We have lost lives, we have lost all our buildings--we have lost everything that goes to make home happy, cheerful and bright--we have lost our stores and shops--we have lost a hundred comforts--but, thank God, we have not lost our glorious hope in the future. In that hope is our salvation. It is that hope which stirs us on, which quickens our energy, which tells us that it might truly have been worse. It is the one beautiful thing that is left to us. It is the angel which smiles back to us when we raise our eyes upward. It is the figure in the cloud which says to prostrate man, "Rouse, rouse yourself! all is not lost, there is a future for you all." Ah, yes, it might have been worse. There is desolation all around--there is death in many households--there is mourning and crying and moaning--but hope still sailing grandly near us, so near that we can almost touch her, still smiling sweetly on us, tells us all will yet be well and bids us be of good cheer. The number of houses burned on the several streets in the city, is sixteen hundred and twelve. They were located as follows: Georges Street 10 Mill Street 20 Drury Lane 17 Smyth Street 20 North Street 5 North Market Slip 8 Hare's Wharf 1 Robertson Place 1 Fire Proof Alley 2 North Market Wharf 11 Nelson Street 18 Dock Street 26 Market Square 6 South Market Wharf 16 Ward Street 10 Peters' Wharf 11 Johnston's Wharf 2 Lovett's Slip 1 St. John, "Water" Street 51 Canterbury Street 19 Prince William Street 95 Germain Street 87 Charlotte Street 84 Sydney Street 75 Carmarthen Street 59 Wentworth Street 34 Pitt Street 38 Sheffield Street 52 Main Street 58 Britain Street 101 St James Street 98 Pagan Place 9 Harding Street 15 Queen Square, south side 10 Queen Square, north side 10 St Andrew Street 17 Queen Street 80 Mecklenburg Street 44 Duke Street 105 Horsfield Street 17 Orange Street 42 Princess Street 106 Church Street 10 Leinster Street 45