The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-07 00:00:00

R. FORRESTER,

GENTLEMEN'S SHIRT-MAKER AND HOSIER,
65, CHURCH-STREET.
GENTLEMEN'S SHIRTS made to fit to the
greatest nicety. in all the different Shapes, neat and
strongly sewn, in every respect a thorough good article, in
Three different Qualities, commencing
30s per Half Dozen.
40s /I 2f
508.
A complete Assortment Washed and ready for use. Gentle-
men in haste waited on by an experienced person, and may
depend on getting the proper size and fit.
R, FORRESTER
FORMERLY OF CASTLE-STREET,
NOW 65, CHURCH-STREET.

RJR.and A L
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DRMEty DN D
JACOB)kCOI3 joefo...thteo lraetteurfizntihoanfkAsLtFoßEhiDs
Friends and the Public generally for their very liberal support,
and likewise to inform them that he has entered into Partner-
ship with Mr. ALEXANDER SMITH, Surveyor (late with Mr.
John Young, Surveyor, of this town), and that the Surveying of
Land, Houses, &c., will be carried on with their present busi-
ness of Auctioneers, Estate Agents, &c.
(Signed) JACOB and SMITH.
Offices, l, Parker-street.

CHUBB'S FIRE-PROOF SAFES AND LOCKS.
CHUBB and SON have now on SALE, at their
Warehouses, an Assortment of their
FIRE-PROOF SAFES,
which gained the Prize Medal, with Special Approbation, at the
Great Exhibition, this distinction being awarded to them
SOLELY by the Jurors of Class XXII., after a careful com-
parison with those of other Makers from all parts of England.
These SAFES, undoubtedly the MOST SECURE kROA
FORCE, FRAUD, and FIRE, are sold at moderate prices.
CHUBB'S LOCKS, with all the Recent Improvements,
CASH BOXES and DEED BOXES, of all sizes, may be in-
spected.
IRON DOORS and FRAMES for Stroll; Rooms.
Complete Lists, with Prices, will be sent on application.
CHUBB and SON, 25, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL; 57, St.
Paul's Churchyard, London ; 16' Market-street, Manchester;
and Horsley-fields, Wolverhampton.

THE INCE-HALL COMPANY'S COALS and
CANNEL may be procured as follows, viz.:—
LIVERPOOL. 7, Rumford-street, 5, Crown-street, and
Liglitbody-street, Stanley Dock.
BIRKENHEAD 52, Bridge-street, and Commerce-street
SEACOMBE Demean-street.
HUYTON, ROBY, and
RAINHILL Mr. M`Farlane, Postoffice.
The Company deliver their COALS within THREE miles of
their several Yards CARTAGE FREE, and allow a
DISCOUNT FOR CASH PAYMENT. OF FIVE PER CENT.
Orders addressed as above to the COMPANY'S OFFICES will
meet with prompt attention.
WILLIAM LAIRD, GENERAL MANAGES.
7, Rumford-street, Liverpool, October Ist., 1852.

THE AMERICAN DAGUERREIAN GALLERIES,
50, BOLD-STREET.
(ENTRANCE IN CONCERT-STREET, SIDE OF THE NEW
MUSIC-HALL.)
EDMONDS' DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAITS,
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m-R. E. begs to call the attention of the Public to
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surpass all other productions in the above Art. Those beau-
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Daguerreian Artist is a sufficient guarantee to persons desirous
of obtaining good Portraits at moderate prices, finished in a
style that cannot be surpassed.
Miniatures fitted into Brooches, Lockets, Bracelets, Rings,
Studs, &c. Correct Copies taken from Daguerreotypes, Oil
Paintings, Engravings, and Models of every description.
Business commenced at Eight o'clock in the Morning.
AMERICAN GALLERIES, 50, BOLD-STREET,
Entrance in Concert-street, side of the New Music-hall.

