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LIVERPOOL RACES.—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
CROXTETH STAKES.

Fisherman
Lord Nelron

Two ran.
Arrived—Knockburn.

THE BURNING OF THE STE.A. LIE R
MONTRUL, IN CANADA.

LOSS OF THE LIVES OF TWO HUNDRED
SCOTTISH EMIGRANTS.
In The Sun of Friday last appeared the first an-
nouncement of the dreadful accident which hap-
pened in the River St. Lawrcnco, about 12 miles
above Quebec, on the 26th of Juno, when the pas-
senger steamer Montreal, with more than 400 per-
sons on board, was destroyed by fire, and the
greater portion of them IJerished. A more de-
tailed account of this disaster, in a letter of the
27th ult. from Quebec, was published by us on
Monday. We are now in posse=sion of Canada
papers to the 2d inst., in which we find the amplest
particulars of this terrible affair, the consequences
of which are brought nearer home to us by the
fact that almost all the sufferers were emigrants
who left Scotland no longer ago than the 18th of
last May. and who were on their way from Quebec
to the Western districts of the country. There
were 330 steerage passengers, arid 10 cabin
passengers, who sailed in the John M'Kenzil
from the Clyde at the above date. Two
died at sea. Of the steerage passengers who arrived
in Canada 78 did aot goon by the steamer, Montreal,
from Quebec, some preferring the railroad, and
others remaining in that city. The remaining 256
of the Sc Atish emigrants, however, start,efrom
Quebec at four o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th,
by this ill-fated vessel, which in less than an hour
afterwards was wrapped in flames. Only 5$ of them
were saved. Besides the 200 Scotch emigants 50
or 60 other passengers, some of whom were Norwe-
gian emigrants, with a few French and Canadians,
lost their lives. 200 dead bodies had at the latest
date been recovered.
The following is a complete list of all the Scotch
passengers who sailed by the John MiKenzie from
the Clyde, on May 18.
Andrew Adams and his sister Margaret, Mary Ander-
son, Mary Burns, sons Andrew and Daniel, and daughter
Margaret.
Mary Beattie, son Archibald, and daughter Annie.
W. Black, James Bury, Margaret Bloomfield, daughter.
James Burgess and Martha his wife, James Bone, Mary
Calder, Margaret Corbett, Win. Cosmie, Wm. Colsine,
John Corbett, Catherine his wife, son John, and daugh-
ters Jessie and Rebecca, Margaret Corbett, Chas. S. Came-
ron, Margaret Callachan, daughters Catherine, Jessie, and
Margaret, and son William.
Alex. Caldwell, Janet his wife, and daughter Jane.
Arch. Currie, Agnes his wife, and daughters Bella and
Margaret.
James Crerar, Alex. Colwin.
John Collier, Margaret his wife, sons David, Robert, and
John.
W. Cowel, Geo. Crawford, Andrew Cree.
Daniel Christian, Mary Ann his wife, sons Daniel, Ed-
ward, and Thomas N., daughters Eliza Jane and Mary
Ann.

W. H. Hart, G. Copeland.
Margaret Campbell, son Dougal and daughter Julia.
Catherine Campbell, mother, Catherine, Henrietta and
Maria, and son Johr.
John Clark, Margaret his wife, son Archibald, and
daughters Christina, Catherine Margaret, and Janet.
J. Colquhoun, James Corsie, and his sister Lydia, Robt.
Dick, Elizabeth Downie and her daughter Eliza.
James Douglas, Janet his wife, sons John, Thomas,
Alexander, William, Peter, George, and Lockart.
Lillias Douglas, W. Downie, Mary Dickson and Adam
her son, John Douglas, Robert Fyfe, William Ferguson
and Ann his wife, Charles Farriveather, William Graham,
Elizabeth Gibson and her daughter Elizabeth.
James Gilmour, his wife, son James and daughter Mar-
tha.

