§ MR. STEADMANI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, why a memorial from London postmen, relating to a question of discipline affecting all postmen, was returned to the memorialists, contrary to the custom hitherto observed in such matters, and in spite of repeated assurances to the House that the Postmaster General is always open to receive petitions from members of the staff?
§ MR. HANBURYThe memorial to which the honourable Member no doubt refers was one praying for the modification of the punishment inflicted on a postman for falsification of dates and absence without leave. The postman was dismissed in November last, and the memorial, which was received only a month ago, was returned to the signatories with an intimation that while it 89 has been, open to the dismissed man himself to make any appeal on his own case, a right of which he had already fully availed himself, the Postmaster General was unable to receive a memorial from the staff respecting the exercise of his discretion in administering the discipline of the Department.