2531. James Heywood, of Ratcliffe Bridge, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for printing yarns. 2533. Robert Archbutt, of King's-road, Chelsea, for improvements in wood-cutting machinery.

The above bear date November 1st.

2534. William Taylor, of Newport Pagnel, for stopping of bottles containing aerated liquids.

2535. Frederick Albert Gatty, of Accrington, for an improved bath for heating and distilling.

2536. Edwin Dalton Smith, of Hertford-street, May-fair, for a new buffer-break for railway carriages.

2537. William Armand Gilbee, of South-street, for an improved apparatus for levelling,-being a communication.

2538. Edward Ward, of Potton, Bedfordshire, for an improvement in carriage axles,-being a communication.

2539. William Maltby, of Camberwell, for an improved system or arrangement for preventing collisions or accidents on railways.

2540. Brand Willis and John Musto, both of the East London Iron Works, Mile End, for improvements in rotatory pumps. 2541. Frederick Lipscombe, of the Strand, for improvements in obtaining steam power, and in regulating the same.

2543. Henry Brierley, of Chorley, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for spinning and doubling cotton and other fibrous substances.

2544. James Howard, of Bedford, for improvements in horserakes and harrows.

2545. Richard Edward Hodges, of Southampton-row, Russellsquare, for an improvement in fastening the ends of springs made of India-rubber.

2546. Charles Iles, of Peel Works, Birmingham, for improvements in metal bedsteads.

The above bear date November 2nd.

2547. Peter Mc Gregor, of Manchester, for improvements in machinery for spinning and doubling.

2548. William Wood, of Chancery-lane, for abstracting and condensing smoke arising from steam-engines and other furnaces, and obtaining a supply of air for supporting the combustion of the fuel in such furnaces,-thereby superseding the necessity of chimney shafts and funnels.

2549. John Moffat, of Birmingham, for an improvement or imimprovements in candlesticks,-being partly a communication. 2550. Charles Reeves, jun., of Birmingham, for an improvement or improvements in the manufacture of swords, bayonets, and sword-bayonets.

2551. Thomas Irving, of Dalton, Kirkheaton, for improvements in preparing wool for spinning.

2552. Bryan Edward Duppa, of Malmaynes Hall, Kent, for improvements in coloring photographic pictures.

2553. William Patterson, of Edinburgh, for improvements in chairs.

2555. George Duncan and John Boyd, both of Liverpool, and John Barker, of Knotty Ash, near Liverpool, for improvements in casks, and in machinery or apparatus for the manufacture

of casks.

2556. Ebenezer Goddard, of Ipswich, for improvements in gasburners.

2557. Joseph Henry Tuck, of Pall-mall, for improved machinery for obtaining and applying motive power, and for raising and forcing fluids.

The above bear date November 3rd.

2559. George Nasmyth, of Brabant-court, Philpot-lane, for improvements in the construction of steam-boiler and other fur

naces.

2560. William Hindman, of Manchester, for improvements in the construction of steam-boilers and in the mode or method of fixing the same.

2561. William Gilbert Ginty, of Manchester, for improvements in the mode of manufacturing the combustible gases resulting from the decomposition of water or steam, and in the construction of apparatus connected therewith.

2562. William Crosland, of Hulme, for improvements in apparatus for governing the speed of steam and other motive power engines.

2563. William Racster, of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, for improvements in the construction and arrangement of the buffing apparatus of railway carriages, and in the mode of applying the buffer and draw springs to such carriages. 2564. William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, Chancery-lane, for improved machinery for crushing ores, and separating therefrom gold, silver, or other metals contained therein, -being a communication.

2565. John Hartley Higginbottom, of Ashby de la Zouch, for improvements in water-closets and in the apparatus connected therewith.

2566. Henry Pratt, of Worcester, for improvements in kneading dough, and which said improvements are also applicable to the kneading or beating of clay, loam, or other plastic materials. 2567. William Foster, of Bradford, Yorkshire, for improvements in looms for weaving.

2568. John Henry Johnson, of Lincoln's-inn-fields, for improvements in the manufacture of malleable iron; which improvements are also applicable to the manufacture of other malleable metals, being a communication.

The above bear date November 4th.

2569. John Smith, of the Albion Works, Bradford, Yorkshire, for improvements in mill-stones for grinding corn, seeds, or minerals.

2571. Samuel Harrison, of Crewe, Chester, for improvements in and applicable to steam-engines.

2572. John Hyde, of Sheffield, for improvements in furniture

castors.

2573. Charles Carr, of Seghill, Northumberland, and William Kyle Horsley, of the same place, for improvements in steam machinery and pumps for lifting water from mines and other places.

2574. Robert William Jearrad, of Upper Eccleston-place, for improvements in steam-boiler and other furnaces.

2575. John Rubery, of Birmingham, for improvements in the manufacture of open caps for sticks of umbrellas and parasols. 2577. William Beckett Johnson, of Manchester, for improvements in steam-engines and in apparatus for indicating the pressure

of steam.

2578. Edwin Kesterton, of Long Acre, for improvements in springs for carriages.

The above bear date November 5th.

2579. Henry Pershouse and Timothy Morris, both of Birmingham, for an improvement or improvements in the deposition of metals and metallic alloys.

