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in building ships calculated to lessen the 
@iigerous effects of imternal or external 
Vidlence—24 ‘Tilly; 6months, 99” 
"S95 Wa! Tohnston, Caroline-street, Bed- 
ford-Stiiare, jeweller, for improvements on 
‘inktholders—24th July ;' 2'months. 
‘OTO'Wm. Davidson, Gallowgate, Glas- 
gow, druggist, for his new invented process 
for bleaching bees’ wax, myrtle-wax, &c. — 
Ist Atigust; 2 months. 
To Thos. J. Knowlys, Esq., Trinity col- 
lege, Oxford, and Wm. Duesbury, Bousal, 
Detby, colour-manufacturer, for improve- 
ments in tanning—Ist August; 6 months. 
*°’To Count Adolphe Eugene de Rosen, 
Princes-street, Cavendish-square, fora new 
éngine for communicating power, to answer 
the purposes of a steam-engine, communi- 
cated by a foreigner—Ist August; 6 months. 
‘To Joseph’ B. Wilks, Esq., Tandridge- 
hall, Surrey, for improvements in producing 
steath’ for'steam-engines, &c.—2d August ; 
6 thonths. : 
“"To' Lemuel W. Wright, Borough-road, 
Surrey, engineer, for ‘improvements in 
trucks or carriages applicable to useful pur- 
poses 2d ‘August; 6 months. 
“To John Williams, ironmonger, and 
John Doyle, merchant, Commercial-rcad, 
for an apparatus and process for separating 
salt ‘from’ sea-water—4th Aug. ; 6 months. 
‘To Erskine’ Hazard, United ‘States, 
List of Patents. 
[ Seer. 
North America, now, in, . Norfolk-street, 
Strand, engineer, for a: method of preparing 
expletive mixtures, and employing them as 
a moving power for machinery, communi- 
cated by a foreigner, and additions made by 
himself—12th August; 2 months. 
To John T. Thompson, Long-acre, 
camp equipage maker, for improvements in 
making metallic tubes, whereby strength 
and lightness are obtained, and for,applying 
them with various other improvements, to 
the construction of the elastic tube. and 
other bedsteads. —17th August; & months. 
List of Patents, which, having been granted 
‘in September 1812, expire in the present 
month of September 1826. 
25. Leger Didot, London, for Ais, m- 
provement in moulds for mahing paper. 
— Duris Egg, London, for improved 
construction of fire-arms and their locks, 
and in the apparatus for trying and loading 
them. } 
— Thomas Handford, London, fora tra- 
velling trunk on an entire new construction. 
— John Bunn, of Halliford, for an im- 
proved method of manufacturing of rods 
and hoops from old iron hoops. 
— John Baptist Terrey, Chelsea, for 
improvement in the methods already known of 
raising sunken vessels and other matters, and 
in the machinery used for such purposes. 
POLITICAL, OCCURRENCES, -&c. 
The manufacturing districts, which we 
represented in our last political summary 
as being ina state of alarming depression, 
have, Since that article was written, been 
gradually ‘improving ;) so much so, ‘that 
beforé 'Christinas Wwe may expect to find 
‘omimerce, though not what it was at the 
commencement of last year, yet restored 
td aliéalthy and comparatively active state. 
Great’ ‘and unecessary alarms have been 
yaised throughout England for at least six 
rhonths past; it has been reported that our 
‘manufacturing resources are not merely sus- 
pénded, but extinct ; that our credit is lost ; 
and, ‘in'short, that nothing but a national 
declaration of bankruptcy can restore us to 
a staté-of solvency. The consequences of 
these ‘rumours have been obvious: a general 
‘distrust has taken place of our former com- 
‘mercial confidence; and’ those who but a 
year’ ago were among the foremost’ to 
‘circulate money, by promoting all’ active 
‘and’phiusible speculations, haye since Timit- 
ed their circulation, and’ thus set an ex- 
ample’ of distrust which’ others have but 
‘too ‘gérierally followed. Thus’ commerce 
“¥s, as ibwere, at a stand-still, from want ‘of 
“the thews and sinews” that should’set it 
if inotiony Tt is not that money is'scarce in 
‘England’Sat least not to the extent that is 
Heralty stpposed—btit that it is prevented 
‘from sdk forth and ‘being! actively dif 
‘' n8ed’ throughotit’ the \eountry. from the 
apparent dingers’ attétding such diffusion. 
The accounts from the North—to enter 
without further ‘prelitiinary upon facts— 
are, on the whole, extremely cheering. At 
Manchester, indeed, occasional. riots and 
meetings have taken place, but yet not suf- 
ficient to impeach the general character 
of the country for order and subordination. 
In the neighbourhood of Birmingham trade 
is manifestly improving: at Sheftield the 
usual number of operatives are engaged ; 
and the cotton business goes forward with 
increased activity. Liverpool has, perhaps, 
suffered less (if we may rely on the state- 
ments of ‘their weekly provincial papers) 
than any other great mercaritile town in. 
England. This, pethaps, may be owing 
to its general indifference to home trade— 
it relies principally on its foreign commerce ; 
that’ branch ‘of trade, especially with ‘the 
two Améticas, is us brisk or brisker than 
ever.’ But with What far different feelings 
do! we turn 'to''tlie ebnsideration’ of Poor 
neglected) Iréland. The distress here is aw- 
ful ! Wwe tiight almost’ add, unprecedented. 
In addition to the usual distress of the times, 
pestilence his added its horrors; hundreds 
have'been dying’ wéekly’ thronghout’ Dib- 
lin’Of a fever occasioned solely ean 
and henée ‘emphatiéally ‘termed, “the fa- 
mine fever.” "Phis distress regards not Dif 
lin alone ; ‘in Cork it'is equally urgent. 
In Scotland; however, we are hap) ry 
to find that’ stich’ uiparalléled ‘mi a “is. 
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