MR. GILPINsaid, he would beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether the Government have any objection to continue to allow Foreign Sheep imported into London to be removed alive to populous inland towns as at present, with the sanction of the Privy Council; and, if so, whether there would be any objection to except Foreign Sheep from the operation of the Metropolitan Foreign Cattle Market Bill?
§ LORD ROBERT MONTAGUsaid, in reply, that there was no intention to prevent foreign sheep from going into the country, as the Order in Council showed; but the evidence adduced against the Bill by the right hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Milner Gibson)—he referred especially to that of Mr. Rudkin, the Chairman of their Market Committee—proved incontestably that there was great danger in the free transit of foreign sheep, and induced the Committee, and the Government also, to come to the conclusion that it was necessary to prevent sheep from infected places from going into the country.