SUPPOSED CHEMICAL CAUSE OF THE FIRE AT LIVERPOOL. -- We have received the following from a correspondent: -- "It is known that the strong smell of sugar proceeding from the stoves of sugar houses is a gas liable to ignition. The places about the stoves are kept very air-tight. The particularly heavy atmosphere, which has prevailed for a length of time, may have assisted the accumulation and favoured the chemical changes to which this gas is liable to a point when explosion must take place, without any contact of flame, but, from the affinities and particular state of electricity governing the elements composing the sugar gas, to resolve itself into new combinations. We trust the subject will be taken up by scientific men." It was currently reported through the town that the men were locked in when at work, but there is no truth whatever in the statement.
-- Liverpool Journal.
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