§ Sir R. Peelsaid, that the hon. and gallant Officer opposite had the other evening given notice of a motion for information respecting the time occupied by vessels laden with corn in their passage from the various parts of the United States to Liverpool. He had since ascertained that there were no means of gaining official information on this point directly from the Customs at Liverpool; but he had obtained a statement from the American consul at that place, which would perhaps answer the hon. and gallant Officer's purpose, and if so, the hon. and gallant Gentleman could, if he pleased, now move for this return.
§ Sir C. Napiersaid, that he did not want to go to the American consul for the information in request. He should have imagined that the proper quarter whence to obtain it was the Packet-office, and he was only sorry to find that the accounts at that office were kept in so extraordinary a manner.
§ Sir R. Peelsaid, the information he had proffered was the best he had been able to obtain.
§ Sir C. Napiersaid, that if the right hon. Gentleman was satisfied with going to the 43 American consul for information, he had no objection himself; and the hon. and gallant Officer then moved that there be laid on the Table a return of the number of vessels laden with corn which, between January 1, 1841, and January 1, 1842, arrived at Liverpool from the various ports of the United States, and the number of days occupied by each vessel on the voyage.
§ Sir R. Peellaid the return on the Table.
§ Sir C. Napiersaid, that the return included the vessels laden with flour, information as to which he had not asked for.
§ Sir R. Peelsaid, that the vessel of which the hon. and gallant Officer spoke in the first instance was laden with 1,000 barrels of flour.
§ Sir C. Napiersaid, the flour did not come from him, but from an hon. and gallant Officer opposite.
§ Subject at an end.