The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

REDUCTION IN PRICE OF RUM AND GIN.
TF. ASHE begs to return his sincere thanks to
• his Friends and Patrons for the very liberal support he
has exp_erienFed thqla*five years, and to apprise them of the,

LESSONS IN WRITING, BOOK-KEEPING, &c.
BY
MR. T H O M P S O N,
FINISHING WRITING MASTER,
ESTABLISHED IN CLAYTON-SQUARE UPWARDS OF TWENTY
YEARS.

So many individuals have experienced the benefits of Mr.
Thompson's instructions in the art of writing, and praise has
been so lavishly bestowed upon him, that to add to the sum of
enconium seems superfluous. H equally successful in all
styles, and there is no hand so a born but he can give it free-
dom, no scrawl so slove ut he can transform it into one
of beauty From the ' erpool Times, Feb. 7, 1850.

Learn bytl'ie Pen those Talents to insure,
That fix ev'n Fortune, and from Want secure.
For Ease and Wealth, for Honour and Delight,

Your Hand's your Warrant, if you well can Write.
MR. THOMPSON'S is the only Establishment in
Liverpool where BAD WRITERS are taught a really
good and lasting Style of PENMANSHIP, in a FEW EASY
LESSONS, of One Hour each, Private or in Class.
TO THE LADIES,
A neat, rapid, delicate, lady-like Hand, being the most fashion-
able one of the day ; the only form approved, of for the Album,
complimentary and invitation Cards.

AND TO GENTLEMEN,
A style at once bold, expeditious, and commercial; characte-
ristic of the superior freedom of the system, and highly effi-
cient for mercantile pursuits.

MR. THOMPSON GIVES LESSONS
IN THE USEFUL ART OF '
BOOK-KEEPING BY DOUBLE ENTRY,
Containing the general principles and particular rules now
used in the Mercantile Houses in Liverpool.

MRS. THOMPSON gives PRIVATE LESSONS
to LADIES who have neglected their WRITING, or have
acquired a bad habit in the use of the Pen.
Cards of Terms may be had by applying at No.B, CLAYTON-
SQUARE, LIVERPOOL.
Mr. and Mrs. TGONIPSON are ably assisted by their Son, Mr
JAMES W. '1 HOMPSON.

CHUBB'S PATENT FIREPROOF WROUGHT-

IRON SAFES, CHESTS, BOXES, & DOORS

riIHESE Depositories afford complete security to
.1. valuable Property from Depredation or Fire.
They are, made in the best manner, and being entirely of
Wrought-iron, combined with effective and well-proved non-
conductors of beat, and secured by Cuusa's Patent Detector
Locks, will resist Intense Heat, the falling of timbers and
brickwork in case of Fire, or the skill and force of the most
determined burglar. Their Fireproof qualities are well known,
and have been subjected to frequent severe tests.
No instance has been found where t hgfebeen in Fires in
which the contents were injured. r. Braidwood, Superinten-
dent of the London Fire Br' e, slated, a few months since,
in a discussion before t Institution of Civil Engineers,"
that in every Fire ich ha had found Safes of Chubb's
manufacture, the B s and Papers were Preserved, and that
in nearly all cases where others were used their contents were
destroyed. No better testimonial of their safety can be required
than the many thousands which have been in use in various
parts of the world for several years and have given complete
satisfaction.

CHUBB'S PATENT DETECTOR LOCKS are made for
every purpose to which a Lock can be applied. They afford
perfect security, and are extremely simple and durable. They
have been characterised by the Comptroller of her Majesty's
Stationery Office, J. R. M'Culloch, Esq., as " the best Locks
made," as will be seen by the following extract from the evi-
dence taken before a recent Select Committee of the House of
Commons:—" It is allowed by everybody who knows anything
about the matter, that Chubb's Locks are the best Locks made
now." They are consequently now used in all the Government
Offices.

CHUBB'S PATENT BAR LOCKS form a simple means of
securing the Doors of Warehouses, &c., as they possess great
strength.

CHUBB'S PATENT LATCHES, for Street Doors, Count-
ing houses, &c., are perfectly secure against any attempts to
open them by means of false keys or picklocks. The common
Latches, and those called " Patent." in general use, afford not
the slightest safety, but may even be opened by numbers of
keys dissimilar to their own, and, as an outer door in particular
should be properly secured. CHUBB'S PATENT LATCHES
are strongly recommended as the most effectual means of
safety. They have neat and portable Keys, and are low in
price.

CHUBB'S CASHBOXES and JAPANNED DEEDBOXES
are all fitted with the Detector Locks.

C. CHUBB and SON,
57, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, LONDON,
16, MARKET-STREET, MANCHESTER,
AND
28, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN GLASGOW, MAN-
CHESTER, LINCOLN'S-INN, &c.

