The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-18 00:00:00

HOP DUTY

On Friday (yesterday) C. 11. Freeman, Esq., waited
upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, iu Downing-street,
and presented to him the memorial agreed upon by the com-
mittee appointed last week at liurstgrecu, of which the
following is a copy :
To the night honourable the Lord Chancellor of Iler
Majesty's Exchequer.
The humble memorial of the hop-plautcrs of the county of
Sussex and Weald of Kent, convened at a public meeting
held at the George Inn, Ilurstgreen, in the said county
of Sussex, on the 'Ali day of October,
Sheweth,—That your memorialists hare for a series of
years been subjected to very heavy duty on hops when the
prices realised by the sale have been insufficient to pay the
duty after discharging the expenses of culture, and conse-
quently your memori dists have paid the duty out of the
capital embarked iu the cultivation, and by forced sales out
in many instances by borrowing fur the purin.c, whereby
severe many
have been entailed.

That the duty has thus been paid by the grower, and not
by the consumer; and the duty is an impost charged on
land and agriculture which other property is nut subject to.
That the protium of the crop of 1841/ wad not Ulla Cilia to
enable your maniurialists to pay the accumulated arrears of
previous years and the duty then accruing.
That, in addition, a blight of great severity has affected
the crop of the present reason iu this district, and your me-
morialists are necessarily unable, from the very blighted
crop, to raise the means of paying. the next instalment of
the heavy duty of 18;i0 now becoming duty.
Your memorialists therefore pray th,t the remaining
instalment of the duty of the crop of 1840, which I,evomes
payable in November next, may be postponed fur ut leait
twelve months.

Signed on behalf and by order of the meeting,
A. ANDERSON, Chairman.
The prayer of the petition was forcibly and feelingly
urged by Mr. Freweit upon the attention of the Chancellor,
and the state of the position of those hop growers who have
been unsuccessful in the growth this year of a crop pour-
payed with a degree of fidelity that could not fail of con-
vincing the mind of the minister as to the absolute neces-
sity which existed for some large and important concession
being made to the agriculturists.
Mr. N. P. KELL, secretary to the Hop Planters' Associa-
tion, also strenuously supported the prayer of the memorial.
The Chancellor of the limiliequer stated that every year
since he had been in of live the i ustponentent of the hop duty
had been solicited by the growers. He could not, therefore
hold out any hopes that the present application would be
conceded; but he would give it his serious consideration,
and send a reply to the memorialists.—Narriy Standard.

IRELAND.

DVALIN, 0c1..17

A deputation from the Packet Station Committee,
with the Lord Mayor of Dublin at their head, nevem-
palled by several directors of the Midland Great
Western Railway, paid a visit yesterday to Galway,
for the purpose of examining the bar precious to
publishing their report. On the anival of the party
at Galway, a number of carriages, which had been
provided by the Ilarbour Commissioners, were in
attendance. The company rode down in them to
the docks, and got on board several row-,)oats pro-
vided for the occasion, in which they vs ere rowed
over to Mutton Island. Here, Mr. }lemons, the
engineer, produced his maps for the inspection of
the Lord Mayor and the deputation—pointed out to
them the soundings and anchorage of the harbour,
and showed its capacity and excellence. On their
return to land, the railway directors had to deprive
their guests and themselves of the gratification of
Idining with the harbour commissioners and gentry,
a drjeuner having been prepared in the waiting room
of the railway, to which they retired. In the mean
time the dinner prepared by the gentry of Galway
took place at Nolan's hotel, where the company
were in the course of the evening joined by the
visitors from Dublin. The deputation returned to
Dublin last night. At a special meeting of the town
and harbour commissioners of Galway, it was stated
that the captain of a vessel then in harbour had
offered to invest 600/. to forward any plan for
making Galway a packet station ; and the Hon. C.
R. Burke, of Jamaica, a Galway man, had ordered
his name to be put down for 100/.
The Free»aan's journal says :
A London correspondent, on the accuracy of whose in-
tot motion we can rely, writes to inform us that the govern-
ment has decided on not pressing for the repayment of the
relief advanced in certain of the Irish unions. Our in-
formant does not point out the unions that are to be ex-
empted from the operation of the scaled orders." We
presume, however, that they are the more distressed of the
southern and western unions.

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH NORTHUMBERLAND.
It is generally expected that W. B. Beaumont, E-q.,
Bywell, will come forward on the liberal interest for this
division of Northumberland.—Nesecasda Chronicle.
BLANDPORD POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.—Our post-
office was broken into, late on Saturday night, or early on
Sunday morning last, by some person or persons who as yet
remain undiscovered. The depredators first entered the
garden of Captain Wasse, and then crossed Messrs. May,
Abbott, and Williams's gardens, regaled themselves on a
few bunches of fine grapes, and then proceeded to the back
entrance of the postmaster's (Mr. Shipp) house, and sue.
I oceded in effecting ingress, by the common method of re-
moving a pane of glass from a back window, without dis-
! turbing the family. The tills of the post-office and shop,
and a uesk were all broken open, but fortunately there
no money in them, save a few shillings-worth of copper in
that of the post-office. Money appears to have been the
only object of the burglars, as the valuable goods in the
shop were not in any way disturbed. A candle had been
lighted, but carefully extinguished before the burglars left ;
201. reward is offered for the apprehension of one or more of
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the robbers.—Poole Herald.