§ CAPTAIN NOLANasked the Postmaster General, If he can state how many main or cross posts run north and south across a line drawn on the map between the two towns of Cong and Athlone; and, to name the towns between which such posts run, and to state how many hours after the arrival of the post in Tuam, county of Galway, it is forwarded to Claremorris, in county of Mayo?
§ LORD JOHN MANNERS,in reply, said, that there were no main posts running north and south across a line drawn on the map between the two towns of Cong and Athlone, and, excepting rural posts, which conveyed mere local letters, the only post across such a line was one from Tuam to Claremorris. This post left Tuam at 11 A.M., or nine hours after the arrival of the Dublin Mail at Tuam, but only a few local letters for Claremorris were sent by it, as the principal night and day mails to Claremorris were not forwarded through Tuam, but by the railway branching through Athlone.