The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-06 00:00:00

VIENNA, OCT. 31.—The Wiener Zeitung of this
date contains a list of the, persons who were yes-
terday appointed by the Emperor to be " Ober-
gespane" (Lords-Lieutenant) of the 39 counties
into which Hungary Proper is divided.* Several
of the Imperial nominees are persons of great note
in Austria as well as in the kingdom of Hungary,
but the names of others have rarely been heard on
this side of the Leitha (a small river which forms a
part of the frontier between the province of Lower
Austria and Hungary). The Cardinal-Primate of
Hungary and the Archbishop of Erlau are Ober-
gespane of the counties of Gran and Hevesoh " in
perpetuity " (perpetui supremi Comites). Prince
Paul Esterhazy, Count Leopold Nadasky (not
the ex-Minister of Justice), Baron von Re-
vay, and Count Ladislaus Czaky are the here-
ditary Obergespane of the Edenburg, Comorn,
Thurocz, and Zips counties. Count George Festetics
and M, von Eazinczy are to act as " administrators"
for Counts Fidel Palffy and Philip Battthyani (the
hereditary Obergespane of the Eisenburg and
Beregh counties), who are too advanced in years to
be able to attend to public business. Count Joseph
Pal ffy will " administrate" for Count Schonborn, the
hereditary Obergespan for the Presburg county, he
being a minor. Several of the new Obergespane are
very able men, but too many of them belong to the
" Old Conservative" or Government party, which
never enjoyed much popularity in Hungary. The
attributes of the Obergespan of an Hungarian
county are as follows :-1. He is a member of the
Upper House (31agnaten-Tafel), even if not a high
noble. 2. At the elections of the various county
employes he has the right to propose three persons, one
of whom must be chosen. 3. He is the President
of the General Congregation of the county. The
Hungarian counties have great privileges, as will
be seen by the subjoined summary of an article
which is contained in one of the Vienna papers :
" If the Stadthalterei-Rath (the head of the Stadt-
holderate at Buda) sends an order, (intimmtum) to
the county authorities, a general congregation is
convoked, and the injunction of the Government
officially taken into consideration. If found to lee
in accordance with the Hungarian law, it is at once
obeyed, but if not, it is respectfully set aside'
(mit Achtung beseitigt). If the Stadthalterei-Rath is
not satisfied with the decision of the general con-
gregation, he can appeal to the Court Chancellor,
who, if he approve what has been done by the
Buda official, orders the county authorities, 'in the
name of his Majesty,' to obey. As a matter of
course, the order of the Chancellor is taken into
consideration by the general congregation, and if
that assembly be of opinion that it is illegal,
it makes a humble representation' to the King.
If the Monarch thinks his Chancellor is right, he
issues a decree' on the subject. It has now and
then happened that one or other of the county con-
gregations has paid no attention to the Royal
decree, but in such cases the Government has in-
variably had recourse to forcible measures. The
Hungarian county authorities know two kinds of
Imperial commissaries. The one commissary en-
deavours to accommodate matters; the other
enters the county-hall, with his " Kalpag" on his
head and his sabre at his side, and then and I
there deposes or arrests the leading members of the I
Opposition. You may, perhaps, conclude that
after matters have gone such a length the county i
authorities are content to yield ; but such is not
always the case, for it has happened that they have
made known their griefs (gravamina) to the Diet..
The following anecdote will serve to show hew ♦ery
tenacious the Hungarians are of their rights and pri-
vileges. From 1811 to 1822 no Diet was held in
Hungary, and no new burdens were imposed en the
country. In 1822,t however, the Government re-
solved to raise recruits in Hungary without de•
mending and obtaining the consent of the Diet.
What happened ? The county authorities openly
refused to obey the orders of the Stadthalterei-
Rath, and of the Court Chancellor, and offered pas-
sive resistance to the decree of the King. Royal
commissaries made their appearance, a Vice-Gespan
was publicly arrested in one of the county-halls,
and cast, with many other patriotic men, into pri-
son. The soldiers required were at last raised, but
when the Diet met in 1825 the late Emperor Francis
thought fit to declare that what had happened had
greatly pained his paternal heart.'"

A German, who has just returned from Hungary,
says that everything is being turned " topsy-turvy"
in that country. Some of the Imperial institutions
have already been done away with, but their Hun-
garian substitutes have not yet been introduced, so
that great confusion prevails. The Chancellor has
issued orders that the Hungarian language shall be
employed in all the public offices; but for the moment
•the thing is impossible, as very many of Baron Bach's
proteges only know Bohemian and German. "The
more intelligent classes,", said my informant, "have
given a passably good reception to the Imperial
ordinances, because they feel that a great deal can
be made of them; but hardly one Hungarian in a
hundred considers them perfectly satisfactory.
