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Every Evening (except sp ar ,„ r a `& B 4) at 8 ; -Saturday Mornings at 3. " Mr. Woodin has far n a,n° expense in magnificently decorating and luxuriously i e - "'lsg his salon for the comfort of his patrons." Seats may t liellreit din advance, at the Vox-office, open from 10 till 5; also s Royal Library, Old Bond-street; and all the principal 17_ xte-sellera. Stalls, 3s. ; Area, 25.; Balcony, Is. Family Private ° One, Two, and t hree Guineas. Carriages at 10. Manager, Mr. DUDLEY. ROYAL HALL, IIOLI3ORN. Late WESTON'S. Ivo ast rm . ights of Proprietor -- Mr. J. S. Sweasey. W A.INRATTA, the talk of London. the L• seeilder of the World, the marvel of the Invisible Wire, must be , rt 44 t 1 of the continued indisposition of Mr. 11. Col '.-sreatquittle Tenor, sir. J. 11. BIILBURN has been 11111 i. R• „and will -Rapnear each evenin together with be, , ;,, 1, - LLOYD. theoyal :Aar Comique. g; Mr GEORGE LEY- F.': will ea- 1, evening Inquire for his Dolley. Mr HEN BI 14 to 'Oil introciitee the Mad Butcher. Miss LOUIE SHI...R -s ( !N will introduce New Songs. Miss KATE GARSTONE 4 11,1i. a .,;"'.7laliktr as ever. The Eccentric Blacks. Massrs EEOLMES You-14,- 1 w)ri givea Burlesque of an Ameriesn Glove Fight; 31 r ", 001111. IE. and a host of other Artistes. 'arid: l in numb?r. is unrivalled. 1 08 fplestra, Stalls, Is 61; Stalls, Is.; Balcony, 6d ; Private Boxes, 1 : Pox -office at open 5 Younz Miudeal Director—Mr P., Corti. ljyphii ; i l -e. Ali NOTICE .-M1 ' ,Samuel Adams, late proprietor of .the a ralonie will take a Farewell Benefit at.the Royal Music Monday, May 3 A DAME T US= AHD 'S EXHIBITION. taker -street. - A PORTRAIT MODEL of TR+. /PMA NIN added.—On Vicxv, amongst innumerable other relics, the de, bin al Zunette and Knife of the actual Guillotine used .for the Qtilitation of Louis XVI., Marie Ahtoinette, and upwards of er,,, e ? Persons of the best and worst blood in France. Also an "' to o „," 8 cePy of the guillotine as in use. 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Sir John Gray's proposal for permitting landlords to grant fixity of tenure to occupiers, and thus escape the provisions of the Land Bill, came to a miserable end. The memorial in favour of this scheme was signed by thirty-five Irish members of Parliament, but only thirty-one, including tellers, voted in its favour, and these were not all Irish. Mr. Morrison, Sir C. W. Dilke, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Talbot, Mr. W. M. Torrens, and Sir David Wedderburn, all voted with Sir. John Gray, and none of them represent Irish constituencies. As a sign of the remarkably diminished interest felt by the House of Commons in the Land Bill, it may be noted that the discussion on this amendment—the most important that has been moved—was carried on in a house so thin as to merit counting out on several occasions. The Irish and the Bill. The Irish papers are regarding the Land Bill with increased satisfaction. The Even ing Post, speaking for a very influential por tion of the, Liberal party declares that no great principle of the measure has been tampered with during the progress of the bill through com mittee, and that should its provisions remain sub stantially unaltered by the House of Lords, the Impe rial Legislature will have effected a vast and salutary change in the Irish Land Laws, which cannot fail to be followed by great advantages to the conntry. At a meeting of the National Association Alderman M'Swiney spoke to the same effect. An Ulster tenant right paper also pronounces favourably. Peasant Proprietorship. ➢lr. Howard, M.P. for Bedford, supplements his speech in the House of Commons on the Irish Land Bill with a letter in the Daily Telegraph. He says that, when interrupted by a 'number of hungry members who wanted to hasten the division, in order to get awayto dinner, he was proceeding to shew that between the State lending money for improvements, and lending it for the purchase of land, h broad and important distinction was to be drawn. With regard ,to the policy of creating a peasant proprietary, he admits that the raising of some of the peasants on the continent from a condition of serfdom to actual proprietorship of the soil, has been attended with great advantages to the persons so raised. He believes, however, that no greater mistake could be committed than to assume that peasant proprietorship would be advantageous to other countries s.where the' condition of things is so essentially different. For instance, he asks, can any country in the world The Murders in Greece. Admiral Hobart Pasha, in a letter to the Tinier, says it is exceedingly probable that had an English instead of a Greek gunboat pre sented herself on the coast near the brigands, the lives of the murdered men would have been saved. Ever since England helped to make the Greeks a nation she has, he says, in common with other