The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-22 00:00:00

HORRID MURDER.

[From a New York Paper.]
A most horrible murder was committed in this
city, about one o'clock on Tuesday morning
last :
Some time in the month of Sept. last, Mr. Lechler made a
discovery, which induced him to believe that too great an inti-
macy existed between Mr. Haag and his wife. The business
was, however, adjusted by some pecuniary arrangement be-
tween the parties. But Lechler, growing dissatisfied with the
arrangement which had been entered into, made increased de-
mands of Mr. Haag, which the latter resisted. In consequence,
of this, an altercation took place between Lechler and his wife
she left his house, and lie on the 6th of October last, advertised
her.

Some weeks after this, Lechler took his wife home again,
where she has since remained, except on one or two occasions,
when she left him for a day or two, and
.was prevailed on to
return.

On Tuesday morning last, about one o'clock, Haab asd his
wife were awakened by a noise in the brewery, which adjoins the
house; afterwards the noise appeared to be made by some per-
son in the kitchen, which was separated from the room in which
they slept by a small room in which the children slept. Haag,
passing through this room to the door which opened into the
kitchen, laying his hand on the lock of the door, and stooping
down, so as to bring his mouth near the key-hole, demanded
" who's there ?" The person in the kitchen, supposed to hate
been Lechler, immediately discharged his pistols, which
were double-barrelled,i two of the bullets passing through
the door, about six or eight inches above the lock, and close
to Haag's head ; the other two passing through the opposite
side of the door. Mrs. Haag, who was standing-at the door •
which opened into the children's room, which is immediately
opposite to that which opens from that room into the kitchen,
received one of the balls in the centre of the beast, which oc-
casioned her death in the course of a few moments.
The neighbourhood was then alarmed, and the Mayor and
other officers sent for, who proceeded to force an entrance
into the house of Mr. Lechler, who lived immediately oppo-
site Mr. Haag. Upon entering Lechler's house his chil-
dren were found in bed, and upon further search Mrs. Lech-
ler was found up in the garret, hung by the neck with a
rope to one of the beams. From the bruises on the arms,
breast, and back of Mrs. Lechler, it is almost certain that she
must have been murdered in her bed-chamber (on the ground
floor), and then carried up two pair of stairs to the garret, and
there hung up ! in order to induce a belief that she had hung
herself ! ! !
Both women were in a state of pregnancy. Mrs. Haag
within a few days of her confinement. Each of them have left
a family of six small orphans.
The supposed perpetrator of these most diabolical acts has
as yet escaped.

Covent-garden market yesterday made a most
beautiful and abundant display of every sort of flowers, fruit,
and vegetables. New pease were 3s. a quart ; very fine aspa-
ragus half-a-crown a hundred ; and strawberries Bs. a dish, of
moderate size.

MUTATIONS OF FORTUNE.—For several years
past the citizens of Philadelphia have known a poor man,
whose family subsisted partly by charity, and partly by the
produce of the sale of a few blacking balls. This man was
formerly in affluent circumstances, but misfortunes fell thick
upon him, and hurled him from the respectable situation
which he occupied in society to the lowest depths of poverty.
After suffering for many years all the misery that follows the
prostration of property, fortune has again smiled upon her vic-
tim. A short time since, by the death of a relation in the
'West Indies, he succeeded to an estate said to be worth
400,000 dollars.

COUItS.P. OF E.:Willi:Slit, May 21,.
Artste' darn
Ditto, at Sight l2 5
Rotterdam l2 9
Antwerp l2 3
Hamburgh 37 6 2f Us
A.ltona
Paris, 3 Day's sight 23 30 0 Us,
Ditto
Rourdeaux, ditto
25 00 '0 Us.
Frankforton the luain 155 Ex.sloney
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilboa 3G Effective
Barcelona

.../ 1.•
Seville
Gibraltar
Leghorn
413#
Get.t.,a . . Ai-Venice,' Ital. Liv 27 60
Malta 45 -Naples 4Ol
Palermo
Lisbon
Oporto
aio.Janeiro
-. .16
Dublin .... 9-....... .. Ctalt 91 pet Cent.

BULLION,

GQIII, 111 Coin
Foreign Gold, in Bars
New Doubloons
New Dollars
Silver in Wirc. Standard

/ .0 0 0 pet Oz.
3 17 10f
0 0
0 ,4 9i
n 0

t. HOP INTELLIGENCE.
:too tnwAex, 20.—Our Hop Market continues very
dull, notwithstanding there are accounts this morning, stating
an increase of fly in many parts of Kent. The duty is at 110,0001.
MAIDSTONE, MAY 20.—Upon our highly cultivated lands
the bine has grown' within the last three or four days, still its
appearance generally is feeble and unkindly ; fly is to be found
in every garden, and in some situations the increase is very
considerable. The grape bine is still very yellow, and much
checked in its growth'; upon that that is short. and backward
the flea has much increased. With reference tc, the Golding
and Canterbury plant, about one hill in five are dead, and not
one hill in ten have the appearance of a sufficiency of bine to
furnish each pole. Our opinion is, as we have all along stated, '
that the plant must have rest before any great produce can be
expected.—( Maidstone Journal.)

CORN EXCHANGE.—No business was dote in the Coxn
Market this morning.