The Sun. — London, England, 1827-06-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC, JOURNALS. A message from the King was delivered last night to both Houses of Parliament on the pro vision which was to be made for the longer con tinuance of our troops in Portugal. The public will observe that this is merely the technical ac complishment of Mr. Canning's vote of credit for 500,0001. for the same purpose. The amount of the sum is, therefore, fixed. We cannot, however, quit the subject without noticing the absurd rumours which were circulated in the city in consequence of the expectation of a message from his Majesty. It was said that the purport of the message would be, to state his Majesty's determination, in conjunction with his allies, no doubt, to bombard Constantinople, in case the Turks refused to make peace with the Greeks ! We have no right to bombard Constantinople whatever, neither do we conceive that any thing so barbarous and unjust will be undertaken by us. Our Journal of Monday prescribes what we should think the utmost extent of our inter ference a 4 a nation in favour of the suffering Greeks—" that, in the event of the remonstrances on the part of Russia, France, and England, backed by those of Austria and Prussia, being rejected by the Divan, the fleets belonging to the Governments of the three first Powers would in tercept any communication between the Turks and the Greeks, and thereby shelter the :latter from any new act of hostility." Between these precautionary measures, or measures of a similar character, and such an act as bombarding the capital of an independent State, to which civil rather than military persons would fall a sacrifice, it is evident how wide a difference subsists. It is greatly to be wished that the sanguinary and savage contest be tween the Turks and the Greeks were terminated; but the termination must not be attempted by an act which might fail of success at last, but which would exceed, in the destruction of human life and the sa crifice of unoffending persons, all that have preceded it in the course of the war. If, as we believe, we . justly state, humanity be the sole cause of our inter ference in the quarrel, we shall not proceed to an act by which humanity will be so grievously out raged.--Times. In another column will be found an article from the Portuguez on the state of Portugal, and in reply to one class of arguments and hy potheses on the same subject, which have been transmitted from our Lisbon correspondent to this journal. Our own observations on the let ters of that correspondent were delivered as an antidote to some of their contents, where he pre sented (as was his obvious duty) the quibbles and subtilties on the Regency case, resorted to by some of the anti-Constitutional jurists, and eagerly seized on and adopted by certain diplo matists, who have signalized themselves else where as well as in Lisbon, on the side of arbi trary power. We have felt for a long time past, that such refinements were dangerous inmates with a question so vital to the existence of Por tuguese-liberty—that all the pretences set up from day to day in favour of lenity to the rebel leaders, and of the " rights" asserted by Miguel or his partisans to the exercise of a power which would enable him to destroy the Constitution, were but so many false devices to aid the Court of Nfadrid against our liberal ally, and 4leserved to be swept away like cobwebs, when the sub stantial interests of king, and people were at stake. Although, however, it was the business of a gentleman communicating public intelli gence to England to describe with fidelity, as our colleague has done, the views which are taken of every great question on the spot, we rejoice to see Oat so strong a spirit of dissent and animad version vith regard to the underhand suggestions of the Serviles displays itself in any Portuguese journal. This is a symptom of new-born energy in the agents of the Constitutional Government, and, we doubt not, has been assisted by the grow ing certainty that Mr. Canning, as Prime Mi nister, would be enabled to continue and ex tend tha powerful support which, but for him alone, the former British Cabinet, it is evident, would never have thought of grant ing to a country whose distresses arose from a struggle in the cause of liberty. The character, indeed, and the honour of Mr. Canning's Ad ministration, are bound up with the overthrow of the Spainsh House of Bourbon in this its un holy quarrel. Portugal is the instrument through which that base family, with its abettors at home and abroad, seeks to wound the moral ascendancy of England, as Spain and Portugal conjointly were, under the usurpation of Napo leon, destined to a similar use. It behoves the new Prime Minister, therefore, now that he is less fettered in his movements, to push, with prompt and vigorous resolution, that masculine policy which, under restraints the most dis couraging, he has already so meritoriously at tempted. The question is—Bourbon, with su fierstitious despotism, and an entire alienation fi or d England ; or Braganza, with an advance towards human liberty and happiness, and an in dissoluble E n glish alliance. The question for Mr. Canning personally is, the fame of having reaped in Europe the harvest, of which in Ame rica he scattered the seeds—of having done this, when he had the British Government, with every other in the old inhabited world, against him ; or of abandoning results so profuse and magnificent, when he is released from all do mestic opposition, and when he reay, by a sim ple declaration of the will of England, see every foreign obstruction to her triumph and his own vanish in a moment. How far Mr. Canning may have been sincerely supported, or coldly and ambiguously served, by his diplomatic delegates in all parts of the Cabinet, is more than we can pronounce. It will be seen by the following letter from the Constitutionnel,what stories are in circu lation respecting that particular Ambassador, to whose activity and integrity in the cause, so much of its success on the side of Portugal has been en trusted. Perhaps Sir William A'Court has been chosen as the subject of these inauspicious rumours, from the prima facie verisimilitude which would be attached to them by the former achievements of his Excellency against the Constitutionalists of Naples and of Spain. If it be true, which we trust it is not, that Sir Wm. A'Court has been fairly repre sented by the writer of this Lisbon letter in the French journal, the only wonder is, that Mr. Can ning has