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see the contract carried out according to the specification, had done so, this accident would not have happened, in all probability. I mean that the defect must of necessity have been discovered. If a person had watched, as he should have done, the welding of every link, this defect would not have arisen; the defect in the quality of the iron must have been very apparent to any one at all acquainted with the subject. I have made my calculations as to the weight of people upon the bridge upon six to the square yard. I should think that, practically, such crowding seldom, if ever occurs. It is with reference to such packing that I have spoken, and I think the bridge would hardly have borne it. I think even if, as I believe to have been the case, the crowd consisted chiefly of women and children under 14, that 7 stone is about a fair average

weight. It is too much of course for children, but not enough for a good fat woman. It is perhaps rather a large average. I took it partly because it has been frequently adopted before. Looking at the contract generally, I do not think the gentleman who built the bridge originally had taken the necessary precautions to have the work properly done, more particularly as regards the mode of doing it. I think the contractor should have given the engineer or inspector of the work the power of having it tested in such a way as he should think fit. I do not find that in the contract. The clause which empowers the engineer to reject any materials which he might deem unfit gave this power indirectly, and in a manner; but I think the surveyor ought to have the power to do so without such a clause as that."

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the Rudiments, and showing with what facility the principles of the science may be experimentally demonstrated at a trifling expense, by means of simple apparatus and portable laboratories, more particularly in reference to those by Robert Best Ede. A new and enlarged edition, to which is added a distinct chapter on Agricultural Analysis. With woodcuts. 3s. 6d.

INSECT LIFE. By David Badham, M.D. 4s. 6d. The PRACTICAL COTTON SPINNER, showing the Methods of calculating the different machines made use of in a cotton spinning factory; also, an easy method of changing systems, to any grist wanted, with accuracy, ease, and despatch. By Alex. Kennedy. 12mo. 3s.

INFRINGEMENT OF REGISTERED DESIGNS. Before Sir J. K. Bruce-May 23, 1845.

Geary and Sultzer v. Norton.

Mr. Russell (with Mr. Stevens) obtained an ex parte injunction in this case. The bill, supported by affidavit, sets forth that the plaintiffs, Messrs. Geary and Sultzer, are manufacturers in partnership at Norwich, and that they were proprietors of a new and original design, applicable to woven woollen shawls, registered and duly protected, under the statute 5 and 6 Vic., (the Copyright of Designs Act,) called the Royal Mechlin shawls; that such shawls were sold to Messrs. Ellis and Everington, and to only three other houses of business in London; and that the defendants Messrs. Norton and Hanneford, manufacturers, in partnership at Huddersfield, had copied the designs, and applied it to woollen shawls, in violation of the plaintiff's alleged right, and that such imitation shawls had been sold by the defendants to Messrs. Ellis, Everington, and Co., at a lower price than the original shawls had been sold for.

His Honour granted the injunction, restraining the, defendants from applying the design, or any fraudulent or colourable imitation thereof, for the purpose of sale, to any woollen or other shawl, or other article of manufacture, or of any woollen or other substance; and from publishing, selling, or exposing for sale, any shawl or other article of manufacture, or any substance to which such design, or any fraudulent or colourable imitation thereof shall have been applied, without the license or consent of the plaintiffs, the plaintiffs undertaking to make such compensation if any, as the court may direct, in the event of the injunction being dissolved.

Messrs. Reed and Shaw, solicitors, for the plaintiffs.

LIST OF ENGLISH PATENTS GRANTED BETWEEN APRIL 26, AND MAY 29, 1845. Samuel Wilkes, of Wolverhampton, Stafford, iron-founder, for improvements in the manufacture of hinges. April 26; six months.

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John Sylvester, of Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, civil engineer, for improvements in stoves and fire-places. April 29; six months.

William Gilmour Wilson, of Earl-street, engineer, for improvements in the construction of wheels for carriages. April 29; six months.

William Maugham, of Newport-street, consulting chemist, and Archibald Dunlop, the younger, of Upper Thames-street, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of ale, porter, and other fermented liquors. April 29; six months.

Frederick Lesnard, of Keppel-street, Middlesex, engineer, for improvements in generating steam and evaporating liquids. April 29; six months.

James Nasmyth, of Arundel-street, Middlesex, gentleman, for certain improvements in engines or machines for obtaining and applying motive power. April 29; six months.

