106-F. A. De Burgh, Mile End Road, Middlesex. Improvements in pipes for smoking; applicable also to cigar and cigarette tubes. 109-H. Russell, Ramsgate, Kent. Improved means for indicating, recording, or registering the number of articles sent to laundries, &c. 11-J. H. Smith, London Fields, Middlesex. Improvements in lockstitch sewing machines.

133-R. Tucker, Rochdale, Lancashire. Improved construction of machine for cleaning knives and forks.

144-R. Mallet, Westminster Chambers. Improved production of plates or surfaces containing inscriptions, marks, or devices. 145-W. Nelson, Birmingham. Improved scarf clip or adjuster. 166-W. Reid, Glasgow. Improvements connected with sewing machines. 169-A. M. Clark, Chancery Lane. Improved kite or aërial apparatus for military or other purposes. ̧

178-J. L. Von Faber, Stein, Bavaria. Improvements in writing and drawing pencils.

18-W. R. Lake, Southampton Buildings. Improved machine for hanging wall-papers.

196-E. P. Alexander, Southampton Buildings. Improved stud or button, to be called the "Excelsior" button, for fastening the ends of metal bands.

215-E. T. Marler, Holborn Circus, London. Improvement in pencilcases or pencil-holders.

120-W. McPhail, Wicklow, Ireland. Improvements in compositors' case frames.

26-J. Lloyd and J. Scully, Whiteinch, North Britain. Improvements in hanging-lines for drying wall-papers and the like. 22-H. P. Garland, San Francisco. Improvements in sewing machines for stitching bags, sacks, carpets, and the like. 233-J. J. Perry, Red Lion Square, Middlesex. Improvements in wheel skates.

237-R. T. Lewis, Liverpool. Improvements applicable to ornamenting and hermetically sealing the backs of toilet aud other mirrors. 241-E. W. Furrell, London. Improved stand for holding charts and other illustrations.

2gt-C. W. Vosper, Stoke, Devonport, and G. P. Rogers, Plymouth. Improved sewing machines and sewing machine stands. 254-R. Stokes and R. Goff, Bow, Middlesex. Improvements of busk and similar fastenings.

249-H. C. Mayer, Pall Mall. Improvements in the spirometer. 292-W. Mountfort and E. C. Mountfort, Birmingham. An improved game, and instruments and appliances therewith.

318-The Hon. G. Cadogan, Westminster. Improved apparatus for igniting and holding matches.

337-H. G. Pendleton, Birmingham. Improvements in fastenings for braces, belts, wristbands, purses, pocket books, and the like. 38-J. Brewshire, Haverstock Hill." Improvements applicable to printing machinery.

342-P. Pieri and W. Smith, Salisbury Street. Improved bidon and drinking bottle for tourist purposes.

LETTERS PATENT HAVE BEEN GRANTED TO THE FOLLOWING:

