The Sun. — 1842-06-14 (London, England)

MURDER IN MEXICO.  On the morning of the 29th of April, the city of Mexico was thrown into the highest excitement by a report that Mr. Egerton, a landscape painter of great talents, had been inhumanly murdered at Tacuhaya, together with a woman with whom he lived as his with —of rare personal attractions, and who also possessed high endowments as a landscape painter. Tacuhaya is a small village some three miles from the city of Mexico, and is a place where many families of distinction reside, especially in summer. The palace of the Archbishop is also in Tacuhaya, as well as the summer palace of Santa Anna.  It seems that on the evening of the murdei, Egerton and the'unfortunate woman were walking in a large garden attache:l to their residence, as was their cuitom. While walking they were attacked by some person or persons unknown, and both of them murdered. The body. of Egerton was found some distance from that of the Woman, run through apparently with a sworl Near him was found his walking stick much hacked, from which it is evident he made a stout resistance. That of the Woman was found, also stabbed and otherwise horribly mangled, and this induces to the belief that she also, resisted to the last. She was enciente at the time, and within a short period of her delivery, and the perpetrator abused her in the most shameful manner before taking her life.  Her face was scratched and otherwise much disfigured, and a. large piece was bitten from her breast ; and the perpetrator, probably fearing that he might not be recognised, wrote her name upon a piece•of paper, and pinned it to a fragment of her dress, the m6st of it having been tore off in the struggle which ended in her death. The formation of the letters of her name - were plainly English, and :this cireumstanca renders it certain that the murder t% as neither planned nor matured by Mexicans. Dlr. Packenham, the British Minister had exerted himself to the utmost to arrest the perpetrators of these horrible murders, and he had also been assisted by General Valencia and the Mexican authorities ; but up to the latest dates no clue to the authors had been discovered.  As no robbery was committed, as the watch and money in the pockets or. Egerton, together with the jewellery of the unfortunate woman were left untouched, it is almost certain that the act, by whomsoever committed, was one of revenge. Egerton had a wife and family in England, and some two years since eloped with the murdered woman. Hu has since lived with her as- his wife. Rumour also has it that this female was engaged to a young man in England at the time of the elopement. Whenever Egerton left his residence at Tacuhaya, he locked her up, and never permitted her to go out except in his company. Thbk,circumstance was undoubtedly well known• to the perpetrator of the murder. The whole affair is shrouded in mystery, and thousands of speculations are afloat in Mexico in relation to it. .The one which receives the most credence is, that the murder was planned in England,-and earned out by some acquaintance of the woman as a matter of revenge. Another story is, that Egerton had been involved in an amour with some fair Mexican ; but this received but little:credit. Time only will solve the mystery.—N. 0. Picayune.