The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

llatnerotta..lll;ki;g oemeassied, slant nalvenally,
yeenieday. The lisps lam stiateed le issprete dari the
ha week, end there is nosyes premed don ahmodinngt erep
at rod quality, he the quaky his everywhere hen hued
to improve with the ripening.
YALDINO ADD HUNTON.—Pleking ha. beams general,
ander, Impost a geed crop. The late heavy rains, it is en-
pested. Yam caused the mould to make its appearance is sr
veral prisms.
irsazing , TINTON, AND NITTLNIIT3D. •-••• The
Fishing Pee sew become general, the qua City produced is
thab=sad the quality gowerally good, stapling whore
hit eseusitted injuries, which is see so great this
yew is real.
Hoismiemawnwa.—The hope ore Malec well. Pickle,
has esemeassikand will booms penal during the week.
litalarms.--The pietist is now general, sad many speak
of the begs ping off Mould appears in some grounds,
whisk was eased before Mikis& commenced. This, how-
ever, is pawn, the eta. There will be many good
ample% but we think the duty now estimated quite high
sough.
Caanaisoofl.—The hops continue to look well, and we
shall have a geed crop both in quantity and quality. The
picking esammeneedlut week, and has now become general.
ooundwarrr.—The picking is now general. It appears
that thumb a musiderable quantity of hops that cannot
arrive at maturity, and there is a trifling appearance of
mould in .ems grounds.
RoLviorimm.—Picking has become general. We have
some very SIN samples, and the planters quite realise their
expectations as regards quantity. They require about 70
Wash le die cwt. at present.
lewriamt AND Bast..—lies we have most of us com-
mis/ad plain, with the full realisation of our moot san-
guise hopse ; Ms hope are better than was calculated be-
fere arose-lag, and we have • quantity which will ;mo-
dems a Waist sample, destitute of all disease. We have
hove fa hum showei, but the beauty of the hope instils
the pistols Wira 'lamented energy.
Cairranittray.—Hop picking commenced in this neigh-
bowls/oil dories the past week, and the yield proved all
the eon wish in quantity. Tito quotation of
is lusty supported, while many hays confidence
in a musk higher duty. The average of ten Celt. per acre
is moldered rather underrated than otherwise by the pro-
duce already ascertained, while daily the weight is in-
creasing.
FARNHAM, ALTON, AND COVNTRT DISTRICTS, Sept. 13.
Our anticipations of last w. ek, respecting the quality of our
growth, has been fully realised; in fact, we knew it
better.—South Eastern Gowns.
WORCISTNR, Sept. 10.—The hop in this district are fast
coming to maturity, a great improvement having taken
plate during the past week, and we hear that tame of our
planters latedd ts MISIMInee picking during the ensuing
week, bet So gesinity git sow hope likely to be ready for
our fair, ea die IStirbst., will be very small. Duty called
14,000L—Wirenew Bona

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MAN-
CHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
RAILWAY.

The ember's inquest concerning this frightful
aseideat Isendostad late so Saturday night.
AWNS Whinier ad Mark Briggs, two miners who live
on the masked' die Has, concurred in stating that the train
In tosetisa towelled ea the sight of the accident much
hew dies dry had ever seen it.
Edward Kemp. a Great Northern guard, accustomed to
travel on this reties of the line, said be did not consider
the line betimes Shelleill sad Itetford (a portion of the
Masaseter, solUeeolushire line) in good order;
at ell moan sot eis geed sie the Great Northern line. The
trains wen eceustaneed to shake. A few hours before the
accident, when aeonnommying the up expires train, his van
shook, and on looki oat of the window be saw that the
inner rail was uaahei On being asked by the coroner
why he Moot mon the circumstance he said it did not
strike him as eelleitatly important.
Mr. George Tusk wood brother of the deceased, repeated
a statement whisk be made on Friday to the effect that he
bad heard Kemp ascribe the accident to the line being out
of gauge.
Richard Hesketh, an engine driver in the employ of the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, stated
that he drove over the line two hours before the accident,
and did not notice anything amiss with the rails or any-
thing else.
John Lyne, a plats-layer, said he examined that part of
the line in question twice on Wednesday (the day of the
accident) as usual, and found it in good running order.
Mr. Ueo. Bewick, superintendent of the permanent way,
saw on Tuesday that at that particular place the line was
all right. After the accident he found that 80 yards of the
up-rails had been torn up, and 30 yards of the down line.
Mr. Richard Peacock, locomotive superintendent on the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, after
stating that he made an inspection in order to find out the
cause of the accident, said—There is nothing in the evi-
dence I have beard and the examination I have made to
induce me to suppose that the accident was caused by any
improper condition of the line.
After some unimportant evidence, the Coroner summed
up, and the jury consulted with closed doors about 20
minutes. _

The Foreman then delivered the following 'verdict:—
"We are unanimously of opinion that the deceased,
Samuel Wright and Charles Tuckwood, have come by
their deaths in consequence of No. 12, Great Northern
train, with engine No. 29, running off the rails near Wood-
house junction, on the night of the Bth instant, but es
to what caused the train to run off the rails no satisfactory
evidence has been given to the jury."
The inquest ended about 8 o'clock p.m.