The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-11 00:00:00

LOCAL DUES ON SHIPPING.

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From the elaborate statement made by Mr. Levie..':l
Monday evening, it appears that all the local dues 1e 0 f
on shipping in 1852 for all purposes was 1,095,37 g,
which 820,0991 was expended in he service of shiPls'os
and 275,297/ in other purposes. Leaving the larger Su
untouched, the government proposes to relieve theively,
ping of the latter sum, either at once or prosPen,toen
the passing tolls levied, of which 12,000/ are for -v4,1111
14,000/ for Ramsgate, 2,835/ for Bridlington, and ,slblo
for Whitby, amount in all to 37,4961; while it is if°l3°"erbe
from the nature of these harbours that they canieves fito
used by the bulk of the shipping on which the anster
levied. For sixteen hours out of the twenty-four verpoel/
inaccessible to vessels of 150 tons burthen. Livneso/, of
in 1852, as a corporation, levied no less than 105,4 oft
which 3,0441 were expended ';for maritime purposeg'rpool
the remainder was appropriated for behoof of the Yvesiele
ratepayers. Newcastle levies 8,600/., Hull 5,00°."1-2„oo°'
on shipping. The Russian Company levies about 'no*
a-year on British shipping, and expends it on etrt the
organs, pictures, dinners, and salaries. Amen% erio'
items of outlay is 25/. for an organ, 1001. for church
(lows at Moscow, and 2001. for framing and embellish al
the portrait of the Emperor Nicholas. Gentlemen soh
liberty to spend their own money if they ptease etl4o
objects, but it is not to be endured that our sh'ibeSii
should be taxed a single farthing to pay flit toe*
These are only specimens of ancient tolls and
co
originally levie 1 for the benefit of individuals;ooo
tinued to our time. Mariners seem to have been
50d
on as fair game by a great number of bodies., ,
not
individuals, and we are afraid that the State lo
guiltless, by the example it long set in regard to the, gof
having encouraged the wrong. All these charges ,4
to
however, now to be got rid of. Having a due regat'neo
all vested interests, to all the creditors to whom to
tolls have been pledged, the government has subrnitte
sDd
parliament a plan at once comprehensive, equitable,°Dit,
minute, for relieving the shipping from all taxes lefied,.o4
for other purposes than to pay for services neriee„,' telt
There are several remnants of the old protective 5,4080,
such as making compensation out of the eonso.lerlf
fund to certain corporations and pilots who had to7oot
a right to levy double fees on foreign ships, whi,eb tit
reciprocity treaties have put an end to, and wh'e..de
nation has taxed itself to pay. This is a growing eh_f!'°;oo
amounts now to 52.0001, h.tving been 22.0001 in 15140
is to be got rid of. The result, according
of Mr. Lowe's speech, is, so far as the consolidated ty
is concerned, on which this sum is charged,—talLtigtb4
account between the consolidated fund and this bloc,
that fund will gain by getting rid of this annual burn( Dot
to the cone:
52,0001, which would increase with the increase the
trade; and it will lose 60,0001 in all, by paying 'OO.O
debts upon the Whitby and Bridlington tolls. As boll
the shipping interest is concerned the result of the WO
change, according to Mr. Lowe's statemeut4,436l4
be immediately to benefit it to the amount of 4.'" cur
by the calculation of 1852, but in the.soool.
rent year the sum will probably reach u:':joir
Ultimately there will be a further
tion of duties to the amount (as nearly as can be
igetl
culated) of 200,0005 Of course to the numerous entre
proposed, some of them affecting private and other
,edi
rate interests, opposition is to be expected, and a, "po;000
the corporations of Liverpool and Newcastle, and the
other places, are moving against the measure, 013 the
ground that the dues proposed to be abolished, areebesk
property of the corporations. They have purchased 'OOO
some time or other, and have given for them re,
valuable consideration. But if the dues or taxes "e
like many of the ancient tolls on rivers and roads apd
hort
bridges, such as existed in Ireland within a 6
ar
period, originally wrong, they cannot be made by fry
chase into a just possessian. In the case of these el,bel
rations, the matter we think is extremely clear. for
purchased the claims to the dues by corporate funds'
e
the advantage of all the population within the ineeool,,
rated town. For some few members of the corpnra„:l:,,
it may be personally advantageous to continue the le.''ore
such dues ; but for the good of the whole people, there"
freedom there is given to trade, the less it be taxed'
ol
more it will increase, and the greater will be the Seine if n
advantage. From Liverpool it is proved that traut
"" ol
partially diverted by exorbitant dues, as well as t,uhrge,
out of its most advantageous channel. We look, 0
fore, on the defence of these dues by the corporatio°l7o
dictated rather by personal interests of some fevv„„,go(
viduals than by a just consideration of the advantage
the whole local community.
dig*
That carrying out the principle of abolishing flt.
which have no other authority than prescription, ri3
followed by considerable changes in legal rights, w:tiols
not prepared to deny ; but there can be no justifie"id
for corpoeations being authorised to levy dues on 81100
for purposes in which shipping have no interest. ,Aleata
as the protectionist system was in vogue—a subst,'ooo
never fairly adjusted, of mutual and reciprocal Witted
for freedom and justice—the shipowners to'er" ed
these various impositions.
_They
were suPr,i3i, t;
to receive compensation in a monopoly of fret
but now that their monopoly has been done "I.oi
with amazingly to their advantage, the gre-
for continuing taxes on them has disappearea• to
therefore, the abolition of these taxes should lea i 9
further changes in other legal rights, the presumPti°rll.
that these, like the taxes now to be got rid of, a,11,,i',00
monopoly already abolished, were at all times, 1"-106,
tolerated from ignorance, violations of freedom 401
justice. We must add that the corporation and Pen'id
London, with all the taxes and dues levied on
in the port, are excluded from this bill, except the mar 01
society, because London has been the subjec9/
a special inquiry and will be the subject of a 81) :the
measure. The Marine Society is not included L"bill,
special inquiry, and therefore is dealt with in this or
It derives from the extinct Westminster Fish Market f figb
tees the privilege of levying 2s. on every boat-load e 9 meo
which passes the Nore ; having taken from the fisher;itf
between 1845 and 1854 about 5,989/., of which the 011;001
received only 3,515/., one qnarter of the sum having gent
to the secretary, and 9761. to an inspector to P'"" tbo
forestalling and regrating. The society is useful fo,no
nation, but it ought not'to be paid by a tax on the earllDer
of men as much exposed to all the severities of the we'
as any class of her Majesty's subjects.—Economist.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

