The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

GENERAL MERCANTILE, PROFESSIONAL, PATENT, AND INSURANCE AGENCY,
7, CASTLE STREET, LIVERPOOL.
WILLIAM NICHOL (late Secretary to the Liverpool Mechanics' Institution) begs to intimate
that he has commenced business as a MERCANTILE, PROFESSIONAL, PATENT, and INSURANCE AGENT, at No. 7,
CASTLE-STREET, where he purposes to devote his attention chiefly to the following
OBJECTS.
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To aid parties desiring to invest capital, or to enter into business, by directing their attention to opportunities of joining mercantil
or profesional establishments as partners, of succeeding to principals about to retire, or of otherwise realising their severs
purposes.
To assist those desirous of obtaining the use of additional capital, of assuming partners, or of withdrawing from business, by intro-
ducing parties disposed to treat, and possessed of the necessary means or qualifications.
To facilitate engagements between employers and those in search of appointments, by introducing qualified and trustworthy persons
to parties in want of clerks, bookkeepers, accountants, collectors, cashiers, salesmen, travellers, superintendents, managers,
agents, or of skilled assistants in the various arts and professions.
To negociate insurance on lives, and against losses from breach of trust, fire, and other contingencies.
To secure the rights of inventors, under the patent and registration acts, and to assist in making arrangements for the profitable use

or production of their inventions.
To promote the sale of recent inventions or other new commodities, by bringing such articles under thelibtice of those likely to
become buyers, or possessed of the means and connections for effecting sales in other and distant localities.
Besides keeping a careful record of the various wants of persona applying to him, W. Nichol will consult the leading journals
published throughout the country, and lie will communicate to every one whose name may be entered on his books the particulars of
any announcements coming under his observation which may appear worthy of their notice. He will also make known, by frequent
advertisements, the nature of the requirements of those resorting to his agency, and he will use every other available means for bring-
ing together parties likely to become useful to each other in business, and for otherwise advancing the interests of his clients.
It is obvious that the utility of such an agency. must wholly depend on the extent to which employers can rely on the good
faith of the agent, in the first place, and of those with whom they may be led to negociate in the second. In vindication of his
claims to confidence, W. Nichol has not only to point to six years of, he trusts, not unacceptable service in the Liverpool Mechanics'
Institution, but he has the privilege of referring to many gentlemen of the highest respectability, in Liverpool and elsewhere, who
have kindly offered to answer any inquiries which intending employers may desire to make concerning him. In soliciting the sop-
port of his friends and the public, he thinks it right to add that his most earnest efforts will always be exerted to secure a clear
in and.
satisfactory understanding on all sides, in every transaction in which lie may be engaged; and that while it must frequently be
duty to inform himself fully as to the circumstances of parties whose behalf he may be called upon to act, he will ever regard their
confidence as sacred and inviolable.
Terms and all further particulars may be learned on application.
7, Castle-street, Liverpool, April, 1855.