§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he has any objection to give the number of mail bags despatched from Liverpool direct to America by ship during the year 1898, and the number of mail bags put on board the American mail ships at Queenstown during the same period; and whether he will also give the number of American mail bags landed at Queenstown during 1898, and the number landed at Liverpool during the same period?
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. R. W. HANBURY,) PrestonThe number of mail bags carried by the mail packets to New York during the year 1898 were: from Liverpool, 57,331; from Queenstown, 65,498. The numbers landed were: at Queenstown, 34,781; at Liverpool, 56,892.