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

ENGRAVER, PRINTER, AND LITHOGRAPHER,

T B. LEATHERBARROW begs to inform his
Q.! • Friends and the Public. tlyat he—has

11, SOUTH
FROM NO. 25, TO . 11, SOUTH JOHN-STREET,

WHO WOULD WRITE AN INDIFFERENT HAND,
When a beautifully free and flowing Style of Penmanship
can be acquired in a few Eat?, Lessons, at
MR. AND MRS. THOMPSON'S
PRIVATE ESTABLISHMENT FOR ADULTS,
No. 8, CLAYTON-SQUARE. LIVERPOOL.
lur R. THOMPSON'S new—System of Writing is
ILL celebrated through° -The UNITED KINGDOM.
BAD WRITERS ar ;le good ones in a few Lessons of One
Hour each.
GENTLEMK 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 Taught in a few easy Lessons.
For Cards of Terms apply at No. 8, Clayton-square.

GREAT FIRE
IN MARKET-STREET, MANCHESTER ;

ENTIRELY CONSUMING A LARGE SQUARE OF WARE-
HOUSES, OFFICES, AND SHOPS_
IN the last great Fire in George-street, Manchester,
nine large nouses 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.
" GENTLENTENT,—In the late Fire in Market-street, which
entirely gutted the entire block of building's of which my Ware-
house formed part, I have eere pleasure in informing you
that my books, togethe,v*ith a quantity of valuable papers,
watches, &c., were preserved uninjured in one of your Fire-
resisting Safes, whith I strongly recommend to the public.
" I am your obedient servant,
"THOMAS HAIGH, Woollen Merchant,
" New Brown-street and Market-street.
" Messrs. Milner and 5071."

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 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 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—numemus 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 unbumt.
Fire at Mr. J. Blackaller's Ship and Chandlery Store, Spar-
ling-street, Liverpool; a strong 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
on the premises.
Fire at Plimsaul Brothers', of Plymouth; a very extensivc
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

INVENTED.
CARSON'S ORIGINAL ANTI-CORROSION
PAINT, specially patronised by the British and other
Governments, the Hon. East Ind*/Company, the New River
Company, the Principal Doclylompanies, 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 Ordnauce 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 PaiLt. The
superiority of the Anti-Corrosion to anv 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 brushes, 3s. 6d. ;
small tinned ditto, 2s. 6d.; 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.

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 andi 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.

LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT
RAILWAY.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PRO-
PRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held at the Clarendon-
rooms, South John-street, Liverpool, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th
instant, at One o'clock precisely, for the transaction of the
ordinary business of the Company.
The Transfer Books will.lfe closed from MONDAY, the 21st, to
WEDNESDAY, the 30t1rihstant, inclusive.
girder of the Board,
JAMES C. DUNCAN, Secretary.
Office, Lancaster-buildings, Tithebarn-street,
Liverpool, 4th August, 1848.

LIVERPOOL QUARTER SESSIONS.
JOHN WHITE respectfully informs the Public, that
he is not the Person named in the late trial of White v.
Jones.
19, Clayton-square, August 4th, 1848.

VALUABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTY TO BE SOLD.
JOHN WHITE, HOUSE and LAND AGENT, 19,
Clayton-square. respectfully informs the Public that his
PROPERTY CIRCULAR is now ready for delivery, containing
the largest amount of FREEHOLD PROPERTY ever offered
to the Public for SALE by PRIVATE TREATY, and may be had,
gratis, by applying at the above Office, where every information
will be given.

The Property Circular contains a number; of HOUSES and
VILLAS to be Let in Liverpool its Vicinity; Rents from
.el 5 to .e9O per annum. o contains Places of Business of
every description to dio se of.
Persons living at —h" distance may have the Property Circular
forwarded to them by enclosing trio I'ostage Stamps, with their
Address.

