§ MR. STEADMANI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, will he explain why, in the recent appointment of six inspectors of telegraph messengers at Liverpool, no fewer than fifty men, well qualified and of good character, in the postmen's department, were passed over.
§ MR. HANBURYIt is in contemplation to create six appointments to the class of inspectors of telegraph messengers at Liverpool. The duties are being performed temporarily by six postmen who have been selected as best qualified for them. As the appointments do not yet exist, the question of filling them by promotion has not arisen.