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To Benjamin Cook, of Birmingham, brass founder, for his invention of certain improvements in making files of various descriptions-7th February-6 months.

To William Warren, of Crown-street, Finsbury-square, gentleman, in consequence of a communication made to him by a certain foreigner resident abroad, for an invention of certain improvements in the process of extracting from the Peruvian bark medicinal substances, or properties known by the name of Quinine and Cinchonine, and preparing the various salts to which these substances may serve as a basis-11th February-6 months.

To John Lane Higgins, of Oxford-street, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. for his invention of certain improvements in the construction of the masts, yards, sails, rigging of ships and smaller vessels, and in the tackle used for working or navigating the same 11th February-6 months.

To Benjamin Newmarch, of Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester, gentleman, and Charles Bonner, of the city of Gloucester, brazier, for their mechanical invention to be applied for the purpose of suspending and sescuring windows, gates, doors, shutters, blinds, and other apparatus-18th February--6 months.

To Thomas Walter, of Luton, in the county of Bedford, straw hat manufacturer, for his invention of certain improvements in the manufacture of straw platt, for the purpose of making bonnets, hats, and other articles18th February-6 months.

To Charles Whitlaw, of Bayswater Terrace, Paddington, in the county of Middlesex, medicinal botanist, for his invention of an improvement or improvements in administering medicines by the agency of steam or vapour-18th February-6 months.

To Arnold Buffum, late of Massachusetts, in the United States of America, but now residing in Bridgestreet, in the city of London, (being one of the people cailed Quakers) hat-manufacturer, in consequence of communications made to him by certain foreigners residing abroad, and discoveries made by himself, for an invention of certain improvements in the process of making or manufacturing and dying hats 18th February-6

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The beautiful Planet Venus will be a morning star until the 10th of this month, and will after that time, be an evening star until December. She will set at London about 5 o'clock P.M. in the beginning of the month, and about half past 6 at the end.

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HITCHEN, HERTS.

Lat. 518 56′ 20′′ N.

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Fair--frost.

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Cloudy-small rain.
Ditto-fair, brisk wind.

Fog and small rain.
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Cloudy.

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Fair-clear.

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Fair-sun and clouds-high wind. Small rain.

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Rain inches-hail, &c.-ditto.
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Cloudy cold wind-rain.

W. PERKS.

Long. 0° 16' 30" W. from Greenwich.

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LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC NOTICES.

AFRICA. By some late accounts received from Tripoli, we find that Mr. Laing had reached Gadamas in November, and calculated on being at Timbuctoo, by the 10th of December.

At the French Academy of Sciences, in January last, was presented, by M. Geoffry Saint Helaire, a human monster, which has just been discovered in a collection of animal mummies, forming part of a splendid cabinet of antiquities, recently imported from Egypt, by that able artist and antiquary, M. Passalacqua.

This monster belongs to the class known by the name of amencephalous, characterised by the complete privation of the brain and spinal marrow; and exceedingly interesting, first as questioning of the Cartesian philosophy, that thought is generated in the brain; and, secondly, as opposed to the more recent theory of the origin of the nerves in the cerebral and vertebral pulp.

A new work is announced as being in the press, from the pen of Dr. Henderson, author of "A Residence in Ireland," termed Biblical Researches and Travels in Russia, including a Tour in the Crimea, and the Passage of the Caucasus; with observations on the State of the Rabbinical and Karaite Jews, the Mahomedans, and the Pagan Tribes, inhabiting the southern provinces of the Russian Empire.

In a few days will be ready, in a large octavo volume, embellished with a coloured plate, Letters from the East, written during a recent Tour through Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Syria, and Greece, by John Carne, Esq. of Queen's College, Cambridge.

PARIS.-It has been long in contemplation to convert Paris into a Port, by means of a canal, which is to be fed principally by the Seine River; the project is still in agitation, and some of the French journals are discussing the best means of bringing to bear an object of so much commercial importance.

A monument to the memory of the late General Sir Thomas Picton, designed by Mr. Nash, has recently been erected near Carmarthen. The plan is extremely simple, and produces a fine effect; this erec

tion will perpetuate the fame of this gal lant soldier, to the land which gave him birth.

In the Bombay Journals of August, we find some account of a Chevalier Rienzi, who had arrived at Bombay, by way of the Red Sea, after traversing the three Arabias being the first European who had visited the country between Mount Sainen and Assab, and the vicinity of the ancient Adulis. During his journey he made a fine collection of antiquities, natural history, and other subjects of great curiosity.

AMERICAN EXPEDITION. Captain Beachy is now in the Pacific Ocean, with the vessels under his command. The objects in view, are surveys of coasts at present little known, and ultimately to pass Behring's Straits, for the purpose of joining Captain Franklin.

Mr. John H. Brady, author of the "Varieties of Literature," is making great progress with a work, on "The Derivation of the names of the principal market towns, and remarkable villages in every county in England," with notices of local antiquities, historical and topo. graphical anecdotes.

DIORAMA. The view of Rouen, which we mentioned some time back to be in preparation, is now exhibiting to the public. The prospect is taken from the high ground about a mile from the city, on the road from Faris. Our limits will not allow us to describe this delightful scene; we can only say, that the artist has been alike happy in his choice of subject as in its execution, and perhaps there are few prospects that afford so much scope for his extraordinary talent as those in the neighbourhood of this city. The effect of sunshine, and its transition to a shower and a rainbow, is truly admirable.

The second scene, is the interior of the magnificent chapel of Roslyn, by daylight, in which the rays of the sun, occasionally breaking through the gothic arches, produce an effect of grandeur and indeed sublimity, that we do not rememher to have ever before witnessed upon

canvas.

THE

London

JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

No. LXVI.

Recent Patents.

TO ROBERT STEPHENSON, of Bridge Town, in the Parish of Old Stratford, in the County of Warwick, Engineer, for his Invention of Axletrees, to remedy the extra friction on Curves to Waggons, Carts, Cars, 'and Carriages used, or to be used on Rail Roads, Tramways, and other Public Roads.

[Sealed 23rd January, 1826.]

MR. ROBERT STEPHENSON, late of Newcastle-uponTyne, is the engineer who projected and carried into effect that extraordinary work the Hetton Colliery, and constructed the various ingenious mechanical contrivances for conveying the coal from the pit mouth along a line of railway of about eight miles extent, over hills and dales, to the town of Sunderland.

In the course of this, and other similar works, Mr. Stephenson frequently noticed the immense friction produced VOL. XI.

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