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LIVERPOOL. FEBRu.

WIND YESTERDAY—South-west.

HIGH WATE R—Morn ~ 2 41—Eveg. 3 4—Height, 18 ft. 814

OFF THE PORT AND INWARD BOUND.
Asia, and Detroit. New Orleans; Sylvia, Charleston; sod
John Alelhuish, Calcutta.

ARRIVED.
rirodel ,_A
Feb. B.—Emma Lincoln, New Orleans—Laurs, Rio ,x—resy
Falcon, Gallipoli—:,ultan, Lisbon. Feb. 9—Majestic,
nought, New Y.irk Eudocia. Rapp,hannock, and w
Sprague, New Orleans—Selina, Psraiba—Tigre, and Geo. Fels,
Mobile Bahian4 (s.s.), Plymouth—Arabian (s.s.), Swan
Lochuasar. Whampoa —Catherne, Bonny and Antigua—Prior,
Pernambuco Sydenh4m, Shinpag n—Eugene. Prince
Island—Snake, St. Michaels—Vulcan (Ls.). Gibraltar -- u°„/. 0;
dade, Lisbon—Emma, Charleston—John Barbour, St. John, 'l9.'
Trinidad Ist, Malaga—Queensbury (new ship), Annan. Feb. ocijOr
N. S. del Carmen, Matanzas—Sea King, New Orleans —Joha
Valparaiso.

