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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
HANDLING. 
The bulk of the goods mentioned are brought to the board’s ware 
houses by carts and are taken away in the same manner. Tobacco is 
almost invariably landed at the open docks and carted to the ware 
houses, as are also tea, coffee, and cocoa. Most of the sugar housed 
is discharged from the importing vessel at the Albert, Stanley, or 
Wapping quays, and either taken direct from the vessel into store 
or stored after having been stowed on the quays. The board does not 
undertake either the cartage of goods landed at the open docks and 
intended for storage at their warehouses, or the cartage of goods from 
the said warehouses to the open docks for shipment, but from inqui 
ries made the following appear to be the rates usually charged for 
such services: Tobacco, about Is. 6d. (3G cents) per ton into store, and 
Is. 8d. (40 cents) out; sugar, about Is. 3d. (30 cents) per ton; tea, 
coffee, and cocoa, about Is. 6d. (36 cents) per ton; wines and spirits, 
about Is. 3d. (30 cents) per puncheon, 9d. (18 cents) per hogshead, 
5d. (10 cents) per barrel, and Id. (2 cents) per case. 
All bonded goods are under the Crown locks, as well as the board’s, 
and customs officers are constantly in attendance at the warehouses to 
overlook the operations performed. At the sugar storehouses the 
customs officer is not always present, but he pays periodical visits to 
satisfy himself that everything is going on all right. No bonded 
goods can be delivered by the board without the authority of the cus 
toms, which is given on a form provided for the purpose. 
The dock board has several other large warehouses, but they are 
chiefly used for the storage of free goods. Transit sheds have also 
been provided by the board at most of the open docks for the tem 
porary storage of dutiable goods prior to their being passed by the 
customs authorities. The rate books inclosed are as last printed bv 
the dock board, the alterations which have been made from time to 
time in certain of the rates since the books were issued not being 
shown in the inclosed copies. 
James Boyle, Consul. 
Liverpool, England, July 1°¿, WOJ^. 
MANCHESTER. 
(From United States Consul Bradley, Manchester, England.) 
The principal warehouses located at the Manchester docks are 13, 
situated on the north side of No. 8 dock, with a gross inside area of 
291,473 square feet, or 32,386 square yards; and 4 situated on land 
adjoining Trafford Wharf road, with an inside area of 114,642 square 
feet, or 12,738 square yards. These warehouses are owned by the 
Manchester Docks and Warehouse Extension Company, from whom 
they are leased by the Manchester Ship Canal Company, which 
handles and controls all merchandise stored therein. 
The Manchester Ship Canal Company also owns and controls a 
transit shed for bonded traffic, situate at the end of No. 7 dock, Sal 
ford, having an inside area of about 10,000 square feet, or about 1,110 
square yards. The original cost of the buildings can not be ascer 
tained. The warehouses are used principally for the storage of free