The Sun. — 1829-10-17 (London, England)

TILE NETHERLANDS. _—(From a Ghent Paper.)—The harvest has turned out generally good. There will be an increase of about a fourth in the wheat and rye crops, and the quality seems improved in the same proportion. These kinds of crops are ta markably fine in the neighbourhood of Roulers, whither the farmers resort from a distance of five leagues to buy their stock of reed. Barley is also plentiful, but, being somewhat damaged, will experience a diminution in price. If we have a little fine weather the potato crops will prove abundant. As to hay, the meadows of Dismode will not have yielded more than a quarter of an average crop, owing to the incessant rains. The unfavourable weather compels the graziers to bring their cattle to market at ruinous prices. A large tract of country round Ferries is completely laid under water. This misfortune is, however, chiefly attributable to a want of caution on the part of the Superintendents of the canal works. The Colza ctops in the provinces of Ypres and Courtray have exceeded by a fifth those of the preceding year, but at the same time a sixth less of oil must be expected from them. On the 7th of May, 1780, a labouring man, named GualMEItY, with his wife, and a daughter aged nine, and TIIO3IAS SitEEN, the brother of GUMMEILY'S wife, were murdered in their beds at Berrow in this county. These murders caused the greatest sensation at the moment, and some persons were apprehended on suspicion, but no evidence could be obtained sufficient to war, rant the trial of any one on the dreadful charge ; the general impression was that the murder a were committted from motives of revenge, arising out of transactions connected with the inclosure of Malvern Link. A circurnstance has, within these few days, occurred at the Worcester Infirmary, which seems to throw some light on the dreadful affair. On the Ist of August, a man, named GEORG e SzoKes, of Maddresfield, 75 years of age, Was admitted into our Infirmary, having a complaint in one of his legs; a mortification took place, and on Sunday he died. In the near prospect of death, SToaas's mind appears to have been haunted by a terrible crime of his early years ; in moments of delirium he appeared frequently to revert to a murder in which he had been concerned. Had this idea been confined to the temporary aberrations of intellect, perhaps little at ra • col Id have been hid upon the fact ; but, in a more collected rn rtnent, he acknowledged to one of the medical officers that he was concerned in the murder of GUM3IERY and his family: that he "nobbled„ one of them with a bill-hook—and that the others, who took a part in the murder, were now dead. The instrument alluded to by Srosas agrees very well with that which appears to have been used, fur, ell turning to our Journal of May IS, 1780, we find it stated that the evidence before the Caroner led to the belief that the poor creatures were "murdered with a hatchet or some suchlike instrument." We thick it, therefore, highly probable that STOKES'S confession was true, and that all the actors in the dreadful tragedy have passed into that unseen world where they must render an account of the "deeds done in the body."— Wort:elder Journal.  FROM Ti FE