§ MR. SUMMERS (Huddersfield)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies what are the estimated losses of revenue, due to the operation of the Reciprocity Treaty with the United States, in each of the West Indian Colonies affected; and what are the steps that have been taken, or that it is proposed to take, in each Colony, for the purpose of making good the deficits?
§ BARON H. DE WORMSThe estimated loss of revenue in the various Colonies is as follows: Jamaica, from £22,000 to £29,000; Leewards, about £10,000; Windwards, about £4,000; Barbados, £12,000; Trinidad, £15,000; British Guiana, £29,000. I could not, within the limits of an answer, give the hon. Member a satisfactory statement of the various ways in which the Colonies propose to make good these losses of revenue; but he will find full particulars in the Papers about to be presented.