§ DR. LUSHasked the Postmaster General, Whether any means are in contemplation to reduce the rates of Postage between this Country and Italy, the present rate on letters being nearly twice the rate between this Country and France—namely, sixpence per half-ounce, and the rate between Italy and the United States being fivepence halfpenny per half-ounce?
§ LORD JOHN MANNERS, in reply, said, that the Italian mails were about to be sent through France instead of Germany, and Her Majesty's Government were most desirous that a reduction should take place in the postage of the letters. He was in communication with the Italian Post Office authorities on the subject. He was anxious that the reduction should be greater than the Italian Post Office authorities proposed. Hitherto they had not seen their way to the reduction he proposed; but he hoped that before long an agreement would be arrived at for the reduction of the Postage.