2610-Marcus Brown Westhead, Manchester, improvements in the production of tapes for Venetian blinds. 2780-Barnet Solomon Cohen, Great Prescott Street, Goodman's Fields, improvements in the manufac ture of artificial ivory. 3936-John Reading, Stafford, and Samuel Alfred Reading, Birmingham, improvements in sleeve studs, solitaires, and other like dress fastenings. 4137-Charles Reuter, City Road, Middlesex, improved machinery for stamping paper collars and other articles. 4154Joseph Warren Wattles, Mass., U.S., new and useful improvements in suspenders for pantaloons. 2623-Edward Lee, High Holborn, improved mode of producing designs or patterns on surfaces by aid of stencil plates. 627-James Nall, George Goldsmith, and James Dilkes, Leicester, improvements in the manufacture of types for printing, and for the production of name and other show plates. 2667-Alfred George Brookes, Chancery Lane, improvements in copying presses, applicable also to stamping and punching machines. 2680-Frank Wirth, Frankfort-on-theMain, improvements in portable watchman's time detectors. 3170Alexander Melville Clark, Chancery Lane, improvements in washing machines. 2671-Louis François Gosselin, Paris, improved buoy for saving gold, bank notes, bills, and other precious metals. 2679Louis François Gosselin, improved jacket or waistcoat for swim. ming and saving life. 2778-Edward Pendrill Hardcastle, Bow, Middlesex, improved means and apparatus for opening fish, meat, milk, and other hermetically sealed tins. 2855-Diedrich Leonardt, Birmingham, and Hezekiah Hewitt, Birmingham, improved construction of metallic and other boxes for holding steel pens and other small articles. 2905-Frank Trevisany, Clapham Road, Surrey, improvements in metal show tablets for advertising purposes. 3137-Robert Winder, Bolton, Lancaster, improvements connected with type.composing machinery. 3470-Michael Henry, Fleet Chambers, Fleet Street, improvements in pencil cases and other similar articles. 4204-William Henry Wilson Campbell, Con., U.S., improved drawing compass. 3522-Thomas James Marun, Kentish Town, Middlesex, apparatus for affixing labels to bottles or other curved substances. 3616-George Francis, Carnarvon, improved

pocket theodolite, and stand for the same. 3708-John Henry Johnson, Lincoln's Inn Fields, improved machinery for making paper pulp. 4038William Jones, Manchester, improved method of graining, marking, and ornamenting surfaces. 2884-Frank Wirth, Germany, disinfecting or fumigating candles and pastilio. 3004-John Burgess, Birmingham, improvements in corkscrews. 4225-Howard Pratt Garland and Andrew Jackson Gove, San Francisco, improvements in sewing machines for stitching sacks, bags, carpets, &c. 4426-Alexander Melville Clark, Chancery Lane, improvements in needles. 4330-John Ward, Belfast, improvements in means or apparatus for driving machines for lithographic and letterpress printing. 2834-Harvey Fisk Snow, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, improvements in braces and suspenders. 3509Callistus Augustus Count de G. De Liancourt, Dalston, Middlesex, selfinflating swimming and life belts. 4377-John Charles Coleman and Albert Holman, London, improved appliances for taking off and delivery of printed sheets from stop cylinder lithographic and letterpress machines.

BANKRUPTS.

LIQUIDATION BY ARRANGEMENT OR COMPOSITION UNDER BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1869. William Henry Walton, stationer, newsagent, confectioner, and general dealer, Fairfield Street, Manchester.-Frederic Hutchings Nance, law stationer and writer, St. Paul's Square, Southsea, and Union Street, Portsea.-David Edwards, printer, stationer, and beerhouse keeper, Somerset House, Towyn.-George Watson, stationer, St. Ann's Lane, City, London, and Albert Road South, Buckhurst Hill.-Henry Peyto Bedell, out of business, Oakley Road, Southgate Road, Islington, formerly fancy printer and stationer, Bishopsgate Street Within.-Richard Herring and Compton Fosbroke Brown, stationers, Finsbury Place South, under firm of Richard Herring, Brown & Co.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Fielding and McInnes, printers, booksellers, stationers, and newspaper proprietors, Wakefield (William Fielding and James McInnes).

OBITUARY.

