§ MR. BARRANasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to a serious injury that was done on the 11th instant to an old woman, seventy-five years of age, by a locomotive engine on Hunslet Moor, near Leeds, whilst walking on the footpath alongside a tramway which is laid down across the Moor from the Middleton Collieries; whether he is aware that the tramway in question is traversed by locomotives without Parliamentary sanction, and is so unguarded and uncontrolled as to be dangerous to the numerous persons crossing the Moor; and, whether he would direct an official inquiry to be made with a view to protect the public against similar accidents?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, that the accounts he had received represented the case to be absolutely hopeless. As, therefore, there would probably be a coroner's inquest held on the case in a few days, he did not think it necessary to institute any official inquiry into the circumstances.