§ MR. RATHBONEasked the Secretary to the Treasury, If he can say when the Government propose to bring the Contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company for conveyance of the Eastern Mails before the House?
§ MR. ISAACasked the Secretary to the Treasury, When the Contracts provisionally entered into for the conveyance of Mails to India and China will be submitted to the House for confirmation?
§ SIR HENRY SELWIN-IBBETSON,in reply, said, he wished he could give a more definite assurance as to the day on which he hoped to be able to do what hon. Members required in their Questions; but in the present state of Business it was almost impossible to fix anything with certainty. He would put 753 the matter down for Tuesday week, in the hope that he might be able to bring it on on that day.