shut his eyes so long to conduct so incal culably mischievous; and the natural remedy is the immedirte .appointment of a sincere and able suc cessor. TRACT or A PRIVATE LEITER FROM LISBON, DATED MAY 19. (From the Constitutiorrnel of the sth inst.) " The friends of the Constitution cannot avoid feeling the most lively uneasiness, on reflecting that Sir William A'Court has never ceased repeating, from the hour of the Princess Regent's installation, that her Royal Highness would he bound to transfer the regency of the kingdom to the Infant Don Miguel, on the 26th of October, when the Infant would have completed his 25th year. This erro peons opinion of the British Ambassador has contributed powerfully to check the progress of the Constitutional cause, to repress the public spirit, and to retain the bulk of society in Portugal in a languid and sickly state. This, likewise, has been the principal origin of the misunder standing between Sir Wm. A'Court and Dr. Abrantes, at the moment when the Princess Regent, on assuming the reins of Government, announced, in a manifesto drawn up by Dr. Abrantes, that she would resign her power to the Queen Maria TI. so soon as her Majesty should be of age. Sir Wrn. A'Court disapproved of this declaration, which he pretended was at variance with the rights of the Infant Don Miguel, and he made it the subject of bitter reproaches to Dr. Abrantes." If this, or half of it, be correct, we shall only re peat that Lord Wm. Bentinck ought not to lose a day in setting sail for Lisbon.—lbid. In a discussion on the subject of the Secret Service Money, last night, in the House of Lords, Lord Dudley and Ward observed, " It may not be improper to remark, that at this period of political excitement, when persons disregarding known facts, and actuated by no fair or rAional principles, were induced to have recourse to rumours and speculations, and mis representations, a rumour has very generally gone forth that a part of the secret service money has been employed to buy the Press. The as sertion has been made so broadly and unequivo cally out of doors, that I think it right to advert to it. Your Lordships are aware, that in strict ness, I can have no details of the secret service money previously to my coming into office. At the end of the year the amount is sworn to by the Secretary of State, and there is an end of it ; the same thing takes place when a Secretary of State goes out of office. I have no regular cognizance of the details therefore previously to my coming into office. I did, however, inquire ; the documents were still preserved ; and I can assure your Lordships, that the inspection of these documents has left upon my mind the strongest conviction which a man can have with respect to money which has not actually passed through his hands, that not one shilling of it has been applied to the purpose of influencing the Press of this country." This absurdity origi nated with Lord Londonderry, whose overween ing vanity inspired him with the ideal that the only way of accounting for the Press not think ing him a paragon of Statesmen was its corrup tion. To those who know any thing of News paper property (though their Lordships gene rally, as well as their brethren of the other House, know as much of the subject of News papers, as they know of the habits of the man in the moon), the idea of corrupting Newspapers by money must appear supremely ridiculous. Why the whole year's salary of all the members of the Cabinet, if expended in an attempt (which after all might or might not succeed), to establish one _Morning Paper in London, would not be more than enough. And would any man, whose ears are not so long as those of a certain useful quadruped, imagine that the proprietor of a news paper, for such a sum as might, perhaps, tempt some needy Austrian, or Russian, or Spanish Government Secretary to furnish a copy of the secret articles of a Treaty, but which would not serve to keep the wolf from his door one day (there being, perhaps, four or five hundred human beings immediately de pendent on him for subsistence), sacrifice his pro perty, by offending those who are his subscribers, not from any favour to him, but from coincidence in principles ? No Ministry, no Party in this country, can protect a newspaper against the consequences of offending its readers. In revolutionary periods, which of course are, with respect to the Press, periods of despotism, writers, like other individuals, have only the alternative of being silent, or advocat ing the opinions in vogue for the time. In a country like America or this, a writer, like his readers, at taches himself to the Journal which accords with his principles. There are a few ugly exceptions now and then, but it would be invidious to name them ; but the transmutation is not effected by bribery; but is the result of speculation as to the greater popu larity of certain principles, or such a change as that produced by the late Ministerial split, when a new organ became necessary for the new Opposition, and part of the rats ran over.to the new building, all of them looking for a time, uncertain whether to run or stay. We have often been astonished at the gross ignorance of distinguished senators in this country of an instrument which has had so much power in forming the character of the people, and in influencing the destinies of the nations. The trashy and libelous publications to which Lord Dudley and Ward alluded, have repeated ad nauseant the gross est falsehoods. Great industry has, no doubt, been used in dispersing them ; but Noble Lords are sel dom long in the humour of spending money in that way; and when the cause ceases, the effect will cease also.—Morning Chronicle. The ideas which we lately threw out respecting the Scotch Marriage Laws, are in accordance with what fell last night from those Peers best aequainted with the subject in the House of Lords. It will be necessary, _ as Lord Lans down observed, to prevent the subjects of Eng land from evading their own Marriage Laws in Scotland. Lord Lauderdale said, " people never went from England to Scotland to get married till after the passing of the Marriage Act, and he thought it would be better to repeal the Marriage Act, than to make any alteration in the Scotch Law." However unpopular the Marriage Act might have been when it passed, so much is man the creature of habit, that we believe no proposition would be more unpopular than that of repealing it. Indeed, we suspect, from the restraint to which females are subjected in England till marriage, and their consequent want of prudence (for the virtues of caution and pru dence, like every other, can exist only under inde pendent exercise), the first fruits of a repeal of the Marriage Act would be far from consolatory. The habits of the two kingdoms are, in this respect, dia metrically opposite. The period of youth is that of freedom in Scotland; in England it is that of re straint. Marriage in England is, comparatively, a return to freedom ; in Scotland it brings with it care and austerity .