CAPTAIN AYLMERasked the Tinder Secretary of State for the Colonies, If the Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce has been consulted on the proposed Customs Duties; and, if he will lay upon the Table of the House a statement showing the articles which will be charged Duty, and the amount to be charged on each article?
§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEYSir, the Chamber of Commerce have not been consulted—the scheme being still in embryo and unsettled; but, before anything is done, the proposed changes will be locally published in detail, and sufficient time allowed for the Chamber of Commerce, or any other persons interested, to make any objections. It is impossible, as yet, to lay anything on the Table of the House, seeing that nothing has been decided.