§ Lord Althorp,in moving that the Report on the Wine Duties Bill be received, said, that as he was desirous that the present measure should be adopted without opposition, it was not his intention then to introduce any clause respecting the future increase of the Duties on Cape Wines, which would remain at 2s. 9d.; but he begged that it might not be thought that he was abandoning his former proposition with respect to increasing those duties in the year 1834.
Mr. Humesaid, the wine-growers at the Cape had suffered materially from the uncertainty in which they had been kept, but he hoped the announcement of the noble Lord would restore that confidence which they had lost in the House of Commons.
§ The Report received, and Amendments agreed to.