The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-30 00:00:00

STATES AND CANADA,

By the packet-ship Roscoe, Capt. DeLano, in 20 days from
New York, we have received Papers from New York to tho
9th instant, and Montreal Journals to the sth. We subjoin
extracts:—

THE INCENDIARY IRRUPTION.
(From the ifissisquoi Standard.)
After our Paper had been nearly made up, we received from
a friend the following particulars of the depredations com-
mitted by the brigands upon our borders, on Sunday morning
last :

One of the most heinous transactions that ever Satan de-
vised, or his devils executed, took place on Sunday morning, at:
Beech Ride, on the province line, Rouville. The night hadi
been awfully tempestuous, the snow was driven before tbs':
storm in whirling clouds, and the thermometer ranged between
10 and 18 degrees below zero. In such a night who but mon-
sters in crime could think of perpetrating the horrors we are
about to relate.

About two o'clock, a.m., a band of American ruffians from
Alburg, to the number of fifteen or twenty, armed with mus-
kets and swords, came across the line about half a mile,
and broke open the house of a loyalist of the name of Gib-
son. The terrified family awoke from their sleep, and saw
the glare of their barn on fire, overpowering the beams of the
full moon. To save his life Gibson leaped from a window„
naked as he was and fled. The wife and family, consist-
ing of five infant children, the oldest not thirteen, and the
youngest an infant, were ordered by the miscreants to flee.
The poor woman prayed to them, in the name of our Sa-
viour, to permit her to throw some clothes on her child-
ren and herself ; but the monsters drove them opt with
imprecations and set fire to the house. The mother,
with her babe in her arms and with her shivering ones by
her side, without a shoe on her or their feet and scarce
a garment on their bodies, was compelled to drag
herself through snow and snow drifts three quarters of a
mile, before she could find a shelter. The wretches then pro-
ceeded to the next house, occupied by Isaac Jo hnson, a
Loyalist, with two daughters, ordered the inmates to leave it,
and then set fire to it also and the barns. They thien came
on to Mr. William Clark's, the next Loyalist, and set fire to
his barns, store in the doors and windows, and were only pre-
vailed upon not to fire the dwelling-house, by the prayers and
entreaties of Mr. Clark's mother-in-law, who was watching
the sick bed of her daughter, being unable to escape or be re-
moved. The barns of Mr. Maine, the next Loyalist,. shared
the fare of the others, but the house being unoccupied was not
fired. The scoundrels were at this place fired at by a. guard,
which had in a most cowardly manner fallen back before them,
and made good their retreat back to Vermont.
The name of the leader is Grogan, an American, who for-
merly lived on the Ridge, and who owns a farm there. Mr.
Gibson, Mrs. Gibson, and the two eldest children are all se-
verely frost-bitten in the feet. As we look upon the inhuman'
savages, and listened to the account given by the afflicted
mother, we could not help thinking that there are men enough
on this side of the line, and building enough on the other.
Grogan 's buildings were by some means or other set on fire
and consumed.

The Beech Ridge enormity is one of so horrible a character
that we leave it to the Government to settle, satisfied that
it is impossible our Sovereign can overlook it or fail in de-
manding reparation. We make no comments. A recital of
the facts will create excitement enough.
The barns containing the whole grain produce of the farmers,
/Ad all the buildings, were a heap of smouldering clay before
sunrise.

LOWER CANADA.
(From the Montreal Courier of Jan 4.)

PROVINCIAL. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, QUEREC, Noy. 26, 1836.
—His Excellency has been pleased to make the following ap-
pointment, viz. :—Murdoch Morison, Esq., to be Barrister,
Attorney, Advocate, Solicitor, Counsel, and Proctor, in all
her Majesty's Courts of Civil Judicature in the province.
ARRIVAL or Titoovs.—Her Majesty's steamer Medea ar-
rived about six o'clock last evening, from Halifax with two
companies of the 36th Regiment (about 150 men), under the
command of Captain Trulloppe ; and about 60 men of the
Royal Artillery. They disembarked at noon to-day. The
Medea left Halifax on Saturday evening, and had a fine run of
50 hours. She returns to that port immediately, for the re-
mainder of the 3Gth.

One company of the 11th Regiment, we learn, will start to-
morrow morning for Fredericton, should the weather be fa-
vourable, and the remainder will continue to move by compa-
nies until Saturday. The snow which has fallen to-day, if it
remains, will make the travelling good for sleighs, and thus
expedite their journey.
The detachments of the 65th and 93d, we understand, do
not leave this garrison until they proceed directly on their
march to Canada to join their regiments. —St. John Observer.
We understand that the Royals, some artillery, and a
portion of the 7th Hussars are under orders to make a tour

through various parts of the district, in consequence of the
reported disaffection of the Canadians. Owing to these ar-
rangements, Captain Millar's company of Colonel Holmes'
Volunteer Battalion, mounted guard this morning. It is
understood that the Royal Regiment will shortly relieve the
71st, whose harrassing duty on the south shore of the St. Law-
rence has been extremely severe since the beginning of the
month of November, without the monotony of their sufferings
being relieved by anyfighting.--Montreal Courier, Jan. 2.