The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-01 00:00:00

THE HOP DUTY.

An account of the duty on hops, of the growth of the
year 1852, distinguishing the district➢, and the old from
the new duty:—
Districts.
Barnstaple

Duty,
£33 7 10

Cornwall 1 4 8
Coventry
ID, 0 3 8
Derby l5O 10 114
Dorset l6 0 6
Gloucester l7 13 1i
Hants ...... 18,279 13 8
Hereford . 17,069 221
Lilo of Wight ..................... 10,243 7 11
Leicester l2 14 5i
Lincoln ......... 234 13 li
Middlesex 6B 6 5
Northampton
Reading 69 8 1
Shrewsbury . lO 6 10
Sheffield. 1,335 1 5
Stourbridgo 1,594 10 41

Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Taunton
Wales, Middle
Ware 1 1 171 121
96875 39261 1111 72736 1 86047 11
54 2 1
Worcester 3,942 17 4

Total £172,939 5 2i

Old duty, at Id. 12-20 por lb -£94,705 5 0 8.20
New duty, at -id. 8-20 por lb 69,999 10 7 2.20
Additional duty, of 3 per cent., par
Act 3 Vic., c. 17 8,234 9 6/

£172,939 5 24

The above aro the only districts from which return:
have reached this office. The whole will bo published
as aeon a 3 the remainder are received.
S. S. LYNE, A.C.G.
Inland Revenue-office, Somerset-house
October 29, 1852.

TIIE CONFESSIONAL.—We are informed, on the best
authority, that a rector, with six children, in the diocese
of Worcester, has lately debauched a young lady in the
vestry of his church, where he was "confessing" her—
the result bei❑g a child, the death of hor brother, and
his own removal by the bishop from his living.—Ply-
mouth Journal.

A RAILWAY SCHEME.—Atuongst the new railway
undertakings of the day is the Severn Valley Railway.
with a capital of 10,000/. The line is to be continued
from Coalbrookdale to Shrewsbury, and a through com-
munication thereby afforded by the valley of the Severn.
from the south-west to the north-west of England and
Wales, and Ireland. A traffic arrangement has been
concluded with the directors of the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Railway, by which the Severn
Valley Company will receive an estimated minimum
dividend of 4 per cent. upon their outlay with other
prospective advantages.
GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS' COMPANY.
On Friday evening the half-yearly general meeting of
the shareholders in this company was hold at the London
Tavern, Ilishopsgete-street—Mr. Thomas Dekin, chair-
man of the board of directors presided. The report
stated that the directors were about proposing another
dividend of 10 per cent. on the quarter ending with
last Juno. There was an available balance of
4,6991. 19s. 10d. After the payment of all working
expenses and the interest on debentures, and
deducting the 10 per cent. now recommended, there
would remain 1,0581. 13s. 21 to be carried forward
to the next half-year. The directors had to an-
nounce the completion of the works at Bow, by
bringing up the producing , power to four hundred
and twenty millions, and 'the manufacturing power
to eight hundred millions. The cost had ap-
proximated so nearly to the original estimate, that
the engineer had reported that the works might be
brought up to 720,000, which was estimated as the sup-
ply, for 266,000/., which amount would be raised, nut-
withstanding the opposition with which the company
had had to contend, and the litigation to which it had
been subjected. Thoir share capital amounted to
150,0001., and before the next half-yearly meeting
the directors would be enabled to submit their
closed capital account to the official auditor ap-
pointed by the Court of Common Council. During the
last quarter the company had increased its business by
15,086 lights, and it would be a matter to be decided
whether the price should be kept up to 4e., or whether,
by increasing the consumption, the prices should be
reduced, The report was unanimously adopted. A
number of questions were
put and answered to the satis-
faction of the meeting, and the directors were em-
powered to declaro a dividend of 10 per cent.
Too BAD.—A ticket issued by one of the notorious
advertizing parties who profess to be agents of the " Le-
viathan," was last week presented to Mr. Davies, the
victim imagining from thn manner in which the false
Simon Pure Ilan worded his advertisement, that the
document was as good as a bank note • the poor fellow
was dreadfully cut up on discovering that it was as value-
less as waste paper,—Bell's Life.