MR. GOLDSMIDasked the Postmaster General, Whether any surveyors have been appointed since the Report of the Committee on the Telegraph Department of the Post Office; and, if yea, whether, in accordance with the recommendation of that Committee, security was taken that they possessed a practical knowledge of telegraphy?
§ LORD JOHN MANNERS,in reply, said, that two surveyors had been appointed, and that neither of them possessed a practical knowledge of telegraphy. At present there was no one in the service who combined that knowledge with such a knowledge of postal work as would fit him for a surveyor-ship; but it would be the policy of the Department to select persons for the office who had a knowledge of telegraphy.