Salary. Manager for Scotland, £200 0 0 Accountant, 50 0 0 Clerk, 50 0 0 Clerk's Assistant, 25 0 0 Three Letter-carriers, at 5_s._ a-week each. In 1736 the number of persons employed had increased to eleven, whose several official positions were as follows:-- Postmaster-General for Scotland. Accountant. Secretary to the Postmaster. Principal Clerk. Second Clerk. Clerk's Assistant. Apprehender of Private Letter-carriers. Clerk to the Irish Correspondents. Three Letter-carriers. The apprehender of private letter-carriers, as the name implies, was an officer whose duty it was to take up persons who infringed the Post-office work of carrying letters for money. The work continued steadily to grow, for in 1781 we find there were 23 persons employed, of whom 6 were letter-carriers; and in 1791 the numbers had increased to 31. In 1828 there were 82; in 1840, when the penny post was set on foot, there were 136; and in 1860, 244. In 1884 the total number of persons employed in all branches of the Post-office service in Edinburgh was 939. The Post-office of Glasgow, which claims to be the second city of the kingdom, shows a similar rapidity of growth, if not a greater; and this growth may be taken as an index of the expansion of the city itself, though the former has to be referred to three several causes--namely, increase of population, spread of education, and development of trade. In 1799 the staff of the Glasgow Post-office was as follows, viz.:-- Salary. Postmaster, £200 0 0 First Clerk, 30 0 0 Second Clerk, 25 0 0 Four Letter-carriers, at 10s. 6d. a-week each, 109 4 0 A Stamper or Sorter, at 10s. 6d. a-week, 27 6 0 So that the whole expense for staff was no more than £391, 10s. per annum, and this had been the recognised establishment for several years. But it appears from official records, that though the postmaster was nominally receiving £200 a-year, he had in 1796 given £10 each to the clerks out of his salary, and expended besides, on office-rent, coal, and candles, £30, 2s. 8d. Somewhat similar deductions were made in 1797 and 1798, and thus the postmaster's salary was then less than £150 a-year in reality. It is worthy of note here that letters were at that time delivered in Glasgow only twice a-day. Some ten years earlier--that is, in 1789--the indoor staff consisted of the postmaster and one clerk, the former receiving £140 a-year, and the latter £30.