SAILED.
Feb. 10.—Chariot of Fam., Boston—Sfeander (s.),
Duchess. Barbadoea—Destella (s.s.), Cadiz—Proteus, Jamaica•

MARITIME EXTRACTS,

all --- it, ff
Liverpool, Feb. 9.—Crimea, for Constantinople, has put bac ,0 f
mainmast head carried away.—Four Flats have:arrived with esfriae..
Ocean Rover, and one with cargo ex Clan Gregor.—The Oceariv AP'
is discharging very fast, cotton into carts. and Indian corn jo,.'oll'
alongside. Her b •ck is reported to be broken.—Hercyna, 'l J
cutta, has put b.ck leak y about the stern.—A lump and a fiat
oil
arrived with cargo ex Clan Gregor. the ship ha 1 15 feet water 4 0
hold at high water, and is embedded 61 feet in the sand. 011_„ide'
ciaite upright; keel and word ends start-d, rudder lying slow
and a great many sheets of yel'ow metal rubbed off. 100'
New York, Jan. 23.—A dismasted ship, apparently cotton
was pass-d Jan. 16, in lat. 34, lon. 75.
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Pembroke, Feb. B.—The Great Duke, Sampson. from NeW std so 4
to Liverpool, was totally wrecked last night between Lena,' 0!,,
Govan's head. Captain and 29 men drowned ; mate and tlis ce
saved. Cargo washing about, but it is doubtful whether Mu
er
be saved. Scarcely a fra. ment of the ship remains.
I Gli
Pwllheli, Feb. B.—The Henry Pratt commenced discharg9l-1-
O
deck load this evening; all her cargo is expected to be savedifie,
Sarah Ann is much strained, the water running out of her at d 0
, „0
places. The cotton is being discharged.
Fleetwood, Feb. B.—The Lima srcunda, of and for opor t o P-00
~or
Liverpool, was this moiling towed in here with foreyard ''' j
away, losa of sails. Rte.; hull and cargo all right.
vetilit
Douglas, Feb. 7.—The schooner Countess, of and from..e) org ,
to Newcastle with salt, was totally wrecked last night at 1;0 to
Marys. Captain and three men saved.—A trpnk. supposed ODi
belonged to a passenger, and to have been washed ashore, IS 0807 p
tody of the coast guard s it has a brass-plate, with the name ;fle A
S. 'Fireman on it.—A small boat, said to resemble one belory"1„ 015
sloop Eva. of Chester. which left for Peel a short time blcoffi
been washed on shore, and It islfeared the,vesset was wrecke.
vos
Chicken Rocks,
M ideira, Jon. 31.-1 he Dido, from the Cape of Good Frollejet
in here on the 12th, and the Coronation, from Callao, on tAii`ii3O,s
in distress; have been surveyed, and are likely to be con dl' —The Parana (tt.M S.), for the West Indies, put in here oe
inst. short of coals, and proceeded same day.
10 eon
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Dublin, Feb. 9.—The Orwell, hence to Southampton, was
tact with the smack Mayflower; received considerable dafnal, -
'e' , 0
has been towed up here Cr repairs. tbi
tO of Sligo, Feb. 7.—Tbe Sirius, Gillen, of and from Liverpool„u 4
te i port, dragged from anchors yesterday at Poolthog, and
n•
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Bowmore :_ands. She is reported dry at low water.:

FOREIGN PORTS.

Afrim (11.31.5.), hence at New York.
Baltic (U.S.M.S.), hence off Sandy Hook.
Rose, Richards, hence at Seville.
Uncle John, Bignell, hence at Havre.
Saracen, M.Larty ; Tapley, Golley ; and Garland, Dirket pets,
hence at Bonny.
Bombay Packet sailed from Bonny, Dec. 24 ; and Stranger'
25—both for Liverpool; and Tremont, Dec. 29, far Rio Be'
Tweed, and Nilo; od—both at Came.oona.
Lydia, and Arab. sailed from Cameroons for Bonny, Dec. 92.
Emily. and Fifeshire— both at Fernando Po.
Mozelle, from Bristol at Fe nar do Po. 0 Dec.
Sea. from Hourly at Fernando Po, and sailed for Liverpool,
Kelpie sailed from Fernando Po for Benin, Jan. 2.
Pomona, and At abian— both at Lagos.
Ganymede, and ELen Jenkinson—both at Liberia.
Fortitude, at Goree, and sailed for Leeward Coast.

DEATHS. Robert
On the 6th in‘t., at the house of her brother-in-10/..;0.
Wright, EN., Hedon, Yorkshire, Miss Groves, aged 63 Ye,"001,011
On the B.h last., Mr. Charles Woolfall, aged 2 dei8 years, erg
Richard Woolfall, Littler's-terrace, Egremont, Cheshire,
respected.A

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