The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-08 00:00:00

HOSPITAL

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
T BEG to offer myself as a CANDIDATE for the
I. appointment of HONORARY PHYSICIAN to your Insti-
tution, and to state that a very extensive practice in England,
where I received my early education, and afterwards in Dublin,
enable me to offer both qualification and experience. I shall
have the honour of submitting Testimonials to you which, I
trust, will be found in every way satisfactory ; and to assure
you that, in the event of my beipg -favoured by your choice,
I shall use my best efforts to_secure the health of those for
whom you are so kindly iilltatested.
I have the honest to be your obedient servant,
THOS. R. MITCHEL, M.D., F.R.C.S.L.,
Physician-t 6 the Dispensary for Diseases of Females ant
Children, Seel-street; late Master of the South-eastern
Lying-in Hospital i • and Lecturer on Midwifery in the
Dublin School of Medicine.
Liverpool, 135, Duke-street, February 17, 1553.

TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE
ROYAL INFIRMARY.

LIVERPOOL

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
IBEG to remind you that the ELECTION of a
of a SURGEON to the INFIRMARY-takes place on MON-
DAY next, between the hours of T iind Three.
The success I have hitherto with induces me to hope that
I may obtain that appoin .t, in addition to the one I now
hold as Lecturer on omy and Physiology in the Medical
School connected th the Infirmary, the importance of which
is prominently set forth by your Committee in their Report of
this year.

Sh'mud I be elected, you may rely upon my utmost efforts to
perform the duties of the office, to render a mutual benefit to
both Institutions, and to maintain them in a state commen-
surate with the importance of this town.
I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, your
obedient Servant,

JAMES LONG,
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England,
Senior Surgeon to the Liverpool Dispensaries, and
Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology at the Liverpool
Royal Infirmary School of Medicine.
3, Hardman-street.

PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a cause, Denison against Holmes, the
creditors of HENRY HOLMES, late of Liverpool, in the
county of Lancaster, merchant, who died in or about the month
Of January. 1848, are, by their Solicitors, on or before the 22d
day of March next, to come in and prove their debts or claims
before JOHN ELIJAH BLUNT, Esquire, one of the Masters of
the said Court, at his Chambers, Southampton-buildings,
Chancery-lane, Middlesex, or prdefault • thereof they will be
peremptorily excluded from,Alfe benefit of the said order.
FRIDAY, the 15tbday of April next, at Twelve o'clock
at Noon, at the Id Chambers, is appointed for hearing
and adjud' • e,c, upon the claims.—Dated this 22d day
of February, 1833. J. E. BLUNT.
CHAS. F. TAGART, 50, Doughty-street, London,
Agent for
Messrs. AVISON and PRIIT, Solicitors, Liverpool.

2120 MILNER'S PATENT FIRE-RESISTING
SAFES.
MILNER v. HARRISON.

SECOND TRIAL AT LAW FOR PIRACY OF MILNER'S PATENT.
THE Defendant, JOHN GER:SIAN HARRISON, having
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 infringemen,ts, but made under a patent
granted to Messrs. Sann), a second action was brought on the
suggestion of Vice-Chanceper Sir George Turner, to try
whether such safes were or ere not infringements on Milner's
Patent.

This action was trilid on the 25th June last, before Lord
Campbell and a spoial jury. The following extracts from the
learned Judge's afidress to the juty 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. lie 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 ie 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 Mien 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 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 against Mr. Harrison.

76ROcr—inn 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 be calls himself the sole proprietor,' operates in the
same way. It seems•to me to act precisely the same way as in
Anther'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 nrinciple, 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 by Messrs. atm as being made accord-
ing to their Paten!.
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 .tl5 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 PHOENIX SAFE WORKS." (late Wind-
sor Foundry,) Falkner-street, are said to be the finest work-
shops in Europe, of their class, certainly THE SIOST E,XOTRELND:
SITE AND COMPLETE SAFE MANUFACTORY IN THEr
employing more hands than all the Safe makers in
tain, and the Proprietors respectfully invite tile
ated under
GpeNeNoaptleßroif-
Liverpool to inspect an establishment that has orig
them.inThe effect
our present patent, and grown up amongst
of these trials will be to confirm to Messrs.
s i
e Milnerl, and Son thee
exclusivke use of materials or vesselsrmi
anently held until the
Judge's words, `• the water remains p
brings-e
" oafnTdMh eil ili ae
rtr' trialss' 8,
occurrence of the calamity (Fire)the cure.
by the Liverpool Polytechnic Society
Boxes filled with anhydrous (dry)
materials,of
an (1' s
filled according to their evaporating principle,
orating principle, proving the
manifest superiority
. , ~
defined relative position of Milner's only
such is is now the .
ineiple, by the agency of %oat,.
five Fite-taming pr , . , .) and its
contrast Willi all Mera witnont, that agency, 212
vapour c
dcg. tc 3,000 deg,