The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-04 00:00:00

STADE TOLLS.

The following is the report of the select com-
mittee appointed to inquire into the qrigin of the
claim of the Government cf Hanover to levy the
Snide tolls, to consider in what degree they are de-
trimental-to the commerce of the United Kingdom,
and the effect of giving notice to determine the
treaty under which this country has assented to the
payment of such tolls for a limited period :

" 1. That the foundation of the claim of Hanover to levy
the Stade toll wa4 a treaty with Denrcark in 1719 A.D.,
11114 11 fursh2.l- treaty with Sweden in 1719, by which, what-
ever tight those countries pixses:ed was transferred to the
Elector if Hanover.

" 2 Ti.;:t tto pr,tportion of Stade toll to freight in British
vt,ips ft ow Hull to Hamburg is at the prevent time oa a
hale- or span silk 113 per cent.; on a bale of cotton goods,
142 per cent.; and on a bale of woollen yarn, 36 cent.
the average annual amount cf Stark. tolls levied on
cargoes under the British flag has risen from 13 103. per 100
tuns British in IEI7, to £4 Os. 4d. in 1805.
"3. That the increase on British tonnage entering tl3e
part of Hamburg has been 102 per cent. since 1849, while
the increase on Hamburg tonnage has been 248 per cent.
since 1849; and the foreign tonnage, exclusive of Briti-h
air; Hamburg, f nteting the port cf Hamburg, has, (luring
the same period, increa,ed 99 per cent.
"4. That the Stade toll is injurious to the trade and
shipping of the United Kingdom. . .

" 5. That the tax is spccrally prejudicial to the part of
our produce and trade which has to compete in foreign
markets with similar articles not subject to the tax, and
this is felt sensibly in the coal trade, and particularly in
the export r.,f the less valuable descrip'ions of coal.
"6. Teat the property of Hamburg citizens, and
carried in llarnbw‘:2 rre exempt from the Stade toll,
and British ships are thereby exposed to an unfair compcti-
tiol.

"7. That the general trade to Hamburg, notwithstanding
the discouruernent occasioned by the tax, has more than
doublrd within the last years.
"8. That tide trade to /I arburg, which is free from Stadc
toll, has risen in a Still more striking ratio ; that of Bremen.
Elsfleth toll on the Weser bating ceased, ai,d that of
Stettin <the Sound does having'been abolished), have also
increased in a very large proportion.
"0. That the Stale t it Citf,rs front the Sound dues, is the Sound does were a tax charged not only upon
articles of export, but also on articles of general use im-
ported into the:Ur.it 0 Kingdom ; but the Stade toll is levied
on export:, fr Orn end not on imports into the United Kingdom.
"10. Tisat it does not appear that any service whatever is
rendered ty Hanover in return f..,r the tax levied upon the
commel-e,, of Grew Britain.

"11. Trat if the treaty of 1844, by which the United
Kingdom is bound ibr n limited period to accent to the pay.
merit of tlie .:Bta,e tell, were determincii by notice pur,u-
ant to the terms thereof, hut little itjury or inconvenience
would arise to the trade of this conwry.
"I'2. That it expedient that notice sliould be given to
terminate the treaty of 1844 with Hanover."