§ GENERAL DUNNEsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether he will lay upon the Table of the House the Report of a Commission or a Commissioner directed by his Grace the Postmaster General to inquire into the subject of a deduction of 25 per cent from the salaries of officers employed in the Irish Post Office, and to state any reason why that deduction was made in 1854, after a Minute of the then Postmaster General had stated that the salaries of the officials in London and Dublin should be the same?
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTH, in reply, said, he understood that no reduction of 25 per cent ever was made from the salaries of the clerks in the Irish Post Office, nor was any Report of a Commission or Commissioner made to the Postmaster General on that subject. The supposed Minute of the Postmaster General did not exist. The question was probably founded upon the fact that there was a Treasury Commission which sat upon the salaries of the London Post Office officials, and which recommended that in the event of a rearrangement of the salaries of the Edinburgh and Dublin officials, similar alterations should be made, due regard being had to the relative cheapness of living in Dublin and Edinburgh as compared with living in London.