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small hogsheads, several fag.gots, &c., were consumed. Atthe time of opening the safethe most intense anxiety pre-vailed ; the company, includinga great number of ladies fromthe town and neighbourhood,being very great. Every ac-commodation was afforded togive all parties a fair opportu-nity of seeing, a ring beingroped round for the occasion.Exactly at a quarter to five,the Mayor, with the gentlemensuperintending, entered the ring,

stated 1 Cto-iron beginsto melt at 17977° Fahr.,lead melts at 594°, andzinc at 700°. Instead ofthese, in order to provethe temperature of theinterior during the fire,such articles should haveheen enclosed, as melt ata lower temperature than212°. No parchment isnamed as having been inthis safe.

and the safe was opened. On

presenting its contents, the greatest delight and satisfactionwere evinced ; each watch was correct to the time, being com-pared with the dial at the Old Foundry — no variation hadtaken place ; every manuscript* book, paper, &e., was quite as :perfect as when placed therein ;

The half-note duringthe operation appears tohave grown into a wholeone—all risk of its lossnow being at an end.

the £100 note was delivered tothe Mayor, who exhibited itround, with all the other depo-sits, to the great assemblage,who at once expressed theirentire satisfaction at the resultof the experiments, and pro-ceeded to sign testimonials recording the same. We beforebriefly alluded to the common iron safe, which was also exhi-bited at the same time with the two patent safes from Milners’,and certainly presented a powerful contrast, the papers all beingburnt to a calcined ash. A slight discoloration appeared onthe corners of one or two papers taken from the No. 1 Safe,which Mr. Wendon teas glad to see, as it gave him an opportunity