The parties to whose use this carriage seems most-adapted, are young people and invalids. The exercise of propelling it is of a nature to call into operation all the columnal muscles in a most effectual manner, and thereby to give great tone and vigour to the muscular system. Invalid ladies and gentlemen may have it worked by servants, whilst they themselves are simply occupied in guiding it. The propulsion of the carriage may be aided by the effect of the wind acting on a revolving umbrella, kite, or sail. With little fatigue, it will certainly convey two or three individuals, on a good hard surface, at the average rate of about 8 miles an hour. By 60 revolutions per minute, a rate of speed will be attained of upwards of 10 miles per hour. A pony may be applied when it is considered desirable not to use}[the machinery.

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A FLOATING MANUFACTORY.-Amongst the strange craft to be seen navigating the Ohio, is a floating Glass works. A large boat, says M. Le Cras, is fitted up with a furnace, tempering oven, and the usual apparatus proper for such an establishment. It is on full blast every night, melting glass ware which is retailed all along shore, as the 'Works' float down the stream. »

LIST OF NEW PATENTS.

Henry Barclay, of Bedford-row, for a composition or compositions applicable as tools or instruments for cutting, grinding, or polishing glass, porcelain, stones, metals, and other hard substances. April 30; four months to specify.

John Robinson, of Watney-street, Commercial road East, engineer, for improvements in windlasses and capstans. May 3; six months. John Railton, of Blackburn, machine-maker, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for weaving. May 3; six months. Godfrey Wetzlar, of Myddleton-square, Clerkenwell, for improvements in rendering fabrics waterproof. (Being a communication). May 7; six months.

Joseph Warren, of Heybridge, Essex, agricultural implement maker, for certain improvements in ploughs. May 9; six months.

Francis Prime Walker, junior of Manchester, coal-merchant, for certain improvements in the manufacture of candles, candlesticks, or candleholders, and in the apparatus connected therewith. May 9; six months.ni mi

George Haire, of Manchester, gentleman, for certain improvements in machinery, or apparatus for sweeping and cleaning chimneys and flues. May 9; six mouthside

Thomas Edge, of Great Peter-street, Westminster, gas apparatusmanufacturer, for certain improvements in apparatus for gas-water and other fluids. May 9; six months.

Samuel Hall, of Basford, C. E., for improvements in the combustion of fuel and smoke. May:9; six months.

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Jacob Wilson, of Wigmore-street, Cavendish square, upholsterer, for certain improvements in bedsteads. May 9; six monthsiqol William Sanderson, of Aldermanbury, London, silk-manufacturer, for improvements in weaving fabrics to be used for covering but tons. May 9; six months.

John Melville, of Upper Harley-street, esquire, for certain improvements in propelling vessels. May 11; six months, etoot John Browne, of Brighton, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of mud-boots and overalls May 12 six months. I Thomas Williams, of Bangor, smith, for an improved churn! May 17; six months.

William Brunton, of Neath, Glamorgan, C. E., for an improved method or means of dressing ores and separating metals or minerals from other substances. (For the colonies only). May 19; 4 months.

Joseph Gibson, of Birmingham, manufacturer, for certain improvements in axletrees and axletreeboxes. May 23; six months.

John Bennet Lawes, of Rotherhampstead, Hertfort, gentleman, for certain improvements in manures. May 23 six months.

John Bishop, of Poland-street, Westminster, jeweller, for a new or improved construction of brake apparatus applicable to railway carriages. May 23; six months.

Thomas Middleton, of Loman-street, Southwark, engineer, for an improved method of preparing vegetable gelatine or size for paper and also an improved mode of applying the same in the manufacture of paper. (Being a coumunication.) May 23: six months.

William Tudor Mabley, of Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, mechanical draftsman, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for making nails. (Being a communication.) May 23; six months. Benjamin Cook, junior, of Birmingham, brassfounder, for improvements in the construction of bedsteads, both in metal and wood. May 23; six months.

Frederick Goos, of Manchester, jacquard machine-maker, for ertain improvements in the jacquard machine or apparatus, to be used or employed in looms for weaving. May 23; six months.