powers, always kept some vessels of war on the coast of Greece. It is more necessary, he sub mits, to do so now that, the " grand idea" having proved aficaco, so many patriots are cast adrift on their own resources. The sight of a foreign flag creates a wholesome -fear ; and the flag of the nation which has so frightfully suffered being shewn all along the sea coast, would, at all events, shew that the recent outrage is not for gotten, and that the murderers are being sought. The Persian Mission. The correspondence respecting the transfer of the Persian mission to the Foreign Office in 1858-59-60 has been laid before Parliament. The Per sian mission has, it appears, been subjected to sundry transformations. in the year 1836 it was placed under the superintendence of the Foreign Office, as it was supposed the British representative would have more weight at the Court of Teheran if he spoke in the name of the Queen, rather than in that of the East India Company merely. In 1858, when the Government of India was transferred directly to the Crown, it was thought there was no longer the same motive for a separate establishment, and accordingly we find Lord Malmes bury writing to Lord Stanley proposing that the India Office should again take direction of the Persian mission. Lord Stanley assenting t 3 this, the transfer Was made ' • but the year following, Lord J. Russell writes to Sir Charles Wood, giving reasons for the re-transfer of the Persian mission to the control of the Foreign Office. It is easier, he says, for the Foreign Secretary to procure from his colleague at the India-Office any information which he may require about Affghanistan, the only point of contact between Persia and India, than for the Indian Minister to learn all the transactions which have taken place at Teheran with the various foreign representatives there. Further on comes some correspondence with Sir H. Rawlinson, who, on find ing that he was to act under the directions of the Foreign Office, with which he was unacquainted, instead of under the department he had always served, and finding, too, that there was to be a change with respect to present giving, &c., at Teheran, resigned his post. • Aiding Emigrants. One thousand nine hundred persons have been helped out to Canada within the past few weeks by the British and Colonial Emigra tion Society, and arrangements have been made for the conveyance of 600 additional emigrants by the end of next month. The association is entitled to the support of the public, not only be cause it has directly been enabled to assist the distressed, poor to a very great extent, but also because it has been the means through which many new schemes for the removal of the unemployed from England, and the peopling of her Majesty's less occupied possessions abroad have been ventilated. At the present moment, for instance, a device for the utilisation of the waste, lands near the Red River, as well as the establishment of an emigration scheme with New Zealand, in which the home and colonial authorities should co-operate are under discussion. Kindred societies have not withheld their small share of help iu the philanthropic undertakings of the Emigration Association, as the considerate action of the British and Foreign Bible Society in : giving 1000 Bibles for the emigrants, and the contributions of the Kelsall Fund Committee abundantly testify. Jt is to be hoped that a benevolent public will continue to give their assistance to the society, until by its instrumen tality the- self-supporting schemes of emigration, which it is expected will shortly be in existence, are once for all established. Miss Rye and Her Orphans. It has often been said that honesty is the . best policy, but it now appears on undoubted evidence that charity and kindness are also sound political economy. The paper read by Dr. Hayward at Liver pool on " The Emigration of Public Orphans," thews what that benevolent and enterprising lady, Miss Rye, has been doing, while others have been talking about, the burdens of the ratepayers and the evils of pauperism. There are in Liverpool 2,000 orphan children being brought up under the super vision of the parish authorities, and they cost for their maintenance• and education £l3 a year each, or ss. a week. If we include the interest on the cost of land and buildings, we have a total of £30,000 a year out of the rates for bringing up parish orphans. A large proportion of these children (of the girls especially) fall into bad ways and come back to the workhouse in future years to burden the ratepayers to the close of their lives. Miss Rye, by taking out pauper orphans to Canada, has saved the ratepayers some £5,200, which would have been expended on the children's board and maintenance between the ages of eight and sixteen. Better than the mere pecuniary saving, however, is the moral benefit bestowed on the children, who instead of entering life