Report from the Select Committee on Stade Tolls

1858, sessional number 429. x and 190 pp. Comprises Minute of Appointment, Report, Proceedings of the Committee, List of Witnesses, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index. Committee appointed May 1858 " to Inquire into the Origin of the Claim of the Government of Hanover to Levy the Stade Tolls, to consider in what degree they are detrimental 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". The Chairman was Joseph Warner Henley [1793-1884, see D.N.B.]. Evidence given by 8 witnesses, as follows: Professor Christian Frederick Wurm, Professor of History at Hamburg, John Hargreaves, Secretary to HM Consul-general at Hamburg, Richard Glover of Hull, merchant and shipbroker, August Sanders of Hamburg, merchant, ship-owner and Chairman of the Elbe-Hamburg Steam Navigation Company (trading between Hamburg and Hull), John Ward, HM Consul-General in Saxony, Martin Pratt, Secretary to the General Steam Navigation Company, Nicholas Wood, President of the Institute of Mining Engineers, and Sir J[ames] Emerson Tennent, Secretary of the Board of Trade [1804-1869, see D.N.B.]. Chief matters investigated and reported upon include abrogation of treaty, amount of tolls, coals, detention of vessels, exemptions, freights, Hamburg, Harburg, navigation of the Elbe, redemption of toll, Riverain Commission at Dresden, shipping, sound dues, tariff, title or claim of Hanover, treaty of 1844, Upper Elbe Tolls, etc. Folio. Good condition. Rebound in blue cloth boards with gold titling. …