The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

OPERATIVE PORTERS' ASSOCIATION

TO TILE MERCIIANTS, BROKERS, RATEPAYERS
AND OTHERS, INHABITANTS OF LIVERPOOL.

THE COMMITTEE of the OPERATIVE
ASSOCIATION, having seen in one of the Liverpool
papers a one-sided Report of the evidence taken before the
Council Committee on that important question, the present
system of Quay Porterage, feel assured that you, the Mer-
chants of Liverpool, will not allow your interests, as well as
the interests and rights of your ever-willing servants, thus to
be trifled with and used as experiments to your disadvantage
and the loss of their bread.

The Editor of that paper, who has been so kind as to furnish
them with the report of the evidence, has been trying to dissect
the last address they placed before you, and, for the last two
weeks, to impress on the minds of the public at large, that it
was a savage, barbarous, and vicious address. But the Porters
have more confidence in you, the Merchants and Brokers, than
to suppose for a moment that you will apply any such meaning
to it.

No! The Porters still adhere to you as .their noble-hearted
Merchants. They know it is to you they look for employment.
It is you who are the spirit and enterprise of this our town, It is confidently hoped that a Church so greatly needed by an
and not those who look to sow the seeds of disaffection between important and destitute population, and now so largely attended,
you and them, It is you who are the means of bringing to the will not be permitted to remain any longer in a condition se
banks of the Mersey the noble vessels laden with the produce inconsistent with the dignity of the sanctuary; encumbered
of foreign countries, and not the new system of porterage, by with debt, i” -4 of many requisites, and mutilated of ita
its greater cheapness and despatch, of which they boast; for if natural r'.
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hey could invent a wholesale system of porterage, and dis-
charge a vessel every hour, if there was no market here for the
merchandise, would any vessel be sent to Liverpool merely to
discharge? But the Porters deny that it is cheaper, or yet a
greater despatch, for they have instances of quicker despatch
under the old sytem. They refer to the packet-ship Liverpool,
and others too numerous to mention, consigned to Fielden
Brothers and Co.,—the quickest despatches on record.
But the Porters beg leave to denounce the present system as
unjust, inhuman, unchristianlike, and a monopoly. It is
unjust, because they believe its equal is not to be found on the
Statute Book of any other nation in the world ; it is inhuman,
because they hetiey it tra,..

The Bazaar will be opened at Eleven o'clock each day, and
continue till Five.
By the favour of Lieut.-Colonel WILCOX and Lieut.-Colone
GARRAT, the Bands of the 81st and 46th will be present.
Packets will continually ply to and fro between Seacombe
and Liverpool.
Terms of Admission :—First Day, Is. 6d. ; Second and Third
Days, Is. ; Children, 6d. each day.
EDWARD ROBERTS,
HENRY WINCH, }Secretaries.
ISAAC PENNY,

noctacv c imeni Lnelr oirtnrignt as
free-born Englishmen—the right of free labour—and places
them under the surveillance of a middleman, which is worse to
the heart of an En Tishman than the thong on the back of a
slave ; it is unchristianlike, bee:rise they believe it has caused
hundreds and thousands to call upon the Name of their God in
vain, while under the cravings of hunger, to curse that law;
they believe it to be a monopoly, because it takes from the
Merchants the sacred right that nature demands they should
have—namely, the whole control over their own property—and
gives it into the hands of a grasping middleman, who has no
property but what he grinds from the blood and sinew of his
slave, and thus deprives them of giving employment to their
old servants who have got their bread through them, and by
them, for years gone by, and who are now become the fallen
victims of that monopoly.

The body of an infant, about a month old, was found in
a well at Clapham, on Thursday.
EXTENSIVE AND FATAL FIRE.—On Friday, a fire
broke out in Wardour-street Soho, London, which con-
sumed several buildings. A child was unfortunately
burnt to death.

The people of Buckinhamshire are subscribing for tile
purchase of the Chandos testimonial at the auction at
Stowe, to be handed down as an heirloom in the family.

