The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

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WHO WOULD WRITE AN INDIFFERENT HAND,
When a beautifully free and flowing Style of Penmanship
can be acquired in a few Easy Lessons, at
MR. AND MRS. THOMPSON'S
PRIVATE ESTABLISHMENT FOR ADULTS,
No. 8, CLAYTON-SQUARE. LIVERPOOL.
MR. THOMPSON'S new System of Writing is
celebrated throughout the UNITED KINGDOM.
BAD WRITERS are made good ones in a few Lessons of One
Hour each.
GENTLEMEN requiring a thorough knowledge of BOOK-
KEEPING by SINGLE or DOUBLE ENTRY should apply to
Mr. Thompson.
LADIES may acquire the FASHIONABLE STYLE of
WRITING in a few Lessons by applying to Mr. or Mrs.
Thompson.
Mrs. Thompson teaches Note Writing, improves Bad Spell-
ing or Reading, and gives instruction in English Grammar on
an easy plan.
Lessons given strictly Private.
Strangers visiting Liverpool may have their writing wonder-
fully improved in four days by applying as above.
COMMERCIAL ARITHMETIC MENTAL CALCULA-
TION, and SHORTHAND rauglit in a few easy Lessons.
For Cards ar Terms apply at No. 8, Clayton-square.

GREAT FIRE
IN MARKET-STREET, MANCHESTER •
ENTIRELY CONSUMING A LARGE SQUARE OF WARE-
HOUSES, OFFICES, AND SHOPS.
N the last great Fire in George-street, Manchester,
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nine large Houses had their Books burned in Iron Safes,
Closets with Iron Doors, Wrought Iron Fireproof (?) Safes,
&c. &c. &c. ; and again on the above recent occasion, a great
number of parties have suffered the same calamity. The only
Safe which brought 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 hooks, together with a quantity of valuable papers,
watches, &c., were preserved uninjured in one of your Fire-
resisting Safes, which I strongly recommend to the public.
6 lam your obedient servant,
" THOMAS HAIGH, Woollen Merchant,
" New Brown-street and Market-street.
" Messrs. 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 1

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 complete and
secure depositories for Books, Documents, and Valuables ; in-
cluding the strongest Wrought-iron Safes, Closets, and Doors
in the World. lined with their uneaualled 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 contents unburnt.
Fire at Mr. J. Blackaller's Ship and Chandlery Store, Spar-
ling-street, Liverpool; a sttong and fierc Fire; Safe most
severely burnt outside; contents unsinged.
Ire 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
on 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. R. and Thomas Browns', in Milners
Safe.

Milners' 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, and Show-
room, 15, South John-street, Liverpool.

THE MOST DURABLE OUT-DOOR PAINT YET

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INVENTED.
CARSON'S ORIGINAL ANTI-CORROSION
PAINT, specially patronised by the British and other
Governments, the Hon. East India Company, the New River
Company, the Principal Dark Companies, and other Public
Bodies.

Manufactured by WALTER CARSON, (Successor to the
Inventors,) 15, TOKEN HOUSE YARD, (back of the Bank of
England,) London.
The Anti-Corrosion Paint has been used by the Hon. Board
of Ordnance for upwards of half a century, who have proved
it to prevent rust or corrosion on iron longer and better than
the very best white lead or any. other description of Paint ;
and in consequence of its possessing this invaluable quality, all
the iron guns and gun carriages, both for land and sea service,
have been painted with it for the above period. It has also
been used in great quantities by other public bodies, and by
numbers of Gentlemen of the first distinction, to preserve
wooden houses, farm and other outbuildings, conservatories,
park-paling, gates, iron railings, iron hurdles, copper, zinc,
lead, old compo, &c. fronts, and tiles to represent slating. it
will be found a very superior preservative of iron steam boats,
iron bridges, piers, or any other extensive iron works.
This Paint is admirably adapted for preventing the decay of
old Stone or Brick Mansions, Churches, or other public edifices
requiring an effectual defence against the elements, as it will
become harder than stone in a few months after it is laid on.
It is particularly recommended to West India Proprietors,
Emigrants, and others connected with the Colonies, who will
find it to stand all climates better than any other Paint. The
superiority of the Anti-Corrosion to any other Paint may be
easily inferred from the simple fact, that its use has been always
most strenuously opposed by Color Manufacturers, Painters, Oil
and Colormen, and all others interested in the sale of common
Paint.
Noblemen and Landed Proprietors, anxious to have their
outbuildings, &c. properly preserved, will effect a very consi-
derable saving by desiring their Stewards to order the Anti
Corrosion Paint, as any labourer can lay it on, thereby avoiding
the enormous charges generally made by Painters.
The Anti-Corrosion is a Powder, and it will keep any length
of time. Colors : White stone, light ditto, drab or Portland
ditto, Bath ditto, light and dark yellow ditto, light and dark
oak, brown, light and dark lead, light and dark chocolate,
bright and dark red, copper and black, 345. per cwt. ; invisible
green, 505., deep green, 605., bright green, 605., and blue, (for
carts and wagons,) 60s. per cwt. Large tinned rushes, 3s. 6d.
small tinned ditto, 2s. 64. ; and sash tools, Is. 6d. each. Oil
and Turpentine, per gallon.
The expense of the colors at 345. per cwt., when the Oil is
added, is about 4d. per lb. ; and those at 60s. are about 6d.
per lb.
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In submitting particulars and prices of the Anti-Corrosion
Paint, W. C. begs respectfully to call the attention of the No-
bility, Gentry, and others having out-door work to preserve,
to the testimonials in its favour, which, from their number,
(upwards of 300,) and the rank and station in society of those
who have given them, have, perhaps, never yet been equalled
by anything of the kind hitherto brought before the public
notice.

A copy will be sent on application.
No Agents--All orders are particularly requested to be sent
direct.