360 New and Expiring Patents. [SEPT. 



for drawing "up hop-poles out of the invented certain improvements in pro- 

 ground previous to picking the hops, pelling and giving motion to machinery, 

 and which by drawing the poles perpen- 18th August ; 6 months. 



dicularly will greatly save them as well 



as prevent the nops from being bruised, List of Patents, which having leen granted 



called " a hop-pole drawer by lever and in the month of September 1U16, expire 



fulcrum.'* 13th August ; 2 months. in the present month of September 1830. 



To Samuel Roscoe Bakewell,Whiskin- 



street, Middlesex, brick and stone ma- 30. Charles Lacy, Nottingham, and 



nufacturer, for an invention of certain John Lindley, Loughborough, for their 



improvements in machinery apparatus improvements in machinery for making 



or implements to be used in the manu- lace. . 



facture of bricks, tiles, and other articles Jacob Metcalf, London, for his ta- 



to be formed or made of clay, or other pered hair or head-brush. 



plastic materials, part of which said ma- Robert Clayton, Dublin, for his 



chinery is also applicable to other useful improved metal and composition blocks, 



purposes. 18th August ; 6 months. plates, rollers, types and dies, for printing 



To Matthew Towgood, Dartford, patterns on cloths and other substances. 



Kent, paper-maker, and Leapridge John Aston Wilkes, Birmingham, 



Smith, JPaternoster-row, London, sta- for his method of manufacturing ornamen- 



tioner, for their having invented an im- tal glass. 



proved mode of applying size to paper. William Losh, Newcastle-upon- 



18 August ; 6 months. Tyne, and George Stephenson, Killing- 



To Major-General Joseph Gubbins, worth, for their improved rail-way car- 



Southampton, Hampshire, for his having riages. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



THIS is indeed an exhilirating crisis ; our disastrous forebodings have been converted 

 into fortunate realities. Instead of a late harvest and ruined crops, our harvest has been 

 by no means inordinately late, and making due allowance for local and accidental draw- 

 backs, the crops, more especially those of premier importance, may be deemed greatly 

 productive, and to a considerable extent, of fine quality : and thus much may be safely 

 averred, even whilst allowing for that enthusiasm and exaggeration in men's minds, na- 

 turally consequent upon such a delightful disappointment as has been experienced. 



On the most forward lands of the best districts, wheat harvest commenced in the last 

 week of July ; and as, on the whole, the weather has been favourable, the entire, or the 

 chief of that part of the national stock must be by this time safely lodged in rick or 

 house. About the middle of the current month, wheat became ready for the sickle 

 throughout South Britain, and in the most forward parts of the north ; far to the north- 

 ward, as usual, their harvest will be from a week to a fortnight later. Barley requiring 

 more of the solstitial heat to brighten and give it a fine hand in sample, on such account, 

 beside being of second consideration, will be somewhat later than wheat. Oats, beans, 

 pease, seeds, all the crops of the season, are either successfully stored or are in active field 

 operation. 



In the meantime, the seasons, such phraseology being allowable, have been most wan- 

 tonly capricious. Since the access of that which we must take for our summer tempera- 

 ture, and which has indeed been so beneficial to us, there has been a series of changes 

 quite sufficient to demonstrate that the English climate has not degenerated. We have 

 had gleams of the sun, almost powerful enough to effect a coup de soleil, fanned by those 

 chilling breezes which " make the cow to quake," and have actually, in mid-August, been 

 driven, in the evening, to the tire side. The corn, however, in despite of apparently the 

 greatest disadvantages, and all our sage judgments, had been most pertinaciously acquir- 

 ing its full standard of growth, and of accretion and substance, and the sun ripened 

 it. It has indeed been said that, in some lofty and exposed situations, the sudden 

 violent action of the sun has been too powerful for the wheat kernel, desicating and 

 shrinking it up. The cool and drying winds have helped to dry and mature the corn 

 crops, to prevent any ill-effects from casual showers, and to moderate the labours of 

 harvest. Amongst the atmospheric excesses of the present year, a late storm of 

 wind, rain, and lightning, near Maidstone, in Kent, stands pre-eminent ; indeed, 

 according to the description, approaching the terrific character of a West Indian 

 hurricane or tornado. The rain descended in torrents, amid the glare of lightning and 

 the rattling of thunder, and every moveable thing gave way to the terrific and sudden 

 gusts of a most impetuous wind. Sheaves of corn were taken up by the wind and blown 

 over the hedge into an adjoining field. The standing part of a crop of clover was beat down 

 by the fury of the tempest, as though trodden down by a flock of sheep, whilst the whole 