212 Q MILNER'S PATENT FIRE-RESISTING
SAFES.
MILNER v. HARRISON.
SECOND TRIAL AT LAW FOR PIRACY OF MILNER'S PATENT.

rp HE Defendant, Jons GERMAN HARRISON, having
I persevered in the sale of Safes constructed on the princi-
ple of Milner's Patent, in defiance of the verdict found against
him in June, 1851, in the Court of Queen's Bench, and an In-
junction afterwards awarded against him by the Court of
Chancery (he pretending that the Safes sold by him since the
first trial were not infringements, but made under a patent
granted to Messrs. Sann), a second action was brought on the
suggestion of Vice-Chancellor Sir George Turner, to try
whether such safes were or were not infringements on Milner's
Patent.
This action was tried on the 25th June last, before Lord
Campbell and a special jury. The following extracts from the
learned Judge's address to the jut y in summing up will show
distinctly the questions submitted to the jury :
Lord Campbell.—" I own it seems to me that Mr. Harrison
does not appear before you in very advantageous colours from
these proceedings. He had been in the service of Messrs.
Milner, and while in their service he takes another shop, and
there he begins and sells fire-proof boxes which were agreed by
a jury sitting where you now are to be substantially the same
as those of Milner, the Patentee, and that record has been
given in evidence: you are not bound by it, but you may at-
tend to it; and I must own that I do not see any reason to
believe that the jury who sat on the trial of that cause were in
any respect mistaker. in point of fact, and I do not discover
that there is any real difference between this case and that ;
you will attend to all the evidence, and form your own conclu-
sion from the evidence that has been given.
"You are first closed upon to say whether this invention of
Messrs. Milner is new. As to wbeter it is useful, it seems to
me to be allowed on all hands, it seems a most marvellous pre
servative against fire; for the water remains permanently
held in artificial vessels or in natural vessels, and the very
calamity brings the cure, for the heat causes the water to ex-
pand, and then it is turned into steam, and the steam moistens
the substance which is to be preserved, and so it is an effectual
guard against fire.
" If you think this was new, then the only remaining ques-
tion is with regard to the infringement.
" Now the infringement seems to rest upon substantially the
same evidence as the Infringement on the former trial, when
the action was brought nainst Mr. Harrison.
" Now you find with respect to Tann's Patent, whatever
Tann's invention might have been, that this patent which he
manufactures, and which the defendant Harrison sells, and of
which he calls himself the sole proprietor,' operates in the
same way. It seems to me to act precisely the same way as in
Milher's patent, but upon that you will form your own judg-
ment. Then if it really has the same effect, and operates in
the same manner, and upon the same principle, it will be for
you to say whether you have any doubt it is an infraction of
Milner's Patent. Those are the two questions for you to con-
sider."
The Jury found a verdict for the Plaintiff, on both the
issues, thus establishing that the so-called Tann's Patent Safes
are a mere piracy of Milner's invention. After the trial last
year, it was pretended that the Safes then condemned were not
made according to Tann's Patent—in other words, that the
scaler in them had not been boiled and set to cool before being
used. The three Safes upon which this second action was
brought were sworn to by Messrs. Jana as being made accord-
ing to their Patent.
The Public of Liverpool will remember the species of adver-
tisements by which this wretched case has been upheld. THEY
have been as much imposed upon, with regard to the quality
and price of the safes sold by these parties, as the advertisers
have been wronged by their illegal use of Milner's (the only
effective) Fire-resisting principle. The experience of Mr.
Cafferata, as shown at this trial, (by a gentleman unknown to
us before,) is only that of all the buyers of these things. Mr.
C. was induced to give £l5 for a safe, 22 x 16 x 16, on the
assurance that it was "Thief-proof—three quarter inch thick
solid wrought iron," &c., &c. Looking at it a day or two
afterwards, at home, and on scraping.the paint off it, he found
it a MERE SHELL—a perfect delusion ; and those who have
intrusted their valuable property to such safeguards will do
well to take the same course.
For our own Safes, we have devoted our lives and our earn-
ings to the production of the best securities in the world against
Fire, Robbery, or Violence, which the public has given to us
the best means of making, and which we mean to sell at the
lowest remunerating prices. Before buying a Safe, if parties
will look into our works, and see the labour and attention
paid to the manufacture in all its details, they will be less likely
to be imposed upon by external appearances and fallacious
representations in the very important matter of the selection
of a Safe. " MILNER'S PHCENIX SAFE WORKS," (late Wind-
sor Foundry,) Falkner-street, are said to be the finest work-
shops in Europe, of their class, certainly THE MOST EXTEN-
SIVE AND COMPLETE SAFE MANUFACTORY IN THE WORLD,
employing snore hands than all the Safe makers in Great Bri-
tain, and the Proprietors respectfully invite the people of
Liverpool to inspect an establishment that has originated under
our present patent, and grown up amongst them. The effect
of these trials will be to confirm to Messrs. Milner and Son the
exclusive use of materials or vessels in which, to use the
Judge's words, " the water remains permanently held.until the
occurrence of the calamity (Fire) brings the cure." The trials
by the Liverpool Polytechnic Society of Chubb's and Marr's
Boxes filled with anhydrous (dry) materials, and of Milner's,
filled according to their evaporating principle, proving the
manifest superiority of the latter, will be remembered, and
such is now the defined relative position of Milner's only effec-
tive Fite-taming principle, by the agency of water and its
vapOur contrasted with all others without, that agency. 212
deg. tc 3,000 deg.

