The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

CANADA

A very serious fire occured recently in the Saguenay,
near Quebec. It seems that the settlers in that vicinity
were clearing their lands and burning the brush; the
weather had been very dry, and on the 4th, the wind
coming on to blow furiously, the flames were carried along
the settlement, destroying houses, barns, cattle, the seed
grain, and implements of husbandry, and, reaching the
village at the mouth of the river Chez Marge, destroyed
the whole there, the church and the two mills at the mouth
of the stream, and continuing a mile further, round the
bay to the Grand Bay village, destroying all there, except
the church and Wm. Price and Co.'s stores and houses,
and a few houses south of them, leaving about 2060 souls,
men, women, and children, without houses or the means
of sowing their lands.
The legislature of Canada is called upon to do something
for their relief. There were also rumours of the progress
of the fire to Stoneham, though nothing was known.
The fire in the forests near Quebec has been most de-
structive in its course. Two houses at Lake St. Charles
and more than 20 in the township of Stoneham have been
destroyed ; but the most serious destruction has been at
Grand Baie and the neighbourhood of Checoutimi, nearly
the whole of the former village being in ashes, The church
of St. Alexis, the priest's house, and the store of the
Hud-
son's Bay Company, and a few small dwellings only, being
saved. Three mills belaying to Messrs. Price, with a
large quantity of timber and sawed lumber and the wharfs
are consumed, as are the provisions in store and the sown

grain.
The steamer Pocahontas has been dispatched by Messrs.
Price and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec with
Supplies of food and clothing.

NotiCe-Offive7e7solution;had been given in the House
of Assembly, by Mr. Merritt, to be proposed in a com-
mittee of the whole on the 7th of this month. They
all bear upon the policy recognised by the Corn Bill and
modified Tariff now before the British parliament, and

seek to establish equivalent advantages, founded upon
eltenbion of .the same policy to Canada. The filth re

lution appears to be the most important, and we therefore
print it. It runs thus :
" 5. Resolved,—That an humble address be presented
to her Majesty, praying that she will be pleased to admit
all articles, the growth and produce of Canada, into the
markets of the Mother Country free from duty; also, that
she will be pleased to recommend to the Imperial Parlia-
ment, that all imperial acts relating to duties on the im-
ports, revenue, and trade of Canada, may be repealed, and
her commerce relieved from all restrictions, except what
may be imposed by the provincial legislature ; also, that
her Majesty may be pleased to open a negociation with
the Government of the United States for the purpose of
obtaining access for the produce of Canada into the mar-
kets of that country, on the same terms that American
products are to be admitted into the markets of Britain
and Canada; also, that the river St. Lawrence, from Lake
Ontario to the ocean, may be opened to all nations, sub-
ject to no greater restrictions than now exist in passing
through the well and canal round the falls of Niagara, in
order that a revenue from tolls may be ensured to repay
the cost of the constructions of the canals connecting those
waters."

Mr. Williams has given noiice of another series of re-
solutions in the form of an amendment. These are, of
course, hostile to the free-trade policy of the home govern-
ment, but it is believed that Mr. Merritt will prevail.

A Brussels journal of Saturday states that the accounts
of the potato-crop in Belgium are generally good. There
are large districts in which not the slightest symptoms of
disease have been discovered.

The following dreadful accident took place at the coal
mine of Ougree, near Liege, on Thursday. Four miners
were being let down into the mine, to resume their work,
when the rope broke, and they were all dashed to pieces.
The Prussian Universal Gazette, of the 23d ultimo,
announces officially the approval, by the King of Prussia,
of the nomination by the English government of Mr.
Geobat, as Bishop of Jerusalem.
On the 20th ultimo, two young girls, embroiderers at
Berlin, committed suicide by lying down on the rails of
the Berlin and Potsdam railway, late in the evening. A
train passed over them and killed them on the spot.
The Ami de la Religion contradicts an unfavourable
report, which has been in circulation for some days past,
respecting the Pope's health. It states that it has re-
ceived letters of a late date which speak in most satisfac-
tory terms of the health of his holiness.

0. STRANGE SUICIDE.—A singular suicide took place
few days ago at Ligueil (Indre et Lore). A man named
Mathurier, overcome by some domestic troubles, went
into a vine ground, and, having made a pile of fagots, set
it on fire, and, laying himself upon it, was consumed.
His body, which was not discovered till morning, had be-
come a calcined mass.—Galignani.
THE BOLDEST YET.—A lady went into a store in New
York a few days since to purchase a shawl; just as she
was handing the clerk two fifty dollar bills, she received a
blow in the face from a well-dressed person, who ex-
claimed, " I forbade you buying a shawl." and snatching
the money from her hand evaporated. The lady fainted,
and on recovering the merchant expressed surprise that
her husband should have acted so ungentlemanly, but his
surprise was greatly increased when the lady informed him
that it was not her husband, and that she had never seen
him before ! The bold thief however had made good his
escape.—American paper.
ANTI-MACHINE RIOTS IN FRANCE.—Alarming riots
took place on Saturday last at Elbeuf, a town situated on
the Seine, a few miles from Rouen. A new machine to
facilitate the picking of wool had been introduced into the
factory of Mr. Droux ; and some old women and children
having been, in consequence, thrown out of work, a feel-
ing of dissatisfaction arose among the whole of the work-
ing population ; and the excitement at length arrived at
such a pitch that an attack was made upon the establish-
ment of M. Droux, for the purpose of destroying the ob-
noxious machine. The efforts of the national guard
against the rioters were by no means efficacious, and bad
not a detachment of troops of the line arrived timely from
Rouen, the consequences might have been very serious.
The mob was put to flight without loss of life, and seven-
teen of the ringleaders were arrested.
ESCAPE OF PRINCE LOUIS BUONAPARTE.—On Mon-
day, the prince succeeded in effecting his escape from the
fortress of Ham, after close imprisonment of some years.
Having assumed the disguise of a workman, he contrived
to elude the vigilance of the sentries ; to regain his free-
dom without any molestation from the battalion of in-
fantry that formed the garrison of the castle ; and to
arrive safely in London, where, we believe, he is at pre-
sent. It is well known that for some time past Prince
Louis has earnestly desired once more to see his aged
father, whose precarious state of health leaves little hope
that his life will be much further prolonged. His object,
as we hear, is to obtain passports without delay, in order
that he may at once hasten to share the retreat of his
father at Florence. The Morning Herald says—As the
prince escaped at seven o'clock of the morning of the 25th,
and as the event was not discovered for ten hours after-
wards, he could easily have reached the Belgian frontiers,
only 20 leagues distant, long before the telegraph itself
could have been set to work. The papers say he em-
barked at St. Valery.