§ COLONEL HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India if he will suggest to the Indian Government the expediency of raising their Revenue by the taxation of German, French, and other Foreign imports, and admitting British goods as heretofore?
§ * MR. H. H. FOWLERDifferential duties existed in the time of the East India Company; hut all distinction between goods of British and those of foreign origin was swept away by the Tariff of 1859; and it is not, in the opinion of Her Majesty's Government, expedient to return to the former practice.
§ COLONEL HOWARD VINCENTIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the colonies of France, Germany, and other countries do make special conditions in favour of the Mother Country?
§ MR. H. H. FOWLERYes; but J am not prepared to say their fiscal system is better than ours.