§ MR. HUNTER (Aberdeen, N.)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, in the Commercial Treaty lately concluded between France and China, to regulate trade between Tonquin and China, the 14th Article provides for the total prohibition of trade in opium between Tonquin and China; and, whether he will lay Copies of the Treaty upon the Table?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)The 14th Article of the Commercial Treaty between France and China engages that neither foreign nor Native opium shall be allowed to be conveyed overland across the frontiers of Tonquin and three Provinces of China named therein for purchase or sale. There will be no objection to lay upon the Table a copy of the Treaty, if the hon. Member chooses to move for it.