—lbid. The observations which Mr. Peel made in the House of Commons, on introducing the Bill to dissolve what the law calls a marriage between Miss Turner and the culprit Wakefield, were exceedingly pertinent and just. The Hon. Mem ber said, " the person who was the chief offender was now undergoing a punishment which showed, more than any modern case, how inadequate hu man legislation was to human crime, the crime in question being, in point of moral turpitude, more enormous than many, for the commission of which offenders yearly pay the forfeit of their lives on the scaffold." But who is to blame for this inequality of crimes and punishments—the public or the legislators ? Certainly not the public, for the opinion of the nation is strongly in favour of a Criminal Code more consonant , with the principles of reason and justice ; but somehow or other Parliament still continues to be satisfied with a Statute-book which contains the most sanguinary enactments against pettyoffenders, and in many instances regards the more daring and atrocious criminals with comparative lenity. Is it not preposterous, that a man who steals a single sheep or lamb out of a flock, shall, by that act of theft, forfeit his life, while a villain who feloniously'carries off the only child of a family, suffers, at the utmost, three years of imprisonment ?—Nay more, that such a person is allowed, after conviction on the clearest evi dence, to come before the highest tribunal in the land, and complain of hardship and cruelty, because a legislative measure is in progress to deprive him of the future chance of pecuniary advantage from his infamous crime—a crime, as Mr. Peel said, which originated in " the basest of all motives—that of avarice." But why should this legislative measure be at all necessary ? Be canoe the law which pronounces every other con tract void that is bottomed in fraud, declares that neither fraud nor force can vitiate the most solemn of all contracts—that of marriage. We are glad to see that Mr. Peel has taken advantage of the pre sent occasion to animadvert on the absurdity of the law in this respect. We endeavoured to direct the attention of the Legislature to the subject some time ago, and we trust that Mr. Peel, who has already done so much towards a revisal of our Cri minal Code, will not be satisfied with merely express ing an opinion on this grievous defect in our Civil Jurisprudence, but will himself bring in a Bill to remove this reproach from our civilization. Such a state of the law is not only repugnant to reason, and at variance with Christianity, but it absolutely holds out a premium to a certain class of conspirators and swindlers to plot against the innocence of portioned young women, and destroy the peace of families. Nature, common sense, and religion, equally re nounce so absurd and vicious a principle of law.— Morning Herald. Referring to the remarks relative to the re duction of the duty on Foreign Sugar, which appeared in the New Times of Wednesday, we can state that the following is the arrangement under which it is to take place :—Refiners of sugar will be permitted to take out of the bond ed warehouses, within six weeks from this time, any quantity of foreign Muscovado sugar, at a duty of 295., provided the Board of Customs are satisfied, in the first instance, that the quantity applied for is necessary to keep the premises of the party so applying at work. The quantity in every case is to be limited to ten tons weekly, for each pan employed, the proper officers of the Crown having previously certified that the sugar so to be taken out of the warehouses is admis sible for home consumption, under the existing laws, and that the quality is not superior to the British plantation now generally in use by the refiners. Before the entry clan be passed, however, it will be necessary for the party to enter into bond to export or place in the warehouses for exportation, within three months, 731bs. weight of refined, or 631bs. refin ed, and 18Ibs. bastard sugar, for every 1121bs. of the raw sugar admitted at the reduced duty. We believe the measure to be experimental, as the duration is so limited ; and, viewing it in that light, very little importance need be attached, to it ; but if it be the precursor of a more exten sive alteration with regard to this article, when imported from foreign countries, we confess that it is not without some feeling of alarm that we contemplate the effects that may probably result from it. We are no enemies to the removal of the restrictions and prohibitions which encumber our commercial relations ; on the contrary, many of the measures pursued by the President of the Board of Trade have met with our most zealous concurrence ; but we conceive the welfare of our Colonial possessions is so intimately connected with the prosperity of the country at large, and so many and various are the interests that would be affected by any depression that might arise in those Colonies, that we cannot but pause be fore we'give our assent to any alteration by which they might be prejudiced. It is contended, that, from the excess of production it; our West India Islands beyond the demand for consumption in this country, the additional duty of 10s. paid on East India, and of 365. on Foreign, affords no protection to our West India Planters; this may be correct, and acting upon this assertion,.the late alter ation certainly' tends to do away with it, if any does exist ; because every refiner can at all times cover the amount of the foreign sugar entered by him (even though the exports were less than at present), by substituting that which he already refines from the plantation sugar for the quantity which he is re quired to enter into bond to export, and thus bring the foreign into the horn. market, as it is not, we ' believe, so well calculated for the purposes of the refiner. We are aware it may be urged, that it would be unjust to protect one portion of our do minions at the expellee of the remainder; but, how ever correct this may be, as a general principle, it is