§ MR. A. JOHNSTONasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether he has any objection to lay upon the Table Copies of the Correspondence between the Lords of the Treasury and the Board of Customs as to the granting of bonding privileges to Commercial Wharf, Upper Thames Street, in the City of London, with a view to ascertaining on what principles such privileges are granted or refused?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, in reply, said, the correspondence between the Lords of the Treasury and the Board of Customs as to the granting of bonding privileges to the Commercial Wharf, Upper Thames Street, in the City of London, consisted of a confidential Report for the use of the Treasury. It was desirable not to produce such Reports, as, if this were done, they would soon cease to be of a confidential character, and would assume a conventional form adapted for the perusal of that House.