§ MR. DIXONasked the Postmaster General, Whether, referring to the Correspondence recently laid before Parliament concerning the present inconvenient and defective Postal service to the Island of Montserrat, and in view of the fact that as a consequence the mails due from that island by the steamship "Nile," which arrived on the 14th instant, have not arrived, there be anything in the working of the new Contract with the Royal Mail Company which need prevent the Mails being exchanged at Montserrat, as was formerly done by the ships of that Company?
§ LORD JOHN MANNERS, in reply, said, the company were not bound by the terms of their contract to call at Montserrat; but having been asked on more than one occasion if they were willing to do so, they answered that they were ready, provided it was found not to interfere with their other arrangements, to take the practicability of giving the increased postal facilities indicated by the Question, into their favourable consideration.