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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



[October, 



examine the desiiins sent in for the new Royal Kxchani^e, anil select six for the 

 choice of the committee. It is said that the last-named gentleman has declined, 

 and we suppose that the others must be placed in an awkward predicament, as 

 their immediate relatives are understood to be competitors in the contest. It is 

 to be hoped, at all events, that the design chosen may reflect credit on the city of 

 London, and that no paltry considerations of mere rental, will lead to the selec- 

 tion of a project, whose only merit may he its producinu; " shent per shcnt" upon 

 the outlay. If such sliould be the case, the ex-Chancellor of the Kxchequer had 

 better have kept his 150,000/. laid out in the purchase of valuable buildings for a 

 site to receive such an excrcsence, and the committee had better pause ere they 

 pull down the wedgelike masses in front of the Bank, which may serve to con- 

 ceal this evidence of the taste of our citizens. The eyes of all Europe may be 

 said to be upon the choice of the committee, which is either to reflect credit or 

 disgrace upon our national architecture. — Times, 



niISCEI.I.ANEA. 



Thnrwahhen, who has recently completed some mythological bas-reliefs, is at 

 present occupied with a bust of Holberg, and, when ih.at is finished, will under- 

 take, for the Baroness Stampe, a statue of himself in marble. The sculptor is 

 now residing at the beautiful estate of that lady, where she has built an atelier for 

 his use. He baa lately visited Hamburgh, and made many short excursions in the 

 neighbourhood, which have resembled a continued triumph. Wherever he went 

 he was received with processions, speeches, and all tho usual manifestations of 

 respect and pleasure : peasants, it is said, came many miles to see him, and land- 

 lords refused to accept payment for the refreshments furnished on these occa- 

 sions — a proof how far his popularity has extended among the people, however 

 imperfectly the grounds on which it rests may be tinderstood. — Athetieeum. 



A River Scythe. — A method has been resorted to for the purpose of 

 cutting the weeds on the upper Witham of sewers, which has proved of 

 great utility, and is desening of being extensively adopted. It is this : 

 several scythe blades are rivetted together in one length, so as to reach 

 across the river, and also to curve doflni towards the bed of it. The elasti- 

 city of the scrthes, and their united length, natiu-ally cause the ciu-vatiu-e 

 to take the proper adaptation, and fit the 1)C<1 ; but there are also some 

 weights added, to assist iu keeping the implement at a proper depth : be- 

 sides which it is requisite to let the edge be always horizontal : a broad 

 piece of iron is therefore rivetted at each extremity, at right angles, and to 

 these ends ropes are attached. Three men on each side of the river draw 

 the apparatus upwards, thus meeting the weeds as they are bent downwards 

 by the ciurent : by ])roceeding thus the weeds are cut close to the roots. 

 Foiu- miles a day can be cut and cleared, but it is necessary to have four 

 men on each side the river to haid and relieve each other, ami eight men to 

 follow with rakes. — Stamford Mercury. 



Wrought Iron Wheels.— Hmnne, Bartley & C'o's. Patent ^\'rought Iron 

 AVheels for locomotive engines, railway carriages, &C. The M'lieel is made 

 of wrought iron; the spokes of which are flat, and placed «ith their edges 

 towards the running cotirse of the wlieel. The Patentees prefer making tlie 

 naves of wrought irun. but they may be east on, though the wheel would 

 then be inferior to one with wrought iron naves. 



Copying Oil I'ainthigs. — The German papers slate that M. Loipmann, of 

 Berlin, has invented a machine for obtaining copies of oil-coloured paintings. 

 It is further said, that the inventor produced with his machine, in one of the 

 rooms of the Royal Museum, at Berlin, 110 copies of Rembrandt's portrait, 

 painted by himself. M. Leipmann oflers these copies for sale at a louis-d'or 

 each. 



T. H. Wyatt. Esti. has been appointed architect and surveyor to the Mid- 

 dlesex Hospital in lieu of Mr. Basevi, who resigned that appointment. 



I.IST OF VfEMV PATENTS. 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND FROM 5tH SEPTEMBER TO 26tH SEPTEMBER, 1839. 



Charles Greenway. of Douglas, in the Isle of Man. for " eerlain im- 

 provements in S7inffer.i." — Sealed, beptember 5 ; six umntlis. 



Bryan Donkin, of Blue Anchor Road, Bermondsey, Engineer, for "an 

 improvement or improvements to be used in the process of viaking paper by hand 

 or hy machinery." C'omnumicated by a foreigner residing abroad. — .Septem- 

 ber 5 ; six months. 



Paul Robin, of St. Paul's Chain, London, Gent,, for "improvements in 

 spinning.'' Communicated by a foreigner resi<ling abroad. — September 5 ; six 

 months. 



John Rapson, of Emmett Street, Poplar, millright and engineer, for " im- 

 provements in steering ships and vessels." — September 5 ; six months. 



Frederick Brown, of Luton, in the county of Bedford, ironmonger, for 

 " improvements in .■itoves or J!re-places."—Scinem'\)er 9 ; six mon'lis. 



Samuel .Stockf.r, of HighHolborn, pump maker, for "improvements in 

 beer, cyder, and .•spirit engines." — September 11; six months. 



