§ MR. J. P. CORRYasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, If there has been anything fraudulent on the part of traders engaged in the business of racking and blending spirits in bend by their treatment of the casks after they have been emptied?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERI hope I did not, in an Answer I gave some time ago, seem to imply that any fraud was imputed to the traders in respect to whom this Question has been raised. There was nothing fraudulent; but the way in which the casks were rinsed out was found to involve a loss to the Revenue; and it was therefore necessary that steps should be taken to preserve the Revenue against similar loss in the future. There was no intention to impute to the gentlemen engaged in the transaction anything of the nature of a fraudulent intention.