§ MR. CRAWFORDsaid, he would beg to ask the Postmaster General, Whether, when the intended reduction of Postage 1945 on Letters passing between this Country and France has been carried into effect, it will not be fair and equitable to make a corresponding reduction on the Postage of Letters passing through France by the Overland Mails to and from the East?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON, in reply, said, the additional Postal Convention agreed upon last September, which would come into operation on the 1st of next month, provided only for a rate for international letters, and was not connected in any way with the transit rate payable for mails conveyed through France. It was not, therefore, proposed that any reduction should be made in the inland rates.