§ SIR A. ROLLIT (Islington, S.)I have to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether any steps have yet been taken to nominate the Treaties and Tariffs Committee to confer with the Government in consequence of the general lapsing of European Commercial Treaties in 1892, and which the right hon. Gentleman stated, in March, would 514 be appointed; and if it is yet possible to lay before the House the names of any gentlemen nominated, and to state upon what principles such nominations have been made?
§ SIR M. HICKS BEACHThe subject is under my consideration, and I am now in communication with several gentlemen upon it. But I am not yet in a position to make a statement.