LORD HENRY LENNOXsaid, he wished to ask the Postmaster General, Whether he will have any objection to publish weekly or fortnightly, statements of the number of messages sent by the Postal Telegraph under the Government management, so that they might be compared with the number sent during the time the wires had been under the control of private companies?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON,in reply to the Question of the noble Lord, said, it was the intention of the Department as soon as the accounts and statistics of the telegraph were in order 887 to publish—he would not say weekly or fortnightly—but periodical statements of the amount of business, by the aid of which it would no doubt be possible to make the comparison to which the noble Lord had referred.