NY held on
A T the ANNUAL MEETING of
11. of the LIVERPOOL STEAM-
-1853, at the Clarendon.
trsCeaffodfAldßtin:gegl:company up to the first
WEDNESDAY, the Ist day of June,
rooms, Liverpool; present, ocfo3tlheeAPro,prietors
in the chair, and proprietors ho_. oCr°e rhilSnWlooOßshTaHresE;stQh.ei
t containing an account of the
report
h wreaensp 0 r p
and of the amount of the funds and
in any, and signed by three of the directors,
receipts Wednesday Resolved,
an ---1
nTd
Alaihisca btu lasttp
prospects of the
and co n
tifi, FecerdTb. e
now produced and read, be and the same is hereby approved
hat a dividend of five shillings per share for the
paid to each proprietor on and after the 22nd
last of
- t.
day of June instan
~:ee.:/fred,—That Mr. Edward Heath, Mr. James Slynne
Bateson, and Mr. Joseph Williamson, be and the same are
hereby elected three of the directors for the year ensuing.
Bcsolved,—That the thanlis of this meeting are hereby given
to the directors for the past year, and to the manager, out-door
manager, and officers and servants of the company, for their
able services in carrying on in so efficient a manner the affairs
of the. company ; and that the foregoing resolutions be adver-
tised in each of the Liverpool papers.
(Signed) CHARLES COTESWORTH.

I do appoint the 13th, 14th, 15th, IGth, 17th, 20th, and 21st
days of June, 1833. being seven days within three calendar
months from this day, in order that any proprietor may
examine the report now produced and approved, and take
copies of or extracts from the accounts of the company during
the period comprised in the said report, at the office of the
company, within office hours, in the presence of two directors,
pursuant to the deed of settlement.
(Signed) CHARLES COTESWORTfit

LIVERPOOL

ELECTION PETITION.

PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE SELECT
COMMITTEE.

FROM OUR OWN REPORTER

We published last week, in a second and third edition,
a full report of the proceedings before the Select Com-
mittee of the House of Commons, to the close of Monday,

and we now resume the narrative

TUESDAY, MAY 3IST,

The first witness called was

Thomas Cannel], who deposed : I am a householder in Liver-
pool. I was canvassed for Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Ewart by Mr.
Owen, and I told him that if lie could give me a little money I
would. I know Joseph Birchall, a furniture-broker, in Rich-
mond-row ; he canvassed me on the other side, for Mackenzie
and Turner, and I told him if he would give me something I
would vote for his party. There was another person came to
my yard with Birchall, the one I did not know was a stoutish
gentleman. I am a coal-dealer and shoemaker. I told them
I wanted something for my vote. Birchall said he was not
allowed to give anything. They gave me a half-aovereign.
This was a day or two before the election day. The circum-
stance took place in the yard. A question was asked as to
how much I required. I said I wanted another sovereign.
Birchall did not say anything. It was the other man, not
Birchall, who gave me the half-sovereign. Birchall, however,
told the other man to give me the halt-sovereign. He said he
would see me the next day about it. I voted for them at the
election.

