other precious stones, gold, silver, and other metals, from the ore, the earth, or the sand, which machinery is likewise applicable to other purposes. December 13.

J. Viney, of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, Colonel in the Royal Artillery, and G. Pocock, of Bristol; for improvements in the construction of cars or other carriages, and the application of a power hitherto unused for that purpose, to draw the same, which power is applicable to the drawing of ships and other vessels, and for raising weights, and for other useful purposes.-October 18.

B. Newmarch, of Cheltenham; for improvements in fire-arms.-November 7.

J. Costigin, of Colton, Ireland; for improvements in steam machinery or apparatus. December 13.

P. Mackay, of Great Union-street, Borough; for improvements, by which the names of streets and other inscriptions will be rendered more durable and conspicuous. Communicated by a foreigner. December 13.

B. Woodcroft, of Manchester; for improvements in wheels and paddles for propelling boats and vessels.-November 18.

W. Johnson, of Droitwich; for improvements in the mode of process and form of apparatus for the manufacturing of salt, and other purposes.December 18.

T. Machett, of Berners-street; for improvements in apparatus applicable to the burning of oil and other inflammable substances.-December 1.

Maurice de Tongh, of Warrington; for improvements in machinery, or apparatus for preparing rovings, and for spinning, twisting, and winding fibrous substances.-December 18.

R. Dickinson, of Southwark; for the formation, coating, and covering of vessels or packages for containing, preserving, conveying, and transporting goods and products, whether in liquid or solid forms, and for other useful VOL. LXVIII.

C. Harsleben, of Great Ormondstreet; for improvements in constructing or building of ships and other vessels, applicable to various useful purposes; and in machinery for propelling the same.-December 20.

T. Quarrill, of Peter's Hill, Doctors' Commons; for improvements in the manufacture of lamps.-December 20.

W. Kingston, Portsmouth, and G. Stebbing, of Portsmouth; for improvements in instruments, or apparatus for the more readily or certainly ascertaining the trim and stability of ships or other vessels.--December 20.

M. Wilson, of Warnford-court, London; for improvements in machinery for cleaning rice. Communicated by a foreigner.-December 20.

C. Seidler, of Crawford-street, Portman-square; for a method of drawing water out of mines, wells, pits, and other places. Communicated by a foreigner-December 20.

F. Andrews, of Stanford Rivers, Essex; for improvements in the construc M*

tion of carriages, and in the engines or machinery to propel the same, to be operated upon by steam or other suitable power; which engines or machinery are also applicable to other purposes. December 20.

C. Random Baron de Berenger, of Kentish Town, for improvements in gunpowder flasks, powder-horns, or other utensils of different shapes, such as are used or can be used for the pur

pose of carrying gunpowder therein, in order to load therefrom guns, pistols, blunderbusses, and other fire-arms.-December 20.

J. G. Hancock, of Birmingham; for a new elastic rod for umbrellas, and other the like purposes.-December 21. V. Bartholomew, of Great Marlborough-street; for an improvement in shades for lamps and other lights.December 21.

POETRY.

FIELD FLOWERS.

By T. CAMPBELL.

YE field flowers! the gardens eclipse you, 'tis true,
Yet, wildings of Nature, I doat upon you,

For ye waft me to summers of old,

When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight,
And when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight,
Like treasures of silver and gold.

I love you for lulling me back into dreams
Of the blue Highland mountains and echoing streams,
And of broken glades breathing their balm,
While the deer was seen glancing in sunshine remote,
And the deep mellow crush of the wood-pigeon's note
Made music that sweeten'd the calm.

Not a pastoral song has a pleasanter tune

Than ye speak to my heart, little wildings of June:

Of old ruinous castles

ye tell,

Where I thought it delightful your beauties to find, When the magic of Nature first breath'd on my mind, And your blossoms were part of her spell.

Ev'n now what affections the violet awakes;
What lov'd little islands, twice seen in their lakes,
Can the wild water-lily restore ;

What landscapes I read in the primrose's looks,
And what pictures of pebbl'd and minnowy brooks
In the vetches that tangled their shore.

Earth's cultureless buds, to my heart ye were dear,
Ere the fever of passion, or ague of fear

Had scathed my existence's bloom;

Once I welcome you more, in life's passionless stage,
With the visions of youth to revisit my age,

And I wish you to grow on my tomb.

SIGNS OF RAIN.

(Written as an excuse for not accepting the invitation of a friend to
make an excursion with him.)

BY THE LATE DR. Jenner.