John Herbert Blakey, of Dundee, flax spinner, for improvements in spinning throstles. April 29; six months.

John Read, of Regent's-circus, mechanist, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for raising and forcing fluids. April 29; six

months.

James Ambler, senior, of Manningham, Yorkshire, manufacturer, for improvements in preparing and combing wool. May 1; six months.

James Darnell, of Belmont, Ramsgate, gentleman, for improvements in machinery for beating and brushing carpets. May 1; six months.

James Francis Pinel, chemist, of Skinner's-place, Size-laue, for certain improvements in the mode of treating farinaceous substances. May 1; six months.

Richard Prosser, of Birmingham, civil engineer, for improvements in the manufacture of metal tubes and in the machinery and apparatus for producing the same. May 1; six months.

Frederick George Underhay, of Wells'-street, Gray's-Inn-road, Brazier, for improvements in taps and valves. May 3; six months.

Charles Attwood, of Bishop Oak, near Walsingham, Durham, esquire, for certain improvements in the manufacturing of iron. May 3; six months.

William Radley, of Laburnum-terrace, Kingslandroad, engineering chemist, for certain improvements in the production of gases, and for their application to purposes of general illumination, and in the apparatus and machinery to be employed in manufacturing, measuring, and distributing the same. May 3; six months.

William Brindley, of Liverpool road, paper manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of trays, and other japanned wares, and various articles of japanners, and other ware made of pulp. May 6; six months.

James Foreman, of Ranelagh-road, for certain improvements in the construction and manufacture of pipes and tubes applicable to locomotive purposes, and to the conveyance of water, gas, and other fluids. Being a communication. May 6; six months.

Charles Wheatstone, of Conduit-street, esquire, and William Fothergill Cooke, of Kidbrooke, Blackheath, esquire, for improvements in electric telegraphs, and in apparatus relating thereto, part of which improvements are applicable to other purposes. May 6; six months.

Joseph Hill, of Ipswich, wire-worker, for improvements in the manufacturing wire fabrics for blinds and other uses. May 6; six months. Joseph Burch, of Craig Works, Macclesfield, Cheshire, calico printer, for improvements in machinery for printing calico and other fabrics, part of which improvements is applicable to other purposes where resistance to heat is required. May 6; six months.

Albert Daniel Hindley, of Berners-street, Oxfordstreet, carpet manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of carpets, and other piled fabrics. May 6; six months.

Joseph Amesbury, of Devonshire-street, Port

land place, surgeon, for improvements in apparatus for the relief or correction of stiffness, weakness, or distortion in the human body. May 6; six months.

George Duckett Barber Beaumont, of Sandy Combe Lodge, Twickenham, Middlesex, for improvements in propelling carriages. May 8; six months.

John McIntosh, of Glasgow, gentleman, for improvements in preparing materials for colouring and printing calicoes and other fabrics, and improvements in printing and ornamenting fabrics. May 8; six months.

William Prosser, junior, of Pimlico, esquire, and Jacob Brett, of Hanover-square gentleman, for improvements in railways, and in propelling railway carriages. May 10; six months.

John Mellar Chapman, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, banker, for improvements in the manufacture of rails, and other parts of railways. May 10; six months.

George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vauxhall, gentleman, George Gwynne, of Regent-street, gentleman, and James Pillans Wilson, of Belmont, aforesaid, gentleman, for improvements in treating certain inflammable matters, and in the manufac ture of candles and soap. May 10; six months.

Frederick Ransome, of Ipswich, engineer, for improvements in combining small coal and other matters, and in preserving wood. May 10: six months.

John Parsons, of Stones-row, Saint Pancras, machinist, for certain improvements in the manufacture of fuel, and in apparatus for the use of the same. May 10; six months.

Charles James Smith, of Birmingham, gunmaker, for certain improvements in artillery, guns, pistols, and other fire-arms, and in the apparatus to be used therewith. May 14; six months.

John Henry Pape, of New Bond-street, pianoforte manufacturer, for improvements in musical instruments. May 17; six months.

Apsley Pellatt, of Falcon Glass Works, Hollandstreet, glass manufacturer, and Frederick Pellatt, of Blackheath, gentleman, for improvements in the mauufacture of glass, and in casting, rolling, moulding, blowing, and drawing glass. May 17; six months.

