§ MR. BANKESbegged to repeat the questions which he had put to the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade the other day:—First, whether the Board of Trade would prepare the new Spanish Tariff, and lay it before the House in the same shape as the tariff of last year; and, secondly, he wished to know whether the articles now prohibited by the Spanish tariff were prohibited in the former tariff?
§ MR. LABOUCHEREsaid, the hon. and learned Gentleman was probably aware that the papers to which he alluded had 907 been laid on the table of the House, not by the Board of Trade, but the Foreign Office. If the hon. and learned Gentleman wished, he would undertake that this tariff should be prepared in the same shape as the tariff of 1841; but as the tariff contained 265 articles, some of them very minute, the preparation in that shape would, he was afraid, take some considerable time; but if the principal articles alone were considered necessary, it could be completed in a very short period. With regard to the second question, he believed the only alteration made was, that by the new tariff many prohibitions had been taken off, and that no new prohibitions had been created.
§ MR. BANKESsaid, he might, perhaps, be allowed to ask if there were any person now in Spain authorised to make remonstrances on the part of this country in case new prohibitions were laid on?
§ MR. LABOUCHEREsaid, the question was one rather for his noble Friend at the head of the Foreign Department than for him to answer, but he should imagine that the British Consul General would put any necessary question of the description alluded to by the hon. Gentleman to the Spanish Government.
§ Subject dropped.