1. THE hollow winds begin to blow,

2, 3. The clouds look black, the glass is low;
4, 5. The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep,
6. And spiders from their cobwebs peep.
7. Last night the Sun went pale to bed,
8. The Moon in halos hid her head;
9. The boding shepherd heaves a sigh,
For, see, a rainbow spans the sky.
10. 11. The walls are damp, the ditches smell,
12. Clos'd is the pink-ey'd pimpernell.
13. Hark! how the chairs and tables crack,
14. Old Betty's joints are on the rack;

15, 16. Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry;
17. The distant hills are looking nigh.
18. How restless are the snorting swine,
19. The busy flies disturb the kine;
20. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings;
21. The cricket too, how sharp he sings:
22. Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws,
Sits, wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws.
23. Through the clear stream the fishes rise,
And nimbly catch th' incautious flies;
24. The glow-worms, numerous and bright,
Illum'd the dewy dell last night.

25. At dusk the squalid toad was seen,
Hopping and crawling o'er the green;
26. The whirling wind the dust obeys,
And in the rapid eddy plays;

27. The fog has chang'd his yellow vest,
And in a russet coat is drest.

28. Though, June the air is cold and still;
29. The mellow blackbird's voice is, shrill.
30. My dog, so alter'd in his taste,

Quits mutton-bones, on grass to feast;
31. And see yon rooks how odd their flight,
They imitate the gliding kite,

And seem precipitate to fall-
As if they felt the piercing ball.
'Twill surely rain, I see, with sorrow;
Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow.

INDEX

INDEX.

[N. B. The figures with crotchets refer to the History; those with a to the
Appendix to Chronicle, &c.; and the others to the Chronicle.]

action for libel, Root v. Editors of
the New York American, 105
America, South; relaxation of the navi-
gation laws, in favour of the new
states, [67]; war between Brazil and
Buenos Ayres, 384. See Bolivia,
Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Colom-
bia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Rio
de la Plata.
Antigua; petition from the House of
Assembly to Parliament, [157]
Antiquities: excavation in Dalmatia,

ACCIDENTS: at Friary chapel, Callan,
1; in a mine at Whitehaven, ib.; on
the ice, St. James's-park, 3; two
wherrymen drowned at London
Bridge, 7; a leopard gets loose at
Mold, 9; bursting of a cannon,
Gravesend, 23; accident at an ex-
hibition of wild beasts, 27; explo-
sion of fire-damp, ib.; horses in a
hackney coach drowned, 28; Dorking
coach overturned, 52; six pilots
drowned, 55; bursting of the Pad-
dington canal, 68; R. Gower and his
wife drowned, 69; scaffold breaks
down at Mr. Green's ascent, City-
road, 70; Mary Belcher and children
killed by an explosion of gunpowder,
77; explosion in the Townley col-
lieries, 92; deaths by lightning, 96,
104; explosion at Cowes, 107; fall
of the town-hall tower, Limberg,
111; fall of a warehouse, Liverpool,
120; fall of the cornice of Bow steeple,
125; explosion of gas, Coburg the-
atre, 135; child drowned, Sheerness,
138; explosion of a powder maga-
zine, Ostend, 141; explosion of a dis-
tillery, Shoreditch, 147; fall of stables,
&c., Bartholomew Close, 152; ser-
vant girl falls into a well, 159; ex-
plosion in the Graham steam-packet,
170; fall of the Guards' club-house,
171; mate of a tender drowned, 196
Acts of Parliament, 306
Adams, ex-president, United States,
death of, 263

Africa, see Ashantees; new colony at
Natal, 16

Albufera, duke of (Suchet), death of, 219
Alexander, emperor, funeral of, 35
Alien Act, expiry of, [166];
regulations, [167]

new

America, North; see United States;
Canada naturalization act, [165]
pay of members of congress, 22

13; fresco discovered at Pompeii, 16;
temples, &c. at Brescia, 124; shield
and sword found in the Witham, 127;
arch of Augustus, and mausoleum of
Julius Cæsar, at St. Remy, 130; piles
discovered in the Thames, 147
Arctic expedition, 95, 170, 171
Arigna mining company, discussion on
in parliament, [184]

Arson, trial of C. T. White for, 43*
Ashantees; their territory attacked by
the native chiefs and the British,
under colonel Purdon, [223]; total
defeat of the Ashantees, [224]
Assizes: Chester.-Joseph Whitelegg,
sedition, 124

Gloucester; A. Briton and others,
assault and robbery, 118
Kingston; T. Jones, uttering a forged
note, 190

Lancaster; James Evans, murder of
Mr. Price, 33; J. Stott, and T.
Barnes, assaulting and robbing a
Chinese, 122; Alex. and Michael
M'Keand, murder, 29*; James
Chambers, &c. rioting, 32*

Lewes; Hannah Russell and D.
Leary, murder of Benjamin Rus-
sell, 26⚫

Maidstone; Joseph Finn, threatening
letter, 120

Staffordshire; W. Barnes and R.
Wood, poaching, 10

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