The- bronze statue of Lord Auckland, by Weekes, de-
signed for erection on the Esplanade at Calcutta, was,
with its granite pedestal, shipped in the London Docks, a
few days since, in the ship Marlborough.
The inauguration of the remaining principal branch of
the Great Northern Railroad of France, namely from
Lille to Calais, took place on Saturday.
A letter from St. Petersburg states that on the 19th
ult. there were 34 new cases of cholera, 34 recoveries, and
9 deaths. The day after there remained 545 persons
attacked, or 70 less than the day before. At Riga, up to
the 17th of August, 6095 persons had been attacked, of
whom 1968 died, 3709 recovered, and 418 were still ill.
CONSECRATION AND DEDICATION CF A STATUE OF THE
VIRGIN.—The Freeman's Journal gives an account of the
benediction and dedication of a statue of the Madonna,
recently erected in the church of St. Audeon, 'Dublin.
The statue is of semi-colossal proportions, and, with its
pedestal, chiselled out of one block of Carrara marble.
COMMITTAL OF IRISH REAPERS FOR MURDER.-ofl
Thursday, at St. Alban's, Dennis Sweeney, Michael
Sweeney, Thomas Sweeney, and Thomas Maddam, were
charged with the wilful murder of Edward Swaine. It
may be remembered that deceased was killed during a riot
in a public-house, where some Englishmen were attacked
by a number of Irish reapers. The magistrates deter-
mined on committing the four prisoners.
ALARMING ACCIDENT. —On Saturday last, as the family
of Richard Williams, Esq., M.D., of Aberystwith, con-
sisting of Mrs. Williams. two daughters, and Miss Mary
Elizabeth Fisher, daughter of James Fisher, Esq., of
Cheltenham, were taking an airing ia the neighbourhood,
que of the horses became restive and began to kick vio-
ntly, when they both became unmanageable and gal-
loped off; and had it not been for the presence of mind of
Mrs. Williams, who desired the servant, when they were
at their utmost speed, to overturn the carriage, no doubt
some lives would have been sacrificed, as they were on the
eve of descending Penglujs Hill. The ladies were all
thrown out, and lay insensible on the ground, and are
much hurt and bruised, but fortunately no bones are
broken; the servant likewise was much bruised, the
wheels having passed over him. The carriage was knocked
to pieces.

PORTERS, UNITE IN PEACE, LEGALLY AND
CONSTITUTIONALLY !
LET YOUR MOTTO BE-" UNION IS STRENGTH !"
By order of the Committee,
JOHN SCHOFIELD, Chairman
Committee-room, 38, Cockspur-street,
Liverpool, Ist Sept., 1848.

BRISTOL AUTUMN PAIR.—The great horse and cattle
fair held at Bristol annually in September, commenced on
Friday, in the new cattle market, Temple Meads. There
was a large supply of horses of all descriptions, but, as is
usually the case, all the better descriptions for hackney
and carriage purposes had got into the hands of the deal-
ers, who were asking high prices, which were in many
instances obtained. Good useful kinds of cart colts also
fetched good rates. The stock of store cattle offering was
large, but the market was far from lively, and prices were
somewhat in favour of the buyer. There was a good sup-
ply of fat oxen and heifers, many of which were sold. Fat
beef fetched from 525. per cwt. for fair qualities to 58s.
per cwt. for superior. Some of inferior description was
sold even below the 525., and for a few very prime oxen
holders were asking 605., which would not, it was thought,
be submitted to by the butchers. There was a great num-
ber of store sheep, and some fat mutton fetched from 6d.
to 61d. per pound for good saleable qualities: though there
were some bargains closed for inferior at lower figures.
Pigs were not in such good demand, and before the fair
closes prices will probably be a turn lower.
MONEY MARKET.—No alteration is to be noticed in
the value of mor.ey. The bill brokers still charge 21 to
3 per cent. for the negociation of first-class paper. They
receive deposits "on call" at 21 per cent. The Bank
directors maintain their former minimum rate for dis.
counts. The Consol market has experienced fluctuations,
amounting in the extreme to 1 per cent. The causes
which have produced these changes are various. In the
first instance, the doubt which existed as to the mode the
Chancellor of the Exchequer might adopt with respect to
raising the £2,000,000 for State purposes, operated in some
degree—then the actual course which Sir Chares Wood
finally resolved to pursue—and lastly the warlike charac-
ter of the intelligence from Paris on the Italian question.
There has not generally been a great deal of business
done, and considering the opportunity afforded to specu-
lators, the outside rise and fall has not been so great as
less important events have at other times occasioned.
The mode which the Chancellor of the Exchequer pur-
poses to follow, of throwing Stock upon the market, has
met with both supporters and objectors. He intends
selling the required amount in various quantities at dif-
ferent periods, as circumstances may suggest. Whether,
however, Sir Charles Wood's plan is the most economical
one.

