The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-24 00:00:00

THE HOP DUTY.

An account of the duty charged on hope the
growth of the you. 1881:
Collections. Duty at l id. per lb.
Bernelsple
LUNA.'" 23,468 11 101 i
Cornwell 0 3 0
Eon
Olotieselw

6 5 7
Grandma
Hanls• 6,8J0 6 3
114140 rd

Isle of Wight 2;421 6 1}
Lincoln
Lynn 2 6 7
Middle's:
Northampton 3 1 6
Ciotti 75 8 li
07.f0
Reading
Rochester
Sheffield

Stourbridge 9,817 7 4
Suffolk 344 11 71
Surrey 8 8 0
Sussex 10,684 14 44
Wales (Middle)
Worcester
£149,610 9 0
W. M. MOXON, Chief Accountant of Excise.
ni Revenue-aloe, Oct. 23, 1861.

• This includes the duty oa a small quantity not yet
charged, estimated at 2,721 lbm

Musick Bumf Baormins.—With reference
to a paragraph which we published yesterday, we are in-
formed that the statements given in it regarding the posi-
tion of the carpet weaving of the above arm a incorect.
There has been no strike. but the business was brought to a
close, and, in fact, wound up for a time. Meanwhile great
improvements have hem made in the machinery, and a
short time ago busioes. was resumed at • fresh rate of
' wages, being about twc ity per cent above what any other
carpet manufacturer in the kingdom is paying. So much
is the rate of wages appi ecisted, that the applications fur
work are far beyond the number of hands required.—dian.
theater Examiner.

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A GIIPIIY ELOPEMENT AT WEYHILL FA IL —The
attendants at this fair have had much amusement afforded
them by an elopement, in which the heroes of the story
have been members of gipsy tribes attending the (gr.
The tribes were named Clark and Burton, and a young
man belong to the latter party became so enamoured of
one of the swarthy ladies comprised in the former, that
be at once made her an offer of marriage. The facts were
communicated to her friends, who scornfully rejected
the proposal, and the result was that on the following
evening the loving ones engaged a cab, and ordered
the dnver to proceed with all haste to the Andover
Railway station. The distance, three miles, was
speedily accomplished, but their departure being dis-
covered, the friends of the lady at once gave ch
and a most exciting chase it was. They reached ase,
the
Andover-road station just two minutes after the de-
parture of the train for Salisbury, which had conveyed
the loving pair to the ancient city, and being met with
a refusal to their application to put the electric telegraph
in motion to arrant their progress, they retired
disconsolate to Weybi' I. The next morning witnessed the
performance at Salisbury of the marriage ceremony, and
the happy pair returned to Weyhill, where quick as thought
the differences of tho previous day were brought to an
amicable conclusion, end the wedding festivities kept alivo
all the gipsy tribes at the fair, affording much amusement
to those not immediately connected with them.— It Sus-
sex Gamete.

ATTEXPT TO MURDER. —Yager(lay morning all
attempt was made at a notorious house in Margaret. street,
Borough-road, to murder Alfred Ray, a sauna. It “ppears
from the information collected by the police that George
Phillips, who acted sa bully to the establishment, tried to
fasten a quarrel on R ty. A. few wonls ensued when the
former, drawing a B,unish dagger knife and rushing upon
his antagonist, stabbed him twice severely in the throat.
Prom lass of blood Ray fell senseless to the door. The police
were called in, but before they arrived the ruffian had fled.
The wounded man was at mum removed to St. Thomas's Hos-
bur, dressed in a light
and attended by Mr. Fowler, the house•surgeon, who
prononnmd his Cale impales. George Phillips is thus de-
scribed by the police :—" Age 19, flee feet two inches high,
alpaca yoosal,mliillueezioGnUeruseycwfroclyk, dark trousers, l.oe•up
boots, cloth rap, and is well known to the L division of
police." At the hospital last night no hopes were enter-
tuned of Ray's recovery.