The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-23 00:00:00

IMPORTANT

TO PURCHASERS OF PIANO-FORTES, HARPS, &c.
JAMES SMITH respectfully announces to his Friends
and the Public generally, his intention of OPENING,
in the course of a few days, an ESTABLISHMENT at No.
47, BOLD-STREET. with a NUMEROUS AND MOST
ELEGANT STOCK OF FIRST-CLASS LONDON-
MANUFACTURED INSTRUMENTS, personally se-
lected, in the course of last week, with great care, at the
Manufactories of Messrs. BROADWOOD and SONS, COLLARD
and COLLARD, and TOMKISON, which, together with his
already Extensive Selection of Choice Instruments of other
reputed London Makers, at his Old Establishment, No. 66,
Lord-street, offers advantages, both as to Price and Quality,
unrivalled by any house in the trade.

SPLENDID AND VALUABLE
BOOKS
IN THE HIGHER RANGE OF LITERATURE

A WREING WEBB invites the attentinn of Noblemen,
Gentlemen, and Families to his extensive, and, ha be-
lieves, unrivalled COLLECTION OF FINE BOOKS,
comprising the most Standard Works, in superior bindings,
and of such a quality, in every respect, as have never yet
been seen in this part of the kingdom. His stock also in-
cludes numerous elegant and substantial volumes in morocco,
russia, and vellum bindings, suitable for LITERARY
PRESENTS, and for ORNAMENTS OF THE DRAWING-
ROOM and BOUDOIR, with all the Illustrated ANNUALS
OF THE SEASON.

9, Castle-street, (four doors from the Town-hall.)

C O M P T O N HOUSE
FUR ROOM.

THE above Room is now replenished with a carefully
selected Stock of the newest designs in CARDINALS.
CAMAILLES, and ROMAN FUR SHAWLS, which for
extreme simplicity and comfort, will be found superior to
any thing produced at any previous season.

JEFFREY and MORRISH would remark that their
Stock of real RUSSIAN SABLES is being offered at the
same prices as in the earlier part of the season, notwithstand-
ing the great advance on that article.
CHILDREN'S FURS of every description, all warranted full-
seasoned.

RECENT events have awakened so general a feeling of
the momentous importance of securing a protection
from fire to Deeds, Records, MSS., Books and Papers of
Accompt, Cash, Gunpowder, and all Combustible Materials,
that THOMAS MILNER and SON feel excused in again
inviting public notice to their PATENT FIRE RESISTING
DEPOSITORIES. Having submitted their one-chambered
Boxes, of one inch in thickness, to severe trials in the prin-
cipal towns, they have received from the authorities of each
the most satisfactory certificates of their efficiency for ordi-
nary casualties ; and, being confirmed in their opinion by a
ong course of experiment, that, under suitable modification
of chambers and thickness of boxes, the peculiar principle
of their Patent is capable of affording security under the
severest ordeal likely to occur in calamities of the kind, they
respectfully solicit the consideration of gentlemen interested
in mechanical science to the subject generally, and invest
tion into the pretensions of the various means of
use, their own amongst the rest

:ut ity in

M. and S. are prepared to submit their manufactures to
public trial with any others of equal dimensions, whilst their
comparatively moderate cost renders them extensively avail-

The Certificate of the satisfactory trial of their Boxes in
Liverpool bears the signatures of the following gentlemen, to
whom permission of reference is kindly given :
THOMAS BOLTON, Esq. (ex-Mavor.)
JOHN SHAW LEIGH, Esq. (ex-Mayor.)
Sir THOMAS BRANCKER.
BARTHOLOMEW PRESCOT, ESQ.
L. GRAHAM, Esq.
R. FRODSHAM, Esq.
WM. STOCK, Esq.
S. Wool:Is, jun., Esq.
In addition to the above, Milner and Son draw attention
to the following statements :

