The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-31 00:00:00

INCOME WITHOUT

THE LONDON GEN U!.2:14: COM-
PANT, established Nov. 5, 1818, at 2& tedgate hill, are
now filling up their Lists of AGENTS; and PersolistlesironS of such
an appointment, by which many have derived considerable incomes
without risk during the last twenty-six years, are requested to
apply to the Company, at their Warehouses, 2, Laurence Pountney-
hill, London.

SECOND CALAMITOUS FIRE AT
QUEBEC.
It is with feelings of the deepest concern that the Committee in
London for the relief of the sufferers have to announce to the public
the occurrence of ANOTHER FIRE IN QUEBEC, almost equal,
both in extent and in the value of property destroyed, to that which
took place on the 28th of May, only a month before. The Corn-
tnittee have received from various quarters the most distressing ac-
counts of this second fearful calamity, and of the dreadful misery
entailed by these two conflagrations upon nearly 20,000 of our fellow-
subjects, but at present they confine themselves to a reference to
the subjoined second appeal from the Committee of Correspondence
at Quebec.
The Committee, whilst acknewledgiug with gratitude the aid
which has alreay reached them in behalf of the sufferers from the
first fire, take leave to remark that the contributions, though liberal,
are from a comparatively few corporations and individua!s ; they do,
therefore, trust that this further severe di.pensation of God's Provi-
dence will awaken a far more general sympathy in behalf of the
sufferers, as without a much greater assistance in money, clothes,
• bedding, &c., the Committee are assured that many of the poor must
inevitably perish in the course of the coming winter.
The Committee will shortly announce at what places in town con-
tributions of clothing, bedding, &c., will be received for transmission
to Quebec.

TO TIIE INHABITANTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IR e]LAND.
FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN AND FRIENDS,
Scarcely had the inhabitants of Quebec begun to recover in some
degree from the horror, confusion, and dismay of the conflagration
on the 28th May last, which compelled them to make their former
appeal to your benevolence, when it pleased an overruling Provi-
dence to visit them with another similar and even greater calamity.
On the night of the 28th June, nearly the whole remaining part of
the suburb of St. John, which the former fire had spared, find a
large part of the suburb.of St. Lewis, were reduced to ashes; begin-
ning, as on the former occasion, at the extreme windward point of the
suburb, and fed by a sale of wind from the eastward, (to which quar-
ter the wind had changed in the evening of that day, after blowing
from the westward for nearly a r rtnight), the fire spread
with irresistible fury through the length and breadth of both
suburbs. The buildings, almost entirely of wood, fell before its
rage with even greater rapidity than those on the 28th of May. In
eight hours, of more than 1,200 dwellings, two places of worship,
three school-houses, and numerous stores and outhouses, nothing
remained but blackened chimneys, roofless walls, and piles of ruins.
The burial-ground of the Protestant population has been traversed
by the fire, and its wooden and marble memorials of the dead to a
great extent injured or destroyed; and in passing through this dis-
trict, which lately contained the homes of 9,000 inhabitants, neither
man, woman, or child is now to be met, except a few stragglers
from curiosity surveying the desolation. Several thousands of those
whose dwellings had been destroyed In the heat conflagration had
here found shelter by the kindness ani hospitality of their charitable
fellow-citizens ; and were thus again driven forth, involved in one
common ruin with those who had harboured them. The morning
of Sunday, the 29th June, dawned upon more than 15,000 people
whom the flames had left without shelter or food, scattered, with the
effects they had been able to save, over the fields and open spaces
without the walls, or flying to the neighbouring settlements. As on
the former occasion, a third part of the city has fallen a prey to the
flames ; and Quebec on the landward side is reduced to limits not
much larger than it possessed when Wolfe fell before Its walls. But
the last calamity may be said to be far greater than the former, as
falling upon a large number of those who had suffered then, de-
priving them of their last shelter, consuming a larger amount of
property, either uninsured or for which the owners, being them-
selvea holders of stock in the insurance companies, must bear their
own loss, and utterly destroying the resources of a large class of the
population who would have been still able to succour those who had
been cast upon their charity.
as stated in our former appeal, the contributions of those who
had then come forward to the relief of the sufferers had melted, or
perhaps even exceeded the limit of their means, our fellow-country-
men will feel that our present further appeal to their charity is not
without too just a cause. Still are we ming every exertion within
our ability to alleviate the public misfortune ; many have lied for
ever from a city which appears to them to be under a doom, or have
found present shelter in other parts of the province ; but the inha-
bitants who have received them are themselves too poor to keep
them long, and they will probably return to the city before the
winter.
Looking forward with alarm to the state in which we shall be
when the winter comes upon us, with two-thirds of the city in ruins,
and nearly two-thirds of its population, of the productive and indus-
trious classes, reduced almost to the level of pauperism, but yet
anxious to keep and maintain them among us, and to recal those who
have gone away—we again appeal for aid to our fellow-subject.. With-
out their further aid, Quebec, the resort of an amount of British ship-
ping larger than in any transatlantic port, and an extensive mart of
British commerce, must long remain what it now is, an almost ruined
and depopulated city. With that aid, and with the assistance ex-
pected from the Imperial Parliament, and that promised by the pro-
vincial government for present relief and towards rebuilding the
city with materials less liable to destruction by fire—and with our
own vigorous exertions, we yet hope, under the blessing of Provi-
dence, that it may in the lapse of no long time regain something of
its former prosperity, and even find its present unexampled calami-
ties issuing in Its lasting advantage.
G. J. MONTREAL,
1.1 P. F. EVEQUE DE SIDTME,
Coadinteur de Quebec,

