The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-28 00:00:00

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the most extensive and complete in the world, employing
from two to three hundred hands, assisted by powerful,
original, and elaborate machinery and implements, adapted
for every branch of the work; established for carrying out
the important improvements under 1111LNERs' NEW PATENT
of September. 1851—the close of the Great Exhibition, to the
interior and exterior of their HOLDEAST and Ft RE-RESISTINCS
SAFES, and for supplying to the public the strongest Safe-
guards against FIRE, ROBBERY, or VIOLENCE extant, at the
lowest prices consistent with the most perfect efficiency and
security.

The gritONOEST WROUGHT-IRON SAFEGUARDS AGAIN/Fr
ROBBERY and FIRE extant, of various sizes, suitable for all.
Classes.

Al 4 E rATISNTEES UAUTION THE PUBLIC AGAINST SPURI-
OUS IMITATIONS OF THEIR MANUFACTURES, UNDER DELU-
SIVE PRETENSIONS OF CHEAPNESS.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT HARPENDEN.
Harpenden; June 16th, 1.154.

Gentlemen,—l have great pleasiire in adding my testimony
to the value of your Fireproof Safes. Last Monday night my
house, warehouse, and premises were unfortunately burned

down. The fire raged very fearfully for about two hours,
and, owing to the great scarcity of water, the whole of my
premises and stock were consumed. The safe I purchasedo
you had a most severe test, in consequence of a barrel of
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the fire. the Lurniiig lava running all over and under the safe,
which greatly added to the intensity of the heat. It remained'
in that position about four hours, and when with great diffi-
culty it was got out of the fire and opened, I found my books
and papets all uninjured.
You are at liberty to make what use you please of this in-
formation.—l am, gentlemen, yours respectfully,
WM. WALKER.
Messrs. Thos. Milner and Son, 47A, Moorgate-street,Londots

UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO BROW.UP MILNERS
" HOI.DFAST" SAFE, AT BRISTOL.
Bridge-parade, Bristol, August 5th71854.
Gentlemen,—We have to inform you that last night our
premises were entered by burglars, who blew open thestrong
iron door of our wall repository by means of gunpowder, in
which was placed the Milners Patent Holdfast Safe you re-
cently supplied us with; this they got out and attempted to
blow open in the same manner, but without success. They
were well suppplied with picklocks, crowbars, &c., which are
now in possession of the police, but the safe was too strong
for all their efforts. We have much pleasure in bearing tes-
timony to the immense strength and security of Milners
Holdfast Safe, of which we have had such convincing proof.—
We are, gentlemen, your obedient servants,

AMORY-
Messrs. Oldland and May, Agents for Milners'
Safes, 28, Corn-street, Bristol.
THOMAS MILNER and SON select the following severe
cases of successful trial of their Safes from hundreds of cer-
tificates of utility, as instances in which they believe that any
other Safes than their own would have failed :--
Extensive Fire in Union-street, Glasgow, Mr. J. Dodds.
Desperate attempt to blowup Milners' Holtifast Safe with
gunpowder, Forrest and Bromley, Liven not.
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GREAT FIRE IN BELFAST.
"Messrs. MUSGRAVE, BROTHERS.—GENTLEMEN,—At your request, I beg to state, for the information of the piblic,
that the only property saved from the late fire, in the premises of Thomas S. Major and Co., was that contained in one of
Milners' Patent Safes. From the intense nature of t.e fire, and the length of time the Safe was exposed to the action of the
flames, I was fully convinced of the destruction of the books and papers it contained ; and feel very great pleasure in testify.
ing to this extraordinary instance of their preservation. I may add, that the Safe was placed on the third story, without any
protection, where it remained till the floor was burnt around it, when it fell to the room beneath, the floor of which was like-
wise destroyed by the fire.—Yours, truly, "JAMES S. HUNTER,
" Executor of the late Thomas S. Major, of the Firm of Thomas S. Major and Co.

