§ MR. WHITWELLasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Government of Portugal has decided to give the Most Favoured Nation Clause to this country with respect to the importation of British goods into Portugal?
§ MR. BOURKE, in reply, said, that the Chamber of Deputies of Portugal had quite recently passed a Bill extending to Great Britain and other countries the commercial privileges attaching to the Franco-Portuguese Treaty of 1866, and the effect of that measure would be to extend to Great Britain the Most Favoured Nation Clause. This country, however, in reality, had been entitled to the advantages of that clause ever since the Treaty of 1842.