Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Controversy, Heat, Human Species, Military Technology, War, Politics

    Claims there exists 'ample proof' that spontaneous combustion 'often happens in warehouses', whether or not it occurs in the human body. Quotes in evidence a report in The Times, which describes an attempt to burn down a Manchester warehouse with oily cotton. Believes the crime was caused by 'Russian agency' or arsonists hired by Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.