§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Monaghan, N.)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether the occasion of the present vacancy for a Postmaster at Waterford will be taken advantage of to create a flow of promotion amongst the class of Postmasters in Ireland, who are not usually given other outside appointments, in the same manner as was lately carried out in England and Scotland?
§ *MR. RAIKESI shall be very glad if I find among the candidates recommended to me the name of an Irish Postmaster whom I can promote to be Postmaster of Waterford. The mode suggested in the hon. Member's question has recommended itself to me in several cases; and he may rest assured that the question whether it should or should not be adopted also in the present case will be distinctly before me when the vacancy at Waterford comes to be filled.