2580. John Todd, of Fish-street-hill, for improvements in the spindles and bearings of lathes and drilling machines, and in other spindles and bearings.

2581. Marino Louis Joseph Christophe Vincent Falconi, of Paris, for a certain composition for the preservation of the dead. 2583. Jonathan Grindrod, of Liverpool, and Alexander Hunter, of the same place, for improvements in steam-engines. 2584. Henry Wiglesworth, of Newbury, for improvements in connecting together or coupling railway carriages.

2585. Robert Roughton, of Woolwich, for an improvement in steam-boilers, which is applicable to other vessels for containing compressed air, vapour, or gas.

2586. Thomas Walker, of Birmingham, for improvements in signal apparatus for the prevention of accidents on railways. 2587. Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents, Chancery-lane, for certain improved means for preventing the fraudulent abstraction of property,-being a communication.

The above bear date November 7th.

2588. John Onions and Samuel Bromhead, hoth of Peckham, for certain improvements in machinery used iu the manufacture of paper and papier-maché.

2589. John Gardiner, of Great Marlow, and William Watkin Wynne, of the same place, for an improved construction of gas

stove.

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2590. Edmund Hugh Graham, of Maine, U.S., for new and useful improvements in fire-arms.

2591. Humphrey Chamberlain, of Kempsey, near Worcester, for improvements in the manufacture of bricks and tubes, or tiles. 2592. George Frederick Parratt, of Pimlico, for improvements in life rafts.

2593. Edward Lambert Hayward, of Blackfriars-road, for improvements in the roses of door and other locks.

2594. John Henry Johnson, of Lincoln's-inn-fields, for improvements in machinery for combing and preparing wool and other fibrous materials,-being a communication.

The above bear date November 8th.

2596. Benjamin Dangerfield and Benjamin Dangerfield, jun., both of West Bromwich, for improvements in the construction of steam-boilers.

2597. Thomas Dunn, of the Windsor Bridge Iron Works, Pendleton, James Bowman, of Plaistow, and Joseph Dunn, of Pendleton, for improvements in machinery for raising, moving, and lowering heavy bodies.

2598. Jerome André Drieu, of Patricroft, for improvements in machinery for cutting velveteens and certain other fabrics to produce a piled surface.

2599. John Brown, of Darlington, Durham, for improvements in coke ovens.

2600. William Dicks, of Floore, Northamptonshire, for improvements in wheels for carriages.

The above bear date November 9th.

List of Patents

Granted for SCOTLAND, from the 22nd October to the 22nd November, 1853.

To James Hart, of the Atlas Iron Works, Surrey, for improvements in the manufacture of bricks, tiles, and other articles made from plastic materials; and in the means of making parts of the machinery used therein.-Sealed 24th October.

William Palmer, of Woodford, in the county of Essex, for improvements in the manufacture of candles and candle-wicks, and in the machinery applicable to such matters.-Sealed 2nd November.

Charles Frederick Bielefeld, of Wellington-street, North Strand, for improvements in the manufacture of sheets of papier-maché or substances in the nature thereof.-Sealed 9th November.

New Patents.

Sealed under Patent Law Amendment Act, 1853.

658. John Talbot Ashenhurst, of Upper John-street, for improvements in piano-fortes.-March 17.

727. Alexander Price, of Trafalgar-square, for improvements in carriages,-being a communication.-March 26.

756. George Shaw, of Sheffield, for improvements in the manufacture of knives and forks.-March 29.

903. William Laycock, of Birkenhead, for improvements in the manufacture of metallic and other casks and vessels.-April 14. 1002. Auguste and Jean Le Roy and Eugène Pavy, all of Paris, for improvements in the production of lace and other fabrics. -April 26.

1012. Richard Howson, of Manchester, for certain improvements in weavers' harness,-being a communication.-April 27. 1014. Joseph Walter Gale, of Woburn-place, Russell-square, for improvements in the permanent way of railways.-April 27. 1020. James Andrew Bruce, of Coleraine, for certain improvements in the construction of hay-racks, and other apparatus or apparatuses to contain fodder for horses and other cattle, and also in the method or methods of fastening horses or other cattle, to prevent their overcasting.-April 27.

1021. Thomas Culpin, of Greenwich, for improvements in steamboilers, and in the appendages thereto.-—April 27.

1028. Joseph Hetherington, of Manchester, for certain improvements in reels for reeling or winding yarns.-April 28. 1035. William Armand Gilbee, of South-street, for improvements in apparatus for heating,-being a communication.April 28. 1041. Thomas Collins Banfield, of Queen-square, Westminster, for machinery for cutting or chopping roots, plants, or other similar substances,-being a communication.-April 29. 1042. Thomas Collins Banfield, of Queen-square, Westminster, for drying and preserving vegetable or other saccharine plants, -being a communication.-April 29.

1051. Barnabas Barrett, of Ipswich, for improvements in the treatment of natural and artificial stone, and of articles composed of porous cements or plaster, for the purpose of hardening and coloring the same.-April 30.

1053. Weston Grimshaw, of Mosley, county Antrim, Ireland, for certain improvements in slubbing and roving frames for preparing for spinning cotton, flax, and other fibrous substances. April 30.

1057. Henry Constantine Jennings, of Great Tower-street, for improvements in the manufacture of soap.-May 2.