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AMERICAN NE

GREAT HRES'AT QUEBEC AND

NEW YORK.

LIVERPOOL; TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 4 O'CLOCK".
The New York packet-ship Cambridge, Capt. Barstow, has
just arrived at this part from New York, which city she left on
the 2d inst., and consequently made the passage home in 21
days. She brings a number of both cabin and steerage pas-
sengers. Sailing so shortly after the' steam-ship Britannia,
the mrs contained in the New York papers is devoid of po-
liticalinterest, but we regret to state that the accounts from
Canada are of a most distressing nature. One of those dread-
ful conflagrations, for which the North American provinces
are remarkable, has made shocking ravages in Quebec. We
give it as forwarded to us in anticipation of the American
papers :

New York, June 2, 1845.
I avail myself of the departure of the Cambridge f)r Liverpool,
to send the following account of an awful and destructive fire at
Quebec, which has just reached my hands by express from Quebec.
Yours, &c., CHAS. K. WILLMER.

A most destructive fire took place at Quebec, where, it seems,
2,000 houses have been destroyed, and 12,000 persons rendered
houseless ! The fire commenced shortly before mid-day on the 28th
of May, in a tannery in St. Valliere-streek
The day was remarkably warm, and the heat and,dryness of the
few days previous had rendered the roofs of the buildings in the
neighbourhood, and those more remote, highly susceptible of igni-
tion. The adjoining and opposite dwellings were soon involved,
and in an inconceivably short space of time the burning flakes,
carried afar by the then rising wind, bad ignited some buildings in
the neighbourhood of the St. Roch's Church—a considerable dis-
tance ftom the outbreak of the fire.
The wind gradually freshened from the west, with a coming
storm, and it was soon evident that all human endeavours to
arrest the progress of the fire in a locale studded, for the most
part, with wooden buildings, alone would be useless—an im-
pression but too fatally verified. Onward swept the flames—street
after street fell before them. A species of whirlwind seemed to
aid its fatal advances—for in advance, in the rear, on every side,
the raging element developed itself with momentarily increasing
fury. Spots that to the shrieking and affrighted refugee were now
apparently safe, in a few minutes subsequent were wrapped in a
vast sheet of flames.
From eleven in the morning until midnight did this dread fire
hold uninterrupted sway, until its career was arrested in St.
Charles-street—nearly one mile from the place of its outbreak!
At the broadest point the breadth of the burnt district is about one-
third of a mile.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 houses are supposed to have been
consumed, and it is calculated that 12,000 persons (one-third
of the population) are this day houseless. Most of these people
have lost their all, the rapid advance, and sudden carricious
directions taken by the flame, not only rendering it impossible to
save any portion of the property in the dwellings, but in a vast
number of instances barely allowing the inmates sufficient time to
escape living.
The church in St. Rosh's is in ashes. The convent is saved. St.
Peter's Chapel is also burnt. The large brewing establishments
of Messrs. Lloyd and Lepper and M`Cullum are consumed, and
the line of wharfs from Munn's to the one at the foot of Hope
Hill, On these were an immense quantity of deals, which were
all consumed.

At this point the fire was arrested by throwing down the piles of
deals, and on the town side by blowing up two houses. This opera-
tion was conducted by Lieut—Colonel Warde, of the Royal Engi-
neers, and some of the officers and men under his command.

Two Methodist churches were also burnt. The Artillery Bar-
rack was three times in danger. A general meeting had been
called, attended by 3,000 persons, at which between 3,000/. And
4,0001. were collected on behalf of the sufferers. At Montreal steps
were being taken to aid the unfortunate persons who have lost their
all by the calamity.

The most painful event was the destruction of the hospital, to
which, as being considered entirely out of the reach of the con.
flagration, numbersof sick persons of all classes were carried. The
building became ignited by the flakes of fire carried from the dis_
tance by the wind; the unfortunate inmates, unable to help them-
selves, perished miserably.

The losses by the mercantile lower town people will be heavy.
Almost all the bakers are burned out—M'Conkey, Clarihue,
Tourangeau, &c., and nothing saved. What renders matters more
disastrous Is, not one house in ten in St. Rock's was insured, and
those insured are principally at the Mutual Insurance Company,
which being composed of persons resident at St. Roch's, the
company is defunct, for if one man owes his neighbour 10s., and
his neighbour owts him 10s., and neither have wherewith to pay,
both are ruined.

Every exertion was made to relieve the unfortunate sufferers.
Lord Metcalfe forwarded 2,0001. for their relief; the Catholic
bishop sent 5001., and the Hotel Dieu 5001. The good bishop
has addressed a circular letter to his clergy, imploring subscriptions
for the poor families thus deprived of a home and an asylum, and
suggesting the calling of public meetings in every parish for
that purpose, together with contributions of clothing, money, and
previsions.

