Luke Hebert, of Birmingham, for improvements in machinery for fulling woollen cloth.

William Charlton Forster, of Bartholomew Close, gentleman, for a material, or compound of material, not hitherto so used for preventing damp rising in walls, and for freeing walls from damp, which material, or compound of material, can be applied to other purposes.

George Shillibeer, of Milton-street, Euston-square, carriage-builder, for improvements in the construction of hearses, mourning and other carriages.

William Bush, of Deptford, engineer, for improvements in the means of, and in the apparatus for, building and working under water.

Comte Melano de Calcina, of Nassaustreet, Soho, for improvements in paving or covering roads, and other ways, or surfaces.

John Duncan, of Great George-street, Westminster, gentleman, for improvements in machinery for driving piles.

Henry Bessemer, of Baxted House, Saint Pancras, engineer, and Charles Louis Schonberg, of Sidmouth-place, Gray's-inn-lane-road, artist, for improvements in the manufacture of certain glass.

Jaines Whitelaw, engineer, of Glasgow, and James Stirratt, manufacturer, of Paisley, Renfrew, for improvements in rotory machines to be worked by

water.

Jean Louis Alphonse Petigars, of Brewer-street, Golden-square, gentleman, for improvements in the construction of presses.

Hugh Lee Pattison, of Benshamgrove, Gateshead, manufacturing-chemist, for improvements in the manufacture of white lead, part of which improvements are applicable to the manufacture of magnesia and its salts.

Joseph Miller, of Monastry Cottage, East India-road, engineer, for an improved arrangement and combination of certain parts of steam-engines used for steam navigation.

Joseph Clisild Daniell, of Tiverton Mills, Bath, for improvements in the manufacture of manure, or a composition to be used on land as a manure.

Benjamin Anigworth, of Birmingham, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of buttons.

John Jones, of Smethwick, Birmingham, engineer, for certain improve

ments in steam-engines, and in the modes or methods of obtaining power from the use of steam.

William Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil-engineer, for certain improvements in engines to be worked by gas vapour

or steam.

Moses Poole, of Lincoln's-inn, gentleman, for improvements in fire-arms.

John Bradford Furnival, of Street Ashton, farmer, for improvements in evaporating fluids, applicable to the manufacture of salt, and to other purposes where evaporation of fluids is required.

Henry Davies, of Birmingham, engineer, for certain improved tools, or apparatus for cutting, or shaping metals and other substances.

James Whitworth, of Bury, Lancaster, manufacturer, and Hugh Booth, of the same place, machine-maker, for certain improvements in looms for weaving.

Martin John Roberts, of Brynycaeran, Carmarthen, gentleman, and William Brown, of Glasgow, merchant, for improvements in the process of dyeing various matters, whether the raw material of wool, silk, flax, hemp, cotton, or other similar fibrous substances, or the same substances in any stage of manufacture, and in the preparation of pigments or painters' colours.

Thomas Holcroft, of Nassau-street, Middlesex, gentleman, for an improved portable safety boat or pontoon.

William Golden, of Huddersfield, gun-maker, and John Hanson, of the same place, lead-pipe manufacturer, for certain improvements in fire-arms, and in the bullets or other projectiles to be used therewith.

Thomas Macaulay, of Curtain-road, upholsterer, for certain improvements in bedsteads, which are convertible into other useful forms or articles of furniture.

Robert Logan, of Blackheath, esq., for improvements in obtaining and preparing the fibres and other products of the cocoa nut and its husk.

Robert Holt, of Manchester, cottonspinner, and Robinson Jackson, of Manchester, aforesaid, engineer, for certain improvements in machinery, or apparatus for the production of rotary motion, for obtaining mechanical power, which said improvements are also applicable for raising and impelling fluids.

Henry Kirk, of Tavistock-square,

gentleman, for a substitute for ice for skating and sliding purposes.

William Brunton, of Neath, Glamorganshire, engineer, for an improved method or means of dressing ores and separating metals or minerals from other substances.

Jules Lejune, of North-place, Cumberland - market, manufacturing-chemist, for a means of condensing and collecting the sulphurous and metallic vapours which are evolved in the treatment by heat of all kinds of ores.

Job Cutler, of Ladypool-lane, Birmingham, gentleman, for improvements in the construction of the tubular flues of steam-boilers.

