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

(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 From 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 man
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
in safety. 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 value, 0
gether, as was supposed, with a large sum of mousy,,,
the room he usually occupied, in the upper story of
boarding house. Early on Thursday morning it wag";
ceived that the room had been forcibly entered into, an
f 2
trunk carried off—a rail, placed under the window, 011',
of the building, having been used as a ladder for the n
pose. Suspicion immediately fastened upon 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 nets7o
transaction. Complaint was, therefore, ntade against 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 committed to the cod
gaol, after having vainly attempted to effect his escape,
displayed the most brutal ferocity. A diligent search;
then made throughout his house and premises ; but nothr
was found which could lead to the discovery of the
perty stolen. The circumstantial evidence against.
was, however, so strong, as to leave but little doubt of
guilt ; and as it was deemed improbable that he could bs,‘
committed the robbery without the assistance of °sty
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 )
oncticsulniged were Part foofu nthe
concealed'building, under de r t numberie h eoaf
joining out-house. This discovery led to the acknowll
ment of his guilt by Leach, and subsequently by Mco.4
the latter of whom accompanied the Sheriff to the
r tkthoerintic:l
where the remainder of the property had been dep6B
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.