Again, if no food is now being destroyed in order
to manufacture beer, it is amazing that Captain Bathurst should have made the very sensational answer which he gave to Mr. Richardson's question whether it was true that London buyers were not allowed to touch some ten thousand tons of Manila sugar now lying at the West India Docks unless they would give an undertaking that the said sugar should only be used for brewing purposes. We can hardly think that the Government, though sometimes inclined to say that beer is food, deny that sugar is food. Yet without some sort of wild supposition of this kind how is one to reconcile the position taken up by Captain Bathurst only last week and that taken up by Lord Milner this week ? " Speak, oh some one, the word that shall reconcile ancient and modern "—last Tuesday with Tuesday week.
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