HC Deb 07 March 1882 vol 267 c382
MR. GOURLEY

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If, under the favoured nation clause, French shipowners, in addition to their own Government bounties, will possess trading advantages in the coasting and Colonial trades over Foreign vessels; and, if he can inform the House of what these advantages will consist?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

There has been no change whatever made in this respect by the Treaty of the 28th of February, and the situation remains the same as under the Treaties which have now expired.

MR. GOURLEY

asked what the differences were?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

said, it would take him half an hour to state what the differences were.