Thomas Wells, of Ware, whitesmith, for improvements in the construction of timber and other jacks and floor cramps. May 17; six months.

Alexander McDougall, of Daisey Bank, Manchester, gentleman, for certain improvements in the method of working atmospheric railways. May 17; six months..

Louis Antoine Ritterbandt, of Gerrard-street, doctor of medicine, for certain improvements in the application of heat to boilers for generating steam, which improvements may be also applied to other purposes where heat is required. May 17; six months.

Christopher Nickels, of York-road, Lambeth, gentleman, for improvements in binding and covering books, pamphlets, portfolios, writing cases, and other similar articles. May 20; six months.

James Fletcher, of Manchester, machine-maker, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing, roving, and slubbing cotton, and other fibrous substances. May 22; six months.

Charles Joseph Hullmandel, of Great Marlborough-street, lithographer, for certain improve. ments in producing patterns upon earthenware and porcelain. May 22; six months.

Thomas Bazley, junior, of Manchester, cottonspinner, for certain improvements in tube flyers used in machinery for roving and slubbing cotton, and other fibrous substances. May 22; six months. James Heath Lewis, of Dover, printer, for certain improvements in printing. May 22; six months.

Edward Wilkins, of Blue Anchor-road, Bermondsey, tanner, for an improvement or improvements in the manufacture of leather. May 22; six mouths.

Peter Armand Leconte de Fontainemoreau, of Skinner's-place, London, for certain improvements in dissolving and separating the oxides from the metals and metallic substances. (Being a communication.) May 22; six months.

Augustus Septimus Braithwaite, of St. Martin'sle-Grand, gentleman, for certain improvements in buckles, clasps, and other fastenings (Being a communication.) May 22; six months.

Robert Kerr, of Thread-street, Scotland, manufacturer, for certain improvements in hand-loom weaving, and for producing a double fabric of raised figure work in the same loom, by one process of weaving. May 22; six months.

James Clark, of Glasgow, power-loom weaver, for improvements in the manufacture of fabrics from fibrous materials. May 22; six months.

Michel Boche, of Paris, manufacturer, for improvements in apparatus for measuring charges of powder and shot. May 22; six months.

James Napier, of Hoxton, dyer, for improvements in treating mineral waters to obtain products therefrom, and for separating metals from other matters. May 22; six months.

Richard Coleman, of Colchester, iron-founder, for Improvements in the construction of harrows and sheep-folds. May 22; six months.

Henry Deacon, of Eccleston, for improvements in apparatus for grinding and smoothing plate glass, crown glass, and sheet glass. May 22; six months.

Jeremiah Simpson, of Burslem, oven builder, and Joshua Seddon, of the same place, earthenware manufacturer, for an improved method of constructing the flues and interior arrangements of ovens and kilns used by manufacturers of china and earthenware. May 24; six months.

Richard Fell, of Crown-street, Finsbury, plumber, for certain improvements in the generation and application of steam, and in obtaining and applying motive power. May 24; six months.

Julius Adolphus Detmold, of the city of London, merchant, for improvements in the construction of metallic boats and other vessels having curved surfaces. (Being a communication.). May 24; six

months.

John Constable, of the city of London, merchant, for certain improvements in the manufacture of gas for lighting and heating. (Being a communication.) May 24; six months.

William Prosser, jun., of Pimlico, esquire, and Jean Baptiste Carcano, of Milan, gentleman, for improvements in working atmospheric railways. (Being a communication.) May 24; six months. (Dated December 18, 1844.

Henry Pinkus, of Great Marlborough-street, Middlesex, esquire, for improvements in obtaining and applying motive power to impelling machinery, May 24; six months. (Dated December 27, 1844.)*

Charles William Firchild, of Birmingham, gentleman, for an improved cutting, slicing, grinding, and rasping machine. May 29, six months.

Charles Keene, of Sussex-place, Regent's-park, esquire, for improvements in boots, shoes, gaiters, overalls, and other like articles of apparel. May 29; six months.

neer, for improvements in propelling railway carriages. April 30.

James Cadwell, of Broad-street, Ratcliff, Middlesex, Esq., for improvements in capstans, windlasses, and machinery for raising and lowering weights, and also in ship's riding bits. April 30.