not applicable to the present case. We doubt not that Great Britain would amply compensate itself for any loss it might sustain in the defalcation of the exports to the West Indies,by an enlarged trade with Foreign Nations, but then it should be remembered that our ex ports consist chieflyofmanufactured goods, the demand for which is increased in the same proportion that we take the productions of foreign countries in exchange for them ; and if we no longer seek our supplies in the West India markets, the trade of which consists entirely in the export of the raw produce, we either destroy the market for it entirely, or so diminish its value, that the cultivation of it becomes no longer profitable ; and, under these circumstances, it is not merely the temporary prosperity, but the future ex istence of the trade of those Islands, which is in volved in the consideration. We are led to believe that such would be the consequences, because we cannot imagine, for a moment, that a merchant hav ing a certain quantity of manufactured goods to dis pose of, would not take them to those markets which, from local circumstances, would he enabled to offer the largest proportion of raw produce in ex change.—New Times. We direct the attention of our readers to the proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday. The case was one of libel—that non descript, undefined, and undefinable, branch of English law. We know not whether the plain tiffs sought to recover damages or establish cha racter. If the former, the Jury gave them twenty-five pounds a piece ; if the latter, that sum represented, we presume, the value of the thing restored. We do not quarrel with the verdict ; but we cannot help wishing, as regards the defendants, there were some less expensive way of giving a man five and twenty pounds. Regarding the verdict as a declaration of the quantum of injury clone, or of character de stroyed, it is a grievous thing that ten or twenty times that amount of injury should be inflicted upon those who are adjudged to make this re paration.—lbid. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY.—MONDAY, Juws 11.--(At the Court of Commissioners, Basinghall-street.) Burkinyoung, P., Old Kent road Dyson, J., Ratcliffe-row, St. Luke's lO COUNTRY DIARY.—MOND►x, JUNK 11. Adamson and Co., Whitehaven—Black Lion, Whitehaven ti Brockbank, J., Whitehaven—Golden Lion, Whitehaven ll Cox, E., Ledbury—Feathers, Ledbury l2 Dickins and Co., Plymouth—Royal hotel Plymouth ll Fisher, J., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham lO Finney, C., Derby—King's Head, Derby Hodgson, NV., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham lO Igguldeis, J., Dover—Guildhall, Canterbury l2 Leaker, G., Bristol—Commercial rooms, Bristol 1 Longley, P., Ramsgate—Guildhall, Canterbury ll Newton, R., Liverpool—Mr. Holden, Liverpool 1 Nightingale, E., Manchester—White's, Manchester 1 Preston, J., Barton—George, Barton 4 A most extraordinary occurrence took place last week at Sheriff' Hutton. A mother at this village left her child, two or three months old, in a cradle, whilst she went into a neighbour's house, and unfortunately left the door open, when, on her return, she found that another child, about two years and a half old, had wan dered into the h ou s e , go ne t o th e i n f an t, an d had bit it in various places to such a degree as to have drawn blood, and almost caused its death. Nay, even a t th e ti me th e mo th er en tered, it was in the act of attempting to force out one of the infant's eyes with its finger. The return of the parent, however, saved the life of the child. The neighbourhood was alarmed by the shrieks of the mother.— York Courant. AMERICAN PAPERS. (From the New York Inquirer of May 16.) BRAZIL—Of the injudicious policy pursued by this cis- Atlantic Monarch, we spoke a few days since in terms of severe remonstrance. Fresh arrivals from Rio have brought additional evidence of the frowardness and violence of the Brazilian functionaries. The Philadelphia Gazette con tains a letter from the master of a British to the master of an American vessel, describing the indignities and injuries done by the Brazilians to both. Ship -masters make good witnesses, though they are not the 'calmest and most tem perate historians, and amongst the wordy complaints of Captain Harrison we find enough of substantial injury to warrant the speedy and efficient interference of our Go vernment. Until the representations of M. Raguet are made public it will not be safe to state the actual amount of losses incurred ; it is enough for the present to say, that the insolence of the Brazilian Government is of a character that ought not to be endured. (From the New York Gazette of May 15.) An attempt has been recently made to navigate the Allegany river by steam, which is said to have been en tirely successful, with the water at the height usual during the spring months when the Ohio is navigable. The steam-boat Albion, Captain Pursall, performed a trip from Pittsburgh to a point 50 miles above that city, at the rate of from four to five miles an hour, against the rapid cur rent of the stream. Capt. Pursall has no doubt that the river may be navigated as far up as Franklin or Warren, by steam-boats carrying 50 tong, (From the United States Gazette, May 15. ) NEW YORK, Max I4.—FROM CENTRAL AMERICA.— By the brig Mary Livingston, arrived yesterday from San Juan de Nicaragua, we learn that a number of the provinces in Central America were in a state of anarchy and civil war. Leon and Grenada had made war upon Nicaragua Jenagua—the latter was surrounded by troops, and Leonidas was expected to surrender. Messiah had been plundered by contending armies. It was said the cause of the difficulties was an attempt of the President to change the existing form of Government. Another cause assigned was ,the great animosity existing between the coloured people and the whites, who held the reins of Government. Foreigners who had entered into speculations had been disappointed in their golden dreams, and many who had arrived in the country in affluence were reduced to poverty and want. In consequence of the revolutionary state of the country, hides, which formerly were an important item of export, were very scarce. Business of every kind at a stand. The indigo crop was stated to be only two-thirds of what it usually was : export for the present year estimated at 65,000 lbs.