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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



[November, 



fltior contains a library, reailinf; room and a mu^t'uni. together with the prin- 

 cipal staircase ; tlie upper floor is arranged to contain a large lectiu'c room, 

 rapablc of aecommoilating GOO persons, a pietiu-e gallery 65 feet in length, 

 also t«(i other rooms for philosophical apparatus, &c. The armorial bearings 

 over the doorway, are those of the city of Bath, the fayade is surmounted by 

 a statue of Minerva. 'Ihe front elevation and side Iront will Ije of Balh stone. 

 The estimate cost of the huiUling is 2400/., which the contractors h.ave en- 

 gaged to linisli for that sum. Mr. James AVilson, of Bath, is the aixhitcct. 



Stotitgaif. — Herr Zanth, architect of .Stontgarl. Honorary and C'orrespond- 

 ing Member of the Rojal Institute of British Architects, 1ms recently com- 

 menced the erection oi a very elegant, althougli small, theatre for the King 

 cf Vurtemlierg at Cannstatt, near .Stutgart. The constructions arc already 

 far advanced, and if the winter should be sufllciently mild to permit the con- 

 tinuation of the works, it is expected that the first piece will be played in the 

 summer of next year. He has also nearly completed for the King a small 

 conservatory for tropical plants, upon the system of the English buildings 

 of that class. 



BifiU/in!:^.s at Mintirh. — The author of an article in No. 27 of the Foreign 

 Quarterly predicted " that after a visit to Athens and Argigenlum, Paslnim 

 and Pompeii, the student in architecture will tinish his studies hereafter on 

 Ihe Glyplothek and Pinacothek of Klenze at Munich, and the Wachtgebaude 

 and Museum at Berlin." Such is the opinicin of an amateur (?) critic ; let us 

 now turn to the judgment of an intelligent foreign architect upon the very 

 same subject: — " I remained nearly two weeks in the capital of Bavaria, and 

 my opinion is very decidedly made up. Kdifices, as vast as tliey are nume- 

 rous, have been erected and are erecting in that city ; but among the three 

 arts which contribute to these variou; and important creations, architecture 

 is far frcm holding the first rank. To painting must the first palm be ceded. 

 then comes sculpture, and last of all. archilecturc. I cannot now develop all 

 the reasons, nor examine in detail all the monuments w liich cover the surface 

 of Munich, in support of my opinion ; but 1 shall take up (he task as soon 

 as my professional occupations, which have accumidaled during my month's 

 absense, allow me the leisure to do so," B. A. 



raiSCELLANEA. 



Wares of tlie Sea. — M. Aime has presented a memoir to the French Aca- 

 demy of Sciences, in which he gives the results of his experiments on the 

 depth to which the motion of waves extends, made in the Bay of Algiers, from 

 December, 18.38, to July. 1839, during the continuance of the lieavy north 

 and iiorlh-cast winds which caused such a gi-eat swell in the bay. He con- 

 cludes— 1st, That the motion of the sea produced by the agitation of the 

 waves may be sensible 40 yards in depth ; 2dly, That the motion at the 

 bottom is oscillatory ; ami Sdly, That the extent of this oscillation varies 

 slowdy from ihe bottom to the surface. 



Northern Li;^lits. — The northern lights were obsencd at Paris on Ihe 3rd 

 of September, at 10 o'clock in the evening. Also at Asli, in Piedmont, on 

 the 4th of September, at one in the morning, and at Alexandria, in Italy, 

 at ten o'clock in the evening. 



LIST OP NCW PATENTS. 



GR.^XTIiD IN IiNGL.\N-D FROM 27tH SEPTEMBER TU 2 ItH OCTOBER, 1839. 



Joseph Clinton Robertson, of Peterborough Court, Fleet-street, Patent 

 Agent, for " an mijrroeed method of manufaciiiriiic/ artificial marble." 

