The Minor Losses By The Boston Fire

serious ana írreparauio, loases oicasionou by'the Boston oonflagration was the completo destruotion of the letters, papers and manuscripts of tho historian Prescott. Duringthe absence in Euvope of tho ir.ombera of the family iutd whose pos.v thcy bad como, thoy bad boen stored "for Kafoty" in oiiooi'Uioliurncd buildings. Mr. Preseott'ü phytiical infirmity had made it nccessary for him to causo copies to bo of an immense nunaber and varioty of aneiont snd authentio docuiucmts conCüniing 8i'.in and tho two Amenosa, and tho destruotion of these as well as of liis own correspondenco and litorary memoranda is in its wiiy a public calamity to tlio world of letters. With theao also perished soiuo of tho fluost portraits evor paintod by Coploy, tho father of Lord Lyndhurst, and tho first of Amorioan artists to win a name aud faruo in tho world.