—Nat. Adv. We learn, by the arrival yesterday from Havannah, that Commodore Porter's squadron had free ingress and egrese s at Key West. A number of vessels had been captured by his squadron ; one of them (a Spanish ship, from Cadiz) was captured by the brig Bravo, off Cape Antonio, the middle of April, and was stated to be worth 150,000 dole. The prisoners were taken to Key West.—lbid. (From the Boston Daily Advertiser, May 14.) :MAY 11.—TRADE WITH BRA ZIL. —lt appears by the subjoined extract from Maranham, as well as by accounts from other parts of Brazil, that our cotton fabrics are now nearly excluded from the markets of that country, and that under the existing regulations we stand no chance in com petition with the English and French, who pay a duty of only 15 per cent., whilst the Americans are taxed 24 per cent. Owing to this discrimination, the sales in one section, which in 1824 amounted to 475,080 yards, were reduced last year to 50,000 yards. A preference is given to our manufactures, but the English have learnt to imitate them, and are enabled to supply the market at lower rates. (From the New York .3forning Courier of May 14.) LATE and IMPORTANT from SOUTH AMERICA. To Capt. Owen of the fast sailing schooner Mary Li vingston, arrived yesterday in 20 days from San Juan de Nicaragua, we are indebted for the following important information : The different provinces in Central America, were in a state of anarchy, and business of all kinds at a stand : the cause, without doubt, arose from the jealousy of the mu lattoes against the whites, and the vague and inconsistent ideas imbibed by them of liberty and republicanism. An other reason alleged was, that Bolivar wished to alter the form of the present government from a Federal to that of a Central. The Provinces of Nicaragua were involved in a most serious civil war. The cities of Leon and Granada have declared war on the cities of Nicaragua and Meridgna ; the latter was surrounded by the Granadians and Leonians, and was momentarily expected to surrender. The city of Messiah had been plundered by the contending parties. Agriculture has become neglected ; the crops of Indigo throughout the whole country by the returns from the different provinces would fall short nearly two-thirds. Owing to the neglect of the Hacrindas of cattle, hides were becoming scarce. SHIPWRECK. —The brig Mary, Desacque, of Philadelphia, from Carthagena, for New Yolk, was wrecked upon the New Boar, (shoal) Feb. 21st. The captain, mate, and crew, took to the long boat, and after three days' suffering, landed upon the Mosquito shore; where, wandering six days, they fortunately fell in with some Indians, and suc ceeded in getting to a place of safety. After two months, they were providentially taken off by a Colombian schooner, and carried into San Juan. (From the Boston Daily Advertiser, May 14.) ALBANY, MAY 9..—HORRIBLE ASSASSINATION•One of the most horrible instances of deliberate assassination that we have ever been called upon to record, was com mitted in this vicinity on Monday evening. The particu lars of this transaction, as they have been communicated to us, are as follows. Mr. John Whipple, of this city, whilst writing in a back room in the second story of his dwelling house on Cherry Hill, a mile below this City, between 9 and 10 o'clock at night, was fired at through the sash, with a pistol. The ball passed through and shattered a pane of glass, entered the body of Mr. Whipple through the blade bone of his left shoulder, cut one of the principle arteries of the heart, and lodged in the right lobe of the lungs ; he barely exclaimed, " My God !" rose and walked a few steps to the head of the stairs, and there fell and immediately expired. The murderer approached his victim by clambering on the roof of a back stoop, and firing from it diagonally at the distance of 10 feet. At the time of the shot, a young gen tleman was sitting in the room with the deceased ; but in the confusion of the moment no pursuit could be made ; nor were any steps taken until information was conveyed to the police of the city.—The steps of the villain are plainly visible on the roof of the porch, as is also the flash of the powder on the frame of the sash. Mr. Whipple was in the prime of life, industrious, enter prising, and fair in all his transactions. He was respected as a vcluable and intelligent citizen. He has been cut off in the midst of his usefulness leaving a bereaved widow and an interesting young son to lament his untimely fate. Mr. W. returned from New-York, on Sunday night, where he had completed an advantageous contract connected with the Hudson and Delaware canal, in the construction of which he had participated largely ; and was at the moment of his death arranging his papers for a departure from the city , yesterday morning. As it may well be conceived, an affair so atrocious and so unusual amongst us, has excited great feeling and indig nation ; and no effort will be spared to detect the assassin. The corporation of the city, it will be perceived, has offered a reward of 250 dollars for that purpose. No cause except upon conjecture has been assigned for the commission of this deed. The circumstances under which it was perpe trated,.—in the most populous of the environs of the city, in a dwelling where were several individuals and particu larly in the face of a person sitting by the side of the de ceased, after clambering also with much difficulty to an ele vation equal with the second story,—mark it as one of the boldest, as it is one of the blackest in the annals of crime. Two witnesses were under examination yesterday, before J. 0. Cole, Esq. at the police office, the result of which is not known, only as far as they disclose nothing definite. The Mayor of Albany has offered a reward of 250 dollars for the apprehension of the murderer of Mr. Whipple. Argu s. (From the New York Statesman, May 15.) THE LATE MURDER ♦T ALBANY.