Cross-examined : lam not a freeman. I have been a house-
holder for thirty years ; eight years in Liverpool. When Bir-
chall and the other gentleman called, he said he was not wil-
ling, and was not allowed to give me anything.
Richard Joynson : I am a freeman of Liverpool, and voted
at the last election for Mackenzie and Turner. I know the
Angel Coffee-house, kept by Mr. Walter ; it is in the West
Derby ward. On the polling-day, between twelve and one, I
had promised Mr. Edwards, the plumber, that I should vote
for Mr. Cardwell, and to others that I should vote for Tamer.
The other was a canvasser that waited upon me some time
before. The canvasser's name was Wynn. I was spoken to
about my vote by Joseph Green, a canvasser, on the polling-
day, who asked me who I was going to vote for. I said I was
going to vote for Cardwell and Turner. He said, why do you
not vote ? I said, because, like an old horse, I sin waiting for
my load. He said they were giving nothing but day's wages.
He sent me to vote for Turner and Mackenzie. He said he
would make it all right, and we were to go to Mr. Ronett's, on
the day after, and get the money. I then consented to go and
vote. When we started for the poll we had no tickets given
us. We had no tickets given at all during the day. There
were four or five people with us in the car. Two of them were
present during the conversation about the day's wages ; one
of them was a cousin of mine, James Joynson. He voted also
for Turner and Mackenzie. The same was said to him about
a day's wages and voting. After we had polled we came back
to the coffee-house, and got some refreshment. We staid
there about half an hour or three quarters of an hour. We
polled about four o'clock. On the following day I went to
Mr. Rowett's. I saw Mr. Green there. There was a lot of
men there, on the same errand with myself. There was about
half a dozen. My cousin was not one of them. We asked
where we were to go, and we were told to go into Mr. Rowett's
office. Green said he had given in a list of our names, and all
was right. Green then left, and some time after lir. Rowett
came in. I had not seen him before. When we ascertained
that he was there we all went into the office. Rowett asked
nho Joseph Green was, and we told him. He then ordered us
to go out, and to come in one by one. One of our party said
to him that Joseph Green was one of the canvassers. We all
went into the office one by one. I was the first to go in. Mr.
Rowett then began to cross-question me, how I went out of
my word, to do me out of my day's pay. But after some con-
versation which I do not exactly remember, he pulled me over
and gave me 55., my day's pay. When I came out. the others
asked me how I had got on. I said it was all right, and told
the next to go in. I did not wait, but went about my business.
The witness was cross-examined, and it came out that, while
railway fares and expenses had been paid for him, he knew not
by whom exactly he had received in hard cash the sum of
.t°l 9s. 6d.

William Whitby : I am a freeman of Liverpool, and voted at
the last election for Charles Turner, Esq. I voted from the
Pontac. I saw a gentleman before I voted. Ido not know
who he was. I have no recollection of him. I was in a bal
state of health. I cannot tell what sort of a looking man it
was I saw. A man gave me money in the street. I do not
know who he was. Ile asked me had I voted. I said no. I
wanted a day's wage. I got into a cab, and voted for Mac-
kenzie and Turner. I got five shillings paid to me for a day's
pay. Ido not know what I had done for 55. Why, of course
it must have been for my vote.—[At this stage of the examina-
tion it was ohjected to the production of the witness,—that
there were two William Whitbys upon the register,—and that,
consequently, he came within the resolution of the committee,
and ought not to be produced till that class of cases came on
the day previous to the conclusion of the case. It was
ultimately agreed, however, that the witness should finish his
evidence.)—l got ss. in the street, and got into the cab and
went and polled. I did not tell the gentleman who I was going
to vote for, nor did he ask me. There was a committee at the
Pontac, and I do not know whose committee it was. The
walls were placarded with bills in favour of Mackenzie and
Turner. At that time he did not speak to me about colour-
carriers. I heard nothing said about them by anybody—that
I can swear. To the best of my recollection I heard nobody
speak about them—not personally, by no gentleman. I do
not know the gentleman who gave me the ss. I did not see
any other person get ss. I did not carry colours that day. I
did not work any that day. I am a Joiner, but I have not
worked for two years.

