The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

AN OFFER PROMPTLY ACCEPTED.— On Saturday
morning the Editor of the Advertiser issued a call for
for "four hundred Whig subscribers" to his daily
paper—the subscriptions to be paid if the Loco-Foco
candidate for the Presidency should be successful.
But if, on the contrary, Henry Clay should succeed,
no pay would be required. When this offer became
known about town, subsCription papers were opened
at various places ; and before night the " four hun •
dred Whig subscribers " were obtained.—Rochester
Democrat.

DEATH or SarAzAlt.—We have recently con-
versed with a man who left the neighbourhood of
Santa Fe last summer, who gives us the particulars
of the death of the notorious Salazar, the miscreant
from whom the Texan Santa Fe prisoners received
such brutal treatment while in New Mexico. He
was out upon an expedition in the Indian country,
stealing horses, and while thus engaged was waylaid,
killed and scalped, and his body left a prey to the
buzzards and prairie wolves—a fate similar to that to
which he consigned some five or six of the unfortu-
nate Texans who were entrusted to his charge be-
tween San Miguel and El Paso del Norte. For these
acts of more than barbarian cruelty he was ordered to
be tried by the Mexican Government; but so isolated
is Santa Pe that he found means to escape. A more
cruel, relentless, heartless villain probably never lived
than Salazar, and it would almost seem an act of re-
tributive justice that he has thus fallen.—New Or-
leans Picayune.
Mr. Southard, the late Treasurer of New Jersey,
whose accounts were lately reported as showing a de-
ficiency of between 4,000 and 5,000 dolls., has written
a letter to the Legislature, in which he offers to secure
to the State by bend and mortgage upon unincum-
bered real estate, the whole amount of the defalcation
reported against him.

(From the. New Orleans Picayune of March 3.)
FATAL DUEL.--A fatal duel was fought on Thurs-
day last at Vicksburg, between Mr. Hammet, editor
of the Vicksburg Whig, (and brother of the Member
of Congress from Mississippi,) and Mr. ityan, editor
of the Sentinel. They fought with pistols. At the
fourth fire Mr. Ryan fell mortally wounded, being
shot directly through the lungs. He died within ten
minutes. In two, of the previous fires Mr. Hamrnet
had been wounded, but the affair was allowed to pro-.
ceed. Our readers may recollect that the same par-
ties had before met and exchanged shots with rifles,
and that the difficulty was then arranged upon the
ground. They will remember, too, that Mr. Ryan
was the successor of Dr. Hagan in the editorial chair,
who was killed within the last year. •
SUPPOSED MURDER.—WhiIe some labourers were
employed clearing away the materials of houses re-
cently pulled down at. the corner of Walnut and
Water-streets—a part of the city of notoriously bad
repute—they discovered in the cellar the a human
body, buried about six inches below the surface. It
is the body of a female, evidently young, for the
teeth are quite perfect, habited in an ordinary black
silk dress, black hair, fastened up at the back of the
head with a comb. The trunk of the body, though
disembowelled by decay, is yet in a good state of
preservation, but the flesh is quite gone from the
head and arms. On the head the hair is .nearly all
remaining. After the body was deposited in
the earth, a thick coating of lime appears to
have been poured over it, doubtless for the
double purpose of accelerating decay and preventing
any offensive effluvia arising therefrom. Taking this
in connexion with the fact of her being attired in an
ordinary everyday dress,
.there can be little doubt
that a murder has been committed. The body is
supposed to have lain there two or three years. Three
or four years ago a man named Roach resided in the

house, who was a widower, and had a daughter about
eighteen years of age living with him. This man
married a second time, and it was well known that
both he and his second wife severely ill-treated this
daughter; for she was often seen with her eyes
black and her body bruised. At last she suddenly*
disappeared, very soon after which Roach and his
wife abruptly left this country for Ireland, and have
not since been heard of.

The Aurcra says, "the young man sentenced to death
for aiding in the escape of a quadroon slave bas been
pardoned by the Governor of South Carolina.. He is,
however, to be publicly whipped."

