Fromihe Phifa. .Norh .4mcricdn of Inc llh. EIRE-TllE ACADEMY OF TIE FINE

 NRTS BURNED DOWN,
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 Last evening little before eleven o'clock. the alarm of ire was given, it proved to be the Academy of the Fine Arts The fire was the work of an ncondiary, who had effected an entrance in rear of the building, and com municatcd the fire underneath the Statue Gal- lery, which was entirely destroyed with all its contents. The Fire spread to the Libra " room, and large number ot pictures were destroyed before they could be removed in consequence of the dense smoke.

 With great efforts. the valuable Library, chiefly d present from Napoleon Bonaparte, was saved, though considerably injured The fire communicated to the pictures in the Rotunda, and several were destroyed-some of them of great value. Among the num- ber were Slurlllo's great picture oi Inc Ro- man Daughter, valued at 5000, and Dugald Stuart by Raeburn. Most of the pictures were removed from the Rounda and North Gallery. Aston's picture of the Dead Man Restored, was saved, and Death on the Pale Horse, in mutatcd condition.

 About one o'clock the whole of the North Gallery was in ruins.

 Thus the torch of an incendiary has near ly destroyed the largest and best collection of works of art in the United Siates-and which has been the labor of nearly forty years in collecting. The loss is irropara6lc' and will be felt by large number oi artists and amateurs of painting and sculpture :,

 We trust that d liberal reward will be ol- lcred by the Mayor for the detection ol the incendiary, and that every effort will be made to bring him to condign punishment

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