§ SIR EDWARD GOURLEYI beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he can furnish the House with any information as the cause of the explosion of one of the tubes of the water-tube boilers of the French battleship Jaureguiberry, through which six firemen were boiled and three severely scalded?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTYNo, Sir; I have no information beyond that contained in the newspaper reports.