§ MR. BAXTERsaid, he would beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, When 576 the Papers with reference to the renewal of the Galway Contract will be laid upon the table; and has the Government been apprised of any proposal on the part of the Atlantic Royal Mail Company to make, not Galway, but Liverpool or some other English port, the point of departure and arrival of their steamers?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, the correspondence between the Government and the Atlantic Royal Mail Company was already printed, and would be distributed immediately. The intention attributed to the Atlantic Royal Mail Company of sailing from an English port could only be expressed in the form of a proposal, inasmuch as it would introduce a feature altogether novel into the Contract, and he had not heard of any such proposal. A letter, however, had been received from a gentleman connected with the Inman line of steamers, stating that he had reason to believe the Company contemplated some plan of the kind. He had no authentic knowledge on the point, and only mentioned the circumstance to show that the Government were not keeping back anything within their cognizance.