as Belfast, January 2nd, 1854."
TRIUMPHANT RESISTANCE TO ROBBERS, AT MESSRS. BUTTERWORTH AND BROOKES'S,
MANCHESTER.
" Six,—Last night our Premises were entered by burglars, who made a desperate attempt upon the Milners' Holdfast
safe we bought from you some time since ; and, although they evidently had recourse to all the usual appliances of accom-
plished thieves, and ultimately to gunpowder in abundance, we are glad to say with no other effect than to injure the lock—
the opening of the Safe they found quite impracticable.
" We are happy to be enabled to express our unqualified approbation of the Safe; we believe it is impregnable to thieves.
"If our verbal testimony will he of service to you, you are at liberty to refer to us, and to make any use you please of
this communication.—Yours, respectfully, "BUTTERWORTH and BROOKES.
" 76, Mosley-street, Manchester, October 22nd, 1851." •
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THOS. MILNER and SON select the following severe cases of successful trial of their Safes from hundreds of Certificates
of utility, as instances in which they believe that any other Safes than their own would have failed :
Great Fire at the Gutta Percha Company. Triumphant Resistance to Robbers, Glasgow, James Richard-
Great Fire in Hayden-square, Coubro and Potter. son and Son.
Burglarious Attempt at the Bridgewater Offices. Great Fire in Market-street, Manchester, Thos. Haigh.
-Great Fire at the London and North-Western Railway Station, Destructive Fire in Park-lane, Liverpool. Garniss and Co.
Coventry. • Entire Destruction of Offices at Birkenhead, including con-
Great Fire at Cape Haiti, W. D. Roberts and Co. tents of strong Safe and Drawers, Milners' standing beside
Burglarious Attempt at the Theatre Royal, Manchester. it, red hot outside, but contents unsinged, J. and W
Great Fire at Glasgow, Chas. Boyd and Son. Walker.
Destructive Fire in Gordon-street, Glasgow, Ker Doering & Co.
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Half-Inch Doors; Quarter-inch Bodies.
MILNERS' THIEF AND FIRE-RESISTING SAFES _
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All the above qualities with Improved Impregnable Powder-proof Locks.
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MILNERS' PORTABLE ONE-CHAMBERED FIRE-RESISTING BOXE:-.
HOBBS' LOCKS, 108. each extra.
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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNU

Hrs. MAJEsrr and the other members of the Royal
Family are enjoying the quiet seclusion of domestic hap-
piness at Windsor Castle, amidst the endearments of the
gamily circle. Tuesday last being the birth-day of the
PRINCESS ROYAL, the anniversary was celebrated with

the customary, though unostentatious, rejoicings befitting
the occasion. At an early hoar in the morning, the band

AND CHESTS

of the Royal Horse Guards played appropriate music under
f the private apartments. The church bells
rang merry peals at intervals from early dawn throughout
the day ; at noon a royal salute was fired ; and in the
evening several of the tradespeople illuminated their
louses in honour of the event. Among the Royal guests
st the Castle is a young Indian PRINCESS OF CoonG,

the windows

minds an agony of suspense more harrowing than even the
dread reality of evil can inflict. On Wednesday morning,
official despatches were received at the War Office from
the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and along with these arrived
numerous graphic accounts, drawn up by eye-witnesses,
which fully unveil the hideous and sickening details of a
struggle, unsurpassed in sanguinary attributes by any
recorded in the annals of human strife. The narrative of
this terrible yet glorious battle, and its immediate as well
as remote consequences, is given with cool and lucid
vigour in the manly and terse despatch of Lord RAGLAN ;
coolly, calmly as the tale is there told, it is one of a battle-

field as bloody—of a conflict as desperate—of a victory as
signal, yet as dearly bought—of a triumph of intrepid and
self-sustaining valour, over stubborn and unyielding ani-
mal courage, as glorious as any which has yet been graven
on the tablets of fame. The historian who in after•
times recounts the story of the battle of Inkerman, will
require no military science to elucidate his narrative.
Stern and terrible as were the incidents, and prodigious as
were the acts of valour which crowned the issue of that

