The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-08 00:00:00

TANN'S PATENT RELIANCE LOCK

For all kinds of Iron Doors, Safes, Chests, Rooms, and every
other purpose to which Locks can be applied.

This Lock possesses strength, security, and- simplicity, the
three principal requisites of a good Lock ; and also shows a great
advantage over everything hitherto offered. First—The sim-
ple method of the levers being hinged alternately on the bolt
of the Lock, and working over each other, forms a combination
of the levers at both ends, thereby effecting its well-attested
security. Secondly—The introduction of a guard or guards on
levers, thus securing the back levers from ever being brought
into action, unless by the right key.
The PATENT RELIANCE LATCHES are of a perpendicular
movement, and guarded; they combine great security, with
the advantages of difference from all others.

MANUFACTURERS OF IMPROVED WROUGHT-IRON
FIREPROOF SAFES, CHESTS, AND BOXES;
ALSO STRONG CASH AND DOLLAR CHESTS, FOR EXPORTATION.
MANUFACTURERS OF
EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BEST LOCKS AND LATCHES;
Also 2,3, and 6 Lever Detector Locks, for every purpose.
STRONG JAPANNED CASH AND DEED BOXES,
FITTED WITH THE PATENT LOCKS.

J. G. HARRISON & CO.,
Na. 14, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL.
MAN UFACTOSit, iloWitzlzi-110AD, LONDON.

LIVERPOOL, second only in importance to London, has not
hitherto had the advantages of such an establishment as we
propose. The existing grocery establishments; though in many
instances of undoubted respectability and considerable extent,
are still of that mixed character (combining a variety of hetero-
geneous trades) which indicates, usually, the infancy of a town
rather than the advanced civilisation and high commercial
status which are the characteristics of Liverpool. The rapid
increase of its population, and other obvious signs of prosperity,
at once mark it out as the place most suited for commercial
enterprise, and in no branch of•its commerce is there, in our
opinion, so wide a field for honourable and successful com-
petition as in the Tea Trade; a trade which, beyond all other
branches of our imports, has exceeded the most sanguine
expectations of all interested in its success, and whose history
is alike interesting to the merchant, the financier, and the phi-
lanthropist; inasmuch as the moral effects resulting from the
increased use of tea render it as important a consideration in
all future schemes for the public benefit as it has hitherto been
in the fiscal arrangement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
or the speculations of thehnercantile community.
The discussion of the history of the Tea Trade, however, we
have neither time norspace to pursue, but we may just observe,
that, while for several years after its introduction, in 1660, the
annual import did not exceed "one hundred and fifty pounds,"
such has been the increase in later times, that last year the
quantity imported into London and Liverpool alone was nearly
FIFTY MILLION POUNDS, yielding an aggregate revenue
of upwards of FIVE MILLION POUNDS STERLING.
The price at the time to which we refer bein., " SIXTY
SHILLINGS PElt POUND," placed it, of course. beyond the
reach of any but the wealthy ; and although, in order to increase
its consumption, it was sold in a liquid state, and the duty,
eightpence per gallon, levied upon it as upon other excisable
liquors, yet the progress of it appears to have been very gra-
dual, for we find, upon reference to advertisements, still ex-
tant, of a spirited Tea Merchant, of 1709 (nearly tifty years
after its introduction,) that the price still remained as high as
20s. per lb. ; and it remained for the enterprise of later times
to develope the resources of China and the adaptation of Tea
to the wants of the inhabitants of Great Britain ; a people who,
above all other nations of the earth, are attached, happily, to
fireside comforts, and who are ever ready to sacrifice mere out-
side splendour for those less dazzling, but more enduring, ele-
ments which constitute all expressed by that emphatically
English word, " Home," and who are therefore disposed at all
times to hail as benefactors those who, by " honourable com-
petition," place within their reach, an article so conducive to
comfort as "TEA."

Tea, the mere luxury of former times, is now not only a
highly important, but an almost indispensable article of sub-
sistence ; and from the prominent place which it occupies in
the expenditure of most families, the power of procuring it IN
ITS PURE STATE, of the BEST QUALITIES, and upon the
most ECONOM /CAL TERMS, are considerations not beneath
the notice of any ; and are, we doubt not, duly appreciated by
the inhabitants of Liverpool.
The difficulty of procuring good and pure Tea at moderate
prices in most provincial towns and cities, and, in fact, at any
place out of London, is generally admitted by all those who are
in the habit of purchasing their Tea in the metropolis, and is,
we think, mainly attributable to the following causes :—Ths
very little attention paid by the generality of dealers to the se.
lection of those qualities nzost suited for family use; to the
long credit zn many instances given; and to the very pernicious
system adopted by many of selling Raw Sugars at a positive
loss and charging 4N EXORBITANT PROFIT UPON
TEA AND COFFEE; thus inflicting a positive injury upon
one class of their customers, who purchase but little Sugar,
and necessarily confining their own purchases of Pea to the
ordinary or inferior kinds; a fact notorious to every London
Wholesale Dealer.

