§ MR. A. WILLIAMSI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether any inquiry will be made as to the circumstances under which the West Hartlepool steamship Hesper, 1,069 tons, which sailed from Barry with a cargo of 2,277 tons of coal on the 30th January last, was lost on its voyage to Genoa, together with its crew of 21 hands?
§ *SIR M. HICKS BEACHYes, Sir; an inquiry has been ordered.