with the stigma of pauperism attached to thorn, and struggling against all the odds of poverty and degradation, start upon a new career in a country which is glad to welcome their presence and profit by their labour. The 70 children taken out by Miss Rye were gladly accepted, and homes are waiting for 100 more. The Extra Week at Eton. The extra week's holiday at Eton, granted in honour of the Prince of Wales's visit, having called forth the displeasure of the "Father of an Eton Boy," an " Eton Master" has lost no time in giving a categorical answer to his complaints. He says that such an in dulgence is never given at Eton • except in obedience to royal command. It is granted solely by the provost and head master, who derive - no benbfit from it, and it is generally found that the parents, instead of being glad, as we might suppose, to be rid of the _ turbulent visitors who are enjoying the license of being "home for the holidays," are in favour of the indulgence. The reproach of the angry father who said that no other profession enjoyed such long holidays, is answered Noxious Gases in Wells. The recent loss of life caused by noxious gas in, a well at Beeton, North Woolwich, induces Mr. W. Gossage, of Widnes Soapery, War rington, to make public the following very simple means of prevention. Take some pieces of carpet or common sacks ; and make them up into a loose bundle nearly as large as the area of the well; enclose it in a brick to give weight, and attach to the bundle a rope of sufficient length to reach the bottom of the well. Throw this bundle down and haul it up again as quickly as possible. Repeat the operation rapidly for ten minutes, and the atmosphere will, he says, become quite . innoxious, as may be proved by lettin g down a lighted candle. Mr. Gossage explains that the bundle carries before it a quantity of fresh air from the surface, and this displaces the foul air from the bottom. He adds that he first used this plan forty years ago, and has proved its efficiency repeatedly. The Music of the Sea. It is said by some sea captains that the smell of the turf consumed in Ireland can be experienced in the air at sea three hundred miles away from the coast. These navigators assert that it is more perceptible after long voyages through a variety of climates. Another phenomenon, equally surprising to the uninitiated, is just now being discussed in the pages of Nature by travellers who have traversed the sea round the western coast of India, along the seaboard of Chili, or the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans generally. They describe a strange musical noise, which vibrates against the sides 2f ships, chiefly iron -bottomed, when they are plssing through certain waters. The noise is not unpleasing, is " such as one might imagine to proceed from a thousand tEolian harps," is " deep with ever varying notes." Much gossip has arisen as to the cause of this strange concert, and the opinions put forward, though widely different,are in genious. Cuvier is quoted in support of the idea that the music is caused by shoals of what are known as trumpet fish, whose noises are said often to guide fishermen to their whereabouts. A. Mr. Millet fancies that the sounds arise from quantities of bubbles, or gas globules coming up from sandy or muddy bottoms, and beating against the vessel. Taking into consideration the fact that the murmurings are oftener heard by those in iron than by those in wooden vessels, Mr. Malet's solution does not appear to be a very extraordinary one. All the writers on the subject appear to be bereft of senti ment, as none venture to. attribute the harmony to nymphs, or tritons, mermaids or sirens, although one gentleman, Sir Emerson Tennant, says that the music is chiefly audible over the face of the waters when the moon is nearest its full. Public Health and Public Works in Rome. Sanitary science appears to be at a low ebb in Rome, where all the attractions of the (Ecumenical Council cannot detain the frightened visitors. Never, it is said, has the extreme unhealthi ness of the climate been attended with more fatal results than during the present year. Nevertheless, though the foreign visitors are rapidly taking flight, th. prelates cannot imitate their example, but must do penance for their sins by braving out the season, whose evil influence the Col- lege of Cardinals would no doubt confine, if they could, to the unduly active minority. The Romans are consoling themselves for the present loss by antici pating a rich future harvest, as they believe halt Europe will flock to Rome to celebrate the 25th year of the Pontificate. The prices of living are, how ever, exorbitant, the municipality allowing the pro duce of the country to be bought up at the gates of the city by monopolists, who keep up a fabulous price. The poorer classes suffer greatly from the taxes, while a few individuals who retain the monopolies in