§ LORD CLAUD HAMILTONasked the Postmaster General, Whether, in view of the serious annual loss of £50,500, out of the subsidy of £80,500 payable under the contract with the Royal Mail Company for the conveyance of the West India and Pacific mails, and the existence of other lines of steam vessels engaged in these trades without subsidies, it is his intention to give the notice on the 1st January next, as provided in the contract for its determination, and so afford an opportunity to all steamship lines to tender for the service?
§ MR. FAWCETTIt is my intention, Sir, to give Notice, on the 1st of January next, of the termination of the contract on the 1st of January, 1885.