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London, England, 1846-07-11 00:00:00

THE SITIST,- LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY II, 1846.

James O'Leary, aged 22, apprentice to his brother John,
plasterer. St. Rochs—Mari• O'Leary, aged 16, his sister.
J J. Sims, Esq., druggist—Rebecca, aged 23, and Kennith,
aged 13, his children.
Mary O'Brien, aged 26, wife of John Lilly, tailor.
Jean Bte. Veniza, aged 30. •
Maria Louise Levalee, wife of Ronald .:I‘Boonald, editor of
the Ccinadien.

Eugenie M'Donald, wife of Rigobert Anger, merchant.
Edward R. Hoogs, book-keeper, Montreal Bank—John,
aged 8, and Edward, aged 6, his children.
Thomas C. Harrison, aged 21, from Hamilton, C.W., bro-
ther to the owner of the Diorama.

Harriet Glackmeyer, wife of T. F. Molt, aged 45—Frede-
rick, aged 19, and Adolphus, aged 12, her children.
Helen Murphy, an orphan, aged 20.
Emeline Worth, aged 9, daughter of Edward Worth,
Montreal, sister-in-law of Mr. A. Lenfesty, grocer, and of
this city.
Flavien Sauvageau, aged 14, son of Mr. Charles Sauvagean,
musician.
Eliz ,both Lindsay, aged 53, wife of Mr. T. Atkins, clerk of
Upper Town Market—his son Richard, aged 27.
Stewart Scott, Esq., Clerk of the Court of Appeals, and
Jane, his daughter.
Thomas Hamilt.n, Esq., Lieut. 14th Regiment.
Mrs. John Glib, widow, and Jane, her daughter.
Arthur Lane, sou of Mr. Elisha Lane, of the firm of Gibb,
Lane, and Co.
Marianne Brown, aged 25, schoolmistress, at Wood and
Gray's Cove.

Joseph Marcons, bailiff:
Colin Ross, :wed 26 years, plasterer, a native of Inverness,
Scotland, and Agnes hack, his wife, aged 18, daughter of
widow Black, of Montreal.
Isaac Devlin, watchmaker, Lower Town. _ _

John Bt‘rry, from Aberdeen, late in the employ of _Messrs.
N. Price micit:;o . ariived in Quebec, from Chicoutimie, on
the Bth inst. A letter was found on his person, from his
brother, James Berry, instructing him to address him—
" James Berry, gen deuer and riddel-maker, North Broad-
ford, Aberdeen."

Anne Tafte, late servant with Denbohr., Esq., Cape.
John Smith Karn, son of Mr. John Karn, tinsmith, of
,his city.

Mr. John Wheatley, stationer, Lower Town.
Julia Ray, (laughter of Assistant- Comm issariat- General Ray.
P.S.—" Four o'clock."--46 bodies have been recovered.
All but two have been recognised. Mlle. Emilie Poncy,
aunt of Miss Raney, of the Lower Town, is missing; the
remains of a body, said to be a female, are supposed to be
hers.

The second is a Mr. M*Keogh, of Malbaie, a schoolmaster,
who was in the theatre in company with Miss Poncy.
We may here remark that Mr. Symes has in possession
the several effects taken from the bodies, and found near
them. We cannot refrain from expressing a passing meed
of praise upon the unwearied labours of the Mayor, the
military, the police magistrate, and the police force, and the
several fire companies. Nor can we omit deserved tribute
to the indefatigable Mr. R. Symes, who since daylight this
morning, has been present at ie scene of the disaster,
superintending the recovering and removal of the dead
bodies, &c.
The theatre, and stables adjoining, we should add, were
burnt to the ground.