James Bazley, jun., of Manchester, Lancaster, cotton spinner, for certain improvements in tube flyers, used in machinery for roving and slubbing cotton, and other fibrous substances. May 2.

Henry Phillips, of Clest Honiton, Devon, chemist, for improvements in purifying flax.

John Coope Haddan, of Liverpool-street, King'scross, Middlesex, civil engineer, for improvements in preparing sleepers, chairs, and spikes, and constructing wheels for railways. May 5.

John Sylvester, of Great Russell-street, Middlesex, civil engineer, for improvements in stoves and fire-places. May 7.

Henry Borriskill Taylor, of Piccadilly, lamp manufacturer, for improvements in apparatus for transmitting light from lamp and other burners. May 7.

Thomas Russell, of Kircaldy, Fife, iron founder, and John Peter, jun., of Kirkland Works, Fife, for certain improvements in flax spinning and flaxspinning machinery, which are also applicable to the manufacture of other fibrous substances. May 8.

James Lamb Hancock, Frederick Augustus Lamb Hancock, and William Lamb Hancock, of Guildsford, Montgomery, for an improved rotary steamengine. May 18.

Thomas Brown Gordon, of Cottage-road, Pimlico, Middlesex, mathematical divider, for improvements in machinery and apparatus for cutting, carving and engraving. May 22.

Frederick Ransome, of Ipswich, engineer, for improvements in the manufacture of artificial stone for grinding and other purposes. May 22.

George Spencer, of Hungerford-street, West Strand, Middlesex, engineer's draftsman, for improvements in propelling vessels on inland waters. May 22.

NOTES AND NOTICES

Atlantic and Pacific Junction Canal.-A report lately presented by the engineer, Garella, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, contains precise information relative to the Isthmus of Panama, which that engineer had been charged to explore, relative to the cutting it through. The following are the principal points of this report. The chain of the Cordilleras sinks in the isthmus for a distance of about 40 kilometres, so as to present several rising grounds of scarcely 120 kilometres. Our canals habitually clear more considerable elevations. The Rio Chagres could aliment the canal, but a tunnel would be required 5350 metres in length, with a height of 30 metres above the water line, and 37 metres from the bottom of the canal. Should the tunnel not be made, a cutting of 84 metres, with six locks, would be required. The cutting would be six kilometres. At the extremity of the canal next to Europe, the course of the River Chagres would be used, and the end would be in the Bay of Lenion, near Chagres. On the other ocean it would be impossible to come out at Panama. M. Garella found 18 kilometres west of Panama, at Vaca de Monte, an anchorage of small extent, but safe, where it would be easy to bring the southern extremity of the canal. The distance between the two seas would be 76 kilometres. The expense would be 130,000,000 f., and M. Garella calculates that, with a toll of 10 f. the ton, the canal would produce, all expenses deducted, an interest of five per cent. on the capital laid out.-Paris Paper.

Glass.-A great outcry, especially among the gardeners, has been made on the subject of glass, in consequence of the manufacturer not giving his customers their share of the advantage arising from the repeal of the duties. We have ascertained that

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the green bottle trade has dealt perfectly fairly by the public. Immediately upon the repeal of the duties they reduced their prices from 42s. per gross to 268., so that the duty being 15s., they gave their customers the full and instant benefit of its removal, and something more. The duty on plate glass was 28. 10 d. a foot, or thereabouts; therefore every square foot ought to be sold at 2s. 10 d. below the price which it bore immediately before the 5th of April. Up to that time 28. 103d. a foot was paid to Government by the maker; after that time the 28. 10 d. was no longer paid. If 1007. was a fair price for a given quantity of sheet-glass three years since, the honest charge for the same quantity now ought to be 331..68. 8d.; or, in another form, a square of glass which formerly sold for 18. will produce to the vendor the same rate of profit if now sold for 4d.-Bristol Mirror.

