LORD LINDSAYasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he will instruct the Inspector of Mines, Mr. Wales, to make a special report of the causes of the flooding of the Tyne-wydd Colliery, stating so far as possible what was the head of water, the length of road cut for the liberation of the miners, the height and width of the roadway; and if he can ascertain from the medical men, or otherwise, as to what physical effects were produced in the system of these men by the compressed air in which they were confined?
MR. ASSHETON CROSSI have given directions that inquiries shall be made on all these points, without delay.