The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-22 00:00:00

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 bunum:
mass being the one aliwded to below.
" Manchester, August 13th, 1847.
" GENTLEMEN In the late Fire in Market-street, which
entirely gutted the entire block of buildings of widen my Ware-
house formed part, I have sincere pleasure in informing you
that my books, together with a quantity of valuable papers,
watches, &c., were preserved uninjured in one of your Fire-
resisting Safes, which I strongly recommend to the public.
" I am your obedient servant,
"THOMAS HAIGH, Woollen Merchant,
" New Brown-street and Market-street.
" Messrs. Milner and Son."

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.
eluding the strongest Wrought-iron Safes, Closets, and Doors
in the World, lined with their unequalled Fire-resisting Cham-
bers. Out of upwards of 20.000 of their Safes 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; Safe most
severely burnt outside; contents unsinged.
Fire 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
en the premises.
Fire at Plimsaul Brothers', of Plymouth ; a very extensive.
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
i all classes of Buildings, mpregnable Locks and Cash Boxes,
at the Works, 50A, Lord-street and Cable-street, and Skor-
oom, 17, South Joku-street, Liverpool.

WHO WOULD WRITE AN INDIFFERENT HAND,
When a beautifully free and flowing Style of Penmanship can
be acquired in a few easy Lessons,
At Mr. and Mrs. THOMPSON'S,

PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL E ABLISHMENT,
No. 8, CLAYTON-S ARE.
MR. THOMPSON, who h been established at
No. 8. CLAYTON-SQL A RE, u pwards of eighteen years,
Sons INVENTOR and HEAD T CHER of a new and superior
system of WRITING, enable. ad writers to acquire a free, ex-
peditious, and commandin . yle of PENMANSHIP, in a few
easy Lessons of one hour ch, private, or in class.
LADIES, in Class, me at Three o'clock on Mondays, Wed-
nesdays, and Fridays, • d are completed in a remarkably free
and lady-like handw • ing, the only fashionable one of the day.
GENTLEMEN et in Class each Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday, at 10 A.M., 7 or 8 P.M., whichever hour- suits their
convenience, and in Twelve Lessons are completed in a good,
bold, free, and expeditious business hand.
Lessons given strictly private at any hour, to suit the con-
venience of the Pupil.
MR. THOMPSON
GIVES LESSONS IN THE USEFUL ART OF
BOOK-KEEPING
BY DOUBLE ENTRY,
containing the general principles and particular m ules now
used in the mercantile houses in Liverpool.
The Pupil is thoroughly instructed in a variety of extensive
and diversified transactions, including Purchases and Sales,
Goods on Consignment, Shipments Abroad, Joint Adventures,
Making Insurances, Partnership, Posting and Balancing the
Ledger, Balance Sheet, &c.
COMMERCIAL ARITHMETIC, MENTAL CALCULA-
TION and SHORTHAND Taught in a few Lessons.
For Cards of Terms apply at No. 8, Clayton-square.

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