From letters received from corres pondents we learn that exception is taken to a statement in our description of the Honan Road fire, in which it was indicated that the various units of the Fire Brigade did.not arrive simultaneously at the scene of the fi connexion with the known celerity of ov Firemen may have the same mean ior asthe few minutes" which one writer refers. Certain that the paragraph in question nother correspondent avers, fan aspersion on the efficiency of the whole brigade," or any part of it, and we feel sure that the several units would not wish to start a controversy over such a trifling matter as whether this or that reel was the third or fourth to arrive on the scene of one particular fire, especially when the alarm wat conspicuously slow in being given,
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