LORD LINDSAYasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been drawn to a report in the newspapers that, owing to an explosion of gas in a colliery near Tyldesley belonging to Mr. Fletcher, a man has lost his life; and, as it was but a short time since an explosion occurred in the same pit, if ho will cause a searching inquiry to be instituted in order that the real cause may be ascertained?
§ SIR HENRY SELWIN-IBBETSON(for the Secretary of State for the Home Department) said, that the attention of his right hon. Friend had been called to the sad occurrence in question, and that a searching inquiry had been ordered into the whole facts of the case, and the Home Secretary had directed a legal gentleman to attend the inquest to ascertain the facts.