The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-08 00:00:00

212,: MILNER'S FIRE RAMER !
MILNER'S PATENT FIRE-RESISTING PRINCIPLE,
COMBINING NON-CONDUCTION 6. EVAPORATION,

FAMLLIAR AS HOUSEHOLVWORDS."
To every mind in Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire.

IN confirmationof the several legal opinions before
,obtained, pronouncing the plan specified and advertised as
TANN's, as an impudent, reckless, and umvarrantable infringe-
ment of Milner's Patent, we have just received that of the
highest authority in wield cases, of which the following are
extracts:—

" Lsee no reason to doubt the validity of MILNER'S Patent
IN ITS ENTIRETY. lam of opinion that the invention as to
Safes,-described in TANIA's specification, is an infringement of
MILNER'S Patent.

" THOMAS WEBSTER, Temple,

"June 25th, 1850."

In addition to the cautiati' appended at foot, and as a measure
of self-protection to entitle us to recover our costs, we respect-
fully announce that we shall proceed in Chancery against
every Seller, Buyer, or User of these illegal articles.
After;-nearly half a century of earnest pursuit of our one
business, and successive improvements of our Manufactures—
employing more experienced Workmen (aided by the best
Machinery) than all the otherSafemakers in England put toge-
ther—we are in a position to produce the cheapest and best
Safes in the world as regards strength and workmanship ; and
our Patent Rights enable us exclusively to supply the only
FIRE-RESISTING CHAMBBRS that will effectually fulfil
their duty. We ask of the Liverpool public to come.and see
our Works, (always open to them,) and judge for themselves.

MILNER'S PATENT FIREPROOF SAFES,At.
TO MANUFACTURERS, PURCHASERS, 4r VENDORS
T. OF FIREPROOF SAFES, BOXES,

The Pmprietors of this Patent, iiairing ascertained that in-
fringements have been and continue to be committed on-the
exclusive privileges milted by the above Patent,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that LEGAL PROCEED-
INGS will be taken against all parties making, selling, or
using, without the permission of the Patentees, any Fireproof
Safe or Box in imitation of or constructed on the principle of
the invention .secured to THOMAS MaLNER, his Executors,
Administrators, and Assigns, by Lettersfatent dated at West-
minster, Twenty-sixth day of February, ..One Thousand Eight
;Hundred and Forty.

BARLOW and ASTON,
Solicitors for the Patentees,

Manchester, June 14th, IMO.
The above applies also to IdUner's Scotekand Irish Patents,
THOMAS MILNER and SON.

TUE LATE MR. LOWNDES' LIBRARY.—The first day's
sale of the books comprising the library of the late judge
of the. County Court, took place yesterday. The attend-
ance in the early part of the morning was good, notwith-
standing the extremely unfavourable weather. Among
the company, however, was the .usual confederation of
dealers, which, indeed, went far to swell the amount of
the aggregate number. The result of the sale goes far to
prove the,truth of the opinion pretty generally held, that
books are not so highly esteemed, nor readers so nume-
rous as certain educational enthusiasts would have it
believed. It is true that the library referred to is,oom-
posed chiefly of volumes in the dead or continental lan-
guages, and contains not a few tomes that might correctly
be set down as dry and musty, yet, the former class.at
least ought to attract the attention of the educated por-
tion of our community, besides, there were not a few
works of modern date and standing, yet the prices realised
were out of all proportion below the value of the lots in
the majority of instances. The number of the lots
sold was 222, comprising, probably, three or four hundred
volumes, some of which were extremely old. Yet the
amount realised did not exceed some fifty or sixty pounds.
Le Peintro Graveur, by Adam Bartel), 21 vols., neatly
bound in calf, brought only £3 3s. The Bridgewater
Treatises, viz., Kirkby's History, Habits and Instincts of
Animals, 2 vols., 1835, £2 ls. Burke's Genealogical and
Heraldic History of the Landed Interest of Great Britain,
4 vols.. and ditto Peerage and Baronetage, £1 6s. Bayle's
Historical and Critical Dictionary, 4 vols., £1 12s. A.
curious old work, dated 1497, with numerous woodcuts, en-
titled Stultifera Navis (the Ship of Fools) sold for 17s. 6d.,
a high price when compared with the important and volu-
minous works referred to above, as also with other old
volumes nearly as curious, for instance, the Opera de
Scientia of Alexandria Begius, 1503, black letter with il-
luminated initials, was sold for 4s. 3d., and other similar
relics of the priziter'A art of primitive times went of
equally low,