London, Past and Present.
It would be difficult, perhaps, to get more information into smaller space than that taken by a Canadian correspondent, who tells an interesting story of the history of the London fire brigade.
Previous to the formation of the Metropolitan fire brigade, under an act passed in 1774, the courch wardens and overseers of every parish had been compelled to maintain an engine for putting out all fires within their own boundaries: though, independently of this provision, for more than thirty years before 1866, the leading fire insurance companies had jointly organized and worked a fire engine establishment of heir own.
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