The loss of life, according to one of the accoun•s, exceeds one

hundred persons ! and the loss of property Is said to be above
750,0004 Eighteen schooners were burnt at the Palai-. " No-
thing left," s:sys one of the letters from the scene of the conflagra-
.

tion, " from where you begin to descend Cote les Bra: at Tou-
rangeau's, running down the large street towards the Marine
Hospital; everything on the right until you reach the water,
thence to the two distilleries, M'Cullum and Lloyd's, these in-

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eluded, is destroyed : the fire ending, or rather being arrested, at
the point where the roads St. Paul.street and Hope.hill diverge.
The loss in round numbers cannot be easily ascertained, but half
a million will nut cover the losses, nor perhaps 750,0001."

New York, we regret to find, has also btu' the scene
of a similar, though not so extensive, a calamity as that of
Quebec. By the New York fire, which occurred on Saturday
night, the 31st ultimo, one hundred buildings and twenty-
five horses have been burned, and four hundred families left
destitute. The greater portion of the demolished buildings
are represented as "poor shanties," occupied mostly by Irish
families. It is said that not fifty dollars' worth of furniture
or property of any kind has been saved by any of these poor
individuals, and not twenty of them all have been saved.
" Nothing," writes the New Fork Tribune," can be conceived
so utterly sad and pitiful as the condition of these three
thousand men, women, and children (for the number will
reach that), thus in an instant reduced to absolute want and
hunger, shelterless, and many of them unclad, and with only
a blanket about their shoulders. They are sitting weeping
and starving under the fences, and in the vacant lots, crowded
into cow-pens and out-houses—the middle-lifed, the young,
the decrepid, aged—the helpless infant—what a scene !" The
same paper humanely suggests that a public meeting, for the
relief of the sufferers, should be held without delay.
In the commercial affairs of the United States nothing
worthy of notice had occurred from the time of the sailing
of the Britannia to the departure of the Cambridge.

There was but a moderate amount of busi►iess done for
the steam-ship Britannia. English bills of exchange were
offered at 1093%; France, 5. 25.
The account of the weather and crops throughout the
United States is rather encouraging, and in many parts the
approaching harvest is represented as likely to be both early
and abundant.

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LOUR' Tlitr
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eke at Whippingharn Church en Sunday lest.
Her Majcsiy and her 11,13 al Consort, at ded by Lady
Portman, Colonel Bowles, Mr. G. o, Hon. Colonel
Grey, and ArOjnr-Gen ' returned to o:borne-
Houre, shortly before five o'clock on Monday afterno.in, fry to
inspecting the fleet. The Earl of Aberdeen did not return
with the royal party, but proceeded to town.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party in
the evening.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert walked in the
forenoon is the grounds of Osborne House.
The juveniie Royal family were taken an airing in an open
carriage, yesterday morning, in the rides adjoining Osborne
House.

His Excellency Sami Pacha and Suite have a-rived from
Parts. His Excellency has taken up his residence with the
Ottoman Ambassador. at liryanstone-square.
The Ecclesiastical Conirni,ioners for England had a meet-
ing, yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall- place.
There-were present the Archbislrp of York, the Bishops of
London, Durham, VVinchrs:er, Bangor, Chichester, Ety, G.ou-
cester and Bristol, Here-ord, Lichfield, 11,,clicsier, Sa'c.burt,
Worcester, the Lord Pres'dent of the Council, the Chaneellor
r.f the Exchequer, the Earl of Besborough, the E-r 1 of Chi-
chester, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the R:ght lion.
H. flobbowe, the Right Hon John Nicholls, and the Dean
cf 'Werminster.

Mr. E. W. E3re lad an interview with Lord Starh'y yrs-
terday at the Colonial Office. Mr. N. Balfour tiad also an in-
terview with his Lordship. The Post-Vaster General had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Excliequer yesterday at
his official residence in Downing-street Mr. henry Carey
Lad also an interview with the light Hon. Gentleman. Lord
Wharneliffe, Lord President of tke Connell, arrived in town
on Monday moreing from Wortley Hall, Yorkshire.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Of ee
fiom the Governor of New South Wales. Dispatches were
sent off last evening from the Colonial Office for the Governor
of Hong Kong, and also for the Governor of Van Diemen's
Land,

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER-
TAINMENTS,-JACOBITE MINSTRELSY.

