THE JUBILEE BONFIRES.
[To TRH EDITOR OF TIM "SPRCT■TOR."]
Sift,—On the night of June 22nd I was at Crowborough in a house close to the beacon, and with a very wide view on all sides. From the windows I counted sixty beacons. At the distance they were from me they all looked like large red stars or lamps. With opera-glasses I could see that some of the larger, doubtless the nearer, lights ended at the top in a pointed light leaning to one side, without doubt the flame blown to one side by the wind ; but without glasses I could not see even that, and in no case could I discover the slightest blaze or flickering, or anything to show it was not a steady light which was burning. Then, the night being quite dark, I could not locate the beacons at all ; they might have been at any distance or in any place, as far as I could see. I knew that the brightest must be the nearest, but there was nothing to indicate where they were. I could not form a guess at their relative positions.—I am, Sir, &e., E. G. T. F.
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