Moses Poole, of Lincoln's Inn, Gent., for " improvements in apparatus ap- 

 plicable to steam-boilers iu order to render them more .sy//i'.'' Communicated by 

 a foreigner residing abroad.— Seplember 11 ; six moiitiis. 



Stephen Rooees, of the city of Bristol, merchant, for " certain improve- 



ments in building llie walls oj houses and otiier edifices." — .September 1 G ; si.v 

 monllis. 



Isaac Ddods, of Miisbro, and A\'ili.iAiM Owen, of Rotherham, both in the 

 county of York, civil engineers, for " certain improvements applicable to rail- 

 ways, and in the construction and manufacture of wheels, engines, and machinery , 

 to he used tbereim, part or parts of which are applicable io other engines, and 

 which wheels without a flange are also applicable for nse on turnpike roads." — 

 .September lb ; six months. 



Jon Taylor, of Pendleton, near Manclioster. joiner and builder, for "cer- 

 tain improvements iu machinery or apparatus for cutting or forming ornamental 

 mouldings or devices in wood and other materials." — September 19; six 

 months. 



William Nkwton, of Chancery Lane, for " an improved machine or appa- 

 ratus for weighing t'arious kinds of articles and goods." Communicated by a 

 foreigner residing abroad. — September 19 ; six months. 



John Wertheimer, of M'est .Street, Finsbury Circus, printer, for " im- 

 provements in producing ornamental raised surfaces on paper," Communicatetl 

 by a foreigner residing abroad, — .September 19 ; six months. 



Thomas Topd. of Kingstoii-upon-Hidl, Gent., for " improvemeyits iu pro' 

 pelling vessel.'i" — September 19 ; six months. 



Henry Nef.dh m .Scrope Shkai'nkll, of Gosport. Gent., for "improve- 

 ments in corhscrews." — September 26; six months. 



Samubl WiLKS, of Catherine Cross, Darleston, Stafford, iron founder, for 

 " improvements in bo,xes and pins, or screws for vices and presses." — September 

 26 ; six months. 



William Henry Hornby, and William Kenworthy, both of Blackburn, 

 manutacturers, for "certain improi'emeuts in the machinery or apparatus for 

 sizeint/. and othenvise preparing cotton, wool, flax, and other warps for weaviny." 

 — September 26 ; six montlis. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



We have received several more communications on railway curves : we are 

 afraid of tiriuy the patience of many of our readers by the continuance of 

 the discussion, but hiou'ing the great interest of the subject to the junior 

 members of the profession, we have been induced to extend more space to it 

 than we otherwise should have done. We shall select a few of the communi- 

 cations which remain on our table, and publish them next month, when loe 

 hope the discussion will terminate, unless there be any additional communica- 

 tion es.'ientially different to what has already appeared. 



Xelson Memorial. We have to apologize to those parties who have for- 

 warded us additional description.^ of designs, for not making room for their 

 papers, we will fry what we can do ne.vt montti. 



Letters from Mr, Habershon and " // Catholic," relative to our review on. 

 half-timbered houses, are postponed until ne.rt month, when zee shall conclude 

 the review. 



Thanks to Mr, Lewis Cubitt for his parcel. 



In consequence of the very great length of some of the papers in the pre- 

 sent Journal, which we considered best to publish in full, rather than divide 

 them, we are obliged to postpone several communications, reviews of new 

 books, and the principal wood engravings, intended for this month. 



The 7'eport on the stone for the new Houses of Parliament will he con- 

 cluded next month, we have only one more table to publish, which is on the 

 chemical analyses of stone, by Professors Daniel and Wheatstone, 



The Life of Watt, by Arago, will also be concluded next month, if will be 

 seen that we have apparently placed the paper out of its proper place, by 

 inserting if after our usual notice to correspondents, which is generally the con- 

 cluding article of the Journal, we have so placed if in order that the " Eiiloge" 

 might appear unbroken when the volume is bound up ; the continuance will 

 form the first article next month. 



The third volume of the professional papers of the Royal Engineers was 

 received as we were going to press ; each additional volume, we are happy to 

 say, increases in interest. 



We shall be obliged, if correspondents who favour us with engravings and 

 lithographs of designs of buildings, will favour us with a few particulars re- 

 lative to their construction, cost, dimensions, ^'C. 



The Editor will feel obliged to country subscribers if they will forward any 

 account of works in progress, or any newspapers containing articles or paragraphs 

 eonut rted with the objects of the Journal ; it will also be doing a great service if 

 engineers and architects will cause all advertisements connected with contracts 

 to be insertiul in the Journal. 



Communications are requested to he addressed to " The Editor of the Civil 

 Engineer and Architect's Journal," A'o. 11, Parliament Street, Westminster, 

 or to Mr. Oroomhridge, Panyer Alley, Paternoster Row; if by post, to he di- 

 rected tii the former place ; if by parcel, please to direct it to the nearest of the 

 two places where the coach arrives at in London, as we are fretjuently put to the 

 e.tpenee of one or two .shillings for the porterage only, of a very small parcel. 



Books for revieiv must he sent early in the month, communications on or before 

 the 'ZOth (if with wood-cuts, earlier), and advertisements on or before the 2fith 

 instant . 



The First Volume may be had, bound in cloth .ynd letpered in oold, 

 Price 17s. 