On Monday evening, at the Mu is Hall, Store-street,.
Mr. Wilson repeated this, the most popular and stirring
of all his entertainments, illustrative of that eventful
perio l of the history of Scoeand during which the ad-
herents of the ill-fated house of Stuart endeavoured to
re-establish the power and authority of that fallen
dynasty. Mr. Wil,on was in excellent voice, and sung
the several songs with great feeling and animation,
calling forth repeated bursts of applause, and several
encores,- among which were, " Cam ye by Atholl,"
" John-Aie Cope," " There were twa bonny Alaieens,"and
" Allister .MttAllister." What added to the cif- et of the
I entertainment on this occasion, and in excellent keeping
with the object in view—she representation, through the
medium of s:mg, of high courage, resolution, and
devoted attachment of the people of Scotland to the
cause of the lloue of Stuart—WAS the attendance of
the boys of the Caledonian Asylum, in .full Highland
costume, who excited general admiration for the striking
and picturesque illustration they afforded of the " Garb
of old Gaul," and of the time when the " Heather was
on fire," and the mountain glens of the far north poured
forth their devoted thousands to rally round the standard
of the " Young Chevalier." Mr. Wilson, we perceive,
is to repeat-the " Adventures of Prince Charles" on
Monday -next.

MUSIC.
SONGS IN THE ENCHANTRESS.
" She is seen where the vapours of morn arise."—
" When slumber's pinions o'er me ploy."—" Oh, hither
plume thy wing.' —" She loves • him."—" Woman's
heart."—" The young Nadir."—" The love almost sub-
lime I felt.''

The a';ove are all from the opera of The Enehait css,
they are set for the piano-forte, by the composer him-
self, and we cannot but admire the musical talent of
Belie, in so admirably expressing in the piano-
forte accompaninu-nts the orchestral effrets of
the full score. To praise that which has already re-
ceived, and is nightly receiving, the enthusiastic appro-
bation of the whole musical world, would be a work of
supererogation, and we doubt not but the mus.ic will
become as popular in the drawing-room as it already is
on :he stage. No. 5, " Woman's Heart," is the ( xquisite
sung suet; by Aiadame Thilloll in the second act, com-
mencing with the words " A youthful knight," a song
that is always honoured with a double encore.

THEY LED HER FROM THE COTTAGE
HOME. Words by Miss Cushman. Music by Mr.
H. J. St Leger.

A song from- the pen of the greatest living tragic
actress is a literary curiosity. This exquisite little
lyric proves that Mi,s Cushman's poetical powers are of
a very high order. The sentiment is very beautiful, arid
has been beautifully expressed by Mr. St. Leger in the
tasteful melody to which he has adapted the words.

THE NEW REDO WA POLKA, as danced at the
Thincess's 7'heat e by Mr. and Miss Marshall.
C9mposed by Carlo

This is one of the most agreeable of the many Polkas
with which we have of late been inundated, and, unlike
many of its rivals, its merits will probably cause it to
outlive the present Polkamania. We hope frequently
to meet Signor Minasi as a comp-_,ser.

PUBLIC PROMENADES BY THE RIVER
THAMES.
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The elegant Qnd magnificent conceptions of Martin,
which about twenty y 4 ars ago elicited the admiration of
peers and patriots, prelates and philosophers, are about
being realised by a Joint-Stock Company. A noble
esplanade for public promenades is prosaised on the
n 4z-tit bank of the River Thames, and a Moorsom—not a
Martin—is the man to do it. Many Ministers have
talked about it, but none have attempted it. the object
has often been declared a great deside, aura for this
mighty metropolis, but—" where was the cash to come
from ?" The " ignorant impatience of taxation "
frightened many a willing Premier, and was pleLded by
many an unwilling Chancellor of the Exchequer. A
Joint-Stock Company is to effect this great work " for a;
consideration." The poet sings—
" Self-love when puslt'd to social is divine;"
and though public companies may be said, i❑ the lan-
guage of a popular orator, to have "no hearts and
cannot feel," it must not be added that they have "no
heads and cannot think." The promoters of this Com-
pany have thought; and, with 5 per cent. compound in-
terest fur the cost of the Promenade above, and indefi-
nite profits for the Railway below, there is now little)
doubt that another "lung" will shortly be given to Lon-
don.— Globe.