Our long residence in London and connexion with the first
Tea Establishment there gives us advantages, in the constant
selection of suitable articles, possessed by few • and as we con-

vs, and

template confining our trade to " Teas, Coffees, hp..
Refined Sugars," our customers will escape the injustice con-
nected with the present state of the Sugar Trade; and by ad-
hering to the ready money system, we shall be able to conduct
our business upon a LOWER SCALE OF PROFIT than has
hitherto prevailed in this town or neighbourhood.
The following are the prices at which we can supply Tet
-hie for various family purposes:—
BLACK TEAS.
full flavour.. per lb. 3s. Od. inferior lower
'r4OU, full flavour
Ss. 4d. recommended

STRON

FINE COSGOL

VERY FINE CONGOU, rich and
strong ...
FINEST C(

Ty blackish

Scented Ora

ad. recommended

4s. Od. recommended

ly recommended

4s. Bd. to 5s

;ood tonne 48. Od. to 4s. 4d

ge Pekoe, very choice ss. 4d

o Hyson kinc

blood TwanK
Fine Twanka
GOOD HYS
FINE HYSO
VERY FINE HYSt
full flavour
SUPERFINE HY::

GREEN TEAS

cate flavour
Finest Hyso

3s. Od. inferior lower
3s. 4d. to 3s. 6d.

ss. Od. recommended

ss. 4d. recommended

1, brig

lit close leaf,

Young Hyson, good to fine
FINEST OUCHAIN, small close

wiry leaf

Impeiial(

ss. 4d. recommended

1. to ss. Od
3s. 6d. to 3s. Bd.
4s. Od. to 58. Od.

.npawder, good to sne 3s

Guripowder, Canton kind

Ciunpovvaer,g9od to fine
VERY FINE GUNPOWDER,

SUPERFINE GUNPOWDER

rich, strong, burnt
FINEST GUNPOWDER, very

6s. Od. recommended

6s. 6d. recommended

The articles to which especial attention is invited are "THE
FINE CONGOU at 3s. 8d.," an excellent and useful Tea; and
the " VERY FINE CONGOU, at 45.," admirably adapted for
all family purposes, and will be found upon trial, suitable and
agreeable to the taste of the great majority of the public; and
the "FINEST CONGOU, at 4s. 4d.," ripe and mellow, and of
the true Pekoe Souchong flavour, "the BEST BLACK TEA"
that need be desired for any purpose. In Green Teas we re-
commend the " FINE HYSON, at 45.," " VERY FINE
HYSON, at 55.," and "SUPERFINE HYSON, at ss. 4d."
We shall, perhaps, be told that the prices quoted above do
not differ greatly from those at present in operation in Liver-
pool. Of this we are.well aware. but beg to remind those who
object, that price, irrespective of quality, is no fair criterion as
to cheapness; and that faw things are easier than to quote
prices and annex characters and names, oftentimes the most
absurd, and which,-in many instances, have no other connexion
with the articles sold than the place they occupy in the dealer's
circular.

Assertions such as have made, and statements such as we
have now set forth, are always, until proved, exposed to doubt
and suspicion. In order, therefore, that their truth may be
tested, we very respectfully and earnestly request "A TRIAL,"
the only mode of arriving at a fair conclusion. If, upon trial,
our goods be found, as we feel confident they will, superior to
those hitherto sold, we are sure of a continuance of the patron-
age we seek ; but, if not, we cannot reasonably expect, nor do
we ask it. Without this test no one can fairly determine, and
we are quite willing to stake our reputation upon the result.
All purchasers of original packages, whether in the trade or
not, will be allowed the customary " overu eight " or "draft "
of two lbs., sometimes more, on chests containing about eighty
lbs., and one lb. on boxes from thirty to forty lbs. ; and in
•rder to meet the wishes of families residing at a distance, and
whose consumption is not adequate to the purchase of an ori-
ginal package, we shall be willing to weigh up chests or half-
chests in parcels from single lbs. upwards ; thus enabling
several families to join in the purchase and afterwards divide
the Tea. In such cases two lbs. "overweight" will be enclosed
wite the chest of eighty lbs., and one lb. with the half-chest of
forty lbs. We shall also have constantly on sale a variety of
boxes and canisters of Tea of various sizes, suitable for FA-
MILIES; and DEALERS can either be supplied from our
Stock in Liverpool or have Teas shipped direct from London,
as they may prefer.