§ LORD CLAUD HAMILTONasked the Postmaster General, If he would inform the House of the amount of the subsidy paid to the ROYAL Mail Steam Packet Company for carrying the mails to the West Indies, and the amount of the net receipts from the Ocean postage?
§ MR. FAWCETT, in reply, said, that the amount paid to the ROYAL Mail Steam Packet Company as an annual subsidy under contract was £80,500, and the amount of net receipts from the ocean postage was £28,000.