The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-02 00:00:00

AMERICAN MISCELLANY.

The following scraps of general news and gossip are
selected from thepapers brought by the Great Western.—
THE REPENT:M.—The receipts at the Custom-house
during the past month, as compared with those for the
same time last year, were as follows :—September, 1845,
1,808,794 dolls. ; September, 1846, 1,548,654 dolls. ;
decrease, 260,140 dolls. Of the sum received during
the month 141,000 dolls. was in Treasury notes—so that
the last receipts were but 1,407,654 dolls.
The amount received for tolls on all the New York
State Canals, during the third week in September, is
106,096 dolls. 27 cents ; being an increase over the same
period last year of 650 dolls. 70 cents. The aggregate
amount received, since the opening of navigation, is
1,777,322 dolls. 98 cents.
CONSECRATION FOR OREGON.—A very imposing cere-
mony took place, on Sunday morning last, in the Roman
Catholic cathedral at Montreal—the elevating to the
episcopal dignity of the Rev. Mr. Blanchet, one of the
canons, who was nominated at Rome for the office of
Archbishop of Oregon. His title is " Archbishop of
Walla-Walla." Seven dioceses are now formed in Ore-
gon, and provisionally three prelates superintend them,
the Archbishop and two others.—New York Enquirer,
Oct. 2.

ADDIINISTERING JUSTICE.—The Pittsburg Commercial
gives an example of the manner in which the law is
administered there. We are sorry to say the practice is
not confined to that city. A man named Dunn was con-
victed, in September, 1844, of murder, and sentenced to
be executed, but the case was taken on a bill of excep-
tions to the Supreme Court and argued; the Court could
not agree, and another argument was ordered. The
case was called up again last week, but the Chief Justice
decided only to hear it with a full bench, and as the ab-
sent member of the Court has not visited the city for
more than three years, and may not be there for three
years to come, the decision may be placed among the
other glorious uncertainties of the law.—Ncw York
Mirror.
IJOTEL SET ON FIRE.—A well-dressed person, bring-
ing a fair show of baggage, took lodgings yesterday at
Lovejoy's, being assigned the highest room in the house,
as that was the only one vacant. About half-past seven
o'clock last evening he went out, and hung the key of
his room in the usual place in the bar-room. In about
ten minutes after a chambermaid discovered smoke is-
suing from his room, and giving the alarm the door was
forced, and the bed discovered to be on fire. With diffi-
culty the flames were subdued, when it occurred to exa-
mine the baggage of the new lodger. The trunks were
opened, and found to contain—nothing.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT ST. Louls.—Jenk's hemp
warehouse, a large and extensive establishment at St.
Louis, was entirely destroyed by fire on Sunday, the
27th ult. The total loss is about 75,000 dollars, partly
insured on the following articles:—Between 2,400 and
2,500 bales of hemp ; 17,000 and 18,000 bags of salt ;
500 barrels of pork ; 15 hogsheads of sugar ; a small
lot of flour ; several lots of rope, gunny bags, bagging,
queensware. oils, &c., besides the fixtures of the house
and counting-rooms, and the machinery and implements
for pressing and baling hemp ; and a large lot of stoves,
castings, and hardware, belonging to C. M. Valeau,
amounting to near 10,000 dollars' worth, and 100 crates
of queensware. The St. Louis New Era adds that the
hemp destroyed has swept away nine-tenths of the article
in the city.
EXTENSIVE FIRE DOWN EAST.--A very destructive
fire commenced, on Tuesday forenoon, in the wood-
lands of Mr. Clark, in the south-west part of Ply-
mouth. It was still burning at the last accounts, and
the fire had extended over a range of eight miles, and
between one and two thousand cords of wood had
been consumed. The fire took place from a coal pit.—
New York Express.
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.—The Warsaw (Ky.) Herald
states the following dreadful account :—" It seems that
Mr. Edes bad got into a row with his wife, and that she
had sent for Mr. John Green, the husband of her sister,
to interfere and protect her. Mr. Green first sent his
son, a youth about grown, and afterwards followed with
some other men about his house. When he got into the
yard of Edes's house he made threats, &c., which in-
duced Edes to come out. Just as Edes opened the door '
young Green stepped up before hii father, who had pre-
viously armed himself with an ax, and received the blow
which his father aimed at Edes. The ax penetrated
through just under his shoulder blade, to his heart, and
he died instantly, uttering but one groan. None of the
parties had been arrested ; they resided about five miles
down the river.
SOMEWHAT DANGEROIL9.—The Louisville journal of
the 26th ult. relates, that while the steam-boat Seabird
was at Pittsburgh a large box was placed on board, and
the Captain not knowing what it contained, put it in the
engine room. On the way down the box by accident
was partially opened, when it was found to be full of
kegs of gunpowder. all in the immediate vicinity of the
fire.

