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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



[Feb. 



The new invention is yet in its very infancy, but from what it has already 

 developed of its powers, it may be safely foretold that it is likely to attain a 

 speedy and a lasting maturity in the history of the fine arts. — Times. 



Preservative for Water rolour Draieings and Engravings. — Mr. .Spilsbury, of 

 Pall Mall, has invented a solution for washinpr over water colour draw ings 

 and engravings, which preserves them from the action of the atmosphere, 

 and at the same time allows them to be washed the same as an oil painting, 

 a great desideratum ; it is deserving of a trial by those who wish to preserve 

 their engravings, without going to the expense of plate glass. 



Ede's Portable Cliemieal Laboratories. — They are very compact cabinets, 

 fitted with a great variety of tests and re-agents, glass tubes, blow pipes, 

 and other appendages necesssary for performing numerous experiments. 



OBITUARY. 



Died, on Thursday, the 13th ult., at his residence, near Plymouth, J. Foul- 

 ston, Esq., M. I. B. A., aged 69. Th edeath of Mr. Foulston cannot fail to excite 

 a melaucholy interest, in these towns and their neighbourhood, with which 

 his name as an architect is almost as much connected as that of Wren with 

 the city of London. Before his arrival among us, we had been for centuries 

 in darksome ignojance, as to the meaning and merits of architecture. The 

 success of ilr. Foulston, iu his competition for the Royal Hotel and Theatre, 

 fortunately established him as our resident architect ; and his subsequent 

 labours for many years were directed to the improvement and adornment of 

 the three towns, naturally promoting that advance of the public taste, which 

 is now manifesting itself in a general feeling for the " beautiful." The sim- 

 ple magnificence of our Hotel exterior, majesty of the Portico to the Devon- 

 port Town Hall, and the classic elegance of the Athenanmi, and Plymouth 

 Library, bear ample testimony to the distinguished merit of Mr. Foulston, as 

 a disciple of the Grecian school ; while his ability and taste in treating the 

 other varieties of design are shown iu the Gothic Chapel of St. Paul, Stone- 

 house, and the Egyptian and Moorish buildings of Ker-street, Devonport. 

 The monumental column in the latter town is also a pure and striking 

 example of the architect's feeling for Greek simplicity. And we would 

 suggest that this especially should be individualized as his monument, by an 

 inscription to his honour, cut on a brass or marble slab, and let into one of 

 the panels of the pedestal. Mr. Foidston was buried in St. Andrew's New 

 Cemetery, on Tuesday, the 18th ult. — Plijmouth Paper. 



LIST OP NE'Wr PATENTS. 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND FROM 24tH DECEMBER, 1841, TO 27tH 

 JANUARY, 1842. 



Six Months allowed for Enrolment. 



William Robinson Kettle, of Waterloo-street, Birmingham, W^arwick, 

 accountant, Benjamin Wakefield, of Ryland-street, North, Birmingham, 

 civil engineer, and William Crosher, of Cumberland-street, Birmingham, 

 aforesaid, screw manufacturer, for " an improved holt for building, and other 

 purposes." — Sealed 24th December. 



Montagu Macdonogh, of St. Alban's-place, Middlesex, gent., for "im- 

 provements in spindles, flyers, and bobbins, for spinning, twisting and reeling 

 all sorts of fibronn or te.rtile substances, and in the application or adaptation 

 of eittier, or all of them, to machinery for the same purposes." (A communi- 

 cation.) — Jan. 6. 



Edward Hall, of Dartford, civil engineer, for "an improved steam 

 boiler." — Jan. 11. 



Samuel IIearne Le Petit, of St. Pancras-place, St. Pancras-road, for 

 " certain improvements in t/te mannfacture and supply of gas." (A commu- 

 nication.)— Jan. 11. 



James Chesterman, of Sheffield, mechanist, and John Bottom, also of 

 Sheffield, aforesaid, mechanist, for " certain improvements in tapes for mea- 

 suring, and in the bo.resfor containing the same," — Jan. 11. 



Charles Wye Williams, of Liverpool, gent., for " improvements in the 

 construction of furnaces, and effecting combustion of the inflammable gases 

 from coal." — Jan. 11. 



John Tresahar Jeffree, of Blackwall, engineer, for " improvements in 

 lifting and forcing wafer and other fluids, parts of wtiicfi improvements are 

 applicable to steam engines." — Jan. 11. 



Richard Dovor Chatterto.s', of Derby, gent., for " improvements in 

 propelling." — Jan. 11. 



James Ions, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, gent., for " improvements in smelt- 

 ing copper ores." — Jan. 13. 



Julius Bordier, of Austin Friars, merchant, for " improvements in pre- 

 paring s/cins and hides, and in converting them into leatlier." — Jan. 13. 



