The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-21 00:00:00

SELLING OFF.

PIANO-FORTES, HARPS, HARMONIUMS,
CONCERTINAS,
In consequence of an immediate alteration n the Premises,
AT T. BESWICK'S,
9, BERRY-STREET.

d.
Several GRAND and SQUARES, from s. 3
0 0
COTTAGES, Six and Three-Quarter Octaves 2l 0 0
SQUARE and COTTAGES, by Collard and Collard 25 0 0
HA R NIONIUMS
CONCERTINAS
HARPS, from 7 7 0
PIANO-FORTES LENT on HIRE, at sa. per Month; and
Hire not Charged if Purchased.

TUNING, REPAIRING, PACKING, &c., as usual

T. BESWICK,
9, BERRY-STREET

GOLD REGIONS OF AUSTRALIA.

BY HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
A HOME FOR THE EMIGRANT.
LAMBERT'S Patent Ventilated Double and Single
Roofed
_

AUSTRALIAN TENTS,
divided into Private Apartments for convenience of Families or
Parties. The roof forming a second floor for stowing away Goods,
&c. &c. The only complete Canvas House ever yet invented,
and thoroughly impervious to wet.—Apply to the Patentee,
ROBERT LAMBERT,
13, GOREE.PIAZZAS, LIVERPOOL.

LANIBERT'S Registered GOLD-SIFTER, Emigrants' Iron
Folding Chairs and Bedsteads, in every variety; Beds, Blan-
kets, Rugs, Portable Cooking Kitchens, Tools, and every Arti-
cle required by the Emigrant.

PARKER'S PATENT FOR BANDING PULLEYS.
THE Proprietors of Foundries, Cotton Factories,
Saw Mills, Corn and Rice Mills, Building and Joiners'
Establishments, and all others requiring rotary motion, are
respectfully invited to examine PARKER'S PRINCIPLE of
BANDING PULLEYS, which combines a large saving of
motive power, with an increased velocity of motion never before
obtained in limited compass, and may be applied as well to the
the first motion from the engine as to the collateral demands
upon the power, which is largely saved by avoiding the Com-
plicated Bands, I'ulleys, and Cog Wheels.
The principle is applied with matchless success to Fans,
Blowers, Lathes, Winnowing and Thrashing Cern, Chopping
Hay, Grinding Malt, Circular Saws, of any required dimen-
sions ; but the most remarkable application of this invention
is to the Portable Circular Saw, which is made to perform a
variety of duties that render it the most desirable tool, and
which no mechanic will be able to dispense with.
. .

For the right to use this patented invention, and for the pur-
chase of the royalties of any Town, County, District, or for any
individual establishment, and for directions in its application,
Apply to WILLIAM RO WETT, Commercial-buildings,
Water-street, who is the sole Agent for Liverpool.
NB--It has been ascertained that one man working the
ortable Saw can do the work .of a steam-engine of one-horse
power for a limited period.

GREAT FIRE

AT THE
G LITT APERCHA COMPANY'S WORKS,

AND DEFEATED BURGLARIES.

THOMAS MILNER and SON have sincere plea-
sure in communicating to their Friends and the Public
the following new endorsements to the claims of their HOLD-
FAST and FIRE-RESISTING SAFES. The Fire at the Gutta
Percha Company's Works was of the moat intense character,
as may well be conceived from the nature of its food, Gutta
Percha, Oil, Naptha, reducing the buildings to a pile of gutted
red-hot walls. The Safe has been most severely tried, as the
letter testifies, and brought its contents out of the Furnace
without a singe upon them.

" Gutta Percha Company's Works,

" City-road, L'Ondonoth.June, 1853,
" SIRS,—We consider it only our duty to inform you of the
entire preservation:of all the books and papers* contained in
the large safe you recently supplied us with, although exposed
during Sunday last to a fire which destroyed the larger part of
our works. This is the more remarkable, as the intense heat
has in many parts melted the outside of the safe.
" We are of opinion that so successful a vindication of the
merits of your invention cannot, on public grounds, be too
generally known ; and we therefore leave you at liberty to use
this letter in any way you may wish.
"We are, Sirs, your obedient servants,
" HE GUITA PERCHA COMPANY.
" HENRY FORD BARCLAY.
"To Messrs. Thomas Milner and Son,
47A, Moorgate-street, City, London."
* Including £5,000 worth of Cash and Bills.

