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GERMAIG

Thomas Jamieson Dymes
Martin H. Irving
Charles Henry Hopwood
George Winter Price
Samuel Harman
George Maddox
GEOMETRICAL. DRAWING.
Selwyn New
Emanuel Allen
Charles Woodman Eastwood
George Arthur Edward Tur-
nour
Charles Ross

LANDSCAPI DRAWING.
Thomas Jamieson Dymes
William Henry Leigh Green
John Hossack.

BORNEO.—The steamer, which left Singapore in May,
brought intelligence of the treacherous murder of the Raja
Buda Hassim, and the noble-minded Panjeran Budrudeen,
the warm friends of Mr. Brooke and the English, at the ex-
press command of the Sultan of Borneo Proper. Mr. Brooke
forwarded a statement of these atrocities to Colonel Butter-
worth, C. 8., the Governor of the Singapore States, with a
request for immediate assistance, which was promptly
granted, and the Honourable Company's steamer Phlegethon,
under the command of Captain Ross, left Singapore, and
arrived at the British settlement of Sarawak on the 28th of
April. Mr. Brooke having embarked on board the steamer,
she sailed and visited six large rivers along the north-west
coast, up some of which she penetrated for sixty miles, find-
ing them broad and deep. This demonstration had the most
beneficial effect all along the coast, and if followed up by
further protection from the British Government to our
thriving settlement at Sarawak, will soon put an end to the
horrid piracy too frequent in these waters. At all the places
they visited, the chiefs, in their large war boats, appeared to
pay their respects to Mr. Brooke.
CHATHAM, JULY 24.—The Trident steam-packet,
Lieutenant Rigge commander, was put out of dock on the
21st instant, and taken alongside the sheer-hulk, when her
masts were taken out, and shorter •nes put in, and she was
retaken into dock the same day. Every exertion is used by
the artificers to complete her for sea by the time specified.
The Bulldog steam-sloop, commander G. E. Davis.—The
workmen are progressing with this vessel very fast, and she
will be ready for sea in the middle of next month. The Co-
lumbine, 16 guns, Commander Booth, is nearly competed.
She has her full complement of men on board, and will be
ready for sea next week. The Gazelle arrived on the 22d
instant, with a cargo of timber from Leghorn, for the service
of the dockyard. Mr. John Dulrig, leading man of ship-
wrights,is appointed acting inspector at this yard, vice Hogg,
appointed acting foreman.
OPENING OP THE NEW CUT RAGGED SCHOOL.—
' Friday evening a public meeting, for the purpose of opening
the ragged school established for the New Cut district, was
held in the school-room, Grove-lane, nearly facing the Vic-
toria Theatre. The Honourable Arthur Kinnaird was called
upon to preside. The Honourable Chairman, in opening the
proceedings, said that it gave him great pleasure to take the
chair upon so interesting an occasion. The work they were
engaged in was one of the greatest importance, inasmuch as
it made provision for the wants of that hitherto neglected and
he might say almost despised class—the children of the
poorest of the poor in the district.—(Hear.) The Honour-
able Gentleman proceeded at considerable length to urge
upon the attention of the meeting the necessity for establish-
ing and supporting the school. The premises, which have
now undergone considerable repairs and alterations, were re-
cently occupied as a penny theatre. Mr. Austin said that
for the present they intended to commence with opening the
school on a Sunday evening for the instruction of youths.
As soon as they had got more help the place would be opened
wo or three times a week on working nights. The Rev.
Dr. Alliott, the Rev. J. Branch, W. D. Owen, Esq., and
other gentlemen having spoken in support of the charity, a
series of resolutions were carried, including one of
thanks to the Honourable Chairman, and the meeting se-
parated.
CONSOLIDATED MINES OF COBRE ASSOCIATION.—
On Friday the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors
of this company was Theld at the offices in Austin-friars,
Russell Ellice, Esq., in the chair. From the report it ap•
peared that the quantity of ore raised during the year
amounted to 17,468 tons, which sold for 193,4171. 7s. 11d.,
leaving a profit to the company of 10,3251. 3s. 9d. This
amount, with the balance brought forward from last year,
made the sum of 14,7311. 13s. 2d., out of which sum a divi-
dend was paid to the proprietors in February last, leaving
only 2,731/. 13s. 2d. to the credit of the account. With re-
spect to the workings of the mines for the present year, the
quantity of ore raised to the Ist of June was 7,254 tons, but
it having been found necessary to send out a large steam-en-
gine, this, with some other unavoidable expenses, had deprived
the directors of the mines of paying a dividend. It was stated
that an experiment was going on at Swansea for smelting the
dust ores, which would be, if successful, an immense saving
to the company. The report having been adopted, a vote of
thanks was passed to the directors and the officers abroad,
when the meeting adjourned.