John Gilmour, Charles Grant.
David Gilchrist, Margaret his wife, son James, and
daughters Isabella, Elizabeth, Margaret, Janet, and Anne.
Thomas Gilchrist and Margaret his wife.
Andrew Graham, Margaret his wife, and his son Walter.
William Glassford.
George Gratton, Janet his wife, and daughter Agnes.
James Gratton.
Thomas Gowerlock, Elizabeth his wife, sons Thomas;
James, John, William, and Walter, daughters Mary,
Elizabeth, and Agnes.
Bruce Hall, Jane his wife, sons William, Simon, Robt.,
and Peter, daughters Catherine and Mary Anne.
Wm. Halliday, John Hunter, and Margaret his wife,
John Herbert, John Hunter, Walter Hope, Peter Hally,
Donald Johnstone, Christina Johnstone, Alex. Know.
Thomas Laurie, his wife, sons Thomas and James, and
daughters Jessie, Catherine, and Jane.
John Laurie, Jahn Laughlan and Ann his wife, William
Lindsay, John F. Lindsay, Robert Lindsay, Wm. M`Leod,
Thomas McAllan, James Mcßride, Charles McKay.
Geo. John McKenzie, David, Wm. Robert, Ann, Ca-
therine, Isabella, and Catherine, Mary his wife, and son
Peter.
Margaret McKenzie, Daniel McDade' Jas. Malcolmson.
Donald McArthur and Catherine his daughter.
James Mannell, and Margaret, Elizabeth, and Janet
Mannell, with their mother Margaret Mannell.
Andrew Mcßeatb, Margaret his wife, and son John.
Jane McLarty and her daughter Jane.
John McAlister, Marion his wife, sons Archibald, Mal-
colm, Alex., and Duncan, and daughterl Euphemia.
George Manson, Elizabeth his wife, daughters Jessie,
Margaret, and Elizabeth.
James McEwen, Mary his wife, sons Alex., Donald, and
John, daughters Catherine, Nancy, Flora, and Christina.
Jane McLean, daughters Catherine and Mary, sons Ed-
ward, John, and Roderick.
John Meikle, father, Mary Hunter, mother, son David
and daughter Jessie.
Alex. McDonald, John M'lntyre.
David Milne, and Elizabeth his wife, sons William,
David, James, and John, daughters Ann and Betsey.
Jame Muir, Agnes his wife, sons George, James, and
John, and daughter Violet.
Andrew McGavin, Janet, his wife, son Robert and
daughter Ellen.
Hugh McColl, Ann his wife, sons Donald and Peter, and
daughters Sarah, Mary, and Ann.
Joseph M'Comb, Margaret Morgan, A. M'Crae, Janet
and Mary M‘Gee, Thos. Nicholson, Wm. Nicholson, Wm.
Neilson. Wm. Ovens, Margaret his wife, sous Andrew and
Wm., and daughters Margaret and Mary.
Mary Pettigrew, Robert Rowan.
Total souls, 330.
John Reid, Elizabeth his wife, and daughter Janet.
Geo. Ramsay, Catherine Ross, Alex. Robie.
W. P. Rodger, Martha his mother, and Thos. his son.
Dr. Robb and daughter Christina.
Total, 10.
Steerage Passengers —Thos. Smith, Hugh Stewart, Robt.
Shiel, John Steer, and Elizabeth his wife.
Catherine Shanks, Wm. Shanks, Colin Sinclar, Jessie
Spence, Jas. Tweedle, Janet his wife, daughters Eliza W.
Jessie, M., and Leono .a.
Jas. Tracey, John Thomson, Elizabeth Wallace.
W. Wallace, Mary his wife, son John, and daughter
Agnes.
Aleander Watson.
John Wilson, Agnes his wife, sons Wm. and John, and
daughters Margaret and Agnes.
Adam Wilson.
Jas. Wylie, Agnes his wife, sons Hugh and James, and
daughters Mary and Elizabeth.
David Watson, Agnes his wife, son David, and daughters
Agnes, Elizabeth, and Christina.
Robert Wilson, Mary his wife, sons Robert, John, and
James.
Marion Wilson.
Margaret Wallace, sons John and William.
Hugh Urquhart.
William Young, Isabella his wife, son Roderick, and
daughters Helen, Isabella, and Betsey.
The following is a list of passengers from the
John Mgienzie, who went by the Grand Trunk
Railway to Montreal, and were not on board the
steamer :
Win. Rodger, Martha his mother, and Thomas his son.
James Gilmour, his wife, son James. and daughter Mar-
garet, end another, in all five.
Andrew Cree, Wm. Halliday and wife, John Herbert,
John Hunter and Margaret his wife.
George Manson, Elizabeth his wife, and daughters Jessie,
Margaret, and Elizabeth.
George Gratton, Janet his wife, daughter Agnes, and
another, in all four.
William Young and his family.
John Douglass, Charles Fairweather, John Thompson,
Hugh Urquhart, Mary Calder.
Andrew Graham, Margaret his wife, son Walter and
family, in all five.
John Reid, Elizabeth his wife, and daughter Janet.
Donald Johnstone, wife and child.
Margaret Currie, Janet M`Phee and another, W. Colvin
and two of his family.
W. Cowan and family, seven in all.
Elizabeth Gibson and child, Colin Noble, E. Ramsay,
Mary Calder.
J. Wilson and family, slx in all.
Total, 69 souls.
The other passengers from the John M'Kenzie,
who were not on board the Montieal, not having
left Quebec, were—Messrs. Copeland and Smart,
cabin passengers ; John Collier and his family,
eight in number, steerage passengers ; and one
Rowan.
Toe following are the names of the 58 Scotch
passengers (emigrants landed from the John
M'Keuzie) who were saved from the burning
steamboat, or picked up out of the water by the
steamer Napoleon, which came up soon after the
Montreal was run aground. The relatives whom
these survivors have lost are in most cases specified
below :

