MR. C. J. ENGLEDEW (Kildare, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will bring before the directors of the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, who own the Royal Canal, the urgent necessity that exists for the erection of a bridge over the Royal Canal at Cappagh, between Enfield and Kilcock, in the county of Kildare, where there is a 1523 large and growing population who are put to a very great danger and hardship by having to cross the canal in all weathers to attend to their business relations, church, school, etc., their only means of doing so before being an old ferry boat; whether he is aware that the Company have on more than one occasion promised to build this bridge but have not done so, and, when recently petitioned to carry out this work by the inhabitants, declined to do so; and whether he will take such steps as may be necessary to get this work executed?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI have caused a copy of this Question to be referred to the Midland Great Western Railway Company, who inform me—
that there is no obligation resting upon them to erect additional bridges over the Royal Canal, and the statement that they on more than one occasion promised to build a bridge over the Royal Canal at Cappagh has no foundation.