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Plane 'for a fractured limb
John Richardson, jun., Esq., Lower Castle-street, 110 number
of the Quarterly Review
JAMES BOLD.

Liverpool, 30th December, 1845

MEPHYSTOPHELES.-The new Journal of Wit (12 pages,
size of the Medical Times or Athenaeum) ready on SATURDAY,
January 3, contains sparkling papers Ity—thetest Authors, Il-
lustrated by the best Artists of l,he dfiy. Price 3d., (Stamped
4d.) Order of any Bookstijara Newsmen.

Twenty Years Loss of !lair, and wonderful Restoration

Church-street, Whitby, Oct. 19, 1841

Gentlemen,—Of the last supply of OLDB.IISGE'S BALM of
COLUMBIA every bottle was sold immediately on receipt, and
I have many more bespoke, only waiting for a further supply,
which I hope you will send without the least delay. Orders
have poured in more than ever since the powerful effects of the
Balm have been so decisively demonstrated in the cases of se-
veral credible and respectable inhabitants of the town. One
instance, among others which have attracted particular atten-
tion, is the case of a gentleman who had hadiitfle or no hair for
twenty years: he had tried numerous preparations in vain, and
ultimately had his head shaved, and w .I*, a wig. At my recom-
mendation he tried the Balm ; an. er using it according to
the directions for a short time, th oung hair appeared, and he
has now as fine a head of hair : ny person in Virhitby.
Yours, &c., JOHN KILVINGTON.
To Messrs. Kenna Brothers,
10, Westmorland-buildi Aldersgate-street, London.
OLDRIDGE'S BAL causes Whiskers and Eye-brows to
grow, prevents the • it from turning grey, and the first appli-
cation causes it to curl beautifully, frees it from scurf, and
stops it from falling off. Abundance of certificates of the first
respectability are shown by the Proprietors, C. and A. OLD-
RIDGE, 1, Wellington-street, Strand, London, where the Balm
is sold, and by most of the respectable Perfumers and Medicine
Vendors.

Price 3s. Gd., Cs., and lls. per Bottle. No other prices are

Ask for OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF, COLUMBIA, 1, WEI
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[ADDITIONAL ADVERTISEMENT.]
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY
ALLOTMENT OF NEW SHARES.

TN Compliance with the wishes of Shareholders who
I have not been able to go to the places named in the letters of
Allotment, the Company's Bankers are authorised to receive
Deposits till the 10th instant inclusive, and the Deeds will lie
for Signature at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, 1 • street,
Edinburgh, and
.1?-1, St. Vincent street gow, on the 7th,

Bth, 9th,-tuid 10th instant ; and 28, P. amen C-street, London,
on the 9th, 10th, 12th, and 13th i i - from 11 A.M. till 4 P.M.
Parties sending Powers of rney will please remember to
have a 30s. stamp for eac • •rson ; and when sent to Edin-
burgh they may name eir Attorney DAVID RANKINE, the
Secretary ; when sen a London, ROBERT WEEMS, Parliamen-
tary Agent. _

By order

RANKINE, Secretary

NEW YEAR'S ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY
MESSRS. MILNER TO THEIR WORKMEN.
On Friday evening last, Messrs. Thomas Milner and
Son, inventors, and sole manufacturers of their own cele•

brated fin
magazines

resistir

g Safes, Deed-boxes, and Gunpowder-
muous and splendid entertainment

gave a sr

at their extensive work;(in Lord-st;eet and Cable-street.)
to the numerous workmen in their employ, and to a
number of gentlemen, friends of the firm, who were in-
vited as guests on the interesting occasion. An excellent

dinner, consisting o'

the most su

batantia

iands, in

wake of which followed plum pudding and other etceteras,
with wines, spirits, ale, and (for the temperance portion
of the company) capital liqueurs, was served up at three
long tables, presided over by Mr. Milner, senior,—at the
head of the centre board—supported by a son on each
side • the vice-chair being occupied by Mr. John Owens,
the foreman of the concern.