Mary Ann Hannah, Thomas Christian, her son—Lost :
her husband, Daniel Christian; her sons Daniel, 20, and
Edward, 7 years of age ; her daughters Eliza Jane, 13, and
Mary Ann, 9 years of age ; they were going to Barry, to
John Pierce, joiner.
Hugh, John, Rodrick, and Catherine M'Lean, 40, and
their sister Mary, 9 years of age.
William Cowell—Lost : his brother-in-law, Wm. Doonie,
22 years of age, married, left family in Scotland.
Catherine M'Kenzie, 12 years of age—Lost : all her
family; her mother, Catherine Junor, wife of William
M'Kenzie, 42 years of age ; her brothers George, 12, John,
20, David, 16, William, 14, Robert, 6 ; her sisters Isabelle,
24, and Annie, 9 years of age ; they were going to their
father, Wm. M'Kenzie, farmer, 40 miles we* of London,

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Margaret Corbett, 28 years of age, single, came out with
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the last-named family • no destination.
William Douglas, 14 years of age—Lost all his friends,
viz., his father, Jas. Douglas, 52 years of age; his mother,
Jennie Douglas, 40 years of age ; his brothers John, 20,
Thomas, 18, Alexander, 16, Peter, 10, George, 8, Lock-
hart, 6 ; and his aunt, Honors. Douglas, 50 years of age.
Margaret Wallace, wife of John Dickson, 55 years of
age—Lost : her son, Adam Dickson, 23 ; her niece, Eliza-
beth Wallace, 22 years of age ; going to St. Mathias, near
Chambly, C. E., to her brother, John Wallace.
James Malcolmson, 19 years of age, had no one belong-
ing to him; is going to Toronto, to Smith and Wills, con-
fectioners.
William Nicholson, 21 years of age—Lost : his father,
T. Nicholson, 56; going to Toronto, looking for work.
John Macintyre, 26 years of age, single, from Perthshire;
Win. going to Shakespere, C. W., to his cousin, W. m,c y,
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John Hunter, 19 years of age, from Cadabana, near
Glasgow.
Margaret Galagham, 19 years old( from Glasgow, single
going to her brother and sister in Chicago.

James M`Quinn, 46 years old, from Bellings-sky, Io-
Terness-shire—Alexander, his son, 14 ; Nancy, his
daughter, 17—Lost : his wife, Mary M`Quinn, 40 year] of
age ; daughter Catharine, 2) ; Flora, 11; Christie, 10;
son m•dd, 8 ; John, 9 months old : they were going to
his two brothers west of Hamilton.
Charles S. Cameron, 30 years old, single, from Glasgow :
destination Montreal.

Archibald M`Callister, 30 years, from Argyleshire ;
Mary M`Gachy, 50, his m:..ther : Alexander MT:Mister,
his brother, 18 ; Malcolm, 16; Alexander Colwell, his
cousin—Lost : his father, John M'Callister, 52 years old;
sister, Euphemie M'Callister, 28 ; brother, Duncan M'Cal-
lister, 10 : they were going to their brother in Darlington.
Mrs. James Wylie, 32 years of ago, from Greenock—
Lost : her husband, James Wylie, 33 years old ; son
Hugh, 9 ; daughter Mary 7 ; Elizabeth Wylie, 4 months
old : they were going to her brother, engineer Great
Western Railroad, Hamilton.
Colin Sinclair, 88 years of age, from Argyleshire; Mary
Sinclair, 60, his wife—Lost ; their son, Peter Sinclair, 21
years old : they wera going to their son in March-hill,
Canada West.
Wm. Black, 23 years of age, from Dundee, single : going
to his un.;lo, James Beattie, Toronto.
John Haige, 30 years old, from Glasgow—Lost : his
wife, Eliz tbeth Haige, 30 years of age : going to Toronto,
to his cousin, Mary M'Brido.
Wm. M'Lsod, 36 years old, from Bridgetown, Glasgow :
left his wife and child in Glasgow : going to Hamilton.
David Milne, 33 years of age, from Arbroath ; David
Milne, his eon, 7 years of age—Lost : his wife, Elizabeth
Kennyou, 31 years of age; daughter Ann Milne, 13; son
Will'am, 11 ; James, 9; daughter Betsie, 5; Jane, 15
months : going to Toronto, blacksmiths.
Ann Murray, E 0 years of age—Lost : her husband Wm.
Ferricksou ; going to Toronto to her brother-in-law.
Hugh Stewar I, 21 years old, from E linburg,h, single,
going to his uncle, Hugh Brown, Merrickville.

