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

THE LIVERPOOL FURNITURE MART,
19, BOLD-STREET,
OPPOSITE CONCERT-STREET.
FAMILIES FURNISHING are invited to inspect
THE VERY EXTENSIVE STOCK OF THE
ABOVE ESTABLISHMENT,
COMPRISING EVERY DESCRIPTION OP
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

SUITABLE FOR THE
DRAWING-ROOM, DINING-ROOM, PARLOUR or STUDY

TOGETHER WITH A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF

BED-ROOM FURNITURE,
IN FOUR-POST, HALF-TESTER, NURSERY, FRENCH
AND OTHER BEDSTEADS ;
WARDROBES, CHESTS OF DRAWERS,
DRESSING TABLES, WASHSTANDS, &c. &c.,
IN MAHOGANY, FRENCH POLISHED BIRCH, AND
PAINTED WOODS.
WITH A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
ORNAMENTAL FURNITURE IN PAPIER MACHE,
CHAIRS, TABLES, WORK TABLES, WHAT-NOTS, DE-
VENPORTS, MUSIC-STOOLS, CANTERBURYS, &c.,
All of which are Selling at greatly REDUCED PRICES, and
well worth the attention of Families Furnishing.
FEATHER BEDS,
HAIR, WOOL, FLOCK, AND SPRING MATTRESSES AND
PAILLASSES MADE TO ORDER,
AT THE FURNITURE MART,
19, BOLD-STREET, OPPOSITE CONCERT-STREET,
SAMUEL CUTTER, PROPRIETOR.

GREAT FIRE
IN MARKET-STREET, MANCHESTER ;
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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 ite -contente -uninjured out or tne 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 in infornung you
that my books, together with a guantity of valuable papers,
watches, &c., were preserved uninjured in one of your Fire-
resisting Safes, which I strongly recommend to the public.
44 I am your obedient servant,
" THOMAS lIAIGH, 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 1
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 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, Sper-
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 save
an the premises.
Fire at Plimsaul Brothers', of Plymouth ; a very extensivc
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. It. and Thomas Browns', in Milners'
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-
oom, 15, South John-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 ESTABLISHMENT,

No. 8, CLAYTON-SQUARE.
tilR. THOMPSON, who has been established at
1111 No. 8. CLAYTON-SQUARE, upwards of eighteen years,
SOLE INVENTOR and HEAD TEACHER of a new and superior
system of WRITING, enables bad writers to acquire a free. ex-
peditious, and commanding style of PENMANSHIP, in a few
easy Lessons of one hour each, private, or in class.
LADIES, in Class, meet at Three o'clock on Mondays, Wed-
nesdays, and Fridays, and are completed in a remarkably free
and lady-like handwriting, the only fashionable one of the day.
GENTLEMEN meet in Class each Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday, at 10 A.M., 7 or 8 P.M., whichever hour suits their
convenience, and in Twelve Lesscins 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 inks 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. •