§ Mr. Haweswished to know from the right hon. Vice-President of the Board of Trade, whether he intended in the course of the present Session to introduce any bill amending the act passed with reference to the importation of corn. He did not of course mean any bill touching the general question, but as there was great ambiguity in many of its details, and as panties were put to expense in litigating questions arising out of them, he wished to 494 know whether an act to correct those errors would be brought forward in the present Parliament.
Mr. Gladstonewas not about to defend the wording of the present act, or that part of it which led to litigation. But there was no intention, in consequence of what had occurred, to amend the act in the course of the present Session.