CHANNEL HARBOURS.
We understand that. the Commission for eonsidering
the several matters Connected with the Construction of a
harbour in the Channel will be composed of the follow-
ing members :
Admiral Sir By am Martin, G.C.8.„ President.
Lieut.-General Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., G.C.B.
Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, C.B.
Captain. Sir W. Symonds, R.N.
Captain John Washington-, R.N.
Lieutenant-Colonel Colquhoun, R.A.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alderson, R.E.
Sir John Pelly.
Captain Fisher, R.N. . . •
James Walker, Esq., President of the Society of Civil
Engineers.

Mr. and Lady .Mary Vyner will occupy Earl de
Grey's mansion in St. James's-square during the season.
'1 he Noble Lord Lieutenant and the Countess de Grey,
it is now understood, are not expected to leave the Vice-
regal Lodge for town until the end of next month, or the
first week in .tune.

We felt much gratified by the panegyric passed
on Sir Henry Pottinger by Sir Robert Peel and by Lord
Palmerston, and responded to by the cheers of both sides
of the House. This, added to the eulogium from Lord
Aberdeen and the Opposition in the House of Lords, pre-
sents a rare instance of great merit overcoming all party
feelings. We ask is this, however, to be the sole reward for
all the national sery ices of her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in
China ? Her Majesty conferred the title of Baronet on
Sir Henry Pottinger 'for his great diplomatic services in
India; and when her Majesty again called for Sir Henry-
Pottinger's " ability, zeal, firmnes, and discretion," to
conduct affairs in China, those commands were cheerfully
obeyed. The issue of Sir Henry's mission is known
wherever the British "flag waves. We now ask is Sir
Henry Pottinger to retire from public life without some
substantial mark of her Majesty's favour? Sir Henry is
not a vain man—but he is a proud one. A Peerage, we
trust, may he the rep. and of his national services—ser-
vices unequalled within cur times.—Naval and Mili-
tary Gazette.

The following are from the file of American jour-
nals received by the Montezuma :
A medical man, who has lived in Montreal for some
time, has been detected at the head of an organised
band of young thieves, who robbed under his direc-
tion and carried their booty to him. A shopkeeper in
good circumstance; and respectably connected is under
recognizance for no less a'crime than that of breaking
through the partition wall of his own house, into his
neighbour's, and robbing him of property to a large
amount.
SHOCKING MURDER.—The Natchez Courier gives
the followingparticularsof a dreadful murder recently
perpetrated in Louisiana :
A Miss Demoss was killed about the 14th of Fe-
bruary, near Minden, Claiborne parish, Louisiana.
She left the house of a neighbour in the evening to
return to the house of her father, a respectable planter,
but not arriving, a search was commenced, and a
young man, by name Lambwright, was met in the
woods. Upon the searching patty proposing to go up
a certain branch, he stated that it was no use, he had
been there bunting, &c. They did go, however, and
found her dead. She had been violated, severely
beaten, and then her head was held under water to
finish the work of death. Some other circumstances
have excited suspicion of Lambwright, but there is
no positive evidence against him. He is a young
man, married, with one child, and before his marriage
had addressed Miss Demoss, and been by her rejected.
GENERAL ROSAS AND HIS DAUGHTER.—It is said
that Rosas has invested largely in the English funds, with
an eye to a future loss of power, but at present there
is no appearance of a change. His only family is a
daughter, Dona Manuelita—a young and unmarried
lady—handsome, fond of music and of dancing, who,
at her father's country residence a few miles out of
the city, entertains his numerous visiters with cour-
tesy and grace—part of the nature of a Spanish girl.
The general manner and modes of thought of the fair
sex of that fair region, as well as some features in
the character of Rosas, are well illustrated by an in-
cident—the truth of which lam sure of. Rosas had
caught a certain Colonel, a bitter enemy, one of the
" salvajos Unitarios," and cut off his ears, presenting
them to his daughter. La Senorita Manuelita pre-
served them among the valuables of her parlour table,
and when exhibiting her various curiosities, as young
ladies like to do, she would direct the especial atten-
tion of her visiters to the ears, and narrate, with a
sparkling eye and a heightened colour, that they once
belonged to her father's enemy, the savage Unitarian
Colonel.