§ MR. J. W. BARCLAYasked the President of the Board of Trade, If he will take measures to give greater publicity to the conditions regarding continuous brakes which the Board of Trade consider to be essential for the public safety in order that the public generally may know what these conditions are?
§ MR. J. G. TALBOTSir, all the Board of Trade Papers with regard to continuous brakes have been very recently laid before Parliament and circulated, and we hardly know how to give more publicity to our opinion on this subject. We are thinking, however, of calling the attention of the Railway Companies to the important debate which took place on the 13th of June, from the tone of which, and especially from the speech of my noble 692 Friend (Viscount Sandon), it must be clear that the Railway Companies cannot any longer neglect to take action upon a matter which so largely affects the public safety.