Cross-examined : I voted on principle for Mr. Turner, and I
should have done the same although I had not seen the gentle-
man who promised me the day's pay. I have always voted on
the same side.

William Bland : I am a whitesrnith, and a freeman of the
borough of Liverpool. I voted at the last election for Mr.
Turner and Mr. Mackenzie. The committee-room from which
I voted was at the head of Albert-street. I know a house
called the Derby Arms, kept by Glee. I understood I ought
to have voted from a house kept by Mays. I went on the day
of the election to the Derby Arms and saw Glee, and he asked
me if I intended to vote, and who I intended to vote for. I
told him I intended to vote for Mackenzie and Turner. I said
I was going to the house of an acquaintance of mine, George
Taylor, with whom I bad arranged to go and vote. Glee said
we would get a day's pay. There was another person with me
at the time. His name was James M.'Anally, and he was a
voter too. Glee told us both that we would have one day's pay.
I said I did not come particularly for the sake of money.
Mr. Sherlock of the Liverpool Mail, and Mr. Thomas Kaye,
of the Liverpool Courier, were next examined, with a view to
prove agency. They produced the manuscripts of the adver-
tisements, including the one which contains the names of the
Election Committee of Liverpool. The orders for insertion
came from the Constitutional Association-rooms.
Mr. Richard Briscoe deposed: I travel for the Ballycollig
Gunpowder works. I became clerk to the central committee
at the Constitutional Association-rooms. Previously I had
been a commission agent. I joined them early in March,
arranging with Mr. Buckmaster as to the remuneration which
I was to receive. Mr. Edmund Molyneux, I believe. was chair-
man : Mr. Buckmaster was the secretary. I think Mr. Edward
Deane was treasurer. They have a book of rules in which his
name is mentioned. lam not aware that Mr. John Peacock
was treasurer during the election: Ido not know who was. I
received my remuneration from Mr. Buckmaster. I received
instalments: there is a balance, but I never expect to seet it.
Moss and Co. were the hankers. In the absence of Mr. Buck-
master, I was head clerk. Mr. Peacock was in close attend-
ance, and had the management of the election. There was a
placard in the room stating that it was Mackenzie and Turner's
committee-rooms. The placard was not put up as early as the
week after the meeting of the 2d of April. It was put up, per-
haps, a month before the close of the election. Those who
were most constant in attendance at the rooms were Mr.
Thomas Bold, who, I think, was on the committee, Mr. Wm.
Fisher, of Redcross-street, Mr. Samuel Holme, but not so
frequently, Mr. G. H. Horsfall, the canvassers, Mr. Lawrence
Peele, Mr. Thomas Toulmin. Mr. James Tyrer, Mr. Robert
Horsfall, Mr. John Buck Lloyd, Mr. William Rowett, who,
like the two preceding members, was not oftener present than
once in three days, Mr. John Briscoe. These persons brought
no information .to me. They merely looked in to see how the
business of the election proceeded. Sometimes they met a
committee, as the election approached, once every other day.
There were car, printing, finance, and procession committees.
The finance committee consisted of Mr. Deane, Mr. Thomas
Bold, and Mr. G. Henry Horsfall. As far as I can recollect,
Mr. Peacock had nothing to do with finance. These com-
mittees did their business in the same room. We bad altoge-
ther three rooms. There were a clerks' room, a committee-
room, and a small room which Mr. Buckmaster had for the
canvassing business. I know the principal canvassers. I
know William Buckley Jones; he was not chairman of a ward
committee thati know. John Briscoe was a ward chairman.

