The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

SASSAFRAS CHOCOLATE,

DR. DE ETROTTE'S NUTRITIVE, HEALTH
RESTORING AROMATIC CHOCOLATE,
PREPARED FROM THE NUTS OF THE SASSAFRAS TREE.
Sold by the Patentee, 12, Southampton-street,
Strand, London.
This CHOCOLATE contains the peculiar virtues
of the Sassafras Root, which has been long held in great
estimation for its purifying and alterative properties. The
aromatic quality (which is very grateful to the stomach) most
invalids require for breakfast and evening repast, to promote
digestion, and to a deficiency of this property in the customary
breakfast and supper, :nay in a great measure be attributed the
frequency of cases of indigestion generally termed bilious. It
has been found highly beneficial in correcting the state of the
digestive organs, &c., from whence arise many diseases, such
as eruptions of the skin, gout, rheumatism, and scrofula. In
cases of debility of the stomach, and a sluggish state of the
liver and intestines, occasioning flatulence, costiveness, &c.,
and in spasmodic asthma, it is much recommended.
Liverpool Agent :—Mr. F., G. JONES, Patent Medicine Ware-
house, 5, Paradise-street.

GREAT FIRE
IN MARKET-STREET, MANCHESTER ;
ENTIRELY CONSUMING A LARGE SQUARE OF WARE-
HOUSES OFFICES, AND SHOPS.

IN the last great Fire in George-street, Manchester,
nine large Houses had their Books burned in Iron Safes,
Closets with Iron Doors, Wrought Iron Fireproof (?) Safes,
&c. &c. &c. ; and again on the above recent occasion, a great
number of parties have suffered the same calamity. The only
Safe which brought its contents uninjured out of the burning
mass being the one alluded to below.
" Manchester, August 13th, 1847.
" GENTLEMEN In the late Fire in Market-street, which
entirely gutted the entire block of buildings of which my Ware-
house formed part, I have sincere pleasure in informing you
that my books, together with a quantity of valuable papers,
watches, &c., were preserved uninjured in one of your Fire-
resisting Safes, which I strongly recommend to the public.
" I am your obedient servant,
" THOMAS HAIGH, Woollen Merchant,
" New Brown-street and Market-street.
" Messrs. Milner and Son."

The outside of this Safe was partially melted: the contents
inside unsinged, being steamed (boiled instead of burned) by
the evaporating principle of the Safe. Near to it a large
Wrought Iron Fireproof (?) chambered Safe, full of valuable
Books and Documents before the Fire, was found to contain
nothing but tinder and ashes after it !

In the numerous accidental Fires and experimental tests
which Milners' Safes have been exposed to—every description
of Safe in use—Fireproof (so called) or otherwise have been
burnt out beside them, confirming the recommendation of the
scientific and practical authorities who have tested them, and
the Patentees' during seven years' active working of their
patent, on a rapidly extending scale, have spared no pains nor
cost in effecting improvements, by which they are enabled to
pledge themselves at all times to supply the most complete and
secure depositories for Books, Documents, and Valuables ; in-
cluding the strongest Wrought-iron Safes, Closets, and Doors
in the World, lined with their unequalled Fire-resisting Cham-
bers. Out of upwards of 20.000 of their Safes in use amongst
the Manufacturing and Commercial Houses of Great Britain—
the class best able to appreciate their value—numerous cases of
exposure to accidental fire have occurred, from which Thomas
Milner and Son select the following as instances, in which they
are of opinion that no other Safe than their own would have
preserved its contents unburnt.
Fire at Mr. .1. Blackaller's Ship and Chandlery Store, Spar-
ling-street, Liverpool; a strong and fierce Fire; Safe most
severely burnf outside; contents unsinged.
Fire at Messrs. J. and W. Walkers', the extensive builders,
Birkenhead ; buildings entirely gutted, everything burnt in
them, including the contents of large Iron Safe and drawers,
standing besides Milners'; the contents of Milners' uninjured,
and in use now. _

