THE WESLEYAN POSTMEN.
[TO rim EDITOR OF TILE "SPEOTATORI SIR,—Your statement appended to Mr. Samuel Pearson's letter that the Wesleyan postman would certainly not be dismissed for gratuitously burdening himself with and distributing Wesleyan tracts to those who wished to receive them, unless it made him late on his 'beat, you will find if you inquire is exactly and positively wrong.
Allow me to state what happened at Rugby some years ago. A Roman Catholic postman was appointed. The clergy and laity 'immediately memorialized the Postmaster-General to dismiss the poor Catholic. He declined to interfere, and in a written reply to the memorial stated as his reason that postmen were under no -circumstances allowed to distribute any matter that had not passed through the Post Office. If you will call in the postman who .delivers the letters at your office and ask him, you will, I have no doubt, find that this rule is still in force.
Your Wesleyan postman appears to me interesting now only as an illustration of an engineer being hoist by his own petard.—I
[If it is a satisfaction to our correspondent that our illustration was inaccurate in point of fact, we are quite willing to afford him that very innocent triumph. It remains just as good for our rpurpose.—En. Spectator.]
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