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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



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Improvemkn-ts in PAUts.— Thp so-calleil H(itel .le Nantes, winch 

 since the time (if the Consulate ohstnu-ted the tine space between 

 the Tuileries and the Louvre, lias at last disappeared, and no more 

 than one week was required for tl.is purpose. W itli a similar cele- 

 rity, the structure in the ffardens of the Palais Royal has risen out 

 of the jrround, which is destined for the exhibition of pictures ot 

 livintf artists. 



In the C'ourt-vard of the Palais Royal, a larjje temporary wooden 

 building is beini erected to serve for the next exhibition ot modern 

 paintings to be held next December. 



Among other large operations is the alteration of the prison of 

 La Force, which is under the direction of M. Cibier, architect, ot 

 Paris. It is now completed and being occupied. Being arranged 

 for a house of detention for (irisoners waiting for trial, it pro- 

 vides for 1200 cells, in which the inmates can be separately kept. 

 It is said to be the first of the kind tried in France to any extent. 

 In France, separation is enforced before trial; but after conviction, 

 in the jails and the hulks the prisoners are allowed to associate. 

 The arrangements in La Force are taken from the last English, 

 Americo-English, and Netherlandish models; and the contrivances 

 for warming and ventilation are said to ensure perfection. 



Among the enterprises now in progress, we may mention the 

 publication of the Encyclopedie d'Architecture, by M. Victor Cal- 

 liat. architect. It is to include every practical department and 

 detail, as masonry, carpentry, marble-work, iron-work, cabinet- 

 work, plumbinff, furniture, &c.; and will be so far of universal 

 use that it will consist chiefly of plates, with very little text. 

 Some of these plates we have seen, and are favourably impressed 

 with the prospects of the work. The work will be a kind «' J""""- 

 nal appearin.r in parts and with illustrations. It will be published 

 on the 1st and 15th of each mouth; and will contain in eieh part 

 five engravings. The subscription is about a pound a-year. M. 

 Calliat is the~architect who published the magnificent works, the 

 ' Hotel de Ville' and the ' Parallele des Maisons de Pans. 



LIST OF NE'W PATENTS 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND KROM SePTEMUF.R 2G, TO OCTOBER 24. 1850. 



Su- Months allowed for Enrolment unless otherwise expressed. 



A railway arcade, similar to that of the Lowther Arcade, in the Strand, 

 is being consiructed by the South Eastern Railway Company, on the left 

 hand side of the approach to their terminus on the properly in their pos- 

 session, abutting upon Tooley street. The dnsisn is rather an elegant one, 

 and consists of a succe^sion of shops on either side for the sale of fancy 

 and other irticles in requisition by railway travellers, with a large refresh- 

 ment-room in the centre of the thoroughfare which fronts the railway ter- 

 minus. The building, between UIO and 200 feet in length, has its base- 

 ment in Tooley-streel, from whence it rises upwards of 60 feet, divided 

 into two stories of 30 feet each, the upper elevation forming the arcade on 

 a level with the railway, and the lower part in Tooley-street forming a 

 range of ordinary shops. There are rooms above the shops, and the floors 

 throughout the building are tire-proof. The front is to be in the Italian 

 style of architecture, and the building, upon which a large number of men 

 have been at work for the last tw.. months, is to be completed and opened 

 by Christmas. 



Prussia.— The Prmshn .^fonitenr has published a statistical statement 

 of the railway works of that country, fnmi which it appears that 21 

 Hndertakin.rs, comprising a length of SBl miles ol commonicalion, were 

 open for throu 'h Iraffii- in IHtO. These iail"a>s convejed 8,.597,948 

 passengers, and SS,3 1 ;i,7U'> quintals of merchandise. The gross receipts 

 represented 10 7S2,9y7 ihalers, and the expenses were 5 1 13.128 thalers, 

 leaving a surplus of .i,330,8()U thalers. Tlie capital employed in the con- 

 struciion being 139,740,000 ihalers, the return in 1840 was 2-82 per cent. 

 In 1848 the reiiirn was slated to have been 3 21 per cent. In 1847 4 32 

 per cent. ; in 1816 4-07 per cent.; in 184.5 4 62 per rent., and in 1344 4-74 

 per cent. The whole of the railways by the works enecuied in 1849 vvere 

 augmented by about 20 iioies. There are at the present time in progress 

 of consiruction sij other undertakings— n»mely. the Eastern Railway, 

 those from Westphalia and Irom Saarbruck enlei prises solely at the 

 government expense, and those from Aix ln-Chapel|e to Dnsseldorf from 

 Itiihrort Crefeld anri to (iiadhach, and from Aixla-Cliapelle to Maes- 

 trichi, constructed by privaie ccmipanies. When these new lines shall 

 have been coTiipleted.'tlie whole network of Prussian railwajs will com- 

 prise a length of 440 miles. 