 Communicated h)' a foreigner residing abroad. — Sealed, September 27 ; six 

 montlis, 



JIenry J.vme* Pidding, of Osnahmgh-street, Middlesex, artist, for " im- 

 ]irovements in collarn for horses and other animals." Commumcated bv a 

 foreigner residing abroad. — Sei)tember 27 ; six months. 



Fr.vncis M.vceroni, of Saint James's-square, Middlesex, gent., for " im. 

 jn-ovements in steam boilers or r/enerators." — September 27 ; six months. 



Thomas Robinson Williams, of Chcapsidc, gent., for "certain improve- 

 iiicnts in the manvfactiire of flerible fibrous substances, or conqmsitions, ap- 

 plicable to eoverimj biiitilinr/s, and other useful purjjoses, and also the ma- 

 chinery used therein." — FebruaiT 28 ; six months. 



M iLLiAM Henry Burke, of Shoreditch, for " improvements in the mode 

 t)f const riictin;/ vessels for containing air, applicable to the purpose of raisinij 

 sunken, or Uftinij floating bodies under or in tenter ; and of fastening such 

 vessels to chains or other machinery, or apparatus to be used for raising or 

 i[ft">!l *■'«■/' bodies." — October 3 ; six mouths. 



Job Cutler, of Lady-poole-lane, Sparbrook Wanvick, for " certain im- 

 jiroeed combinations of metals to be used for various purposes." — October 3 ; 

 six months. 



Samuej. Hall, of Basford, Xottinghani, engineer, for " improvements in 

 machinery for propelling."— October 7; six months. 



Francis Gvbbon, Spillsbmy, of M'alsall, Stafi'ordshire, chemist : JIarie 

 Francois Catherine Doetzer Corbaux, of Upper Norton-street, Middle- 

 sex, and Alexander Samuel Byrne, of Montague-square, gent., for " im- 

 provements in paints or pigments, and vehicles, and in modes of applying 

 2mints, pigments and vehicles." — October 7 ; six months. 



John Lothian of Edinburgh, geograjilier, for " imjirovenmits in appa- 

 ratus for measuring, or ascertaining weiglits, strains or pressure." — October 

 10; six months. 



John Barnett Humphreys, of Sontliampton, C. E., for '• certain im- 

 provements in shipping generally, and in steam vessels in particular, of some 

 of these improvements being individually novel, and some the result of novel 

 npplication, or combination of parts already inou-n."— October 10; sL\ 

 months. 



Jambs Smith of J)eaustou Works, Killmadock, Perth, cotton-spinner, for 



" a self-acting temple, applicable to looms for wording fabrics, whether 

 ynoved by hand or power." — October 10 ; six months. 



James Smith, of Deanston Works, Killniadoek, Perth, cotton spinner, for 

 ^^ certain improvements applicable to canal navigation. — October 10; six 

 mouths. 



John Swain Worth, of Manchester, merchant, for " improvements in 

 rotatory engines to be worked by steam, and ottier fluids, such etigines being 

 also applicable for pumping water and other liquids." — October 10 ; sLv 

 mouths. 



David Harcourt of Bmuingham, brass founder, for " certain improve- 

 ments in castors for furniture and other purposes." — October 10; six 

 months. 



Robert Edmu.vd Morrice, of King William-street, London, gentleman, 

 for *' improvements in the manufacture of boots and sttoes and coverings for 

 the legs." Communicated by a foreigner residing abroad. — October 17; six 

 montlis. 



John Dickinson, of Bedford-row, ITolborn, Estp, for " certain improve- 

 ments in the manufacture of paper." — October 17; six months. 



John Coope Haddi.ng, of Bazing-place, Waterloo-road, civil engineer, 

 and George Hawkes, of Gateshead, iron works, Durham, for " certain im- 

 provements in the construction of irheels for carriages to be used on rail' 

 ivays." — October 17; six months. 



James Yatks, of the Effingham works, Rotherham, iron founder, for 

 *' certain improvements in the eonstitiction of furnaces." — October 19 ; six 

 months. 



