Sir Henry Irving, by the way, suffered a serious loss last night in the destraction by fire of enormous quantities of scenery and properties which he had stored in two railway arches in Southwark. The London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company runs strain between three and four in the moraing with the special object of carrying Fleet-street journalists and printers home after putting their various newspapers to bed, and this morning the train had to run between two fires, issuing one from each side of Sir Henry's store-house in the railway arches, Fortunately all the scenery required in the plays announced for early reproduction is already at the Lyceum, so the loss will not seriously interfere with Sir Henry's arrangements,
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