§ MR. GRAYasked the Postmaster General, Whether, referring to the memorial of the Dublin telegraph clerks which has now been under consideration for so many months, it is a fact that they discharge duties at least as onerous and responsible as those of the telegraph clerks in Liverpool and Manchester; and, if so, whether he will consider the propriety of giving them equal remuneration?
§ LORD JOHN MANNERSSir, the ordinary telegraph work in Dublin is of the same kind as that in Liverpool and Manchester; and when there is an opportunity, which I hope shortly to find, I shall be prepared to recommend similar scales of pay for the lower classes of clerks. But the superintending officers in Dublin have neither such onerous nor responsible duties as those in Liverpool and Manchester, and this must be considered in fixing their pay.