INCIDENTS, &c., OF THE RECENT CALAMITY.
It appears that Lieut. Hamilton, of the 14th Regiment,
who perished in the flames, had attended the exhibition in
company with Miss Ray, his betrothed bride, and her sister;
when the flames broke out, he succeeded in getting the sister
in safety from the building, and returned to seek his intended,
when both of them thus miserably perished.
Lieut. Armstrong, of the same regiment, saved himself by
a desperate exertion of personal strength, having sprung up
to a window, the situation of which he knew, and forced out
a pane of glass, by which he obtained fresh air, and ulti-
mately succeeded in forcing his way through the window,
escaping with only a few bruises.
(From the Quebec Gazette.)
The cause of the disaster is supposed to have been the
falling of a camphine lamp, which set fire to the curtain in
front of the stage. The only mode of egress was by a
single narrow passage. Several families have been reduced
to utter helplessness, by the loss of their stay and support.
A subscription has been in consequence opened for the relief
of those who have been rendered orphans and widows.
The funerals of all the sullerers, except three or foar, took
place yesterday. From an early hour in tke morning till
seven in the evening, funeral processions were passing to
the different places of interment. So melancholy a sight has
not been witnessed in Qu,bec since the time of the cholera.
At one time there were fifteen coffins in the French cathe-
dral, waiting for the last rites of the Church to be said over
the mutilated remains contained in them. At the English
burial-ground we observed four clergymen present, three
EpiscopalLn and one Presbyterian, discharging the last sad
duties of their office to members of their respective flocks.
The Wesleyan Methodist ibinist er was likewise engaged during
the afternoon in the performance of a similar duty.
At a meeting of the Quebec bar resolutions were adopted,
on the motion of the Hon. R. E. Caron and the Hon. T. C.
expressinglheir profound sorrow for the death of
their esteemed brother Alexander Stewart Scott, and their
sympathy with his afflicted family. The remains of Lieut.
Hamilton were interred with military honours.

ELECTION Mo VEMENTS.
TAUNTON.

TAUNTON, FRIDAY, TWELVE, NOON.—This morning
was appointed by the returning-officer as the period of
nominatimi. The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere,
accompanied by his friends, arrived at the hustings
shortly after eight o'clock, and the usual pre-
liminaries having been gone through, the Right
Honourable Gentleman was proposed by James
Bunter, Lq., as a fit and proper person to represent the
borough of Taunton in Parliament. He took occasion
to advert to the connexion of Mr. Labouchere with the
town, remarking that it had existed for sixteen years,

and that he had had the pleasure of proposing him as a

candidate ten times.

T. WARREN, Esq., seconded the nomination.
No other candidate being proposed, the Bon. Gentle-

man was declared duly elected amidst loud acclamations.
The Bight Hon. Henry LABOUCHERE then addressed
the electors as follows—Gentlemen, I have waited to

address you until I %as able to do so under that title

and in that situation which I assure you I value beyond

any other distinction in public life which it is pos-

sible for me to attain—l mean in the character of

rour representative.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, a seat
La Parliament, when conferred by an inde-

dependent and intelligent constituency, is to any
Englishmen a matter of just pride—(Hear)—buts when
conferred under circumstances like those which charac-
terise the present occasion, I conceive that distinction,
valuable as it is in itself, greatly enhanced.—(Cheers.)

I do not meet you on this occasion a stranger, nor ad-
dress you now for the first time. My excellent friend
who proposed me to you, and by whose side I
have had the satisfaction of standing ever since

I came to Taunton, has reminded you that the connexion
between us has now lasted for sixteen years, and that
this is no less than the tenth time on which I have had
to thank you kr returning me as ) our representative
to the House of Commons.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen,
those sixteen years have not been unproductive of im-
portant political changes, and they have been marked

by as great and important events as any sixteen
years in the history of this country.—(Hear, :-.ear) You
have had an cpportunity of observing my conduct under
almost every variety of circumstance. I have stood
before you when I belonged to a small and dispirited
minority, and I Lave stood bet re you in the capacity in
which 1 now stand again—us a servant of the Crown ;
and you have had an opportunity of judging whether
my principles, my conduct, and my language, have ever

varied uttder ei:iier of those circu►uatuuces.—(Hear,

hear.) My Hon. Friend has truly told you that the
circiunstances of :he present election were peculiarly.
gratifying to we. In canvassing on this occasion
found that I have not lost a singlo Old friend, whilst, on

the other hand, I acknowledge the gratification I have
received from the universally kind reception I have met
with, and that, too, in many instances from some who,
from con,cientit,us motives, have hitherto felt it to be
their duty to oppose me.—(Cheers.) Under these cir-
cumstances I may truly say that I shall return to the