BRIDPORT ELECTION PETITION.
The following is the report issued by order of the
Home of Commons, from the Select Committee to whom
the petition of William Rockett was referred, and who
were appointed to inquire into all the circumstances
under which Joseph Welsh gave evidence before the
Select Committee on the Bridport election petition, that
William Rockett voted for Mr. Romilly :
Your Committee are satisfied that William Rockett,
the transfer of whose rote by the Bridport Election
Committee, on the evidence of Joseph Welsh, from Mr.
Cochrane's to Mr. Romilly's poll, was the means of seat-
ing Mr. Romilly, voted at the last Bridport election for
Mr. Cochrane, and that there is no ground for supposing
that he voted for Mr. Romilly.
It appears that Rockett went twice to the polling-booth
to vote; that at the time of his first going there was a
great crowd and noise in the booth; that Rockett, who
is sixty-four years of age, and afflicted with asthma, was,
from exhaustion and confusion, almost unable to speak
when he had got through the crowd to the poll-clerk,
and that, having gone away on this occasion without
giving his name and address, which were, however,
known to the pc 11-clerk, ho was considered not to have
completed his vote; and that he afterwards returned and
duly voted for Mr. Cochrane. On the first occasion
Welch, the witness, who appeared before the Bridport
Election Committee, and other respectable and intelli-
gent witnesses, who have been examined by your Com-
mittee, declared that they heard Rockett say Romilly,"
after he had got within the bar of the polling-booth for
the purpose of voting. The poll-clerk and the two
check-clerks (one of whom of course acted in Mr.
Romilly's interest) agree in stating that Rockett did not
say " Hominy," while tendering his vote, either on the
first or the second occasion; and the poll-clerk further
confirms Rockett's own statement, that the first time he
came, though he did not give his own name and address,
he said several times he wjed for Mr. Cochrane. Under
these circumstances, the Committee cannot doubt that
Rockett's vote was eiven for Mr. Cochrane; but they
see no reason to impute falsehood to the witness Welch.
Rockett, in his confusion, may have said " Romilly"
without knowing it, after he got within the bar, the
first time of his going up to vote, and this might
have been heard by persons standing out-
side the bar, though not heard by the poll-
clerk and the check-clerks ; or, in the noise and confu-
sion, which all the witnesses agree in saying prevailed
at the time in the booth, a cry of " Romilly may have
been mistakenly supposed to come from Rockett.
Under these circumstances, the question naturally
arises, how is it that the evidence by which Welch's
statement could have been contradicted was not brought
before the committee ? The following extracts from
Mr. Coppock's evidence will show that an arrangement
was made between the parties, in the committee room,
that Rockett's vote should be transferred from Mr. Coch-
rane's to Mr. Ronsilly's poll without opposition from Mr.
Cochrane.
Can you give us any information, and if you can,
have you any objection to give it, which may show the
Committee how it was that evidence which might have
been produced on the other side to rebut Welch's evi-
dence, was not brought before that committee. Before
you answer that question, the Committee wish you to
know, that not only they will not require you, but they
do not want you to tell them anything that you may
have learned from the agent on the other side confi-
dentially ?—I can.
Will you do so ?—Yes • it was by agreement that
this rote of William Rockett was brought before the
Committee.
By agreement with whom ?—By agreement between
counsel.
now do you know that ? I was present and heard it.
You heard that agreement made ?—I was asked
whether it should be made before it was made.
Who asked you that ?—My own counsel.
What did they ask you ?—I was asked whether I
could take the seat easily ; whether I could transfer the
majority of one without much trouble, and without in-
volving anything more than the mere question of the
vote, and I said I could ; and I had that vote of Rockett,
and by agreement that vote was taken off one poll, and
put on the other.
Is that all that you were asked by your counsel ; are
those the exact words in which the question was put to
you by him ?—I cannot say that they are the exact
words, but that is the exact import, as far as I can state.