MILNER'S " HOLDFAST" and FIRE-RESIST-
ING SAFES are the strongest, best, and cheapest safe-
guards in the world against fire, robbery, and fraud; 20,000 of
them keep the books, deeds, and cash of the practical men of
Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, &c., who know their supe-
riority to any other others. Five of them have brought their
contents unscathed out of the ruins of large fires in Glasgow
alone this year, wherein scores of other safes have been burnt
out. Twenty-five offices were burnt mit in Lincoln's Inn in
January, in one alone of which the tle-deeds of thirty large
landed estates were burnt, which uld all have been preserved
in Milner's Safes. From so hundreds of certificates, the
following is selected, as o out of many instanees in which
everything was consum in the buildings excepting what
Milner's Safe contain .

"Clyde- eet, Anderston, Glasgow, May 7, 1849.
"Gentlemen,— the calamitous fire yesterday morning, by
which our preses, and stock of oil, tallow, Ex., were totally
destroyed, books were preserved in the Milner's Fireproof
Safe, purchased from you. We have peat pleasure in thus
bearing testimony to the great efficiency of these Safes.
CHARLES BOYD and Co.
"This Safe was most severely " tested, the brass knob and
brass work about the lock were melted off."
"Glasgow, 10th ry,
" Gentlemen,—The books and ppe
ars whichFebrua we had in 1849. your
Fire-resisting Safe, which was subjected to a most intense heat
for several hours at the late fire in Gordon-street, on Thursday
last, were wholly preserved—the property saved being of ex-
treme importance to us. We have, therefore, great pleasure is
communicating this fact, deeming your Safes invaluable as a
protection against.fire, and an invention with which the public
cannot be too well acquainted.

"We are, gentlemen, your obedient servants,
"KER, DOERING, and Co.
" Messrs. Thos. Milner and Son, Liverpool."
The outside of the above Safe was completely burnt through
. _ _

"Triumphant Resistance to Robbers."
"Gentlemen,—Our Milner's Safe was attempted to be broken
open last night; but notwithstanding the great and persevering
violence with which the robbers have worked at the door and
back of the safe both of which are beaten in and cut through
the outer plates in numerous places,) the lock and bolts re-
mained true, and saved the contents. You may send us another
Milner's Holdfast Safe, No. 6
"Glasgow, Dec. 21, 1648

JAS. RICIIARDSON and Co."
"Manchester. Auzust 13th. 1847.
"Gentlemen,—ln the late Fire in Market-street, which en.
tirely gutted the whole block of buildings of which my Ware-
house formed part, I have sincere pleasure in informing you
that my books, together with a quantity of valuable papers,
watches, kc., were preserved uninjured in one of your Fire-
esisting 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 Sox."

In the numerous accidental Fires and experimental tests
which Milner's Safes have been exposed to—every description
of Safe in use—Fire-proof (so called) •r 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 pa-
tent, on a rapidly extending scale, have spared no pains or 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, includinz
the strongest Wrought-Iron Safes, Closets, and Doors in the
world, lined with their unequalled Fire-resisting Chambers.
Out of upwards of 20,000 of their Safes in use amongst the
Manufacturing and Commercial Houses in Great Britain—the
class best able to appreciate their value—numerous cases of se-
vere trial in accidental Fires 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. B. Blackaller's Ship Chandlery Store, Spar-
ling-street, Liverpool; a strong and fierce Fire; Safe most
severely burnt outside.

Fire at Messrs. J. and W. Walkers', tho extensive builders,
Birkenhead; buildings entirely gutted, everything burnt in
them, including the contents of a large Iron. Safe and Drawers,
standing beside Milner's ; the contents of Milners' uninjured,
and in use now.

Firs at Messrs. Gamin and Co.'s, Park-lane; a very strong
Fire; again the contents of Milner's Safe the only thing saved
on the premises.

Fire 'at Plimsiul Brothers, a Plymouth; a very extensive
and destructive Fire; a large Iron Fmfe, covered with Brick-
work, with double iroi doors, .burnt out ; Milner's entirely
preserving its contents.

Fire in tlueen:sTree.i,Glasgow; a great number of Safes.aad
Closets burnt out ; no. books sated throughout the buildings
excepting Messrs. S, R. apd Thomas Brown's, in Milner's Safe.
FIRE,REiSISTING SAFES, CHESTS, and BOX KS,
suitable for all,classes of Buildings, Impregnable Locks and
Cash Boxes, at the Works, 64A and 54, Lord-street, and 47
to 67, Cable-street, Liierpool,, tad. Loadim Dept, 47A,
31"rnitltftet.,