MR. PATRICK O'BRIENI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether all the Post Office arrangements are complete for the accelerated service of the Irish day mails between. London and Dublin to come into operation on the 1st of August; and whether he can state the hours of departure and arrivals from and at London and Dublin respectively, and also the times of departure from Dublin of the Irish trains to run in connection with this day mail service to convey passengers 436 to Cork, Belfast, Galway, and Wexford, and the hours at which these trains are timed to reach said places?
§ MR. HANBURYAll the Post Office arrangements are complete for the accelerated service for the Irish day mails between London and Dublin to come into operation on the 1st of August. The down Irish day mail will depart from Euston at 8.30 a.m. and will arrive at Dublin (Westland Row) at 5.22 p.m. (Irish time). In the reverse direction the departure from Dublin (Westland Row) for passengers will provisionally be fixed at 8 a.m. (Irish time), the mails being sent down to Kingstown in advance of the passengers, and the arrival at London will be at 5.45 p.m., as at present. The passenger train for Cork in connection with the down day mail will leave Kings-bridge at 6.20 p.m. and arrive at Cork at 11.25 p.m., and that for Belfast will leave Amiens Street at 5.40 p.m. (instead of 5.30 p.m.) and reach Belfast at 9.0 p.m. as at present. There will, as now, be no passenger train from Dublin to Galway until the night mail train at 8.20 p.m., reaching Galway at 1.15 a.m., while for Wexford passengers will travel by the train leaving Harcourt Street at 6.10 p.m., and arriving at Wexford at 9.45 p.m.