The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

THE HOP DUTY.

An account of the duty on hops of the growth of the
year 1853, distinguishing the districts, and the old from
the new duty : •

Districts.

Barnstaple
Canterbury
Derby
Essex ...

Duty.
£l9 0 6i
61,407 9 71
52 11 81
720 4 11/
41 6 8
8,056 4 9f

Gloucester
Hants
Hereford
Isle of Wight
Leicester
Lincoln
Middlesex
Northampton
Oxford
Reading
Rochester .
Sheffield
Stourbridge
Suffolk
Surrey
4qssex
Wales Middle
Ware

14,393 14 5
4,065 7 9
5 3 9f
104 15 7f
37 0 111
5 0 31-
0 7 101
17 13 8
111,545 19 3i
254 3 7
2,868 14 7
754 10 Tok
496 1 74
70,611 5 8
55 12 24
41 6 2
3,246 1 34

Worcester..

£278,799 17 11i

Old duty, at id. 12-20 per lb £152,677 0 4
New duty, at id. 8.20 ditto 112,848 4 72
Additional duty of 5 per cent.,
Act, 3 Vict., c. 17 13,274 12 11i

£278,799 17 11/
Inland Revenue-office, Somerset-house,
Nov. 7, 1853.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
" WILLI'S ISLANDS, TORRE'S STRAITS.
" Hydrographic-office, Admiralty, Nov. 5, 1853.
" Sir,—l beg to apprise you of the discovery of the
Willi's Islands, near the southern entrance of Torre's
Straits, Capt. Parsons, who discovered them, gave the
following positions Westernmost Island, lat. 15 deg.
54 m. S., long. 149 deg. 43 m. E. ; the Easternmost being
about 8 miles a little to the north and east of it.'
(Signed) " F. BEAUFORT, Hydrographer.
" Capt. G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's."

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 6 and 7.
The George, for Antwerp, has put back leaky.
The Guiding Star, hence to New York, has put into Bel-
fast Lough in distress, with mainmast sprung, and other-
wise damaged.
The Trimmer, from Newfoundland, and Union, from
Ostend, for this port, at Beaumaris.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, Nov. 7.
ENTERED INWARDS.—The Jonge Johannes, from Ko-
nigsburg ; Fredrike Louise, Petersburg ; Louise, Ham-
burg ; Richard and Clara, Dram ; Foenres, IVlinde ; Dram
Soderhamn, Sundswall ; Josephine, Sundswall; Carl
Johan, Sundswall ; Freya, Rouen ; Elsinee Jatina, Peters-
burg ; Hendrick Bruno, Norden ; Ruckers, Archangel ;
Brodrene, Hernosand ; Christiana, Hudickswall ; Jacob
Hall, Dantzic ; Wilhelm, Cronstadt; Ocean, Frederickswall ;
Nereide, Alexandria; Catherina, Riga; Jonge Johanna, Pe-
tersburg ;Christine Mathilde, Newstadt; Julie, Griefswalde;
Diana, Riga; Midborgeren, Dram ; Soeblomsten, TJmea ;
S aurvig, Hol msund; Christiania, Riga; Augusta, Hernosand;
Hardiesee Thragoroe Eros, Sundswall ; Du Gute Hoffnung,
Sannersund ; Hillegonda, Dantzic ; Bertha, Dantzic ;
Johanna Maria, Carolinenseil ; Triton, Soderham ; Eliza-
beth Hellena, Konigsburg ; Selertia, Gamla Carleby ;
Anna Magdalena, Thisted ; Thronfriends Frederike, Faa-
borg ; Harmonie, Assens ; Dolores, Mogadore : St. Johan-
nes, Hernosand; Enigheden, Hudickswall ; Rosins, Chris-
tiana ; Nestor, Dantzic ; Junge Martin, Cronstadt ;
American Lass, Sydney ; Goede Verwachting, Memel ;
Aurora, Hernosand ; Pommerania, Stettin; Sophie Marie,
Frederickshald ; Grutje De Groot, Groningen ; Erin Skel-
leftea, GrOvinde ; Thrinth, Nakskor.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Codrington,
for Antigua ; William Connor. Calcutta ; Mary Ann
Susan, Cherbourg ; Lily of the Valley, Dunkirk ; Queen
of the Wave, Madras ; Frankea, Hamburgh ; Alberton,
Porto Novo, west coast of Africa ; Hoffnung, Altona ;
Luna, Hamburgh ; Hazard, Adelaide and Melbourne ;
Gratitude, Valencia ; Asiatic, Port Philip and Calcutta ;
Julius Omni., Madeira.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Princesss
Louisa, Columbia River ; Alice, Jamaica ; Cygnet, De-
merara ; Punch, Gibraltar and Marseilles, Middlesborough,
Malta, and Alexandria ; Serenus, Hobart Town ; Shang-
hai, Algoa Bay ; State of Maine, Calcutta.

QUEBEC, Oct. 19.—The Brown, of and bound to Sunder-
land, from Quebec, sprung a leak and lost her foremast on
the 10th, and was abandoned on the 16th Sept. ; crew,
with the. exception of two, saved by the Stadacona, arrived
here.—The Wakefield, Fleetwood to Quebec, was dis-
masted, sprung a leak at sea, and was abandoned ; crew
saved by a Norwegian barque.—The Lady Elgin (s) lies
sunk three miles below Three Rivers, with her roundhouse
under water ; passengers saved.
MAGDALEN ISLANDS, Oct. 4.—The Alicia, Quebec to
Plymouth, was wrecked on a reef of rocks here, Ist inst. ;
crew saved ; ship and materials sold.
BAHIA, Oct. 14.—The Queen (s), Clyde to Melbourne,
arrived here 9th inst., with mainmast sprung.—The En-
richeta Clementina, hence to Trieste, has put back leaky,
and is discharging:
The Mercator sailed from Calcutta on the 27th of Jan.,
for Melbourne, and had not arrived at the latter port on
the 17th of August.
An English bri., abandoned, supposed to be timber-
laden, was passeeSept. 15, lat. 50 W., long. 24. W.—
Three British vessels went ashore in the gale of 29th Sept.,
at Maleque.
The Antonio Vincent, of Lubec, Charlestown to St.
John% New. Brunswick, was :abandoned 11th Oct., in a
sinking condition ; crew saved and landed at Holme's
Hole.

The 17n6.unted (British schooner), from Boston, of and
for Bathurst, was driven ashore on the 16th Sept., at
Point Miscow, and has become a wreck.
The Belgique (Belgian vess6l), from Rio Janeiro to
River Plate and Antwerp, has been lost on the English
Bank, prior to Sept. 30.