17 SEPTEMBER 1836, Page 10

TO TI1E EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.

MR. EDITOR—It is well for you, you were not born in the days of Herod, or you would most surely have been cut off with the other innocents. Do you really imagine the Fire Companies wish ALL rIREs to be put out quickly? No, no—they are not such fools as you take them for Are you not aware, that property destroyed, not insured, is a godsend to them—the timid flocking by wholesale the next day to effect insurances ? I am sure, from your very simplicity, you are not a Director of any of the Companies yclept Fire. insurance.

Your obedient servant, AN OBSERVER.

(Mr. BRAITHWAITE'S letter comes in timely proof that AN OBSERVER is right, and that we are—" innocent."—En.