Ycu say, " Without much trouble ?"—Whether I
could do it without involving any other question than
the question of the vote.
Was any further explanation given by counsel of
those words which you refer to, " without raising any
other question than the question of the vote ;" was any
further explanation given of that 7—There was ; I per-
fectly understood what was meant.
You must not tell us what you understood, unless you
can tell us what was said to you.—lt was arranged that
Mr. Cochrane should give up the seat, and I was then
asked that question, that Mr. Romilly should take it.
I had those witnesses at hand, and as that opened no
question but the mere question of a vote, that was the
vote that was agreed to be taken.
Mr. Cripps—Was Rockett's the first vote that yen
meant to go into ? No, possibly the last.
Chairman—What cases did you intend to take first ?
I meant to take the case of a voter who had been dis-
qualified by receiving 10/. not to vote, and on a subse-
quent part of the day had received 101. to vote. I
meant to have called that identical man before the Com-
mittee.
Will you explain to the Committee what you mean by
the words, "Cases involving no other qaestion than the
question of the vote ?"—Cases that would raise no point
at all, but the mere question of the propriety of its
being recorded ; the question of the vote itself.
Will you explain to the committee what you mean by
" Cases that could raise other questions ?" A common
scrutiny only involves the one simple question of the
right to vote ; a bribery scrutiny would involve many
other circumstances besides the right to vote.
Do you mean that those were cases that Would not
involve a bribery scrutiny ?—Certainly.
The following is the evidence of Mr. Templer, the
agent for Mr. Cochrane, on the same subject :
Can you give us any information which may show the
Committee how it is that evidence, which might have
rebutted Welch's, was not brought before that Com-
mittee ?—Yes, I can give this reason for it ; we were
not in a situation to have rebutted the evidence, for we
were not aware that Rockett's vote would be called in
question ; they furnished us with a certain list, and we
came here under the impression in the morning that
they would have opened their bribery cases, and would
have gone into the general allegations of the petition. It
was Mr. Cochrane s firm determination, at a consulta-
tion, that he would not go into a scrutiny, and the con-
sequence was what has occurred. I remember Mr. Cock-
burn opening the case of a scrutiny, and Mr. Austin in-
terrupting him, and saying that he would not be dragged,
at that period of the Parliament, into a scrutiny, and if
that was the course which his Learned Friend intended
to pursue, he would advise his client not to proceed
further with the inquiry.
That was said by Mr. Austin openly ?—Yes.
Did you hear any private conversation between Mr.
Austin and Mr. Cockburn ?—No, I did not; none what-
ever. The first intimation that I had of Rockett's
vote being put up, was by Mr. Sergeat Kinglake, in the
Committee-room. Mr. Sergeant Kiaglake, told the
Chairman that there was a vote which had been impro-
perly recorded for Mr. Cochrane, the sitting Member,
which vote, if properly recorded, would have given the
petitioner a majority ; and that, by transferring that
vote from the poll of Mr. Cochrane to the poll of Mr.
Romilly, that would leave the majority in Mr. Romilly's
favour ; and that, as it was not the intention of Mr.
Austin, on the part of the sitting Member, to go into a
scrutiny,"that would determine the matter on the part of
the sitting Member.
Was any application made to the Committee for time
to be allowed to bring up evidence to rebut Welch's
statement ?—Not in the least. I should not have inter-
fered if half the votes had been struck off. I considered
that when Mr. Cochrane determined not to open the re-
gister, or to go into a scrutiny, I was hors de combat ;
that my professional labours were at an end. This was
on the Saturday, and we could not, if we had wished it,
have got up evidence until the early part of the week,
which would also have led us into great expenses, which
Mr. Cochrane dreaded.
Lord A. HERVEY—You stated that you were agent
for Mr. Cochrane, and that your client was determined
not to enter into a scrutiny f—Precisely ; it was Mr.
Cochrane's firm determination not to do so ; and I con•
sidered my professional duty at an end when that deter-
mination was come to.
When you stated that you understood that the other
side meant to go into the question of bribery, did you
mean a scrutiny of bribery votes ?—From the allega-
tion of the petition, it was my opinion that it was en-
tirely a bribery question ; a generally case of bribery
and not of scrutiny upon the registry at all ; and so I
advised Mr. Cochrane. I thought it was so, and I was
in ignorance upon that subject until a very late consul-
tation ; within two or three days I thought that the po-
tion would have been entirely confined to that point,
from the language of the petition.