Railway Tonvel at Siknna.— Letters from Sienna of the 10th ult. 

 give an account of the inauguration of that section of the Sienna Railway 

 which passes through the tnniiel at Alonte Arioso, one of the most extra- 

 ordinary ronstrurtions of the kind, due to the talent of the celehraterl 

 engineer. Professor I'innigiani. The prefect of Floience, the Royal Com- 

 missary of Railways and Count Serrislori, the late minister, were present 

 at the ceremony. The tram moved slowly ahmg the tunnel, stopping 

 under Ih- most elevated shafls, before the principal springs of water, and 

 before the spot where Qames are seen issuing out of the eaith. The train, 

 on leaving the tunnel, was enlhusiaslically cheered by the numerous spec- 

 tators who had assembled to witness the scene. 



James Hamilton, of London, engineer, for improveroenu in machinery for saoring, 

 boring, and shaping wood. September 2S. _ 



Ctiarles Harratt. of Uoyal Exthange-ljuildings, London, merchant, for improremenU 

 In rolling iron. — September L'y. . . . 



Joseph Biirch. of Craig Works, Chester, printer, for improvements in pnoting terry 

 and pile carpets, Woollen, silk, and other materiuls.— September 28. 



Joseph Crossley, of Halilai, carpet manulacturer; George Collier, of the same place, 

 mechanic ( and James Hudson, of Littleborougb, printer, for improvements in printing 

 yarns for, and in weaving carpels and other fabrics.— September 28. 



Cyprien Theodore Tissereao of Paris, France, gentleman, for certain improvemenU in 

 hydraulic clocks —October 3. 



Jean Pierre Haul Ambrrger. of Paris, France, civil engineer, for certain improvement* 

 ill the application of magnelic power for moving and stopping carriages, for giving 

 adherence to wheels upon rails, and also for transmitUng motion.— O tobet S. 



William I'udor Mablev, of JIanchester, patent agent, for certain improvemenU in the 

 maiHifatture of soap. (A lomm.inicalion.) -October 3. , „.„. ^. , . , 



William Bo,;gett, of St. Martin's-lane, Middlesex, gentleman, and V\ Uliam Smith, of 

 Margaret street, in the said cnunlv. eneineer, for improvements in producing and 

 applying heat, and in engines to be worked by steam or other elastic fluid, which engine! 

 are also applicable as pumps.— October 3. 



Julian Bernard, of Buihaiianstreet, Glasgow, artist, for improvemenla in pneumatic 

 springs, buff TS. pumps, and stnlBng boxes.— October 3. 



Claries Bury, of Salford, Lancaster, manager, for certain imorovements in machinery 

 or apparatus for preparing and spinning, doubling or twisling silk waste, cotton, wool, 

 flax, or other fibrous substances.— October lu. 



Cliarles Bury, ot Salford, Lancaster, manager, for certain improvements in machinery 

 or apparatus for cleaning, spinning, doubling, and Ihrowing raw silk-October 111. 



Hooert Bearl. of Godmancbester, for improvements in the manufacture of bricks and 

 tiles.— October Ul. „. , . • , • 



Jiihn Scott Ru-sell. of Great Oiorge-street, Westminster, engineer, for improvements 

 in the construction of ships or vessels propelled by paddle-wheels, with a view to belter 

 arming the same. — October 10. , ^ ■ 



William Wood, of Over Darwin, T.ancashire, carpet manufactnier, for improvements 

 in the inanulactureot carpets and other labrics -October 10. 



William Henry Ritchie, of Kennington, Surrey, gentleman, for certnin improvements 

 in machinery lor preparing and carding fibrous substances. (A conimonicalion J— Oc- 

 tober 10. , . . , 



William Edward Newton, of Chancery lane, engineer, for improvements in manufac- 

 turing yarns. (A communication ) — October 10. 



James Hamilton Biowne.ot the Kelorm Club, Pall-Mall, Esq., for improvements in 

 the separation and disinfection of fecal matters, and in the apparatus employed therein. 

 {A communication.)— October 10. . , . 



