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their hood-mouldings, terminating upon carved bosses, and glazed with ground 

 glass, surrounded by a border of rich stained glass, producing a soft and 

 beautifnl light. The tower is flanked by massive double buttresses, the 

 lower and upper offsets terminating in weathered canopies ; in the centre of 

 the tower is the west entrance, the tower forming a vestibule, in which is the 

 gallery stairs. On the soutli side is a neat porch with inner folding doors. 

 Down the centre of the church is a very spacious aisle fitted with free seats ; 

 upon each side is a double row of pews with stall ends and cast heads. 

 Over the west entrance is an organ loft and gallery with cast iron railings in 

 front. The pulpit and reading desk are on each side the aisle leading to the 

 altar, which is approached by two steps, and surrounded by a handsome 

 raihng. The building is ceiled to the rafter, showing the timbers of the 

 roof, the trusses of which are filled with tracery. The church is 81 ft. long 

 and 48 ft. 6 in. %vide in the interior, and contain 800 sittings, 350 of which 

 are free. The entire edifice is highly creditable to the architect Mr. Duck- 

 ham. — Hereford Times. 



Kentish Town Church. — A view of the exterior and interior of this intended 

 church, designed by Mr. Bartholomew, has been published, it was chosen out 

 of a competition of 5. It is to be built from a grant of £800 by the Church 

 Commissioners, and from private subscriptions, towards which the Queen 

 Dowager, the Bishop of London, Earls Dartmouth and Mansfield, and many of 

 the wealthy inhabitants of the neighbourhood contributed largely. The site is 

 that of the present parochial chapel : the cost is to be, including the materials 

 of the present chapel, about £6000, and the number of persons to be accom- 

 modated 1650. The altar, chief entrances, and principal facade, are towards 

 the east, whence peculiarities of confrmation result. The plan is a parallelo- 

 gram with two very short transepts. The western of these transepts spreads 

 out the rear elevation, as seen over the Hampstead fields, to great breadth ; 

 these are flanked by turret staircases, and the eastern transept being unen- 

 cumbered by galleries, leaves a free and open chancel. Below the great altar 

 window a low apsis projects, for the purposes of a vestry, and the altar recess 

 is flanked by two steeples about 50 ft. high, to contain staircases, beU, clock, 

 Ac. It is the architect's wish to raise these by an extra fund to upwards 

 of 130ft. The internal effect and constniction are altogether original: 

 arches span the fabric in all directions, interchangeably counter-abutting 

 each other, rising from four iron columns and four piers, containing cores 

 of iron. The arches which span the nave spring from half length figures of 

 the four evangelists. Wherever the arches reach the external walls they are 

 restrained by massy buttresses, detached at bottom from the walling, and 

 ascending with lofty pinnacles, giving great strength and play of external 

 effect. The roofing is peculiar : all the rafters are rendered passive by being 

 laid horizontally ; those to the clerestory bear npon arches about 7 ft. apart, 

 and the roofs of the aisles, by being gabelled against the clerestory, both 

 restrain any ulitmate derangement which these arches might suffer, and 

 increase the picturesqueness of the flanks of the building. All the roof 

 work is to be stained oak colour ; there is to be no plastering whatever 

 about it. The body of the church is to be illuminated by six plain lancet 

 windows, four three-light columnar windows with tracery, and nine orna- 

 mental rose windows. The altar, besides the great painted window, is to 

 have four smaller windows to be filled with stained glass containing the 

 decalogue, creed, &c. with sacramental borders of corn and vines ; and below 

 these again will run all round the altar recess a series of canopies, supported 

 upon slender columns with foliagcd capitals of stone (already in existence), 

 and which are of rare beauty. In the centre, under the altar table, will be 

 a relief of the Coming to the Holy Sepulchre. The material is to be exter- 

 nally white brick, and all the canopies, capitals, (except those last-mentioned) 

 finials, crosses, shields, panels, and most of the other decorations, are to be 

 of terra cotta or vitrified stone, durablv emblocked into the walling, and not 

 attached by cramps and pins. The style is the decorated early English, or 

 early decorated, the combined mass and slenderness of the French cathedrals, 

 Lincoln cathedral, and other buildings of similar date, being imitated : all 

 the capitals, of which there are some hundreds, are foliated. 



LIST OP tfEW PATENTS. 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND FROM 29th JuLY TO THE 25tH AUGUST, 1842. 



Sir Months allowed for Enrolment, unless otherwise expressed. 



Thomas Bell, of Saint Anstil, Cornwall, mine agent, for " improvements 

 in the manufacture of copper." — Sealed July 29. 



Jules Lejeune, of Regent's park, engineer, for "improvements in accele- 

 rating combustion, which improvements may be applied in place of the blow- 

 ing machines now in me." — July 29. 



John Stephen Woolrich, of Birmingham, chemist, for " improvements 

 in coating with metal the surface of articles formed of metal or metallic 

 alloys." — August 1. 



Alfred John Phipps, of Blackfriars-road, gentleman, for "improvements 

 in paving streets, roads, and ways." — August 1. 