rpool, Bth June, 1853.
"Scotland-road Mills, Live
" GENTLEMEN,—Some time back I was indebted to your
strong Holdfast and Fire-resisting Safe for the protection of a
large amount of cash, against the violent and persevering
lie safe, as if the thieves
attempts of burglars at my steam-mills, in Woodstock-street,
which they got it '
and I have now the pleasure of informing you. that I have
lately found the same impregnable security in the one I had
last from you for my provision warehouse in Brownlovv-hill
Thande bfleoeoar
awtaist aflalrtatroadadyenhaouvetar,aarfotuerndt
the back yard, and as it could not be picked or broken out into
they then filled the key-hole with gunpowder, open,
thinking
admission by explosion i but in which they N to gain
~I feekit due to your invaluable safeguards were again foiled.
testimonial, and shall strongly recommend to give you this
friends. Please send me another of them to all my
" I am, Gentlemen the same size for my house.
, yours respectfully,
"THOMAS LEICESTER.

-- i
"Messrs. Thomas Milner and Son

MILNERS' PHCENIX SAFE WORKS, WINDSOR
June
14,A1N85D3, 54, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a cause of Margaret Swift and others
v. Ralph Forshaw and others, the creditors of WILLIAAL
SWIFT, late of Ormskirk, in the county of Lancaster, Grocer,
who died on the 31st day of January, 1852, or persons claiming
to be incumbrancers on his real estate, are, by their Solicitors„
on or before the 2d day of July, 1853, to come in and prove
their debts or claims, at the Chambers of the ?faster of the
Rolls, in the Rolls-yard, Chancery-lane, Middlefikolp.int:o93
fault thereof they will be Peremptorily excludetd,kom-the 4)
nefit of the said Decree.—FßlDAY, the Bth day4f4Jaylkllßrt
at Twelve o'clock at Noon, at the said Chamb s,.isTonMa'
for bearing and adjudicating upon the clai tnis
day of June, 1853. GEO. HU ,t4filer
HOLAIE, LOFTUS, and YOUNG, Ne JitiIPSUSOCIa '—
London, Agents f • ;
ROBERT WAREING, Solicitor, Orna kjratricA!irek

fibtrfani fi-tinbittV

TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1853,

THE

WEEK.

AVE have now reached the longest day, and entered
Ipon the season of Summer with more favourable

prospects than were apparent at the commencement
of Spring. The continuance of dry sunny weather
has compensated for the heavy rains which deluged
the earth some months previous, and should the

forthcoming season realise present expectations, the
harvest of this year may not be so unproductive as
was at one time feared. The numerous ferry-boats
on the Mersey have been crowded with passengers,
and the various pleasant places on the Cheshire

hore have been thronged with visitors, anxious to
scape, if only for a few hours, from the busy town

to indulge in rural recreation—a devotion to Nature

which is evident almost everywhere.

While the tedious investigation into th

election is detaining many of our townsmen in
London, numbers of others are attracted in a
contrary direction to the metropolis of Ireland, to
witness the manifold beauties of the Great Industrial

Exhibition,

e increasing attendance at which shows

that it is every day becoming more appreciated.
On Thursday and Friday last, the departures from

;his town were more than ordinarily numerous,
)wing to the expected attraction of a grand military
•eview in Dublin, but it did not take place.
The arrival of the Cherokee, on Thursday, from

the city of Toronto, on Lake Ontario, excited some
little attention, from the fact of its being the first
vessel to England from the fresh waters of Canada.
The vessel, which is 235 tons burden, is a creditable
specimen of colonial shipbuilding adapted to inland
navigation; and this commencement of a trade,
which, it is hoped, may prove mutually advan-
tageous, is owing to the enterprise and perseverance
of Captain GASKIN, the owner and commander,
whose services are so well appreciated at the port
from which he sailed, that the authorities enter-
tained him at a public dinner previous to his dept..
ture, as we stated a few weeks since.

The interesting question of important improve-

ments in the town underwent a fair discussion on
Wednesday, at a full meeting under the presidency
of the NIAYoR, and the judicious resolution was
come to of appointing an influential committee to

ake the whole subject—of alterations necessary

and means of accomplishing them—into considera-
tion. The committee have a good work before
them, and their report will be anxiously looked for.
The distribution of prizes to the students at the
Collegiate Institution, on Friday, passed off with
more than ordinary eclat, owing to the presence of

Earl of HARROWBY, who, when Lord SANDON,

'epresented this borough in Parliament, and who

took a prominent part in the proceedings. His
lordship afterwards visited the Exchange, and

eceived the general greetings of the merchants

sembled in the newsroom

The grand concert at the Philharmonic-hall, on
Tuesday, amply realised the most sanguine anticipa-
tions. It was fully attended, and the magnificent
building, filled with the beauty and fashion of
Liverpool, presented a coup d'ail rarely equalled,
while the cordial greeting with which the per-
formances were received showed that the nume-
rous audience fully appreciated the merits of the
several artistes, Mdlle. AGNES BURY, Herr
PISCIIEK, and Herr REICHIRT sustained their
well-earned reputation, while the execution of
Signor BOTTESINI on the double bass elicited a
rapturous encore.

