Weekly National Intelligencer

THE LATE FIRE AT ALBANY.

In the Albany and New York papers we have full particulars of the late fire at Albany.

The number of houses destroyed is four hundred and thirty-nine, situated as follows:

Quay street, thirty-eight buildings, most of them three and four-story brick stores; Broadway, one hundred and thirty-nine stores and dwellings, including the Eagle Tavern and Townsend House, United States Hotel, Columbia Hotel, &c.; Church street, forty-four buildings; Diagonal street, two buildings; Union street, thirty-four houses; Hamilton street, twenty-four houses; Division street, fifteen houses; Hudson street, four houses; Elizabeth street, fifty-two houses; Denniston street, two houses; Lydius-street, thirty houses; Bleecker street, thirteen houses; Herkimer street, three houses; Dallius street, six houses ; on the Pier, thirty-three buildings; making a total of 439 houses, besides the destruction in the basin of one steamboat, one schooner, eleven tow boats, two floats, and from forty to sixty canal boats.

The entire loss is estimated at from two and a half to four millions of dollars. The Albany Journal of Friday thus speaks of the calamity:

"Most of the commercial portion of the city, with fifteen or twenty densely populated squares, is a black and smouldering ruin. From Herkimer street, where the fire broke out, to Columbia street, where it was arrested, in distance is more than half a mile! And all that work of destruction was accomplished in five hours! There could, therefore, have been little time to snatch property from the rapacious flames.

"Amid all this suffering there is much cause for gratitude. When the conflagration was at its height—when more than half the city was threatened, and when no human arm could save, a kind Providence interposed! The wind suddenly changed from south to northwest, and this change brought with it abundant and continued rain. Fires that had extended to several buildings in the vicinity of the burnt district were providentially extinguished by the rain.

"This great loss, superadded to the large sums swallowed up during the winter and spring, by kindred calamities, has impaired the fortunes of wealthy people, impoverished hundreds of the middling class, and utterly ruined hundreds of poor hard working families.

"The ruins cover an area of two hundred acres; every foot of which was densely covered with buildings. There were more buildings upon it than upon any other equal space in the city. Four-fifths of the buildings burnt were brick—most of them large and substantial, and many of them three or four stories in height.

"There have been several lives lost. Mr. Johnson, wife, daughter and grand-child, who lived next to the Columbia, were horribly burnt. The child and Mr. J. are dead; others are not expected to recover. We have rumors of other deaths, but cannot trace them."