- Mary Pettigrew, 2t years old, from Lanark, near Glas-
gow, going to friends in Chicago.
John Lublin, 33 years old, from Ne wry, county Ar-
magh, Ireland—Lost : his wife Ann Sutherland ; going to
Chicago.
Andw. Adams, 21 years old, from Perth, Scotland—
Lost : his wife Margaret Adams, 23 years old ; has no
friends ; is an engineer.
Alex. Knox, 22 years of age, from Glasgow, single, a
joiner.

Cath. Clarke, 45 years of age, from near Edinburgh ;
Cith. Clarke, her daughter, 15 years old—Lost: her hus-
band, John Clarke, 50 years old, shepherd; her children,
Archibald, 21, Christine, 18; Margaret, 14; Jessy, 6 ;
they were going to Stratford, C. W', to her brother, John
lirLaren, farmer.

MrA. Manuel, 40 years old, from Lanark, near Glasgow :
Jas. Manuel, her son, 17 years of age—Lost : her daughter,
14 years old ; Elizabeth, 11; Jeanette, 9 ; going to her
husband, Rob3rt Manuel, farmer, Ottawa City.
Charles M'Kay, 55 years old, from Glasgow, left his fa-
mily at home ; going to friends near Toronto.
Margaret Broomfield, 29 years of age, from Edinburgh ;
Jesse, her daughter, 9 years old ; William her son, 12
months—Lost : her daughter Catherine, 11 years, and
Margaret, 5; going to her husband, Andrew Broomfield,
Toronto, engineer, Grand Trunk Railroad.
John Campbell, 18 years old, from Paisley ; Maria
Campbell, his sister, 17 years old—Lost; his mother, Ca-
therine M'lntyre, 52 years old ; his sisters, Catherine, 23,
and Henrietta, 20; going to St. Thomas, C. W., to J.
M'lntyre, farmer.
Alexander Macbeth, 30 years old, from Caithness—Lost :
his wife Margaret M`Pherson, 29 years of age ; son John
Macbeth, 4 months, going to Stockwood, C. W.
Mary McLean, 23 years of Age, from Ayrshire; Archi-
bald Beatty, her son, 5 years old ; left her husband Archi-
bald Beatty at home ; going to Brock, C. W.
Alexander Watson, 23 years of ago, from the Island of
Arran, left his family at home, going to Hamilton, to his
uncle John Ford.

Robert Wilson, 28 years of age, from Paisley ; Robert,
his son, 6 years old—Lost : his wife Mary Cameron 27
years of age ; son John Wilson, 4 years of age ; cousin
Marion Wilson, 17 years of age; friend Jane Colquhoun,
20 years of age, going to Port Dover.
Wm. Graham, 40 years of age, from Paisley ; left his
wire and two children at home, going to London.
Catherine M'Arthur, 17 years of age, from Castletown,
Aberdeenshire—Lost : her father, D. M. Arthur, 45 years;
going to London, C. W.
Joseph Grant, 20 years of age from Glasgow, single, des-
tination Montreal.

Those saved reported that of their own friends they had
lost 83, as above stated.

The emigrants saved are mostly in a destitute
condition, but are taken care of at the St. Andrew's
Home, Quebec. We select from the Canadian
journals, a few affecting incidents of this great
tragedy, which has caused the deepest sorrow and
sympathy throughout the colony.
While bodies were being recognised at Quebec,
the scene was most lamentable. Wives looking for
the dead bodies of husbands ; husbands looking for
those of wives ; fathers looking for children ; chil-
dren for fathers, and brothers for sisters—it was a
sight never to be forgotten. Frequently would
you hear the wild agonising shriek of a female as
she discovered the lost one, and the smothered
choking sob of the strong man, as he came upon
the cold bodies of those dear to him.
Amongst the survivors was a venerable man
named Sinclair, 88 years of age, and somewhat in-
firm. He, too, was searching for a loved one lost.
As he examined face after face he kept saying,
"No, no, that's not him ; that's not my lad," and
his search proved fruitless for the time. He and his
wife, also very old, were both saved, but their son,
a young man of 20, after making superhuman
exertions—which God blessed—to save his parents,
himself perished. 'Tomas a noble death to die. He
was a universal favourite with those on board. His
care of his aged parents, his watchfulness and soli-
citude for their comfort, seem to have been above
all praise.