—A
trial of Milner's Patent Fire Resisting Sees and Boxes
having been announced by cards, issued to 500 of the scien-
tific and principal gentlemen of Dublin, which was adjourned
from the Royal Dublin Society's premises, on account of
alterations in progress thereon, took place at the Rotundo
Gardens, October 7th, 1812. The fire, consisting of half a
ton of coals, and fifty to sixty feet of wood and kindling, was
lighted at one o'clock, with a box and powder safe, filled
with papers, &c., in the centre. The whole were examined
by the gentlemen present, whose signatures on the certificate
were placed inside.
Sir John Kingston James kindly conducted the proceed_
ngs, and locked the box. At two o'clock, at Dr. Meyler's
suggestion, a large sugar hogshead, with both ends knocked
out, was placed over the top of the fire, which, quickly ig_
niting, caused a very fierce draught, and produced intense
heat on the tops of the boxes, which were seen through the
opening crevices of the burning cask most severely exposed.
A little before three o'clock, Dr. Meyler, with whom the
keys had been left by Sir John Kingston James, opened the
box, and its contents, including several parchments with seals
attached, were found to be perfectly safe. At half-past four
o'clock the Powder Safe was taken out and opened, and the
inner cell, with its contents, were still unaffected by the heat.
It was again replaced in the fire of red coke, and kept in
until six p.m. ; when taken out, after five hours trial, al_
though the outer cell was red hot, the inner one and contents,
on being opened, in the presence of Joshua Abel, Esq.,
Richardson, Esq., M.D., Messrs. Thosand, Gardiner,
Trouton, &c., were still as fresh and perfect as when placed
in the fire. We declare our satisfaction with the result of
these experiments, and our confidence in the perfect efficiency
of this principle for the preservation of all combustible ma-
terials in ordinary fires.
(SIR) JOHN KINGSTON JAMES, (Bart.) Cavendish-row,
Wm. FARRAIV, Abbey-street,
(SIR) Trios. M'KENNY, (Bart.) Fitzwilliam-street,
JAMES SHERIDAN, Church-street,
JOSHUA ABEL, 27, Eustace-street,
ROBERT KANE, M.D., Professor, Royal Dublin Society,
ROBERT HUNT, Crampton Quay,
ANTHONY METLER, M.D.,
(SIR) EDWARD STANLEY,
THOMAS GRIER,
ISAAC M. D'OLIER, Gov. of the Bank of Ireland,
P. WILSON, Registrar, Royal Dublin Society,
(SIR) TOLF.R OSBORNE,
RICHARD PURDY,
C. H. MINCHIN, A.M.
JOHN DOYLE,
ROBERT LEECH, M.D.
JOHN Loucm, Architect,
M. M. BENSON,
GEORGE DAVIES. • -

Committee of Manufacturers, Royal Dublin Society.—
RESOLVED,—That having carefully examined the Fire-proof
Safes, produced by Messrs. Milner and Son, and witnessed
their application to powerful and continued fire, we recom-
mend them as articles of approved utility.
EDWARD STANLEY, Chairman.
12th October, 1842.
Messrs. Thos. Milner & Son,
Office, Commercial-buildings. Oct. 21, 1842.
polite Deeds, Papers, one
Gentlemen,—At the late fire which consumed my ware.
houses, regret to inform You
Account Books, which were de in two Iron Safes
were completely reduced to ashes
made by of Dublin'
whatevernduced t i npulrr,sohtat
se Fire-proofyou r
Fie
.Sparfoe;
The inconvenience and loss• occasioned to me is very great
o
As I have now
,no beenfaith
(at least so styleo,
Boxes which hand' so strongly tested.
/ am, Gentlemen, your humble servant,
RICHARD G. HICKS.
ps.—Please send me a No. 10, with drawers, and No. I
for deeds

Hamburgh, 29th August, 1841:.
A Public Test of MILNER and SON'S (of Liverpool) PA
—TENT FIRE-PROOF SAFETY BOXES, took place o
the Grassbroke, near the Elbe, this afternoon ;
we, the undersigned, having been present during the r
time of the above, feel pleasure ini expressing our con
of their perfect security in all cases of casual and ordinary
fires. The Box was filled with papers, circulars, books, and
old ledgers; in addition to which, Mr. Wenden, the repre-
sentative of the patentees, placed his watch inside ; the whole
were examined by the gentlemen present, and were locked
down by " Hernn H. C. Bleeker, 68, Admiralitiitistrasse."
The fire was composed of upwards of seven cwt. of coal, ancl
a considerable quantity of wood, oaken slabs, and other corn-
bustil)ies, solely under the superintendence of Mr. Thomp-
son, Manager of the Globe Foundry Iron Works. The Box.
was placed in the fire, and there allowed to remain for one hour
and a half, during the chief of which time it was of a whit(
heat. Much curiosity was excited respecting th,..
but on opening the box, it was perfectly safe, and gonii,
true as when deposited—thewhole contents were also pre-
served, ileudin7 he document on which this certificate is
wThtitti.

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