Fire at Messrs. Garniss and Co.'s, Park-lane; a very strong
fire; again the contents of Milners' Safe the only thing saved
on the premises.
Fire at Plimsaul Brothers', of Plymouth; a very extensive
and destructive fire; a large Iron Safe covered with brickwork
with double Iron doors burnt out; Milners' entirely preserving
its contents.
Fire in Queen-street, Glasgow; a great number of Safes and
Closets burnt out; no books saved throughout the buildings
excepting Messrs. S. R. and Thomas Browns', in Milners'
Safe.
Milners' Fire-resisting
.Safes, Chests, and Boxes, suitable for
all classes of Buildings, Impregnable Locks and Cash Boxes,
at the Works, 50A, Lord-street and Cable-street, and Show.
oom, 15, South John-street, Liverpool.

THOMAS DISMORE,
SILVERSMITH AND JEWELLER
TO THE QUEEN AND THE PRINCE ALBERT,
35, BOLD-STREET, LIVERPOOL,
so the attention of
STRANGERIicSits AND VISITORS
to his superior Stock of
Rings, Pins, Studs, Brooches, Bracelets, Gold Chains,
London and Geneva
WATCHES,
and every other description of
JEWELLERY,
of the best quality and choicest patterns.
Gold Pens, Mordan's make, 20s. ; not Mordan's, ss. to 10s.
Silver Waiters, Ink Stands,
TEA AND COFEEE 'SETS,
Claret Jugs, Vases, Epergnes,
Pocket Communion Sets.
THE NEW FISH KNIVES AND FORKS,
Children's Silver Cups, and Knife, Fork, and Spoon Cases,
SHEFFIELD PLATE,
of extra quality, with strong Silver Edges, and
Elkington and Co.'s •
PATENT ELECTRO PLATE.
The following are the usual weights of
• SILVER SPOONS AND FORKS,
but
may be had heavier or lighter, at the same price per oz.
oz. dwt. a. d.
12 Silver Table Spoons 30 oat 7s. 2d....10 15 0
Dessert Ditto 20 oat 7s. 2d.... 73 4
Table Forks 30 0 at 7s. 2d....10 15 0
Dessert Ditto 2O oat 7s. 2d.... 73 4
Gravy Spoons 10 oat 7s. 2d.... 3 11 8
Soup Ladle
10 oat 7s. 2d.... 3 11 8
4 „ Sauce Ladles
ig „ Tea Spoons 10 oat 7s. 8d.... 316 8
4 „ Salt Spoons

Nett 52 8 4

If for Export, a deduction of Is. 6d. per oz. for drawback.
ELECTRO PLATED SPOONS AND FORKS,
made of German Silver, and covered with pure Silver. The
following are the published Prices of the Patentees, which
illustrate bow necessary it is for Purchasers to consider the
quality as well as the prices of apparently cheap goods :

12 Table Spoons
12 Table Forks
12 Dessert Spoons
12 Dessert Forks
12 Teaspoons
2 Gravy Spoons
1 Soup Ladle
4 Soup Ladles
1 Pair Sugar Tongs .. •
4 Salt Spoons

Ist Quality,
with silver
points.

X s. d.
4 0 0
4 0 0
3 0 0
3 0 0
2 0 0
1 5 8
1 3 6
1 13 4
0 6 0
011 4

pd Quality.

.€ d.
3 5
3 0 0
2 10 0
2 8 0
1 12 0
0 19 0
0 19 0
1 4 0
0 4 6
0 10 0

13d Quality

Discount to per Cent•

14 18 5

.i' a. d.
2 10 0
2 4 0
1 16 0
1 15 0
1 4 0
0 15 0
0 s 6
0 18 0
0 4 0
0 8 2

ESTABLISHED 1812.