The 'sandal' noblest and peasants are likely to
prove very difficult to manage, as they have been
taught by revolutionary agents to believe that
Hungary will not be responsible for any part of the
national debt if she is altogether separated from
Austria." M. George von Mailath, who was one
of the most eloquent of the Hungarian members of
the Reichsrath, has been appointed " Tavernicus,"
or Chief of the Finance Department of Hungary.
The office of " Judex Curie" has been left
vacant, as a hope is still entertained that M. von
Deak will allow , himself to be persuaded to ac-
cept it. Baron Sennyey, whose antecedents

* Formerly there were 49 counties and FIX " separate
districts" in the kingdom of Hungary, of which the Banat
and Servian Voivodina formed an integral part. There are
three counties in Croatia, and the same number in Slavonia.
teT, h,,efryoemartiheniwrhwiceahriAngusstrainadsalens,t an army to Naples.
seemea
The petty nobles in Hungary are called " boeskoro
As Protestant who was imprisoned for a time at
Caachau.

"My title to again introduce this topic to the notice of i
this association is simple and direct—that of having experi- 1
ence to communicate in regard to remedial measures under- '
taken against the evils which were deplored last year—ex-
periments limited, it is true, to one circle of people, and, in
the main, to one centre of action; yet none the less valu-
able, because they afford us certain definite lessons which a
less concentrated sphere might less clearly bestow.
" In November, 1859, the English Woman's Journal had
already been dealing with the various questions of woman's
industry for not quite two years. The Society for Promoting
the Employment of Women was as yet inchoate, but matur. •
ing its plans, and asking for affiliation to this association.
A reading-room for ladies, and a register for noting appli-
cations for the more intellectual and responsible depart-
ments of female labour, had just been broaght into exist-
ence. Such was the beginning of our present organisation
a year ago. Last winter every department received a great
accession of funds and of activity. The journal greatly in-
creased in circulation; the society was absorbed into one
created by and independent on this association, with a com-
mittee of 12 ladies and 12 gentlemen, which immediately
began to consider the formation of model industrial classes ;
the reading-room was removed to large and excellent pre -
mises in a central situation ; and, as a natural consequence
of these improvements, to which a wide publicity was given
by the press, the register was literally deluged with appli-
cants. It is not my province here to give an account of
these separate departments of exertion towards bettering
the condition of women. The report of the society will be
read in due time and place, and details regarding the suc-
cessful establishment of a law-copying business will be
given therein, the Victoria Press will tell its own story of
the introduction of women into the printing trade. That of
which I de sire to speak to you here is the action of the re-
gister, to which I alluded above, not so much of the little
it has been able to effect, as of the much it has taught us
regarding the real supply of educated labour in England.
" When first this register was opened it was merely in-
tended to act in a limited way among the ladies at that time
subscribing to the English Woman's Journal, who, in those
days of its infancy, numbered a few hundreds. Many of these
ladies were actively concerned in charity, and had founded,
or supported, or visited, industrial schools and small hospi•
tals, homes for invalids, and refuges of different kinds—
institutions, in fact, requiring female officers. We thought
that by opening a register which should act merely among
our subscribers we might occasionally find opportunities of
putting the right woman into the right place ; that Mrs. A.
might recommend an excellent matron or school teacher, and
Mrs. B. hear of her through our simple plan, combining an
entry in a register book and an advertisement in the journal
for the current month. If in this way we got two really good
and well-trained officials placed in a month, it would com-
pensate for the little extra trouble. Being thus, as it were,
a plan private to the circulation of the journal, it was net
otherwise advertised, nor was any publicity then sought for
it. But when the whole question started into life, the ad-
vertisements
put forth by the societyappear to have aroused
the attention of women in all parts of the country ; and as
the society and the journal now had contiguous offices in
the same house, no practical distinction could be made,
and the secretaries of either were literally deluged with
applications for employment. We had no sooner ex-
plained to the ladies who came on Thursday that the
formation by the society of model classes or businesses
for a select number did not imply an ability on our part
to find remunerative work for indiscriminate applicants,
than the same task had to be gone over again on
Friday. Indeed, I remember one Friday, in the month of
March, when 20 women applied at our counter for work
whereby they could gain a livelihood—all of them more or
less educated—all of them with some claim to the title of
lady.