J. NEILSON, ,
W. WALKER,
A. W. COCIIRAN,
J. C. FISHER,
Committee of Correspondence.

Quebec, July 7, 1845.

FOR the MOORS.—The Heather Shooting
Jacket, 11. 111 s. •' ter the Park or Street, the Llama-cloth
Paletot, 21.2 e. ; for the Seaside or Continental Travelling, the Paletot
d'Ete, 11. 10s. All NICOLL'S, registered of Llaia Wool according
to the 6th and ith Vic., cap. 65
Address, 114, Regent-street, London.

SHOOTING.—The Heather-coloured JACKET
of Llama Wool retains the principles of Shape given la Nicoll's
Registered Paletot. There are many gentlemen who have no liking
for field sports, yet would much incline to the Registered Jacket, it
not confining the chest and giving a general sense of freedom ; no
alight recommendation for the library •r the early morning walk in
the ciountry ; but the Registered Jacket, for the purpose designed,
viz., shooting, is truly good. The Heather recommended, but many
patterns may be seen at most of the agents in the principal country
towns, or at the spacious Warehouses, 114, Regent-street, London.
H. J. and D. NICOLL, twenty paces north of the Quadrant.

TABLE and DESERT KNIVES in CASES.
MECIII, Cutler, 4, Lealenhall-street, has an excellent variety
of perfectly new patterns in ivory, pearl, and agate DESERT
KNIVES in CASES, and every description of Table Knife, excellent
in quality and reasonable in price. Also a variety of Knife
Sharpeners, several new patterns. Wharncliffe Penknives, Scissors,
Razors, Strops, Paste, and Shaving Brushes, &c. His Ram Strops
and Paste are well worth the attention of those who find shaving
difficult.

1 NEW NIGHT LIGHT.
CLARKE'S PATENT MORTAR LAMPS,
and PATENT LIMP MORTARS.
For elegance, simplicity, and cleanliness, this Night Light is very
far superior to any hitherto submitted to the public. To Medical
Gentlemen, invalids, and all persons requiring a night light, this
invention will prove invaluable, being the best, safest, and most
economical over produced ; it will also be serviceable in bans and
passages. It can be carried in perfect safety without extinguishing
the light, supplying a desideratum that has long been felt. It Is free
from danger, uncertain burning, and the offensive odour and smoke
arising from rushlights and other night lights,and so portable that it will
be found a great comfort to ladies or invalids travelling. Price of the
Lampe, Is. 6d. each and upwards, and the Mortars 6d. per box, 12,
10, or 8 mortars in each, to burn 6,8, or 10 hours.
Also, CLARKE'S PATENT NURSERY LAMP, which will keep
hot a quart of water or food, at a cost of one halfpenny for six hours,
besides answering the purpose of a night light. Price of the lamp, 6s.
Sold wholesale by Palmer and Co., Sutton-street Clerkenwell,
London, and Leeds-street, Liverpool; and by the Patentee, 55,
Albany-street, Regent's Park, London ; and retail by all ironmongers,
oilmen, grocers, &c., in the United Kingdom.