§ MR. GRIEVEasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether France has complied with the arrangement entered into at the recent Conference, that each of the Four Powers which were parties to the International Convention of 1864, should study the question of chemical analysis as applied to the assessment of the Sugar Duty, with the view of ascertaining whether science will furnish, as a corrective of the imperfections of the system of assessment by colour, some quicker and more practical processes than the various methods of saccharimentary at present adopted by one part of the European sugar trade?
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER,in reply, said, that Her Majesty's Government had received no communication from the French Government on the subject.