This beautiful marble building had a front of one hundred and fifteen feet on Wall Street, was three stories high above the basement, and was considered at the time the handsomest building in the United States except the New York City Hall. The Post-Office had been established in its basement in 1827. The letters and mails were removed to a place of safety, but the noble marble statue of Alexander Hamilton, which stood in the Rotunda, was crushed by the falling sidewalls. The Seventh Regiment (then called the National Guard) kept guard over the ruins, and the funny fur-capped sentries shown on the plate are doubtless of this regiment. A fine view of the front and rear of the ruins of the Merchants’ Exchange is shown in William L. Stone’s “History of New York;” but the old stone-ware plates form an equally faithful, and much more curious and interesting, memorial of the great conflagration. 205. New York. Arms of State. T. Mayer. The arms of New York with seated figures, instead of standing figures as in the present coat of arms; also the motto “Excelsior” and name New York. On the back is printed in blue the American eagle, with motto “E Pluribus Unum,” also the impressed mark of “T. Mayer, Stone, Staffordshire.” Both marks are described on page 324. There were doubtless dinner services with the arms of all the existing States of the Union, but I have seen only the plates and platters with arms of New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, and the soup-tureen with the arms of the State of Maryland. 206. New York. Arms of State. I have seen in many collections, the Trumbull-Prime Collection being one of the number, pieces of Lowestoft china bearing a poor and crude rendering of the Arms of State of New York. These must have been decorated in China in large numbers, to be so widespread and numerous. 207. New York Bay. Clews. This view of the Bay is taken from Castle Garden. In the centre is the fort on Governor’s Island. A side-wheel steamer and frigate are among the shipping. The stamp on back is “View of New York Bay.” 208. New York. Stevenson. A dark blue print of a view of New York from Brooklyn Heights. In the foreground is a pretty old Dutch homestead view, low sheds, a well, and a man on horseback. On the river is some shipping and a small steamboat. In the background the lower portion of New York, showing Trinity Church spire. The border is a rose pattern. On the back is the mark “View of New York from Brooklyn Heights by (or for), Wm. C. Wall Esq.” Also the impressed mark of “Stevenson Warranted.” A plate with this print is in the rooms of the Long Island Historical Society, in Brooklyn. 209. New York. Jackson. A view of Castle Garden, with a tree to the right, printed in brown. Marked “Jackson’s Ware.” 210. New York. Scudder’s Museum. Richard Stevenson (?).