Caleb Bedells, of Leicester, manufacturer, and Joseph Bedells, of 



the same place, assistant to the said Caleb Bedells, for " improvements in 

 tlie mannfacture of elmlic fabrics, and articles of elastic fabrics." — Jan. 13. 



Joseph Barnes, of Church, near Accrington, Lancashire, manufacturing 

 chemist, for '* certain improvements in the working of steam engines." — 

 Jan. 13. 



Henry Waterton, of Winsford Lodge, Chester, Esq., for " improvements 

 in the manufacture if salt." — Jan. 13. 



John Jeremiah Rubery, of Birmingham, umbrella and parasol furniture 

 manufacturer, for " improiwments in the manufacture of a certain part of 

 umbrella and parasol furniture." — Jan. 13. 



Moses Poole, of Lincoln's-inn, gent., for " improvements in the construc- 

 tion of lochs." (A communication.) — Jan. 15. 



John Thackeray, of Nottingham, lace thread manufacturer, for " im- 

 provements in the process of ^ireparhuj and gassing tliread or yarn. — Jan. 15. 



Thomas Lambert, of Regent's-park, musical instruemnt maker, for " im- 

 provements in the action of cabinet piano-fortes." — Jan. 15. 



Edward Palmer, ofjNewgate-street, philosophical instrument maker, for 

 "improvements in producing, printing, and embossing surfaces." — Jan. 15. 



James Cole, of Youl's-place, Old Kent-road, brush manufacturer, for 

 " improvements in the construction of brushes." — Jan. 15. 



Cornelius Ward, of Great Tichfield-street, musical instrument maker, 

 for " improvements in flutes." — Jan. 18. 



William Tindall, of Cornhill, ship owner, for " a new aud improved 

 method of e.vtracting or tnanufacturing from a certain vegetable substance, 

 certain materials, applicable to the purposes of affording light and other uses." 

 —Jan. 19. 



Antoine Mertens, of the London Coffee-house, publisher, for " improve- 

 ments in covering surfaces with wood." (A communication.) — Jan. 22. 



William Baker, of Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, surgeon, for 

 " improvements in the manufacture of boots and shoes." — Jan. 27. 



John James Baggaly, of Sheffield, seal engraver, for "improvements in 

 making metallic dies and plates for stamping, pressing, or embossing-" — 

 Jan. 27. 



Andrew Kurtz, of Liverpool, manufacturing chemist, for " improve- 

 ments in the manvfactnre of artificial fuel" — Jan. 27. 



Francis Marston, of Aston, in the county of Salop, Esq., for " improve- 

 ments in apparatus for making calculations." — Jan. 27. 



Samuel Ma.son, of Northampton, merchant, for " improvements in clogs, 

 — part of which improvements is applicable to shoes and boots." — Jan. 27. 



Gottlieb Boccius, of the New-road, Shepherd's Bush, Gent., for " im- 

 provements in gas, and on the methods in use, or burners for the combustion 

 of gas." — Jan. 27. 



William and John Galloway, and Joseph Haley, of Manchester, 

 engineers, for " imjirovements in macliinery for cutting, punching, and com- 

 2>ressing metals." — Jan. 27. 



Pierre Journet, of Dean-street, Soho, engineer, for " improvements in 

 steam engines." (A communication.) — Jan. 27. 



Henry- Benjamin, of St. Mary-at-Hill. fish factor, and Henry- Grafton, 

 of Chancery-lane, machinist, for " improvements in preserving animal and 

 vegetable matters." — Jan. 27. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Tlie American Pile'driving machine. — We neglected to mention in our last 

 number, that this machine had been patented in this country, as well as on the 

 Continent, hif Col. Cowdin and others. We have received two communications on 

 the subject of the table on the force of fa/ling bodies, questioning the accuracy of 

 the formuhe upon which the calculations were made. These cunimunications we 

 have deferred until next month, in order that we may in the mean time make some 

 practical e.rperiments on the force of falling bodies, which appears up to the present 

 time to ha^e been neglected by all our mechanical writers. 



Bunnett's Patent Railway Breaks and other improvements. — We had intended 

 to hove given drawings and descriptions of these in the present number, hid we 

 have been prevented, in consequence of the wood engraver not being able to get tlie 

 cuts finished in time. 



./. M. on Architectural Precedent will appear ne.rt month. 



We shall be glad to hear again from " Oliver Twist." 



Sandstone. — We will notice his eominunieal/on in the ne.xt Journal. 



Communications are requested to he addressed to '- The Editor of the Civil 

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



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

 the 20th (if with drawings, earlier), and advertisements mi or before the 25th. 

 instant. 



Vols. I, II, III, and IV, may be had, bound in cloth, price £1 each Volume 



ERRATA. 



In Mr. Weale's advertisement of last month, the price of Buchanans Mill 

 work was printed 21. .'is. instead of 21. 10s. 



On the Use of Gold for Decoration, page 7, line 7 from bottom, for fimlt/ 

 paid, xedA firmly fixed. 



