MR. ALDERMAN W. LAWRENCEasked the President of the Board of Trade, If his attention has been directed to the evidence taken before the coroner at the inquest now being held on the body of the late Dr. Arthur, who was burnt to death in a Pullman's Car attached to the Midland Northern Express Train; more especially to the evidence of the engine driver, who stated that, acting according to his instructions, he did not immediately stop the train when requested to do so by repeated signals from some one pulling the communication cord, because, upon looking back, he could not discover there was anything amiss with the train; and, whether he will direct immediate inquiries to be made of other Railway Companies as to the instructions issued by them to their engine drivers how to act on receiving a signal to stop the train, from some one pulling the communication cord?
§ MR. CHAMBERLAINI have communicated with my hon. Friend, but I am afraid he has not received my letter. I asked him to postpone his Question until I had received the Report of the judicial inquiry which is now going on, and the Report of Colonel Yolland, the Government Inspector of Railways, to the Board of Trade.