§ MR. EARPasked the Postmaster General, If Town Letter Carriers are 246 supplied with new clothing every eight months, consisting of coat, over-cloak, trowsers, and cap; if Rural Post Messengers are supplied only with hat and coat every twelve months; and, whether he will make such additions to the latter supply as will place both branches of the service on the same footing?
§ LORD JOHN MANNERS,in reply, said, he had no information that would lead him to believe that the clothing supplied to rural letter-carriers as compared with urban letter-carriers was insufficient. It would lead to a great expenditure, which he was not prepared to incur, to put the rural letter-carriers on precisely the same footing as the urban.