Mr. R. Gordonwished to know, from the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Majesty's Government had come to any determination relative to a point which had excited much interest among persons engaged in the brewing trade, and upon which several memorials had been presented to the Government,—namely, the ad vantage which would arise to the publicans if they were permitted to brew Beer, from the present period until the 1st of October, without paying duty, such Beer to remain under bond until the 1st of October.
The Chancellor of the Exchequerwas of opinion, that considerable inconvenience would result to those engaged in the trade 1264 of brewing Beer, if all the beer henceforth to be brewed were to be subject to a duty, because private persons could brew beer not subject to duty, and bring it into the market after the 1st of October. He had, therefore, tried to discover some means of remedying this inconvenience, and he believed that, by allowing beer to be brewed free of duty, provided it were kept apart, and not brought out for consumption until after the duty on beer was removed, that inconvenience would be removed. Measures were under consideration for carrying such a plan into effect.