The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

.for the election of members to serve in the city of Lon-
don, for Tiverton, fur Devonpnrt, for Halifax, for the
West Riding of: Yorkshire, for Taunton,' fur the town of
Nottingham, for Edinburgh, for the city of Worcester,
for the borough of •
•Dungarvon, for the borough of Perth,
for Hymouth, for the Leith Di,trict of, Bur.hs, and fur
Kir!scudbriglit,,in the room of Lord J. Russell, appointed
irst Lord, of the Treasury ; Lard Palmerston, op-
ted Secretary of State for Foreign Afftirt ; of Sir G.
appointed Secretary of State •for the, Home De-
of Mr. C;,Wood, appointed Chief Commis-

partment

of Her Majesty.'i

'g Woods and Forests; of N 1 r._

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bonehere, who has accepted the office of Steward of the
Chiltern Hundred.; of• Sir J. C. Flobhouae, appointed
President of the Board -of Control ; of Mr. '•Macaulay,
appointed Paymaster of the Forces; of Sir-T.AVilde, ap-
pointed Attorney-General ; of Mr. Shell, appointed Mas,
ter of -the Mint; of Mr.:;Fox Maule, appointed Secretary
at War ; of Lord •Ebriwton, appointed a Lord .of the
Treasury ; of Mr. Rutherford, appointed Lord-Advocate ;
and of'Mr. T. Maitland, appointed Solicitor-General for
Scotland.

Several private bills ~were forwarded a stage ;.but no
public business was transacted, and the house, on its
risingoms adjonrned to Monday.

FOR.EIGAV AND COLONIAL,

DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF ST. JOHN'S,
NEWFOUNDLAND, BY FIRE.

The following appeared in a third edition, and we now
give a few additional particulars :
By the,k indness of a passer.:ger who arrived this morn-
ing. by the schooner Rozelle,,Capt. Wilkinson, fro n St.
John's, we have information cf the total destruction of
that town,-Ly fire. At about half-past 9in the forenoon
of the 9th instant the fire brake out, from what cause is
not precisely ascertained, and spread with great fury, not-
withstanding the efforts made toarrest its progress.
The majority of the buildings being composed princi-
pally of timber, of course assisted the spread of the con-
flagration. some of the storrs, however, of the leading
merchants are substantial stone erections; and it was ex-
pected that these would withstand and check the fire.
They shared, however, the common fate. By six in the
evening the whole town. with the exception of same
suburban streets, was in ashes. only a chimney here and
there raising its head above the common ruin ; and be-
tween seven and eight thousand human beings were left
without a shelter for their beads, or an item of property
to call their own. So universal has been the destruction

fished being a Op composed from a few handfuls of

The loss, in money, is said to be upwards of a million
tetling; but of course that must be taken as a rough
uPsss, and is probably below the mark. •The number,of

buildings destroyed is from 1,500 to 2,000. The loss of
life happily has been but small, only two persons being
known to have perished. (.I,e was an artillery-man, who

.0 arrf st the flames

ards died, and the nth

an khabitant, who

.0 the fire from desperaiiou or to sate some pro

01 course an appeal must be made to the generosity of
Englishmen, for the inhabitants of what was so lately a

riving town, contributing

ry very larg

Rozdle lift St. John's on the 12th instant, awl wore
detailed intelligence will be rece'vtd by the nest arrivals.
It is said that the fire first broke out in a cabinet-

fter comma

g with other

) containing oil; and other

ly cc;Mbustib

it spread in four directions
fated by the wind in all direc

and the fl-Aces were cir