MR. PATRICK O'BRIENI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether there is a Treasury Minute, bearing the date 19th October 1855, referring to the conveyance of passengers by Irish mail trains between London and Holyhead; and whether he has any objection to give the terms of the Minute or lay it upon the Table of the House?
§ *MR. HANBURYYes, Sir, there is such a Treasury Minute. It deals with a Private Act of 1855 which was passed for the express purpose of improving the passenger as well as the postal communication between England and Ireland, and it therefore stands on a different footing from an ordinary Treasury Minute dealing with postal communications only. It has already been laid before Parliament and was printed as House of Commons Paper No. 27 of the year 1856.