their hands amass large fortunes. There is one item of news connected with Rome which gives some promise of bettor times. The new port of Ostia is being pushed forward, and a canal railway is then to connect Rome with the sea at a short and easy distance. It is evident that this will give a great stimulus to trade, and must tend to break up the monopolies complained of. Egypt and the Porte. An uncomfortable bit of news comes from Con stantinople. Ismael Pacha, it will be remembered has a brother named Mustapha Fazyl Pasha, and be tween the two tlr. most deadly animosity prevails. bout a fortnight ago Mustapha was advanced by the Sultan to the office of Chief Justiciary at Stam boul. This appointment was justly regarded as a decided manifestation of on the part of the Sultan towards the Viceroy of Egypt. And now matters look still worse. His Im perial Majesty has strengthened his hostile demonstration, by conferring the first class of the highest order in his gift (the Osmanlieh) upon the leader of the Young Turk party, and has enhanced the significance of that distinction by causing the insignia of the order to be set in brilliants—a favour rarely bestowed upon persons of less than Royal rank. It looks as if there would soon be more trouble between the Sultan and his great vassal. Political Disturbance. Amongst the many good things brought by the recent political changes in France was a total cessation of the mischievous rumours of war which were so persistently . spread about previously to the famous interpellation of the 116. These rumours were particularly rife during the summer of 1868 ; but since June, 1869, they have happily been wanted. Unfortunately a revival of the canards is now becoming noticeable. The Due de Grammont's appointment as Foreign Minister of France ha s ma d e , we are told, a very bad impression at Berlin. The C'onstitutionnel—that old and flagrant offender—is now busy telling us that foreign politics have been unduly neglected lately. Count I)aru, we are inforthed, knew nothing of foreign affairs; but the Dun de Grammont will set everything right. Its mission will be to restore France to her proper place in regard to all the great questions which agitate the world, and which must not be resolved without her prepon derant voice being heard. This ominous talk indicates two equally undesirable things: first, that trade is again to be impaired by an alarmist paper warfare; secondly, that the concessions to liberty are finished, home affairs are disposed of, and France has now time to trouble herself with her neigh bours. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of Baron Boston, a baronet and D.C. L., was proved by his only son. The personalty was sworn under £35,000. His lordship was formerly an attachdinthe diplo matic service, and Deputy-Lieutenant of Buclo. He be queaths to his daughter Rachel, the wife of Mr. A. A. Van sittart, a legacy of £l,OOO, and to his daughter Alice, wife of Mr. J. W. Malcolm, M.P., £2,000. He leaves to his wife au immediate legacy of £5OO • and his leasehold residence Wilton-crescent, carriages, &c. The residue of his pro perty he leaves to his son, the present baron. The will of Sir George She; Bart., was proved under £30,000 per sonalty. Sir George was formerly ambassador at Berlin and Stutgardt ; Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1830-5 ' • Deputy-Lieutenant for Galway, and High Sheriff for that county in 1828. The heir is his nephew, George E. Dering, who inherits the entailed Irish estates of Dunmore, and to whom he has devised his estates at Durhum with the mines, with reversion, on failure of certain limitations, to the sons, su ccessively, of his (testator's cousin), Colonel George Palmer Evelyn ; and to the colonel's second son (testator's godson) he leaves a legacy of £3OO. He be queaths to Countess Cowley a legacy of £1,000; to his servant William Phillis,£l,ooo together with an annu it y o f £ 5O; to his housekeeper; Frances Riely,Esoo, with an annuity of 230. The residue of his estate he bequeathes to his nephew absolutely. The will of Mr. Alexander Randall, banker, of Foley House, Maidstone, the principal partner in the Kentish Bank, was proved under £120,000 personalty.