CHARLES WHEATSTONE, of Conduitstreet, Hanover-square, esq., and Willliam Fothergill Cooke, of Sussex cottage, Slough, esq., for improvements in giving signals, and sounding alarms at distant places, by means of electric currents.

Arthur Howe Holdsworth, of Brookhill, Devon, esq., for improvements in preserving wood from decay.

Charles Rowley, of Birmingham, stamper and piercer, and Benjamin Wakefield, of Bordesley, machinist, for improved methods of cutting out, stamping, or forming and piercing buttons, shells, and backs for buttons, washers, or other articles from metal plate, with improved machinery and tools for those

purposes.

James Hay, of Belton, in Haddington, Scotland, captain in the royal navy, for an improved plough, "the Belton plough."

Joseph Gibbs, of Kennington, Surrey, engineer, for an improvement or improvements in the machinery for preparing fibrous substances for spinning, and in the mode of spinning certain fibrous substances.

James Nasmyth, of Paticroft, near Manchester, engineer, for certain improvements applicable to railway carriages.

Thomas Laurente Lamy Godard, of Christopher - street, Finsbury - square, London, merchant, (a communication from a certain foreigner), for improvements in looms for weaving, to be worked by steam or other power.

George Wilton Turner, late of Parkvillage, Regent's-park, Middlesex, but now of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Doctor of Philosophy, and Herbert Minton, of Longfield cottage, Stoke-upon-Trent, Stafford, manufacturer, for an improved porcelain.

Robert Montgomery, of Johnston, Renfrew, Scotland, gentleman, for an improvement or improvements in spinning machinery, applicable to mules, jennies, slubbers, and other similar mechanism.

William Vickers, of Firs-hill, York, steel manufacturer (a communication from a foreigner), for an improvement in the manufacture of cast steel.

Christopher Edward Dampier, of Ware, Hertford, attorney-at law, for an improved weighing machine.

John Leslie, of Conduit-street, Hanover-square, Middlesex, tailor (a communication), for improvements in measuring the human figure.

Thomas Clark and Charles Clark, of Wolverhampton, Stafford, iron founders and co-partners, for improvements in glazing and enamelling cast iron hollow

ware.

John Ainslie, farmer, Redheugh, near Dalkeith, for a machine for a new and improved mode of making or moulding tiles, bricks, retorts, and such like work from clay.

Arthur Eldred Walker, of Meltonstreet, Euston-square, engraver, for improvements in engraving by machinery.

William Cubitt, of Gray's-inn-road, builder, for an improvement or improvements in roofing.

Wilkinson Steele and Patrick Sanderson Steele, manufacturing ironmongers, of George-street, Edinburgh, for improvements in kitchen ranges for culinary purposes, and apparatus for raising the temperature of water for baths and

other uses.

Joseph Needham Taylor, of Plymouth, captain in the Royal Navy, for improvements in steam-boats and vessels making applicable the power of the steam-engine to new and useful purposes of navigation.

James Hancock, of Gloucester-place, Walworth, for a method of forming a fabric or fabrics applicable to various uses, by combining caoutchouc or certain compounds thereof, with wood, whalebone, or other fibrous materials, vegetable or animal, manufactured or prepared for that purpose, or with metallic substances manufactured or prepared.

Junot, of Brewer-street, Golden-square, operative chemist, for certain improved processes for purifying and also for solidifying tallows, grease, oils, and oleaginous substances.

John Leberecht Steinhaueser, of Upper Islington Terrace, gent., for improvements in spinning and doubling wool, cotton, silk, and other fibrous materials, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.

Peter Bancroft, of Liverpool, merchant, and John Mac Innes, of the same place, manufacturing chemist, for an improved method of renovating or restoring animal charcoal after it has been used in certain processes or manufactures, to which charcoal is now generally applied, and thereby recovering the properties of such animal charcoal, and rendering it again fit for similar uses.

Harrison Blair, of Kearsley, manufacturing chemist, and Henry Hough Watson, of Little Bolton, chemist, for an improvement or improvements in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, crystallized soda, and soda ash, and the recovery of a residuum or residuums applicable to various useful purposes.

James Caldwell, of Mill-place, Commercial-road, engineer, for improvements in cranes, windlasses, and cap

stans.

William Grimman, of Camden-street, Islington, modeller, for a new mode of wood paving.

Thomas Robinson Williams, of Cheapside, gentleman, for certain improvements in obtaining power from steam and other elastic vapours or fluids, and for the means employed in generating such vapours or fluids, and also for using these improvements in conjunction with distillation or evaporation, and other useful purposes.

William Henry Bailey Webster, of Ipswich, surgeon, for improvements in preparing skins and other animal mat. ters for the purposes of tanning and the manufacture of gelatine.

