§ Mr. Grantley Berkeleywished to inquire of the noble lord the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether there was any intention on the part of the government to introduce any measure for the alteration of the sugar duties?
Lord Stanleysaid, that, if this were a subject which properly belonged to the department of the government to which he belonged, which it did not, he was sure the hon. Member would perceive the impropriety of his now giving an answer to the question which he had just put. The subject was of the greatest possible importance, and on that account it would be far more convenient to suffer the question to be brought before the House by his 443 right hon. Friend near him, in the financial statement which he would have hereafter to make, than for him to enter into a statement of the intentions of the government in reference to it at the present time.