FULL BLAST or LAW.—The Courts yesterday were in
tolerable full blast. The United States District Court
met, and the application on behalf of P. Rosier, charged
with larceny at sea, to have his security tested by a jury
trial, as in the case of Freeman, at Auburn, Kleim in this
city; was renewed. After a long argument, the Court
granted the motion, and a jury was empannelled to try
whether he was or not insane. Since his arrest he has
been under medical treatment, and his appearance in
Court, with a long beard, shaven head, and wild eyes,
certainly made him look much like a madman. While
in Court he became so outrageously violent, the Court
directed him to be removed, which was done, and the
evidence was continued.—New York Tribune.
HANDS OFF.—Kissing other people's wives is a hazard-
ous business. We see by the Louisville papers that a
reverend gentleman there has been held to bail in 500
dollars for kissing the pretty wife of a young French-
man, one of his tenants, when he went to receive his
rent; and a correspondent of the Boston Traveller,
writing from Newberyport, gives another illustration.
The New Orleans Times mentions the death, in that
city, of an Italian named Roreende, who had served
as a city watchman there'for the last twenty-six years.
He was a miser in his habits, and, at his death left an
estate of from 25,000 to 30,000 dollars.
Two women got into a fight with parasols, &c.. yes-
terday, in the Ninth Ward, and drew (as the ladies
always do) a considerable crowd abont them. The truth
of the story of the right of the quarrel could not be got
at.—New York Tribune.
LADIES' BUSTLES.—A committee of the Essex
county, New Jersey, fair, it seems, has recommended a
favourable notice to a certain India rubber lady's bustle,
a new invention, intending to answer the double purpose
of an article of dress and a life preserver; and they pro-
nounce the affair, In their opinion, worthy of a diploma.
New York Express.

INSPECTION OF THE WOOLWICH DIVISION OF THE
PENSIONERS BV MAJOR-GENERAL SIR THOMAS DOWN-
MAN, C.B. AND K.C.ll.—The half-yearly inspection of
the Woolwich division of Chelsea pensioners took place
on Saturday, before Sir Thomas Downham, C. 8.,
K.C.H., Commandant of Woolwich Garrison, Brigade
Major Burke C.ipp.ige, 11. A., and several other officers.
The men went through their exercise in a soldierlike
manner, and at the conclusion Sir Thomas Downman
advanced towards them, and after expressing the great
satisfaction he had experienced in witnessing their move-
ments, said that he was surprised that they should have
been so correctly executed, considering the short time
the men had been under drill. For this he was bound to
acknowledge the ability of their commanding officer,
Captain Forbes. Though they were not able to perform
their duties so actively as when they were young men,
their steadiness and regularity that day had proved that
as light infantry they were able to take the field with
any troops in the service. After expressing his pleasure
that not a single case of irregularity had been reported
against them, he expressed a wish that they might spend
their winter comfortably and happily. The men were
then marched to the west square, and dismissed till the
spring, when they will again assemble for drill. It was
r expected that they would have been reviewed in Hyde
Park by his Royal Highness Prince Albert and -the
Duke of Wellington, but the review has been postponed,
owing to the advanced state of the season.
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—CHATHAM, OCT. 28.—
Fifteen detachments of regiments serving in North Ame-
rica have arrived at the invalid depot, St. Mary's Bar-
rack. They consisted of the following corps:-14th
Foot, 2 sergeants and 8 privates ; 23d, 1 sergeant, 9 pri-
vates ; 33d, 1 corporal, 15 privates ; 46th, 14 privates ;
52d, 14 privates ; 2d Battalion 60th Rifles, 10 sergeants,
8 corporals, 13 privates ; 71st Highlanders, 1 sergeant-
major, 1 quartermaster-sergeant, and 6 privates ; 77th,
5 privates ; 81st, 1 corporal, 8 privates ; 82d, 1 sergeant,
4 privates ' 89th, 8 sergeants, 9 corporals, and 14 pri-
vates -93 d Highlanders, 3 sergeants, 17 privates ;
Royal Canadian Rifles, 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, and 7
privates ; Royal Newfoundland Veterans, 1 sergeant-
major, 1 colour-sergeant, 3 corporals and 18 privates ;
and the Rifle Brigade, 1 private ; and 80 women and
about 100 children. The troops were in charge of Cap-
tain W. R. Haliday, 93d Highlanders, with Lieutenant
Farrington, 2d Battalion of Rifles, and were landed at
the Gun-wharf from a government steam-vessel, having
embarked them at Sheerness from the troop ship Bel-
leisle, 72 guns, Captain John Kingcome, from
Quebec, which place they embarked at on the 16th
of last month. On the voyage the ship en-
countered a severe and terrific hurricane, lasting
for three days. Sergeant-major William Hogg
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Quarterma3ter Sergeant Ritchie, of the 20th Regiment,
whose conduct in the field meri.ed such particular notice
that Sir Henry Ilardinge furnished him with a letter of
testimonial of his high merit and bravery in recommend-
ing him to the notice of the Commissioners at Chelsea
College. His left arm was shot away close to the
shoulder and also three of his ribs by a cannon-ball. Ire

has been seventeen years and a half in the service, and
about fourteen years a non•commissicned officer, and is
to receive is. Gd. per day. It is thought there is some
mistake regarding this soldier, as two years and a half
longer servitude would have entitled him to ls. 10d. a
day, without losing an arm or being wounded ; some of
the invalids are allowed the Queen's bounty, which 'is
Gd. per day.

The re-mains of the late Mrs. Broadhead were re-
moved from Great Stanhope- street, on Tuesday last to be
interred in the family vault at Hendon. The hearse waa
followed by three mourning coaches, containing the sons
and sons-in-law of the deceased lady, and the Rev. James
Murray, late Minister of St. Leonard's-on-Sea. Mrs.
Broadhead was the daughter of William Macdougall,
Esq., of the ancient clan 91 Alubug4ll 91149171.