§ MR. RITCHIEasked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether he will lay upon the Table of the House the Correspondence which has lately passed between the Workmen's National Association for the abolition of Foreign Sugar Bounties and Her Majesty's Government on the subject of the Home and Colonial Sugar industries?
MR. GLADSTONESir, the Correspondence to which reference is made by the hon. Gentleman consists, no doubt, of the letter which the Work- 1876 men's Association addressed recently to me, and the reply which I sent them; and these have been published in the newspapers. Since that time a rejoinder has been published by the Workmen's Association, and to that rejoinder, I apprehend, probably an answer will be made. I think, therefore, that any Question on this subject had better stand over till the Correspondence is complete.