The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-13 00:00:00

RECEIPTS.

Government Contract ...£120,000 0 0
Freight:—
Outward ... ... 6,983 2 7
Intercolonial... ... 2,224 16 0
Homeward ... 14,839 17 1
Passage Money:—
Outward ... 35,153 4 3
Intercolonial... ..„ 14 230 17 1
Homeward ... 22,772 3 10

£216,211 0 10
The CHAIRMAN intimated that the dividend of 2/. per
share would be paid on and after the 16th of the present
month.

Thanks were then voted to the chairman and direc
tors, and the meeting separated.

SEIZURE OF WHISLT.—On Saturday a gentleman,
apparently of the first respectability, was victimised by
the absurd existing laws respecting the transmission of
whisky across the borders, and by these laws mulcted of
a 251. fine. The gentleman was a passenger from Scot-
land by the North British Railway, and as the luggage
of the train he came here by was being overhauled by
the exciseman, a hamper was discovered containing
bottles. On the owner of the hamper being inquired
for, the gentleman camo promptly forward and said it
was his property, and that the bottles contained whisky.
Upon this information the package was seized, and the
gentleman himself taken into custody. He professed
himself perfectly ignorant of the existence of tho law he
had violated, nod we believe his assertion. lie accom-
paeied the exciseman to the house of a magistrate, and
there, having had the law explained to him, he submitted
to the fine, and gave a cheque upon his banker for the
amount, whereupon he was liberated and allowed to pro-
ceed upon his journey.—Berwick Advertiser.
AMERICAN PROVISIONS.—The American line-of-
packet ship Westminster, arrived in the docks from
New York, has brought the large quantity of 3,107
boxes of cheese, 31 hogsheads and barrels and 1,160
kegs of lard, 728 bushels of corn, 80,179 oil cakes, and
75 tierces 25 hogsheads and 400 barrels of oil cake
for cattle, 24,000 staves for coopering purposes, and
various other productions; the packet-ship Waterloo,
from New York, 16,981 bushels of Indian corn, 139
barrels and 53 bags of beans, and 1,167 barrels of
flour; the Patrick Henry, also from New York, 373
barrels of flour, 2,318 quarters and 116 bags of In-
dian corn, 345 packages of lard, 400 boxes of cheese,
and various other articles; the Devonport, from New
Orleans, 782 barrels of pork and 3,355 sacks of Indian
corn; and the Margaret, from New Orleans, 3,182
sacks of corn, 113 tierces of beef, and 50 barrels of
pork, all the produce of the United States.
CHECKMATING A SCANDAL-HUNTER.—" Of coarse,
G. and his newly-married wife live happily together ?"
asked cn inquisitive lady of a wag. The gentleman gave
a significant turn to his countenance, but said nothing.
"Ls, you don't mean that ?" pursued his interrogator.
The wag gave another look of direful import, and sadly
shook his head. " You don't mean to say that they
quarrel ?" " Worse than that ma'am," said the:wag, forjthe
first time using his tongue. " What ! does he beat her?"
" Oh! far worse, she—Fhe brats him." " Oh! my gra-
cious," said the lady, starting back, "beats him! Well,
I never." She was about to dart off with the news to a
select circle of tabbies, when the wag called her back.
and, assuming a mock heroic tone, added, " Yes, ma'am,
she beats him—but it is at chess!"
PREFERMENTS.—The Rev. John Cartwright, M.A.,
Precentor of Durham Cathedral, to the perpetual ea-
racy of ,Witton Gilbert. The Rev. Henry Richard
Ridley, curate of Felton, Northumberland, to the per-
petual curacy of Rennington, near Alnwick, in the same
county.
FALL or Sam EDMUND'S OAK.—The great oak
in Hoxne Wood, which has by long tradition been
marked out as the veritable tree at which the " Virgin
King and Martyr" was shot with arrows, lately fell to
the ground. The trunk of this tree was only twelve
feet in height up to its separation into branches, but
measured five feet in diameter, and contained six and a
half loads of timber, and the arms yielded about nine
loads more, besides 184 fagots. But the most mar-
vellous part of the story is, that in the inside of the
trunk an iron point, having the appearance of an arrow-
head, was found by Mr. Srnythies, the agent of Sir Ed-
ward Kerrison, the proprietor, at the depth of a foot
within the bark, and about five feet from the ground,
which it is conjectured may have been lodged there at
the murder of King Edmund, and encased by the subse-
quent growth of the tree.—lpswich Express.
A gentleman from London, named Evans, was on
Tuesday night, at Pont-y•belyn, near Bettws, precipi-
tated by a vicious pony over a precipice nearly sixty
(Let deep. Four hours afterwards he was picked up
insensible by some miners, but there is little hope of his
recovery. ,Liverpool courier.