named GAITRoMA, who has been sent to England by her
father to be educated in the Christian faith. On Tuesday
Asbe walked about the grounds of the Castle in company
with HER MAJESTIC and the Royal children. She is, as

storm of war, its history embraces few facts connected
with war as an art. It was less a battle than a succession of
battles, in which each regiment and almost every company
of English had its army of Russians to repel and conquer.
For a space of time almost incredible, five hundred of the
Coldstream Guards kept at bay and finally repulsed more
than seven thousand antagonists who fought with the
energy of desperation and the fury of demons. Every
ravine and every hollow—each hill-side, and every rugged
pass was the theatre of a separate and sanguinary conflict
in which the combants encountered hand to hand in mortal
strife. So close in most instances were the combats, that
the men having fired once had neither time nor space to
reload, but defended themselves and assailed the enemy
with the bayonet or with their musket-buts as clubs.
While this death-conflict was going on, so impenetrable
were the mist and darkness of the morning, that no officer,
even if manoeuvring, could have been made available, could
see whence the hostile hordes were issuing against him, or
discover to what point the countless battalions of the enemy
might be directed. If ever an occasion offered which could
fully justify the poet's figurative admiration of chivalrous
individual heroism, it was here

under the circumstances might be expected, an object of
saner solicitude and interest to the QUEER and the Royal
household. While enjoying the blessings of domestic
security and peace, the chief members of the Royal Family
are not forgetful of the hardships of those who are at such
peril, and in the face of such privation, upholding the
national honour in the entrenchments before S(

astopol

nor negligent in supplying such means for their comfort
as rests within the reach of individual power. At his own
cost, Prince ALBERT has ordered a warm fur coat to be
furnished to each officer in the Crimea, or about to proceed
thither, some of those about to depart having already
received the acceptable gift. Another indication of the
Royal attention to the gallantry of our martial achieve-
ments in the Crimea is to be found in the promotion of
Lord RAGLAN to the rank of Field-Marshal, which was
formally announced in the Gazette of Tuesday last. Of

the appropriate grace of such an act, at such a time, there
van be but one opinion. His Lordship's qualifications as
military leader are too well known to require confirma-
tion, and of too high an order to receive additional lustre
from even such a recognition ; still it is gratifying to
witness the honour of our valiant army acknowledged in
a befitting compliment to its commander. Descended
from a long lineage, noble, if not even princely,
in its origin, Lord RAGLAN, through his less remote
ancestry, has peculiar claims upon the country of his
nativity, and on the Crown by which its institutions are
swayed and protected. Sprung from that SOMERSET who,
in early life, commanded a little army raised by his father
in defence of CIIA.RLES 1., and who afterwards became
famous as the first employer of steam power to mechanical
operations, Lord RAGLAN possesses at once the prestige
of hereditary martial skill and such reflected advantages

"Groom fought like noble, squire like knight,

As fearlessly—and well !"
In these frightfnl contests, he who commanded counted
for no more than he who served ; and to take one, though
not a solitary instance : before the 55th retreated from the
two-gun battery, which formed an important point in the
English position, it was taken and retaken no less than
five times, having been assailed by Russians who out-
numbered its defenders by fifty to one. In one spot, and
within five minutes of each other, five English generals
fell, three of them, alas ! never to rise. In his despatch,
Lord RAGLAN estimates that the Russians had in the field
at least sixty thousand men ; the Russian accounts make
their numbers about fifty thousand, and to withstand this
mighty host, he could only oppose eight thousand English
and two thousand French, yet with this handful of men
he maintained himself against the repeated and desperate
attacks of the enemy, en that terrible Sunday, from five

