19 DECEMBER 1846, Page 8

A deputation of the merchants, manufacturers, shipowners, and others interested

in the salt-trade to India, waited on Sir John Hobhouse, at the Board of Control, on Thursday. The object was to urge the abolition of' the power monopolized by the East India Company to manufacture salt in India. A memorial to this effect was read by Sir Denis Le Marchant; and several gentlemen followed with addresses of the same purport. Sir John Hobhouse promised to bring the subject before the Cabinet. He could not, however, hold out any immediate prospect that the East India Company would surrender 1,300,0001. of annual revenue. The India Board, being a concurrent ratherthan a directly controlling power, could not issue peremp- tory instructions; but everything should be done which the case would' permit. The East India Company had already sent a despatch to the Indian Government on the subject; but he was not at liberty to disclose the nature of the communication.

A Treasury warrant has appeared for regulating the postage between Great Britain and Prussia. Letters to all parts of Prussia, if sent via' Hamburg, Holland, or Belgium, and not over half an ounce in weight, are to be charged ad.- newspapers, ia each; prices-currents, &c., 1d. If" sent via France, the old rates are to be chargeable. The new arrangement is to take effect from the 1st of January next.