provements in the manufacture of iron into sheets, plates, or other forms; in coating iron, and in preparing iron for coating and other purposes. Sealed 9th October-6 months for inrol

ment.

Alexander Parkes, of Birmingham, artist, for improvements in coating or covering certain metals with other metals and metallic alloys, and for ornamenting the surfaces of various metallic articles. Sealed 9th October-6 months for inrol

ment.

Thomas Wood Gray, of Workworth-terrace, Commercial-road, plumber, for improvements in ports, and apparatus for opening and closing ports of ships or other vessels; also applicable in opening and closing windows, and other instruments having the like movements. Sealed 9th October-6 months for inrolment.

Henry Francis, of Wardour-street, civil engineer, for improvements in the manufacture of gas. Sealed 9th October-6 months for inrolment.

Edmund Morgan, of Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Gent., for an improved envelope for letters. Sealed 9th October-6 months for inrolment.

Edward Patrick Emerson, of the City of Dublin, doctor of medicine, for improvements in the manufacture of paints, pigments, cements, and other plastic compositions, and in the machinery or apparatus to be used in such manufacture; parts of which improvements are also applicable to the manufacture of artificial stone and marble. Sealed 9th October-6 months for inrolment.

Thomas Hollingsworth, of Birmingham, cigar merchant, for a certain improvement or certain improvements in the construction of cases for holding cigars. Sealed 9th October—6 months for inrolment.

Joseph Edward Judson, of Ashton-under-Lyne, saddler, and Edward Banton, of Walsall, Staffordshire, commercial traveller, for a certain improvement or certain improvements in covering rollers used in spinning cotton and other threads; also in covering mill-straps. Sealed 9th October-6 months for inrolment.

David Wilkinson, of Potters' Pury, near Stoney Stratford, Gent., for improvements in obtaining motive power. Sealed 10th October-6 months for inrolment.

Edward Lesley Walker, of Foley-place, Middlesex, professor of music, for improvements in piano-fortes. Sealed 10th October 6 months for inrolment.

Joseph Clisild Daniell, of Tiverton Mills, Bath, clothier, for improvements in dressing and finishing woollen and other cloths. Sealed 10th October-6 months for inrolment, George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vauxhall, Gent., George Gwynne, of Putney, Gent., and James Pillans Wilson, of Belmont, aforesaid, Gent., for improvements in the manufacture of soap. Sealed 10th October-6 months for inrolment. Alexander Jamieson and John Frederick Lundholm, of Tothillstreet, Westminster, manufacturing chemists, for improvements in dressing ores requiring washing. Sealed 10th October6 months for inrolment.

John Whitehead, of Leeds, for improvements in machinery for combing, hackling, and straightening wool, flax, tow, and other fibrous substances. Sealed 10th October-6 months for

inrolment.

Frederick Harlow, of Paradise-street, Rotherhithe, carpenter, for improvements in atmospheric railways. Sealed 10th October-6 months for inrolment.

Charles Nossiter, of Lyndon End, near Birmingham, for improvements in the manufacture of leather. Sealed 10th October -6 months for inrolment.

James Hardcastle, of Firwood, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, Esq., for certain improvements in the method of conveying water. Sealed 10th October-6 months for inrolment. Charles Hanson, of Huddersfield, watchmaker, for certain improvements in clocks, watches, or time-keepers. Sealed 10th October-6 months for inrolment.

James Knowles, Jun., of Bolton-le-Moors, coal-merchant, and Alonzo Buonaparte Woodcock, of Manchester, engineer, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus to be employed for raising coal or other matters from mines, which improvements are also applicable to raising or lowering men or animals, or other similar purposes. Sealed 10th October-6 months for inrolment.

William Hodgson Gratrix, of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, ribbon weaver, for certain improvements in looms for weaving ribbons and other fabrics. Sealed 10th October-6 months for inrolment.

James Taylor, of Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, carpet and rug manufacturer, for certain improvements in the manufacture of carpets, rugs, and piled fabrics. Sealed 10th October-6 months for inrolment.

Edmund Barber, of Tring, decorative painter, for certain improvements in graining and decorating in oil, distemper, and other colours, and in imitating marbles, granites, fancy and other woods, and in the apparatus and instruments to be used therein. Sealed 11th October-6 months for inrolment.

Benjamin West, of St. John's Walk, Clerkenwell, book-binder, for certain improvements in covering or stoppering the tops of bottles, jars, pots, and other similar vessels. Sealed 16th October-6 months for inrolment.

Stephen Reed, of the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gent., for certain improvements in railway rails and chairs. Sealed 16th October-6 months for inrolment.

William Elliott, of Birmingham, button manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of buttons. Sealed 16th October-6 months for inrolment.

John Barsham, of Long Melford, Suffolk, manufacturer of bitumen, for improvements in the manufacture of mattresses, cushions, brushes, and brooms, and in machinery for preparing certain materials applicable to such purposes. Sealed

16th October-6 months for inrolment.

John Marshall, of 'Southampton-street, Strand, tea-dealer, for improvements in preparing cocoa and chocolate. Sealed 16th October-6 months for inrolment.

William Betts, of Smithfield Bars, distiller, for improvements in the manufacture of brandy, gin, and rum, and other British spirits and compounds. Sealed 16th October-6 months for inrolment.

James Webster Hale, of Fitzroy-square, Gent., for improvements in machinery for cleaning or freeing wool, and certain other fibrous materials, of burrs and other extraneous substances. Sealed 16th October-6 months for inrolment; being a communication.

Hippolyte Pierre François Desgranges, of Skinner's-place, Siselane, London, Gent., for an improvement or improvements in the mode of manufacturing corks. Sealed 17th October6 months for inrolment.

William Henry Stevenson, of the town and county of Nottingham, merchant, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus to be used in dyeing or staining,-being a communication. Sealed 23rd October-6 months for inrol

ment.

Joseph Orsi, of Pimlico, Gent., for improvements in sleepers or blocks for supporting railways. Sealed 23rd October-6 months for inrolment.

Thomas Taylor, of Manchester, cabinet maker, for certain improvements applicable to machinery or apparatus employed for sawing timber. Sealed 23rd October-6 months for inrol

ment.

Thomas Worsdell, Jun., of Stratford, railway carriage builder, for certain improvements in apparatus to be attached to, and employed in connection with, railway carriages. Sealed 23rd October-6 months for inrolment.

Arthur Smith, of St. Helen's, Lancashire, manufacturing chemist, for certain improvements in the manufacture of soda ash. Sealed 23rd October-6 months for inrolments.

William Coles Fuller, of Brownlow-street, Holborn, for improvements in the construction of carriages for railways. Sealed 23rd October-6 months for inrolment.

William Thomas, of the city of London, merchant, for certain improvements in the construction of umbrellas and parasols,being a communication. Sealed 24th October-6 months for inrolment.

John Davies, of Manchester, patent agent, for certain improvements in the method of dyeing or staining woven or piecegoods or fabrics, and in the machinery or apparatus to be used for such or similar operations.,-being a communication. Sealed 25th October-6 months for inrolment.

J. LEWTHWAITE, Rother hithe.