ning, and doubling wool, cotton, aud other fibrous substances-19th January-6 months. To William Whitfield, of Birmingham, for his invention of certain improvements in making or manufacturing of handles for saucepans, kettles, and other culinary vessels, and also tea kettle handles, straps, and other articles-19th January-6 months. To Benjamin Cook, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, brass founder, for his invention of certain improvements in making or constructing hinges of various descriptions-19th January-6 months. To Abraham Robert Lorent, of Gottenburgh, in the kingdom of Sweden, merchant, at present residing in King's-street, Cheapside, in the city of London, for his invention of a method of applying steam without pressure to pans, boilers, coppers, stills, pipes, and machinery, in order to produce, transmit, and regulate various temperatures of heat in the several processes of boiling, distilling, evaporating, inspissating, drying and warming, and also to produce power-19th January—6 months. To Sir Robert Seppings, knight, a commissioner and surveyor of our navy, of Somerset House, in the county of Middlesex, for his invention of an improved construction of such masts and bowsprits as are generally known by the name of made masts, and made bowsprits-19th January-2 months. 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, tram-ways, and other public roads-23rd January-6 months. Extraordinary high Spring Tides will happen about the 24th of February, owing to the combined attractive influence of the sun and moon near the equitorial parts of our globe; and which, if attended with strong northerly winds, will be productive of considerable mischief and inconvenience upon our shores next the German Ocean, in the Channel, and in the River Thames, or by south westerly winds in the Irish ea and on our western shores. Rotherhithe. J. LEWTHWAITE. METEOROLOGY. The advantages of meteorological observations can only be available to science by comparing accurate registers taken in different places; we have, therefore, been induced to prevail upon Mr. Watson Perks, of Hitchim, Herts, a gentleman of acknow. ledged scientific acquirements, to favour us with a copy of his meteorological journal; and have no doubt but that, in connection with the observations upou the atmosphere by Mr. Adams, of Edmonton, with which we have been so long favoured, our readers will find our Meteorological Register, in future, much improved, and therefore more acceptable. 112 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC NOTICES. IMPROVED ORGAN.-M. Micg, the Keeper of the Royal Collection of Natu ral Philosophy, at Madrid, and, who is a great Amateur of Music, has, it is said, from the result of many experiments been enabled to communicate to the organ, a quality which has hitherto been wanting to its perfection, namely the faculty of gradually augmenting or diminishing the strength of its tones. Mr. Cooke has published No. VI. of the Gems of Art, which completes the first Volume of the Work, among its contents will be found Engravings of the celebrated Painting of Correggio: "Christ in the Garden," in the possession of the Duke of Wellington. "Jael and Sisera," after Northcote, in the Council Room of the Royal Academy; "A Gale after Vandevelde," in the possession of G. Morant, Esq.; "The Milk Girl, after Gainsborough," in the Collection of George Phillips, Esq.; "Canal Scene, by Moonlight," after Vanderneer, &c. &c. all of which are executed with the same spirit, taste, and skill, as in the earlier parts, reflecting the greatest credit on the Publisher and the Artists employed. HANOVERIAN AND SAXON SCENERY. -The first part of this new Work of Captain Battye, is published; and if possible, is superior to the same Gentleman's beautiful Illustrations of the Scenery of the Rhine, just completed. This Work is enriched, by the addition of wood cut viguettes to every description; and these being actual views, double the number of subjects in the Volume, making them one hundred and twenty, instead of sixty, as in the preceding Publication. The views chosen are striking and picturesque in the extreme; and among them will be found, The Lochmuhle, Ferdinandstein, Holmstein, and Konigstein, all of which belong to the superior class of landscape, while the Roman Catholic Church at Dresden, is a subject of great interest as an architectural display. The Work is dedicated by permission, to his Majesty; and is truly worthy of the patronage of Royalty. Messrs. Treuttel and Wurtz, the foreign Booksellers, have nearly ready for Publication, in 1 Vol. 8vo. Embellished with a Portrait, a work entitled, Alexander I. Emperor of Russia; or, a Sketch of his Life and of the most important Events of his Reign. A Quarto Volume is preparing for publication, British Ichthyology," with fine Engravings of the principal Fish of Great Britain, &c. from Drawings takeu from Nature, by Sir J. F. Leicester, and some of the first Artists; with a Preface and occasional Remarks, by William Jordan. AFRICAN TRAVELLERS.-At a Meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, on the 19th ult. the Death of the intrepid African Traveller, M. de Beaufort, was announced by M. Jomard. He stated, that, resolved to penetrate farther than had yet been achieved M. de B. had followed the course of the High Senegal, and was directing his route towards Timbuctoo when he fell, another victim to this fatal climate. Mr. Joseph Skelton, Author of the Antiquities of Oxford, is preparing for Publication, upwards of fifty Etchings of Antiquities in Bristol, from original Sketches, taken by the late Hugh O'Neill, illustrative of Memoirs of that City, by the Rev. Samuel Seyer, A.M., or to form a separate volume. FRENCH VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.The Astrolabe, French Corvette, commanded by Dumont de Durville, is about to sail on a Voyage of Discovery. The object of the Voyage is to explore certain parts of the Globe imperfectly known, and especially the coasts of New Guinea and New Zealand. A Picturesque Tour in Spain and Portugal, and along the Coast of Africa, from Tangiers to Tetuan, by J. Taylor Knight, and one of the Authors of the "Voyage Pittoresque dans l'Ancienne France," is in the Press. It is to be comprised in twenty-two parts, each containing five engravings, with accompanying letter-press descriptions. LONDON: SHACKELL, ARROWSMITH, AND HODGES, JOHNSON'S-COURT, FLLET-STREET. THE London JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. No. LXV. Recent Patents. TO THOMAS WOOLRICH STANSFELD, of Leeds, in the County of York, Merchant, for his Invention of certain Improvements in Power Looms, and in the Preparation of Warps for the same. [Sealed 27th July, 1824.] THESE improvements consist, first, in certain contrivances adapted to a power loom, by which the warp threads are given out from the beam, and the cloth taken up by the work roll in a more advantageous manner than has heretofore been effected; secondly, in a mode of putting a series of looms into operation by one rotatory shaft, and of stopping the action of any one of these looms, without interrupting the others connected thereto; and, thirdly, in a method of, and apparatus for preparing |