COLONEL DUNNEsaid, he had to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, What has been done to give security to the large steam-vessels which run between Dublin and Holyhead during the present violent gales, and whether a sufficient pier had been built for their reception at the latter port?
§ LORD CLARENCE PAGETsaid, that last year, before the present line of packets 792 began to run, the Admiralty constructed a temporary pier in connection with the old harbour, which had, he believed, been found useful; and they had further submitted to the Treasury a proposal for erecting at Holyhead a permanent pier for the use of the new packets.
§ MR. BENTINCKasked whether the proposed pier was to be in the old or the new harbour?
§ LORD CLARENCE PAGETsaid, that it was to extend from the old dockyard outside the old pier into the new harbour.
§ On the Motion that the House at its rising do adjourn till Monday next,