§ MR. FORSTERwished to know whether it was the intention of the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade, in conformity with the pledge he gave last year, to bring in any measure for the reduction of light-dues?
§ MR. LABOUCHEREsaid, it was quite true that at the close of last Session, when he announced that the Trinity-house, with the consent of the Board of Trade, were prepared to make large reductions in the light-dues, he stated that he should not regard that circumstance as debarring him from bringing forward a measure for the general regulation of light-dues. But he had not, as the hon. Member represented, pledged himself to bring forward such a measure during the present Session; and, having recently introduced measures of great importance connected with the mercantile marine, which had not yet passed a second reading, he should not be justified in pledging himself to bring forward this Session any measure on the subject to which the hon. Gentleman had referred.