1850.
| 1st | week | £1 | 10 | 0 |
| 2d | „ | 0 | 10 | 6 |
| 3d | „ | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 4th | „ | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| 5th | „ | 2 | 10 | 6[32] |
| 6th | „ | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 7th | „ | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 8th | „ | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 9th | „ | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| 10th | „ | 1 | 1 | 0[33] |
| 11th | „ | 0 | 3 | 0[29] |
| 12th | „ | 0 | 18 | 0[33] |
| 13th | „ | 0 | 10 | 0[29] |
| 14th | „ | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15th | „ | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 16th | „ | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 17th | „ | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 18th | „ | 1 | 5 | 0[33] |
| 19th | „ | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 20th | „ | 0 | 0 | 0 |
This gives an average for the seventy-two weeks above cited of 18s. 6¼d. per week.
LUMPERS DISCHARGING TIMBER-SHIP IN COMMERCIAL DOCKS.
[From a Sketch.]
“Where I get 1l.” the man continued, after I had copied his accounts, “many don’t get 5s. I know many friends on the river, and I get a number of odd jobs which others can’t. In the last six years my earnings have been much about the same; but others, I am sure, don’t make half what I do—I have earned 1l. 8s. when I know they have been walking about and not earned a penny. In busy times, as many as forty pokers are employed; sometimes for as many as five weeks in the year. They get 3s. 6d. a-day from six to six. After they are out of work they do as best they can. It’s impossible to tell how one-half of them live. Half their time they are starving. The wives of the rafters go some of them charing; some are glove-makers, and others dressmakers. None that I know of do slopwork.”
I now come to the deal and stave-porters. First, as to those employed at the Commercial Docks.
From a man who has an excellent character given to him by his employers I had the following account:—