House of Commons with increased feelings o
gratitude and fresh sentiments of pride with
regard to my connexion with your town.—(Loud
cheers.) I shall imitate the example of my friends
who proposed and seconded me, in not addressing you at
any great length; at the same time, however, I feel, that
in accepting this renewal of the solemn trust placed in
my hands, it is due both to you and to myself
that I should make some observations.—(Hear,
hear.) It is now five years since I last adddressed
you as a candidate on these hustings. I was at
that time a Minister of the Crown, but I did
not long remain so. I believe almost the first vote
which the House of Commons came to was fatal to the
existence of that Government, in the ranks of which
I served. Without any personal regret, certainly, I
took my leave of office, and retired to do that which to
my personal feeling is a far more agreeable, situation,
that of an independent Member of Parliatnent.—(Hear.)
But I am happy to say that the ♦ote of the House of
Commons which struck down the Ministry of Lord Mel-
bourne did not destroy the principles which that Minis-
try advocated.— (Loud cheers.) And, gentlemen, I for
one will acknowledge that I never had the slightest
fear that it would produce that effect.—(Cheers.)
I was thoroughly convinced from the best con-
sideration I could give to the interests of this great
country, that those principles were founded in truth,
and must ultimately and speedily be triumphant.—(Loud
cheers.) I did not fear that those who succeeded us
would follow any essentially different course from
that which we ourselves had pursued ; and, accord-
ingly, although I have been nominally a mem.
her of the Opposition, and sat on the oppo-
site bench( s to the Government of the day, yet
there has been scarcely any important measure which
that Government during those five years have brought
forward which I have not by my humble vote contributed
to support.— (Cheers.) Those measures were, some of
them, measures of eelarged religious freedom—some ~of
conciliation and justice tolreland—some of them measures
of free trade calculated to enlarge and extend the com-
merce of this country ; and the crowning measure of all
has been that great measure which the assent of the
Crown has just stamped with the authority of the law
of the land—l mean the complete and final repeal of the
corn-laws.--(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I can assure you—and
those among you who know my private tastes and habits
will bolitivo lu tlid bipooiitiof that amition--that no aye

