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 districts, and the old from
the new duty:—
Districts. Duty.
Barnstaple
Cornwall 1 4 8
Coventry ' 0 3 8
Derby l5O 10 111
Dorset l6 0 6
Gloucester l7 13 1i
Hants 18,279 13 8
Hereford 17,069 2 91
Isle of Wight 10,243 7 11
Leicester l2 14 5i
Lincoln 234 13 1 i
Middlesex 6B 6 5
Northampton.
Reading 69 8 1
Shrewsbury lO 6 10
Sheffield 1,335 1 51
Stourbridgo 1,594 10 4
Suffolk
Surrey 1,252 12 6*
Sussex
Taunton
Wales, Middle 69 17 4
Ware 54 2 Of
Worcester 3,942 17 4

Total £172,939 5 2i

Old duty, at Id. 12-20 per lb £94,705 5 0 8.20
Now duty, at 4d, 8-20 por lb 69,999 10 7i 2-20
Additional duty, of 5 per cent., per
Act 3 Vic., c. 17 8,234 9 6i

£172,939 5 2i-

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

TITIE CONFESSIONAL.—WO are informed, on the beet
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 ho was "confessing" ber—
tha result being a child, the death of her •brother, and
his own removal by the bishop from his living.—/V
mouth Journal.

A RAILWAY SCHEME.—Amongst the new railway
undertakings of tho day is the Severn Valley Railway.
with a capital of 10,0001. The line is to ba continued
from Coalbrookdale to Stirew.ibury, and a through com-
munication thereby afforded by the valley of the Severn,
from the south-west to the north-west or England and
Wales, and Ireland. A traffic arrengoment 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 CON3UMERS' COMPANY.

On Friday evening the half-yearly general meeting of
the shareholders in this company was hold at the London
Tavern, Ilishopsgate-street—Mr. Thomas Dakin, 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. 13A. 2d. to be carried forward
to tho next half-year. '.Lhe 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 266,0001., which amount would be raised, not-
withstanding the opposition with which the company
had had to contend, and the litigation to which it had
been subjected. Their 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 45., or whether,
by increasing the consumption, the prices should be
reduced. The report was unanimously adopted. A
number of questions were put and an!iwered to the satis-
faction of the meeting,
and the directors were em-
powered to declare a dividend of 10 per cent.
Too BAD.—A ticket issued by ono of the notorious
advortizing parties who profess to he agents of the " Le-
viathan," was last week presented to Mr. Davies, the
victim imagining from the manner in which the false
Simon Pure had 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,— Life.