William Francis Fernihough, of London, engineer, for improvements in locomotive 

 and other steam engines, and in.provements in ol'taining motive power.— October 10. 



« biting Hayden, oiW'indham, Connecticut, United Males oi Amenca, lor an im. 

 proved regulator or apparatus for regulating the draught of the sliver on the machine, 

 termed the "drawing frame."— October 10. . . , 



Aiiloll Fiederick Gurlt, of Manchester, gentleman, for an improved method ol extract- 

 ing silver from argentiferous mineials.— October 10. 



George Michiels, of London, icntleman, for improvem nts IB treating, and preparing 

 nntatoes for seed. {A communication.)— October 17. 



John Fowler, jun., of Melksham. Wilts, engineer, for improvements in steam-engines, 

 ill raising and forcing fluids, in irrigating and draming land, and m machinery lor cutting 

 wood tor drain-pipes, and other uses. — October 17. 



Daniel Trowers Shears, of Bankside. Surrey, copper merchant, for improvements in 

 tlie manufacture and refining of sugar. (A communication. )-l)ctober 17. 



John Robert Johnson, of Crawlord-slreet, chemist, for improvemei.t:, m fixing colours 

 on labrics made of cotton andotlier fibre. A coininunicalon.: -October L. 



James Henry Badrieley. of Shelton. Stafford, engineer and designer.jor improvements 

 iu tlie manulaclure of ornamental ai tides of earthenware.— October L . 



Thomas Richards Harding, of Lille, France, manulailur.r, for improv^-ments in ma. 

 chinerv for hecKling and c^ircling flax in machinery lor combining and drawing wool and 

 other fibrous materials, and in machinery for making parts of such machines, and for a 

 new arrangement ot the steam engine for driving flax and woollen mills, which arrange, 

 ment is al-o a,,plicable to other purposes where motive power is required.-October 1, . 

 Henry Bernoulli Barlow, of Manchester, consultliig_engiueer, for improvemeuls in 

 sDii'ning cotton and other fibrous materials.— October 1". 



James Henry H illiams, ot Birmingham, manufacturer, for certain improvemenU in 



the noinnfacture of buttons.-O.lober 17. . . , . . ■ .u . . 



J.-in-es Vonog of Manchester, manufacturing chemist, for improvements in the treat. 



ment ol certain bituminons mineral substances, and in obtaining products therefrom.— 



Jean Louis Pascal, of Woorgate-street, London, civil engineer, for an improved appa- 

 ratus, for the cure or prevention of smoky chimneys, and also for the venUlalion of ships, 

 rooms, and buildings in general.-Gctober 24. , ^ „, . , , 



Thomas beale Browne, ol Hampen. near Andoversford, Gloucester, gentleman, for 

 improvements in weaving and preparing fibrous materials, and suiniiiK or printing 

 fabrics. (A comiiiiinicalion.)— October 24. . 



Alexander Uixon, of Ah.rcorn Foundry, Paisley, for improvements in moulding iron 

 and other metals. — October 24. 



Jo'm Mercer of Oakensbaw, within Clayton-le-»Ioors, Lancashire, gentleman, tor 

 improvements in the preparation of cotton and other fabrics and fibrous materia.5.— 



"^JohT Oliver York, of Boulojrnesur-Mer, France, for impruvements in the mode or 

 manner of generating steam in locomotive, marine, and other boil-rs.-Ocloher 24. 



John Grant, ol Hy<le Park stieet, Middle«x, for improvements in heating and regu. 

 lating temuerature. — October 24. . . . 



Aaron Ro=e. of Halesowen. Worcester, manufacturer, for a certain new or improved 

 method or 'certain new or improved methods of manulacluring twisted gun and pistol 



'"'sa'mud^j'cobs.'oi Hig^g3te Kendall, Westmoreland, cabinet maker, for certain ini. 

 provements in priming on woollen, cotion, paper, and other substai ces, parts of which 

 inii'rovements are applicable also to the purposes of colouring, shading, tinting, or var. 



"'S"HinnX""B-''^^^^^^^^ "f"^ fi^"- ofMillington and 



Sons! of Newark-upon.Trent Nottingham, milleis, for improvements in corn-ileanmg 

 and flour oressing machines.— tictober 24. 



Liwaid Clarence Shepard, of Parliament-street, Westminster, gentleman, for certain 

 imtrovcmenls In electro'magnetic apparatus, suitable lor the production of motive 

 power, of heat, and of light. (A communication. l-October 24. 



