MR. MAC EVOYsaid, he would beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce any Bill this Session to repeal the Act which at present prevented the growth of Tobacco in Ireland?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERreplied, that he was not aware that the law imposed any peculiar restrictions upon the growth of Tobacco, either in Ireland or in any part of the United Kingdom. The general prohibition could not be removed, because of the impossibility of charging Tobacco grown in this country with a duty equivalent to that on Tobacco grown abroad. He did not know any way in which that difficulty could be overcome. He should be glad if it could. From what he had been informed he did not think the growth of Tobacco would ever prove remunerative in this country. That, however, was not a question for him. He did not see any mode of getting over the difficulty to which he had referred, and it was not his intention to propose to the House any alteration in the existing law.