§ MR. O'HANLONI beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many merchants or firms in Ireland, England, and Scotland are allowed to bottle spirits in bond?
§ *MR. GOSCHENThe number of bonded warehouses in which the bottling of spirits is allowed is, in Ireland, forty-one; in England, one hundred and forty-four; in Scotland, one hundred and four; total, two hundred and eighty-nine. There is no record of the precise number of firms who avail themselves of the privileges granted to these warehouses.