The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-25 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 25.

THE election of Prince ALBERT to the Mastenhi
of the Trinity House opens to his Royal Highness i
field of very important public usefulness He is now
at the head of ancient corporation that might be
valuable to themation, but which a t present expends
an income of between two and three hundred thousand
a year in a very in esponsible manner. HENRY VIII. in
1313 incorporated the society for "the promotion of
commerce and navigation by licensing and regulating
pilots, and ordering and directing lighthouses, bea-
cons, and buoys." JAMES 11., by letters patent, von-
firmed the corporation in their charter by the
name of the misters, wardens, and assistants of the
guild or fraternity of "the most glorious and undivided
Trinity", and then,—as at its first formation,—the
society consisted solely of seamen. Now, however,
the Master is chosen, not for any experience he may
hare bad at sea, nor for any knowledge as to light-
houses or pilots. The Trinity Board is no leisure
seat of dignity for the mariners of a thousand storms,
or for the men of enterprise whose energy has
opened new paths for commerce,—for those who have
reduced to something tike science the formerly hap-
huard art of ship-building, or for the investigators
of the laws of storms, by whose labours the hurricane
has been shorn of a portion of its horrors. The
Trinity sets up for no such distinction. It is content
to find itself—by the marvellous growth of commerce
—enjoying the comfortable reality of a rich cor-
poration, with a large share of inscrutable pa-
tronage,--an ample provisioa for dinners,—s massive
house in the neighbourhood of the Tower—a gorgeously
fitted up steam yacht or two for the laborious visita-
tion of the light-houses and the buoys ;—a commercial
seaman's fund, drawn from the hard earnings of
real sailors, and serving to pension, it is sometimes
whispered, those who can tell but little of the seas ;
—s Fewer to make a Pilot of the Thames of any man
from env river's mouth between John O'Oroat's and
the Lana's-ood, provided only he has been thralee4eus
or mate, muter one year, in any spas.
vessel, and has got crammed for his
Three, and some ether setters emestitate the
manifold comforts of the tang agates of "the
fraternity of the most &rises sedivida Tri-
aity." Their Mader is sew its all maim doom
as the eau of= Mat, se mat Animation in
the Brethren seeesedallyeelected
fronMaZte of the sad the Ministry, and
thealinalawados . Bet whateverkeip
the ?dap Meese these years ago lave
amid to amemerce, it is mew aleavy
our shapes sad a downright preventive and
drafts to trade. At the sen nossedt_holosoori
we do not argue for the abolifM oftheatedy Brea
bat wish only to point out ems as mad heavy
taxes it inflicts upon shipping. Canasta' with the
Trinity Board is the Bead Ohio kr sharing
and deepening the Thames. No ship must
take in any ordinary ballast ezoeo hem the
Board. During the repairs and altffideal at
the Tower, it was a great aria g of Mew and
expense to shoot the dry rani alm ship eisapide
as ballot. Considerable numbers et aortae availed
themselves of the occasion to She in hat hes of
charge, and wen surprised b 11m1 thweeslasim
ceeded against for enormous peados hy the Ballast
brush of the Trinity Board ; a peessabge they were
glad to escape by peying the ilea rate of Is. iL a
tan for the rubsh, whisk was a munerm
where they bad received it, sad which had
never cost the Trinity Beard au farthing. The
Masters of the Trinity Hesse UM, however, by
virtue of "deassing and deepening the Thoome." a
monopoly in the supply of ship with beast, sad
mast have for every too bad on board is the river
Is. 3d., and in dock la. Sal.,probably mare than
double what it add be had he if the supply of
ballast were an open trade. Base ships take in no
more ballast in the Thames than is Indent to =
as far as Greenhithe or Frith; there
belied is to be had at a lower price
thee Trinity matador', but by some sp-
asm stranag of their power the Board
sentdve to compel a composition tax even from
these Agana ie sheik, who are in reality out of
their keisadigia. Bat the exagegive pries of ballast
ads, the many* is net all. It happens nearly
odes that a awl ready to dear in ballast is
awned he a cargo at the last se-
ason; she has thou, probably, more than half her
bided le apse of, sad it might be 'apposed that,
heft lay hseght it from the Board at their
ehattered prise, she wad be at liberty
ea sell it a my 'mod at lead and in
want of it. No eat Sag. Suit a trauma=
would involve boa is heavy fines. Notice
must be meat to the eit-ehes that the ship has
found a map, and thereepea in pays Id. a ton to
have the bead reaseed, mod the Is. 3d. is paid over
ia bll the Peehaps. maws, the ballast may be mid to be a
small neatler--gesepoly vanity to Garb the united
quiet of so great a lay as the ?shay Board shoat.
It ammo% ham; &es small tax epos
that perdu of the he Was of whose
trade oblige! them to hoped voyages in
being, whia heals awar eargo,
only to be masa te the ma cesesies. A
fruit-ship. far Eastamos, making tt was. to St.
Micheal's, will carry oat 100 tea dl labia CO of
which will be thrown overboard hall ps she takes her
carp on board, sad will have to be mined by 60
tom for the next outward trip. But we are
ready earegit to leave the Board to the ex-
ams of the nehmen of the ballast tax,
with the assurance, however, is paining, that
small as it is they will have to give up the
wrong. Our 'hippies, battling earnestly with ths
world in open compuition an every sea, has passed
the time of sabeaske even to mill plantar sod
PUY
Bat is so small a matter? The
Thames is bast by a double guard of pilots.
A frail ship, say of 160 Ora mshos to the
lesson three voyages oat sad time, pays to
the Trinity ei for esch vopes astward 91.,
mod to the Port pilots fer-ola hesereard
voyage la, 31. tar
_paw the aid Chose
Port Piet se beard. her au the tale of
we bellea.is aY ientseses.oed here. It is the=
custom he the Cape Pert pat to p the ship no
Craw than Cheummil, wham as Peke up a
Taft pilot, whom he is abed Par the pra
rady however, we shall my last Mag of this 31. The
ship has to pay—Trinity paters oat, 271. ; cup*
Past pilotage In, 461 • being a total of M—
ashes for the three Seethe of the fruit emus
$4l. 16e. sad daring whisk the Crape Port and
Trinity-boom chats an authorised to tax the gems
ship no lees than 721., or within 121. 164. of the
entire wages of the crew—metier, male, nese, and
boys—for the whole three math' of alive and lola-
noes work.
Nor does even this, flagrant therm it be, show
the hole injustice. The pilots are a parts—
from the Clyde, the Type, the WNW is Ma.
my. Interest gets them the antsy it =II&
nation, sad • regular preheat d pia pe•
paration same them foe the mac naba.
track of question and answer. Timm le Ma .g
to gay that bat • few of thus are paid ihr
aloe. It is notorious that besides the yin the alp
has to take on board • Thames waters= who godly
does know his business, who actually takes amp
the ship, and is quaintly called the pilet's
this man has 11. far actually doing what doe
Merl:c3kggfiotriohilist right
toisd:cathatl, the
favoured piles ignorance is set down at W.
Nor is It clay in the river that these
fraud sad hardy babes are 'tied to take
ehsrge,—tbcy are also frepeady tam en beard
in the Channel, and naive their 31. he doing the
work of a Cinque Port meeepailet, irk"—tor the
mere putting him on boud.—ha se meek as the
waterman's entire fee.. The amenat ef the 1000.

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