§ MR. MACFARLANEasked the Lord Advocate, If his attention has been called to the rates levied by the Canal Commissioners for vessels and goods 625 passing through the Crinan Canal, and to a Petition upon the subject, the receipt of which was acknowledged by the Secretary to the Commissioners on the 24th of October; and, if he is able to say if any decision has been arrived at, and if any reduction is to be made in the dues complained of?
THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. B. BALFOUR)The allegations in the Petition to which the hon. Member refers have been for some time under consideration by the Commissioners of the Caledonian Canal, by whose directions careful inquiries have been made in regard to the rates levied at other ports; and several amendments in the table of rates at present in force on the Crinan Canal are in contemplation.