EMIGRATION AND COLONIZATION.
IMMIGRATION being much required in AUSTRA-
LIA, NEW ZEALAND, &c., and as the supposed expense
of an OUTFIT often prevents individuals emigrating, S. W.
SILVER and CO., CLOTHIERS, OUTFITTERS, and CON-
TRACTORS (having a large interest to maintain in those Colo-
nies), have been advised to make known that they can supply
OUTFITS for MA LE or FEMALE Emigrants from Four Pounds
(net) upwards, or less when needful ; and for Children in pro-.
portion, at No. 4 EISHOPSGATE-STREET WITHIN, opposite the
London Tavern.
S. W. S. and Co., being the makers of nearly every article in
all the Outfits they supply, and as one of their objects is to pro-
mote EMIGRATION, they neither receive from Agents, or pay
the too esual commission tirany person introducing Passengers
to be fitted out, so that-the Passage and Outfit may be procured
at the least possible expense; but they will, on application,
advise Passengers how to obtain the most economic passage to
the Colonies. They have a Representative in every Australian
Colony, to whom they ship Clothing monthly; thus they would
forward small parcels free of expense.
NAVAL and MILITARY OFFICERS, MIDSHIPMEN, CADETS,
CIVILIANS, LADIES, &c., are outfitted as heretofore, at the
CABIN-PASSENGER OUTFITTING Warehouse, VOB. 66 and 67,
CORN HILL, (the Emigration Outfitting being exclusively at
No. 4, BISHOPSOATE.STREET WITHIN), LONDON, and each
branch at ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL.

BOLD-STREET AUCTION MART.
SAMUEL CUTTER, Auctioneer and General Valuer,
begs most respectfully to inform his Friends and the Public
that his spacious ROOMS are now OPEN for the reception of
every description of Property intended for Sale by Auction,
and trusts, by a conscientious adherence to the interests of his
employers, and the prompt settlement of all accounts, to merit
their support.
.-- -
Valuations taken for Probate and Legacy Duty, or for
Transfer.
LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE UPON PROPERTY CON-
SIGNED FOR IMMEDIATE SALE.

19; BOLD-STREET,_ LIVERPOOL,
(Nearly opposite Concert-street.)

GREAT REDUCTION

IN THE P RICE OF
VENETIAN BLINDS,

AT
WLEDGER'S WINDOW BLIND MANUFACTORY,
• 31, PARADISE-STREET,
who has constantly on hand an etiiiva and well-seasoned
rtrext
STOCK, and can furnish a Hoe complete with them in
Sflno RS' NOTICE.
Gauze Wire, and evairtre other description of Blinds, at very
moderate Prices, superior Workmanship.
OBSERVE,
31, PARADISE-STREET,
Between the Unitarian Chapel and the Star and Garter HoteL

BY HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENT,

FAIRBANKS' WEIGHING MACHINES,
with or POOLEY'S NEW PATENTED IMPROVEMENTS,
adapted for Shops, Wharfs, Roads, and Railways.
HENRY POOLEY AND SON,
27, MANCHESTER-STREET, LIVERPOOL,
CONTINUE THE _—
SOLE MAKERS UNEVA-THE PATENT.

Some of their advantage
I.—Economy in Pr' ,to the extent of from 25 to 40 per
cent.

ll.—Economfin Time and Labour ;--only the one hun-
dredth part of the weights is required to be lifted; one-half of
the time occupied in weighing i!entirely eared.

lll.—Economy in Siacef—they haiTeOnVone Platform or
Scale ; no fixtures are required for suspension ; no room is oc-
cupied by weights.

iv.—tconany in Annual Expense ;—they require less pe-
riodical adjustment ; the centres are detached from their
bearings, and of course exempt' from wear, except at the MO-
meat of ascertaining the weight.
As a Weigh-bridge for weighino. Wagons on common roads,
and for Trucks or Wagons on Railways, this Machine is pe.
culiarly. adapted. It may be fixed, if required, in a pit only
fifteen inches deep; it occupies only half the usual space in
the office; it is more exact in its indications than any of the
old kinds of Weigh-bridges. The celebrity of

FAIRBANKS'

MACHINES,

POOLEY'S MANUFACTURE,
has induced many imitations, having a professed and specious
resemblance, at a low price. To guard the Public from imposi
tion, and the invention from losing its high standing by the
hands of incompetent makers,

- THE TRUE MACHINE
IS NOW OFFERED AT PRICES FULLY AS LOW AS THE
IMITATION,
Thus placing it within the reach of ereru Trader.
MESSRS. POOLEY AND SON
are Makers to the Hon. Board of Ordnance, and by special
appointment to the London and North-Western, the Midland,
and other leading Railway Companies.
Ironmongers and the Trade supplied on liberal terms.

