The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-21 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

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MAIDVIDNE.—The hops come down, as regards quantity,
quite as well as was anticipated, but the damp, gloom. wea-
ther is much against their ripening, and will probably be
found to affect their quality. The planters of this neigh-
bourhood, with few exceptions, have already cleared much
of their plantations.
WATIMINUIDALT NETTLEATEAD, AND TIATON. The
picking proceeds steadily, being retarded by rain, and the
crop is also reduced thereby, but the quantity produced is
abundant, and generally good in quality.
MEREWORTIL—Picking is now in full operation. The
crop is not quite so heavy u was expected. The hops being
good and free from disease, require more bushels to the
cwt. than in ordinary years.
CRANBZOOI.—The hops in this parish are found to be of
first-rate quality, and the quantity will exceed that of many
previous years. We have heard of some planters having been
simple enough to sell at a low price.
HUDATOREIN.—GeneraIIy speaking the hops come down
about what was expected; they are of excellent quality, and
weigh pretty well, with some exceptions. They wilt doubt-
less return remunerative prices, if not too much pressed on
the market.
CANTRILDIAllf.—Picking progresses here most satisfacto-
rily, excepting its having been somewhat retarded by the
unsettled state of the weather. The planters are generally
anxious to get their crops safe in pocket and bag, as the
quality is now considered perfect, and excellent in colour,
which may be deteriorated.—South Eastern Gaulle.

SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN HOLYHEAD
AND DVDLIN.—An amalgamation between the Electric
Telegraph Company and the Irish Submarine Telegraph
Company, recently incorporated by royal charter,. is being
carried out for effecting this object. The principle upon
which the cable now manufacturing at the Ilillwall-works,
where the wire ropes for the Admiralty are made, is con-
structed, differs from that hitherto adopted, and consists in
insulating the interior wires by means of ii diarubber as
well as gutta-percha. These, after being laid up or twisted
into a rope, are posited through an anhydrous solution, and
then covered with spunyarn, end formed into a hempen
rope, which is again pared through another, but different,
aahydrons solution. The whole ts then passed through a
wire rope machine, worked by steam, which encases the
interior are in a metallic wire rope, formed of 12 separate
strands of 6 wires each, or 72 wires, in all forming a solid 3-
inch cable. These plaits or close convolutions of wire are
thought preferable to the single spiral wire, as calculated
to give greater flexibility and strength, and to prevent any
portion of the cable from becoming unstranded. As it is
manufactured it is payed off the machine and formed
into Flemish coil. The cable is 70 miles long, allowing
10 miles for onntingencies, the distance from shore to
shore being only 60 miles. There are to be four wires,
making a total of 280 miles of copper wire, and of this 180
are completed.

•
CLAIMANTS FOR BROUGHAM HALL—The persons
named Bird, whe about some eight or nine years ago made
a forcible entry on Brougham Hall, ander an impression
that they were the nghtful owners, and that Lord
Brougham had no title to the estate, are again beginning to
make a stir. They have been down to Penrith two or
three times, and on their last visit were accompanied by a
solicitor, who vaunted largely respecting the claims of his
clients, they in the meantime offering to lay wagers at
heavy odds that they would be in possession of the hall and
estate before Christmas.—Nnonutle C'hroniele.
SLAVOHTERING IN THE METROTOLIS.—The great
question is, are we to have abattoirs, or is the pernicious
to be continued of driving anigoading oxen through
the crowded thoroughfares? An inspection of the purlieus
of Newgate.street, not to speak of the vile and narrow
mews of the low neighbourhoods where slaughtering is per-
formed, would convince any of the impropriety of continu-
ing our old and, perhaps, endeared, because time-honoured
system. Look at the livid and tainted lump of waste meat
just in the centre of • fine flank of cow beef : it disgusts
even the ravenous trencherman: that is • wheal !—a blow
from the cudgel of the driver ! it is all waste !—nay, more :
as a little leaven leaveneth the lump, so it taints the mass.
It is the same of mutton and pork : all suffer more or less
from the barbarous custom of driving through six or more
miles of street, lane, and alley. But will it bo believed that
in the town the same evil arises from the same causes ?
That in the choicest and most aristocratic neighbourhoods,
the same revolting system is practised ? And yet so it is. ,
Not to nauseate unnecessarily delicate sensibilities, let one !
example suffice. Here it is. At Knightsbridge, 250 yards
from Wlgrave-square, there is a stable lane, or rather close,
down which, every market-day, oxen and sheep are driven
towards • straight not 6 feet wide ; through this the stalled
ox is forced down an incline, scarce 4 feet in width, to •
cellar: this cellar is adjacent to a dining-room in Wilton-
place : there is a yard 7 feet wide, and perhaps 20 feet long,
in connexion, part of which (about 10 feet long) is 'bedded
over: into this shamble whole hecatombs are precipitated
annually, and skins and offal lie in heaps on the open pave.
ment whole days. Night by night the baleful lowing' of
the pent-up cattle disturb the 'kilted residents. With scarce
space to stand, such au endurance is not likely to freshen
the fevered and half-maddened bullock, or to render the
meat wholesome ; nor is the grievance of infrabrutal bel-
lowing' less harrowing to the occupant of the next house
than the stench which during the hot weather pervades the
whole quadrangle between Wilton-place, Knightsbridge,
and the next traverses.—The Builder.