John Carr, of North Shields, earthen. ware-manufacturer, and Aaron Ryles, of the same place, agent, for an improved mode of operating in certain processes for ornamenting glass.

Jesse Ross, of Leicester, manufacturer, for a new wool-combing appa

ratus.

Henry Davies, of Birmingham, engineer, for certain improved machinery suitable for applying power to communicate locomotion to bodies requiring to be moved on land or water.

William Edward Newton, of Chancerylane, civil engineer, for certain improvements in the production of ammonia.

William Palmer, of Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of candles. (Being partly a communication.)

John Garnett, of Liverpool, merchant, and Joseph Williams, of Liverpool, aforesaid, manufacturing-chemist, for an improved method of manufacturing salt from brine.

Edward Joseph Francois Duclos de Boussons, of Clyne Wood Metallurgical works, Swansea, for improvements in the manufacture of copper.

James Young, of Newton-le-Willows, chemist, for certain improvements in the manufacture of ammonia, and the salts of ammonia, and in apparatus for combining ammonia, carbonic acid, and other gases with liquids.

John Squire, of Albany-place, Regent's-park, engineer, for certain improvements in the construction of steamboilers or generators.

John Venables, of Burslem, in the county of Stafford, earthenware-manufacturer, and John Tunnicliff, of the same place, bricklayer, for a new and VOL. LXXXIII,

improved method of building and constructing ovens used by potters and china-manufacturers in the firing of their wares.

William Mainwaring, of York-street, Lambeth, engineer, for certain improvements in the manufacture of sugar.

Richard Gurney, of Trewinnionhouse, Cornwall, for a method of cutting wood and incrusting the same in order to present a sure footing for horses, and other purposes.

Robert Wilson, of Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, currier and tanner, for improvements in the manufacture of leather.

William Irving, of Princes-street, Rotherhithe, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of bricks and tiles.

James Colman, of Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk, starch-manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of starch.

William Henry Fox Talbot, of Lacock Abbey, Wilts, esq., for improvements in coating or covering metals with other metals, and in coloring metallic surfaces.

Josiah Taylor, of Birmingham, brassfounder, for improvements in the construction of lamps.

William Westley Richards, of Birmingham, gun-maker, for improvements in the construction of gun and pistol locks and primers for the discharge of fire-arms.

William Neilson, builder, David Lyon, builder, and Peter Mc Onie, engineer, all of Glasgow, for a mode, or modes of, or an improvement, or improvements in cutting, dressing, preparing, and polishing stones, marble, and other substances, and also in forming flat or rounded mouldings, and other figures thereon.

John Norton, of the Junior United Service Club, Regent-street, esq., for improvements in sheathing ships and other vessels.

William Church, of Birmingham, civil-engineer, and Jonathan Harlow, of the same place, manufacturer, for certain improvements in the mode of manufacturing metallic tubes, and in the mode of joining them, or other tubes or pieces, for various useful purposes.

Thomas Starkey, of Birmingham, copper cap-manufacturer, for improvements in percussion caps for discharging fire-arms,

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John Bould, of Overden, Halifax, cotton-spinner, for an improvement or improvements in condensing steamengines.

Antoine Jean Francois Claudet, of High Holborn, glass-merchant, for certain improvements in the process or means of, and apparatus for, obtaining images or representations of nature

or art.

Henry Hough Watson, of Bolton-leMoors, Lancashire, consulting-chemist, for certain improvements in dressing, stiffening, and finishing cotton and other fibrous substances, and textile and other fabrics, part or parts of which improvements are applicable to the manufacture of paper, and also to some of the processes or operations connected with printed calicees and other goods.

Ovid Topham, of Whitecross-street, engineer, for improvements in engines, machines, apparatus, or means for extinguishing, stopping the progress of

fire in any room or part of different buildings which may have become ignited, such as noblemen or gentlemen's mansions, houses, factories, store and warehouses, and consequently preserving them from destruction, and preventing loss of life.

John Oliver York, of Upper Coleshillstreet, Eaton-square, engineer, for improvements in the construction of railway axles and wheels.

Thomas Wright, of Church-lane, Chelsea, lieutenant in the royal navy, and Alexander Bain, of Percival-street, Clerkenwell, mechanist, for improvements in applying electricity to control railway engines and carriages, to mark time, to give signals, and print intelligence at distant places.

William Carr Thornton, of Cleckheaton, machine-maker, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for making cards for carding cotton and other fibrous substances.