as can be derived from the inheritance of scientific fame ; to
Mese adventitious claims upon regard, he adds the yet
more important challenge to our admiration, which is to
be found in assiduous industry, directed by profound
natural sagacity, counselled by professional wisdom, and
aided by extensive military experience. Trained almost
from boyhood under the personal tuition of the immortal
WELLINGTON", he received his initiatory lessons in the
practical application of military science at the celebrated
Tines of Torres Vedras, and, ere he had completed his
twenty-second year, he had won his first chaplet of laurel
on the plains of Talavera ; at Busaco he was severely
wounded, and after participating in every one of the great
battles of the Peninsula, he completed the wreath sacred
to ho.
honour and victory, and perpetuated its verdure, by
sharing in the sufferings and the glories of Waterloo. In
1845 his eldest son perished in the battle of Ferozeshah ;
and now, in the sixty-seventh year of his age, the intrepid
and dauntless warrior is carrying into effect the military
maxims of his great instructor, in firm alliance with those
valiant heroes, in opposition to whose fathers he first
unsheathed his virgin sword. To promote such a man is
scarcely so much to confer an honour as to receive it ;
if, however, the act can bestow lustre or receive grace, it
will do both by the spontaniety of the compliment, and
the ready hail of acquiescence which greets it from every
rank and grade of his admiring countrymen. The date
spf this commission is appropriately fixed from the sth of
the present month, the date of the last known victory
achieved by the Allied arms.
The date of the last known victory achieved by the
Allied arms ! How singularly memorable is the ex-
To how many a sonless, husbandless,
family-circle has that fatal though tri-

aression

fatherless

Towful

in the morning till eleven. About this period the
arrival of four thousand additional French troops turned
the tide of battle, and although the conflict was prolonged
till half-past two, its issue was never afterwards doubtful,
and shortly after their arrival, the Russians began slowly
to retire, yet resolutely contesting every inch of ground,
fighting as they gave way, and yielding only to that
superiority of moral over physical bravery, which, when
displayed as on the present occasion, constitutes the very
sublimity of human power and daring. Sixty thousand
were here encountered, withstood, repulsed by fourteen
thousand men ! The assailants leaving upon the field in
killed, wounded, and prisoners, a thousand more than had
sufficed to check and drive them back. A more signal
illustration of the allied prowess over their barbarous
opponents never can or will be given ; yet, proud as is the
testimony thus borne to our superiority, it has been
dearly, much too dearly purchased. In killed, wounded,
and missing, the British have to deplore a loss of two
thousand six hundred and twelve of our gallant country-
men; and our noble-hearted allies havE

to mourn a

diminution in their numbers to the extent of one
thousand seven hundred and twenty six ; both branches
of the allied army having suffered severely in the loss of
officers, of whom an unusually large number have been
victims.

iamphant day given poignant cause for s
remembrance t. The greatest of modern military authori-
ties declared, in bitter anguish of heart, that the next
greatest calamity to a battle lost, is a victory gained. How
truly has this seeming paradox been realised upon the
heights of Inkerman Many days ago, the telegraph,
outstripping the winged velocity of evil tidings, brought us
Ismailiar with the fact that a great and sanguinary conflict
IlL,'ll been waged, and a dearly-won victory added to our
az°ll of heroic deeds ; but, as if in kindly preparation
for the direful tale, the catalogue of horrors was but dimly
shadowed in the mournful array of perished numbers,
having the contest between hope and fear to create in many

Although:the battle of Inkermann is flattering to our
arms, and bears promise of future and ultimate success,
it is nevertheless one of those events which suggests
reflection on the past and deliberate consideration of the
future, even more powerfully than partial adversity could
have done. The attack made upon our position by such
a force, clearly indicates the inadequacy of our prepara-
tions for an enterprise of such magnitude as the reduction
of Sebastor

implying as that necessarily does the entire
subjugation of the Crimea. It farther proves the bane-
fulness of those counsels which, by deferring our first
operations, allowed time for the CZAR to direct special
attention to the strengthening of Sebastopol; and without
doubt

so Cronstadt. The bottle of Inkermann and its
concomitants does more than all this ; it demonstrates,
beyond the reach of cavil, that prior to sitting down be-
fore Sebastopol provision ought to have been made for so
occupying the Rr.ssians in the vacated provinces of the