The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-13 00:00:00

AGENTS.

Messrs. BLANDIN, BROWN, and Co., 32, Castle-street,
[Liverpool.
W. A. SMITH, Slater's-court, 5, Castle-street, Ditto.
S. HOLLINS, Esq., Manchester.
J. A. JESSE, Esq., Solicitor, 45, Princess-st., Manchester.

PATENT
TRANSPARENT INDIAN CORN STARCH,
REQUIRES neither Boiling nor Straining, in Packages
of Ilb., lb., Ilb., and Id. each. Fabrics stiffened with
this Starch acquire a durability which cannot be obtained by
any other means. The stiffness is retained in the most
humid atmosphere, and the satiny gloss, which, of all other
Starch, this alone imparts, remains to .the last. It is only
necessary to mix a table spoonful of it in a pint of boiling
water, and upwards of a pint of liquid Starch, of the most
translucent splendour, will be immediately produced, at a
cost of little more than One Farthing ! Manufactured only
by SAUNDERSON and LITTLE,
The Ptgentees, London.
WHOLESALE AGENT,
Mr. J. SAUNDERSON, 2, Cook-street, Liverpool.

ECENT events have awakened so general a feeling of
It the momentous innvortauce of securing a isw.t-ot;.. from
tire to Deeds, Records, m.SS. Books and Papers of Ac-
compt, Cash, Gunpowder, and all combustible materials,
that THOS. MILNER and SON feel excused in again in-
viting public notice to their Patent Fire-resisting Deposito-
ries. Having submitted their one-chambered Boxes, of one
inch in thickess, to severe trials in the principal towns, they
have received from the authorities.of each the most satisfac-
tory certificates of their efficiency for ordinary casualties ;
and being confirmed in opiuitin by a long course of experi-
ment, 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 investigation into the
pretensions of the various means of security in use, their
own amongst the rest.
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-
able.
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-Mayor,)
JOHN SHAW LEIGH, Esq., (the Mayor,)
Sir THOMAS BRANCKER,
BARTHOLOMEW PRESCOT,
L; GRAHAM, Esq.,
R. PRODSHAM, Esq.,
WM. STOCK, Esq.,
S. WOODS, jun., Esq.
The more recent one below will be interesting to Ship-
owners and Builders, Gunpowder-dealers, &c., and is further
confirmatory of the capabilities of the principle :
Trial of Milner's Patent Fire-Resisting Principle, as a
Protection of Gunpowder from Fire.
Liverpool, June 20th, 1842.
We have this day witnessed the trial of one of Milner 's
Patent Fire-proof Double-celled Gunpowder Magazines, of
twelve inches external, and six inches Internal diameter and
height, filled with highly combustible materials, papers, and
a packet of Gunpowder.
The same was placed *in the centre of a fire consisting of
utheeretoins.
cwt.x
ward of
oci
three
raenedhao quantityhours,
during of
two-thirdswood ,and remained
n which e d
time the magazine was surrounded by a complete furnace of
intense heat.
Neither the inner
magazine nor its contents were at all
injured by the fire, nor
did they evince any signs of the se-
vere ordeal to which
they had
solution, contained in tubes
centreintense heat
embedded in the nonconductor
wholly consumed, the entire
quantitytoke, and the bricks upon of coal converted into
which the fire was made were
aken out red hut.

JOHN WILSON CARTER,
G. BARNETT,
THOS ARSTALL.