— Illustrated London News. Some time ago a memorial, addressed to Mr. Glad stone, was forwarded by the Birmingham Liberal Associa tion, urging the claims of that borough to additional representation in the House of Commons, and asking for at least one of the seats taken from the recently disfran chised boroughs. Mr. Gladstone has replied that the matter shall receive due consideration. PRICE 1(1. STAMPED 2d. SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT. The Upper House was the centre of attraction on Thurs- day night. There was a full muster, that is for the peers, as many as two hundred being present at one time. The Treasury bench was closely packed. There was Lord Granville looking as full of sweetness, as though he were a West Indian planter; Lord Clarendon, who seemed to be a good deal more interested in the telegram which was brought into him than in the debate ; Lord de Grey, alas ! in deep mourning, and probably having a keen inte rest in that telegram ; the Duke of Argyll with, his ye,llow hair—surely the youngest-looking grandfather that ever carried his years lightly; Lord Kimberley, the type of a shrewd man of business ; Lord Dufferin, who has aged wonderfully during the last ten years; young black-moustached Lord Lansdowne, and other minor members of the Ministery. Lord Hatherley, spare, not to say attenuated, of course sat on the woolsack. On the front opposition bench were the Conservative chiefs, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Cairns, Lord Derby, and for a short time, Lord Salisbury. But the sight of sights was the Bishops' bench—l ought to say benches, for no fewer than eighteen of their right rev. lordships overflowed the red morocco seats with their waves of spotless lawn. I wondered how any layman could venture to sit among them even for a minute. Xet there was one who did; who ventured, child of earth as he was, and clad in sable garments, to sit for a few minutes among those spiritual looking persona, yea to talk familiarly with them. The fault is not mine, but his, that he sug gested to me the idea of a very black goat among a flock of milkwhite fleecy sheep. So great is the change that has befallen the personnel of the episcopate that even old habitues of the House could not tell me alitheir names. I recognised the Archbishop of York, who sat for a =dime on the woolsack chatting to the Chancellor, the Bishops of London, Winchester, Salisbury, Hereford, Peterhorough, Ely, and Ripon. Of all the bishops none can compare with Dr. Wilberforce in activity. He was here, there, and every where, as though he were engaged for the evening as whip. In fact, the only peer who displayed equal loco motive powers was Lord Colville, the Conservative whip, and he was so very peripatetic that until the Duke of Marlborough declared that the measure which had brought down so many peers was not a party question and that not a single peer had been asked to attend, everybody supposed that there was to be a stand-up fight between Liberal and Tory. Considering the nature of the bill—one for the " Abolition of Aunts," as some one has humourously called it—there was a won- • derfully. small attendance of ladies : there were not a dozen at any time, and the largest party was under the protection of Mr. Motley, the hirsute historian ambassador. Nor were there many members of the Lower House. There may have been a score lounging or squatting on the steps of the throne. Perhaps the want of proper accommodation keeps hon. gentleman away. Mr. Gladstone appeared, but I don't think, he came to hear the debate. He had a message for his col league of the India-Office, the MacCallum-More, and as soon as he had delivered it, he took his leave. The Duke of Cambridge was equally brief in his visit. The Duke of Somerset was more patient, and Lord Shaftes bury was most assiduous is the strict etymological sense of the word. The debate opened at twenty minutes pastfivewith a speech from Lord Houghton in favour of the bill for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister. I have never heard his poetic lordship so earnest before. He spoke for over 40 minutes; and-was sometimes quite excited; so that it needed the quaffing of a good deal of water to keep him down to a tolerable temperature. He spoke well, and, save for some hesitation, eloquently. But he made a slip. Arguing that the present law was opposed to the feeling of the people, he said that if it was not repealed, the people would go en breaking it- - would continue to violate the laws of God and man. The Duke of Marlborough, who led the opposition to the bill, was too quick to let the blunder pass, and he made the most of it, to the great amusement of their lordships. He made them laugh also when he urged that inas much as a man may obtain a divorce, he might under this bill marry each of his sisters-in-law in succession, and that therefore the word " deceased " might be omitted. Then he quoted the ridi culous paragraph from a Chicago paper headed "Justi fiable Suicide," in which a man's father marries his son's wife's daughter, and so becomes his own grand father, and gets so bothered about his own identity that he gets rid of ft. Altogether though the Duke denounced the agitation for this bill as purely fictitious, and got up by a few wealthy men who had broken the law, • and now asked Parliament to condone their offence, there was more of persiflage than of grave argument in his Grace's forty-five minutes' speech. Young Lord Lansdowne followed, but was not much listened to, for his delivery is bad, and he is difficult to hear. Then arose the Bishop