I am not aware that the expenses of the ward committees were
paid weekly by the central committee, and I was there for
three months. I sat in the committee-room, very little
in the clerks'. On my oath I have not heard any-
thing about the expenses of the ward committees being
paid from the central office. I cannot undertake to
swear that they were not paid ; but neither can I
say that they were paid. I do not know of any chairman of
the Ward Committee coming to the committee-rooms to have
the accounts settled. I understand the Messrs. Moss were
bankers, simply from seeing their names in the rules of the
Constitutional Association. I have no reason to bel eve that
they were bankers of the Central Committee. Ido not, know
who was treasurer of the Central Committee. Ido not know
that any one brou"ht, money from the bank. I never did go to
fetch money periodically as it was wanted to pay the current
expenses. I never saw a cheque written while I was there. I
have been present at meetings of the committees, but not to
,my knowledge did the Ward Committees' accounts be sub-
mitted at the meetings of the Finance Committee. Ido not
know of any one whose duty it was to keep a note of the
expenditure. Ido not think I ever saw William Buckley Jones
snore than twice at the committee-rooms. I know he was con-
nected with the Toxteth-park Ward Committee, being a resi-
dent in that district. Ido not recollect what he came for to
the rooms. People came very frequently to give information,
but they never gave any to me. Mr. Roskell was chairman of
the Kirkdale division of the Kirkdale and Everton Ward. Mr.
Nlarwood was secretary, Mr. Thomas Dover, I believe, was
chairman. and Mr. Thomas Watson vice-chairman, and Mr.
Clegg secretary, of Scotland Ward. Mr. Nicholson was chair-
man of Vauxhall Ward. I do not know that Mr. Clegg had
anything to do with the election expenses. Mr. John Briscoe
was chairman of the St. Paul's Ward, and Mr. Brookes secre-
tary. I saw a placard stating that Mr. James Tyrer was chair-
man of the Exchange Ward, and I know that placards were
posted throughout the town, announcing the names of the trea-
surers and secretaries. In Pitt-street Ward, Messrs. Rigby and
Callas were the two chairmen, and Messrs. Thomas Rimmer
and Gardner the secretaries. Alderman Cooper was chairman
of Great George Ward, and Mr. Gibson one of the secretaries.
Mr. Nl'Keverigan Ido not know. In Rodney-street Ward, Mr.
Payne rawerblished as chairman, and yir. Cooper and Mr.
Gregory published as secretaries. I could not swear
positively that any of them acted as secretary. I Only state it
believe that the chairman and secretaries of
the Ward Committees were ex officio members of the I
do not know Consti-
tutional Association, but
tinte Central Committee. Some of them
officio members o
not know that they transacted any
called at the office, ldo _
was chairman of the St. Anne's
business. Alderman Parker
arke wa a em
Wearßand Committeed. Ido not recolle that I% r. _ ber of
ROVVett,P r who lives in mthe West
th. 3ct
1r•
t the
Derby Ward, came two or three times
b• b a-week t
I doroo notms. I
think
know Mr. Winnesley, in the West Der uo
that he acted as secretary in the ward.
Mr. Boi:master ma-
naged the canvassing department; but I believe slat the secre •
b
taries of the several wards either gave in or row, e,t periodical
reports. I do not know M`Keverigan. I know B u rch al, but
only within a short time. I know Mr. Fisher, foreman to Wm.
Buckley Jones, but only since we came to London ; before I did
not even know him by sight. I know Mr. Williams, clerk to
Mr. Buck Lloyd ; but before I came to London I did not know
him either by name or sight. Thomas Williams was I believe,
collector for the Constitutional Association. I can't recollect
who were the Car Committee. There were Mr. Edward J.
Lowe, Mr. J. B. Cooper (the secretary of the Rodney-street
Ward), and perhaps half a dozen more whom I do not recollect.
I do not remember that there was a committee called a Colour
r Band Committee, but there was one organised to arrange a
I cannot tell you what books were kept. I myself
in the committee-room to wait upon the electors
io called for information. The • • majority of them
gistered. I had the general superintendence of
the writing going on in the club-rooms—making out circulars,
&c. The pamphlet which is handed me lay at the Central
Committee-rooms, and if anybody asked for it I gavethem a copy
- -
Mr. RODWELL Obi

hers wt

:nt being put in as

By Mr. RODWELL : I bad
em. They might have bet

rect authority for issuing
,t by Mr. Cardwell's corn.

By Mr. MACAULAY : There might have been 290 or 300 of
ese books sent to the room. They lay generally in a drawer.
'ere may have been two or three upon a table, but the bulk
them was not exposed. I cannot speak with any degree of
nfidence, but I should think Mr. Buckmaster saw it.
r. MAcAuLii submitted
"that, as being issued from the
the document to he given in

p,..,ia1,
Id he tt

ith a placard pasted or