The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-11 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

CANTERDE RT, SECT. 9.—The picking has commented, and
will be very general in the course of this week. The crop is good
and abundant. This remark also applies to the plantations around
us. Duty getting up, but very little betting.
hlainsroxE.—The plantations have continued to improve in
every direction, which has occasioned an extraordinary demand for
bagging. Betting in favour or 1110,900/.
FAR xitam.—The late warm wcathei ha► been exceedingly fa.
v.:tumble to the plantations, which present a most luxuriant appear-
ance, free front vermin, and promising an average crop of four
bags per acre.
CRAW atiooa, SEPT. 7.--.-The plantations in this neighbourhood
and parishes adjoining, continue to exhibit a healthy appearance;
the hops appear bright, and will, if the weather continuos favour.
able, be large and of good quality, but an evident defect in quan.
tity will arise from its being too generally what is termed a top
crop, the bine not having thrown branches, as is often the case.
The wet and cold nights some time ago have caused the bine to
look very yellow on the stiffsoils. The picking will commence on
the 10th, but not generally before the 12th or 13th. A pocket of
new hops, weighing 1 cwt. 1 qr. lalb. was packed by Dlr. Austen,
of Rolvenden, and sent into the borough by the Cranbrook coach on
Saturday last. About six years ago hlr. ,tuaten's were the first
hops sent to market.
A Belford correspondent observes that he has visited several of
the plantations in that neighbourhood during the last week, and
that they have a highly flattering appearance, being now in fall
hop ; some of the forward hills are beginning to assume the garb
of maturity, and in the course of week or ten days will he ready
for pulling. Several of the hop-growers are expecting a produce of
front six to eight or ten cwt. per acre, which the present appear.
ances of the plantations fully entitle them to anticipate.

ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, between eight and
nine o'clock, as one of the Hatfield coaches was passing through
Albemarle-street, Clerkenwell, the axletree broke, and dui coacli
ediately upset. There were several outside passengers, who
received some severe contusions, but no injury of an alarming na.
ture. No blame whatever attached to the coachman, as he was
drivingat a very moderate rate.
BURGLARS DETECTED.—Between the hours of one and
two o'clock in the morning of Monday last, the house of Zachariah
Allnutt, Esq. of Maidenhead, in the county of Berks, was
burglartously entered, and the robbers werc preparing to commence
the work of depredation, when one of Mr. Allnutt's men overhear-
ing their whispers in a room adjoining to that in which he slept,
immediately sprung out of bed, and seizing a candlestick, rushed
into the landing, and grappled with one of the intruders, who
struggled hard for release • the brave fellow was however knocked
down by another, anti the two robbers (for there were no more
visible) immediately ran down stairs, and effected their escape
them gh the yard-door, which they hail originally forced open on
entering the how. In the struggle, the fellow left his hat, a pair
of shoes, with the name of " Ludlow " inside, a chequered red and
white silk handkerchief, a centre bit, tile, ripping-chisel, &c. l'ur-
suit was immediately commenced, and one at the fellows was traced
as far as Bray Church-yard, while he had been seen sitting on a
tomb-stone, having two deep cuts in the check, and his clothes quite
clotted with blood. Many persons were led to suppose that some
attempt had been made on his life during the night, but he care-
fully evaded their inquiries, and speedily decamped; from thence
he was traced to Middleton, and was last seen at Brook-men, by
Corporal Wilson of the Second Foot Guards, who was inclined to
take him up as a deserter, hot the fellow framed some ingenious
excuse which freed him from this dilemma also. Here the clue was
lost, and there is no doubt that he has taken refuge in the metro-
paha. The description given of him tallies exactly with that of a
convict named Wedgwood, a notorious burglar, who effected his
escape from on board one of the prison ships at Chatham, about two
months ago. A reward of 21 guineas has been offered for the ap-
t prehension and conviction of the persons concerned. A few nights
previous, a robbery was committed near Bray Church-yard, where
this fellow was seen the morning after the attack on Mr. Alloutt's
house.