§ MR. FLYNNI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he has received the Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the desirability of accelerating the Irish day mails between Euston and Dublin; and whether he has any statement to make on the subject?
§ MR. HANBURYThe Committee was appointed on the 6th December last. The Reports were only signed on the 17th instant. The evidence extends over 200 pages of small print, and there are two conflicting Reports, each signed by two members. The opinion of the Post Office upon the Report has to be obtained before the Treasury can come to a final decision. The Reports are confidential, and I do not understand how they came to appear in full in the Irish Daily Independent of 18th May—the morning after they were signed.
§ MR. FLYNNIs the right honourable Gentleman, certain that a copy of this Report appeared in a Dublin paper last Tuesday?
§ MR. HANBURYYes, I was very much surprised to see it. I think it must have been a breach of confidence, for it appeared on the very morning of the day after it was signed.