New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-08-07


CAsADA-TRE PEsTILEscE.-The Irish famine
fever has evidently assumed pesental or epidemicsl
form in Montreal and Quebec where the peops pay
inc dearly for British in Ireland the true
and aekpowledged csuse of hundreds Of thousands OF
dsahs there of selfbsnshment of lrishmen on vast
seale from land they dearly love; Of heavy taxation
upon ENGLAND; of pecunsry demand on the known
hmspity OF the citizens of the Union, Of numerous
shpwrecks causing thousands of deaths and of crowd
ed steersges or holds filth and bad ventilation In shps
resutpg 10 the loss of additional thousands OF lives on
the passage across nsomuch that the history OF SONS
Quebec very like that OF some slave passages
from Africa to Cuba or Brazil
The Qutbec Gaituc Of the I'd states that Rev Mr.. Nc
Mshsn pastor of 81 Pstrcks there had announced 90
desihs among his congregation alone in the previous
week also, that the Board OF Health had eurested the
Government In vain for the of the empty Cavalry
Bsrrsck No 2 Meanwhile the disease !, making fear
iul progress among the citizens and the Marine Hosp
ss aud sheds being full they can hold there is no
nesos OF separating the sick from the healthy The
BOARD of Health are told have been informed OF the
denomination OF some persons to remove the sick out
Of their houses into the streets II no other place be pro
vded for their reception and the members oil the Board
threaten to resign.
There had died on ship.bosrd, the passage from
Great Britain 10 Quebec $500 immigrants IN Crosse
Ise Hospital 1900. board ships Mt Crosse Isle 'oO
spd ia Montreal Quebec the sheds &c. over 500 more
In all 80 deaths besides the pestlence carried through
Csnsds destroying the clergy physicians nuns oeneVo
kut bOnsehOlders crews of boats, ships. &c. over
TO0 have reached Canada from Europe this year ana
OF those 5000 are yet below Quebec 10 all, W.,
900 must have al eRdy been added 70 the population oil
North America from Europe since LIST OF January asst
On the 3lst u tue bark Yorkshire reached the quar-
rsntine grouri below Quebec, with % SICK Her pas
seneers w, 5g2 at Liverpool but 80 had died on the
pssssge The Liverpool authorities buddlo miserable
creatures crOwded cellars and the Irish steamboats,
90 board crowded ships too many are put on OOaru
each ship. the British Government know II, but hey
Offer no ehcctual check.
The deaths in the aborye efforts at revolt in Ireland
10 7qs and 1903 wore few when compared TO the lam
inc fever caused by the Tspscity OF Irish Landlords
among whom Lords Milton LsnsdOwn PslmerstOn' ano
the Duke of Devonshre very conspicuous abscnees
Tue bark Naomi arrived from Liverpool, same day
q the Yorkshire, had had 33i passengers and OF
these 10 had died sea lOi were dying OF tho lever
while the Marsingae, from Hamburg, brought 100 pas
sengers and there none sick or dead one SNIP
the AQamemnOn from Liverpool, brought go Pssseh'
Rers a whole village at once
AtMontresl 300 immigrants had died at the miserable
sheds the swsmpy GROUNDS curing 'ne Ps.s We
and IS more of them In the city The Government oil
Lord Tlgin from whom both humanity and energy
we're e. cted at such crisis, appears 10y all me re-
ports we have seem to have made no very remsiksOe
exertiOn, either at Montreal OF Quebec Inc esn 's
peraturs Of Quebec for May TO September under o1
while Crosse Isle 10 colder still. IL CANADA so CROWDED
already that only that cold place, and tho 'heas a.
Montreal be spared TO the sick, by government d.
time Ike this
warded up the country from Montreal says the Ioron
Globe has been most disgraceul, and TO II may De
sscnoed the number of those, who, conVslescen' a
Montreal have suffered relapse IN the Journey; ImA
CINE from 500 to 700 poor people well or III hu9oieu 10
gother on the deck of a steamer, and let mem say
whether tach system is not lted to produce sickness
whert pce existed before but when as is actually the
case Elsority of these people are Just from quarsh
tine b.. half recovered aud when they minge with tn,
OF the boat and the healthy emigrants, the eVi
consequences must be evident To all