Suspension Tunnel.-Probably one of the boldest railway projects of the day is that suggested by Mr. Stephenson, of a tunnel in the air. To secure rapid communication with Ireland, it is thought desirable to continue the North Wales Railway across the Menai Straits to Holyhead. The existing suspension-bridge is too weak to bear the railway trains, and the erection of a stone bridge is deemed impracticable. In these circumstances, Mr. Stephenson proposes to extend an iron tube or gallery across that arm of the sea, which, from the top of the one bank to that of the other, is 900 feet broad. There is a rock in the middle of the water which divides the space into two. The tube will, therefore, be in two lengths of 450 feet, built like an iron ship of strong plates fastened by rivets, and perhaps strengthened by longitudinal ribs of iron. Its section is to be 25 feet in height and 15 in width. It seems to be thought that the tube will maintain a nearly horizontal position by its rigidity, at a height above the water sufficient to allow masted ships to pass; and that, too, while it is loaded with a railway train, weighing sixty or eighty

tons.

Magnetic Reporting.-The Morning Chronicle contained lately a report of a railway meeting at Portsmouth, which was transmitted by the magnetic telegraph. The distance is 90 miles. The reporter at Portsmouth communicated the whole proceedings to the reporter at London in less than half an hour.

Illuminated Shot.-Lieut. O'Reilly, R.N., Hornsea, has succeeded in illuminating a shot used in Capt. Manby's apparatus, by means of which a communication in cases of shipwreck can be effected in the darkest night, with the greatest certainty. A fusee is fitted to the shot, and when discharged affords a splendid light, capable of withstanding the power of water. Objects within its range become distinctly visible, whereby the projector is able to see the direction of his aim, and the people on board distinguish the line which is attached to the projectile, should it pass over any part of the rigging or yards aloft.

A New Glass.-Styrole is a volatile oil, obtained by distilling the balsam styrax or storax, although only in small quantity, and has a general analogy to benzoin. In one property styrole is, perhaps, the most extraordinary of substances: a limpid fluid at ordinary temperatures, it becomes a transparent colourless glass when heated up to a certain point, and remains so when it again becomes cool-a circumstance which will draw the attention of optical inquiries to styrole. In distilling storax to obtain this liquid, 20 parts of storax are mixed with 7 parts of carbonate of soda, and water put into the retort. In one experiment, 41 pounds of balsam yielded 12 ounces of styrole; in another, 27 pounds yielded 3 ounces. The fresher and softer the storax, the more productive is it of styrole.

Steam Yacht for the King of the French.-Messrs. Penn and Co., of Greenwich, have received orders from the King of the French to construct a pair of engines for a new iron yacht, building in France, for the private use of His Majesty. This new yacht is to be propelled by the screw, and her en

gines and screw are to be exactly similar to those of the Fairy.

Screw-Propelling in America.-The application of Steven's propeller, or scull, to the Princeton, increased her speed one mile and a third in eleven miles, over what could be made by that vessel with Ericsson's propeller.-Boston Gazette.-Will some of our American friends oblige us with an account of this new propeller?

Monument to John Fitch-one of the early promoters of Steam Navigation.-Justice is about to be done, at last, to the memory of that long-neglected son of genius-John Fitch. His remains are to be removed to some headland on the Kentucky shore, "where the song of the boatmen will enliven his resting place, and the music of the steam-engine soothe his troubled spirit." An architect is now engaged on a design for a monument to be crected to his memory.-Louisville Journal.

Staite's Patent Essences of Tea and Coffee.When lately reviewing Dr. Ure's Supplement to his Dictionary, we extracted from it a highly favourable notice of these essences, and added our own testimony to their excellence. We perceive that they are now announced for sale through the medium of a Company which has been formed for working the patent. From the Prospectus of the Company it appears, that samples of the essences were submitted to Mr. W. J. Bland, one of the highest authorities in the tea trade, whose opinion we are glad to find is in perfect unison with Dr. Ure's and our own. "By whatever process," says Mr. Bland, "the extract is obtained, the aroma is finely preserved, and without the crude or fibrous property which ordinary methods of maceration or evaporation would exhibit:-the distinctive flavours of Pekoe, Souchong, Congou, &c., are completely preserved; so that even critical judges of the article would not be able to tell any number of cups of the diluted essence apart from others infused after the common method. This result may be regarded as the acme of the invention, and its greatest protection and recommendation. The coffees, extracted after the same patent, are rich and aromatic in flavour, and brilliant in colour; perfectly pellucid, without the slightest sediment,-whilst the distinguishing properties of the Mocha, the Mountain Berry, and other known peculiarities, are so naturally developed as not to be mistaken."

