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But the best proof of the great safety of the new lights is, that notwithstanding upwards of fifty-one thousand gas-lamps burn nightly in London, we have not heard of a single accident occasioned by them, though the lamps and burners are generally carelessly managed, while we have too often occasion to lament the effects arising from sparks of candles, or carelessness in snuffing them.

Hence the fire-insurance-offices engage to insure manufactories and public works, at a less premium, where gas is used, than when lighted by other means.

The excessive expence of insurance, arising from the numerous candles employed in most of the first-rate manufacturing establishments, and the combustible nature of the structure of the buildings; the great difficulty of retrieving the injury resulting to a well-organised business, from the accidental destruction of the machinery, are considerations alone sufficient to furnish the strongest economical, as well as political recommendations, for the adoption of the new lights in all manufactories where work is done by candle-light.