The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-15 00:00:00

BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS.

EXCELLENT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c., the
Private Property of a Gentleman. deceased.
MESSRS. THOS. WINSTANLEY and SONS
respectfully announce that they will SELL by AUCTION,
on THURSDAY next, the 17th instant, and following day, at Eleven
o'clock precisely each day, at their Rooms, Cburch-street,
The modern and excellent HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, exten-
sive Table Service of Ironstone China, with gilt Handles and
Borders; Dessert, Tea, and Coffee Services, Gilt and handsomely
Painted ; richly Cut Glass, Bed and Table Linen, Mahogany
Bagatelle Table, Plate of Glass, 47 in. by 30, in a gilt and orna.
mented Frame, beautiful Ornamental Groups of Figures, Vase,
and Models of Temples. in pure Alabaster, 'on Stands and Glass
Shades; Pair of French China Vases, of elegant design; and
other Effects, the genuine property of a Gentleman, and recently
removed from Hope-street to the Rooms for convenience of
Sale.
The FURNITURE of the DRAWING ROOM includes a beauti-
fully designed Chiffonnier. 6 feet 4 inches wide, with a Plate of
Glass at the hack, with "Bolton Abbey in the Olden Time."
worked in Berlin wools, in the centre panel front, and a massive
Marble Slab Cover; Circular Rosewood Loo Table, and a Pair of
Swivel-top Card Ditto to match, of fine dark Rosewood ; Set of
Eight solid Rosewood Chairs, with antique shaped Backs; Pair
of Rosewood-framed Couches, Two Ottomans, Pair of Footstools,
the Seats covered, en suite with the Curtains, of Crimson and Drab
Silk Tabaret, Gilt and Ornamented Cornices, Lady's Jewel Cabi-
net of Rosewood, inlaid with Mother-o'-Pearl; Two Ornamental
Table Lamps, of French Manufacture; Brussels Carpets, Hearth
Rugs, &c,
The DINING-ROOM ARTICLES comprise a Set of Dining Tables
of well-seasoned Mahogany, 15 feet long by 4 feet wide, on teles-
cope Frames and nine reededLe,gs,with a Mahogany Stand for the
Leaves; Twenty-two capital Chairs, and Two Armed Ditto, with
Hair Seats; massive framed Sofas, Reclining and Easy Chairs,
in hair-cloth and leather; Elliptic, Loo, Pembroke and Card
Tables; Pedestal Sideboard, 6 feet 2 inches wide; Lady's Work
Table, Brussels Carpa, Curtains for two Windows, of Drab
Merino Damask, also a Curtain of Crimson Moreen, with a Gilt
Cornice, for a large window, Hearth Rugs, Fenders, &c.
The CHAMBER FURNITURE, &C., consists of Four lofty Bed-
steads, with Mahogany Footposts. Upholstered in Amber, Gi-
raffe, and other coloured moreen Damasks; excellent thick flair
Mattresses, seasoned Feather Beds and Bedding, excellent Ma-
hogany Single Wardrobe, Chests of Drawers, Toilet 'fables and
Washstands, with Marble Tops, and large Carved Framed Dress-
ing Glasses, also Painted Articles, Servants' Bedsteads, Brussels,
Red, and Venetian Carpets, Fenders. Fire-irons, &c.
Eight-Day Clock, useful Kitchen Requisites, &c.
To be viewed TO-MORROW (Wednesday), the 16th instant, when
Catalogues may be had at Messrs. THOS. WINSTANLEY and
SoNs' Offices, Church-street.

EXTENSIVE SALE OF MODERN AND SUPERIOR CHINA,
WI NSTANLEYS' ROOMS.
ad SnOl\tT Al E
respectfullyS SR STHOS.
announce WtrhiaNt they are iLnsEtrYucteadndby
emi-
nent Firm in Staffordshire, to SELL by AUCTION, on TUESDAY
next, the 22nd instant, asd Three following days, at Eleven o'clock
precisely each day, at their Rooms, Church-street,
A STOCK of modern CHINA, which is extensive, and of the
most Fashionable Designs, comprising about Fifty Table Services,
in great variety of style, chiefly of Ironstone China, with Bur-
nished Gold Handles and Borders.

The DESSERT, BREAKFAST, TEA, and COFFEE SERVICES are
of the purest Porcelain, of admired Forms, including all the
Newest Patterns, beautifully Painted with Figures, Landscapes,
Fruit, Flowers, &c., and profusely Gilt.
The PARIAN MARBLE GOODS, ORNAMENTAL ARTICLES, &C.,
include numerous pleasing Groups of Figures, Statuettes, and
Busts, of skilful execution ; also, a profusion of Articles of Do-
mestic Utility, in Hot Water Jugs, Drinking Cups, Caraffes, &c.
A choice Collection of Wedgwood's celebrated %Nitre, in Table
and Toilet Services, beautifully decorated and finished in the first
style of excellence.
To be viewed on MONDAY next, the 21st instant, when Cata-
logues may be had at Messrs. THOS. WINSTANLEY and SoNs'
Office, Church-street, Liverpool.