---The I papers give various, though concurrent particulars of this horrible event. The Enquirer of this morning states, on private information, that there is something in it not dissimilar to the Beauchamp affair ; but its points of resemblance are not mentioned. The Albany Daily Advertiser says : .4 F r om circumstances which have been developed, it is be lieved that the man now confined in jail, is the murderer of Mr. Whipple. His name is Joseph Orton, and has been employed for the last six or eight months as a labourer on the farm on which Mr. W.'s family reside. He is about thirty years of age, was born in Westchester county, but for a number of years has resided in Kentucky and Ohio, a part of the time in the vicinity of Cincinnati. We forbear detall;ng any of the dreumstanees attending this bloody deed, as the man is to be put upon trial by a jury of his country ; and that jury should go into the box un prejudiced. It will be seen that the Governor has, by pro clamation, offered a reward of 500 dollars for the detec tion of the murder of Mr. Whipple." The .Argus also remarks that the facts are of a peculiar and revolting nature. During the examination, and in the course of much contradictory evidence, the prisoner refused to make further answers without first obtaining the aid of counsel. J. V. N. Yates, Esq. was sent for, but it is said, after private conversations with the accused, refused to be engaged in his defence. These statements all tend to heighten the public interest in a case which was in its first aspect sufficiently strange and alarming. (From the New York Enquirer, May 15.) The late assassination of Mr. Whipple, at Albany, has created great sensation in that city, and it is currently be lieved that the person now under examination will turn out to be the assassin —and, if our informant is correct, there is something in it not dissimilar to the Beauchamp affair. The man arrested passed for some time by a name which was not his real name. He represented himself to be from Ohio, and in the course of much contradictory evidence, refused to make further answers without obtaining the aid of counsel. John Van Ness Yates, Esq. was sent for, who, after some private conversation with the prisoner, refused to defend him. It seems this man lived with Mr. Whipple—and it appears, upon examining Mrs. Whipple, that she had had suspicions of his intentions, or, if our in formation is correct, the prisoner had expressed to her his determination to kill her husband, which sanguinary intention her fears prevented her from developing. He finally confessed that his name was not the one he went by, and that his parents were respectable and lived in Duchess County, and not in Ohio, and he wrote to them to employ Elisha Williams, Esq. to defend him. Socii, is our information, and we give it as it was related to us. May 15.—The Albany Theatre closed on Friday even ing last with Mr. Alacready's benefit. The house was filled with the taste and fashion of the city. A part of the company, including Mr. Burroughs and Mrs Stone, arri ved here on Saturday, and immediately proceeded to Boston. Mr. Cooper has been engaged by Mr. Ludlow, manager of the Mobile Theatre, to perform five nights—his first appearance was to take place on the 2Sth ult. During his engagement, the price of admission to the boxes was fixed at two dollars. The ship Brothers, Capt. Lee, sailed from this port on Saturday, with a cargo of provisions, &c. for the Greeks, collected here and by the Greek Committeee in Albany. A gentleman in Baltimore has received a letter from Rome, in 39 days from its date. It is dated Rome, March 31st; from thence it was sent to Paris, thence to Havre, thence to New York, in the ship Henry IV. thence to Baltimore, and received on the 9th inst. This despatch is believed to be unequalled. A runaway negro woman, a slave, was recently appre hended in the Island of Jamaica, and while crossing a bridge, asked "her keeper to permit her to wash her feet, when she immediately plunged into the stream and was drowned. (From the New York Gazette, May 16.) FRIGHTFUL SHIPWRECK.-The brig Rob Roy, from Belfast for Quebec, was wrecked in a violent gale on the night of tke 30th ult., on the shoals of L'lslet. The num ber of passengers was 151 ; of these were drowned, 19 children, 3 women, and 2 men. The Waterloo brought away 27 men, 16 women, and 27 children—in all 70 per sons, the rest had proceeded to Quebec by land. The sur vivors were loud in their praise of the inhabitants of the country near where they were wrecked, who treated them with the utmost kindness, slaughtering their cattle to give them provisions. The cargo of the Rob Roy is valued at 30,000/. which is almost all lost or damaged. One m an lost his wife and three children ; another, out of four chil dren, lost three ; the survivor is deaf and dumb. A Mrs. Lamb.lost her husband, one child, and money and property to the amount of 700/., and is now with six children, left destitute. The vessel is a total wreck. (From the New York Morning Courier, May 14.) BOSTON, MAY 12. —MELA NCHOLY WAECK.,...- The schooner Olive Branch, Captain Adams, of and from ,Bath, with a cargo of wood, butter, leather, &c. was seen i❑ the bay yesterday morning at eight o'clock, on her beam ends, drifting in before the wind, with several men cling ing to the small part of the hull which remained out of water. She drove into the sound and took the bottom nearly in a range with the Light House. About half-past ten A.M. a pilot west to her assistance with a small boat, and saved the survivors. Captain Adams, who has ar rived up, states that the schooner struck on the Devil's Back yesterday morning at two o'clock, running into the sound under bare poles, having previously split the topsail and foresail to ribbons. She beat over, and immediately the anchors were let go, the pumps set a-going, and hove over the deck load. About seven o'clock she filled and fell over. The Captain, crew, and passengers, except one of the latter, took the rigging for safety and remained until the pilot-boat, Captain Coombs, took them off. A French man, lately arrived from the West Indies, a passenger, pe rished i❑ the rigging, the sea continually washing over him, and expired about the time the pilot came to their assistance. Mr. David Brown, a passenger, of Bowdoin ham, took the quarter-deck for safety, and was washed off and drowned. Captain A. and crew, four in number, and Messrs. Herrick and Rogers, of Bowdoinham, and Wil liams, of Lisbon, Me. were saved by Mr. Coombs' boat and brought up to the city. We mention, in addition, that the wreck was discovered in the sound by Mr. Parker, of the Observatory, who im mediately made signal to the Telegraph station and pilot boats below, on which Mr. Coombs, in the pilot boat Leader, instantly made sail for the wreck, and although the sea was tremendous, and the wind heavy, by per severing and skilful exertions, succeeded in rescuing seven much bruised and almost exhausted persons, who were clinging to the shrouds, and brought them to town i n sa f e ty. One was left dead in the shrouds, whose body was afterwards taken off by the pilot-boat Hornet. The humane public, from this narration, cannot fail to appre ciate the usefulness of the Telegraph establishment, and to applaud the spirit and humanity