Rev. Edwin CLAY,M.D. writing to the Amherst 'Gazette' from Pugwash, N.S. on the 18th tells the following sad story, showing the heroism displayed by a little girl 11 years old in saving the lives of a younger brother and sister at the cost of her own. - On Friday night last, Cornelius CROWLEY retired with his family to rest a little after dark. About ten o'clock they were aroused by the sound of fire somewhere in the building. On springing from his bed he found the whole body of the house in flames. His first though was to get help, so he ran at once to the barn to arouse two of his sons who were sleeping there. On his return, he found it impossible to get upstairs where five of the family were sleeping or to his father's room, where the old man and a little son were sleeping together. But Mrs. CROWLEY, with her babe in her arms, succeeded in arousing some of those upstairs; her brother and sister threw themselves out the window, forgetting the three children that were still asleep in another bed. The mother's screams awakened the eldest daughter and she came to the window and asked what she should do, when her mother urged her to throw herself down from the window, but she replied "No, my brother and sister must be saved." She then returned through the heat and smoke and took her sleeping brother, a little younger than herself (9 years) in her arms and carried him to the window from which he sprang with no injury except a slight scorching of his face and hair. She then returned through the flame now coming through the floor and brought still a younger sister (7 years) to the window and here the dear girl had more than she could do, for her sister in her fright refused to be thrown out, and with the flames coming up around her she struggled with her until she put her out of the window and the child dropped helplessly to the ground. After hanging a moment or two upon the window sill she dropped down herself, a distance of nearly 16 feet. When she rose from the ground she said "I am done, mother, but I have saved my brother and sister from being burnt up." While this was going on at the end of the house, Mr. CROWLEY was at the back getting his father out, but did not know that the little boy was still in the old man's bed and the whole building was in flames. With nothing on but his shirt, he rushed through the flames and saved the boy. The little fellow's arms and feet, being outside of the bedclothes were badly burnt. The mother, and her children, then walked a distance of 670 yards to the first neighbour's house in a state of nudity for they had not saved any clothing. I was sent for and in about three hours after the fire was attending the wants of the suffering children. I saw there was no hope of saving the dear girl for, from her forehead to the bottom of her feet, she was one mass of burnt flesh...."