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sophy, medicine, the sciences and the arts : but by a new con- 

 struction put by the Stamp Office on the laws respecting the duty 

 chargeable on advertisements, we cannot do it without subjecting 

 ourselves to an expense of which some who send these notices 

 seem not to be aware. ■ ' " 



RED RAIN. 



On the 2d of November, in the afternoon, a red or reddish- 

 coloured rain fell at Blankenburg and Dixmude, in Flanders. In 

 the following night, the same happened at Scheveningen. Such 

 phsenomena have been frequently observed, and to them may be 

 attributed the chronicled reports of showers of blood affirmed to 

 have fallen in different countries. 



LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



To Francis Fox the younger, of Derby, M.D,, for his new or 

 improved method of facilitating and ensuring the discharge of 

 fire-arms and artillery of every description. — 15th Jan. 1820. 



To John Leberecht Steinhauser, of Moffatt Terrace, City- 

 Road, Middlesex, artist; for improvement in portable lanthorns or 

 lamps applicable to various purposes. — 15th Jan. 



To John Oldham, of South Cumberland Street, Dublin, Esq. 

 for certain further improvements on his former patent bearing 

 date the lOth day of October 1817, for an improvement or 

 improvements in the mode of propelling ships and vessels on seas, 

 rivers, and canals, by the agency of steam. — 15th Jan. 



To Joseph Main, of Bagnio-Court, Newgate street, London, 

 for an improved method of preparing and spinning wool, cotton, 

 silk, flax, fur, and all other fibrous substances. — 15th Jan. 



To James Thom, of Wells-street, St. Mary-Ie-bone, piano] 

 forte maker, and William Allen, of Castle-street, same parish, 

 piano-forte maker; for a certain improvement in piano fortes, — 

 15th Jan. 



SINGULAR PHENOMENON. 



During the night of Tuesday, 16th Nov. there fell, in the town- 

 .•ship of Broughton, North Am. on the south shore, so great a 

 quantity of a black jjowder, as completely to cover the snow which 



was then on the ground. — — 



nartwcll, Tunbridge Wells, Jan. 17th 1820. 

 De.\R Sir,— I submit for the Philosophical Magazine, the fol- 

 lowing short journul of the thermometer and barometer during 

 the late extraordinary cold weather. 



1819. Dcc.yi. Thermometer at midnight + 10" of Fahrenheit. 



Lowest during the night +2" ditto. 

 The barometer pretty stationary at 29 40 till night, when it 

 fell considerablv. 



1820 



