§ MR. MACARTNEYI beg to ask the Postmaster General if he will explain why the mails per Campania, which reached Kingsbridge on Friday last at 2.57 p.m., were detained there over three hours and then sent on to Kingstown by ordinary train, and the mail packet retarded in starting 15 minutes?
§ MR. A. MORLEYIn the ordinary course the mails would have been conveyed, by the afternoon mail train from Queenstown, which would have taken them through to Kingstown. The Railway Company, however, ran a special train as far as Dublin for the passengers and carried the mails for England as well as those for Dublin and the North of Ireland in the special train to Kingsbridge, where they awaited the arrival of the ordinary mail train. On the occasion in question there would seem to have been some little loss of time in the transfer of the bags to the steamer at Kingstown, and this matter is being inquired into. I do not think that a special train from Kingsbridge would have been warranted.