AGNESI.-Signor Agnesi, the well-known baritone-basso. He was a Belgian by birth, his name being Agniez. He was a pupil of the Brussels Conservatoire, where he won the prize for composition. He took first to the French lyric drama, and then to Italian opera. BAUDELOT.-M. Baudelot, successively Professor of Zoology at the Faculties of Strasburg and Nancy, of an illness contracted in the campaign of 1870, during which he served with the Army of the East. COLE.-Mr. E. W. Cole, Devon, printer and stationer. CORDT.-Jean Baptiste Camille Cordt, the French painter. The deceased was born in Paris, and was in his 79th year. He was educated at Rouen, and upon leaving school was placed with a cloth dealer. In 1822, however, he left that occupation, and, against the wishes of his family, entered the studio of a painter and studied art. His first work was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1827. DINGLER.-Dr. Emil Maximilian Dingler, who has been for upwards of forty years the editor of the Polytechniches Journal. It is stated in the December number that the journal was started by Dr. Dingler's father-a chemical manufacturer in Augsberg-in 1820; that Dr. E. M. Dingler, having received an excellent scientific education, com. menced his duties as editor in 1831, and devoted his life to secure that efficiency for which this journal has been long esteemed. FINLAY.-Mr. George Finlay, Times correspondent at Athens. He was one of the staur.chest supporters of the cause of Greek independence, and was probably the last survivor of that small band of enthusiasts who went out to Greece to join Lord Byron and the Philhellenes. GALICHON.-M. Emile Galichon, the well-known critic and writer on ait. M. Galichon was one of the earliest contributors to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, and his editorship of that journal marks its period of highest merit. No one, perhaps, did more than he to revive the art of etching in France.

GREG. Mr. Robert Hyde Greg, late M.P. for Manchester, whose father was Mr. Samuel Greg, a Manchester merchant and manufacturer. HOARE.-Mr. Gurney Hoare, senior partner of the well-known banking house.

HUGHES.-Mr. John Hughes, editor of the Welsh Herald. JANSA.-Leopold Jansa, violinist; well-known in London. LOVE.-Mr. Joseph Love, one of the most extensive colliery owners in the county of Durham, but who began his career as a pit-boy. LYELL.-Sir Charles Lyell, F.R.S., F.G.S. The deceased was born in 1797, and was educated at Oxford. He was the distinguished geologist, and President of the Geological Society 1826-7 and 1850-1, and of the British Association 1864 and '65. He was the author of numerous works cn Geology and Antiquity, &c.

PAPE.-Jean Henri Pape, the pianoforte maker of Paris, is announced, at the age of eighty-five. He introduced many improvements in the manufacture of his instruments.

PERKINS.-Signor Giulio Perkins, the well-known basso of Mr. Mapleson's company, died on Thursday, at the Queen's Hotel, Manchester, having been ill but a few days.

PRICHARD.-Mr. J. T. Prichard, author of "English Administration in

India," and the "Chronicles of Budgepore.' RAMBERG.-Baron de Ramberg, a celebrated German historical painter. WILKINSON.-Alderman Wilkinson, F.R.A.S., of Burnley. The deceased gentleman was eminent as a mathematician and Lancashire antiquarian.

ZIMMERMAN.-Mr. Richard Zimmerman, German painter, at Munich.

CHEMICAL REPORT.

Acids: Tartaric quiet; Foreign at 1s. 6d. and English at rs. 6d. per lb.; Citric held at 4s. 1d., and Oxalic at 64d. per lb. Soda Ash moves off slowly, 2 1-16d. to 21d. per degree. Caustic Soda selling; Cream 60 at £13 2s. 6d. to £13 5s., White at £13 10s. to £14, and 70 per cent. at £16 15s. per ton. Soda Crystals held at £5 10s., and Bicarbonate at £13 10s. per ton. Saltcake quiet at £3 2s. 6d. per ton. Phosphate selling at 35s. per cwt. Borax firm at £56 for English and £52 to £55 per ton for Californian. Prussiate dull; yellow 1s. ad., and red 2s. 4d. per lb. Chlorate held at 10ld. per lb. Muriate dull at £7 10s. per ton for 80 per cent. Bichrome selling at 64d. per lb. Refined saltpetre quiet; barrels 28s., and kegs 28s. 6d. per cwt. Sal Ammoniac firm; first 45s., and second quality 44s. per cwt. Sulphate selling at £17 12s. 6d. to £18 10s. per ton. Alum steady; lump £8, powdered and ground at £9 per ton. Sulphur dull; roll £9 15s., and flour £12 10s. per ton. Bleaching powder in good demand at £9 to £9 5s. per ton. Acetate neglected; brown £12, and distilled £31 per ton. Magnesia: Carbonate 42s. 6d. per cwt. ; Calcined 1s. 6d. per lb. Arsenic: Sales of Powdered at £14 per ton. Phosphorus: Wedges as. 11d., and Sticks 3s. per lb. Copperas selling at 67s. 6d. per ton. Copper: Sulphate selling at 25s. 6d. per cwt. Verdigris Is. per lb. Lead: Sugar dull, white 455., and brown 30s. per cwt. Nitrate 32s. 6d. per cwt.

