§ MR. STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the First Lord of the treasury whether he will say when His Majesty's Government proposes to take steps to secure the ratification by this louse of the Brussels Sugar Convention.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe proceedings to which the hon. Gentleman refers will have to be taken before the conclusion of the session, though not, I think, before the conclusion of this position of the session; but, at any rate, I cannot make any announcement at the present moment.