years Of my Parliamentary •life.: were ever • spent. with
satisfaction equal to those during which, without the
• • •
toils, and. anxieties, and responsibilities of official life, I
had the' satisfaction of seeing those principles for which
I have always contended carried into execution; and also
the gratification, by my huinble vote, of lending my best
support.to their success.—(Cheers.) ;Gentlemen, the office
to which the gracious favour of my Sovereign. has called
Me is,' as you have been reminded by one of my friends,
not the least responsible or' the least onerous of those
which are uncertaken by the .servants of the Crown. I
can assure you that, in taking my share of the Govern-
ment Of Ireland, labeept the office in no spirit of pre-
sumption with regard to my qualifiaction for the duty.
This, at least, I trust I'niay 'say; that no effort on my
part shall be wanting to fulfil those duties ; and if I
shall be able to contribute, even in the sm..illest degree,
to the happiness,. co •t.,iitinent, arid prosperity of that
part of her M.tjese) 's ns, I shall look back
to the day on which I took office as the happi: st and
proudest of my lite.--(Cheers.) I trust that the little
acquaintance which I possess with the local affairs of
th it country will be compensated ir)y. finding myself sur-
rounded in the Administrati,n by Irishmen, long and
intimat,,,ly connected with the affairs of that c untry,
and deservAly respected by the inhabitants; and still
more do I rejoice that I shall haVe to serve under a
Lord-Lieutenant who has been fbr the grestest part of
his life a resident landowner—(Cheers)—and who from
his disposition and ability is, I am sure, eminently quali-
fied to carry into effect Viose gracious wishes and in-
tentions which it is well known her Majesty fuels in an
especial degree towards that portion of her dominions.
I trust that in the government of Ireland we shall be
able to follow up those principles on which the govern-
ment of all free countries ought to be conducted—l
mean, to support the law that it may be respected, and to
improve the law that it' may be beloved.—(Loud cheers.)
I can assure you I highly value the honour of repre-
senting so steady, so consistent, and intelligent a body
of constituents. With regard to other political subjects,
I do not know that I need trouble you 'by going fiato
detail. I have always stood upon these hustings as a
liberal candidate and a reformer.—(Hear, and cheers.)
At the same time I have always told you that there
is not a Conservative in this town or county who is
more deeply attached than I am to the great institutions
of this country, or who is more thoroughly satisfied that
the true interests of the community -consist in our
preserving and maintaining them unimpaired.—(Cheers.)
But I believe, at the same time, that in order to maintain
institutions unimpaired, it is absolutely necessary to take
care that they du not stand in the way of all such im-
provements as may be required either . by the al-
tered circumstances of society, or by the in-
creasing intelligence of the age. I believe that
Englishman is the truest Conservative, and best
supports the institutions of the country,. 'who
takes care that, there is nothing in-them which cannot
be reconciled with great and necessary improvements.—
(Cheers.) I love and reverence the mixed con-
stitution of this country, and if I saw the
just prerogatives of the. Crown or. the just
prerogatives of 'the peerage assailed, I would de-
fend them just as firmly as I would the rights and
liberties of the Commons of England, to which I ,
belong.—(Hear, hear.) I feel it necessary to say this,'
because I stand here on popular principles, and am
surrounded by the friends of piipular principles in
this town, and because I have lent my assistance
to the furtherance of many measures which I trust and
hope will have the effect of enlarging the liberties of
the people, and extending wide the principles of reli-
gious liberty to those classes of my fellow-countrymen
who may dissent from the Church of England—whether
as Protestant Dissenters, or as Roman Catholic--
(Hear, hear, and 'cheers)—and have always felt it
my duty in public life to do nothing which w ould shake
those great fundamental institutions of the country—
(Hear, bear)—on the contrary, those institutions have
not a more sincere friend than myself,—(Cheers.) The

Hon. Member again thanked them for the high honour
conferred upon him, and retired amidst loud and pro-
longed plaudits.
The Hon. Member was afterwards " chaired," a very'
superb car, drawn by four horses, being used for the oc-
casion.

DEVOINTOItf.

RETURN OF SIR GEORGE GREY, BART.

The nomination took place at eleven o'clock yesterday
in front of the ToWn Hall. The only candidate was
Sir a Grey, who is in high favour here, both for his
popular manners, and his political sentiments. There
was a capital attendance from Stonehouse, and the as-
semblage of burgesses was very numerous.
The Mayor, Walter P. Blackmore, Esq., presided,
and the usual formalities having been gone through,
C. TRIPE, Esq., rose, and said he had great pleasure
and gratification in rising to propose the re-election of
Sir George Grey, both on account of his great talents
and high moral worth—from his close affinity in blood
to a name which would ever be held dear by Englishmen
—and also because he had always interested himself in
promoting the moral and physical welfare of the people ;
end, above all, because he had been selected to fill the
great and important office of Secretary of State.
C. CITAPPLE, Esq., of Stonehouse, seconded the mo-
tion, and there being no other candidate the Right Hon.
Baronet was declared to be duly elected.
Sir G. GREY then returned thanks for the honour
they had conferred upon him for the sixth time. Ho was
the more gratified because that confidence was reposed
in him after a long trial. It was their duty indirectly
to influence the Legislature of the country by sending
representatives to act in their behalf. After having
adverted in pleasing terms to his connexion with Devon-
port ever since its enfranchisement, the Right Ron.
Baronet proceeded to describe the course of events ever
since 1841, with reference to the question of free trade,
and to the gratification which he had derived in giving
support to Sir Robert Peel in his free trade measures.
Re rejoiced to see that the greatest unanimity prevailed
amongst them, and he hoped that unanimity arose not
from the accident of the absence of a candidate, but
because there was far more unanimity of opinion as to
the effects of free trade upon thinking men than pre-
vailed in 1841. Those principles were then disapproved
of, and he was opposed by an honourable candidate,
brother-in-law of the Prime Minister ; and he well
remembered, that his friends approached those hustings
with a large loaf and a small one—the large loaf
representing, as it was said, the effects of protection,
and the small loaf was a specimen of what they were
to have under the operations of free-trade.—(Laughter.)
This delusion has vanished, and when they sent him on
that occasion to oppose the Government which was to
be formed, and which was formed, he little anticipated
that, before he should have to appear before them again,
he should have become one of the most zealous and
strenuous supporters of Sir Robert Peel, in his commer-
cial policy.—(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Baronet then;
at some length, referred to the manner in which Sir

