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LONDON, &LIVIDLY, OCT. 3.

SPORTIPKI mini..:

A SPECIAL EDITION d the "EXPRESS,"
esataining the teethe d the ihtfe Hew" is pub-
lished every noting daring the Sportily" lisasso, at
six o'clock.

Ws all like the Postman. Nobody beds his
knock widest a flatter of pleasurable expedition ;
for he ie the last ILA in the chain which °meets
us with &stoat friends. In oar plodding, unpio-
tarsalse streets everybody observes his brisk mo-
tiona and lively costume with more cheerfulness
than, for instance, the exciaentan or the tax-
gatherer; and what damsel can suppress a
passing smirk on account of that fanny practical
joke which it devolved on him to take part in about
the middle of February ? There is not a groan
up and literate member of the community who
does not associate the Postman with some important
event; with some hope fulfilled, or wish gratified,
or doubt resolved, which dims or effaces the bad
impressions of the black letters he may hays brought
to the door.

For these reasons, then, we all like the Postman;
and, should he have a real grievous*, he, more than
any other public officer in humble life, can safely
asset on public support in getting it redressed. The
Secretary to the POSTMASTBIL-OZNEEAL—one of the
mast popular men in England, for reasons not
merely sentimental pat his popularity in
great peril when he tried some years ago
to shut up the Pastime's Christmas-bozos. The
British housekeeper flatly refused to comply with
his recommendation ; and, with the zealous benevo-
lence for which he is famous, put every Letter-carrier
in danger of losing hie place by forcing the cus-
tomary present' upon him in spite of the potent
"Head of the Department," who wee consequently
defeated; and now, the Christmas custom is in-
dulged in with full official sanction.
To be told, therefore, that the letter-carrier is
obliged to take his deplorable stand amongst the
overworked and underpaid multitudes, with which
this country is thronged ; that he is subjected to all
sorb of petty tyranny from his superiors ;
that his steps are dogged by epics ; that
he hoe ea hope of promotion and so respite from
labour but that which he pays for, either by stop-
page of salary, or by additional duty wham his
holiday is over—to be told all these things of the
London letter-carrier is to be informed of something
which ie not likely to pass through the publie ear
unheeded ; and statements of this nature wen actu-
ally made at a meetirg of letter-carriers belonging
to the South Western district about a week ago.
Bach a case put through the press to the public for
arbitration between the Post-office authorities and
the letter-carriers, is sure to meet with at lout fair
play ; zed there can be no fair play until both sidle
of the question have been placed before the arbitra-
tors.

We published the per contra yesterday in the
ilea of nitimitorandum addressed to the entire body
nflatineemewiers by their Comptroller, Mr. BOREN I
MA in al document paints • picture of their con-
arm very Element to that of the Postern as I
digisfaibit iiimeselves at the meeting reported in
tier wince of the 24th of September. Ars they
einderpoill The Comptroller of the Circulation
Deputensig states that the minimises salary of as
established letter-carrier is 19s. per week—little
enough fora man to support a wife and family upon ;
but quite enough for a raw recruit, who has to be
trained, and to whom such wages are offered ; a lad, in
fiict, who may be as young aaserenteee; and who, so
ouch appointeassta are now distributed, is very
to be the son of an older clear. His income rises
erio7 year until it reaches twenty-three Wiliam 111
week, and there it stops—unless be chooses te Imo=
a letter-sorter. In that cue his pay may rise ht time
to fifty shillings a week. But it happens that
letter-carriers do not always choose to become sorters.
Perhaps they like walking shout better than elating
still ; perhaps they do not feel themselves to be eons-
potent foe the new employment; but perhaps those
who so refuels belong to " fat walk.," where the
liberality of the British housekeeper or the Bridals
merchant at Christmastime makes promotion,
though • gain in perspective, an immediate loss.
The average amount received in Christmas pre-
sents in addition to salary by each Postman is eight
pounds a year, but some get twenty pounds a year
over and above their regular incomes in this way.
Besides enjoying this pinovaisitie he has a uniform
found him; and a physician and medicines are pro-
vided for him free of cost when he is ill. Hs oan claim
a fortnight's holiday per annum without deduction
of pay ; and in old age ha may retire on a pension.
New, looking round upon men employed in comps-
tions demanding no higher qualiftcations than are
malted foe the duties of delivering letters from
door te doer, and comparing their pay and advan-
tages with those possessed by the letter-carrier
eon it be said with truth that he is underpaid ?
Is he overworked ? When we remember that in
London alone there are tea collections and sin de.
liveries of letters in every twelve working hoses—
that, in short, the Leedom Postman is eolleehag or
delivering letters all day long—we are apt to think
that his is a peripatetic slave, to whom rest In the