If it had been confined to bribery, should you have
defended the seat 7—Certainly.
Chairman—l thought you said that six days before
the Committee met, you had seen a list of the objec-
tions?—Yes, I had.
Did not the list show you that it was likely to be a
scrutiny case as well ?—Yes ; but it does not follow that,
because they reserve to themselves the power, they will
use it. Indeed, I thought that the language of the peti-
tion had precluded them ; and I went to a consultation,
I think, only two days, a day or two days, before the
meeting of the Committee, for the express purpose of
taking Mr. Austin's and Mr. Sergeant Murphy's opinion
on that point. I thought that they would have been
precluded, and I said I thought the fight would take
place upon the bribery ; but Mr. Austin was strongly
of opinion that the prayer alone of the petition would
enable them to go into the scrutiny.
Your Committee have felt themselves precluded by
the decision of the House, which negatived that part of
the original motion which suggested inquiry, "whether
any compromise or arrangement was entered in'o by the
parties to the petition, their counsel or agents, to pre-
vent the disclosure of bribery and treating; and also
whether, and to what extent, bribery and treating were
practised at the last election for the borough of Brid-
port," from pursuing any further examination into the
circumstances of the arrangement spoken of by Mr.
Coppock and Mr. Templer. It is clear that the effect
was to prevent the extensive allegations of bribery in
this case from being gone into; and your Committee
cannot help expressing their very great regret that these
allegations have not been thoroughly investigated.
Your Committee think it right to direct attention to
the practice, adopted in this case, of altering a vote by
arrangement between the contending parties without the
knowledge of the voter, and without full investigation.
Mr. Coppock's evidence shows that votes have often been
extensively struck off a poll by similar arrangements.
In this instance, Rockett's vote was transferred from one
poll to another. Your Committee venture to suggest

that it would be expedient, in order to meet such cases?
to make legislative provision, requiring notices of sac-
objections to votes to be served on the voters themselves• ' s

LITERATURE.
THE WORKS OF WALTER SAVAGE
LAIVDOR. 2 Vas.

Without enjoying one tittle of their immediate popu-
larly, the writings of Walter Savage Landor will sur-
vive those of many hundreds of his contemporary
authors. Convinced of this fact, and regarding hina as
one of our old familiar favourites, it is with an unusual
feeling of satisfaction that we observe the productions
of this extraordinary man collected together in such a
goodly shape, and of such substantial dimensions. The
intellect of Landor is altogether without a parallel; it
is a combination of subtleties and solidities; it is at
once peculiarly imaginative and peculiarly matter-of-
fact. From the circumstance, however, of his never
struggling to propitiate the multitude, either in so
flavouring his compositions as to consort with their
palere, or in modifying his own particular views upon
the bias of their opinions, he never has obtained, and
poeeibly never will obtain, any remarkable degree of
popularity. Landor has net gone out of his way one
jot to seek the sympathies of others; he has nut followed
the common track; he ha. proceeded along his own
peculiar pathway apparently indifferent to, or careless of.
any enthusiastic approbation. Those who hare sympathised
with him have gone expressly out of their ordinary course
for the purpose of doing so. Nevertheless, in despite of
this enormous disadvantage, the writings of Mr. Landor
have gained him many earnest admirers. The produc-
tions with which his name has become peculiarly asso-
ciated, and which are in truth among the most remark-
able literary performances of this half century, are the
Inviginary Conversations. In these he has adventured
much; their very conception was an audacity, but they
have proved to an eminent degree successful. They dis-
play in the writer a very extraordinary appreciation of
character, a keen perception, and an astute identifica-
tion of the idiosyncrasies of the most remarkable
personages mentioned in history. And though occa-
sionally the masquerade costume slips off the shoulder,
N eating Landor under the cowl of Fra Fillippo, or the
surcoat of Henry VIII., or the toga of Lucian, or the
(I.•tiblet of Cromwell, the illusion is on the average coin
plete, and the simple gentleman of the nineteenth cen-
tury is forgotten in the heroes and heroines of antiquity.
