The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

PURE PORT.

MESSRS. OFFLEYS, WEBBER, FORRESTER,
and CRAMP, ALTO DOURO FARMERS having deter-
mined, as Growers, to supply the Consu rect, make this
public announcement for the infor n of those Gentlemen
who are disposed to replenish r Cellars with pure fully-fer-
mented and highly-flavou ORT.
Liverpool, Lancast uildi»gs, 31st August, 1848.
A WORD 0 WO ON PORT WINE, addressed to the
British public generally, but particularly to Private Gentlemen,
by JOSEPH JAMES FORRESTER, (of the house of Offleys, Web-
ber, Forrester, and Cramp, of Oporto,) author of Surveys of
the Wino,. nietrieta of th.. Altn Mauro, Eurrcya of the: River
Douro, &c., &c.
Published by ROYSTON and BROWN. 40 and 41, Old Broad-
street.

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 Houses 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.
" GENTLEMEN In the late Fire in Market-street, which
entirely gutted the entire block of buildings of which my Ware-.
house formed part, I have sincere • pleasure Onning you.
that my books, together with a 9uanti valuable papers,
watches, &c., were preserved umn. in one of your Fire-
resisting Safes, which I strongly ommend to the public.
" I am your obedien •ant,
" THOMA AIGH, 'Woollen Merchant,
" w Brown-street and Market-street.
" Messrs. Milner a on."
The outside us Safe was partially melted: the contents
inside unsin , 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 uneaualled 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—numerous 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 unburnt.
Fire at Mr. J. Blackaller's Ship and Chandlery Store, Spar-
ling-street, Liverpool; a strong and fierc Fire; Sale most
severely burnt outside • contents unsinged.
I've at Messrs. J. and W. Walkers', the extensive builders,
Birkenhead ; buildings entirely gutted, everythinv_ burnt in.
them, including the contents of large Iron Sale an.. tirawers,
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 extensivo
and destructive fire; a large Iron Safe covered with brickwork
with double Iron doors burnt out ; Milners' entirely preeerving
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 Milner&
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-
oorn, 15; South Jobn-street, Liverpool.
1 11.11 .111,14 .0 11'.7 111/11/14 LEITERS PiTENT.

t 24,

THE PATENT RAPID WATER PURIFIER,
WHICH WILL PURIFY FROM

30 GALLONS TO 50,000 GALLONS PER DAY,
AND UPWARDS,
Now introduced into Her Majesty's Royal Castle, Windsor, the
Admiralty, the Residence of Her Grace the Duchess of Suther-
land, Charles Barry, Esq., the Architect of the New Houses of
Parliament, and numerous others of the Nobi " and Gentry;
also into Her Majesty's Navy, by order o he Lords of the
Admiralty.
ADVANTAGES OF THE PATENT RA' WATER PURIFIER
OVER EVERY OTHER. D OF FILTER.
Its Simplicity of Construction . e Thickness of the Stone—
its Durability—a never-failinl upply of Pure Water, without
any trouble—the speedy • . oval of Deleterious Alatter—its
applicability to be place' in Water Butts, Cisterns, Tanks,
Pcnds or Reservoirs, . &c.
ABRI P tED OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"The simplic of construction insures the lasting proper-
ties of the Fill- ."—London Times.

" No Ship with this Portable Apparatus on board need be
in want of the sweetest and purest water."—Liverpool Courier,
June 21st, 1848.
" We can conceive no invention better calculated to serve the
sailor, and at the same time to benefit the interest of the tiler-
chant."—Liverpoos Hail, June 10, 1548.
" To the brewer, dyer, and others requiring a copious supply
of pure water it offers great advantages, and is also available" for culinary and other purposes.,,--Standard, 30th May, 1848.
The Filter was greatly admired by the Scientific Gentlemen
at the Polytechnic Society for its self-cleansing' self-acting,
and durable qualities. "—Liverpool Standard, 13th June.
" It is far and away the most perfect and economical thing
of the kind extant. Liverpool Chronicle, 29th April, 1848.
" It possesses advantages over all other Filters we have seen
in the simplicity of its construction and its capacity to disen,
gage all deleterious matter with which water may be impreg.
nated.—Liverpool Journal, June 10th, 1848.
" It is a new Filter, made of Sand Stone, which disengages
matter of every kind held in suspension, and renders the water
beautifully pure and limpid."—Liverpool Times, June Bth,
1848.

" One of the most unique and really useful inventions of the
day is a Stone Filter which became the object of much atten-
tion at the last meeting of the Polytechnic Society."—Liverpool
Albion, June 19th, 1848.

Copies of the Paper read before the Polytechnic Society, in
reference to the above invention, and all particulars, can be
obtained at the Office,
NO. 5, SOUTiel JOHN-STREET, LIVERPOOL.
JAMES FORSTER.