§ MR. MACFIEasked, the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the French Government is now willing to fulfil its engagement to conform its Duties and drawbacks on sugar to the obligations it assumed as a party to the International Convention by making the changes which it promised to make from the 30th June last; and, if no intimation to this effect has been received, what course her Majesty's Government intend to take in order to secure such conformity?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDSir, the French Government have stated to Lord Lyons that political circumstances alone have prevented the French Government from fulfilling, within the period which it had itself suggested, the engagement which it had contracted towards the three other Powers, parties to the Convention of November 8, 1864, to establish an exact correlation between the Duties on sugar and the yields fixed by the Declaration of the 20th November, 1866. M. Jules Favre has called the attention of the Ministers of Commerce and Finance to this matter, and he hopes soon to be able to inform Lord Lyons of the measures which will have been taken for the purpose of settling it.