The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-18 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

VESSELS SPOKEN WlTll.—Tagus steamer, 12th inst.,
off Cape Finisterre, by the Royal Tar steamer, ar-
rived at Falmouth. Creole, Londonderry to Quebec,
12th ult., lat. 44, lon. 42, by the John Bentley, ar-
rived at Bristol. Cambridge,'New York to Liver-
pool, Ist ult. ; Olympia, Havre to Cllarleston, 4th ult.,
lat. 41, lon. 47 ; Henry Shelton, Longcope, Balti-
more to Havre, 7th ult., lat. 43, lon. 53, by the Na.
pier, Sanford, arrived at Baltimore. Thomas Blyth,
London to Mauritius, August 2, off Madeira, by the
Castries, Elliott, arrived at St. Lucia. Quince, Leg-
horn to Boston, 10th ult., in the Gulf of Genoa, by
the William Gales, Gray, arrived at Cork. Diana,
Quebec to London, 9th inst., lat. 54, lon. 13, by the
Magog, Clark, arrived in the Clyde. Thomas, of
Greenock, bound to Liverpool, with the yellow fever
on board, and three men dead, intending to put into
York, 9th ult., lat. 33, lon. 75, by the Sir James
Kempt, arrived at Halifax. Ottoman, Rivett, Liver-
pool to Constantinople, 30th ult., in the Straits of
Gibraltar, by the Louisa, Chalker, arrived at Gibral-
tar. Lord Lamport, M'Pherson, London to Constan-
tinople, sth inst., in the Gut of Gibraltar, by the
Portia, Holchard, arrived at Cadiz.

Some sensation has been created at Croydon within
the last few days on account of the discovery of the
body of a fine male infant in the water-closet of a
house in the Addiscombe-road, nearly opposite the
police-station. It appears that a young woman
named Anne Cooper, who was a servant to the lady
occupying the house, had for some time past appeared
to be in a bad state of health, but no suspicion was
entertained that she was in the family way, and she
left her place about three weeks ago to go home to
her friends, who live at Bromley. On Thursday
evening, in conseauence of information that he re-
ceived, Inspector Jollier of the P division, accom-
panied by Sergeant Prendergast, went to the house
in the Addiscombe-road, and there discovered the
body in the situation described. Mr. Neville, a
medical gentleman of Croydon, was called in to
examine the child, but in consequence of its decom•
posed state it was impossible to ascertain whether
there were any external marks of violence. Upon
the body being opened, however, it was found that
the liver was ruptured, and it was covered with a
large clot of coagulated blood, and these appearances
were attributed by Mr. Neville to some external
violence, such as a fall or a kick inflicted while the
child was alive. The girl Cooper was then taken
into custody, when she admitted that she had had
a child, and said it was a bad job, and she did not
know how she came to throw it down the privy. The
Coroner's Jury returned a verdict to the effect that
the child was found dead with marks of violence
upon its person, but that there was not sufficient
evidence to satisfy them that it had been born alive;
and on Saturday the prisoner was taken before Mr.
Reid for examination upon the charge of concealing
the birth, when, after a full inquiry into all the cir-
cumstances, she was committed to the county gaol to
take her trial at the spring assizes for that offence.
LICENSING DAY IN THE CITY.—The following
notice was put up, on Sunday last, at all the different
parish churches throughout the City, signed by the
respective churchwardens :—" A Special Session, for
the purpose of granting licenses to persons about to
keep inns, ale-houses, and victualling-houses in the
City of London, to sell oxciseable liquors by retail, to
be drunk or consumed on the premises therein speci-
fied, is appointed to be holden at the Cuildhall of the
said City of London, on Saturday next, the 22d
instant, at -nine o'clock in the forenoon of the said
day of October."