The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-08 00:00:00

DEATHS FROM THE FLAMMABILITY
OF CLOTHING.

The public mind, so slow to be moved in all that
suggests the sacrifice of old habits, takes but lazily
to the idea of adopting any of the solutions recom-
mended for rendering ladies' light clothing non-
inflammable. Meantime a constant succession of
deaths occur due to this sole cause. The total num-
ber of persons who died in the United Kingdom
from burns and scalds during the year 1858 was
3,125. Of these no small proportion met their
deaths by their clothes catching Ire. Neither
number nor rank is wanting to emphasize the sad
calamities due to the habitual employment by ladies
of light and combustile attire. This last week adds
to the list of victims the Countess de St. Marsault,
one of the Princess Clotilde's ladies of honour, who
has just expired at Paris from the effect of burns
which she had received while endeavouring to save
another lady whose dress had caught fire at a ball.
Not even royalty has escaped these perils ; and the
severe burns some time since suffered by the
Princess Frederick William of Prussia, owing to
the ignition of her dress while she was in the act
of sealing a letter, led to the institution of
,the Wait and most successful inquiries into
the means of preventing the ignition of light
textile fabrics. These investigations were under-
taken at the express desire of the Queen ; and it is
stated by Messrs. Versmann and Oppenheim that
the solutions of tungstate of soda, and other salts
which they recommend, may be employed without
risk of injury to the texture or colours of the fabric.
Granted that there may be a tinge of partiality in
the opinions of these chemists, so valuable an im-
munity is cheaply purchased by the loss of a creamy
shade of whiteness, or the variation of a tint in the
, many-coloured gossamer robes of fashion. Let our
modern beauties shun the example as they would
the fate of the moth. Modern chemistry offers
them the means of decking their forms in bright
vestments which defy the flames that may in a
moment render those they now wear more fatal
than the robe of Dejanira. Steeped in these
chemic waters, their stuffs will crumble, but never
burn amidst the fiercest flames ; and decked in
L these plumes, rivaling the feathers of the phoenix,
beauty may frolic secure from fire.—Lancet.

DENMARK AND SWEDEN.—The Danish Govern-
ment have just had shipped at North Woolwich 28 miles of
strong submarine cable, 14 miles of which contain six con-
ducting wires, and 14 miles three conducting wires. These„
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cables are intended to be laid down partly betweetils.u'"
mark and Sweden, and partly between the Danish he
t con-
and the mainland. Messrs. W. T. Henley °-
wearubmarine
tractors, and Mr. Andrews, the engineer of lands
Telegraph Company, was appointed by thepta.bnish Govern-
accommodation
ment to supervise on their account. The aaaitional nub..
this county
ber of wires to Sweden will afford increased.
to the telegraphic business between y and
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Sweden and Norway.
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