§ Viscount Sandonwished to ask the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade at what time there would be parties in Java and Manilla who would be authorised to issue certificates of origin of sugar, and also whether in cases where certificates could not be obtained sugar would be admitted without a certificate?
Mr. Gladstonesaid, that the advices which would go out by the July mail from this country to Java and Manilla, would find persons there qualified to issue certificates as to the produce of those islands. In answer to the other part of the noble Lord's question, he said that a discretionary power of course would be vested in the Board of Customs as to the admission of sugar without certificate.