§ MR. LEGH (Lancashire, S.W., Newton)asked the Secretary to the Treasury, If his attention has been called to the inconvenience caused by the Custom House examination of unregistered baggage on the decks of the packets arriving at Dover; and whether he could provide for the examination taking place on shore and under cover?
§ THE SECRETARY (Mr. JACKSON) (Leeds, N.)The inconvenience caused by the Custom House examination of unregistered baggage on the decks of the packets arriving at Dover is well understood; but as the construction of the Admiralty Pier at which the packets almost invariably arrive is not such as to afford space for the erection of sheds, or other conveniences, for the examination of baggage on shore, no remedy short of requiring the examination of baggage to take place at the baggage warehouses at the respective railway stations could be devised; and I am afraid that the delay which would be caused in the starting of the trains would entail on the passengers a much greater degree of inconvenience than they have now to endure.