The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-21 00:00:00

THE OAKS.

6 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldestone's Sister to Martingale. off.
7 to 1 „ Mr. Gregory's Barricade.—offered.
12 to 1 „ Lord Chesterfield's The Princess.—offered.
12 to 1 „ Lord Exeter's Merope.
12 to 1 „ Lord G. Bentinck's All-round-my-Hat.
20 to 1 „ Mr. J. Robinson's April Noddy.
25 to 1 „ Mr. J. Rogers's Moorhen filly.
There was not a bet laid on this race to-day, and very
few either yesterday or Wednesday. Bto 1 was takes
freely about Sister to Martingale, yesterday, 12 to 1 agst.
Merope, and 25 to 1, several times about the Moorhen
filly.

TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY EVENING.—DERBY."-'
5 to 2 against Ugly Buck ; 7to 2 against Ratan—taken ;-
12 to 1 against Orlando ; 12 to 1 against Bay Momus; 15
to 1 against Leander, 20 to 1 against Running Rein; 20
to 1 against Ackbar ; 25 to 1 against lonian; 30 to 1
against Qui Tam. OAKS.-7 to 1 against Barricade ; 7
to 1 against Princess ; 7 to 1 against Sister to Martingale;
II to 1 against Merope ; 12 to 1 against All-round-my-
Hat ; 20 to 1 against The Bee.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Sunday evening last, about
nine o'clock, a dreadful accident occurred to Peter
Kenyon, a plate layer, who has lately been working at the
railway tunnel now constructing at Birkenhead- He bad
been at a " camp meeting," held on Sunday afternoon at
Upton Heath, and, having afterwards been drinking in
company with some friends, he lay down on his return
home, on the Chester and Birkenhead line of railway, in
the vicinity of Messrs. Dickson's nurseries, near Ches-
ter, and fell asleep. While in this state, the engine of the
train running from Birkenhead struck him with such
force as to tear open his side, and he died instantane-
ously. The poor fellow, who has met with this melan-
choly death, resided in Pitt-street, Newton, Chester, and
has left a widow and six children.
MILNER'S FIRE-RESISTING BOXES.—It will be re-
membered that a considerable time ago a series of experi-
ments were made in this town, testing, at very high tem-
peratures, the boxes and safes for the preservation of
books, deeds, &c., from fire, invented and made, on a new
and improved principle, by our townsmen, Messrs. Mil-
ner and Son, to the great satisfaction and astonishment
of a number of scientific gentlemen who witnessed the Va-
rious trials,—which resulted in proving beyond a doubt
their great superiority over every other previous or ,011-
temporary contrivance having the same object in view.
Mr. Samuel 'Woods, it will be remembered, afterwards
read an interesting paper detailing the whole of the expe-
riments, before the Polytechnic Society, the substance of
which was afterwards published in a pamphlet. Since that
period the fame of these boxes has continued rapidly to
spread, not only in the neighbourhood. but throughout
the kingdom ; and the demand for them has been so greats
that Messrs. Milner have been induced to enter upon new
and very extensive premises for their manufacture. Num-
bers of experiments have also been tried in other towns
from time to time, and all confirming the extraordinary
power of these cases to resist fire of great intensity, and
thus to preserve their contents uninjured. One of the
most interesting of these trials was made, last month, at
the Camden Station of the London and Birmingham Rail-
way, and is detailed in the Railway Record, in letters
signed by parties who witnessed the various tests,—in-
eluding Mr. Henry Watt, of the Railway Co., our mem-
ber, Sir H. Douglas, Colonel Cunningham, of the Royal
Engineers, the Superintendent of the Railway, and a num-
ber of other gentlemen of eminence. The experiments
were successively made with boxes of various sizes and
thicknesses, which were each subjected to fires of intense
heat for a long time, and the contents—including bank
notes—were taken out uninjured. Some of the boxes
were taken out of the fire red hot, but the inner chambers
and contents were perfectly fresh and unaltered. We
may remind our readers, that these safes are strongly made
iof tinned iron plates. The interior box or chamber s sur-
rounded by two or more external cases, having the spaces
between them partly filled with metalic tubes, filled with
an alkaline solution, or other suitable fluid, and the re-
maining space filled with absorbent non-conducting sub-
stances. At a certain high degree of heat, the tubes one by
one lose the power of retaining the liquid, which, running
out, saturates the absorbent substance that surrounds
them, and a steam or damp vapour is produced that pre-
serves the inner case and papers from being ignited. We
need scarcely say that no companies or private individuals
who have valuable books, deeds, or other documents in
their possession, should be without them,—especially as
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The TEETH have ever been considered as forming one
of the most pleasing ornaments of the human counte-
nance, and their preservation demands our utmost care
and attention. Indeed, if there be any loss that more
particularly affects the countenance than another, it is that
of the Teeth ; which the dentist, however ingenious, must
ever vainly hope satisfactorily to replace by artificial con-
trivance. The DECAY of the TEETH and GUMS arises
from various causes ; but, principally, it may be attributed
to early neglect, ill health, or the use of Tooth Powders
containing mineral substances and deleterious acids, which
give temporary whiteness to the Teeth, while they corrode
the enamel. To this fact, indeed, is principally to be
attributed the long Botanical Research, which was happily
terminated by the most felicitous discovery ever given to
the world for the PRESERVATION of the TEETH, GUSS:
and BREATH, viz.,—ROWLAND'S ODONTO, or
PEARL DENTIFRICE. Prepared from Orients'
Herbs with unusual care, and transmitted to this country
at great expense, ROWLAND'S ODONTO is no less distin-
guished for its powerfully efficacious, antidotal, and puri-
fving virtues, in immediately arresting caries, or decal In
the Teeth, than for its stimulative properties in fisi.ll,
them (when loose) firmly in their sockets, and in gill'''.
a healthy redness and firmness to the Gums. Its correc-
tive properties are in particular most pleasingly displayed
in respect to the BREATH—to which it imparts a sweetner!
and fragrance not a little gratifying to its possessor. 1,!:
the most efficient and fragrant aromatic cleanser of t,::
MOUTH, TEETH, and Gums ever known, RowtAtiu,
ODONTO has now for a long series of years occupiea
distinguished place at the Toilets of the Sovereigns and
Nobility throughout Europe, while the general dems?'_',
for it at once announces the favour in which it is held by
the public at large. It should never be forgotten,
when used earl y in life, it effectually prevents all aches. In
the Teeth and Gums—effaces all Spots and Discolouratte':
whatsoever—eradicates Scurvy—and, in a word, seen r A
alizes the chief attribute of Health and Beaut.Y.
BEAUTIFUL SET OF TEETH ! Price 25.
Box. The " Genuine Article" has the words ";,.„
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LAND and SoN, 20, Hatton-garden," engraved X'/5 ore
thority) on the Government Stamp. *** All (Ally'
Fraudulent Counterfeits ! I