§ MR. HENNIKER HEATONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he is now in a position to state the result of the Postal Union Congress or 736 Convention at Washington; whether any, and what, important decisions have been arrived at; and, briefly, what are the principal changes or reforms carried?
§ MR. HANBURYThe Postmaster General has not yet received the report of the British delegates at the recent Postal Union Congress at Washington, which only closed on Tuesday, the 15th inst. The hon. Member is probably aware that those of the British delegates who returned to this country immediately after the conclusion of the Congress only reached London last Thursday.
§ MR. HENNIKER HEATONasked whether the right hon. Gentleman was aware that the Postal Union Congress closed its proceedings on the 3rd or 4th of June, and that a full report of the proceedings, or rather of the results, appeared in three of the principal New York papers on the 10th of June, and had been since published in other papers.
§ MR. HANBURYsaid the only official information he had received from the Post Office was contained in his answer to the Question.