Robert Cooper, of Petworth, Gloucester, gent., for improvements in ploughs.

Henry Philip Rouquette, of Norfolkstreet, Strand, merchant, being a communication from abroad, for a new pigment.

Pierre Auguste Ducote, of No 70, Saint Martin's Lane, lithographer, for certain improvements in printing china, porcelain, earthenware, and other like

wares; and for printing on paper, calicoes, silks, woollens, oil-cloths, leather and other fabrics; and for an improved material to be used in printing.

Arthur Wall, of Bermondsey, surgeon, for a new composition for the prevention of corrosion in metals, and for other purposes.

Thomas Gadd Matthews, of Bristol, merchant, and Robert Leonard, of the same place, merchant, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for sawing, rasping, or dividing dyewoods or tanner's bark.

William Newton, of Chancery-lane, patent agent, for an improved apparatus and process for producing sculptured forms, figures, or devices in marble, and other hard substances, being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.

Frank Hills, of Deptford, manufac turing chemist, for certain improvements in the construction of steamboilers and engines, and of locomotive carriages.

Henry Montague Grover, of Boveney, Buckingham, clerk, for an improved method of retarding and stopping rail. way trains.

Miles Berry, of Chancery-lane, patent agent, for certain improvements in treating, refining, and purifying oils, being a communication from abroad.

Rice Harris, of Birmingham, gent., for certain improvements in cylinder plates and blocks, used in printing and embossing.

Richard Foote, of Faversham, watchmaker, for improvements in alarums.

William Bush, of Camberwell, merchant, for improvements in fire-arms and in cartridges, being a communication.

James Buchanan, of Glasgow, merchant, for certain improvements in the machinery, applicable to the preparing, twisting, and spinning of hemp, flax, and other fibrous substances, and certain improvements in the mode of applying tar or other preservative to rope and other yarns.

Francis Gybbon Spilsbury, of Walsall, Staffordshire, chemist, Marie Francois Catherine Doetzer Corbaux, of Upper Norton-street, Middlesex, and Alexander Samuel Byrne, of Montaguesquare, of Middlesex, gent., for improvements in paints, or pigments and vehicles, and in modes of applying paints, pigments and vehicles,

Joseph Clinton Robertson, of 166, Fleet-street, London, Patent Agent, being a communication from abroad, for an improved method or methods, of obtaining mechanical power from electro magnetism, and the engine or engines by which the said power may be made applicable to motive purposes.

William Winsor, of Rathbone-place, Middlesex, artists' colourmau, for a cer tain method, or certain methods, process or processes for preparing, preserving and using colours.

Sir Josiah John Guest, of the DowJais Iron Works, Glamorgan, baronet, and Thomas Evans, of the same place, agent, for certain improvements in the manufacture of iron and other metals. William Henry Smith, of York-road, Lambeth, civil engineer, for an improvement or improvements in the mode of resisting shocks to railway carriages and trains, and also in the mode of connecting and disconnecting railway carriages, also in the application of springs to carriages.

James Allison, of Monkwearmouth, Durham, iron master, and Roger Lumsden, of the same place, chain and anchor manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of iron knees for ships and vessels.

William Pettitt, of Bradwell, Bucks, gent,, for a communicating apparatus to be applied to railroad carriages.

William Lance, of George-yard, Lombard-street, insurance-broker, for a new and improved instrument or apparatus to be used in whale fishery, part or parts of which upon an increased scale are also applicable as a motive power for driving machinery.

Edward John Carpenter, of Toft Monks, Norfolk, commander in the royal navy, for improvements in the application of machinery for assisting vessels in performing certain evolutions upon the water, especially tacking, veering, steering, propelling, casting, or winding aud backing astern.

Richard Prosser, of Birmingham, civil engineer, and John James Rippon, of Well-street, Middlesex, ironmonger, for certain improvements in apparatus for heating apartments, and in apparatus for cooking.

William Hickling Bennett, of Wharton-street, Bagnigge Wells-road, gent., for improved machinery for cutting or working wood.

William Potts, of Birmingham, brass

founder, for certain apparatus for suspending and moving pictures and curtains.

William Daubney Holmes, of Cannonrow, in the city of Westminster, engineer, for certain improvements in the construction of iron ships, boats, and other vessels, and also in means for preventing the same from foundering, also the application of the same improvements, or parts thereof, to other vessels.

John Crighton, junior, of Manchester, machine maker, for certain improvements in machinery for weaving single, double, or treble cloths, by hand or

power.

John B. Humphreys, for certain improvements in shipping generally, and in steam vessels in particular, some of these improvements being individually novel, and some the result of a novel application of parts already known.

John William Nyren, of Bromley, manufacturing chemist, for improvements in the manufacture of oxalic acid.