The strike of the cotton porters and other
labourers has ended, as might have been expected,
in a capitulation. The majority of the men have
shown their good sense by returning to their work,
leaving the prime movers of the agitation—who, as

usual in such cases, are the worst characters—to

arry on the agitation by themselves

LIVERPOOL ELECTION PETITION.

PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE SELECT

COMMITTEE

TUESDAY, JUNE 14

John Downes, recalled, said he was paid twice by Mr.
Buckmaster; he received all that was then due : the
second payment was after the election. He was in the
procession on the nomination-day, which started from
Marshall's coffee-house at Edgehill, and he took some to
the poll next day in cabs and omnibuses. S3T7 Mr.
Rowett at the coffee-house on the polling day; also saw
some tickets in the committee-room, a dozen or two of
which he had himself : perhaps Mr. Wensley, the secre-
tary, gave them to him ; but he gave those tickets, which
were refreshment tickets, to every voter whom he did not
think would be offended. Beef and bread were given the
electors after the poll ; sometimes as many as a hundred
were having these refreshments. The tickets represented
fourpence.

William Marshall, recalled, said he had carged for 571
tickets at fourpenco each ; he made an additional charge
for the eatables of £7 16s. 10d., and of £4 Bs. for refresh-
ments to messengers and others. His bill amounted
altogether to £24 Gs. 10d. He had not been paid. He
charged his bills to the committee for carrying on the
election in the ward.

Mrs. Bispham7landlady of the Vine Tavern, in Pitt-
street, had received £8 10s. for the hire of a committee-
room in her house : Mr. Rigby, chairman of the com-
mittee, paid her ; her account had not been settled.
Thomas Poystance, a resident in Tosteth-park ward
and a non-elector, said he was engaged as assistant secre-
tary to the Pitt-street ward, and was engaged by Mr.
Rimmer, a timber merchant, who, seven weeks before the
election, told him to go to Mr. Buckmaster and fill up
circulars calling a meeting at the Vine Tavern. He got
the circulars from Mr. Buckmaster, and filled them up at
the Vine. The canvassers in the ward obtained the books,
&c., from Mr. Buckmaster, and made their reports to
him. Was paid 7s. a-day ; received the money weekly
from Mr. Buckmaster. Refreshments were supplied on
the day of the poll.
John Taylor re-examined, said, on June 7th he heard
Mr. Callis, at the Vine Tavern, order drink after the
committee business was over : had heard Mr. Callis give
such orders several times, and both on the nomination
and polling days. Those of the company only who were
invited partook of the liquor. A breakfast was given to
the voters on the morning of the polling day, in a tent
erected at the rear of the Vine. He partook of the break-
fast along with three or four hundred besides. Nobody
paid for the breakfast that he knew of.
James H. Lancaster, a householder and voter in St.
Paul's Ward, and who keeps a public-house at 78, Old-
hall-street, stated that be was a committee man, and he
thought directions were given to the ward committee to
send in the canvassers' reports to the central committee.
He, as a canvasser, took his voters to the poll in cabs,
and some went back to his house, where he gave them a
glass of spirits or beer. He delivered his bill, which was
X 4, to Mr. John Briscoe, chairman of the committee.
In reply to the Chairman, Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE
said the agency of Mr. Briscoe was made out by the
evidence of Mr. Kellett, printer, to whom orders had
been given by Mr. Briscoe for printing, which Mr. Bold
subsequently paid.
The CHAIRMAN said the committee were satisfied that
there was sufficient evidence of the agency of Mr. Briscoe.
Mr. Lancaster was then recalled, and said Mr. Briscoe
paid him 135. in the pound towards his bill. The parties
whom he treated at his own home was on his own account,
as refreshments were strictly prohibited. Not more than
20s. or 30s. were spent in refreshments at his house on
the polling day.
Thomas Hughes, landlord of the Letters_publichouse,
at which one of Messrs. Mackenzie and Turner's com-
mittees sat, of which Mr. Briscoe was chairman, deposeda
that he had given refreshments on the election
to
.y 13y
order of the committee ; he tendered the bill o Mr.
Briscoe, and had been paid the greater part of it. He
also received a portion of the bill from Mr.
the whole of the bill was £23. Vaughan ;