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PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL 
New Patents, sealed, 1826. 
To Lieutenant Thomas Halahan, York- 
street, Dublin, R.N., for his apparatus for 
working ordnance—Sealed 22d June; 6 
months. 
To Louis Aubrey, Two Waters, engineer, 
‘for improvement in the web or wire for 
making paper—4th July ; 4 months. 
To John Poole, Sheffield, shopkeeper, 
for improvements in the steam engine boil- 
ers—4th July; 6 months. 
To Daniel Freeman, Wakefield, sadler, 
for improvements in measuring for and 
making collars—4th July ; 6 months. 
To Peter Groves, Liverpool-street, Lon- 
don, Esq., for improvements in making 
white-lead—4th July ; 6 months. 
To Robert Warnum, Wigmore-strect, 
piano-forte maker, for improvements on 
piano-fortes—4th July ; 2 months. 
To Peter Groves, Liverpool-street, Esq., 
for improvements in making paint or pig- 
ment for preparing and combining a sub- 
stance with oil, turpentine, &c. —14th July ; 
2 months. 
To Benjamin Lowe, Birmingham, gilt 
toy manufacturer, for improvements in use- 
ful and ornamental dressing-pins—14th 
‘July; 2 months. 
To John Guy and Jacob Harrison, Work- 
ington, Cumberland, straw-hat manufactu- 
rers, for an improved method of preparing 
straw and grass—]4th July; 6 months. 
~To John Palmer de Ja Fons, George- 
street, Hanover-square, dentist, and Wil- 
liam Littlewart, of St. Mary Axe, mathe- 
matical-instrument maker, for an improve- 
ment in securing or mooring ships and 
other floating bodies, and apparatus for per- 
forming the same—14th July ; 6 months. 
(215) 
AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS, 
To Edward Bayliffe, Kendall, Westmore- 
Jand, worsted-spinner, for certain improve- 
ments in machinery used for drawing, rov- 
ing, and spinning of sheep and lambs’ wool 
—14th July ; 6 months. 
To John Lane Higgins, Oxford-street, 
Esq., for certain improvements in the con- 
struction of cat blocks and fish-hooks, and 
in the application thereof—l4th July; 6 
months. 
A List of Patents, which, having been 
granted in August 1812, will expire in 
the present Month of August, 1826, viz. 
3. Henry Osborn, of Bordesley, near Bir- 
mingham, for a new machine for turning 
and levelling various articles made of iron, 
preparatory to moulding and grinding. 
5. John Rapson Penryn, for a method 
of communicating a regular or irregular mo- 
tion from one axle to another, placed at any 
angle, without the aid of an universal joint. * 
—. Roger Thompson, North Shields, for 
an improved method of working pumps. 
6. Thomas Hubball, Clerkenwell, and 
William Robert Wale King, Londén, for 
method of ornamenting articles, japanned,’ 
painted, or sized, whether made of paper, 
wood, or any metallic substance; as also 
leather, oil-cloths for tables or floors, and 
wainscot, or plaister walls, or partitions. F 
10. William Parker, London, for an im- 
provement in making green paint. 
12. James Goodman, Northampton, for 
an improved saddle cloth. 
14. Jonas Bernshaw, Nottingham, for an 
improved method of making spots in lace or 
net-work. 
28. George Paxon, Hampstead, for an 
improved bedstead for sick persons. 
POLITICAL OCCURRENCES, &c. 
Tue elections have at last concluded, 
Mr. Brougham, whose struggle for West- 
moreland was the closing one, having been 
decidedly defeated. An immense number 
of new members will in consequence make 
their appearance in the House of Com- 
mons; and the ensuing session—which is 
expected to bea very important one, if we 
may judge from the distressed state of the 
country, and its imperious claims for relief 
—will, it is understood, take place towards 
the close of autumn ; when, after adopting 
some steps for the relief of the northern 
manufacturers, the House will adjourn till 
its usual time of meeting in the spring. 
This is at present but a rumour, very pre- 
valent throughout the political circles, and 
which the alarming state of every 
of commerce renders probable. 
The country, indeed, according to all 
ounts, is in a truly lamentable—not to 
say frightful— condition. Manufacturers 
by thousands are starving—the North pre- 
sents one general appearance of ruin; and, 
at Manchester and Blackburn, particularly, 
the famished operatives are rapidly losing 
all subordination. On the 18th a meeting 
was held at the latter place, which was at- 
tended by about two thousand—of what 
Falstaff would call “ his ragged regiment” — 
and at which, those who seemed in the most’ 
promising state of starvation were called 
on; by some miscreants, to arm themselves 
with pikes, and do as much general mis- 
chief as their capacities would entitle them 
to do.. We are happy to say that, not~ 
withstanding the inflammatory exhortations 
of these scoundrels, the meeting was 
quietly dispersed: a few taking the road 
to Middleton, in order to entice others to 
join them ; but the majority returning home 
to their Barmecide’s supper—and their fami- 
lies (unfortunately less visionary than their 
meals). Under these circumstances, the 
