The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-13 00:00:00

The Chairman of the Manua Navigation Committee
lawnlet up the followng report, to which the paella,
situation of thy sown was regions" :
" We when names are hereenis eshessibed of your Na-
vigation Committee, to whine, es the Usk of J , it
eras referred to cohider a bill 'To Alm sad the
Acts relating to the East end Were thespeny,'
a bill 'To Awed the Acta relating Se the Medea Donator
piny,' sad a bill To Alter andAmead the AM MMus to
the St. Katharias's Deck Oempany,' sal to report
thereon, do eertif4t Mr. TeeleabeiMME Lacing laid
Midof the hills +iappressen titan the same
nsidensiss. Ike ged el the three
desk immunise puMmen is Mi Mead their
M= with to the /Amiss of rates in nspeot of
and craft frevisr or airing the docks,
begin, or locks a the empanel, sad la respect of goods
received or diseMeped Mee seek **len or craft, and to
repeal all provide= of ihrint holy Minh such lighters
er maft, or the yob 1111111,14 se dfmMepdtherefrom, are
sun exempted from the pitmen draw to tit said am-
That in the acts of parliament of each of the said dock
sompeales it is expressly provided that their docks shell be
Mk to form part of the Port of London, and be subject
to all the regulations 'sad be liable to all the duties
of the port, its tolls, dues, and customs. They are also
declared to be legal quays, and subject to all the ngula-
doss and restrictions to which legal quays are liable. M-
ooning to these provisions, the docks of these companies are
precisely in the sans condition as to the rights of the public
as if they formed part of the river (rootage, when, accord-
ing to the cutest of the port lighters and other craft re-
ceiving goods on the river side of ships moored at any legal
quay bars always been exempted from any charge, and the
legislature, in order to secure freedom of ustercourse be-
tween the different docks and quays eonstituting the port of
London, has provided in all the existing dock sets that
lighters and lightered goods, as well as ballast, shall be
received and delivered from ships lying in the several docks
without payment of dock charges.
"The repeal of those *lames exempting lighten and craft
from the payment of dock rates will be to create a mono-
poly in favour of the dock establishments, and to inflict a
onions injury upon the fen trade and commerce of the
Port of London.
"That the dock COMINIOiIIe, the legal quays, and suffer-
ease harves are now all competitors is Mde of land-
lag and warehousing goods within the Port of London; but
the repeal of the clauses proposed by the dock companies
would leave nearly the whole of the trade in their hands.
" That the imposition of dock does epos goods discharged
into lighten in the several docks will tend to prevent ships
which now enter into the docks from doing so, which will
Cosh • their cargoes in the river, sad add to the already
wwdd state of the port of Leaden, sad abstract sad im-
pede the hasberar service. That Me vain of the legal
quays sad anlimems wharves, awn ef whisk are the pro-
per of UM Ompenden el Leans, will M serinsly in-
mod if Mode* essepenies obtain the repeal of the Muss
whin Fenn their taking doek dew en lighten sad goods.
That, madderiwg that the said bilk, if parsed, will be in-
jurious Si the Made awl enewnem sad also to the harbour
minis* of the pat your seemillos filOC4I/INsl that they
be empowered to oppose the sewed roan( la the Hoses of
Osemsee, and that if the bill newild be reed s locoed
time, your committee he Woe empowered te oppose the same
he committee; had we ban dieted Mr. Remsbrancer
to prepare the bails of panne mordingly for the sane-
Nos of you, heammehle nen"
The CLIMAX laving moved the adoption of the n-
itwit,
Depny IMMO, ISMlbied an elaborate speech by call-
ing ups lbe mei ask M *tat the fends WO* serving=
in emits the hilik end mewl se an emsnamat—" That
the mist Mils ememilleee Ile noes the table." (Hear.)
Mr. 'Wass enemas* Me eminent.
After a long Memnon%
A show ed bins vies Wm. when the amendment was
lest by • very Loge majority.
The eeiglaal nodes was Asa put sad carried.
TM min the adjoined.