of the pilot. The Quebec Mercury gives the following novel, yet painful account of an execution for robbing the house of a •Curate On Tuesday forenoon, April 24, Jean Baptiste, and Michel Monarque, brothers, were taken from the jail, es corted by large parties of the 71st and 72d regiments, to be executed at Point Levi, for the robbing of the parsonage house of that parish. The prisoners followed on foot, their coffins placed in carts, each having a halter round his neck. In this way they both playfully passed along St. Anne street, the Upper Town Market-place and Mountain-street, to Hunt's Wharf, embarked on board the Chamblay steam boat, and crossing to the Lauzon Wharf, continued from there to walk on foot to the place of execution, a distance of two miles. Arriving at the gallows, both ascended it, confessing their guilt, and 'vent through their devotions assisted by the Rev. M. M. Aubry, and Viau. The younger brother Michel, then learned his pardon, bade adieu to Jean, telling him to die like a man, and stood a witness to the execution. In doing this the executioner had not tied the knot well and it slipped; the culprit, lacerated by the rope, fell to the ground : lie distinctly asked for his pardon, which of course no person had authority to grant. He ascended the gallows anew, the halter was again mis placed, the knot came under the prisoner's chin; he long struggled in agony ; the executioner seized his feet, and pulled them down, while his assistant turned the rope on his neck. The brother, after witnessing this scene, walked back to town, and in a state of distraction, passing through the streets reproaching Heaven that it had saved his life. Such, at least, are the facts which we have been able to collect, and which we believe true. After such a scene, we might ask, what are the effects of our executions?— They are full of disastrous evil. (From the New York Statesman, May 15.) The Government of Peru has directed, that in place of the duty of four reels per arrowba of brandy, and two per arrowba of wine, that there be substituted a duty of five on the first, and two and a half per cent. on the second, ac cording to its appraised value in the territory of the Re public, in addition to the duty now exacted under the law of the 6th of June, 1826. The brief extract from a former speech of Mr. Canning, which we have taken from a foreign paper, indicates a tone of sentiment much more congenial to republican doctrines than he has generally been supposed to entertain; and, con nected with his present elevation presents a new and strik ing illustration of the influence of talent and character in England, notwithstanding the strong aristocratical features of her system. It is only in that country and our own that those paramount claims to distinction are appreciated and recognised. Elsewhere, an adamantine barrier is erected against the elevation of any one born among the people to a participation of political power : or, if there have been exceptions to this remark, they have been so rare as to prove, not to contradict, the existence of the rule ; and, moreover, being in most cases the reward of intrigue, not of merit—the result of petty court favouritism, not of a desire to put forward ability—they have no title to be con sidered as departures from an exclusiveness of policy. An instance of this may be found in France at this moment. M. de Villele was a commoner, and is now a Premier and a Peer; but having no claim to respect as a man or a politician, and being raised only by management, we are not to be told that he is in any degree a proof of liberal v;eWe in the French Government. It is in the Vol States and in England only, we repeat, that capacity character are allowed a proper weight in affairs ; and trait not merely affords a high moral distinction, but sect an essential superiority in their relations abroad. (From the New York Gazette, May 16.) CHILICOTHE, (OHIO,) MAY 3.—One of the Iti daring robberies ever heard of in this part of the coup was committed in this town on the night of the 25th I A foreigner, named Meech, arrived here a few von since, with a quantity of jewellery, silver ware, chains, &c. which he was desirous of selling; and put with Mr. S. Dowdle, who keeps a house of entertain a , on the upper end of High-street. A few days beforerobbery, the former had occasion to leave town on bus j and left his trunk, containing sundry articles of valu e, 0 gether, as was supposed, with a large sum of mousy , ,, th e room he usually occupied, in the upper story of boarding house. Early on Thursday morning it wag"; ceived that the room had been forcibly enter e d into, an f 2 trunk carried off—a rail, placed under th e window, 011 ', of the building, having been used as a l a dd er for the n pose. Suspicion immediately fastened u pon one aro; Enoch Mounts, a notorious character, who was but„ cently returned from a visit to the Penitentiary, and from a variety of circumstances which is not necesalul recite, was supposed to be a principal agent in the n ets7 o transaction. Complaint was, therefore, ntade agains t Ail before Thos. Orr, Esq. a Justice of the Peace for ; township, who forthwith issued a warrant againstluj j which was promptly executed by Mr. Sheriff Tarlton his assistants; and Mounts was committ e d to the cod gaol, after having vainly attempted to effect his escape , displayed the most brutal ferocity. A diligent s earch; then made throughout his house and premises ; but nothr was found which could lead to the discovery of the perty stolen. The circumstantial evidence agains t . was, however, so strong, as to leave but little doubt of guilt ; and as it was deemed improbable that he could b s ,‘ committed the robbery without the assistance of ° s t y more accomplices, it was thought expedient to search, residence of one Edward Leach, a suspicious person, rdl had been observed in earnest conversation with him a time before. The Sheriff, therefore, repaired to the d;;;„ ling of the former, who denied all knowledge of the tio action ; when, after a thorough but ineffectual search in ) o n c t i c s u ln i g ed were Part foofu nthe concealed'building, under de r t numberie h e o a f joining out-house. This discovery led to the acknowll ment of his guilt by Leach, and subsequently by Mc o .4 the latter of whom accompanied the Sheriff to the r tk th o er in ti c :l where the remainder of the property had been dep 6B the whole of which was ultimately recovered, with the,f,o ception of a few articles of comparatively small value' trunk contained no money ; the owner having, a fest pf before the robbery, deposited his cash in the Bawl Lancaster. THE MARKETS. SOUTHA'LL MARKET.