§ MR. KEKEWICHsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the Galway Packet Company are bound by their contract to land Mails as well as Telegrams when the Ships call at St. John's, Newfoundland?
MR. PEELsaid, in reply, that he understood the question of the hon. Member to refer to the Contract of 1859, inasmuch as no other had yet been concluded. In accordance with that Contract the Government thought the Company were bound to land Mails as well as Telegrams at St. John's, but the Company took a different view. The Galway Packet Committee, he might add, which sat in 1861, declined to express any opinion as to the true construction of the Contract, which was the point on which the matter depended.