Joseph ^A'HITWORTH, of Manchester, engineer, for " improvements in 

 machinery or apparatus for cleaning roads, and which machinery is also 

 applicable to other similar purposes." — August 2. 



John Dry, of Beverley, agricultural implement maker, for " improvements 

 i» thrashing machines." — August 2. 



Samuel Carson, of Covent Garden, gentleman, for "improvements lit 

 purifying and preserving animal substances." — August 3. 



Archibald Turner, of Leicester, manufacturer, for " improvements in 

 the manufacture of muffs, tippets, ruffs, mantillas, cloaks, shawls, capes, 

 pelerines, boas, cuffs, slippers, and shoes." — August 3. 



John Lee, of Bermondsey, gentleman, for " improvements m wheels and 

 axle-trees to be used on railways, and in machinery for stopping on, or pre- 

 venting such carriages from running off railways, which improvements may 

 also be applied to other carriages and machinery." — August 3. 



Charles Henri Perrin, of Lombard-street, London, for " improvements 

 in the construction of certain parts of the mechanism used in watches and 

 chronometers, which improvements are also applicable to some kinds of clocks." 

 — August 8. 



David Napier, of Millwall, engineer, for " improvements in steam engines 

 and steam boilers." — August 9. 



Thomas M'alker, of Birmingham, stove maker, for " improvements in 

 stoves." — August 9. 



Richard Ford Sturges, of Birmingham, manufacturer, for " an improve- 

 ment in the manufacture of Britannia metal and plated wares." — August 10. 



Dominic Frick Albert, of Cadishead, Doctor of Laws, manufacturing 

 chemist, for " a new combination of materials for the purpose of manufac- 

 turing a manuring powder." — August 1 0. 



Moses Poole, of Lincoln's Inn, gentleman, for " improvements in paving 

 or covering roads and other ways." — August 1 1 . 



Joseph Betteley, of the Brunswick Anchor Works, Liverpool, chain 

 cable manufacturer, for " improvements in windlasses and machinery for 

 moving weights." — August 1 1 . 



John Thomas Betts, of Smithfield Bars, gentleman, for " improvements 

 in covering and stoppering the necks of bottles." A communication. — Au- 

 gust II. 



George Roberts, of Liverpool Road, miner, for " improvements in the 

 construction of tamps." — August 15. 



William Raybould, of Clerkenwell, brass founder, for " a new or im- 

 proved soldering iron." — August 1 8. 



George John Newbery, of Cripplegate buildings, artist, for •' improve- 

 ments in producing damask and other surfaces on leather and other fibrous 

 substances and fabrics." — August 18. 



Nathan Defries, of Fitzroy-square, engineer, and Nathaniel Fortescuk 

 Taylor, of Mile End, engineer, for " improvements in meters for gas and 

 other fluids." — August 18. 



William Ridgtvay, of Staflford, earthenware manufacturer, for " a new 

 method of conveying and distributing heat in ovens used by manufacturers of 

 china and earthenware, and brick, tile, and quarry makers." — August 18. 



GoLESwoRTHY GuRNEY, of Great George-street, gentleman, for " improve- 

 ments in apparatus for producing, regulating, and dUipersiny light and heat." 

 — August 18. 



Richard Else, of Gray's Inn, Esq., for " improvements in machinery or 

 apparatus for forcing and raising water and other fluids." — August 18. 



Thomas Hendry, of Glasgow,'mechanic, for " improvements in machinery 

 for preparing and combing wool, ami other fibrous materials." — August 25. 



David Redmund, of City Road, engineer, for " improvements in hinges or 

 apparatus applicable to suspending or closir^ doors and gates, and other pur- 

 poses." — August 25. 



ERRATA. 



In Mr. Hodgkinson's paper, at top of ccl. I, p. 275, injtea'J of the third 

 column uf the table, read Ratio of mean tensile to crushing strength. 

 1 to 55 

 I to 6 6 

 1 to 78 



I to 10'5 or 8*9 taking the hardest only. 

 Soulh-Eastern Railway— line 25, page 262, instead of the pressure being 

 " increased in the ratio of the square of two to unity," it should be " increased 

 in the ratio of the square root of two to unity." 

 Page 251, col. I, line 28, for ^vaca read Cloaca. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



We have received from Mr. Sevrell, C. E., of New York, a drawing and de- 

 scription of a disconnecting crank for marine steam engines, dated Feb. 1842; we 

 do not consider it so efficient or so simple as that of Mr. Trewhitt, described in 

 tiie Journals of last Feb, and June. 



" 0. T." — We feel obliged Jor his communications — they shall be inserted next 

 month. 



Mr. Robertson's Paper on Railway Signals we have been obliged to postpone 

 for want of room. 



We have been obliged to postpone our plate until next month, and instead we have 

 given an extra sheet, with numerous wood engravings. 



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

 the 20th (if wilh drawings, earlier ), and advertisements on or before the 25th 

 instant, addressed to the Editor, Ao. 10, Fludyer Street, Whitehall. 



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



