he had given so long notice, we cannot learn; but it seems now he has passed that point, and obtained leave to bring in a bill. The title of this also varies considerably from the words of the notice; it is more comprehensive and general. To this there can be no objection; but past experience, on this very question, induces a fear, that by grasping at too much, little or nothing may be obtained; and that the very desirable reforms of the patent law, specified in the notice may be neglected, or omitted, among the numerous provisions which must necessarily be subjects of discussion in a satisfactory bill for the better encouragement of the arts and manufactures. Patent Law Grievance. No. IV. THE penalties inflicted on the inventive genius of Britain during the present year, up to the 25th ult., in the shape of government stamps and fees on patents, amount to more than £21,000! N.B. This sum has been paid in ready money, on taking the first steps, and as many of the inventors are poor men (operatives), and a great many others of them persons to whom it would be very inconvenient to pay at least £100. down, they have been obliged to go into debt, or mortgage or dispose of their inventions, either wholly or in part, &c. NEW PATENTS. 1836. ENGLISH. N. B. The first Date annexed to each Patent, is that on which it was sealed and granted; the second, that on or before which the Specification must be delivered and enrolled.The abbreviation For. Comm., signifies that the invention, &c., is "a communication from a foreigner residing abroad." MAY contd. GRANTS. 130. JOSEPH BENCKE GEROTHWOHL, Cam- TOTAL, MAY...29. JUNE. 132. WILLIAM GOSSAGE, Stoke Prior, Wor., 134. BARON HENRY DE BODE, Maj. Gen. for improvements in capstans. June 4.-Dec. 4. 135. MANSAH BOWER, Birmingham, War., for improvements applicable to various descriptions of carriages. June 7.-Dec. 7. 136. JOHN YOUNG, Wolverhampton, Staff., Patent Lock-smith, for improvements in the making or manufacturing of metal hinges for doors and other purposes. June 7.-Dec. 7. 137. DANIEL CHAMBERS, Carey-st., Lincoln's Inn, Water-closet manufacturer, and JOSEPH HALL, Margaretst., Cavendish-sq., Plumber, for an improvement in pumps. June 7. Dec. 7. 138. MILES BERRY, Chancery-lane, Middx., Mechanical Draftsman, for improvements in machinery, or apparatus for cleaning, purifying, and drying wheat. or other grain or seeds. June 7.Dec. 7. 139. AMOS GERALD HULL, Cockspur-st., Charing-cross, Middr., Esq., for his invention of improvements in instruments for supplying the prolapsed Uterus. June 9.-Dec. 9. 140. EDWARD MASSEY, King-st., Clerkenwell, Middx., Watchmaker, for improvements in the apparatus used for measuring the progress of vessels through the water, and for taking soundings at sea. June 13.-Dec. 13. 141. JACOB PERKINS, Fleet-st., Lond., Civil-engineer; for improvements in apparatus for cooking. June 13.Dec. 13. 142. MILES BERRY, Chancery-lane, Midda. Civil-engineer; for improved apparatus for torrefying, baking and roasting vegetable substances; which with certain modifications and additions is also applicable to the evaporation and concentration of saccharine juices and other liquids. June 13.Dec. 13. For. Comm. 143. ALEXANDER RITCHIE, Leeds, York, Merchant; for an improvement in dressing and finishing woollen cloths, and other woven fabrics. June 13. Dec. 13. 144. CHARLES SCHAFHAUTL, Dudley, Worc., Gent.; for improved apparatus for puddling iron. June 13.-Dec. 13. 145. THOMAS VAUX, Woodford-bridge, Essex, Land-Surveyor; for a mode of constructing and applying a revolving harrow for agricultural purposes. June 13.-Dec. 13. 146. JOHN WHITE, Southampton, Engineer; for improvements on rotary steam-engines, which implements or parts thereof are applicable to other useful purposes. June 15.-Dec. 15. 147. JAMES DREDGE, Bath, Som., for improvements in the construction of suspension chains for bridges, viaducts, aqueducts, and other purposes, and in the construction of such bridges, viaducts, or aqueducts. June 17.Dec. 17. 148. JOHN HOPKINS, Exmouth-st., Clerkenwell, Middx., Surveyor; for improvements in furnaces for steamengine boilers and other purposes. June 18.-Dec. 18. 