§ MR. SEELYasked the Postmaster General, Whether, since the last Session of Parliament, any communication has been made by the United States' Government to Her Majesty's Government on the subject of a reduction of the postage on letters or of the issuing of postal cards at 1d.; and, if so whether he will lay the Correspondence upon the Table of the House; and whether there has been any Correspondence between Her Majesty's Government and any Steamship Company with reference to the conveyance of letters or postal cards between this Country and the United States; and, if so, whether he will lay it upon the Table of the House?
§ LORD JOHN MANNERS, in reply, said, that since last Session, no communication had been made by the United States' Government to Her Majesty's Government on the subject referred to in the first part of the Question. With regard to the second part of the Question, a communication had been addressed to the North German Lloyd's Company, and a reply had been received. If the hon. Member would move for the production of the Correspondence, he would consider whether it ought to be laid on the Table; or if he wished, he might see it at the Post Office.