§ SIR EDWARD WATKINasked the Postmaster General, Whether any proposals have passed, and, if so, whether they have been entertained by his Department, with a view to substituting military for civil employés in the Postal Telegraph Departments?
§ LORD JOHN MANNERS, in reply, said, it had been decided to employ the Royal Engineers in the Postal Telegraph Service to the extent desired by the Secretary of State for War, and, consequently, that the whole of the South of England from the Thames to Land's End would be placed under their charge.