—Jung 6. d tW At this day's market, which, as is usual at this time r oll Year, was short of fat Beasts, but, in othe r res p ec t s , mode AO Weil supplied, each kind of meat experien ce d a ratherLd sale, at the following prices per stone of Sib s t o s ink the olf Beef. 4s. 4d. to ss. 6d. I Veal 4s. 4d. to 55,, Mutton -- 310 S 0 Pork 4 A Lamb ss. Od. to os. Od. The foregoing quotations are the coarser kinds of Ifuts.:4 ) Lamb Is., Veal 6d.. and Pork 2d. per stone beneath thosef . ',4l l day se'nnight. In prices of Beef no alteration. A consiO 4 number of Sheep and Lambs, and some Bea s t s le ft th u s ' / ' unsold. HAILSHAM MARKET.—June 6. ~,ld Beef 44. Bd. to 54. 4d. 41. 4d. to 0 Mutton I 5 0 5 6 Pork 0 0 v Lamb ss. fild. to 6s. Od. $ l, Supply of Beasts, for the time of year, great ; that of b 0 and Lambs very short ; trade with the former dull, Wl' two latter brisk. STEYNING MARKET.—June 4. 4s. Cd. to 50. 4d. Veal 4a. 44:1. t o 0 ° Mutton ..., I — 4 2 5 2 Pork— 0 0 Lamb ss. Gd. to 6s. 2d. Supply rather limited, and trade somewhat brislt ARUNDEL MARKET.—June 5. VA Boef 4a. 411. to Si. 2d. I Veal* , 4s. 6d. to 0 Mutton 4 2 5 0 0 0 Lamb ss. Bd. to 6s. 2d. Supply tolerably good, and trade a little alive. CHICHESTER MARKET.—June 6. j A 1 0 ' 1 Beef 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d. Mutton I — 4 s. to 0 4 4 4 10 Pork.. 0 0 h at Each kind of Lean Stock went off briskly, at Borneo - proved prices. Supply moderately good, and trade, on the rather brisk. it RUMFORD MARKET.—June 6. s. d. to s. d. 6 4 'll Beef 44 5 4 I Veal ' , b sfuttoa Lamb ss. Od. io ..... OCI: n 14 a OP to • Suckling Calves frem 14a. to 495. ; Quarter old Piliv at brisk. Supply rather limited, and trade somovh 0. d. tot 4 COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING TI-- 1 Wheat. Barley. f Oats. • I yr. tn Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s Blandford 52 60 38 40 30 36 Brigg -- 55 60 35 40 35 42 Cambridge-- 54 37 25 """„ Chard 56 76 38 44 24 32 Huntingdon.... 50 55 36 38 24 30 Louth 56 60 40 42 30 35 0 0 4 ' Lynn _ _ 52 60 34) 44 26 36 fr a Newark 57 63 38 45 30 33 Norwich 52 60 36 38 28 32 40 5 9 Nottingham 56 60 42 45 29 33 Peterborough -- 50 58 39 42 24 30 f' Plymouth 52 60 38 40 28 32 •o• Sherborne--...... 50 56 32 38 30 36 Uppingham 56 61 38 42 34 4 Wisbech 52 60 24 28 „ York 54 62 36 44 24 30 LEEDS CORN MARKET, June 5. 0 1 0 5, 1 ` . There was affair supply of Wheat, but only middling he Grain ; higher prices were demanded for Wheat, and t mess done was at Is. per quarter advance. B u t little Barley„ 0 . , ind, and the season being nearly o ver , p r i ces were nrit l'', same. Oats and Shelling continue very dull sale, aw,,,,,1010 thing rather lower. Beans were full as dear. Nothing " Rapeseed. 4 Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk -- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 63lb. dis j t. to 0 - ro• Oats, Potatoe e r —Mealing, Foreign 15d. to 16d....English 16d. to __„tl i, Shelling 36s. to 3Ss• Y`' 00 re Rapeseed, English, 201. to 231. .... e ......! 0 MANCHESTER CORN MARKET.—June 2 . 0 iil 4 'i The Corn trade has remained in th e mos t inanitn3 Ole fr since this day se'nnight ; and the few sal es ma d e d u ring „ t ii.,, were on lower terms. The 'Change was very indiffere - ftSl tended to-clay, but the show of samples was p l en tiful e 14/.1, Wheats barely support their prices. Oats have declin V ,Itini. 451 b. All other articles are exceedingly heavy at last We e . to °' 6 Customary Bushel. Pease (Imp. Or.) 1, . 7, 1 9 Wheat (701 b.) s. d. to s. d. Blue, (b0i1er5).......... , 6 . 6 English, New..... 9 3 9 '7 White-(d0.).,-,..... , 6O 0 ----- Red —8 10 9 2 Beans. 7 0 0 0 Irish, White— 9 0 9 4 English ...........,.......... 3 ,, 0 ---- Red - 8 4 9 0 Irish and Foreign . , ..W 1 0 Canada.....-...,..-,-.... 9 0 9 4 Per bag of 280 11 / o t o 0 Foreign --. 811 9 6 Flour, Fine Nottsi 0 4 0 Barley (601 b.) )(cats., fine.. 0 1., 0 For grinding—, 5 4 510 ---,- Irish, tine.-1 0 e :, 0 , Oats (451 b.) -- Seconds 0 a l 0 English St Scot c h - 0 0 0 0 Barrel Flour Sweet.- - 7; 0 We15h.,,..,--,.....- 0 0 0 0 - Sour.- 3- g 411 Foreign . 3II 4 0 Per load of 2401 b.„, 0 „ 0 0 Irish, Kiln-dried 311 4 1 Oatmeal, Eng. &c.... 4.„ 0 ii 0 —Undried-- 3 ii 4 0 ---••---- Irish.---- 3 ' s 0 1 0 , Per load of 6 Impl. bushel. ----- old(feed/ 0 1 7 Malt, New ......,.....46 0 48 0 Tares (Imp. Qr-)•*" 1 3 Old-„,-..... 0 0 Bran (broad) per 201 b. Inferior -43 0 45 0 ,A MANCHESTER SMITHFIELD. — June & 71 - ' At per lb. sinking the offal. 51 to t 3,554 5heep,....,...,... - id. to &I. 6 Calves . i 187 Cattle ........w., 5 si I 204 Pigs ------ 1,40•42 Lambs -., , at 7d. to 81c1 MANCHESTER POTATOE s o' Potatoes, Ss., Bs. 6d., Os. Od., and 10s. Od. per load of 1 4 . 0 121bs. ; New ditto., 7s. Od., 7s. 3d., and Os. per score ;: 0 11, Os. Od., Os. Od. and Os. Od. per load of 16 pecks; Onions, per lb. MANCHESTER YARN MARKE -----E-- ;T.—June to 10 0 Ix 30 ........ la rei 40 eeve. F. c i 50 ~......, A l° I 16 1 1 60 ......,,,, 170 ....,...., 94 % 3 4 ' 80 ....... „ - „ 100 -........, :It.' 120 ...,,•-•' 9 10...---"^ 9 1 . Weft from 14 ......,,, i o ii waste ... IS ,---- 10 24 ...--'' No. d. d. Throstle Twist, 20 Ml 2 to 121 no 13 14 40 MulecopTsvisti 30 for warp .•,• j _ .181 isj ,12 13 14 15 .17 19 .20 21 .24 26 28 31 Mule Cop 40 - 50 - 60 - 70 - 80 On the 20th u lt., . ---- a -------"----- t Barr° ill Castle, N. 8., BIRTHS. the Coif o f tess of Caithne ss , of a son . g Yesterday, at East Sheen, the Hon. Mrs. Pen /4444 IC' a son. . la ay ° Lately, at Bevis-hill, near Southampton, the/ Day, Esq., of a daughter. OP MARRIED. , ir' b a r O r i n s te tl r i - e at 6 - t l l a i w i r t t. o , iv a i t ar C y l , a t a f e o c r o d n , didlenaurgyhtßerOS:lAUeetite , f Richards, Esq., of Clatford. ri na otw re , „(l , On the 7th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-oki, i Anderson, Esq., son of John Anderson, Esq . of ';uter ° house, Northumberland, to Isabella, younges the late Dr. Simpson, of St. Petersburgh. DIED. .1 01)0/ On the 7th inst., in Bruton-street, aged tWcileBll4 P - 1 1 sec ond son of John Russell, Esq., M.P. r c eg . O On the 6th inst., G. Bainbridge, Esq. , °` aged 86. , 110 4 2 4 Same day, at Bromley, Kent, after a fe w (Ur,: PP,' aged 19, Thomas, the only son of T. Willoughby of the Customs. tl O a t Pitman:. and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG/ SUN-OFFICE, No. Ile, Strand.