The following is a list of those who signed the memorial for colonization in Canada:—­Archbishop Whately, the Marquis of Ormonde, the Marquis of Ely, the Marquis of Sligo, the Marquis of Headfort, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Desart, the Earl of Rosse, the Earl of Lucan, the Earl Fitzwilliam (modified assent), the Earl of Glengall, the Earl of Limerick, Viscount Massareene, Viscount Adare, Viscount Castlemaine, Lord Farnham, Lord Jocelyn, Lord Dunally, Lord Rossmore, Lord Oranmore, Lord Blayney, Lord Clonbrock, Lord Wallscourt, Lord Courtney, Lord Gort, Lord Sydney Osborne, Lord George Hill, Lord Stuart de Decies, Sir Walter James, Bart., M.P., Rt.  Hon. Sir A.J.  Foster, Bart., Sir Charles Coote, Bart., M.P., Sir Vere de Vere, Bart., Sir Michael Bellew, Bart., Sir Thomas Staples, Bart., Sir Colman O’Loghlin, Bart., Sir Roger Palmer, Bart., Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., Col.  Wyndham, M.P., E.J.  Shirley, Esq., M.P., Lieut.-Colonel Taylor, M.P., D.S.  Kerr, Esq., M.P., W. Hutt, Esq.,
M.P., Rt.  Hon. Colonel D. Darner, M.P., Alex.  M’Carthy, Esq., M.P., R.B. 
Osborne, Esq., M.P., Hon. James Maxwell, M.P., Major Layard, M.P., Jas.
H. Hamilton, Esq., M.P., M.J.  O’Connell, Esq., M.P., W.H.  Gregory, Esq.,
M.P., W.V.  Stuart, Esq., M.P., B.J.  Chapman, Esq., M.P., D.R.  Mangles,
Esq., M.P., C.B.  Adderley, Esq., M.P., W. Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P., Hon. Stephen Spring Rice, Hon. Standish Vereker, Hon. James Hewitt, Thomas Fortescue, Esq., D.L., Major Blackball, D.L.; James Lendrum, Esq., D.L.; T.J.  Fetherstone Haugh, D.L., Mervyn Pratt, Esq., D.L., E. Housley, Esq., D.L., Colonel A. Knox Gore, Lieut.  Co.  Sligo, George Vaughan Jackson, Esq., D.L., R.M.  Fox, Esq., D.L., Edward Cane, Esq., Charles Hamilton, Esq., Charles S. Monck, Esq., William Monsell, Esq., Thomas S. Carter, Esq., Charles W. Hamilton, Esq., Richard Bourke, Esq., Fetherstone Haugh O’Neill, Esq., John Vernon, Esq., George Lendrum, Esq., Francis Latouche, Esq., Peter Latouche, Esq., John Robert Godley.—­Report of House of Lords on Colonization from Ireland, p. 168.

[288] Public letter.

[289] Reply to M.J.  O’Connell, Esq., M.P., W.H.  Gregory, Esq., M.P., and John R. Godley, Esq., Secretaries to the Canadian Colonization Scheme; 9th of April, 1847.

[290] Taken from Thom’s Almanack for 1853, p. 252.  The census of 1851 only gives the emigration for the first three months of that year.  The number of emigrants in 1852 was largely in excess of those of 1851.

[291] “At Quebec in particular, we read that ’the mortality is appalling;’ it was denominated The Ship Fever.”—­British American Journal.  “Upwards of L100,000 was expended in relieving the sick and destitute emigrants landed in Canada in 1847.”—­Nicholls’ History of the Irish Poorlaw, p. 327—­note.

[292] Dr. Stratten, in Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, quoted by Census Commissioners for 1851 in p. 305 of their Report on Tables of Deaths.