WILLIAM NOWLAND,
AUCTIONEER AND APPRAISER,
AND HOUSE FURNISHER,
149, DALE-STREET.

WNOWLAND, having been engaged in the
• Business of HOUSE FURNISHING foi•-manv years,
can confidently recommend himself as an APPRAISRB and
VALUER of every Article of FURNITURE. He has also the
advantage of IMMENSE PREMISES, where he can store
Goods of all kinds sent for sale, without making any charge.
An immense Assortment of Furniture always on hand for
Private Sale. . .

Wfice,-§irOp, and Public=house Fixtures, two excellent White-
chapels, a Stage Coach, &c.
N.B.—A good STABLE and HAY-LOFT to be LET.

REPEAL THE WINDOW TAX,
AND
_____

VENTILATE ! VENTILATE ! VENTILATE !
BAILLIE'S Patent GLASS-SLIDE VENTILATORS
Reduced 40 per cent. from the original prices.
Supplied, Wholesale and Retail, by
J. A. FORREST,
GLASS MERCHANT AND STAINER.,
19, OLD HAYMARKET, LIVERPOOL.
Man acts strangely. Knowing that a current of fresh air is
the very life of his lungs, he stops every cranny to prevent its
admission. Coughs and colds are generally caught by transi-
tion from an over-heated to a cold apartment. This would not
happen if ventilation were properly attended to. Would you,
therefore, wish to provide an effective ventilation, and avoid
the clumsy and dangerous methods generally resorted to, use
Baillie's Patent Glass-slide Ventilator—at once safe, effective,
pleasing in appearance, and easily adapted to any kind of win-
dows •, never known to fail in curing that nuisance—a smoky
chimney—and imperatively necessary where gas is used.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
London 343 Strand, .September Ist, 1847.

COMMERCIAL TELEGRAPH.
The works of the lines for commercial communications, be-
tween the places enumerated below, embracing a system of
telegraphs for commercial purposes only, and distinct from
that reserved for the special use of railways, being so far ad-
vanced as to admit of their completion by the commencement
of the coming
.year, the directors think that the time has now
arrived when it becomes their duty to make known the ar-
rangements which they contemplate for the accommodation of
the public.
Stations will be opened in central situations in the principal
towns, whence messages a d dispatches will be forwarded to,
and received from all the other stations of the Electric Tele-
graph Company.
In order to give to merchants, bankers, manufacturers, and
all connected with trade, the greatest possible amount of in-
formation, a room will be reserved in each of the company's
stations for subscribers; in which will be received, tabulated,
and exhibited, all intelligence of commercial or public interest ;
for instance—

Ship Lists from the various ports.
Share Lists from the various exchanges,
Prices Current.
Stock Exchange Lists.
Corn Markets from the various towns.

Prices of Live Stock, &c. &c. &c.
In London, a Central Station, suited to the importance of the
Metropolis, is in course of erection in the immediate vicinity of
the Bank and Royal Exchange ; in this station the whole tele..
graphic news of the country will be concentrated and forwarded
in every direction; and here, as in other towns, a room will be
reserved for subscribers.

The subscription to these rooms will be two guineas per
annum, paid in advance, which will entitle subscribers to the
right of entrance to all the subscription rooms of the company,
including the central station at London.
The foregoing details some of the advantages of the commer-
cial telegraph to subscribers, but the requirements of the public
in general will be provided for by the establishment of offices
which will at all times be open for the reception and transmis-
sion of messages and dispatches, while messengers will be kept
at the various stations, by whom dispatches may be sent to any
part of the town where the communication has been received
by telegraph at the company's station.
Subscribers' names are received at the Commercial Telegraph
Office, where any further information may be obtained.
The following are the towns to which the commercial tele-
graph will be first extended :
Londonn Barnsley Peterborough Chelmsford
Margate Wakefield Yarmouth Ipswich
Ramsgate Leeds Huntingdon York
Deal Halifax Hertford Darlington
Dover Rochdale Manchester Newcastle
Folkestone Hull c Leiester
Berwick
..

