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  It would be a great advantage in this respect: all the country manufacturers who attend the market, the foreign letters not coming in, in time to be delivered that morning, are obliged to stand over until next market-day; the country manufacturer sometimes loses the order, and it is obliged to be given to a Manchester manufacturer.

7. Has this circumstance for a long time been the subject of complaint?

Very much so.

8. If six hours were saved in the communication between London and Birmingham, do you contemplate that great advantage would result to Rochdale, Halifax, Bradford, and Leeds?

Yes.

9. Have you also a great communication between Manchester and Glasgow?

A good deal.

10. The saving of time between Birmingham and London would be a saving of time between Birmingham and Glasgow?

The Glasgow mail leaves Manchester an hour after the London mail comes in. 



1. Are you employed in the Post-office?

I am.

2. In what department?

The secretary to the Post-office for Dublin.

8. Suppose that the Railroad now projected was carried into execution, would it not be a great advantage to convey the mails for Portpatrick, Liverpool, and Holyhead by a conveyance that would save six hours by the direct line?

An earlier arrival at Liverpool and Manchester would be a great advantage, and Glasgow also; I do not know that it would be of any great advantage to Portpatrick.

9. But it would be to Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester? 