§ MR. LAWRENCE (Liverpool, Abercromby)To ask the Postmaster-General if he will say at what date he received the tender from Messrs. Elder, Dempster for the West Indian mails; had the terms of the Royal Mail then been made public; and in asking the Royal Mail again to tender were they informed that another tender by Messrs. Elder and Co. was already in his hands.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) A full statement of the course followed in this matter has been embodied in a despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governors of the colonies concerned. This despatch has been laid on the Table of the House, and will be in the hands of hon. Members very shortly, and will give the information wished for by the hon. Member in a fuller and more convenient form than can be done by Question and Answer.