The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-02 00:00:00

It should be remembered that whatever money they laid
out for Holyhead Harbour, they were laying out for the
terminus of a railway. They had a right, therefore,
to demand that the railway should be perfectly construct-
ed. In his opinion it would be for the interests of any
railway company to make that- railway in the most
direct line. It would be much better for them to make
a perfect line at once than to make an imperfect line and
have to amend it afterwards. He was anxious that the
line selected through Anglesea should be brought
from Chester to Holyhead in the most direct line. He
thought it would be good economy in any Railway
Company to make the outlay necessary for the forma-
tion of the line in the first instance. Then with
regard to the Straits of Menai. It would be a
highly improper mode of passing the Straits
of Menai to take advantage of the present bridge. It
was never intended for railroad communication. It
would be impossible to use it with locomotives. In
his opinion a bridge over the Menai Straits, fit for a
proper communication of railway, might easily . be
constructed so as not to interfere with the navigation.
It might have the same elevation as the present bridge,
what he believed was 120 feet above the level of the sea,
and if they erected a railway-bridge of equal height
there would not be any risk of interfering with the navi-
gation. Unless they could enable those residing in
Dublin to answer letters from London by return of post,
they would do little to justify an outlay of public money.
He wanted to see the day when a letter posted in London
at 8 o'clock on Monday should be answered from Dublin
by a letter received in London on Wednesday morning.
—(Hear, hear)—when the party receiving the letter in
Dublin on a Tuesday should be enabled to answer that
letter by the return of the Tuesday's post. When
thirty-four hours only should elapse between the depar-
ture of the letter from London and the receipt of the
answer from Dublin. Let them take the hour of the de-
parture from London at eight o'clock on the Monday. In
fifteen hours the letter would arrive in Dublin. There
would be four hours allowed in Dublin for the writing of
the answer, fifteen hours for the transit of the letter; and
thus the communication would take place in thirty-four
hours. This would be a great public advantage. It was
an affair of minutes almost. The object of the Govern-
ment was to make arrangements to secure the most expe-
ditious intercourse possible between the metropolis of Ire-
land and England, and he begged that the House would not
urge them too strongly to the expenditure of public
money, unless by that expenditure they could secure the
public advantage.
NEW ZEALAND.
In answer to Mr. BELLEW,

Lerd STANLEY said that all the papers which were
in the possession of the Government relating to New
Zealand, would be laid before the Committee, and would
be presented to the House with the report.
GLASS DUTIES.

On the motion for going into Committee on the glass
duties,

Mr. M. GIBSON wished to ask her Majesty's Go-
vernment whether, in the Government measure which
had been announced with respect to sugar, any distinc-
tion was to be drawn between slave breeding and slave
importation.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
would answer the question when the subject came on
for discussion.

The House then resolved itself into Committee, pro
forma, on the glass duties ; Mr. Greene in the chair.
The House then resumed, and leave was given to bring
in a Bill.