39S List of Nav Patents. 



F.ARTHQUAKE AXU VOLCANIC F.RUPTION IN JAVA. 



On the 2Ttb of December last, about 9 p.m., a sliock of an 

 earthquake undulating from E. to W. was felt in the residency 

 of Kadoc, which was repeated 18 times in 30 hours. At the 

 same time a rumbling noise was heard in the mountain ot 

 Merapie, which was followed by a dreadful eruption on the 

 morning of the 29th, which burnt four villages and buried 

 two. Fifteen persons lost their lives. 



LIST OF NEW PATENTS. 



To Robert Winter, of Fen-court, London, Esq. for his inetliod of con- 

 ducting the process of distillation.— Dated 22d April. — 6 months allowed 

 to enroll specification. 



To Robert John Tycrs, of Piccadilly, Middlesex, fruiterer, for his machine 

 or apparatus to be attached to boots, shoes, or other covering of the feet, 

 for the purposes of travelling on pleasure. — 22d April. — G months. 



To William Palmer, of Lothbm-y, London, paper-liauger, for certain im- 

 provements in machinery, for the purpose of painting or staining paper foK 

 paper hangings. — 22d April. — 4 months. 



To Francis Gybbon Spilsbury, of Walsall, Staffordshire, for certain im^ 

 provements in tanning. — 22d April.— 6 months. 



To Francis Deakin, of Birmingham, Warwickshire, wire-drawer, for his 

 method of manufacturing furniture for an improvement to the mounting 

 of umbrellas and parasols.— 32d April.— 6 months. 



To James Rawlins, of Penton-place, Pentonville, Middlesex, gentleman, 

 for his bedstead machine or apparatus for the relief of invalids. — 22d April. 

 — 6 months. 



To John Hall the younger, of Dartford, Kent, engineer, for his discovery 

 of an improvement in the machinery to be employed for effecting or pro- 

 ducing the pressure on linseed, rapcseed, or any other oleaginous seeds or 

 substances from which oil can be expressed, for the purpose of expressing 

 oil from the aforesaid seeds or substances. — 22d April.— 2 months. 



To Joseph Taylor, of Manchester, Lancashire, machine-maker, for certain 

 improved machinery or apparatus to facilitate or improve the operation of 

 spinning, doubling and throwing silk, cotton, wool or flax, or mixture of 

 the said substances. — 29th April. — 6 months. 



To John Bourdieu, of Lime-street, London, Esq. who, in consequence of a 

 communication made to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad, is in pos- 

 session of a discovery and prepiu-ation of a mucilage or thickening matter 

 to be used in paintiny; or colouring linen, woollen and cotton, and cotton 

 cloths and silks, in cases in which gums, mucilages and other thickening 

 matters are now employed.— 20th April. — 4 months. 



To Wulliam Caslon the younger, of Burton-crescent, Middlesex, pro- 

 fjietor of gas-works, for cei'tain improvements in the construction of gasor 

 meters. — 10th May. — G months. 



To Edward Eyre, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, fender-manufacturer, for his 

 improvement in the manufacture of fenders of brass, iron or steel.— 

 15tli May.— 2 months. 



To Jacob Perkins, of Fleet-street, London, engineer, for his improvements 

 in the mode of heating, boiling or evaporating by steam of fluids in pans, 

 boilers and other vessels. - IJtli May. — G months. 



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