The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-09 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Mary Davis and Sophia Davis, sisters, were brought
before Mr. Seeker, charged with being concerned in
the suspected murder of a child, whose body was dis-
covered lying on the ground in a market-garden, near
the Greenwich Railway.
William Roberts, a policeman, stated that on the pre-
vious day, about three o'clock, while on duty in Blue
Anchor-lane, Bermondsey, his attention was called to a
crowd assembled near the arch under the railway. On
going to the spot he saw the' prisoners, and they were
pointed out to him as being the parties who deposited
the body of a child, suspected to have been murdered, in
a garden near at hand, lie immediately repaired to
the place, and finding the body as described, he took the
prisoners into custody.
A woman stapled Smith was next called, and stated
that on the previous afternoon, while out walking with
her child, i❑ pasAng.Mr. Shepherd's garden, adjacent to
the railway, she looked over the palings into the grounds,
and observed:the body of a child. She gave immediate
information of the circumstance, and marks of violence
being observable on the child's neck, as if it had been
squeezed to death, the prisoners, who were seen for some
time previously lurking about the spot, were suspected
of having deposited the body in the place where it was
found.

The prisoners said that they knew nothing about the
affair, except what they had heard that day; that
they lived together at Bermondsey; and, having
gone for a walk the preceding afternoon, in
passing near the railway they were beset by
a mob, who charged them with the murder of a
child. They denied the imputation, but their denial
of it excited the crowd still more against them, and
they believed they would have been roughly handled
if the policeman had not interfered. They admitted
that they had lounged about near Mr. Shepherd's
garden, but that neither of them had been inside the
palings.
Mr. SECKER said that a remarkab!e feature in the
case was that a witness had passed the garden a short
time previously to the discovery of the child, and
that it was not there then, and must have been deposited
about the period the prisoners were observed, as
described, lurking near the spot. Ile (the magistrate),
however, should allow the prisoners to go at large, on
entering into their recognizmces of 50/. each, until
Friday next ; and in the mean time the policeman
was directed to make the most searching inquiries,
in order to discover the offenders, and bring them to
justice.

WILL OF PETER THE GREAT.—We perceive that
this remarkable document, already published in extenso
in our own columns, has been reprinted in a separate
form by Mr. lierbey and Mr. Gilbert. As indicative of
the grasping policy and insatiable ambition of the Czar,
the paper is deserving of study rather than of a merely
passing perusal. It is the key to the mystery of the
Russian invasion of Hungary.
IMPORTATIONS FROM IRELAND.—The collectors and
comptrollers, and other principal officers of the Customs'
Department at the several ports and places throughout
the United Kingdom have received directions from the
Commissioners to prepare and transmit to the Inspector-
General of Imports and Exports, the following account
with all practicable dispatch, viz , an account of the im-
ports into their respective ports of each sort of corn,
meal, and flour, from Ireland, in each month for the
years 1846, 1847, and 1848, respectively, and of the first
half of the present year; the returns to correspond with
the quarterly returns of imports.
FOREIGN SUGAR.—The vessel Edwin Augustus
arrived in the Docks on Tuesday from the Havannah,
with 2,550 boxes of foreign sugar; and the vessel Siberia
arrived in the Docks on the same day from the Ha-
vannab, with 2,724 boxes of.Toreign sugar on board. In
cargoes Stateswhichunderprecludedthelawsthe admissionnavigationtheat
fAormera,
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present in force.
ACCIDENT AT A TELEGRAPH OFFICE.—As the
youth employed in the telegraph office at Ely was in the
act of working the telegraph in reply to a communica-
tion during the recent thunder-storm, he was knocked
down by the force of the electric fluid acting upon the
wires, but fortunately without receiving any injury be-
yond the momentary shock. The wires from the office
communicating with the main wires were severed, and
the business of the office suspended for some hours.

The following have been appointed the Commis.
sioners to act under the Encumbered Estates Act (Ire

land):—The Right llon. John Richards, third Baron of
her Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Irelar.d, Mounti•
ford Longfield, &q., Q.C. and LLD., and C. J. liar-
greave, Esq., conveyancer, of 69, Chancery-lane. Baron
Richards will hive 1,5004 per annum, instead of 3,000/.,
remaining on the bench.
A CANINE PATRON OF RAILWAY TRAVELLING.--
A terrier dog, belonging to Mr. Hodgkinson, spirit
merchant, of Matlock, Bath, having been accustomed to
travel with his owner by rail from the latter named
place to Matlock-bridge station, took it into his head to
start railway traveller on his own account. Now, master
" Spot" had a little acquaintance of his own species near
the bridge—a sweetheart, if the truth must be confessed
—to whom he was accustomed to pay frequent visits, and
finding walking, or rather running, somewhat fatiguing,
he adopted rail travelling by preference, and has gone by
himself, sometimes once a day from one station to the
other, invariably coming back by the return train, and
never once making a mistake by taking the express train,
which does not stop at Matlock-bridge station.—Derby
Mercury._ _ .

THEHARVEST.—The active operations 'of the har-
vest very generally commenced is this county yesterday,
fields here and there having been cut in the course of the
past week, and before Saturday night, should the wea-
ther continue fine, a large breadth will have fallen before
the scythe and the sickle. The reports which reach us
are that the crops are generally heavy, and though par-
tially beaten down by the occasional storms of the last
fortnight, we do not hear a murmur of any serious da-
mage, beyond that done by the hail, in one district,
which we have before noticed. The potatoes, too, look
healthy and untouched by the disease—as far as the
digging has yet gone, they come up perfectly sound, so
that altogether we may calculate on a good average, in
fact, an abundant harvest. On Saturday night and Sun-
day large bands of those labourers who usually at this
season temporarily emigrate from their own districts to
those in which the harvest sets in earlier, entered this
town, and we were glad to see that in the morning many
of them attended the church and other places of worship.
—a fact which we hope may in a great degree be attri-
buted to the improved religious feeling of the labouring
population, but was no doubt partly owing to that
wholesome Act which closes the door of the inn and
ale-house, and prevents the Sabbath morning being made
a time of unholy toil to their landlord, and of weakening
dissipation to his guests. Our own labourers, too, are
now in full employ; the gleaner will soon begin her
task; and as by long habit the scattered ears that run
over from the full hand of the reaper, have been re-
garded as the equal right of all, we are inclined to agree
with a correspondent, that it is desirable there should
be no favouritism in the matter—that the prlvilege
should be widely extended, and the industry of all should
be left to freely and fairly pick the
patient handfall,—
Zssex Herald.