The room was most appropriately and elegantly deco-
rated with festoons of evergreens, roses, &c., and over
the chair was fixed an ornamental canopy of crimson dra-
pery. One end was illuminated by a crown in jets of gas,
and at the other were similarly emblazoned the initials,
V. H., with a device illustrative of the valuable invention
of the givers of the feast, bearing the inscription in blaz-
ing letters " Milners' Fire Tamer," surmounted by Nep-
tune's Trident supporting the figures "212," indicating
the degree of heat at which the fire-safes on their princi-
ple become available by supplying internal vapour to re-
sist the action of the strongest fire.

About 130 sat down to the repast ; this number com-
prising about 100 of the operatives of the zoncern, all in

iheir iespactable holiday attire, and about 30 gentlemen
who• had been invited. Amongst the latter were Mr.
Samuel Woods, XII. ; Mr. Richard Woods, Mr. Salt,
secretary of the Polytechn:c Society ; Mr. Arnitt, ma-
nager of the new Gas and Coke Company. and with him
Mr. Bright, cousin of Mr. Bright, M,P. for Durham ;
Mr. C. J. Smith, of the New Gas Company ; Mr. Arstall,
and others of our townsmen and neighbours.
. _

After the dinner the usual loyal (Oasts were given from
the chair, and received with the most patriotic feeling.
That of the " Queel" was followed by the national an-
them, sung by the whole company, upstanding, and led
by Mr. Crawford, a gentleman in the employ, who intro-
duced some new and appropriate verses. The others
-so marked by glees, or musical honours.

were al

Mr. War. MILWECt, (the junior partner) being now
called upon for a toast, said he had great pleasure in com-
plying, and in proposing that they should drink prosperity
to " British Industry"---for he they
no distinction as to
locality, and wished to include all industrious workmen,
Fnglish, Irish, Scotch, and Welsh. He honoured them
all, for they made, in dutifully pursuing their several
avocations, the best husbands, the best fathers, and the
best subjects, and this was in a great degree to be attri-
buted to the religious feeling and love -of country that
pervaded them. He eloquently urged the encourage-
ment of industry amongst the whole of our fellow-
countrmen, and sat down amidst loud cheers•

Mr. W. CRUSE, one of the workmen, here appropri-
ately sang " England—we ne'er shall see her like again."
Mr. JAMES WALKER MILNER, youngest son of Mr.
Milner, senior, here cave the toast of "The Town and
Trade of Liverpool," which was drunk with great ap-
plause, and followed by the song of " Life on the
Ocean Wave," by Mr. John Strange, one of the work-
men—spiritedly executed and loudly applauded.
Messrs. Weal and Philips, also in the employ, then fa-
voured the company with a clever and gratifying obligato
on the violin and born, introducinga number of popular airs.
The CHAIRMAN, having called upon his active fore-
man, who acted as vice at the lower end of the room, for a
toast or sentiment,

Mr. OWENS requested that each should fill a bumper,
for he should propose their worthy entertainers, " Mes-
srs Milner and Son," who were truly kind and consider-
ate employers. The gentlemen present would appreciate
their hospitality to themselves, and with regard to their
kindness and indulgence as masters—their uniform cour-
tesy and consideration—he could himself speak from an
experience of seventeen years. (Cheers.) To see, as at
that joyous meeting, two classes who were essential to
each other, though in different grades of life, thus render-
ing themselves mutually social, was indeed delightful.
He concluded by proposing health, happiness, long life,
and prosperity to Thos. Milner and Son. (Great cheering.)

. _
The CHAIRMAN begged to return his sincere thanks for
the handsome manner in which the toast has been given
and received. He sincerely wished all happiness through
life to his workmen, and also to their wives, relatives, and
sweethearts. (Great cheers and laughter.)
Glee by Mr. Weal, sweetly sung, " Plenty and Joy."
The CHAIRMAIV proposed the health of those kind
friends who bad assisted them by their encouragement to
carry out the principle which.had given rise to the estab-
lishment, and several of whom had favoured them with
their company that evening. (Cheers and three times
three.)

A gentleman whose name we did not obtain, replied.
He paid a high compliment to Messrs. Milner. and ex-
pressed his extreme gratification at witnessing the feeling
that pervaded those present. He alluded to the motto of
the " Fire Tamer" in the room, and proposed the health
of the house in the appropriate name of" The Fire King."
(Great cheers.) _ _ _

A young gentleman, who is blind, here played an air on
a piano. in the open counting-house, behind the chair,
and afterwards sung, very sweetly, to his own accompany-
ment, " She wore a wreath of roses."

