§ MR. O'BRIENsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether, prior to the granting of any future subsidy to any contractor for Ocean Postal Service, it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to demand an undertaking that distinctions of race or colour shall not be made by the servants of such contractors as regards the treatment of passengers upon vessels performing such services?
§ MR. LAINGsaid, he believed that no principle was more settled than that any subsidy given for the performance of the Postal Service should be confined exclusively to the object of the conveyance of the mails. With regard to the passenger or merchandise traffic carried on in the mail packets, the Government had no more responsibility in connection with it than in the case of any other class of vessels. He had no reason to think it likely that the established principle in this matter would be departed from.