The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-13 00:00:00

pect that this scheme will be well supported, and that it
will lead to important results, both commercially and
politically." _ _

THE NEW PACKET-SHIP MOORESFORT.—The White
Star line of packets (Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson) has
received a handsome addition in the fine ship Mooresfort,
now loading in the Salthouse Basin. She is 1,280 tons
burthen ; has been built expressly for the passenger trade ;
and has already proved her very superior qualities as a fast
sailer, by beating one of the most celebrated American
clippers. She is single-decked, and consequently very
roomy in her 'tween-decks ; and she is provided above
with a spacious poop, and a house amidships, which are set
apart for the best class of passengers. The poop is fitted
sengers, in rooms containing two and four
e accommodations for whom combine ele-
gance with comfort in an eminent degree. The house on
deck is divided into two distinct compartments, each to
accommodate fourteen persons, namely, eight in berths of
two each, and a family of six in one large room. The
'tween decks, unusually lofty, have an increased space of
fully nine inches in width allotted to the berths on each
side, leaving, nevertheless, ample promennling room be-
tween the berths and the tables. A great improvement
has also been effected by raising the berths a few additional
inches above the deck flooring, thus allowing more accom-
modation for passengers' trunks. The steerage forward is
fitted up with thirty-six open berths of two eaeh. The
ventilation of this, the main part of the vessel, is unusu-
ally good. We are informed that the vessel is being
rapidly filled with passengers.
THE LATE STRIKES.—The labour question is one which
still interferes considerably with business. The opera-
tives are yet very uneasy, and, finding that there is a
scarcity of labour, they seem hardly certain with what
amount of remuneration they ought to be content ; for
we hear of instances where the list of prices which was
accepted at Stockport, after the late lengthened strike,
has been offered and refused. This feeling, if carried too
;
far, will defeat its own end, and the operatives will con-
sume the time during which they should be reaping their
golden harvest in strikes. By the system of turning out
they lose their time, which is to them money ; and, al-
though they may attain, in some instances, the advance
they sought, still, if they will reckon the time they have
been on strike, receiving no wages, they will discover that
what is apparently a gain is really a loss. In the mean-
while, the employers are afraid to accept orders which only
leave a bare profit, under the apprehension that what
would barely remunerate them under the most favourable
circumstances, may, if they should be obliged to pay ad-
vanced wages, become a serious loss. - Let the operative
classes remember, above all things, that the aspect of com-
mercial matters is much less favourable now than it was
a few months since. Then, their employers were refusing
orders at very full prices, in consequence of the large
orders they already held for execution ; now, they cannot
sell their goods, although offered at a serious decline. The
inference we will leave for themselves to draw.—Man-
chester Courier.

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