The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-11 00:00:00

TYE HOP PLANTATIONS.

(.Iront the Kentish Gazette.)
EAST KENT.-I'icking commenced in several districts
in this division of the county on Thursday and Friday,
and yesterday it was pretty general. The prevalence of
mould has induced many planters to commence earlier, per-
haps, than they would otherwise have done. In the neigh-
bourhood of Canterbury the hops in many gardens come
down much lighter than -was anticpat ed, but there are a few
grounds likely to yield good crops. The opinion of several
extensive planters is that the produce of this district is
likely to be such an average as would before the
repeal have represented a duty of from £140,000 to
£150,000. Others think it would not be so much. Our
Ashford correspondent, writing yesterday, says :—" The
hops continue to look welt in this neighbourhood, and
though the mould and rust have made their appearance in
many grounds it has not seriously affected any. Picking
has generally commenced. A heavy crop is expected in
this district, and it is anxiously looked forward to,,as the
grounds here have been unfortunate for the last two
seasons."—A correspondent, writing of the Wingham dis-
trict, says :- •" Hop picking has commenced, and I believe
they come down quite equal to the expectation of the
planters. The samples will be very good, where there is
not much mould, which does not appear to increase around
here."

WEST KENT.—Picking has commenced in several
parishes, and will probably become general in a day or
two. The weather has been favourable during the week,
and the hops appear to have improved in condition. Tho
complaints of mould are very numerous, and generally the
yield will be less than was at ono time expected. In a few
parishes there will be good crops. Pickers have arrived in
large numbers.

ASIISSEL—The reports from this country are generally
more favourable than from either the West or Mid Kent
district. Picking has commenced in many parishes, and
the yield in not a few instances is reported to be all that
the planters could wish. This is particularly the case in
the neighbourhood of Rye.
THE FARNHAM DISTRICT.—P,cking commenced on
Thursday. The hops have lately grown but very slowly,
and some of the grounds are in a precarious state ; the
crop must be a short one, and will not nearly come up to
our anticipations a fortnight ago. We do not remember a
more partial produce for many years past.

COUNTRY 111ARRE 2S.

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NEWARK-WEDNESDAY.

Our market was tolerably supplied with wheat, and
we had a steady trade at late prices. Oats active, but un-
altered in price. Beans were scarce. Barley in fair de-
mand, and nothing passing in peas.
White wheat new, 58s to 60s Barley, grinding.. 30s to 32s
Red do, sss to 58s Oats, old, .. 2Bs to 32s
Old white 6os to 64s New do 24s to 27s
Red do s6s to 60s I Beans. 42s to 45s
Barley, malting 35s to 42s 1 Beans, new......—a to —s
Pea5,....39s to 40s

BOSTON—WEDNESDAY.
To-day's corn market was poorly supplied with wheat,
and good samples were firm; inferior rather in favour of
buyers. Barley was a very small show, and met a slow
sale. Beans scarce, at about the same rates as of late.
White wheat.....57s to Us I Barley 33s t0437s
Red . s4s to 60s I Oats, new, 22s to 29s
Beans ..... .......42s to 46s I Peas 40s to 50s

HULL--,TUESDAY.
A moderate supply of English new wheat on offer to-day,
but only a few samples of old. The demand was steady,
and last week's currencies were made. Foreign very quiet.
Beans in tolerable demand, at last week's prices.
Wheat.... Old white....per qr 1,60 s Od to 62s Od
Old red
New white .. ~
New red .... ' ,
Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 58s Od to 63s Od
Dutch, Belgian, and French. 58s Od to 62s Od
Baltic and Hamburg red... 50s Od to 558 Od
St. Petersburg and Riga, old.* 508 Od to 52s Od
Barley.... English malting 34s Od to 37s Od
Grinding 3ls Od to 33s Od
Saal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish 34s Od to 36s Od
Grinding 2BB Od to 31s Od
Oats English, new 26s Od to 27s Od
Archangel and Riga, per st oBl2ld to 13d
Friesland and Dutch 08.13d to osl3ld
Swedish and Danish Oslad to 05135
.
Beans ....English, old, per qr 458 oa to 46s Od
New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od
New tick
wtian
Peas E
Foreign breakers . 36s Od to 36s Od
Grinding
Tares ....Spring. s Od to —s Od
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding 528 Od to 56,4 Od
crushin
00 ' 40s Od to 52s Od
Linseed cakes (Hgull) £9 0 0 to £9 5 0
Foreign Bl5 oto 9 0 0
Rape cakes 6 0 oto 6 5 0
Bones , 550 to 610 0

COAL MARKET..
alloes of Coal per Ton at the close of the market.
s. d.
Wylam ..16 0
Ellison Main Steam...l4 6
Carway and Dutfryn
Malting
Do. Anthracite 21 0
Holywell 16 0
Walker Primrose 12 0
West Wylam l5 0
Lambert's West Hart-
ley 16 0
Eden Kati l6 91

s. d.
Walls End.

Kelloe .. l6 3
Hartlepool. l6 6
South Hartlepool 15 6
Hetton .. l7 3
South Hetton 17 3
Haswell l7 3
Cassop l6 0
South Kelloe 16 0
Heugh Hall 15 6
Thorpe . . ..15 0
I Braddyll's Hetton 15
Ships at market. 47; sold. 33.

FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST.

MAILS DUE.
Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ..Sept. 18.
via Marseilles
.drazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Oct. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Oct. 2.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Sept. 18.
via Marseilles ...Sept. 12.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Sept. 14.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 18.
via Marseilles Sept. 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton ' Sept. 14,
via Marseilles Sept, 8.
Lisbon Oct. 4.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Sept. 14.
via Marseilles Sept. 8.
Newfoundland .. Sept. 17.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. picket Sept. 11.
by U.S. packet
by Canadian packet. Sept. 10.
_ W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerifte ..... . Sept 10.
ru,
Bahamas, via New York ........ Sept. 23.
Mexico., .................................... . Sept. 29.
Al
California.
ails of West Indies, including
lifornia, and British Columbia. ...Chili , P e
.... k Sept, 13. 1

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KANGAROO-LAND—SMALL TORMENTORS.—Tho
sufferings of "new hands," from this class of tormentors,
and even worse, are soon mitigated by habit, and in a little
while they learn to tolerate, and even forget their " inevit•
able presence." There is a sand-fly, no bigger than a
pin's head, which selects the eye-lids as the point of attack,
causing them to swell so as -completely to close the eyes.
This affliction, temporary only, is technically called
"blight" by the colonists. In addition to these, the bugs
are there a gigantic and pre-eminently bloodthirsty race;
and the fleas, it is wholly impossible to expel entirely from
a house by any amount of care and cleanliness. " I have
seen," he says, "the ground alive with them, in the Bush,
on sandy soil, far away from any habitation." The colo-
nial receipt for getting them out of blankets is to
spread them near an ant's nest, " the inhabitants of which
will soon clear them of• every trace of fleas, returning them-
selves to their nest about sunset." These ants, too, are in
immense variety as well as numbers, and are themselves no
mean contributors to the sum of misery that awaits the
travellers in the Bush from the insect tribe. One of the
worst of these is a small black ant, the most vindictive of
the race, which works with nippers and sting, inserting
the latter where the pincers have made a wound. Another,
still more diminutive and offensive, spoils all provisions it
can reach by the peculiarly disgusting smell and taste it
communicates.—Dublin University Afagazine.