London, 5th May.
Mr, Samuel Smith, the member for Flintshire, mucduced a motion with regard to the Opium Tisde with China and advocated the re-imposition of the Cotton duties in India. Sir John Gorst, Under-Secretary of State for India, opposed on financial and commercial grounds and said that it was the business of the Chinese Government to deal with morality. The House of Commons negatived the motion by a majority of seventy-six.
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