§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he can state under what rule of the service a sorter named Murray, employed at the South Eastern District Post Office, has been called upon to explain, and subsequently punished for, alleged misconduct in the public streets on Monday, 17th June last; whether the officer was allowed to call witnesses to prove his innocence, or was confronted with his accuser.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINOfficers of the Post Office are expected 842 so to conduct themselves, whether on or off duty, as not to bring discredit on the Department. The case of the officer now in question was dealt with in accordance with the usual practice. He has been guilty of a similar offence last year, and the Postmaster General was satisfied that the charge made against him on the present occasion was well founded.