The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-09 00:00:00

TO MERCHANTS AND SHIPMASTERS.

NEWTON'S HEAD NAVIGATION WARE
HOUSE.
39, SOUTH- CA STLE-STI?EET, LIVERPOOL
ESTABLISHED "70:
G. P. V- A Y N E,
OPTICIAN AND,CtIRONOMETER MAKER,
(Late Melling and -Payne, Bywater and Dawson, and
Egerton Smith,)
HAVING lately experienced such an increased demand
for his Marine Chronometers as to have some diffi-
culty in meeting it, has determined to enter more largely
into that branch of his manufacturing business, and has
now completed arrangements for having the instruments
made and finished on his own premises, which have been
altered for that purpose. He is now prepared to execute
Wholesale as well as Retail orders for Chronometers,
Watches, and Clocks, and will allow the utmost possible
trade discount on these articles, if for exportation or when
required by the trade.
To render this improvement as effective as possible,
G. P. PAYNE has entered into partnership for a long pe-
riod with a Chronometer Manufacturer, who joining
practical experience with theoretical knowledge, will give
h s exclusive attention to superintending and finishing the
instruments, and who, having, for the future, a direct
interest in this branch of the establishment will afford an
additional security for first-rate workmanship to that
hitherto supplied by the usual warranty.
G. P. PAYNE begs to remark, that this is a very im-
portant feature in his new arrangements, inasmuch as
dealers in Chronometers and Watches are obliged to de-
pend on the veracity of their workmen for the character
of the instruments they sell : but all the great establish-
ments in London have raised their fame on the practical
superintendence and workmanship of the first founders,
who have been distinguished, not merely as shopkeepers,
but in their more dignified character as scientific mecha-
nics, whose superintendence, invention, and workman-
ship, have raised the English Chronometer to its present
perfection and utility. G. P. PAYNE, therefore, taking
advantage of the personal applicaCon of a scientific me-
chanic, combined with the established respectability of
the oldest shop in Liverpool, will be enabled successfully
to compete with the majority of the trade in Liverpool,
and, from his contiguity to Prescot, (where the Chrono-
meter movements for all England are made,) he will be in
a position to offer greater facilities, and at a less cost to
Exporters, than any house in London.
G. P. PAYNE will, as heretofore, personally undertake
the Rating of the Instruments, by Solar and Stellar
Transits of the Meridian, in the Observatory, over the
Factory, and by taking advantage of the extremely accu-
rate observations of the Astronomer at the Liverpool
Observatory ; and a new feature (except in public Ob-
servatories) has been introduced, of recording Mean Time
by two splendid Regulators, with mercurial compensating
pendulums, so that as one instrument gains daily one or
two tenths of a secund, and the other loses as much, a
nearer approach to Astronomical Accuracy, in Determin-
ing the Time, and Rating for Errors, is obtained than
that attempted, perhaps, in any other Private Establish-
ment either in London or Liverpool.
All kinds of WATCHES CLEANED and REPAIRED.
CUMMIN'S PATENT SYMPIESOMETER. (Li-
verpool Agent, G. P. PAYNE') price £4 10s.
MASSEY'S PATENT LOG. (Liverpool Agent, G.
P. PAYNE,) price £4 10s.
MASSEY'S PATENT SOUNDING MACHINE.
(Liverpool Agent, G. P. PAYNE,) price £4.
PAYNE'S PATENT MAGNETIC BINNACLE, for
Iron Vessels, has now been satisfactorily in use for two
years and a half. Price, Twenty Guineas.
PAYNE'S LATITUDE CALCULATING MA-
CHINE. Price, Twenty-five Shillings.
PAYNE'S ASTRONOMICAL & ELEMENTARY
INTRODUCTION TO THE NAUTICAL ALMA-
NAC, containing familiar explanations of all the technical
words and phrases used in that work, and forming a com-
plete EPITOME OF ASTRONOMY, with Sixty En-
graved Diagrams. By G. P. PAYNE, Optician, Liver-
pool.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
" This is a truly valuable work, and will be found as useful
E. 4-1 acceptable to the general student of science on shore, as to
those who seek only to determine by planetary observation the
true position of a ship at sea. The explanations are so clear
and comprehensive, that a comparatively slight study of the
work will convey an entirely satisfactory knowledge of points,
which the perusal of most elementary treatises on the same
subjects, left in cloudiness and doubt. He has done an import-
ant service to students of astronomy in general, and to the nau-
tical world in particular, and his book should be in the hands of
all seamen, young and old, who are honourably ambitious of
perfecting themselves in. the higher branches of navigation.
We have, ourselves, readily arrived at a distinct perception of
many problems, which we confess we were previously unable
fully to solve."—Liverpool Standard.
"This work is calculated to be of infinite service to the young
seaman or the student in astronomy. It is admirably adapted
to the end proposed."—Liverpool Mail.
" This little work, in a small compass, contains more really
useful instruction than some volumes we have seen of vast size
and pretension. To masters, mates, and young men employed
in the merchant service, and to the youthful officers in the navy,
such a book as this will be a most acceptable boon. Mr.
sngularly perspicuous, his great object having
explanations easy of comprehension by the
etyronld.eer is
his
In this respect he has been, we conceive, exceed-
ingly ; and the engraved dagrams which he has
willintro-
be found great aids to the comprehension of the
Payne'sbmidneuegecrlney
merest
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student."—Liverpool Albion.
I have never seen any work on the subjects treated of so
well adapted to the use of a student, and yet of such decided
advantage even to those well versed in the science of astrono-
my. The whole of the diagrams do much credit to Mr. Payne's
talents, while the explanations are so plainly, yet distinctly
worded, that th student ive satisfaction to all who study them
attentively. Nof astronomy, and, more particularly
of nautical astronom
of Navigy
ation, should be without it. Andrew Living-
ston, Teacher .
"Mr. Payne has conferred an important benefit on the cause
of nautical science by. this book, which is eminently calculated
to facilitate the acquisition of a sound and thorough knowledge
of the subject. Mr. Payne possesses the valuable qualifications,
not always combined, of a profound acquaintance with the sub-
ject himself and of a faculty of readily imparting his knowledge
to others."—Lioerpool Courier.