PLYMOUTIL JUNE 20.—The Great Britain iron
steam-ship made an excursion round the Eddystone thin morning.
She left Milibay pier, the tide half ebb, at a quarter to nine
o'clock, and arrived at the Eddystone at five minutes after ten
o'clock. There were about 500 passengers on board. Tickets, ss.
On returning the ship was several times suddenly stopped, owing
to the heated state of some parts of the main bearings of her Im-
mense engines, There was no wind, tha sea smooth, and the
weather warm, the thermometer being seventy in the shade. On
the occurrence of these stoppages the machinery was allowed to cool,
and when again put in motion, plentifully supplied with water
poured from a hose-pipe. The machinery of all new engines is
liable to this casualty. It may be recollected that when her Ma-
jesty's steamer Penelope made her first trip down channe', her
paddle boxes became ignited from the same cause. On entering
the Sound, while under way, Captain Hosken had the helm put
hard a.port, and turned the immense ship completely round in
about six minutes, and then, by reversing the screw, had her
worked astern, and having stopped her way, turned her round in a
circle, the diameter of which scarcely exceeded her own length.
Her passengers, and the spectators crowded on the heights
ashore, appeased highly gratified by these evolutions, which
furnished undeniable evidence of one of the numerous advan-
tages derivable from this method of propulsion. At twelve
o'clock she landed her passengers at the pier, and in the
afternoon departed for Dublin. The visit of the Great Britain
steam. ship to Plymouth has fully proved the utility of the Millbay
Pier, recently constructed by Mr. T. Gill, M.P. During the stay
of that immense vessel, from the 14th to the 20th instant, about
15,000 persons have been on board, without accident, and although
322 feet long, and drawing 16 feet when loaded, she lay as securely
alongside as if she had been in the London Docks. Within four
years upwards of 100,000 tons of rough stone, 37,000 feet of
wrought stone, and 1,000 loads of timber, have been deposited
here; and through the perseverance of a gentleman, single.
handed, and at an expenditure approaching 30,0001., a pier has
been constructed capable of accommodating the longest ship in the
world.

SPORTING AT PARIS.-ALLEGED FORGERY IN
Hien LIFE. —A circumstance has just occurred which has caused
the greatest astonishment in the upper circles of Paris. Prince de
B—, twenty-two years of age, married, about eleven months
back, to the daughter of a a rich banker, was arrested on Thursday,
and committed to prison, on a charge of forgery, committed under the
following circumstances :—Tbe Jockey Club, in order to facilitate
the payments of racing and other debts, have been in the habit of
using counters made of ivory, stained red, bearing the year on one
side and the signature of the secretary on the other, each represent-
ing 100 f. Some time back, Prince de B—, who is not a member of
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caalssohafobranthkeemr,. ten
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t.teheforcgoeurrisees.of
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tary tothese l counters,ub,
immediately proceeded to the banker's, and the Prince was
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sent for. He declared unhesitatingly that he had received them at
the races of Chantilly, in payment of a bet, from a person on the
course, whose name he believed to be Zarlatti, an Italian, whose
address he did not know. A complaint was lodged before M. St,
Didier, Juge d'lnstruction, who at once instituted inquiries, and suc_
ceeded in discovering the man who had made the counters. This
person declared he had received the order for them from a young
man whom he had seen only twice, and whose person he could not
well describe. He delivered them, he said, as he would prove by
his books, on May 24. This deposition was in flat contradic-
tion with the account of Prince de 13.--
fixed , who had
May IS as the day on which he received them aten
nied
Chantilly. The Prince then declared that they had b
to him by certain of his friends; but these gentlemen dehanded
in
the most formal manner the truth of this allegation. The
maker of the counters and the Prince were then
confronted, and
the former at once recognised the latter as the person who had
given him the order. The Prince then burst into tears, and
avowed that it was he who had himself circulated the twenty five
counters, twenty.two of which have come into the club. Be.was
at once committed to prison for forgery. What makes this case
the more extraordinary is, that the young man is not only rich.
but was brought up most religiously. It is difficult to account
for such an act, unless by supposing that his reason is affected.—
Gahgnani.

,1 HE LATE THOMAS 1100 D.—We are glad to ,
ob-
serve that the example of Manchester, in starting a local subscrip-
tion in aid of the Hood Fund, is being followed in other large
towns, and that the provincial journals are beginning to call
public attention in their respective districts to this excel..
lent object. A paragraph in the Bath Chronicle of Thum
day last announces the opening of a subscription in that
city and ' its neighbourhood ; the result of which will, we
doubt not, be such as to place Bath on a line with Manchester for-
liberality, and for as intelligent appreciation of literary genius,.
These unsolicited efforts on behalf of the deceased poet's farniku
occurring spontaneously in districts so widely remote,
ua:nedajw "
he
classes of such diverse interests and pursuits, bear witness to the
general estimation in which Mr. Hood's veisatile powers re held;
and give something of a national character to the de4Wonsajimor:
now making in his honour.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has aeon eng,g.edi
during the preceding week in holding conflrMations at Rains •
Deal, Faversham, and other places in his diottsc.