Canterbury Maidstone Derby Edinburgh
Northampton Tonbridge Nottingham Glasgow
Coventry Gosport Lincoln Scarborough
Birmingham Southampton Chesterfield Bridlington
WolverhaniptonWinchester Sheffield Stamford
Stafford Dorchester Bradford Norwich
Chester Bristol Wisbeach St. Ives
Liverpool Gloucester Lowestoff Ware
Rotherham Cheltenham Cambridge Colchester.
J. LEWIS RICARDO, Chairman.

FOREIGN 4- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE•

AMERICA.

By the French mail steamer Missouri advices have been
received from New York to the 25th ult. The news is
not important. General Scott remained in quiet pos-
session of Mexico. whilst Santa Anna had resigned the
presidency. which was conferred on Senor Penn, an emi-
nent lawyer. Santa Anna was proceeding to operate
against the American garrison at Puebla, with a view to
restrict their supplies. It was hoped that peace would
result from the deliberations of the Mexican Congress,
which had been convened. Business was unsettled at
New York after the arrival out of the Cambria.- Bread-
stuffs, from the great demand for local consumption and
the moderate supplies advanced in price; while cotton fell
1 cent per lb ; and exchange also receded 8?,- to 91 per
cent., being the range of bills per Missouri. The quota-
tions in the New York market on the 23rd October, (Sa-
turday,) for Uplands were from -/d. to Y. per lb. above
those now ruling in Liverpool, being for " middling" SI,
" good middling" 81- to 9, and " fair" 9} cents per lb.
The purchases were chiefly for exportation.

WEST INDIES.—We find in the daily paners a dispatch
addressed by Earl Grey to the governor of Jamaica. The
Colonial Secretary sets out by alluding to a memorial from
the proprietors. merchants, and others connected with the
island of Jamaic'e, in which they represent the difficulties
under which they labour, and apply for assistance to be
enabled to surmount them, and then proceed to state that
it bad long become manifest that in the existing state of
affairs in this country, if the cultivation of sugar could not
be t,ustained by free-trade, it could not he sustained at all.
It wa.4 essential. therefore, to the welfare of all parties, to
commence witl out delay the experiment of bringing the
principle of five-trade, by progressive steps into full ac-
tivity, and maintaining the cultivation of sugar with a re-
duction and early extinction of the discriminating duties.
Earl Grey then proceeds to dwell upon the necessity for
the education and industrial training of the negroes, in
order to supply the demand for labour. Ile proposes to
relieve colonies from various restrictions, but indicates, in
the meanwhile, the mai►► relief to be .he removal of the

restriction which prevents the free importation of labour
into the colonies. The government, therefore, will per-
mit, under superintendence, the importation of free ne-
groes, b: special aareement, for limited service, from such
portions 'of the Atrican toa-t as are not directly connected
with the odious slave trade.
Sir R. Horsford is the new chief-justice of Antigua.
The new French loan of two hundred and fifty million
francs (ten millions sterling) has been taken by the Roth-
scl:ilds at 751. 25c. _ _ .

Marshal Seliastiani has returned to Paris, and resides
in the hotel which was the scene of the late Praslin tra-
gedy. -
DECLINE OF THE CHOLERA.—The Augsbargh Gazelle
states, on the authority of letters from tiouthern Russia,
that the ravages of the cholera have very much decreased,
•and that in some localities it has entirely disappeared.
The :30th of October, being the anniversary of the day
on which Luther nailed his ninety-five Articles on the
church-door o.• Wit teilburg (1517), and which was the first
-great sten to the Reformation, has just been solemnised
at Weimar. _ .