• - vaily can uetermine ; Out it is
certain that he will by it avoid exercising any material
influence on prices. Consols have been as high as 86k,
and as low as 84, but closed on Saturday at 8.5 - to for
Money and Account. Exchequer Bills have been de-
pressed from the expectation that "Deficiency Bills"
would have been created in order to make up the revenue
The closing quotations < n Saturday were 225. t o?:
for the June bills, and 275. to 31s. pm. for the i\
issue. Reduced Three per Cents. left off at 85 to 8b
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.. 861 ; Bank Stock,
197} to 1981 ; India Stock, 237 to 240 ; ditto Bonds, 20'
to 235. p.m.
DREADFUL FIPE AT CONSTANTT—
pondent of the lifornina Herald of v(

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onstantinople, August 19, suppliesparticuljars of a dread-
ful fire which took place in that capital on the previous
Wednesday. The weather was fine and serene; but at
seven in the evening, a column of smoke was seen to
ascend from the Pera. Soon after, alarm guns were fired,
and bright flames aro3e, showing that the fire had ori-
ginated inYemish Iskessi (the dried fruit bazaar), between
the two bridges. It extended itself in all directions, and
became intense, igniting the oil depot and an immense
timber yard, 100 feet. in height and 500 in width. The
whole became one blazing sheet of vivid flame. The
building around soon ignited. A compact mass of ship-
ping, laden with oil, wheat, &c., was near, and their rigging
took fire. The flames illuminated the whole city, and the
cries of mariners and others, endeavouring to save their
ships, &c., were awful. By nine o'clocic it had spread
still further, rising up the surrounding heights, and de-
stroyed five houses, mosques, &c. A pinnacle of one of

caught fire, and a palace near it was d
on extending and ravaging in opposite directions
to extinguish the raging clement were necessar__, _
Boned, and the inhabitants employed themselves in pul___r
down buildings. Many poorer inhabitants were burned tc
death. At one place 20 persons perished. At two a.m. the
fire began to abate. "It consumed,". says the writer
"according to a detailed estimat

Toyed. It went

500 houses; about 40 of the latt s 'e splendid pal
belonging to the Shiek ul-Islam, on, 'apha Paella
Pacha, Irret Pacha, Hassan Pacha, aria others. T,
neral loss is estimated at averaging from £2,000,1
£4,000,000 sterling, but some have caiculated
£5,000,000. I should state it at, approximately
about X 2,500,000. To account for this great loss, it must
be carefully diidersthod that vast depositaries of merchan-
dise were kept there, besides whole bazaars of oil, fruit
wax, rice, spices, tallow, coffee, sponges, &e
the establishments of the knife-grinders, wholesale gro-
cers, nut-sellers, &c. In addition to these must be noted
19 khans, seven mosques, four baths, two public grana-
ries, 15,000 barrels of rice belonging to the Pacha of
Egypt, a government steam-mill and 17 vessels, and
among the rest an Austrian and a Russian vessel, &c."
The marble tombstones in the cemeteries were broken to
pieces by the heat. The snit,.

la, Said

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scene of destruction; and all the officers under him did
their utmost to preserve property.