Important SALE of STEAM-ENGINES, MACHINERY, RAIL-
WAY IRON WORK, NEW IRON, &c., BIRKENHEAD,
CHESHIRE.
MESSRS. TIIOS. WINSTANLEY and SONS
respectfully announce that they have received instructions
from Messrs. Brassey and M'Cormack, who have recently com-
pleted the Contract for the Birkenhead Docks, to SELL by
AUCTION, on MONDAY, the 4th February next, and following
days, at Eleven o'clock precisely each day, on the Premises, at the
Dock Yard, Canning-street, Birkenhead, near Liverpool,
The whole of the valuable STEAM-ENGINES, MACHINERY,
RAILWAY WORK, WROUGHT IRON, SMITHS' HEARTHS,
ANVILS, TOOLS, and other Effects, the Property of the above
Firm, comprising a capital Thirty-horse High•pressure Engine,
Twenty-horse Condensing Engine, Twelve-horse High-pressure
Engine, with Boiler and Fan, and a Five-horse Engine, all in ex-
cellent working condition, Gough's Patent Six-horse Pile Engine,
Six Travelling Cranes, and a large Wood Stage, Nine Crab
Winches, Four Dredging Pumps, Six Pile Engines, Chain Pump,
Six Slough Pumps, Ten Quarry Gib Cranes, Two Oak Ditto,
Forty-five Tons of Waggon Axles, Fifty Tons Iron Rails, Ten
Tons Square Bar Iron, Cast and Blister Steel and new Iron. and
Iron Work for Waggons, Thirty Earth Waggons, Thirty Stone
Lorries, Twelve Smiths' Hearths, Anvils, Fifteen Pairs of Bel-
lows, large Quantity of Smiths' Tools, Work-benches and Vices,
Circular Saw, Iron Shafting, and Leather Straps, new Wheels and
Pinions, for Travelling Cranes, several Tons of Iron Chains, of
various sizes, Iron Nippers and Hook, Taps and Dies, Nails, &c.
The MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES include Kitchen's Patent
Weighing Machine, for Fifteen Tons, smaller Ditto, and a Scale
Beam, with Fifteen Cwt. Iron Weights, Ten-inch Lathe, for
Wood Turning, Eight Iron Turnstiles, Twelve Mooring Posts,
large Iron Cistern, and Two Wood Cisterns, Lined with Lead,
Quantity of Wheelbarrows, Thirteen Dozen .*.pades, Rollers for
Mortar-mills, Mortar Boxes, Mortar Float, large Grindstones,
Corn-crushing Mill, Cotton Wick, &c. Also, Four Punt Boats,
Float for a Piling Engine, great variety of Wood Patterns, chiefly
adapted for Railway Work, Timber and Planks, 100 Tons of Lime-
stone, Office Fixtures, &c.
To be viewed Three Days previous to the Sale, and Catalogues
may be had on the Premises, and at Messrs. Thos. WINSTANLEY
and SONS' Office, Church-street, Liverpool.

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE.
BREWERY AND FIXTURES.
By ltlessre. BYFORD and SON,
On TUESDAY next, the 13th instant, at Six o'clock in the Even-
ing, at the house of Mr. Edward Ford, " Swan Inn," London-
road, in Liverpool,
APiece of FREEHOLD LAND, containing 356
square yards, with the Brewery and other Out-buildings
thereon erected, situate in Islington-row, Wilton-street, Liver-
pool, late in the occupation of Messrs. Forshaw and Renshaw,
together with the Steam Engine, Boilers, and other Fixtures and
Appendages thereunto belonging. The Premises are capable of
brewing 80 Barrels, and may be inspected any day.
For further particulars, apply to Mr. J. C. GROCOTT, Solicitor,
8, Basnett -street; to Mr. GEORGE DoDD, Solicitor, 5, James'-
street; or to Messrs. BYFORD and SON, Auctioneers, Clayton-
square.