of Ely, first of the pre lates to enter the fray, and then, of course, we wer e i n for a regular theological discussion, with all the usual stock references to Leviticus, Deuteronomy. the Talmud, St. Basil, and so forth. Lord Kimberley had little patience with all this " back-along " talk (to use a Devonianism). He contended that expediency ought to settle the matter, and that if so there was no doubt how it would - be settled. The Bishop of Ripon then arose, a tall, handsome man, in truth a very hand some man and, save for the Bishop of Salisbury, far and away, the most comely occupant of the Bishop's Bench. He has a strong, clear voice, a rapid and animated de livery, never pausing for a word. The manner was better than the matter ; though as his brother of Ely had been quoting St. Basil, the Waldenses, and the rest against the • bill, it was quite fair for Dr. Bickersteth to quote Archbishop Whately, Deans Dale, Hook, and Close, and Dr. Tregelles, of Plymouth in favour •of it. The mistake was, and it is one generally made by bishops —to suppose that a matter of this kind will be settled by the authority of any number of learned pundits. The Bishop of Ripon ' was followed by Lord Lyvedet, now beginning to look the old gentleman with patriarchal hair, though those of us who remember him as the dandy Vernon Smith scarcely like to think so, lest, perchance, it should imply that we too are beginning to shew signs of tennpus edax. Lord Lyveden, though a Wliig, was strongly against the bill. - He excited quite a roar of laughter when combating the notion that the number of petitions in favour of the bill was any proof of the popular demand for it. He said, look at the small number of petitions in its favour compared with those against admitting Mr. Newdegate into convents : , of course, he meant against Mr. Newdegates' bill for the inspection of convents ; but the blunder was better than a blunder, it was a joke. Another Bishop came next, a strange noticeable man, with something of the same cast of head as his illustrious namesake; of whom Coleridge said : " Have you ever seen a horse ? Then, sir, you have seen Wordsworth."—The Bishop of Lincoln did not add much to the argument. At last came the real fun of the evening. Lord Westbury, bald-headed and iilump, and rosy, deigned to address their lordships. He directed his remarks especially to the Bishops, and to hear Richard Bethel' lecturing the right reverend bench on humility and the exegesis of Scripture was grand. . Once upon a time,, not many years ago, Lord Westbury castigated the bishops in such a way that they all fled, save the then Bishop of Oxford. But there is now another bishop in the House who refuses to be " sat upon " by anyone, even though -he be as illustrious in 'life and morals as the ex- Chancellbr himself • that bishop is Dr. Magee, of Peter borough, and it fell to him la s t n i g ht to administeri to the modern Martin Mar-prelate such a dressing as even he, pachydermatous though he is, must have felt. The Duke of Argyle was the first mem ber of the Government to oppose the bill, which he did with much warlike gesture ; but he was mild and sedate compared- with Lord Chancellor Hatherley. Everyone knows that Page Wood is a deeply religious man, and in this matter he feels strongly and intensely, and his speech was delivered with an amount of pas sionate earnestness not often displayed on the woolsack, and with a rapidity which is certainly not common with Lord Hatherley. He spoke at unusual length ; and • when he sat down Lord Granville thought it time to interpose, both in order to remove any impression that the Government opposed the bill, and to infuse a little sweetness into the now somewhat embittered discussion. He rather chaffed his colleague for his vehemence, telling him that he had spoken as the chairman of a debating society rather than as a statesman. It was now close upon mid- night, a most indecorously late hour for their lordships to be out, and so it was determined to close the debate. Lord Hatherley rather blundered in putting the question ; the Clerk took out four ivory wands from the drawer, and gave them to the tellers (Lords Houghton and Lifford for the Contents ; the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Lyveden for the Non-contents.) Fourteen bishops marched out in a row into the Opposition lobby, and there was a good deal of excitement. The Duke of Marlborough was the first to return, and :going up to the table, muttered audibly, "77 ;" then Lord. Houghton came in with 73, and the Duke,with great glee took the paper, the Chancellor with -equal glee an nounced that the bill had been thrown out. The non-contents cheered because it had been rejected, and the contents because the majority was so small. So every one seemed pleased, and all the peers scampered away just like so many blackbeetles when a lighted candle is suddenly taken into a kitchen.