§ Order for Third Reading read.
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, it would be necessary to re-commit this Bill, in order to insert a clause with reference to the annual tea duties.
§ MR. HUNTobserved that, though they had been told by the Prime Minister that this Bill was merely a formula, it contained a clause which was quite an innovation, providing that the assessment of the house duties should be made by a Government officer instead of by five independent assessors. He thought that the attention of the House should have been called to this matter, and that the country should have time to consider it.
§ Order discharged; Bill re-committed for Thursday.