Louis Leconte, of Leicester-square, gentleman, for improvements in constructing fire-proof buildings.

William Palmer, of Feltwell, Norfolk, blacksmith, for certain improvements in ploughs.

James Jamieson Cordes and Edward Locke, of Newport, in the county of Monmouth, for a new rotary engine.

Francis Todd, of Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, gentleman, for improvements in obtaining silver from ores and other matters containing it.

Alexander Angus Croll, superintendent of the Chartered Gas Company's Works, Brick-lane, for certain improvements in the manufacture of gas, for the purposes of illumination, and for the preparation or manufacture of materials to be used in the purification of gas, for the purposes of illumination.

Robert Cook, of Johnston, in Renfrewshire, engineer and millwright, for the making of bricks by machinery, to be wrought either by steam or other power.

Thomas Richardson, of the town and county of the town of Newcastle-uponTyne, chemist, for a preparation of sulphate of lead, applicable to some of the purposes to which carbonate of lead is now applied.

Edward Thomas Bainbridge, of Park. place, St. James's, Middlesex, esq., for improvements in obtaining power.

John Juckes, of Shropshire, gentleman, improvements in furnaces, or fireplaces, for the better consuming of fuel. Alexander Bow, of Crown-street, Hutchesontown Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland, builder, for improvements in furnaces and flues, by the introduction and application of hot air thereto, and for the consumption of smoke and economizing fuel.

John Inkson, for improvements in apparatus for consuming gas for the purposes of light.

James Hodgson, of Liverpool, engineer, for a new mode of combining and applying machinery for the purpose of cutting and planing wood, so as to produce plane or moulded surfaces.

Thomas John Davis, of 5, Bloomsbury-square, esquire, for certain improvements in the form and combination of blocks of such materials as are now used or hereafter may be used in building or for paving public and private roads and court-yards, or public and private causeways and subways, or any other purposes to which the said form and combination of blocks may be applied.

John Peter Isaic Poncy, of Wellstreet, Oxford-street, watch-dealer, for improvements in clocks and chronometers, being a communication.

Pierre Armand Le Comte de Fontainemorean, of Skinner's place, Sizelane, gentleman, for certain improve ments in covering and coating metals and alloys of metals.

Joseph Lockett, of Manchester, engineer, for certain improvements in manufacturing, preparing and engraving cylinders, rollers, or other surfaces for printing or embossing calicoes or other fabrics.

Thomas Robinson Williams, of Cheapside, gentleman, for certain improvements in measuring the velocities with which ships or other vessels or bodies move in fluids, and also for ascertaining the velocities of fluids in motion.

Benjamin Hick, jun., of Bolton-leMoors, Lancaster, engineer, for certain improvements in regulators or governors, in regulating or adjusting the speed or rotary motion of steam-engines, waterwheels, and other machinery.

Henry Waterton, of Fulmer-place, Gerard's-cross, Buckingham, esq., for improvements in the manufacture of sal-ammoniac.

Renewal of patent to John George

Bodmer, of Manchester, Lancaster, engineer, for the term of seven years, from the 18th of August 1824, granted to him for certain improvements in the machinery for cleaning, carding, drawing, roving, and spinning of cotton and wool.

Richard Beard, of Egremont-place, New Road, Middlesex, gentleman, for improvements in apparatus for obtaining likenesses and representations of nature, and of drawings, and other objects.

Thomas Oram, of Lewisham, Kent, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of fuel.

Robert Hampson, of Mayfield Print Works, Manchester, Lancaster, calico printer, for an improved method of block printing on woven fabrics of cotton, linen, silk, or woollen, or of any two or more of them intermixed, with improved machinery, apparatus and implements for that purpose.

Charles Delbruck, of Oxford-street, gentleman, for improvements in apparatus for applying combustible gas to the purposes of heat, being a communicatiou.

Robert Goodacre, of Allesthorpe, Leicester, for an apparatus for raising heavy loads in carts, or other receptacles containing the said loads, when it is required that the unloading should take place at any considerable elevation above the ground.

Henry Fourdrinier and Edward Newman Fourdrinier, of Hanley, Stafford, papermakers, for certain improvements in steam-engines for actuating machinery, and in apparatus for propelling ships and other vessels on water.

William Mill, of Blackfriar's road, enginee, for certain improvements in propellers, and in steam-engines, and in the method of ascertaining and measuring steam power, parts of which improvements are applicable to other useful purposes.

Charles Handford, of High Holborn, tea dealer, for an improved edible vegetable preparation called "Eupooi," and the mode of manufacturing the same.

Themas Pain, jun., of Upper Seymour-street, Euston-square, student at law, for a plan by means of which carriages may be propelled by atmospheric pressure only, without the assistance of any other power, being an improvement upon the Atmospheric Railway now in use.