§ MR. CRAWFORDasked the Secretary to the Treasury, If any steps have been taken towards carrying into effect the recommendations of the Select Committee of last Session with reference to Postal Communication with the East?
§ MR. HUNTstated, that on the 1st of this month formal notice was given to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company to terminate their contract with regard to the India and China mails, so that Her Majesty's Government might be placed in a position to contract for the conveyance of mails once a week to Bombay. With regard to the contract for the conveyance of the Australian mails, Her Majesty's Government had thought it better to defer giving notice until after they had received from the colonies their replies to communications which have been addressed to them on the subject.