1829.] 
certain improvements in machinery for spinning 
cotton and other fibrous substances.—2d May; 6 
months. ‘ 
To Henry Bock, Esq., Ludgate Hill, London, 
Middlesex, for improvements in machinery for 
embroidering or ornamenting cloths, stuffs, and 
other fabrics,—2d May; 6 months, 
To James Dutton, junior, Wotton Underedge, 
Gloucester, clothier, for certain improvements in 
propelling ships, boats, and other vessels or float- 
‘ing bodies by steam] or other power-—19th May ; 
6 months. 
List of Patents, which having been granted in 
the month of June 1815, expire in the present 
month of June 1829. 
1, John Lingford, London, fur an anatomical 
self-regulating truss. 
— John Kelby, York’ for improvements in the 
art of brewing malt liquors. 
— Benjamin Stevents, London, for his method 
of making marine and domestic hard and soft 
soap. 
6. Richard Trevithick, Camborne, for im- 
rovements on the high pressure of steam- 
ngines, and the application thereof. 
8. Julién Joret, Join Postee, and Lewis Con- 
fre; London, for their method of extracting 
old and silver from the cinders of gold re- 
nes and other substances, by means of cer- 
‘ain curious machinery. 
14. Charles Whittow, London, for a process 
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of obtaining from plants of the genus Ustica 
and Asclepias, substitutes for hemp, §c. 
— James Gardner, Banbury, for an improved 
machine for cutting hay and straw. 
— William Pope, Bristol, for his improved 
wheel carriages, and method of making them 
£0 without the assistance of animals. 
— Robert Brown, Burnham, Westgate, for 
improvements upon the swing of wheel ploughs, 
plough-carriages, and ploughshares. 
— John Taylor, Stratford, for a mode of pro- 
ducing gas, to be used for the purpose of afford- 
ing light. 
17. Grace Elizabeth Lenice, Newington, for a 
method of manufacturing straw with gauze, 
net, web, §c. for hats, bonnets, §c. 
22, Charles Silvestre, Derby, for improve- 
ments in thetexture of bobbin-lace. 
— Robert Dickenson, London, for his means 
Sor facilitating the propulsion, and for the 
safety of boats and other vessels through the 
water. 
— John Taylor, Stratford, for his method of 
purifying and refining sugar. 
— Robert Raines, Baines, Kingston-upon-Hull, 
Sor an” improvement in the construction of 
vertical windmill sails. { 
24, Samuel Balden, Ridditeh—and John Bur- 
ton Shaw, London—for a machine or instru- 
ment for the better heating ovens. 
— Samuel John Smith, Manchester, for an 
improved method of staining, printing, and 
dyeing silk, woollen, cotton, yarn, or goods ma- 
nufactured of cotton. 
, MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
Ovn first and most important topic, in every report, is the past state of the atmosphere, 
and its effect on the earth’s productions. 
In the last we expressed our hopes of a favour- 
able change of the weather, on the ground of those vicissitudes to which we are accus- 
tomed in this climate, those alternations from moisture to drought, from mildness to 
Severity of temperature, and their contraries: and we have not been altogether disappointed. 
BP 2 is forturiate change actually supervened on the commencement of the present month— 
_ the cold northern and easterly winds and April quitting us together, succeeded by mild 
south-western breezes, and gentle showers. This genial temperature continued during 
‘and eyen frosty dews at night. 
state of the atmosphere. 
to an advanced period of May. 
spring weather. 
M.M. New Serics.—Voux. VII. No. 42 
upwards of two weeks, producing the most beneficial effects upon all crops, and upon the 
health of animals, which is always susceptible of injury, and their progress in condition 
retarded by cold winds and an over-moist and chilling atmosphere. 
wind changed to its old quarter, between the north and south-east, with great solar heat 
by day, intermixed and alternating with a keen and chilling air, and succeeded by cold 
a: This weather continued with little variation, and gene- 
rally so dry, that our clay lands became surface bound and cracked, exhibiting great 
_ need of warm and moistening showers, until the 23d, when we were flattered with a 
: favourable change of the wind to the south and south-west, and a peculiarly welcome and 
The following day brought soaking rains of some hours 
finuance, succeeded in the night by heavy gusts of wind from the north-east, bringing 
on their wings a sharp and piercing air, appropriate rather to the month of March than 
Subsequently the 
“These heavy gales must have occasioned various local mischiefs, and the repeated sudden 
langes of temperature, equal in degree to any hitherto experienced, must have proved 
injurious to vegetation, in certain respects, at present concealed from our view. 
se of an old term, an early blight must have taken place; to obviate the distant and 
ultimate effects of which, at this late period, requires an uninterrupted series of genial 
However, accounts of the crops from all parts are generally favourable, 
the exceptions being as few as could possibly be expected. ‘The “ sare and yellow leaf” of 
the wheat was fast recovering its natural and seasonable bloom, during the mild part of the 
month, until the late check ; and it is yet said, upon all good and well-managed lands, to 
be a strong plant, well and thickly stocked. Upon those of inferior descriptions and 
quality, as has been often repeated in these re 
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ports, our expectations are not sanguine: on 
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