The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-06 00:00:00

" TO THE LONDON LETTER CARRIERS.

" I am directed by the Portmaster-General to in-
form you that his lordship has received authority
from the Lords of the Treasury to make the follow-
ittg alterations with regard to the appointment,
pay, and promotion of the London letter carriers,
and other members of the fourth class :

"1. In future, when vacancies occur ationg the
letter carriers of the third class, such letter carriers
as are also charge takers' (and fully competent for
that office), and as are not already in the third
class, will be promoted to it in the order of merit,
without requiring that they should become sorters ;
but, with this exception, no more letter carriers
will as such be promoted to the third class, and all
future vacancies which may arise among the letter
carriers now in that class will not be filled.up.
"2. The scale of wages for the 4th class, which
at present commences at 10s. per week, and rises
by an annual increment of ls. to 235., will, as re-
gards all future appointments, commence at 18s.,
but will rise, by the same annual increment. to 255.

"3. Men now in the service will continue to ad-
vance on the present scale till they reach 235. per
week; but instead of remaining at 235. (the maxi-
mum of that scale), they will, after six years' ser-
vice (dating from heir being placed on the esta-
blishment), advance to 245., provided they shall
have stood at wages of 235. as much as one year.
Having served another year at wages of 245., they
will advance to 2.55., the maximum of the new scale.
A service of six years is required to entitle a man
to advance to 245., because, under the new scale, it
will require six years to reach that point.
"4. Those who have already served six years in
all (dating from their being placed on the esta-
blishment), and at least one year at wages of 235.
a week, will be at once advanced to 245., and a year
hence will he further advanced to 255. a week.

"5. By the old scale (that in use before the re-
vision in 1554), the 60 senior post letter carriers
(a distinction which, as you know, then existed)
were entitled to 30s. each per week, and a further
of 11 to 255. ; and it has been arranged that of
thQ Old, general post letter carriers still in the ser-
vice (whatever may be their present class (such as
are receiving less than they would have had under
the old scale, shall henceforward receive the wages
which, under the old scale, they would have en-
joyed. This will at once advance every such letter
carrier (now receiving less) either to 255. or 305.;
and as vacancies occur in• the 30s. class, they will
be filled up by the admission (according to seniority)
of other old general post letter carriers, so long as
they remain in the service.
" 6. In like manner also, under the old system,
141 of the senior London district letter carriers
received wages of 255. a week ; and it has been
settled, that, as regards all men now in the service
who were district letter carriers at the time of the
revision, this regulation shall be re-established,
Consequently, such of the 141 senior London dis:-
trict letter carriers still .in the service (whatever
may be their present class) as now are receiving less
than 255. a week will be advanced to that amount ;
and as vacancies occur in the 255. class, they will
be filled up by the admission (according to seniority)
of the other London district letter carriers, so long
as any remain who were in the service at the time
of the revision.

" 7. It is, of course, intended that all advance-
mentsherein authorised shall, as heretofore, depend
on every man's good condtict, and on the efficient
discharge of his duties.

" 8. At present men sometimes enter the sera
vice beyond the age for which the lowest wages
are calculated, and with the burden of a family
upon them. Such men are objectionable, not
only because a man who has incurred respon-
sibilities beyond his income is likely to be uneasy,.
dissatisfied, and a bad officer, but because the diffi-
culty of training a person to the rapid and effi=
cient discharge, of the duties of letter carrier and:
sorter is greatly increased if at the commencement.
he is past the age of youth. To remedy this evil,
it has been determined that every new letter car-
rier is to be appointed under 21 years of age.
" 9. The wages for the current week will be.
paid, in accordance with the foregoing arrange:
ments, on Saturday next, Dec. 4.

" 10. Arrangements, as you are aware, have for:
some time been in progress for changing the hour
of the last collection of letters from ten o'clock to
nine; aad it is under consideration whether !some
improvement may not be made in the mode of ap-
pointing letter carriers to their different walks.
" 11. I am desired to express the satisfaction
which Lord Colchester feels at being thus enabled
to fulfil the expectations held out by him to the
general body of letter Carriers, of improving their
condition ; and to state that his lordship is glad to
find that, although some few letter carriers have
been led to by bad advikers into acts which have
brought punishment upon them, the general body
have placed a just confidence in his word, and have
shown that they did not participate in the late
discreditable system of agitation.

" WILLIAM BOKENHAM,
" Controller of the Circulation Department."

DEATH OF LADY LUCY BRlDGEMAN.—We'deeply-
regret to announce the death of Lady Lucy Bridgeman,.
daughter of the Earl of Bradford, who died on Friday morn-
ing, at Weston Hall, Staffordshire, from the effects of the''
severe burns she received in endeavouring to extinguish the.
burning clothes of her unfortunate sister, Lady Charlotto'
Bridgman, who, it will be recollected by our readers, died)
on the 26th ult., from the fearful injuries sustained by her
cress igniting accidentally in the drawing-room at Weston'
Hall. A deep gloom has been cast over this noble family by
the distressing calamity. Her ladyship was eldest st r--
viving daughter of the Earl of Bradford, and was born
October 3, 1826. •
[AnvEvrisEmENT.]—Rush of Blood to the Head is fre-
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but by a course of Holloway's Fills, these distressing syrnp,
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,t4ablood, bestows on that fluid wholesome tonic properties.