The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-22 00:00:00

ASYLUM FOR ORPHAN BOYS.

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be
held TO-MORROW (Wednesday,) the 23rd instant, at Two
o'clock, at the Clarendon-rooms, South John-street, to receive
the Report of the Committee, and the Account of the Treasurer,
and to transact the general business.

His Worship the MAYOR will kindly preside.
EDWARD BANNER, Secretary

WOODSIDE FERRY.
TO BUILDERS, &c.
MHE Commissioners of Birkenhead are ready to
1 RECEIVE TENDERS for the ERECTION of a GOODS
SHED at Woodside Ferry. Plans and specifications may be
seen daily, from ten a.m. to four p.m., at the Office of the
Surveyor to the Commissioners, Hamilton-square. Sealed
tenders, marked outside " 'renders for goods shed," and ad-
dressed to the Chairman of Woodside Ferry Committee, must
be sent in on or before Thursday, the 24th instant.
By order of the Committee, W. RUDD, Manager.
Woodside Ferry, February, 1853.

LIVERPOOL GUARDIAN SOCIETY.
ANNIVERSARY DINNER.
THE THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY DINNER
1. of the MEMBERS and FRIENDS of this SOCIETY
will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, the 24th instant, at
MR. POWELL'S, ROYAL HOTEL, MOORFIELDS.
DINNER ON THE TABLE AT SIX O'CLOCK PRECISELY.
The Worshipful the MAYOR, and several Distinguished
Guests will honour the Society with their company on this
occasion.
Those Members who have not already secured Tickets are
requested to do so immediately, the number being limited.

ATONEY LEN' on PLATE, WATCHES, JEWEL-
LERY, SILKS, VELVETS, WOOLLENS, and every
description of Mandlester and Leeds Goods,at Half the Pawr...
brokers' Rate of Irterest.

Apply at 66, Seel-street, two doorsfrom Back Colquitt-street
Private House

A F. &D. NIACKAY & CO. beg to inform their
Friends and the Public, that Messrs. HOLDSWORTH
and Co. have been appointed entire AGENTS for the SALE of
COALS from the victoria and Albert Mines ; and respectfully
solicit for them a :ontinuance of their support.
1, Rumford pla.v.
PRIME HOUSE AND STEAM COAL.

VICTORIA

AND ALBERT COAL COMPANY.

MINES-RAINFORD AND UPHOLLAND,

HOLD SWORTIf and CO. hea to inform Shippers
and the Public generally, that they have constantly on
hand large quantities of good HOUSE and STEAM COAL and
SLACK.

From the proximity of their mines to this market (being only
twelve miles from Liverpool), H and Co. confidently assert that
they can fulfil orders with greater promptitude, and on more
moderate terms, than their competitors; and the Coal being
conveyed by rai, direct to their DepOt, is then lowered by
machine, without breakage, into carts.
Vessels loadedin Stanley or other Docks with great despatch.
DEPOT—SLATE-STREET,
South-east Corner of Stanley Dock.
OFFICE-1, RUMFORD-PLACE.

THE INCE-HALL COMPANY'S COALS and
CANNEL may be procured as follows, viz. :
LIVERPOOL . 7, Rumford-street, 5. Crown-street, and
Lightbody-street, Stanley Dock.
BIRKENHEAD 52, Bridge-street, and Commerce-street.
SEACOSIBE 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 MANAGER.
7, Rumford-street, Liverpool, October Ist., 1833.

STIVENS' ORIGINAL GREEN GINGER WINE.
THE astonishing demand for this article has called
forth a host of imitations; the Proprietors, therefore, re-
quest all persons to ask for STIVENS' WINE, and to notice
the fac simile of their Signature,

giii/dA-ea/vy

on the Label, ever the neck of each Bottle,

Testimonials from Medical Gentlemen of the highest stand-
ing, recommending this Wine to all who wish to enjoy the
greatest of blessings, HEALTH, may be had by Purchasers,
with the Wine, from Grocers, Chemists. and Confectioners in
most Towns in the Kingdom. _

Wholesale :—Templestreet, Bristol ; 9, DUKE-STREET, LI-
VERPOOL; 154, Upper Thames-street, London.

212 Q MILNER'S PATENT FIRE-RESISTING
SAFES.
MILNER v. HARRISON.

SECOND TRIAL AT LAW FOR PIRACY OF MILNER'S PATENT.
THE Defendant, JOHN GERMAN HARRISON, having
persevered in the sale of Safes constructed on the princi-
ple of Nlilner'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 jury in summing up will show
distinctly the questions submitted to the iury :
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 mistaken 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 called upon to say whether this invention of
Messrs. Milner is new. As to wheter it is useful, it seems to
me to be allowed on all bands, 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 remainin.. 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 against 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
Mi!her'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
water 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 bu Messrs. lams 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 more 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 111arr'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 File-taming principle, by the agency of water and its
vapour contrasted with all others without, that agency. 212
deg. tc 3,000 deg.