Mr WEAL proposed a sentiment to the effect that, the
rose, thistle, leek and shamrock, might ever be harmo-
niously combined, which was enthusiastically drunk, and
eloquently and facetiously responded to by Mr. Crawford.
Mr. MI mart, in proposing a toast, recurred to
times past, when their " Fire Trller" was not so well
known as now. They had had much to encounter with their
invention, for it opposed facts to preconceived opinions.
Scientific men said that books and documents could not
be preserved from fire, and few favoured the principle.
Many, however, bad since acknowledged it. They were
finally indebted to the support of a few friends. They
appealed to the most scientific men, workers in iron, che-
m'sts,&c.to come and see, and pronounce upon their claim.
This happily led to their knowiodgc cf a society without
private interest in the matter, but ready to forward what-
ever was bmeficiel to society at large. He (the speaker)
felt that the principle was based on truth that could not
be shaken—the great laws by which water or its modifi-
cations regulate all temperature. The Polytechnic So-
ciety took an interest in the question. They entered into
a course of the most trying experiments. They, it is true,
put them in the fire ! and a hot and continuous one too ;
and the result established the accuracy of the principle.
He therefore proposed "the Polytechnic Society," and
with it Mr S. Woods, jun., who had done them great
service, Associated with Mr. Woods were his excellent
friends Mr. Salt, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Arstall, whose
health be conjointly proposed. (Vehement applause.)

_
Mr. WOODS replied in behalf of the Society named.
The invention was one of the most valuable that had ever
been brought before the Society, and he had introduced it
to their notice in the early part of 1843. They had
brought Messrs. Milner's safes to the severe-t tests along
with those of others, and the former had distanced all
competitors. He had made a record of its success, and
considered it an honour to the Society to bring it forward.
It was, in truth, one of the greatest boons that had ever
been gained by the country. The contents of all the
other boxes were' reduced to tinder! those in Milner's
were taken out, after the same ordeal, as fresh as when
they were put in. (Great cheering.)
Mr. SMITH, of the New Gas Company, and also a
member of the Polytechnic Society, bore equally strong tes-
timony to the efficiency of Messsrs. Milner's Safes. He
was present at the several experiments near St. Jude's
Church. At first he had no faith in Milner's tin bosxe,

and was perfectly astonished at the resuq. On this point
he expatiated with great felicity and humour, acknow-
ledging his erroneous first impressions, and his subsequent
high and unqualified opinion of the excellence of the in-
vention. We regret that our limited "space prevents us
from attempting more than a mere outline of the address
of this gentleman; Mr. Woods, and others. After ex-
pressing, in eloquent terms, his admiration of the com-
mingling of the employers and the employed, as witnessed
on the occasion, he concluded by toasting " The Progress,
rapid and triumphant of Milner's Fire-proof Safes."
(Great cheers.)
Mr. MILNER, jun., called the attention of the com-
pany to an ornamental flower vase, made of the same ma-
terials as the safes, by one of their workmen, Wm. Tear,
and a crown, made by John Corlett. He stated that he
had, perhaps, 50 men equally capable. These specimens
was certainly beautiful, ltd elicited much approbation.
On the tables were also shown two pieces of plate, a
snuff-box, and a cigar-case; the former presented to Mr.
Milner, sen., and the latter to his son, by their workmen,
as a grateful acknowledgment to them for their kindness
and consideration in releasing them from work so early as
three o'clock every Saturday afternoon. Both bore suit-
able inscriptions to that effect.
Mr. OWEN (the foreman), on his health being drunk,
with a high compliment, said that nothing was due to him
of encomium. His object had been, and ever should be,
to give satisfaction to masters and to men, without in-
fringing on the rights of either. (Cheers.)
Mr. ARNITT, (Gas Company) on his health being
drunk, spoke in a feeling and impressive manner, on the

occasion that had called them together.
A number of other toasts, sentiments, songs, &c., fol-
lowed. " The Press " was responded to by Mr. J. S. Wal-
ker, (in behalf of the whole "gang,") who expressed a hope
that the example of friendly feeling exhibited that night
between masters and men would elsewhere be followed.
The whole meeting was one of the most delightful we

Ihare had to record, and the company separated about mid
night, highly gratified by the entertainment of the night.

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