§ MR. O'DONNELL (for Mr. MOLLOY)asked the President of the Board of Trade, If his attention has been drawn to the late collision between the passenger and mail steamer "Wave," the property of the London Chatham and Dover Railway Company, plying between Dover and Calais, and another 786 ship; if he can state what number of passengers and crew are licensed to be carried; what was the number of passengers and crew carried on the occasion of the collision; what number of lifeboats, if any, or other small boats, were carried by the "Wave" on this occasion; and, what number of passengers could be carried by these life-boats or other boats in ordinarily rough weather?
§ MR. CHAMBERLAIN, in reply, said, the Board of Trade had received the customary official Report of this collision. The Wave was certified to carry 339 passengers, and the number on board at the time of the collision was 101, besides a crew of 20 men. The Wave carried four boats—of an aggregate capacity of 567 cubic feet—of which two were life-boats. These four boats would carry about 56 passengers under ordinary circumstances.