§ MR. A. C. MORTONI wish to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer a question of which I have given him private notice. It is whether he is aware that the Custom House Authorities have given the Port of London Sanitary Authority peremptory notice that they will not, after the 30th inst., allow the Sanitary Officers the use of the Custom House at Gravesend for the purpose of inspecting vessels coming into port; whether he is aware that this apparently unnecessary alteration of arrangements will not only put the Sanitary Authority to considerable extra expense, but greatly inconvenience shipowners and traders by causing a double detention; and will he give further time for consideration before the alteration is enforced? I do not ask the right hon. Gentleman to express any opinion on the subject, but I would remind him of the importance of these inspections in view of the possible return of cholera.
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Sir W. HARCOURT,) DerbyIt is a subject as to which I have no personal knowledge, but I promise that immediate inquiry shall be made.