The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-24 00:00:00

THE ANNUAL BOP DINNER.

This pleasant and agreeable riunion of the planters
and merchants of the Worcester district was held on
the merits Of an excellent dinner,
and also to talk over matters in connexion with the
Saturdayose of discussing
s n
intg
p the Hop-market Hotel, for the pur-
pose
growth, duty, and, the prospects generally of the forth-
coming season. Soon after four clock between thirty
and forty gentlemen, including Messrs. J. P. Smith,
Edward Giles, James Twinberrow, John Kitchen,
Thomas Smith, Wm. Vernon, Lacon, T. M. Hop-
kins, John Moore, Joseph Hopkins, John Cresswell,
Walker, W. T. Adcock, W. E. turner, G. Humble,
Quarrel', Edward Green, and Leonard, sat down to
a rather sumptuous and well-served dinner, consist-
ing of fish, flesh, and fowl, followed by game and the
usual et ceteras ; and in its proper course—
" The haunch was a picture for painters to study,
The fat was so white and the lean was so ruddy."
The dessert and wines werelalso of the same superior
character, and must have gone a long way towards
supporting the end character which this house has
obtained for efficient management and the superiority
of its domestic arrangements. Mr. Thomas Heaford
ably presided, and Mr. Joseph Moore well performed
the duties of the vice-chair. The usual loyal and local
toasts were given and received with hearty goodwill,
and the generous wine went pleasantly round.
During the evening the customary practice of I. set-
ting the duty was made by eighteen of those pre-
sent, when it appeared, by the secretary's list, that
there were-
-2 for 13,000 to 13,500
0 for 13,500 to 14,000
3 for 14,000 to 14,500
6 for 14,500 to 15,000
4 for 15,000 to 15,500
3 for 15,500 to 16,000

The foregoing gives an average of about 14,759/.
t for 185'2. This
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pasartthoefduthtye fhourtithheesaWhoericoeg pateredriporrastriced
soon separated, after having the company
spent a very
sociable and
agreeable evening.— Worcester Journal.

NisfjoilnEtßoN ethe public to learn
mated some of
COUNTIES.---It
willT beil theE
B source
A ofNprtr i OFgre
great
tLisEa t
the most daring robberies lately known in this
that the formidable band of robbers who cora
Country about
three or four weeks ago is likely to be completely broken up,
if the whole of the desperadoes are not brought to justice.
The robberies to which we allude are those at Didsbury,
Mirfield, and Bolton, near Bradford, committed by seven or
eight men armed with pistols and guns, and wearing darl.
masks. We learn from Yorkshire that one of then©
men
named John Dunn, has been apprehended by the chief con-
stable of Bradford, and confesses to having taken part in both
the Mirfield and Bolton robberies. In tact, from his state-
ment, part of the silver plate stolen from
Mr. Clough, the solicitor at Bolton, near Bradford
has been found in the Bradford Canal, in:.
eluding a silver teapot and a silver coffee-pet.
The Liverpool police have in custody a man named Fox but
he is confined by fever at the infirmary, and it will be some
weeks before he can be examined. It is stated also that
Mr. Beswick, of Manchester, has in custody a third robber
of the same gang, named Redman. Each of these men has
confessed to his own share in these robberies, and it is likely
that the police, having succeeded so far, will yet obtain the
names of the other robbers, or some clue which will lead to
their apprehension. Dunn was a blacksmith at Bradford,
but he and the other robbers had been " navvies," and this
was just the elms of men who might be supposed to have
taken part in such outrages, because the men, from their
experience during the last few years, have formed a notion
of the unprotected state of country houses, whether occupied
by farmers or gentlemen, where many men servants wer
not kept.
CHARLES THE FIRST AT CHARING-CROSS.—A
correspondent complains of the deplorable state of the statue
of Charles I. at Charing-cross. Ile says—. I was looking
at it this morning, admiring the statue and the beautiful
Pedestal, or rather what was once beautiful, but which is
now in r-. 0 deplorable a state of dilapidation as to render it
scarcely posible to distinguish a single moulding or the
rich desiga of the composition. In this ege of restoration, I
am surprised that no influential person, nor even the Minis-
ters of the Crown,
have paid the slightest attention to it, as,
in the course of a short time, we shall see that and the
statue fall to the ground."