The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 18110.

and there their treat le niednistmed. One a quarter
three or four et them . deem to Baena, ea a
Satextlay evening, go to alma oar the Snaky,
made* thebabeer on the Idemby, dine together
aft, the Memo el the Ace, and sawn be tone ta
thee tee Oak ewe below on Toesd eacriss ;
Mar spera:l7 plows in a body; thetas
Yee wirer; and the limo
whisk as ebbe is• the Incroto, or.
" Ilia mod geoldemedget; demi it may be pre-
mitiods le Ike 117 Mo of a beam% worthy of die
ells bedew.'
The mat et eiministratioa, them, is at • red a-
tones heels
the Whew, sad the admisianafive bay
is e
we
gentkmen who konr little or
sheet Worn ems about Baser& Harboarat2
Bet Gogh the Alain are et'el in Leaden,
the mosey I. sped in Raimgate; sad, with the beet
fannies., the sepervnion whisk Audit-frieze out
ezeseise over Bamegate is MOW, imsependble,
lissting, and inesular. Burials sawn te Austin-
Mare; sad Anetia-kiare moose serridesee
in reran free Benoist*. Now, it liensiste
there are two principles (came polio would call
them pride/Bees) se inasevabk u we trust
the Pier One, that Remote Harbour
will suer be tabbed; the other, that no works en ft
can be properly done by eoutreet. The ormeequerise
of the farmer is that new operation are always in
oontemplatios ; of the latter, that stenentemons an
at Panagate earn g 7. 10.. a-week ; and Irish la-
bourers, who barely got 12s. elsewhere, can make 20s.
there; and that that which now eons 20,0001. a-year
might easily and diectively be done for 6,0001. or
7,0001. Over the expenditure at Remote there is
no real cheek or proper coated; the work 6 ordered
on the reememendation et them who moat@ it, ice
Iperintended by the muse parties, is paid tor ma their
artilleatei them is sot even a clerk al the works;
and SW John Rennie, like the directors, only pays
' casual *Ns to the harbour. Under seek a cistern, the
nape** b tint there should have bear any surplus
zeirgarnaltere. Yet there has been ; and so eon-
s morphia, that hem the proceeds of its Je-
roboam the Commons Committee have reported
that the harbour sae be aniatained and that in roue-
clause, " all date and tolls new taken from all vessels.
British and foreign, passing up and down channel,
ought wholly to moo and to d t.riai.. en opinion
in which the shipping interest and the public gene-
rally Oar they aa conaninere, of course, ultimately
pay these tolls) will very heartily eateeer.
The history at this surplus is cerioselz illustrative
of the whole system. The tolls on shipping were, of
mane, granted by the legislature to construct and
maintain the harbour. When the harbour was finished,
ithe tolls would necessarily be redneed to the point
required for the maintenance of the works com-
pleted. The increase of shipping up
. peasinfiandd
down channel has, however, so enormously •
that, in spite of a reduction in their amount some
thirty yeses, the tolls reagent on account of the
harbour have been so great that, is spite of
the utmost menials, they could not be islet
on it. Accordingly the dire Mare, with a view
it might almcet be supposed to await all Ramagate
in its harbour, and under the pretence that some day
or other they would be wanted for its enlargement,
began to buy all the surrour ding property. They
bought the Albion Hotel and then let it at a very
low rent on a very long hate; they bought the
Clarence Baths ; they bought warehouse on the West
Cliff; they bought Ooldsmid-place ; and, not having
anything else to do with their money, they made a
great sewer for the town : just as the trustees of Mar.
gate Pier spent 2,0001. on a church steeple. In short,
the directors of the harbour have now a rental of
1,8001. out of rime of the best peopert in the town,
together with 60,0001. or 70,0007. in the foods—all
the unpins of their dues on shipping. They are
the grand seigneurs of Ramegate.
Now so long as three directors (reeponsible or
accountable to no henna being, publishing no annual
account, and tolerating no interference) can spend the
money they teeny& they am, it seems, entitled by,
law to levy these does; and, failing other modes of
!pending it they laid it out in house property, and
invested it in the funds. But time plays strange
trick., and frustrates the wiliest schemes; and they
have gone on tnveeties to such an extent that, older
• good system of management, the annual income
derived from their acquired property can now, it is
proved, maintain the harbour without any dose at all
es shipping: and thus the directors are caught in
their own toile.

They- have, dace the committee reported, announoed
a redaction of their tolls. Bet that won't do. What
the committee reemmailad it that all toll. "wholly
cases aad deterediee And to His it mast coma Mr.
Maniamext ow mit die almiltlea bra while, and
le assematily tax 1i imetitawita But it can't
kat 'flied** le tee attartreva That, however, will
perhaps be better seen whet we explain by whom the
two minions sterling spent an Baena* Harbour
has bees ocatribated.

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