"Although not professing personally to enter into these
applications, the replies to which devolved on the secretaries,
I was very constantly in the office of the journal when they
were made, and entered into conversation with the ladies ;
in many cases, indeed, they came with notes of introduction
to me or my co-editor, and I had to ask them what kind of
work they wanted, and, indeed, a more important question
—for what kind of work they were fitted. In this way we
may certainly lay claim to have heard more of women's
wants during the last year than any other people in the
kingdom ; and that just because the demands wore so in-
definite—the ladies did not want to be governesses, they
wanted to be something else, and we wore to advise thorn.
In this way I have conversed with ladies of ages and con-
ditions, with young girls of 17 finding it necessary to start
in life, with single women who found teaching unendurable
as life advanced, with married ladies whose husbands were
invalided or not forthcoming, with widows who had chil-
dren to support, with tradesmen's daughters, and with
people of condition fallen into low estate.
" To find them work through the journal register was a
sheer impossibility. Not only were they far more numerous
than one had ever contemplated, but they were of a diffe-
rent class. I had hoped to hear of and to supply a few well-
' trained picked women to places of trust among our sub-
scribers ; but here were literally hundreds of women,neither
wall-trained nor picked, outnumbering any deaaand by 99
per cent. The Victoria Press and the Law-Copying Class
got into work, and employed from 10 to 20 girls and women
each, but it stands to reason that more could not be draughted
into either establishment during the first year of its exist-
ence without ruining the enterprise; while some time must
be allowed to elapse before the idea involved in these model
experiments could be expected to be seized by the commer-
I cial public, and an entrance be effected by women into either
trade at large.
" Since, therefore, we possessed but small power to aid
numbers through the medium of our own organisation, it
remained to be seen whether we could form a link between
our register and, firstly, the semi-mechanical occupations to
which women have acquired, or might acquire, a title; and,
secondly, the benevolent institutions of the country ; so as
to supply workers to the one, and matron and female offi-
cials to the other.

" To this end we adopted an idea struck out by a fiend,
and printed long slips for distribution, containing, besides
the addresses of the Victoria Press and Law-Copying Class
(in case any vacancy might occur, or more hands be wanted)
the addresses of the two chief offices of the Electric Tele-
graph in London, in both of which women are largely
employed ; and also the address of the two chief institu-
tions for training and employing nurses; also of Mrs.
Lushington's cooking school, &c., intending to add to the
list whenever we heard of any new institutions which would
be regarded as centres of women's work. At the bottom of
this list we notified that we ourselves kept a limited re-
gister for really competent matrons, clerks, and secretaries.
" Now, in regard to what I have termed semi-mechanical
occupations, I will dismiss them with a few remarks, to
which I earnestly request your consideration. lam in this
paper considering theneeds of educated women—the women
who have been born and bred ladies ; it is a real distinction,
from which, even in America, the most earnest democrats
cannot escape, and which in England, however much the
strict edges of the line ofdemarcation between class and class
may be rubbing off, still exists in full force. Looking at it
from one point of view, we are sometimes tempted to regret
the false notions of gentility which prevent women working
bravely at whatever comes nearest to hand ; but, in con-
sidering a whole class at large, an honest observer must
feel that there is something noble—something beyond a
mere effort after ' gentility', in the struggle to
preserve the habits, the dress, and the countless moral
and material associations of the rank to which
they were born. A good and a refined education is
e. very valuable thing, and if educated women are to
work at all for money—and I see no escape for a certain
number being obliged in our country to do so—that educa-
tion ought to secure them something more than a mero
pittance.

"Now, the semi-mechanical occupation of the telegraph
—and I believe it will be found to be the same with all
s3mi-mechanical occupations—does not (except in the de-
partment of overseers) supply the needs of an educated
woman, unless she be quite alone in the world, having
neither parent nor child to support ; and even then the
wages hardly allow her to ' look like a lady,' much less to
live like one. Say that a woman in such a business earns
a pound, or possibly, though I imagine rarely, 30s. a week
—in the one case £5O, in the other £75 a year—such a
salary may keep a young, single, and perfectly unencum-
bered woman of the rank of a lady in food, and decent dress,
and lodging; but it does not constitute a sufficiency for an
older woman, for one who may have claims upon her, or
who feels she must begin to lay by for old age. I am quite
aware that there are daily governesses whe go out for less
than £5O a year ; their proportion is roughly estimated by
the matron of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution as
about one-third of the whole number of daily governesses.