Occasionally, we have said, the deception is overlooked.
and the author speaks instead of the character he is en-
deavouring to delineate ; and hence it is, possibly, that
we conceive those Conversations to be the most brilliant
and unflavoured in which Mr. Landor himself takes an
avowed part. Ile is then no longer .cramped by the
consciousness that he is merely " acting" ; the. ima-
gination is unfettered by conventionalities; then,' indeed,
he will talk—" Ye. Gods I how he will talk!" As these
effusions are already tolerably familiar to most people, from
their periodical appearance in Blackwood's Magazine and
elsewhere, it would be superfluous to particularise all
those excellencies with which they are so unquestionably
and so acknowledgedly exuberant. If they have one
characteristic more strongly developed than another it is
wit—real, genuine, golden wit. From them we could
cull a superb volume of epigrammatic sentences, witty
sayings, novel and startling truths, clothed in the dain-
tiest diction, and perfect jewels of poetical thought and
fanciful illustration. Here is one, taken literally hap-
, hazzard : it is a definition of the eloquence of Plato—
' vide vol. ii p. 25—" Certainly there was never so much
eloquence with so little animation. When he has heated
his oven he forgets to put the bread into it ; instead of
which he throws in another bundle of faggots.
His words and sentences are often too large
for the place they occupy. If a water-mellon
is not to be placed in an oyster-shell, neither
is a grain of millet in a golden salver. At high festi-
vats a full band may enter : ordinary conversation goes
en better without it ' In writing after the fashion he has
herein adopted, Landor reminds us of one of those great
men he makes Michael-Angelo Buonarroti describe as
" coming spontaneously forward, and moving with the
multitude from the front, stilling the voice of the cryer,
and scattering the plumes of the imposter." The in-
tellect of our author retains, however, one grievous and
monstrous blemish—one that obtrudes its obnoxious
presence even in his choicest passages, jarring in
amongst the music of his tongue, and poisoning the
most gorgeous flowers of his fancy. That blemish is
prejudice. There are personages, circumstances, prin.
ciples, and occurrences which Landor cannot behold
except through a curtain of prejudice ; his view of
them is blurred, and smutehed, and clouded by
partiality. He thinks strongly and independently, in
some instances clearly, but in others he won't listen to
arything but the dictates of his blind preconceptions.
I:tery nook mid crevice and inlet of his mind are at
these moments ettiffed up against the pleadings of reason
and ciimmon sense. In Lord Brougham he altogether
denies the existence of genius, likening him to a bag-
pipe " followed by vile animals in fantastical dresses and
antic gestures, and surrounded by the clamorous and
di,,,ord, rlv :" In Napoleon he sees only " what you
,vould ridicule in a gipsy on the road-side," and figura-
tively considers that he " was pushed into a menagerie
of monkeys, and fainted at their grimaces!" What on
earth does Mr. Landor mean by those senseless anti-
thesis, where he says that in Napoleon's latter
years of power "he fought without aim, vans
quish ed without glory, and perished without
defeat ?" What on earth is their meaning
He
.fought without aim ;" was the pi enervation
greatest empire man ever crested nothing to 'Alm for ?
ass the annihilation of legitimacy nothing to aim for ?
v. as the destruction of those foreign armies who were
ftuggling to fisree a king on the French people against.
their will nothing to aim for ?' " He was vanquished
without glory" ; were Lutzen, Bautzen, Champ-Aubert,
Montmirail. Chattcuu-Thit rry, Vauchatups, and Ligny
inglorious ? was the triumphal passage from Elba to the
Teileries inglorious ? was the Champ de Mai, where ho
virtually proclaimed himself arepublican emperor, in-
glorious ? "He perished without defeat”—that, at least,
le true ; we grant that, but with a different inference
from that intended. Such are the stolid and wilful pre-
judices of Walter Savage Lander ; but, even
thus tarnished, his Imaginary Conversations will.
live ; they are animated with an abundance of senti-
ments, sarcasm, drollery, reflectiveness, wisdom, and
(as we have said before) wit. Besides all this
they have the nerve of originality. Amongst
his other compositions, the " Citation and Examination
of William Shakspere" is the most ingenious and the
most venturesome. In the characters of Sir Thomas
Lucy and Sir Silas Gough, before whom young 'Willy
is examined for deer-stealing, we recognise the pre-
figuring of Justice Shallow and Sir Hugh Evans, The
scene is pourtrayed with admirable finesse, and the
shrewd, pert, adroit, and sarcastic retorts of Shakspere
are scarcely unworthy of having really proceeded from
his lips on that occasion. " The Pentarneron," again,
is a marvellous performance : it is the communion of such
souls as those of Boccaccio and Petrareh. There is an
idealism and an indistinctness about the tone of their
converse which imparts to the whole an elevation and a
pathos wholly indefinable, but no less manifest to the
reader. In the " Pericles and Aspasia" on the contrary,
there is a blithesomeness and a bloom which is utterly
irresistible ; it is a combination of the beautiful and the
pure, and yet without any diminution of human interest.
