§ MR. ROYDEN (Liverpool, West Toxteth)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether a Railway Company can, without infringing the conditions of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act as to preferential rates, differentiate in the rates of carriage between different articles in the same class?
§ *SIR M. HICKS BEACHThis is a question of law, upon which a general answer could not properly be given. It does not necessarily follow that because articles are in the same class they are "same or similar merchandise" within the meaning of Section 27 of the Act of 1888.