§ MR. BROGDENasked the First Commissioner of Works, Whether instructions have been issued for the survey of the coal fields of South Wales on the 6-inch scale; and, if not, when it is proposed to give them?
§ MR. AYRTONsaid, that at present he had not received the information necessary, before the issue of instructions for the survey of the coal fields of South Wales on the 6-inch scale. As soon as the requisite investigations were concluded, instructions for the further prosecution of the survey should be issued.