Great News for the Agriculturists.-Something better than Guano!-Crops without Manure!!!-We extract the following from a printed circular which has been sent us. Dr. Bickes is, we believe, the author of the invention referred to:-" The invention of cultivating the earth without the use of manure, has been tested in several countries upon soils varying in quality, and at different seasons, during a period of twelve years: and it has been accompanied by such invariable success, as to leave no doubt of its efficacy. The cost of the process is trifling, and the materials forming the substitute for manure are as easy of attainment as they are inexhaustible. By this invention, the vital force of vegetation has been increased to a degree beyond all precedent, resulting from an intimate knowledge of the nature of plants, by which their size and essential properties are increased to a degree hitherto unknown. The discovery of the properties and vital functions of vegetation, raises the invention of this process to a positive and practical science, the discovery of which has baffled all research until the present time. From seed sown upon the poorest soils, and, in many instances, upon the moving sand found in the neighbourhood of the Rhine, the inventor has obtained wheat, barley, rye, &c., of the most extraordinary luxuriance, the length of straw, weight of ear, and number of shoots, far exceeding the produce of other highlycultivated land. Lucerne and trefoil, and grasses of unprecedented height, potatoes yielding forty tubers; flax and hemp of double the weight and number of shoots, than ordinary; maize exceeding

the production of tropical climates; and tobacco from Havana seeds, preserving its peculiar flavour for eight years, so that it was impossible to distinguish it from the growth of its peculiar soil; were also produced by this process from lands until then considered unfit for cultivation; and, in many cases, during seasons of severe drought. The inventor (a foreigner) is willing to prepare seeds, to be selected by any one or more landed proprietors, to be sown under their superintendence, upon any description of soil they may determine upon, leaving his remuneration, which would be trifling, dependant upon the successful result of the experiment."

The Steam Horse.-A correspondent of an AmeTican paper gives the following quaint description of the locomotive :-"I love to see one of those huge creatures, with sinews of brass and muscles of iron, strut forth from his smoky stable, and saluting the long train of cars with a dozen sonorous puffs from his iron nostrils, fall gently back into his harness. There he stands, champing and foaming upon the iron track, his great heart a furnace of glowing coals, his lymphatic blood boiling in his veins; the strength of a thousand horses is nerving his sinews; he pants to be gone. He would snake' St. Peter's across the desert of Sahara if he could be fairly hitched to it; but there is a little sobriety, tobacco-chewing man in the saddle, who holds him in with one finger, and can take away his breath in a moment, should he grow restive and vicious. I am always deeply interested in this man, for begrimed as he may be with coal diluted in oil and steam, I regard him as the genius of the whole machinery, as the physical mind of that huge steam horse."

The New Royal Garden.-The new Royal Garden at Frogmore, the formation of which was begun in the spring of 1842, is at length completed, and almost daily visited by persons of distinction, not only from all parts of our own island, but also from the Continent. The space within the boundary walls, which are twelve feet high, comprises an area of twenty-two acres; there is also an inner wall of the same height, distant about a hundred feet from the former, and extending round three sides of the enclosure, the north side of which, for the space of nearly a thousand feet in length, forms the site of a magnificent range of metallic forcinghouses, &c. which have been recently erected by Mr. Thomas Clark, of Birmingham, and which constitute by far the most attractive and imposing features of the gardens. (This range of houses was constructed under the immediate superintendence of Mr. John Jones-the talented manager of Mr. Clark's works-whom the late Mr. Loudon styled "the best hot-house builder in Britain.") Each wing of this extensive range consists of a spacious vinery in the centre, one hundred and two feet nine inches in length, two peach-houses, each fifty-six feet eight inches long; two pineries, each fifty-three feet; and a green-house fifty feet: the latter forms the terminus of the wing, the various divisions of which communicate with each other by means of five intervening corridors or lobbies, each of which is seven feet long. It is scarcely necessary to say that this unique assemblage of horticultural buildings combines every really valuable improvement which has been introduced during the last half century, amongst which should be specially noticed the contrivances for ventilation, which are at once simple and beautiful, and have the additional merit of being perfectly new and original; by the turning of a small windlass (which a mere child may do) any quantity of air may be introduced, and increased or diminished at pleasure, over the whole interior surface of the buildings. The total length of the entire line of buildings, when completed, will be 936 feet, or 312 yards; an extent which, for a single range, is believed to be without a parallel in the horticultural world.-The United Gardeners' Journal.