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representing or making visible at night, to an enlarged size, 

 the dial of a watch against the wall of a room ; the reflec- 

 tion obtained by a light and optical apparatus being at the 

 same time sufficient to give the room a pleasing illumina- 

 tion. The nocturnal dial may, with little alteration, be con- 

 structed of any watch or time-piece: but to render the whole 

 as simple and useful as possible, he has also invented a me- 

 chanism, or instrument, which is applicable to the above, 

 on account of its peculiar action, which he calls the myste- 

 rious circulator, or chronological equilibrium, requiring only 

 one hand or nonius to show seconds, minutes, and hours : 

 it is particularly useful, and may, if required, with little al- 

 teration, represent an orrery. Dec. 20. 



To John Frederick Archbold, of Great Charlotte-Slreet, 

 Blackfriars-Road, for improvements in making brandy ; 

 comprising, first, a new method in making wine as the worts 

 Or must for the making the brandy, and a still applicable to 

 the working off the same, and a new method of rectifying 

 the spirit when worked off. Dec. 20. 



To William Steel, of Liverpool, glass- dealer, for an en- 

 tire new machine engine, or instrument for making white 

 salt. Dec. 29. 



To William Tompson, of Dent End, near Birmingham, 

 in the county of Warwick, locksmith, for a lock, which 

 acts in a perpeudicular and horizontal direction, with spring 

 and tumblers, one part being at liberty whilst the other is in 

 motion, the bolts of winch lock return into the body thereof 

 when it is unlocked. Dec. 29. 



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lire weather during the present month has been the most 

 severe that has been remembered for many years. The fall 

 of snow has been excessive, and the degree of cold very in- 

 tense. In Scotland the weather has been similar. At Edin- 

 burgh on Saturday the 21st of January, at eleven o'clock 

 P. M. a thermometer constructed by Crighton of Glasgow, 

 stood at 17°. On the following morning, at half past eight 

 o'clock, it stood at 12° ) and at eleven at night it was so low 

 as 9°, On the 23d in the morning the temperature was 1 7°. 



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