The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-24 00:00:00

GREAT FIRE AT NEW ORLEANS.

FEB. 11, P A.M.
ST. Louts EXCHANGE DESTROVED..--FIRIL RAGING.
The St. Louis Exchange, with its magnifizent dome, eati
$1,700,000, is, at the hour we write, one mass of rains.
The fire broke out this morning at half-past four in the
fifth story, from the sparks escaping through a cracked
chimney. The keeper of the hotel had been shown this
flaw in the chimney, it is said, some days ego. At'five
o'clock it was seen that the fire was raging between the
slating and the plastering, and that it could not be arroeted.

The° alarm was now general, and the lodgers many of
them barely awed with their: clothes, so rapt was the
progress of the flames. About six, the great ball-room
fell in with a tremendous crash. At eight o'clock the
lofty dome of the rotunda was on fire, the flames rising to
an immense height.
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While we write, the buildings on the opposite side of
St. Louis-street, fronting the Exchange, are begi?aing to
burn. Where the flames will be arrested it is hard to say.

The whole cost of the Exchange was $1,700,001), and
it is under mortgage for $1,400,000.
The Improvement Bank, to which the building belonged,
has in circulation some $900,000 in bills, and saarcvly any
specie on hand. The Oilcans Insurance Company of this
city, and the Pheenix, of London, have small risks. There
may be others, but we cannot stop to ascertain.
The loss of this building will prove disastrous in blue ex-
treme to the first municipality. The Rotunda was the
most magnificent structure of the kind in the Union.

FLORIDA ST. A t,StIS TINE, FEB. I4.—The -*gamer
William Gaston, Captain Poinsett, arrived hero9a Sun-
day last, from Southern ports. Indians have eb them- ,
selves at Indian River aiid Fort Lauderdale, but escaped.
Lieutenant M'Laughlin, in the United States schooner
Flirt, has gone to Havannah for blood-hounds: Hie in-
tends; operating by light canoes built in South Oiroline„
in the Pia-bai-okee, and the dogs will be availableaconting
among the islands, which are said to be in the gr water.
TEXAS.—By the arrival of the steam-packet Columbia.,
we have received the Galveston Civilian of the Bth, and
the Houlstbn Telegraph of the sth inat. The foikowing
is the latest from Austin :—Judge Liscomb has been ap-
pointed Secretary of State. The Cherokee Land Bill
has been adopted. Also, the Act to incorporate the
Trinity Coal and Mining Company ; an act to increase
the minimum value of lands from fifty cents. to a dollar
per acre, and to make the tax one dollar instead of fifty
cents on the hundred dollars; a new act to suppress gam-
bling and duelling; and the act to estnblish a lighthouse
on the cast end of Galveston Island.

Wben the Columbia was leaving port, the Texan man-
of-war Colorado, Corn. Moore, hove in sight, and was gall-
lantly entering the bay.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

311DLAND CIRCUIT, LEICESTER, .111afic4t 21.
The assizes commenced here this mornng.
Richard Wright, aged 36, was indicted for shooting at
Harriet Wright, his wife, with intent to murder her or do
her grievous bodily harm.
It appeared that the prisoner, having had some alb at a
neighbouring house, was upbraided by his wife on his re-
turn home with neglect of her and his children. Some
angry words ensued, upon which the prisoner took down
his gun and threatened to shoot her. She attempted to
leave the house, upon which the prisoner discharged the
gun at her. The ball passed obliquely through her
clothes, in front of her stomach, breaking the wood of her
stays, a splinter of which inflicted a slight wound ea heir
person.
The prisoner said his wife had irritated him by threaten-
ing to go and lodge an information against the faierds
from whom he had got the ale. He expressed regret at
what had occurred, and begged for mercy.
The Jnry returned a verdict of Guilty, but recommended
him to mercy on account of his good character.
Lord DENMAN sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept
to hard labour for two years ; and at certain periods during
that time to be kept in solitary confinement.

FOWILES V. CAIMINGTON.

This was an action on the case for an alleged nuisance.
Mr. Sergeant Goulburn and Mr. Meller were counsel
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Balguy and Mr. Humfrey for th•
defendant.

It appeared that the plaintiff went to live in his present
house about 13 years ago, since which period both dwell-
ing-houses and manufactories have greatly increased in
that neighbourhood. The defendant erected a mainfac-
tory for making bobbins, worked by a steam-engine,
so near the plaintiff's house, that the steam and amoki
damaged his furniture and his garden, and the noise
disturbed the plaintiff and his family, aid prevented
them from sleeping at night. It was urged on the
part of the defendant that it was unreasonable to ebjcct,
in such a manufacturing town as this, to the erec-
tion of steam-engines in the neighbourhood of this par-
ticular house, while they were scattered all over the
town, and to which the town owed its prosperity ; and
there were even near to the plaintiff's house several other
steam-chimneys, against whichr
dc t fo
nor
the complaint
The Jury returned a plaintiff.verdictwarn made.
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NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LAxeArriza, Mere 21.
On Friday evening Mr. Justice Coleridge reached this
place and opened the commission, hang left Mr. Justice
Erskine at York to conclude the trials of the prisoners
there. The calendar contains a list of eighteen prisoners
for trial, but the offences are generally of a minor e,.:pacter,
Henry Tnitlaher was indicted for killing and slaying
William Dean, at Clayton-le-Moors, on the lit dm of
March last •
It appeared that the deceased was an old man, who LAI
arrived at the age of 92 years, and was father of the 'ari-
-1 soner's wife, and lived with them. On the day named in
the indictment the prisoner had some little dispute with
his wife, and having one of his clogs in his hand, thuew tt
at her. Unfortunately the iron rim of the clog struck tire
deceased on the forehead, and inflicted so serious an injury
that after lingering for a few days elle old man died. It
did not appear that there was any intention on the part of
the prisoner to injure the old man, and acts of kindures
towards him were shown. The parish allowed him is. 81.
per week, and the prisoner made up the rest of the old
man's livelihood by keeping him. The moment the deed
was done he expressed groat sorrow, and fetched a surgeqp.
Mr. WILKINS addressed the Jury, and the case being
summed up, they returned a verdict of Guilty.
Sentence—Six months' imprisonment and bard-raboar.