§ SIR CHARLES FORSTERasked the Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is the intention of the Government to institute an official inquiry into the cause of the late terrible boiler explosion at Birchills, Walsall?
§ MR. ARTHUR PEEL,in reply, said, that the Home Office had sent down a special counsel, while the Board of Trade had sent down their Engineer in Chief, with one of his staff, to attend the Coroner's inquest and report specially on the case. When those gentlemen had reported to their respective Departments it would be possible to form an accurate idea as to the causes of the calamity, for the sufferers by which the deepest sympathy was felt.