Robert Peel had effected those great changes, paying
him more than a passing tribute of praise for the course
he had taken, and cordially joining him in his wishes
that now these measures had passed there would be no
more irritating discussions, and that the cause of
jealousy and contention between those employed in the
different branohes of industry having been removed,
these dissensions will no longer prevail. The Right
Hon. Gentleman did not a,lvert to any other question,
and his speech in reference to the commercial legislation
if the late Ministry was substantially the same as that
which be m ide the previous evening.
At the close, three the ,rs were given for the Right
lion. Baronet ; after which a vote of thanks was passed
to the Mayor, and the meeting separated.

very utmost of their power.—(Cheers.) There was another
topic, which would at once suggest itself to the mindi of all
present—a topic of most gave importance. The question of
Ireland, he trusted he might say, was a temporary question;
the object there was only to remove existing, and he hoped
passing grievances, and to give just contentment to the people.
The other questien he`would allude to was one of still higher
and more permanent importance; it was, the condition of the
people of this country.-,(Hear, hear.) It was on education
and instruction only that the peace and prosperity, the wel-
fare and happiness of nations could be soundly based. It
was lamentable to think, that not there alone, in the agri-
cultural districts, but in the more densely populated manu-
facturing districts, there were growing up every year vast
multitudes of human beings with education, if any, most irn-
pei feet, in fearful ignorance of that knowledge upon which
depends their welfare here and hereafter.—(Hear, hear.)
This was a subject which would require the most anxious
consideration of the present Ministry. He would not advert
to other topics, but of this they might be assured, that the
spirit by which the Government would ever be actuated
was the spirit of progressive improvement—(Loud cheers)—
of that progress which had hitherto been so impeded amongst
us, but the development of which was essential to the happi-
ness and welfare, to the very existence of every civilised
community. The progress made in the country since 1815
showed how much could be accomplished by a steady and
persevering determination to improve, and would convince
the electors that though the vessel of improvement may
sometimes be turned from its course by the shock of adverse
billows—though it may now and then swerve from its
onward direction under the influence of battling
gales, yet, nevertheless, it is guided by one more
powerful than any among men.—(Loud cheers.)
Steered by a sagacity far superior to any human resistance
—(Cheers.)—and tbat in spite of the storms which it may
encounter in defiance of adverse currents, and battling winds,
it shall still, under the blessing of Providence, pursue its cer-
tain course to that final state of human improvement which
lies far beyond the horizon to which our weak eyes can
attain, and which will place human society in a condition of
higher moral, social, religious perfection than the most san-
guine amongst us can imagine.—(Cheers.) It would be for
the people to aid the Government in their efforts towards
this glorious consummation ; the• Government itself, he
would promise, would not be wanting in their share of the
great work, though its progress against the infinite obstacles
impeding it might not be quite so rapid as the people and
the Government itself could wish, let not the people be sus-
picious of deferred intentions—intentions deferred only for
the better accomplishment of the work in hand. The Noble
Lord, in concluding, was honoured with a hearty nine times
nine. A similar honour was acceded to Lord John Russell
and the present Members.
The large meeting broke up at one o'clock.