§ MR. BOURKEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether under the West African Convention the Powers have agreed to use their good offices with the territorial Powers on the Coast to obtain favourable terms for transit into the interior; and, if this be true, whether the effect of it at Zanzibar may be that goods imported into the interior by Foreign Powers will be admitted free of Duty, while British goods will be subjected still, under Treaty, to a Duty of five per cent?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEThe Powers have agreed to use their good offices to obtain favourable terms for goods in transit. British trade is fully protected by the most favoured nation provision contained in Article I. of the Zanzibar Treaty of May 31, 1839.