The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

ICE.

THOMAS PORTER has ICE on SALE, in large
or small quantities, at the following Scale of Prices :-
12 lb. at Store for 6d..... Ditto delivered for Bd.
28 lb. at Store for Is. .... Ditto deli , ed-tOr Is. 3d.
112 lb. at Store for 3s. 6d.. Ditt ivered for 4s.
As T. P. has constantly on b ackages of every size for
the Ice Trade, he can atten Country Orders with punctu•
ality.
N.B.—A liberal all nce made to parties taking 10 cwt. or
upwards, or to p • contracting for the season.
Apply at No. I, PPER DAWSON-STREET, next door to
Mr. Thomas Luff's Spirit Vaults.

GREAT FIRE
IN MARKET-STREET, MANCHESTER ;
ENTIRELY CONSUMING A LARGE SQUARE OF WARE-
HOUSES, OFFICES, ff SHOPS.
IN the last great Fire in rge-street, Manchester,
nine large Houses had t Books burned in Iron Safes,
Closets with Iron Door rought Iron Fireproof (?) Safes,
&c. &c. &c. ; and apt' on the above recent occasion, a great
number of parties e suffered the same calamity. The only
Safe which broug 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 9uantity 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.
" Mew:. 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 compiete and
secure depositories for Books, Documents, and Valuables • in-
cluding the strongest Wrought-iron Safes, Closets, and Doors
in the World. lined with their unenualled Fire-resisting Cham-
bers. Out of upwards of 20.000 of their Sates 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 contentsunburnt,

Fire at Mr. J. Blackaller's Ship and Chandlery Store, Spar-
ling-street, Liverpool; a stiong and fierc Fire; Safe most
severely burnt outside; contents unsinged.
I've 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
en 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. B. and Thomas Browns', in Milners
Safe.

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, ancl Show-
room, 15,, South John-street, Liverpool.

Lancdster-buildings, Liverpool Branch,
7th June, 1848.
GENTLEMAN,
HAVING been compelled (in nsequence of the
violent opposition of som our body to the introduc-
tion of our pure PORTS int s district) to open an Establish-
ment in this Town fort urpose of disposing of our Produce
to the Consumer dir —before commencing operations, and
introducing that ich you have been pleased to term an
"unhandsome innovation," we come forward to express our
readiness to take back all or any Wines which you may still
hold of our shipping to you direct, (whether in Wood or in Bot-
tle) since the Ist July, 1845, or during the full space of the
three years last past.
Feeling every confidence in your honour, we shall be prepared
to receive back the Wines referred to in all the ensuing month
of July, as well as to repay you their first cost, duty, and all
charges, with interest thereupon, at the rate of Six per Cent.
per annum on the outlay, until the close of the transaction.
We are, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient servants,
OFFLEY, WEBBER, FORRESTER, and CO.