§ MR. HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Holland, as a rule, admit the productions of their several colonies on better fiscal terms to the Home market than the goods of foreign nations; and whether their colonies also receive the products of the Mother Country upon equally advantageous terms?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONAs regards France, Spain, and Portugal, the answer to both questions is in the affirmative. In Holland there is no Import Duty upon sugar and coffee coming from any quarter, and these are its chief colonial staples. We have no information as to the German treatment of colonial produce.