§ MR. EDWARD M'HUGH (Armagh, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he has seen a communication from the Secretary of the General Post Office, Dublin, stating that it is not practicable to have letters which are sent from London by the night mail on Saturday delivered in Belfast before the following Monday morning; and, if in future he will have the night mails for the North of Ireland on Saturday forwarded viâ Liverpool for Belfast, so as to reach there on Sunday morning.
§ MR. HANBURYThe Postmaster General has seen a communication from the Secretary of the General Post Office, Dublin, stating that it is not practicable to have letters which are sent from London by the night mail on Saturday 838 delivered in Belfast before the following Monday morning. It would not be possible to have the night mails for the North of Ireland forwarded on Saturday viâ Liverpool and Belfast, as the boat leaves Liverpool some hours before the arrival of the night mail at that port, and reaches Belfast on Sunday morning after the early delivery at that town. Inquiry shall, however, be made as to the practicability of giving a delivery to callers on Sunday evening, which is the remedy suggested in a Belfast newspaper.