But many of these are not what we mean by ladies ; they

we were five years ago.
"Now, why is this ? I can supply one part of the answer
from our own experience of the last year ; because the
-,vomen who from natural ability might be disposed and com-
petent to undertake such posts with advantage to them-
selves and others do not ask for them, have little idea of
the kind of work and little desire for it, and would probably
fail in doing it if they tried ; because they have had no
training.
" Although I have seen many highly educated and refined
women in want of employment during the last year, I have
not seen half a dozen who were competent, by their own
conviction, to take the responsibility of management on a
large scale ; the matronship of female emigrant ships, the
control of a wild troop of reformatory girls, the overseership
of female factory operatives, or the female wards of a work-
house.
"Now, Sisters of Charity abroad do all these things. The
popular notion of a Sister of Charity in England is, that she
is always nursing the sick, or searching on a field of battle
for wounded men with a vestige of life in them, or visiting
the poor at their own houses—poetical and somewhat sha-
dowy Evangelines, with baskets on their arms. But in
good truth these are but a small part of their multifarious
duties. They get through in separate divisions nearly all
the work performed (or unperformed) in our workhouses—
they take, feed, clothe, and teach orphan and destitute chil-
dren, and bring up the girls for service ; they take bodily
possesion of the old people and the cripples and tend them
in ether establishments—they distribute medicines and ma-
nage most of the casual relief funds of foreign cities. They
also—and let me particularly draw your attention to this
point—undertake the care of criminal and vagrant chil-
dren. I saw in the month of April last the great refor-
matory in the Rue de Vanguard, in Paris, where 100 girls
of the lowest class—the majority actually prisoners and
consigned there by Government—are under the care of
the sisters of Marie-Joseph. This establishment was
founded partly in consequence of the exertions of Madame
de Lamartine, and it was shown to me by Madame Leche-
valier, who actually holds the salaried post of Government
inspectress of the female prisons of France. Why have not
we also an inspectress for our female prisons? Madame
Lechevalier has often knocked up a prison at 11 o'clock at
night when she suspected anything wrong; and I saw
enough of her power of character, even during the few
hours I spent with her, to convince me that she was a
woman to hold a legion of female prisoners in awe.
" Sisters of Charity are also now in France trying to make
head against the evils of the factory system. I had not time
when in Lyons last year, to travel 40 miles by railway to
see M. Bonnart's factory. where they superintend the fe-
male workers ; but in the Revue des deux Mendes for last
February is to be found a very interesting account of three
establishments where the young girls are engaged in ma-
nufactures under the care of sisters—one at Jujurieux, for
taffetas ; another at Tatare, for plush ; and the third at La
Seauve, for ribands. Young girls on entering sign an en-
gagement for three years, and a month's trial is also re-
quired. Workwomen are also received, who enter into an
engagement for 18 months.
" But all these duties require something more for their
wise fulfilment than love and patience; they require energy,
foresight, prudence, economy, and the habit of working in
concert and subordination; and, accordingly, we find the
women who are to fulfil them subj-eted to a severe and me-
thodical training. The .4faison Mere of the Sisters of Cha-
rity of St. Vincent de Paul, in Rue do Bac at Paris, sends
out 500 trained women every year to all parts of the world.
" And we, if we wish to employ women successfully in
works of benevolence and social economy, must find some
way of training them for their duties, or we shall never
achieve our wished for results. Here and there we may
find one specially gifted, to whom order and activity come
by right divine; but if you take the few women who are
even now filling marked positions of public importance,
you will generally find they have received regular training
in some way. Every one knows the severity of Miss
Nightingale's preliminary studies, and the ordeal she passed
through in hospitals abroad. Miss Carpenter had concluded
a long and honoured career as a teacher before she devoted
herself to criminal children. Elizabeth Blackwell is hardly
a case in point, as her possession of a degree involved her
career as a student ; and (I believe) Miss Dix and Mrs. Fry
forced their way by unusual energy, graduated themselves,
so to speak; but all the institutions for nurses presupposed
preliminary training. Miss Dence, the mistress of one of
the best private asylums in England, was regularly educated
under the leading physician who had devoted himself to
ameliorating the condition of the insane ; and there are now
several establishments under the direct sanction of the
Church of England, in which ladies are conducting refuges
for their own sex, each undergoing a certain probationary
discipline.