Sir James Murray, of Merrion-square, Dublin, Doctor of Medicine, for an improved method of combining various materials in a manner not hitherto in use for the purpose of manure. May 23.0 James Pilbrow, of Tottenham, engineer, for certain improvements in steam-engines. May 23; six months.

William Geeves, of Old-Cavendish-street, gentleman, for improvements in machinery for cutting cork. May 23; six months

James Stewart, of Osnaburgh-street, gentleman, for improvements in hinges for piano-fortes and other purposes.. May 24; six months.

Thomas Waterhouse, of Edgely, Chester, manufacturer, for a certain improvement or improvements in machinery for carding cotton, wool, flax, silk, and similar fibrous materials. May 24.

Joseph Duce, of Wolverhampton, lock-manufacturer, for an improved lock and key to be used therewith, and an improved slide bolt for the said lock, applicable also to other purposes. May 24; six months.

James Boydell, junior, of Hope Farm Works, Dudley, for improvements in the manufacture of keel plates for vessels, iron gates, gate-posts, fencings, and gratings. May 24; six months..

James Potter, of Manchester, manufacturer, for certain improvements in machinery for spinning cotton, flax, and other fibrous substances. May 25; six months.

Peter Kagenbusch, of Whitby, York, for an improvement in the dyeing of wool, woollen cloths, cotton, silks, and other, fabrics and materials. May 26; six months,

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FITZ-BOODLE'S CONFESSIONS.

PREFACE.

GEORGE FITZ-BOODLE, ESQUIRE, TO OLIVER YORKE, ESQUIRE.

Omnium Club, May 20, 1842.

Dear Sir, I have always been considered the third-best whist-player in Europe, and (though never betting more than five pounds) have for many years past added considerably to my annual income by my skill in the game, until the commencement of the present season, when a French gentleman, Monsieur Lalouette, was admitted to the club where I usually play. His skill and reputation were so great, that no men of the club were inclined to play against us two of a side; and the consequence has been, that we have been in a manner pitted against one another. By a strange turn of luck (for I cannot admit the idea of his superiority), Fortune, since the Frenchman's arrival, has been almost constantly against me, and I have lost two-and-thirty nights in the course of a couple of score of nights' play.

Every body knows that I am a poor man; and so much has Lalouette's luck drained my finances, that only last week I was obliged to give him that famous grey cob on which you have seen me riding in the Park (I can't afford a thorough

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bred, and hate a cocktail),I was, I say, forced to give him up my cob in exchange for four ponies which I owed him. Thus, as I never walk, being a heavy man whom nobody cares to mount, my time hangs heavily on my hands; and as I hate home, or that apology for it-a bachelor's lodgings, and as I have nothing earthly to do now until I can afford to purchase another horse, I spend my time in sauntering from one club to another, passing many rather listless hours in them before the men come in.

You will say, Why not take to backgammon, or écarté, or amuse yourself with a book? Sir (putting out of the question. the fact that I do not play upon credit), I make a point never to play before candles are lighted; and as for books, I must candidly confess to you I am not a reading man. 'Twas but the other day that some one recommended me to read your Magazine after dinner, saying it contained an exceedingly witty article upon I forget what I give you my honour, Sir, that I took up the work at six, meaning to amuse myself till seven, when Lord Trumpington's dinner was to come off, and egad! in two minutes I fell asleep, and never woke till midnight. Nobody ever thought of looking for me in the library, where nobody ever goes; and so ravenously hungry was I, that I was obliged to walk off to Crockford's for supper,

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What is it that makes you literary persons so stupid? I have met various individuals in society, who, I was told, were writers of books, and that sort of thing, and expecting rather to be amused by their conversation, have invariably found them dull to a degree, and as for information, without a particle of it. Sir, I actually asked one of these fellows, What was the nick to seven? and he stared in my face, and said he didn't know. He was hugely overdressed in satin, rings, chains, and so forth; and at the beginning of dinner was disposed to be rather talkative and pert; but my little sally silenced him I promise you, and got up a good laugh at his expense, too. Leave George alone, said little Lord Cinqbars, I warrant he'll be a match for any of you literary fellows. Cinqbars is no great wiseacre; but, indeed, it requires no great wiseacre to know that.