Charles Rober, of Leadenhall-street, cloth mannfactmer, for " improve- 

 ments infixing colour in cloth." — October 19 ; two months. 



William Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for ■' certain im- 

 provements in machinery or apparatus for working or manufacturing 

 screws." Communicated by a foreigner resiiUng abroad. — October 24 ; six 

 months. 



James Sutcliffe, of Henry-street, Limerick, builder, for " certain im- 

 provements in mactiinery or apparatus for raisi/.g and forcing water, or 

 other fluids, and increasing tlie power of water upon water-ivlieels and other 

 machinery." — October 24 ; six months. 



George Graydon, of Sloane-street, Chelsea, for " certain improvements 

 in instruments, for which letters patent were formerly granted to him, and 

 which were called therein, ' A new Compass for Navigation and other Pur- 

 poses, ^ parts of vhicti improvements are applicable to instruments for mea- 

 suring angles at sea or on shore, by aid of reflection or refraction, or of 

 reflection combined with refraction, and part are applicable to mngnetic 

 compasses for ascertainin// true bearings from celestial observations, and for 

 comparing the same with the bearing of the magnetic needle contained in 

 sucit compasses, whereby to determine and be enabled to allow for the devia- 

 tion of such needle from the true meridian, whetlier by variation, local 

 attraction, or oilier cause of error." — October 24 ; six mouths. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



ll'c are obliged to Major Turnbidl, of America, for tlie additional engravings 

 of the Putouute (tei/ueduet. 



Mr. .Sheppartl has fueoured us with an extensive table of gradients, which we 

 shall puhli.sh ue.rt month. JVe are also obliged to him for injormation relative to 

 the progress of works in Susse.r, tvhich we are necessitated to postpone until next 

 month, which we liope he will cvcuse. 



Agreeahlu to the wish of several correspondents, we are having an extensive table 

 calculated for setting out railway curves, which we expect to lie able to give next 

 month. 



The next month^s Journal ivill conclude the second volume, we have to request 

 subscribers to complete their sets immediately. 



We omitted to notice last month the receipt nf D. C.*.s- (a young mechanic) com- 

 niuuication relative to Buunett and Corpe s Coucentrir Engine, he will perceive 

 that a similar eonimunieatiou was published, which had been previously received, 

 which is the reason that we omitted his notice ; however we shall be glad to hear 

 front him respecting the latter pait of his eonimunieatiou. 



As it is quite impossible for us to apply for information in regard to buildings 

 we have either not heard if at all, or else do not know who are any of tlie parties 

 employed upon them, we most earnestly request that professional gentlemen wilt 

 have the kindness to apprize us of the buddings they are executing, even should 

 they not care to favour us with any thing like a description of thain. A ,Joiirnal 

 like ours ought to be a record of all that is going on in architecture throughout the 

 kingdom ; yet it is hopeless to expect that the utmost exertions on our part can 

 render it such, if the only parties who are capable of .supplying us with the iiitelli- 

 geitee requisite for that purpose, will not do so of their own accord. We cannot 

 eontpltiiit of having met with any backwardness in furnishing the iiifarmation we 

 have solicited, on the part of those to whom we have applied for it directly : still, 

 for the reason Jirst assigned, it is only in a very few cases that we know where and 

 to whom we ought to address ourselves. 



Communications are requested to be addressed to " The Kditor of the Civil 

 Kugiueer and Architect s Journal," No. II, Parliament Street, Westminster, 

 or to Mr. Groombridge, Panyer Alley, Paternoster lioiv ; if by post, to be di- 

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

 two places u'here the coach arrives at in London, as we are frequently put to the 

 expcnrr of one or two shillings for the porterage only, of a very smalt parcel. 



Books for review must be sent early in the month, communications on or before 

 the 20th (if with wood-cuts, earlier), and advertisements on or before the 25th 

 instant. 



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