§ MR. ALDERMAN SALOMONSsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he proposes making inquiry into the circumstances attending the commencement of the recent Fire in Tooley Street, with a view of ascertaining whether there was a sufficient supply of water in the mains of the Company supplying the district?
SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, that in consequence of the notice given by his hon. Friend, he had applied to the Commissioners of Police, and the information which had been obtained from the Superintendent of Police who was on the spot at the time of this disastrous fire, was, that there was not a sufficient supply of water when the engines first arrived. He did not think that any additional inquiry was likely to throw further light on the subject.