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Further news from Brussels points to gross carelessness on the

part of a night-watchman as the cause of the fire, and complaints of the inadequacy of the fire brigade service are apparently well founded. The attendants on the British section worked heroically, and managed at grave personal risk to save some treasures ; but the losses in the British and Belgian sections are estimated at £2,000,000. The burden of insurance falls on British companies, Lloyds alone losing between £200,000 and £250,000. We are glad to learn that there is no intention of closing the Exhibition before October, and that the Board of Trade have undertaken to reconstitute the British section, without making any charge for space or show-cases, subject to a satisfactory response from the exhibitors.

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