METAL REPORT.

Metals continue nearly as per last report. Iron is steady. Copper is slightly improved. Chili bars have realised £83 15s. and £84. English is quiet. Tin is weaker, forward sales having been made at £90. Straits spot is quoted £91; Australian, £90; Banca, £98 per ton; Billiton, £93; Straits, fine, £91; Straits, afloat or forward, Loo; Australian, 00: English refined, £98; English common bars, in barrels, £97; English common blocks and ingots, £96 per ton. Tin plates steady. Charcoal, 1 C, per box, 36s. to 40s. Coke, I C, 278. 6d. to 33s. per box. Lead steady. Spelter unchanged. Quicksilver £21 108. per bottle.

RAG REPORT.

The following are recent quotations:-Country fines, 29s. 6d. to 30s. ; London fines, 28s. 6d. to 29s.; country outshots, 23s. to 24s.: London outshots, 22s. to 235.; select seconds, 18s. to 19s.; London seconds, 145. to 16s.; London thirds, 8s. to ros.; white hemp rope, 12s. to 138.; common bagging, 5s. 6d. to 6s.; black rope, 12s. to 12s. 6d.

ESPARTO REPORT.

The latest quotations are:-Spanish, fair average, £9 7s. 6d. to £9 ros. African, Oran, and Susa, good quality, £7 5s. to 7 10s. Tripoli, good quality, £5 to £5 10s.

JUTE REPORT.

Trade quiet. The quotations are:-Jute, fine, £16 10s to £20 IOS.; medium, 13 5s. to £16 5s.; common, £10 to £13; rejections, £9 15s. to £10; cuttings, £8 58. to £8 15s. per ton.

WOOD PULP.

The Paper Makers' Circular says that a brisk demand continues for this article, more particularly for the chemically prepared description, the ground sort being in far less favour by paper makers. The deliveries have been on the usual scale for the season, but the principal contracts made are for forward deliveries.

A NEW FUZEE.-At the last meeting of the Scottish Society of Arts, Professor Archer exhibited and explained the " new fuzee intended to supersede ordinary matches," and which was first shown in Edinburgh on the occasion of the recent conversazione in the Industrial Museum. In answer to questions the professor stated that the inventor said the cost of the fuzee would be 200 per cent. less the ordinary wooden match; that there was no more danger in using the fuzee than in the case of a match, and that although it had not yet been used in this country for the lighting of public lamps, he believed it had been successfully adopted for that purpose in America.

DRAWING PAPER.-Herr Fuscher has discovered a method for rendering ordinary drawing paper transparent during the time that a tracing is being made, and afterwards restoring its original appearance. The process consists of dissolving a certain quantity of castor oil in two or three volumes of pure spirits of wine, according to the thickness of the paper, and of applying this solution by means of a sponge. The spirit evaporates at the end of a few minutes, and the paper is ready for use. The drawing may be made in pencil or Indian ink. Its original opacity is afterwards restored to the paper by plunging it in pure spirits of wine, which may be kept for dissolving the oil on future occasions.-Journal of the Society of Arts.

A PAPER mill established by the Khedive at Bonlag, in 1873, is now in full working order.

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A RECENT report on paper making, as conducted in Massachusetts, contains a list of 112 different materials for making paper, from all of which an article of fair quality can be produced. Among the list are enumerated asparagus, beetroot, cabbage-stumps, frog-spittle, hop-vines, hornets' nests, lily of the valley, leather-cuttings, mummy cloth, sawdust, thistles, and willow twigs.