Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-02-05

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF PATENTS.
| The Hon. J. Holt the new Commissioner Of Ps-
tents has just made out his annual report. 1t is
interesting document, containing many important
suggestions looking to Improvement of the pres
ent patent laws, and giving complete summary Of
the operations Of this valuable branch of the govern
ment for the year 1857. The operations of the office
/ for The past year were as follows:
! Number Of applications for patents, 4,77l nun
her Of patents granted Including designs reissues
/ aud additional improvements,) 2,9l0; number Of
caveats fled loo; de-. applications for extension
patents, 81; do pa ents extended, II; do. patents
| expired 572 OF the patents granted there were
To citizens Of the United States $685. to subjects
Of Great Britain, p; to subjects Of France Is; to
| subjects of other foreign nations ..
! The largest number of patents we're granted to
citizens of the State ofNew York, being 855 in num-
Der; to Massachusetts, 42I; to Pennsylvania, 3I4;
| Ohio, 235; Delaware 10; Maryland ST. District of
| Columbia, 80 Virginia, So; North Carolina, "A
Tennessee, a and so on down to Kansas l. During
| the month of October, November and December the
business Of the patent Office declinedra yet the
number Of patents issued during the year 1857
exceeded by 4O8 the number issued during the
! preceding year. Each successive year shows a
! regular increase ofthe number issued
QUEEN VICToRIEs CRowE.-It is reported that the
Queen Of England is about to lose her crown. This
event is to be caused by arevOlutOn is it to
he attended by either strife or bOOdshed. Il IS TO be
effected legally, in pursuance of decree issued by
the English Judges; and, strange to say, with the
aoguiesoence Of Her Majesty. The explanation is as
follows: The King Of Hanover, eldest male
descendant Of George ILL., and head Of the House Of
Hanover, has laid claim to the principal part Of the
British regalia, among which is Her 3ajestys
crown, the ground that part Of it was brought
over to England by George THAT the add lions
subsequently made to its spleudOr paid for cut
the private funds Of George III, and that AS all
property goes ia .a male line, he, George ", Of
Hanover, is entitled 10 the crown The claim was
referred to the Judges Of England and they have
decided that their Queen must yield; and Victoria
herself is prepared to obey the mandate. The Eng
ish papers are not quite so good -humored at the
probable ioss Of many hundreds of thousands of
pounds sterling: partly because it is not their wont
TO part readily with what they fancy belongs to
hem, and partly because they have strong slspi-
ci0n that they may be called on TO buy q new /
crown. The attempt is made to console VctoriL for
her loss by chaugngher title to that of Empress Of
the British Empire in view Of the direct subsection
of India to her sway Others assure Her Majesty |
that she has no reason regret the loss of the Han
overian crown because it was a very ''ugy form of
head-gear." The Hauoverians are in ecstacies. The
London Spectator contains the following graceful |
a,Iusiou to the subject, which, we have no doubt,
truly expresses the sentiments of the estimable Lady
who rules so worthiy over the British people:
CAS- to jewels if Queen Victoria has not learned
from CUrnelis that the cradle is the mothers true
icwel-box-if Prince Albert has not taught her that
q virtuous wife is in herself ''crUwn her own
sense Will tell her how Independent is the first wo
man in the first empire, Of any adornments save
those winch have been conferred upon her by pow
5rs higher than those Of Emperors."