The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-18 00:00:00

MEETING OF PORTERS LAST NIGHT

Last night a very nun
ters employed at the doc
the Concert-hall, Lord Ne'lson-

as meeting of operative po

ids, was held in
r the purpose of

adopting measures in furthe
Victoria 9th and 10th, as ri

!e of so much of the

V Ot
Employment of

master port

ers, or

lying, weighing,
John Lancaster

and loading cargoes from vessels
was called to the chair, and on the platform were Coun-
cillors Thompson, A. F. Jones, Bighorn, Mr. H. L
Atkinson, barrister. and several nthpr

The Chairman opened th
a neat, explanatory address
porter detailed many of the evils of th(
ing not only the porters, but the merchant

uusi
Mr. Schofield

In operative

employed under the present
unused to the work, and the middlemen over that

system were unskilled an

in such a hurry to discharge a ship, that flour and other
articles were wasted to a great extent, by the breaking of
the packages, which were also afterwards exposed
age on the quays. If the merchants' man hit,
was peremptorily told to go away, otherwise he would be
fined £5O, which the Act would enforce. He also noticed
a case shelling de inaccurate weighing and taring of some
casks of lead by these men. These were consigned to
Mr. William Rathbone, and had the case not been de-
tected, that gentleman would have lost a large weight of
the article. He proposed a resolution to the effect that
the oppressive clauses of the act should be petitioned
against.—Mr. Atkinson, in the course of a long and ele-
gant address, said there was nothing more pernicious in
legislature than peddling and meddling with the labour of

) purer-
' he

the working man. The act had in fact been snugly smug-
gled through the House by interested partie3, and the
preamble contained no allusion to the obnoxious clauses
complained of. He dwelt on the great misery and priva-
tion to which so many hundreds of hat

-working and

honest men were exposed to deprivation of labour, th;ough
the operation of that act, which was passed in 1846. Old
skilled workmen, who had long resided in the town, and
paid rates, were supplanted by large importations of labour-
ers from Ireland. The act bad thus also caused a great in -
crease in the poor rates. The old porters were taunted with
being unable to do the work cheaply; but give them only
chance for a

w weeks, and they would soon
merchants would be better and more the
that the present destruction of

how the
ly served, and
would

be put an end to. Ha strongly alluded to the i
of government or town councils not attending
rights of the working man, and elevating the sta
his comforts ; for in the mutations of life €____ __-
wealthiest might fall into humble life. After approving
of the electors of Liverpool choosing at the late contest
representatives in the Council who would attend to their
interests, he strongly urged those who heard him to com-
bine. The cause was not only theirs. but that of every

) the
ndard of
.yen the

proceeded with firmness and unity

He-stated

►ate last year to give the notice required for a bill is
liament ; but that notice had now been given, a
rested with themselves to carry their point to a succ

—(Much applanse.)—Mr
- •
net (which he read) to the Town-council, pray'
the funds of the Corporation or the Dock Estab
not be employed to obstruct the bill sought for t

Adair proposed a

the obnoxious sections of the act.—Mr. Myers spoke
quently to the question, as did Mr. Jones and other
tlemen on the platform, and it was carried unanimo
The meeting was enthusiastic throughout.

TATTERSALLS.—LAsT NIGHT

CHESTER CUP.
1000 to 20 agst Lismahago—taken.
1000 to 20 .. John Cossar-15 taken.
1000 to 10 .. Hotspur.

2000 GUINEAS STAKES.
2to 1 .. Beehunter-5 to 2 taken
6to 1 .. Harding-8 to 1 taken.
Bto 1 .. Epirote—taken.

DERBY

4to 1 .. Kent's Lot-5 to 1 taken,
9to 1 .. Bolingbroke—taken.
11 to 1 .. Ghillie Callum—taken,
12 to 1 .. Knight of Avenel.
15 to 1 ..
20 to 1 .. Voltigeur-25 to 1 taken.
20 to 1 .. Cyprus,
20 to 1 .. Nigger—taken.
40 to 1 .. Brother to Eoirote—taken
1000 to 30 .. Marius—taken
Bolingbroke backed for

good deal of money

LATER FROM AMERICA.—The beautiful and fast
ing ship Guy Mannering was off Holyhead yest,
afternoon, at two o'clock, but she had not come u

river when our country edition went to press
bring two days later advices than those received by the
last steamer, having sailed from New York on the 30th
ult. The Caledonia steamship, with the President's mes-
sage and intelligence from Halifax to the 7th instant, may
arrive to-day.

She will

Lord John Russell again visited her Majesty at Osborne
House on Friday last.

The Weekly Chronicle Says that the Board of Admiralty
have sent a letter to Sir Charles Napier, informing him
that they will be compelled to suspend him if he again
writes so freely about his superiors. In his recent letter
Sir Charles says, "The first lord (of the Admiralty) knew
. .

nothing, and the junior lord less than nothing."
Earth is so kind in Australia that just tickle her with
hoe and she laughs with a harvest.—Jerrold.
What word may be pronounced quicker by adding
syllable to it ?—Quick.

It is now nine years since the French Academy began
to form its new dictionary of the French language, and the
last discussion, which took place on Thursday week, was

on the word accorder, so that the words beginning with
an a are not yet half finished !

A GUESS AT SPELLINC
the best readers in the Post

—The following was a nu
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,e for some time

"Serum Fridavi, Londrea :"

when, by reading the address aloud, with the French as
wellas the English sound of the vowels, it was solved in
"Sir Hutnphry Davy, London."

ROGERS (THE POET) AND THE MISSES CUSHMAN,—
The younger Miss Cushman

congratulated one day by

Mr. Rogers on a report of her approaching mardage.
She denied the rumour, adding that she did not think it
probable that she should ever marry, as she had not met
any one of a manly tone of mind ; if she ever married, it
would be one of a strong masculine nature. " indeed,"
replied the wit ; " then, why don't you marry your sister 1"
—Powell's Living Authors.