It revives to us the days of classic Greece, when Alci-
biades was a boy, when the death of Clytenmestra was
shuddered at in the amphitheatres, when those bascivious
old dieties of Olympus were believed in and worshipped,
and when Cleone bent over her tablets of wax to trace a
letter to Aspasia. As a poet we do not, under correc-
tion, conceive that Walter Savage Landor will stand
upon any very exalted pedestal. Yet are the
Hellettics of exquisite music, and the Gebi of
most choice and beautiful conception. We might also,
if such were our object, collate many delicious frag-
ments of verse from the " Acts and Scenes" which are
grouped together towards the conclusion of the second
volume. But there is no one poem which can be classed
with the masterpieces in our language, and hence we
consider Lander as destined to obtain no very extra-
ordinary fame as a bard. Here is a charming conceit,
worthy of Herrick:-
4' Often have I heard it said
That her lips were ruby-red.
Little heed I what they say,
I have seen as red as they.
Ere she smiled on other men,
Real rubies were they then.
" When she kist me once in play,
Rubies were less bright than they,
And less bright were those which shone
In the palace of the sun.
Will they be as bright again
Not if kist by other men!
'Throughout his writings, Lander ktetrays little affeeta-
;ions, such as the peculiar spelling of sovranty, and the
• splitting asunder of the word can not ; but such trivial
eccentricities we are almost 'inclined to welcome in the
shape, as it were, of authentications. His verses to
Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Barry Cornwall,
• Macaulay, and John Forster, indicate his readiness, to
lavish generous applause upon contemporary bookmea—
, no mean sign that his heart is pure and sound. These+
two volumes by Walter Savage Landor are infinitely
above the ordinary stamp ; they will live in the libraries,
end be read by the students of posterity.
I

A HISTORY OF INVENTIONS, DISCOVE-
RIES, AND ORIGINS. By John Beckmann,
Professor of Economy in the University qf Gottingen.
This, the first volume of a reprint of Johnston's trans-
lation of Becknaann'a celebrated work " the History of
Inventions," a work which may be classed as a nom-
pound of learned research and light reading, suitable
both to the popular reader and the scholar, forms one of
the numbers of Bohn's Standard Library a series in every-
way worthy of its title. The revision of this edition has
been confided to the care of Drs. Francis and Griffith,
who, by the alteration of names, characters, descriptions,
and opinions which have become obsolete, or have beets
discovered to be erroneous, and by numerous additions
where such were required, have rendered the work coal-
pletely au niveuu des connaissances aduelles.

HANOVER, JULY 17.—Ilis Majesty has been sufferitrg
for about a week from indisposition, which a report that:.,„,
would willingly believe to be unauthenticated, repreSOUtak as
having taken a more serious character since yesterdP:y, fix_
counts of the 18th are more favourable.
•
ALARM OF FIRE IN A Snow.—On
Mon day evening,
s
between five and six o'clock, whilst the crow a at and adjacent
-
-,
to the scene of the fair was at its f.,:reate A densit
a cry was
raised of " Calvert's show on fire ! "file alarm, y
a it speed
through the crowd, and along tb'e Salt-market, where the
concourse was so great that the r,eople seemed almost wed
Ed
together, created an immense hubbub, and thousands floc d
to the scene of the supposed disaster, the confusion being' at
the same time vastly increased~ythe city and West of Eitig-
land engines dashing throw-;ti the mass towards theshoii. in
question. Fortunately *i:ne occurrence proved of less goe,se-
quence than wasSP:pPosed. It seems that an escape of gas
had taken place in the course of the performance,ettrAfte.ruze,
of which btu communicated with a portion of titre Lit
cei;
which w'd believe was damaged to some extent •
_brretstting .the
people by their own efforts find snueeredWV see Y 0404 ted
progress of the flames, and all 2GtagoeapqPer•
without the aid of the engines.