§ Mr. Christopherbegged to ask whether it were the intention of the Government by this bill, that the agricultural produce of the state of Maine in the United States was in future to be admitted into this country at a colonial duty, that produce now paying the duty chargeable on foreign produce?
Mr. Gladstonesaid, the intention of the bill was neither more nor less than to give legal effect in this country to the 3d article of the treaty of Washington. But as certain results must follow from that article in respect of the admission of this produce, both into the colony of New Brunswick and this country, he should abstain from entering into any further explanation.