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THE NINE.-A gentleman once expressed his surprise that in so rich a literary country as England, the Muses should not attain their due honour. Impossible!» cried a whist-playing old lady- They are nine, and of course cannot reckon honours. MINING IN TURKEY CURIOUS DIScoveries. A few Turkish gentlemen have lately got up a small company to work a copper mine not twenty miles from Constantinople. In the course of their labours the men turned out, ore, petrified plants, flowers, insects, &c.; and the other day they found, at a depth of thirty-two fathoms below the surface, a perfect and well-baked brick, black as the dark soil in which it had lain for so many ages. It is, we understand, preserved for the inspection of the curious.

SUGAR FROM CORN.-A new mode of raising corn trebles the saccharine quality of the stalk, and with attention it is confidently expected that 1,000lbs. of sugar per acre may be obtained. Complete success has attended the experiments on this subject in Delaware, and leave no room to doubt the fact that if the stalk is permitted to mature, without suffering the ear to form, the saccharine matter (three times as great as in beets, and equal to cane) will amply repay the cost of manufacture into sugar. This-plan has heretofore been suggested by German chemists, but the process had not been successfully introduced into the United States, until Mr. Webb's experiments at Wilmington the last season.

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-Obedience-MILITARY.-Must be implicit and unreasoning. Sir, said the Duke of Wellington to an officer of engineers, who urged the impossibility of executing the direction he had received. I did not ask your opinion, I gave you my orders and I expect them to be obeyed. It might have been difficult to yield a literal obedience to the adjutant of a volunteer corps, who being doubtful whether he had distributed muskets to all the men, cried out-« All you that are without arms will please to hold up your hands.

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LIST OF NEW PATENTS.

John Harrison Scott, of Somers Town, engineer, for certain improvements in metal pipes, and in the manufacture thereof. July 6;

six months.

George Edmund Donisthorpe, of Bradford, top manufacturer, for improvements in combing and drawing wool, and certain descriptions of hair. July 6; six months.

Joseph Hall, of Cambridge, agricultural implement maker, for certain improvements in machinery for tilling land. July 6; six months.

Lady Ann Vavasour, of Melbourne Hall, York, for improvements in obtaining images on metallic and other surfaces. July 7; six months.

Richard Hodgson, of Montague-place, gentleman, for improvements in obtaining images on metallic and other surfaces. July 7; six months.

James Timmins Chance, of Birmingham, glass manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of glass. July 7; six months.

Charles Augustus Preller, of East Cheap, merchant, for improvements in machinery for preparing, combing, and drawing wool and goat's hair. July 7; six months.

William Fairbairn, of Manchester, engineer, for certain improvements in the construction of metal ships, boats, and other vessels, and in the preparation of metal plates to be used therein. July 7; six months.

John Perring of Cecil House, Strand, hat manufacturer, for improvements in wood paving. July 7; six months.

John Bird, of Manchester, machinist, for certain improvements in machinery, or apparatus for raising or forcing water, and other fluids; which said improvements are also applicable as an engine, to be worked by steam for propelling vessels, and other purposes. July 7; six months.

William Richard the Elder, of Burley Mills, Leeds, manufacturer, for an improved method of consuming or preventing smoke and economising fuel in steam engines, and other furnaces. July 7; two months.

William Revell. Nigers, of Russell-square, Esq., for a mode of keeping the air in confined places in a pure or respirable state, to enable persons to remain or work under water, and other places, without a constant supply of fresh atmospheric air. July 7; six months. John Peter Booth, of the city of Cork, merchant, for certain improvements in machinery and apparatus for working in mines, which are applicable to raising, lowering, and transporting of heavy bodies; and also affording assistance in promoting a more perfect ventilation of the mine. July 9; six months.

Jean Baptiste Francois Jouannin, of Upper Ebury-street, Pimlico, mechanic, for certain improvements in apparatus for regulating the speed of steam'air, or water-engines. July 9; six months.

James Crutchett, of William-street, Regent's-park, engineer, for improvements in manufacturing gas, and an apparatus for consuming gas. July 12; six months.

Thomas Deakin, of Shiffield, merchant, for improvements in the manufacture of parts of harness and saddlery furniture. July 12; six months.

Jean Leandre Clement, of St. Martin's-lane, engineer, for improvements in apparatus for ascertaining the temperature of fluids and also the pressure of steam. July 12; six months.

William Henry Stuckey, of St. Petersburg, now of Upper Northplace, Esq., for a pneumatic engine for producing motive power. July 12; six months.

Joseph Schlesinger, of Birmingham, manufacturer, for certain improvements in inkstands and in instruments for filing or holding papers and other articles. July 16; six months.

Robert Benton, of Birmingham, land-agent, for certain improvements in propelling, retarding, and stopping carriages on railroads. July 16; six months.

Joseph Barling, of High-street, Maidstone, watchmaker, for certain improvements in producing rotary motion in machinery worked by manual labour. July 16; six months.

John Chativin, of Birmingham, button manufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of covered buttons. July 16; six months.

Charles Robert Ayers, of John-street, Berkeley-square, architect, for improvements in ornamenting and colouring glass, earthenware, porcelain and metals. July 23; six months.

Joseph Partridge, of Bowbridge, near Stroud, Gloucester, dyer, for certain improvements in cleansing wool. July 23; six months. Eugene de Varroc, of Bryanstone-street, Portman-square, for apparatus to be applied to chimneys, to prevent their taking fire, and for rendering sweeping of chimneys unnecessary. July 23; six months.

Alexander Johnstone, of Hill House, Edinburgh, Esq, for certain improvements in earriages, which may also be applied to ships, boats, and other purposes where locomotion is required. July 23; six

months.

Edward Cobbold, of Melford, Suffolk, master of arts, clerk, for certain improvements in the means of supporting, sustaining and propelling human and other bodies on and in the water. July 28;

six months.

PERMITTED TO BE PRINTED,

St. Petersburg, September 15th, 1842.

P. KORSAKOFF, CENSOR.

Printed at the Office of the Journal de St. Pétersbourg. »

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