" Thus we find in every department of benevolent exer-
tion the want of efficient machinery for teaching those who
are to help others. And this knowledge is necessarily of two
kinds—intellectual and practical. Books alone will not give
it, nor will books and oral instruction combined suffice
Not only must the mind of the worker be furnished with
all necessary knowledge, but the habits of the worker must
be trained in activity, prudence, and control. Such worker
can only be trained in the works they are eventually to per-
form, just as the swimmer can only be taught in water. In
religious communities this is effected by receiving beginners
into the life of community ; among us it can only be
effected by receiving female pupil teachers, as it were, into
all our institutions ; and this can only be done by the con-
sent and co-operation, in many cases of Government, in all
cases of the men who control all our institutions in England.
" The pressure may come from without;' it has come
from without, and it only needs to give it a right direction.
Moreover, almost all the best men who are working in
philanthropic reform say that they want female help to
carry out their purposes properly; but it will be of little
good to ourselves, or to them, or to the poor, the ignorant,
the sick, or the criminal objects of their solicitude, if it is
desultory and untrained. We must appeal to men to give
us the necessary opportunity of learning—in fact, to help
us to help them.
" On one mere subject I desire to suggest attention.
"In enumerating women who have achieved useful
careers Mrs. Chisholm must not be forgotten ; and in that
connexion she is doubly to be remembered. While endea-
vouring to relieve the strain of female necessities, we must
not forget that our colonies are eminently in want of women
of every rank, and that they are the natural destination of
the great surplus which exists in England. If it were pos •
Bible to plant those who are suffering and struggling at home
—with problems which at the best aro very hard for most
women to solve practically—in useful independence or
happy marriage over the broad fields of Australia and New
Zealand, who among us but would say that it was by far
the best solution of our difaculty ?

" But before educated women would emigrate in any num-
ber the way must be made safe and respectable. They
must find shelter and assistance on the other side of
the ocean ; a regular organisation must be created,
and competent female officials appointed to the emi-
grant ships in which they are to sail, and others be
ready to receive them on landing. We have tried this
year to induce several ladies to take advantage of the assisted
passages granted to Canterbury, in New Zealand, the only
place to which assisted passages are granted for educated
women; but we foUnd none willing to start, even of those
who would otherwise have liked to emigrate, because of th•
vague uncertainty which awaited them on the other side;
no committee to put them int* decent lodgings, end wild

It is to be regretted that the fire which broke out
in the extensive pianoforte manufactory belonging
to Messrs. T. Chappell and Co., of 18, Phcenix-
street, Soho, on Monday morning, as reported in
this journal of yesterday, has been attended with
more disastrous consequences than was at first anti-
cipated. Unfortunately the loss of property has
been greater than even the firemen at first believed,
and, to add to the misfortune, a loss of life has
already taken place, and some 18 or 20 other per-
sons have been more or less, and it is feared that
two or three have been fataly, injured. This
seems a most remarkable fact, for even the firemen
who were on duty at the time knew nothing, until
hours after the fire was extinguished, of the melan-
choly accident.
In order to render the account intelligible, it is
necessary to show how the fearful occurrence took
place. Messrs. Chappell, who are well known as
music publishers to the Queen, &c., had warerooms
at 49 and 50, New Bond-street, and 13, George-
street, Hanover-square. The building in Phoenix-
street belonged to the same firm, but the manufac-
turing portion of the works belonged to Mr. Smith,
and as fast as he could finish the instruments they
were taken by Messrs. Chappell and Co., and were
sold to the public by that firm. The factory was
five floors, or four storeys high, was formed of 14-
inch brickwork ; it was 44 feet long at one side,
but being on the skew it was only 35 feet towards
the end. Mr. Smith, well knowing the danger that
invariably existed where open fires were used for
heating the glue or drying the veneers, had each
floor fitted up with iron pipes about six or seven
inches in circumference. In order to afford a still
greater protection to the building, he had a small
circular tube inserted through the larger range of
piping, so as to avoid the danger of the outer piping
becoming so heated as to set fire to the timbers in
proximity with the steam apparatus. As a double se-
curity these pipes were held by iron stays to keep
the pipes from either touching the flooring or ceil-
ings. For years these precautionary measures had
worked most admirably, and what was considered
a still greater prevention against the outbreak of
fire, each chimney was supplied with hot steam
pipes for the purpose of heating the kettles of glue
used in the business. Although these precautionary