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DAILY WEATHER TABLE.
TOESDAT, SETTIVIIIII 21, 1f52.
The state of the Weather at each of the following places at
Nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are
arranged in order of latitude.
ODOM of
Wind.

Suss et ?UM

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latlC.ll
LW. Ittrong Breen
w. Fresh Name
P. !Strong Breese
S.W. Gentle Breen
S.W. Calm
&M. Ckstis Breese
tit.tit Breese
w. Gentle Muse
B.W. Wrong imam.
S.Z. anew
R.C. Nadi Rego.

State el' Weather.

Partially Cloudy
Yale

Paritally Cloudy
Overcast

Tus•un,■

F;r00-1-1

Paitirliy Cloudy
P Cloudy
1,11V114 C 46%),
Cl ,oudy
Partia,ly (loud,
I Irmo.

THIS DAY, Doom.
Owns of WM. Walken or wtod. SUM of the Woolfc.
N.W. fitroog Breese. f.bowery.

The returns from the following places did nut reach this
°flee is time for publication yesterday; they therefore
indicate the state of the weather en Saturday morning at
alas o'clock.
outlaws& dn.

Ktrcei itreete
Stroll:" !S reexe

HoLTNI

Ew.

(lowly
Paitualty Coady
0•4 rem
aoudlen

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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
SEABORNE MAILS.
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WI'S:
COGNTMISS.
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11:114414rit.paeliat N Sept. 24 - lAnived
A United Statee: 1
paha ... .. .. ... .... N Sept. 21 - rgerCH
MaseicattlyCltaleaoliN Sept. 29. lonuthareptui, leapt. 22
Australla(via Soutkaally!l
ton) II; 20th of each month .Southaseptat Sept 24
Ditto (via Manalles) Nl2 la each mon th... . Guyer Ott. 17
Ditto (eta Cape of Good i
Hope) N Ind M the math' Plymouth ...1 Nov. SO
dales (West as l4, Sad of un wrath °4 .y month ..
Illasaadriao Ni lAthiloth of MM. Down. .. .. Sept. IS
Belem ..... ....... 24' ::aily !Dever _iatt,
Brasil 21!21h of the month q Southampton. Get 12
deans Ayres II ilia M the abt.th .4oethampeset;Oet. 12
Dalikanla 11 atilkllthof mouth 4..uthampu 4.40 a.. 14
Tape of Goal Now N 'l4th of the month' Plymoutl4......i2ept. 24
Cape de Tads N 14th of the month PI4 mouth ...ISept. 24
026.21N12024. ...... N.7 thl7 tti27thof ie..' Dover ',dept. a
Ceara AINSTICS 2l ladal7thotea. nu,i .Inutliatitpton Sept.l i 6
Channel Isles N Mon.,Med.,lhrr..L rtiuthunpaa., Tit Th.rd.
MEI 74 , lodkllttof =mitt , boutlituaptos.lSept. It
Fromm M:t N • /aloe dolly I Dons ........!Twice da,
Gre5ee........ .4 '7thl7th27tiad mob Dover 'Sept. Iv
Ronan N !Tuesday A Priday Loadon 'Tuft mat.
Holland .lVWerlos.. Itm. Maur. Load= ...!rall. The.
Sooduraa ..... _-.... 72 ~ l7th ot the am* Oaths= .idept. lb
Ireland ..
44 N'Tsrme daily SIM . - . I /aim de.
laillevisSouthantot.) N'2O4llM the month losassaptaa. dept. 24
ladis (via Manakin.) N SthAlilthof month DOW ... Oct. 3
India (via Cape ut Gond
Hope) N 14th of the month Plymeath . ;Sept 26
Mauritius N 14114 of the ramithiPlMo44llll ....Sept. Id
Maliterreaese(via lio•tt .' ,
aapton) AI 20tk of the month Southampton. dept. 22
sato(via Marseilles) N llthallth of to..P.th Dove/
Maim hi had of the month :bouthomptus.., Imam.
Madeira 11,20423d ul the n.o. dostkoanon.,oct. It
Malin Nt,lll,tna 17ttulotk,2;th., I
alt the moutli Dam. ... ..... Ideated
Naples*
Papal States. .........-22 Sthltth2Stl.otmAn Drew.
POLUAUIt
Pate. Mi 2ntial7thof isort h soatkanspeoe.lnept. lo
Tammy. ?I 5t1i13,.. -Stb.f men
Dow Sept. 22
Wean leaks .. WI '2ncLkl7 th,f inert hs, atheamptoniSept. 16
Viii.D:egnca's Lead (*tee' .
11a)

• Tko malts to those countries thus marked (•) are owe* b 7
numb packet to Marseilles.

CASUALTIES.

Eendragt, Hoe, from 171;;;buraloA1ierdeen, sank Sept. It
in lat. 54 N., lon. 7 E., after being in contact ; crew
saved.—Hamburg, Sept. 16.
Elise. Hinds, lleilschon, of Viborg, from Hull to Christian-
sand, was stranded and wrecked on this coast during agate
at N.W. yesterday ; crew saved.—Lemvig, Sept. 13.
Wm. Hyde, Applewhaite, from llokiange to London, in
leaving the former place, May 1, grounded on the bar,
where she struck heavily, for nearly an hour, and sus-
tained serious damage. She put into Auckland on the
14th, where she would discharge her cargo, and be hove
down.—Sydney, N.S.W., June 12.