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY,

ESTABLISHED 1846,
27, WHITECHAPEL, LIVERPOOL,

FOR the reduction of Fractures and Dislocations of
the Bones, (BONE SETTING,) and the cure of Cancer,
Scrofula, Scurvy, Leprosy, White Swellings, Ulcers, Fistula,
&c.

Surgeon.—J. S. TAYLOR, M.R.C.S., L.A.C., Prizeman of St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in the Session 1843-4, &c.,
who may be consulted daily from 9 to 3, and 6 to 9 ; and on
Sundays from 10 to 2.

The 'following case will illustrate the success of the treatment
adopted _ _

"James Pollard, aged 20 years, residing at 65, Preston-street,
had suffered from a most eterate scrofulous complaint of
the head from the earl ge of four years; his head was a
complication of suc cumulated disease, so loathsome to the
sight, so offensiv o the smell, and altogether so repulsive,
that those wli ere under the necessity of attending upon him,
performed that service with reluctance. He had been under
the care of different gentlemen of the medical profession, com-
bining all the skill and talent of this neighbourhood. e was
also a patient for ten months in the Liverpool Infirmary, and
six months at the Dispensary; but there the combined skill of
the most eminent of the faculty was defeated, as the individual
exertions had before been. As a last effort he was placed under
the care of Mr. Taylor, who succeeded in effecting a perfect
cure, and he is now well, healthy, clean, and strong, and likely
to have a good head of hair.
(Signed) " JAMES POLLARD.
" Attested by his brother-in-law, JAMES FALLOWS 65
Preston-street, Whitechapel." , ,

An Assistant in continual attendance at the College

THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE EVIDENCE that
can be given in relation to the
HEALING QUALITIES

HOLLINGSWORTH'S

AMERICAN INDIAN SUGAR-COATED PILLS
is a statement of cures effected by their use. Read the follow-

r` To Messrs. Pearson & Co., 110, London-road, Liverpool.—
Gentlemen,—l have much pleasure in making you acquainted
with the great benefits I have realised in the use of Hollings-
worth's American Indian Sugar-coated Pills. For six months
I had been afflicted with severe pai my side, stomach, and
back, attended also with great 1 of appetite. In the hope of
alleviating my sufferings, I ied to several medical advisers,
tried a variety of mean nd spent much money, but all to no
good purpose, for ithstanding all the medicines I took, I
gill got worse ; an to such a state of weakness was I reduced,
that it was with great difficulty I could walk up stairs. M
stomach so loathed my food, that I became extremely weak
and hopeless, and expected not to live to see another Christmas-
day. Providentially I noticed an advertisement in the Liver-
pool Mercury, describing the renovating properties of your
palatable Pills ; 1 procured a box at your establishment, and
made a trial by taking a dose morning and evening for about
two weeks, according to the printed directions; and now I am
happy in stating publicly, that the use of the Pills has removed
my distressing pains, and fully restored my appetite, so that I
may say I have risen from near death's door. Any person
calling at my residence may have every information. Although
the time is so short since I first commenced taking your medi-
cine, I find my strength so increased that I can attend to my
domestic affairs with pleasure. I mean to take a dose of Pills
daily until I feel not a vestige of my late distressing complaint
remains. You are at liberty to make this public, and use it in
any way you think proper, for the benefit of my fellow-sufferers.
Hoping all that are afflicted as I have been may use and realise
the same benefits from your medicine, I remain, yours grate-
fully, " ELIZABETH WRIGHT.
" 3, Watkinson's-buildings, Pembroke-place, Liverpool."

THE AMERICAN INDIAN SUGAR-COATED PILLS

carry off all impure matter, purge the bowels and all the fluids,

cause a
FREE AND HEALTHY CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD,
give tone to the stomach, liver, lungs, and every organ of thi
human body, and thus prevent, alleviate, and
CURE COMPLAINTS OF EVERY KIND,
because
THEY STRIKE AT THE ROOT OF DISEASE,

and remove the cause : they cannot be taken according to di-
rections without decided benefit. Being enveloped with a
coating of sugar perfectly disguises the taste of the medicine,
and they are so agreeable that children will take them with
pleasure.—Sold Wholesale and Retail by
PEARSON & CO., 110, LONDON-ROAD, LlVERpopii
to whom all communications must be addressed.