§ MR. DONAL SULLIVANI beg to ask the Postmaster General if he will explain why letters and newspapers posted at Mullingar at 9 p.m. are not delivered 1286 at Ballymore, eight miles distant from the former town, until the second day following; whether the letters and papers for Ballymore carried by the limited mail (Irish and English) leaving Broadstone at 7.40 a.m. are not delivered in Ballymore until the following morning, owing to the fact that those letters and papers are detained at Moate, five miles distant from Ballymore, until the next morning; whether the Secretary to the General Post Office, Dublin, has received a memorial from the people of Ballymore complaining of the great inconvenience and annoyance caused by the delay in forwarding their letters brought to Moate by the limited mail, and whether he will inquire into this grievance with the object of having it removed?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Sir J. FERGUSSON,) Manchester, N.E.Letters and newspapers for Ballymore posted at Mullingar at 9 p.m. would be just too late for the same night's mail. If posted before 8.45 p.m., they would be forwarded at once, and delivered next morning. Letters included in the morning mail from Broadstone are sent on as far as Moate, which is the post town for Ballymore; but they are not despatched to their destination the same day, because there is only one mail a day—in the early morning—to Ballymore. The question of establishing a second mail in the day has been considered; but it is found that the revenue from the letters would not warrant the expenditure involved.