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The great buildings in Paris have escaped, as we anticipated

last week, better than was then supposed. The Luxemburg, and all but the library in the Louvre, are safe. The only part of the Palais Royal burnt down is the block formerly occupied by Prince Jerome Napoleon. The Tuileries, the Hotel de Ville, the Hotel of the Ministry of Finance, and that of the Coos des Comptes, the Grenier d'Abondance, and a portion of the Palais de Justice are all gone, as well as the Theatre Lyrique and, of course, a great many private houses ; but still there are parts of Paris where not a building nor a tree is injured, and the feeling of those who have examined the city for themselves seems to be, on the whole, one of relief.

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