The town of St. John's, New Brunswick, ' has sustained
a terrible calamity. A fire broke out in it at 2.30 on Wednesday, and burnt all through the evening and night, till half the town was destroyed, and 15,000 people made homeless. The entire business quarter of the town has been burned up, and all public buildings, while the food-stores were swept away so completely that actual starvation was apprehended, and New York and other cities of the Union forwarded trains of food. Tents have been sent from Halifax, and fortunately it is summer, but the people are represented as almost in despair. The fire spread among the wooden houses and great stores of timber with fearful speed, and the loss is estimated at £3,000,000. This is, let us hope, an exaggerated calculation, but the suffering must be terrible, as the city is far from rich, and little help can be expected from a poor Province.