149. LOUIS GACHET, Cambridge-Heath, Middx., Gent.; for improvements in machinery for manufacturing and producing velvets and certain other fabrics. June 18.-Dec. 18. 150. JOSEPH BUNNETT, Newington-causeway, Southwark, Window-blind maker; for improvements in windowshutters, which improvements may also be applied to other useful purposes. June 18.-Dec. 18. 151. WILLIAM WATSON, Liverpool, Lanc., Merchant; for improvements in the manufacturing of sugars from beetroot, and other substances. June 18. -Dec. 18. 152. JOHN YOUNG, Wolverhampton, Staff., Patent Lock-Smith; for improvements in manufacturing boxes and pullies for window-sashes and other purposes. June 21.-Dec. 21. 153. 154. ROBERT SMITH, Manchester, Lanc., Engineer; for improvements in the means of connecting metallic plates for the construction of boilers and other purposes. June 22.-Dec. 22. WILLIAM WRIGHT, Salford, Lanc., Machine maker; for improvements in twisting machinery used in the preparation, spinning or twisting of cotton, flax, silk, wool, hemp, and other fibrous substances. June 22.Dec. 22. 155. CHARLES PEARCE CHAPMAN, Cornhill, Lond., Zine manufacturer; for improvements in printing silks, calicoes, and other fabrics. June 22. -Dec. 22. 156. 157. 158. WILLIAM BAMATT, Brighton, Sussex, Founder; for improvements in apparatus for generating and purifying gas for the purposes of illumination. June 22.-Dec. 22. HAMER STANSFELD, Leeds, York, Merchant; for improvements in machinery for preparing certain threads or yarns, and for weaving certain fabrics. June 22.-Dec. 22. JOHN WOOLRICH, Birmingham, Warw., Professor of Chemistry; improvements in producing or making the substance commonly called, or known by the name of, carbonate of baryta or carbonate of barytes. June 22.-Dec. 22. 159. HENRY DUNNINGTON, Nott., Lacemanufacturer; for improvements in making or manufacturing lace. June 22.-Dec. 22. 160. JOHN MC DOWALL, Johnstone, Renfrew, N. Brit., and of Manchester, Lanc., Engineer; for improvements in the machinery for sawing timber, and in the mode of applying power to the same. June 24.-Dec. 24. 161. GEORGE RICHARD ELKINGTON, Birmingham, Warw., Gilt Toy-maker; for an improved method of gilding copper, brass, and other metals, or alloy of metals. June 24.-Dec. 24. 162. SAMUEL HALL, Basford, Nott., Gent.; for improvements in propelling vessels, also improvements in steamengines, and in the method or methods of working some parts thereof, some of which improvements are applicable to other purposes. June 24.-Dec. 24. 163. ALEXANDRR STOCKER, Birmingham, Warw. Gent.; for improvements in machinery for making files. June 25.-Dec. 25. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL FOR MAY, 1836; KEPT AT BLACKHEATH ROAD. Barom. Ther. Thermometer Daily Solar 3222000 222 N.E. N.N.E. N.N.E. P.M. tion. N.E. N.E. N.E. E. N.E. « N.E. E.N.E. W. W. N.W. E. N.N.E. N.E. S. E N.E. N.E. Lowest point of Rad. 29°, on the 1st. Rain fallen 1 in. 220. INDEX. Antilles, temperature of the, 138 Calorific action of the solar rays, 330 Meteorological phenomena, 329 Arnold and Dent, Messrs., their standard Ashmolean Society of Society of Oxford, Astronomical Society, their medal for 1836, Number of the Fellows of, 274 Earth, axis, poles, equator, and me- Earth, circumference of the, 168 Earth, polar and equatorial diame- Earth, revolution of the, 369 Latitude and longitude, 372 Planets, changes in the, 40 Polar Star and Greater Bear, 166 Planets, naming of the, 34 Astronomy, popular Course of. Stars, observation of the, 161 Barometer, remarkable depression of, 270 Beet-root sugar, manufacture of, 68 Botanical Rambles near Dovor, 315 Artisans and Machinery. By P. Astronomical Society, Annual Re- Doctrine of Proportion applied to 58 Minerals and Metals, 59 - Navier, M. on Railways and Locomo- Parnell, Sir H., on the Construction Perspective Rectified. By Arthur Ritchie on the Differential and In- Three Addresses to the Society of Simms's Treatise on Mathematical Student's Cabinet Library, 59 Young on Algebraic Equations, 59 Researches of, on geology, 75 on the Tides, 17, 20 Brussels, weather at, 273 Canton and Macao, temperature of, 66 Caustics, investigation of, 193 Cavern of Guachara described, 356 Chemistry, a popular Course of, 180, 233, 293 Affinity, 241 Air, decomposition of, 297 |