Mr. George Fahricius, a German violinist and musical
composer, committed sticide a few days ago at Brussels,
in con, rquence of havinz, from agitation, failed in the re-
hearsal ot' a concert which he was to have given at the
Tin,at re- Roy 1. _ _ _

M. Von Zagazouski, president of the tribunal for poli-
tical offences at Cracow, was murdered on the 4th instant.
He had gone out in the evening, attended by an orderly,
when he was suddenly fired at by sonic persons lying in
ambush and killed on the spot.
AN UN LUCKY MISTAKE.-The Marshal of the Russian
nobility, Von Whitet,k von Cechatiowiek, a nobleman
well known by his extensive travels in Europe and the
East, was lately shot by a gamekeeper, who mistook him
for a wild Least, on account of ais head coming. The
dying man fully exculpated the innocent author of his
death.

The town of Weimar has purchased the house of Schil-
ler. It is now about to be restored, and the rooms to be
adorned with furnittLe of the same description as that
which was to he found there when the great man inha-
bited them. his room will be adorned with the same
paper. A museum will be formed in the house, in which
will be placed all Schiller's works, and all writings and
objects which are in any way connected witiL his memory.
THE GORLITZ MURDER,.—A letter from Darmstadt an-
nounces the arrest of a servant of Count Gorlitz, who was
also in the service of the unfortunate Countess, who, it

will be remembered, was found burnt to death, and of
whose murder the Count was amused. The servant is ac-
cused of attempting to poison the Count. Some soup
served up to the Count's table having a curious colour, it
excited suspicion, and on baing analysM was found to con-
tain a strong dose of poison. The father of the servant
has also been arrested.

ROMAN CATHOLIC PROCESSION.—GaIiynani relates
that the city of Cambray has just been the theatre of a
procession, the like of which has probably not been seen
for a long time in any town. It consisted of the trium-
phal entry of Cardinal Giraud on his return to his archie-
piscopal scat. Three triumphal arches were erected on
the passage of the cortege, which passed amidst the ring-
ing of bells and the roaring of artillery. On his entrance
• to the cathedral, his eminence chanted a 7'e Deurn, which
was repeated by 500 or 600 priests. In the evening there
was an illumination and a display of fireworks.
BELGIUM.—The ordinary session of the Belgian Cham-
bers was opened on Tuesday by the King in person. The
speech from the throne, amongst other matters, stated

that " the efforts of governmen't were directed towards
procuring external outlets for commerce. Pecuniary ad-
vances from government would be required in order to
finish the railway stations and the double lines of rail, as
well as to complete the materiel of transport, and to
finally close the account of the expenses of the first esta-
bli::lment. The Legislature would have to vote measures
necessary for perfecting and completing the organisation
of Public instruction."
SUICIDE. OF THE COUNT GortEß.—A letter from Au-
dernick (Pas de Calais) brings an account of Count Gomer
having committed suicide. After his condemnation, the
Count was in a state of great excitement—so much so
that his family deemed it necessary to cause a domestic
to accompany him in his excursions. On Monday he was
out shooting in the wood in which the affair occurred,
when he made some pretext to leave the domestic for a
-few minutes, and retired behind a clump of trees. .Shortly
after an explosion was heard, and, on hastening to the
spot, the domestic found his master lying on the ground,
weltering in his blood, and quite dead. The count had
discharged his gun near his heart, causing instantaneous
death. The Procurenr du Roi had appealed against the
sentence on the Count de Gamer, as not being sufficiently
severe.