On THURSDAY, the 24th instant, at One o'clock in the Afternoon,
at the Clarendon-rooms, South John-street, Liverpool, subject
to such conditions of sale as shall then be produced,
Lot LA SHOP and DWELLING-HOUSE, at the
corner of Trowbridge-street and Bronte-street,
Liverpool, and a DWELLING -HOUSE adjoining, in Bronte-
street, in the respective occupations of William Roberts and
Thomas Barry, at the yearly rent of 10s.
Lot 2. Two DWELLING-HOUSES, adjoining the above, on the
west side of Trowbridge-street, in the respective occupations of
Thomas Parke and William Ronson, at the yearly rent of 2s.
Lot 3. Two DWELLING-HOUSES, on the east side of Jervis-
street, Liverpool, in the respective occupations of Elizabeth Owens
and J. H. Griffiths, at the yearly rent of .e 29.
The Property will be sold for the remainder of a term of 120
years, determinable on the death of two lives, aged respectively 66
and 68 or thereabouts, named in an indenture of lease from the
Corporation of Liverpool, dated 16th January, 1806, and the term
of 21 years after the decease of the survivor, subject to the usual
rent and covenants.
For further particulars apply to Mr. HANDER, Solicitor, 41,
Lord-street; or to Mr. SHORTHOUSE, Estate Agent, Prince's-
buildings, 26, North John-street, Liverpool.

HORSES, CARRIAGES, GREYHOUNDSi HARNESS, &c.,
AT LUCAS'S REPOSITORY, LIVERPOOL,
Each day at Twelve o'c►ock precisely.

B Messrs. LUCAS and CO
To-asoanow, (Wednesdayo the 16th instant,
TWENTY CART HORSES, with great power,
substance, and activity, suitable for heavy Draught pur-
poses, and in prime working order. Fifteen SPRING VAN
and fARNESS HORSES, Lorries, Carts, Floats, Spring Vans,
Gears, &c.
On FRIDAY next, the 18th instant, at Eleven o'clock precisely,
ANNUAL SALE OF DOMESTIC POULTRY.
200 CHOICE FOWLS, of the best quality
and most fashionable kinds.
On THURSDAY, the 24th instant,
SELECT SALE of FORTY First-class HORSES.
Entries to be made before THURSDAY next, the 17th instant.
The whole on view prior to sale.

THE GREAT NEWCASTLE FIRE.---The late
fearful explosion and wide-spread devastating fire at Gates-
head and Newcastle, destroying property to the value of one mil-
lion, converting a large area of warehouses (filled with sulphur,
nitrate of soda, peat charcoal, and other highly combustible
stores), whole stacks of offices, houses, &c., into a perfect volcano
of fierce, concentrated, incinerating, and long-enduring furnace
heat, in which not only combustible things, but even bricks,
stones, and iron were burnt up and fused. Safes of the ordinary
kind, iron.doored strong rooms, were alike melted, torn asunder,
their contents charred and destroyed. But amongst the many
instances of preservation in this instance, and in the more recent
destructive fire at Manchester, THOMAS MILNER and SON
have pleasure in giving publicity to the following gratifying testi-
monial : Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct. 19, 1854.
Gentlemen,—We have great pleasure in stating that, whilst our
offices were completely destroyed and burnt down in the great fire
which, on the 6th instant, reduced a great many buildings in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead to ashes, two of your large
" holdfast" safes, in our offices, have been the means of pre-
serving our books, bills, and other valuable documents, although
these safes were exposed for about nine or ten hours to an im-
mense heat, and dug out of the ruins in a red-hot state. On
opening them we found our principal books and bills in a good,
state of preservation. Some of the papers were singed and dig_
they
coloured, but we are happy to say can be used for the main
purposes they were intended for. We feel it our
duty to state
these facts, and will thank you to make us new safes to specific,
tion.—We are, Gentlemen, yours truly,
A. LEIDEMAN and Co.
Messrs. Thomas Milner and Son.

GREAT FIRE IN LOWER KING-STREET:
Messrs. Milner and Son.
Gentlemen,—ln the terrific and destructive fire which broke out
yesterday morning, on the premises at the back of Mr. Carr's
coach manufactory, in Lower King-street, and the large pack of
buildings of which our warehouse formed a part, the whole of
which were completely gutted, and everything therein destroyed,
with the exception of our books and papers, contained in the safe
we bought from your agent here, some few years age. This safe,
after being exposed to intense heat, fell during the conflagration
from the second storey to the basement, and was completely sur-
rounded by the burning mass. We beg to express the unqualified
gratification it affords us in being able to add to the numerous
testimonials to your valuable invention. We shall be glad to
afford any information to parties desirous of inquiring into the
facts herein stated.—We are, Gentlemen, respectfully yours.
F. H. THODE and Co.

Tib-lane, Manchester, Oct. 26, 1854.

MILNER'S HOLDFAST and FIRE-RESISTING SAFES, with
all the improvements under their new patents of 1851,1854, and
1855, including their Impregnable Powder-proof Lock (without
which no safe in the hands of the public is secure), the strongest,
best, and cheapest safeguard Against Fire, Robbery, or Violence
in the world.
Milner's Phoenix Safe Works, Windsor, Liverpool the most
extensive in the world; Showrooms, 6 and 8, Lord-street, Liver-
pool ; London Dep3t, 47A, Moorgate-street, City.