The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-24 00:00:00

HARRISON BROTHERS

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRAPERS, SILK MERCERS, AN
FURNISHING UNDERTAKERS,

60 and 62 CHURCH-STREET, (Corner of Hanover-Street,
N. B.—Fixed Prices marked in plain figures.
TERMS—CASH ON OR BEFORE DELIVERY.

MILNERS' HOLDFAST AND FIRE-RE
SISTING SAFES, CLOSETS, DOORS
CHESTS, BOXES, GUNPOWDER MAGAZINES, tb
AT MILNERS' PIRENIX (212 Q) SAFE WORKS,
WINDSOR, LIVERPOOL,

(Show Rooms

54, Lord-street.)

LONDON DEPOT,

47A, MOORGATE-STREET, CIT)

GREAT FIRE AT THE GUTTA PERCHA COB
PANY'S WORKS, AND DEFEATED BURGLARIEI
Gutta, Percha Company's Works, City Road,
London, Bth June, 1853.

SIRB,—We consider it only our duty to inform you
the entire preservation of all the Books and Papers,* cor
tamed in the large Safe you recently supplied us wit]
although exposed during Sunday last to a fire which d(
stroyed the larger part of our Works--this is the more ri
markable, as the intense heat has in many parts melted tl
outside of the Safe.
"We are of opinion, that so successful a vindication
the merits of your invention cannot, on public grounds, 1
too generally known ; and we therefore leave you at liber
to use this letter in any way you may wish.
"We are, Sirs, your obedient Servants
THE GUTTA PERCHA COMPANY,
•6 HENRY FORD BARCLAY.

Messrs. Thomas Milner and Son, 47e,
Moorgate-Street, City, London.
* Including 45,000 of cash and bills.

master

At the word

WAS re-

by Captain McCarron, who asked

d. •
he said he came to collect a fine of twenty-

Captain McCerren paid him
then left the wheel and came to the forward
;0, :wherc I could
le officer after takii

s he would h

every thine

the money, turned it
m Captain MeCerren
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he vicinity of the ship

un. When his Mends lef

marting undo'
1 on board the

to his men to boar

drately, from eighteen to twenty-S•
rats hoarded the ship, and then cor

ni the American people,
leek. and found themselv

)f war got on
narmcd ship-

their valour knew no bounds—they became lupous
—the officers (of whom there were, three) lost all commani
of themselves and of their men—they fired several times
random a
there was not one among v +

pistol went off premature].)
two feet

whom we were all, aE
Ls armed. The Peruvian
and shot and killed on(

of his own m

.om lteCerren and me

Then commenced the war in earnest.
The affair on board the guard-ship was a mere sham to the
brutal and ridiculous outrage committed here. McCerren
was struck on the head with the butt of a carbine, and then
with a boarding. axe, which laid his skull bare ; four of
these warriors seized hold of him and commenced tying his
arms behind him, while another struck him in the face with.
the flat of his cutlass. Seeing which, I hove a coil of rope
at the coward's head, and sprang down from the top of the'
house, where I had again placed myself, got hold of the end
of the rope that bound his hands, and partly loosened him,
when the second lieutenant levelled and snapped his pistol
at me, the cap bursting, he drew his sword, and in very good
English
.fiave me to understand that he would run mig
through it I attempted any further assistance to McCerren.
Durinv the time there wo. c,.;--

I direc

effect in the 1

boat at swiic

Ms, somc

who was

stance from the ship, and which.
dance will prove a very severe

left in

No with
then pulled t