GRADUAL RISE OF NEWFOUNDLAND ABOVE-THE SEA.
—lt is a fact worthy of notice, that the whole of the land
in and about the neighbourhood of Conception Bay, very
probably the whole island, is rising out of the ocean at a
rate which promises, at no very distant day, materially to
affect, if not to render useless, many of the best harbours
we have now on the coast. At Port de Grave a series of
observations have been made, which undeniably prove the

rapid displacement of the sea-level in the vicinity. Se-
veral large flat rocks over which schooners might pass
- some 30 or 40 years ago with the greatest facility, are now
approaching the surface, the water being scarcely naviga-
..ble for a skiff. At a place called the Cosh, at the head of
,Bay Roberts, upwards of a mile from the sea-shore, and
.at several feet above its level, covered with five or six feet
of vegetable mould, there is a perfect beach, the stones
• being rounded, of a moderate size, and in all respects.
similar to those now found in the adjacent land washes.--
Neuibundland Times.
DREADFUL OCCURRENCES.—The Paris journals of
Wednesday convey the details of two horrible occurrences.
Tim first, that Count Bresson, peer of France, and am-
bassador of France at Naples (by whom, when ambassa-
dor at Madrid, the Montpensier marriage was brought
about) committed suicide by cutting his throat on the 24
instant. In carrying through the Montpensier intrigue,
and accomplishing the double marriage of the two royal
sisters, Count Bresson probably imagined that he had
erected -an edifice of honour; but, alas 1 his hopes were
based in' iniquity. and are justly frustrated.—The second
event is .an attempt made by. Count 3lortier, peer of,
France, in a fit of insanity, to murder two of his children
and to commit suicide with a razor. The Count was
found in his study, with his children about him, and the
razors upon.the table ; and it appears that, instead'of at-
tempting to kill them without their knowledge he had en-
deavoured to. persuade them to consent to die along with
him. He was in the midst of an altercation with them
when the authorities entered. He was immediately ar-
rested and placed in a lunatic asylum.
HORRID BUTCRERY.—The origin of the recent distur-
bances in New Zealand is said to have been as follows
A midshipman of her Majesty's ship Calliope, byaccident,
shot a native through the head with a pistol. We assume'
this view of the case to be correct on Governor Grey's
-authority, as he is riot a man likely to falsify facts, and
_must be well aware of the real history of the calamitous
-occurrence. The natives, however, would 'not suffer
.themselves to be convinced that the injury was inflicted
_by accident. They either did, or were determined to
believe, that. their countryman had been deliberately
murdered, and swore to take bloody revenge for his
death. Now, it so happened that at about five miles'
:distance from Petre, in the district of Wanganui, a Mr.
,Gilfillan resided with his -family, in a lonely farm-house.
On the evening of the 18th of April, Mr. Gilfillan, who
bad been into town, went to his stockyard to see that all
was right, and, whilst he was so engaged, observed a '
party, of six natives coming down the hill opposite his
house. They approached, and entered into conversation
with him. The family were all .indoors, with the excep-
tion of Mr. Gilfillan, who for some time walked up and
down iu front of his house talkie.. and jesting with the.
natives. Suddenly he felt a violent blow on the back of
his neck, and knew that he was severely wounded. De-
spite of this, ,and the number of his opponents, he con-
trived to make good las way into the house, and barri-
caded the door. At that moment there-were in the house,
besides himself, his wife and three children, who wore
•subsequently nmrdered, as well as three others and an
'infant, who escaped. Into the sickening details Of the
butchery .it would be unnecessary to enter. Let it be
sufficient here to say, that Mr. Gilfillan was persuaded
by his wife to make Lis escape through a window, as they
both-believed that it-was only his life which was eimetrat.
fie .did so, and dragged himself, wounded as he was;
through the garden and the long fern, and so ,contrived
to reach a station wherelv! might raise an alarm. It was,
however, toe late. The newt day, Monday, the 119th, a
policeman despatched to the spot found near the house
two children of Mr. Gilfillan's, who told him all the rest
of the family were killed. Proceeding a little further, lie
found the bodies of Mrs. Gilfillan ,and her three children.
They were quite dead. Close to the spot the policeman
heard the cry of an infant, and, on entering the stock-
yard, he found it, perfectly uninjured, jy4tig in the lap cif
a young woman who had been seriously wounded in the
head. No traces of the murderers we.re ,to be found but
140pdy axe which had beck thrown p.po4 the groqud.