MR. HEYGATE, said, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, Under what contract or engagement Her Majesty's Mails are now carried between Dover and Calais and Dover and Ostend respectively; and when any contract which may have been entered into by Her Majesty's Government will be laid upon the table of the House?
MR. PEEL, in reply, said, these services were at present being carried on under conditions which had been agreed upon between the Post Office, the Railway Companies, and the Belgian Government, respectively, and the contract for the Dover service embodying those conditions had been prepared and sent to the Railway Companies for their approval. It was proposed to have a Convention with the Belgian Government in addition to the contract with the Companies.