measures proved all that were expected of them in
protecting the premises from the ravages of the
flames, yet when the fire commenced and had ob-
tained a strong hold the apparatus proved to be of
a most deadly character, and it seems a perfect
miracle that the loss of life had not been far greater
than it has unfortunately been. As might be ex-
pected when the fire was at its height rising so high
into the air as it did, would naturally cause an im-
mense multitude of persons to assemble near the
scene of conflagration, which unfortunately proved
to be the case, and those who could not stand in
the open thoroughfares took shelter in the various
courts and by-streets near the place. One of those
narrow alleys called Lloyd's-court, running at the
back of the factory, where a good view of the raging
of the flames could be seen, was densely crowded
with human beings, including men, women. and
children, some of very tender age, while each house
in the court had its windows filled with the occu-
piers of the several houses—being something like
35 or 40 feet from the burning property ; many
very naturally supposed that even if the walls
should topple they would be out of the way of dan-
ger; but judge of the consternation of the occu-
pants of the court, when all of a sudden, whilst
eight or nine engines were in full play, and the
men who were hired to work the engines were sing-
ing some lively airs, suck as " Up she rises early in
the morning," and cries were reverberating from
the labourers of " Beer, oh ! beer, oh !" which nearly
drowned the voices of the officers of the brigade, an
explosion of a terrible character took place, which
may be thus briefly described :
At No. 5, Lloyd's-court lived several families,
and out of the number two females, named Ann
Crow and Bridget Regan, were standing look-
ing out of the centre window of the centre
floor, watching the progress of the flames.
This window, it should be stated, consisted of
three compartments, and well it was that each place
was not filled with occupants, for it is impossible to
tell what might have been the extent of life lost.
All of a sudden the persons in court heard a
kind of rumbling noise, and in an instant after-
wards a fearful explosion took place, when a piece
of the steam-piping, weighing about 56 lbs., was
projected horizontally from the factory ; the pon-
derous piece of machinery, after knocking away a
portion of the arch of the side window broke off
and stripped about 2-4- feet of the iron work below
into the court, whilst the remainder entered the
window, tore away a portion of the ceiling, perfo-
rated the partition, and fell upon a bed in which a
man was asleep, and actually fired the sheets of the
bed. The heated piping was pulled off the man,
and he was rescued, much injured, but not fatally.
The other portion of the iron piping, as before
stated, fell into the court amongst several scores of
persons. Lie first person it struck was a woman
named Pitt, whose husband worked in an adjoining
shop, and hearing of the fire, they hastened to see
whether their own work was endangered, but find-
ing such was not the case, they remained watching
the spread of the flames. With such force was she
struck that she was prostrated, and upon .being
picked up by her husband was found, in his
ou opinion,
conveyance,
to be mortally injured. He got her _
crowd the best way he could, had her placed in a
her to the
thrihnitohne
conveyance, but whilst accompanying
hospital his worst fears were verified, as she
died in
odn children
likea
his presence before reaching the institution. The
force of the explosion was E Q strong that pieces of
r
the piping were projectedienalo women,
, cat
shower of grape shot, and ran, w
were struck down in the court where the explosion
seemed to have spent itself. A boy named Matthews
had his head cut open, and was conveyed to King's
College Hospital with the
_ blood running
from the
wounds down his face. He was attended to by the
officers of that institution, but was allowed to leave
for his home last -night, consequently nothing fatal
in his case need be apprehended. A woman named
Marynd
oysters about the
neighbourhood, had both her shoulders
been confined three days, was obliged
thha Sdi1lioulders laid open,
sister of the unfortunate lad, Matthews,
who used to sell
only
who
hhoeursienofafnta innetihgehbcoouldr..
The be
ye pwuel
rl ee d out
removed bedt withthe
Some 18 or 20 other.persons were also struck down
and more or less injured some returned to their
own houses, having cut
_heads, and others serious,
but it is understood not fatal, injuries.
Mr. Crumber, the surveyor to the Phennix Fire-
of&e, visited the
ruins yesterday, and along with
Mr. Fogo, the chief officer of the fire brigade of the
B division, and
quiry as to the cause
manager of the worksbif"
engineer Flynn, made a strict in-
all the fires in
and properly ex_thethedisastrous event.officers
that,
furnacesus h e draked out,was
closed at six o'
b before beenth e factory
clock on Saturday night. There were
40 gas. b,
Irners on the premises, but he believed the
gas was turnedoff
from them. This is unques-
tionably the fact, as not the least appearance of the
smell of gas could be detected by the firemen during
the raging of the fire. The explosion, Ais believed,
was caused in this manner :—The fires in the fur-
naces haying been extingniahed, the Amu in the