§ MR. J. G. TALBOTasked the Home Secretary, Whether he could give the House any further information as to the recent explosion at Victoria Station?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTI do not know that I can give any information further than that of which the public is already in possession except this—that our first object was to ascertain what was the probable cause of the explosion. Colonel Majendie, Inspector of Explosives at the Home Office, reports there is no doubt the cause of the explosion was by some species of nitro-glycerine compound—not an explosion of gas or gunpowder, but some compound in the nature of dynamite.