MR. GILPINasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether, considering the effects of the recent destructive storm in the Is- 509 land of St. Thomas, in which the wharf of the Royal Steam Company is stated to have been destroyed, and the deplorable loss of life both from this cause and the pernicious effects of the climate of the Island, it is the intention of the Post Office authorities to continue to sanction the Island of St. Thomas, as the chief Postal Station of the West India Mails?
§ MR. HUNTsaid, that private communications between the Government and the Royal Mail Steamship Company on this question were in progress, and he could not give any further answer at present.