New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-06-08
Canada Affairs.


Peter McGill. formerly Mayor Of Montreal and an
eminent merchant of that city has joined Lord Eeln
Cabinet and accepted the Office Of President oil the
Legislative Coaucil John A. Macdonald, Receiver
General has been returned as Member Of the Lesisa
ture By Kingston Mr.. Kenneth Mackenzie Withdrew
bis opposition The Quebec correspondent OF the Non
real Herald reports that there we're ~ vessels win
l3OOO passengers at the Quarantine Ground t0eloW
Ouebecl and several more At hand. The Roman
Catholic Bishop OF Montreal had arrived from Rome
accompanied by II monks. nuns. and Roman stauAry
The 4Heb6c GG2dte informs us that Inc latest re-
ports from the Quarantine station At Crosse Isle are IN
favorable There are thirteen hundred sick aud about
thirteen thousand in forty vessels at the station Ac
cOrding % all accounts death and starvation are nesry
as bad at Crosse Isle in Ireland The number OF or
PHASs is now about hundred" Died. of typbus shipl
fever at the quarantine hospital Crosse Isle Dr. Ben
SON late Of Castle Conner. Ireland w II. Boulton has
resigned the MAyoralty OF Toronto. On tue 2oth w
the three masted schooner New Brunswick cleared at
the port Of Chicago Illinois with ls,OOO bushels OF
wheat for Liverpool England She sails through Can
ada Wis Quebec The ship Clio, from Padston JlO pss-
sepgers arrived ri Quebec May %.
ARRIVALS BELOW QUEBEc.-At Crosse lsle, as we
learn from the correspondence Of the Montreal Herald
the following vessels detained At quarantine up 70
Francis, from Cork. 257 passengers Perseverance
Dublin 81 Agnes, Cork 427; George Liverpool 59' :
Royalist Liverpool 43i; Scotland, Cork 525 Claren'
don Liverpool, 2s5 Lord seaton. Belfast 299i OfsnlA
Cork 100 Constitution Belfast 392, Aberdeen. Liver
pool Al Achilles Liverpool, 4l3, Bee, Cork 5f3
Wolfye. Sligo 3O9 Rankin, Liverpool, 5l9 Arminta'
Liverpool 4l2: Bryan Abs Limerick, TO Nlnian'
Limerick 25s Cahness-shire, Belfast 30, Henry
Donegal 10; Eliza Caroline Liverpool $40 Try Again,
Cork 1872 Blonde Liverpool, i2i John Bolton Liver
pool SIS Sisters. Liverpool, 5O7 Dykes Sligo, l1O
Congress Sligo, 2l9; PhO,nx, Liverpool go Albion
Galway 223; Gilmour Cork, 337 Tsy, Sligo, JOl Eliza
Padstow $40; Transit Sligo l5s; Christina London
derry $50 Argo. Liverpool 593 Ajax, Liverpool POS
Up to May p the following produce had descended
the St Lawrence l39i73 bbs hour 6995 bbs beef and
pork 30 bbs, 1873 kegs butter 1890 bush wheat
1903 bbls ashes.
The Montreal Herald June g. mentions that Roderiek
MahesOn Of Perth 10 called 10 the Legislative Council
tina; cases of had occurred at the Marine Hospital
Quebec-ihat large quantity Of bread and provisions
had been sent TO Crosse Isle the furnishing emgrant'
at the quarantine ground go miles below Quebec ,
and that immense quantity oiFLouRs being shipped
at Quebec. -, .
The Transcript speaking Of Crosse lsle remarks that
Every building on the island that be spared includ
ing some sheds that have Just been erected were
crowded with the sick and what 10 more distressing
every one of them except those In regular hospitals are
rih0 beds hing on The bare boards ia he last dSonie'
Of deatk-not erea handful ofsfrap under ens The eN
cuse made for this cruel treatment was that mere was
no straw 70 be had VIII they pretend that there Is no
straw the country The dead are tum6led into hole
without cofius, or anything else but what they may
have on when they die