The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-20 00:00:00

SUPPLY.

Tht house having resolved itself into committee,
Mr. WILSON intimated that at that late hour be only pro.
paed to proceed with the Post-office- votes. The Customs
and Inland Revenue votes, as being likely to lead to some
discussion, ho would postpone.
Colonel DUNNE had some ohjections to urge in reference
to tho Irish Post-oftlee, and moved that the chairman do re-
port progress.
The committee divided.

Foi• reporting 19
Against progress '
72
Majority against ...... —s3

On the vote of 1,e35,0001. for the Post office service,
Colonel DUNNE, after the decision just come to, would
decline to cuter into the subject of the abuses in the Irish
Post-office, of which the lion. Under Secretary of the Trea-
sury must be fully aware, from the correspondence which had
been forwarded to him.
Mr. WILSON said the Postmaster-General had had" his
attention directed to this subject, with a view to providing .a
remedy to those abuses, which he (Mr. Wilson) admitted the
existence of, and measures were now under consideration for
that purpose.
After a conversation,

Lord NAAS complained of the absurd system which still
prevailed in Ireland of sending the mails by carts and coaches
over lines of country which were now traversed by railways.
Mr. F. SCULLY made a similar complaint, and said that
great delay was the result.
Colonel DUNNE said he hoped that the accounts in Ire-
land would be kept separate, and that the whole management
of the Post-office in Ireland would be reorganised.
Mr. KIRK said that great delay took place in the delivery
of mails in Dublin. They were not delvered until the second
day after their departure from London.
Mr. GROGAN said he hoped that the Post-office authori-
ties would consider the convenience of the people of Ireland.
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of newspapers in certain cases.
Mr. VANCE spoke of the
paltry economy which had been
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exercised by reducing the salaries of some of
reimbursed
the. country
postmasters result was
postmasters to 4/. or 51.
themselves by taxing the public.
Mr. COWAN had a grievance in the extremely low salaries
of the Edinburgh t Post-office servants, as compared with those
nandDublin. He wished to know whether the
for the last fifteen ;,ears would take place
in
revisionMld.n promised
KINNAIRDo said that in every case the Irish estimates
were higher than the Scotch ones.
Colonel DUNNE complained of the confusion of the Irish
post-office system.
Mr. MICHELL called attention to the gradual increase of
many of the heads of Post-office expenditure, while the work-
ing departments—the rural post-ofllea keepers, for example—
were greatly underpaid.

Mr. MAGUIRE pointed out various defects in Irish post-
office management.
After a few words from Mr. FITZGERALD,
Mr. WILSON said that a commission consisting of the hon.
member for Honitou and two other eminent engineers had
been appointed to consider and report upon the conveyance
of mails by railway. He hoped that one of the results of their
labours would be the determin,tioniof the question as to what
the remunerationof railways ought to be fa.' the conveyance
of the mails. If that were so, he trusted the Legislature would
be prepared to pass an act requiring of railway coropaniya