said, that the cost of the dock walls per lineal yard, including excavating, piling, and masonry was ~€110 ; the cost of a pair of gates, at 25s. per square foot,, exclusive of the machinery, was %2,300 ; and the reclaimed land, on the foreshore of the Humber, was purchased from the Government,, by the Manchester and Sheffield Railway Company, for $30,000. The timber used in the construction of the cofferdam and exterior works of the enclosure amounted to 709,000 cubic feet, of which 410,572 cubic feet were required for the cofferdam alone. The cost of the cofferdam was $70,000, being at the rate of 246. 10s. running foot. The total ex enditure on the Great Grimsby ocks was about $1,050,000.8 f this sum $112,207 was for the purchase of the old dock and outfall, while the remaining amount, $937,793, was expended on the construction of the docks and the reclamation and purchase of land, no interest on capital being included in these amounts. H e wished to bear testimony to the great value of creosoting for the preservation of timber. H e had lately examined the tidal pier, and had observed, that some of the uncreosoted piles, which were originally 14 inches square, were now wasted considerably, had lost half their thickness, and were merely hanging by the bolts ; whereas the creosoted timbers were as sound as when first driven.Mr. COODE remarked, with reference to the threatened breach t.hrough the Spurn Point, that he considered the preservation of the promontory was of paramount importance to the harbour and port of Grimsby. The Board of Trade had, some time since, referred t,he matter to him, and he had recommended the construction of timber groynes upon the beach facing the North Sea. Some of these groynes bad been executed, and the consequent accumulation of sand and gravel had been so rapid, that the Spurn Point was already materially strengthened.It was the intention of the Government to complete the remainder of the groynes in the ensuing spring.Sir EDWARD BELCHER, in allusion to the danger to be apprehended from the removal of Spurn Island, said, that the true bearing of the Spurn Point from the dock entrance was about N. 68' E. ; and on this bearing alone, the sea-wave would enter into the outer entrance,-that was, provided nature offered no other obstacles. H e was one of the naval advisers of the late Mr. Rendel in 1850-52, and he found, hy the later Admiralty Surveys, corrected up to 1S60, that his views, as expressed in 1850-51, had been realised. H e had then stated, that " for every foot you advance into the deep water, if carried obliquely-not stubbornly at right angles, in opposition to the t.idal course, at half or three-quarters ebb-nature will accompany you by a deposit covering the channel, which would probably be scoured by the land-drains." From Mr. Calver's survey of 1851-
