MR. PATRICK O'BRIENI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, when considering the best means 1225 of expediting the transfer of the mails to and from the mail packets at Kingstown and Holyhead, he will consider the advisability of transferring the mail vans belonging to the Great Southern and Western (Irish) Railway Company and the London and North Western Railway Company to and from the mail boats, and have the mail vans proceed with their cargoes from Queenstown to Euston, and vice versa?
§ MR. HANBURYThe gauge of Irish railways being different from that of English lines, the mail vans could not be bodily transferred as suggested by the hon. Member.