§ MR. H. HERBERTsaid, he would beg to ask the hon. Secretary to the Treasury whether there was any prospect of the proposed arrangements for accelerating the postal and passenger communication between London and Dublin being completed? Whether any proposals had been made to the Government by the London and North-Western and the Chester and Holyhead Railway Companies, and the city of Dublin Steam Packet Company, for such acceleration, or by the Government to the said Companies for the same purpose? Also, whether the Secretary to the Treasury would have any objection to lay on the table of the House copies of any memoranda, letters, or proposals, that might have passed between the Treasury, the Post Office, and the said Companies, on the subject of postal and passenger communication between London and Dublin, since the issuing of a Treasury Minute, dated 19th October, 1855?
§ MR. WILSONreplied, that up to the present time no correspondence had taken place between the Government, on the one hand, and the London and North-Western, and the Chester and Holyhead Railway Companies, and the city of Dublin Steam Packet Company on the other, with regard to the acceleration of the postal and passenger communication between London and Dublin. There were good reasons for the delay which had occurred, but he hoped the time had now arrived when the Government would be able to propose a tender to those Companies in a definite form, and when, in the course of a few weeks, the arrangements for accelerating the communication between London and Dublin would be completed.