§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the result of the promise he made on the 21st July 1896 to place himself in communication with the Railway Association, with the object of effecting an alteration in the form of those railway carriages whoso present structure affords facilities for the perpetration of murder and outrage?
§ MR. RITCHIEAt present my communications with the Railway Association have had no practical result. The hon. Member, however, will no doubt have observed that some of the Companies are trying the experiment of corridor trains, and that others are building saloon carriages in place of those of the old pattern.