§ VISCOUNT MILTONsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether he will lay upon the Table of the House, a copy of the Despatch of Mr. Cardwell to the Governor of Vancouver's Island, dated 11th October, 1865, No. 57, transmitting Copy of Correspondence with the Treasury and the Post Office relating to the postal communication between that Colony and Great Britain?
§ MR. ADDERLEYsaid, in reply, that he could not see the use of giving to the House a despatch from a late Secretary of State to a late Governor of a colony which no longer existed, respecting negotiations which had come to an end. New negotiations were now on foot, which he had recently stated to the House; but, for reasons he then gave, it would not be proper to lay any Papers on the table respecting them until they had come to a conclusion.