Ono young man among the rescued mourns as
one almost bereft of hope or chance of comfort. He
left the mother country with his only sister, full of
life and courage, fitted for the struggle in this new
world. When the alarm was given, his sister,
frightened of the water, clung to his knees, and be-
sought him na `o leap into the river. He, believing
their only chance of safety lay in that direction,
leapt, taking her in his arms. Struggling to the
surface, he lost hold of her. She sank, to rise no
more ; and he feels himself half guilty of her death,
and is like to go distracted.
Among the noteworthy incidents of the disaster
was the saving of her two children by Mrs. Bloom-
field, whose husband is in the employlof the Grand
Trunk Company at Toront 3. She held to a rope
with one band, keeping the head of one child above
water with the other, and holding the other by fas-
tening her teeth in its dress. So heavy wasthe load
that two of her teeth gave way and were lost; yet
she still retained her hold. At last a boat came
towards her, and men were screaming around her to
he taken aboard. She could not scream, but a man
seeing her situation brought the boat to her, telling
them she needed aid most. Then her strength gave
way at the prospect of relief and safety, and sbe
came near drowning ere she could be lifted into the
boat. She is a slight, delicate woman in appear-
ance, and one wonders how she was able to endure
so much.
The sub-cook of the steamer, of the name of
Lamontagne, wrenched the door off his room, and
being a most expert swimmer, succeeded in saving
eight children, at different trips, on his door. We
call this youth a hero. Another, a gentleman from
Toronto, had collected some five or six children,
whose parents were lost, into a place, not much ex-
posed to the fire. He stood by the bereaved, ter-
rified, and helpless little oneq, and was the last,
with them, to leave the burning wreck. We are
sorry we cannot give his name.
Mr. John Brown, of Quebec, says that when he
heard the cry of fire the passengers ran to where he
was, so that it was impos-ible to move. Many, he
thinks, were crushed to death. The long boat was
then lowered, but so many jumped in that she sank
at once. Among those in it, he perceived his wife,
and jumping overboard he caught the tackling
which still held the long boat, and holding on with
ono arm, he caught his wife in the other, and held
by the rope until it was burned,, when he sank with
his wife into the water and remained unconscious
until picked up. When taken out of the water his
clothes were all bunted. He believes that every
one in the long boat, with the exception of his wife
whom he saved, perished.

Mr. J. Meiklestates that he went down with his
brother to meet their father, an old man between
70 and 80, and sister, with her four children.
He was sitting in the saloon with his father after
the boat had left Quebec, when his brother came
in, and said they need not be afraid ; the boat
had been on fire, but the flames had been put out.
He then left them, and they saw him no more.
Within a few minutes, however, the smoke became
insufferable, and the flames burst through. His
father's clothes caught fire, and notwithstanding all
efforts to save him; the father was burned to death.
The sister and her children wore saved.
Some anecdotes are related of a very different
character. It is said that the captain himself, who
was saved, was seen to strike a woman's knuckles
as she grasped the boat in which he was, and
thrust her back into the water. Many of the dead
bodies were plundered by a gang of ruffians on
shore, and large sums of money, in one case several
hundred pounds, trken from the pockets of the
dead, whose surviving relatives are thus made
penniless in a strange land. It is stated that the
foreman of some raftsmen, in the employ of Messrs.
Hamilton, of Hawkesbury, C.E., who was on board
the Napoleon with his men, and bad their batteau
with them, refused at first to allow it to be
be
elapulnecahseedd:
saying he feared his employers would not
The captain of the Napoleon threatened to pitch
him overboard, and the indignation of the passengers
was roused against him. Some of the crew of the
Napoleon then launched the batteau, and the
lumbermen having helped to man it, it rendered
most effective service, and a large number of per-
sons were saved in it.
Much blame has been cast upon the captain, and
on the owners of the vessel, by the local journals,
but the inquest, if it be properly conducted
should prove where lies the fault. It seems that at
the place where the Montreal was run towards the
shore a reef intervenes which prevented her reach-
ing it. A short distance below is a bay and sandy
beach. If she had been run on there all might
have been saved.
A Toronto paper says :—" Although the steam-
boat was insured for a large amount, we learn from
• good authority that the agent of a western. insur-

ance company refused to take a risk on herots did
also the agent of an English insurance company.. in
this city. The reasons for Ruch refusal, we are
told, were the unsafe condition of the -:boat, and
lisr liability to take fire."