§ Mr. JOHN WARDasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can state the number of bodies there are supposed to be still unrecovered in the collapsed trench at the Newport Dock works; and whether any attempt is being made to recover them from the workings?
§ Mr. GLADSTONEI am informed that 33 bodies are supposed to be still in the trench, and that no attempt can be made to recover them until the necessary precautions have been taken to render the work of excavation safe. The whole subject is receiving the careful consideration, I understand, of those responsible, but the date when the excavations can be commenced is at present uncertain.