The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-22 00:00:00

HOPS.

An Account of tho alty on hops of the Growth of the Year
1836, distiogokhing the Districts, aid the Old from tie,
New Duty :

DISTRICTS. DUTY.
Barnstaple £46 7 0
Bath . 7 18 8
Bedford
Bristol lO 17 8
Cambridge 26 12 2
Canterbury ..
Chester
Cornwa11.
Coventry.
Derby.. .................................... 755 16 8

Dorset ...................................... 54 7 10
Essex ...................................... 1,785 7 6
Exeter 4l 17 10
Gil:wester 33 15 10
Grantham
Hants
Hereford
forts 570 7 6
Isle of ,
Lincoln

Lynn 3 15 10
Northampton 7 19 0
Norwich 5 5 6
Oxford 6l 13 4
Plymouth ll 13 3
Reading 24 17 10.
Rochester 10`i.993 12 6
Salisbury
Salop

Stafford ... 0 12 0
Stourbridge 1,786 16 10
Suffolk
Surrey. 52 0 8
Sussex 105,715 6 2
Uxbridge 5B 7 4
Wales (Middle) 226 19 0
(West) 0 0 11
Wellington B7 17 10
Worcester

Total

£348,404 12 2

Old Duty at Id. 1240 per lb.
New - V. 8-20 -

200,332 12 11,E
148,071 19 2

£348,404 12 2
G. A. COTTRELL, General Accountant.
Excise Office, London, Nov. 21.

CowtUTATION OF TITHES.—Many land-owners
and tithc•otiMlners in this county have come forward, with a
praise worthy readiness, to avail themselves of the provi-
sions of the Tithe Bill relative to Voluntary Commutation,
and have thus shown, as we predicted they would, that
there will be little occasion for compulsory proceedings,—
Essex Herald.

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SP4TRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times charges Lord John Russell with "job-
bery, vile, unheard-of jobbery," for having recom-
mended for appointment three gentlemen to the office
of Recorder in the boroughs of Coventry, Faversham,
and Hastings. Why charged with joinkry Is the
gentleman lately appointed to any one of these boroughs
(to Coventry, for instance) a jobber, or friend of jobs,
or :!,ver known to be guilty of jobbery ? On the con-
trary, his character is unblemished. No man living can
charge him with such a vice. Is he more disposed to
jobbing than the individual who used to officiate at
Coventry ? Upon that question we might appeal to the
opinion of the Bar, and should be ready to abide by their
decision. We say the same for the other two appoint-
ments. And here we may hint at a report which has
reached us, which is, that the disappointed candidate

for the appointment at Coventry has two strings to
his bow in the Council—his brother being Mayor,
and another near relation being member of the Council.

Does not this savour of jobbing ? Again, we have
heard that he now occupies the chair of the Middle-
sex Sessions. Does not the wish to hold both offices
savour of jobbing ? It is not pretended or insinuated
that in point oCexperience, temper, and legal infor-
-mation, the three gentlemen appointed arc inferior to
the disappointed candidates ; and the contrary is known
to be the fact. We believe them to be superior in all
these points. Then why this charge by the Times
of jobbery? For this plain reason—the three (*en-
demen appointed are men of honour, and Liberall—
IV/orning. Chronicle.

The events of every day, we may say every hour,
concur in deepening the conviction we have of late so
often expressed, that the approaching session of Par-
liament will be by far the mast important within the
memory of man. Before six months have elapsed,
England will have made great advances towards that
complete freedom to which she has so long been as-
piring, or she will be again under the dominancy of that
unprincipled am: 'reckless faction which has brought
down upon her all the evils under which she has
groaned for so long a period. It cannot be too often
or too earnestly repeated, that the Tories are at this
moment most actively engaged in making preparations
for the ejection of the Melbourne Government, imme-
diately on the next meeting of Parliament. We do
not speak without book, when we say that constant
communications on the subject are at this hour going
on among the heads of the party, in all parts of the
country, for the purpore of maturing their plans,
and enabling them to act more in concert when the
time for simultaneous action shall arrive. The Tories
have been always proverbial for their union ; but we
must say—for it were impolitic to conceal the fact—
that never at any former period, since they have been
known as a separate party in the State, has their union
been so close and cordial as at present. We must also
add that, on no former occasion have so many of the
leaders of the faction been in the secret of the tactics
to be adopted with a view to oust the Ministry. There
is not a town of any importance in the United King-
dom, in which there is not one or more of the more
influential of the party who are apprised of the de-
signs entertained against Liberal principles, and of
the course to be pursued—so far as that course is al-
ready agreed on—for carrying those designs into
effect. There exists, in other words, a more perfectly
organised, and more extensive conspiracy at present
among the Conservatives, with a view to the overthrow
of the Melbourne Ministry, and the resumption of
power by themselves, than ever existed at any former
period of our history. Is this doubted ? We could
go into a detail of facts, were it not, under all the cir-
cumstances, impolitic, which would establish our posi-
tion beyond all question. That, however, were not
only unwise, for reasons known to ourselves, but
it is unnecessary. 'Whence, we ask, came the
rapid succession of Tory feeds, which have of
late occupied so much of our attention, and which
threatened, at one time, the extinction of pigs and
poultry in the provinces ? They all had their origin
in this extensive Tory conspiracy against the Mel-
bourne Government, and the ascendancy of liberal
principles. And what greater evidence of the close-
ness with which the faction are leagued together, or
of the extensive ramifications of the conspiracy,—
what greater evidence of this could be desired than that
furnished by the fact of these dinners taking place simul-
taneously throughout the width and breadth of the
land ? Let us not be told that we are dwelling too much
on the dangers which beset the Melbourne Ministry
from the machinations of a cunning and malignant
faction. Nothing can be gained—every thing, on the
contrary, may be lost—by under-estimating the activity
or the resources of the Conservatives. By a timely
sounding of the tocsin of alarm, measures may be taken
by Lord Melbourne, and the people conjointly, to frus-
trate the tricks and resist the power of the Tories.
But if the Government and the people were to be taken
by surprise, it is impossible, with a Court party so
inveterately hostile to a liberal government and liberal
principles, to say what the consequences might be.
Nothing is more to be dreaded than a false security,
we can never be too much alive to the possibility of
danger. That is the only way to defeat and disarm the
faction. We have before enforced with this view the
urgent necessity of union among the people—let us
now impress on the nation the necessity also of a cor-
dial union with the Government in the coining conflict
with the common foe. We are sure Lord Melbourne
must see that his only safety consists in throwing him-
self unreservedly into the arms of the people. Let
him do it without delay, they arc ready to receive him,
and to identify their interests and their fate with his.—
Morning Advertiser,

In another colur.in will be found the report of a de-
putation from the parish of Shoreditch, which waited
Yesterday on Lord John Russell, respecting the Poor
Laws Amendment Act. We refer to the circum-
stance as an illustration of the bona;fide working of
the measure, and as an answer to certain romantic ar-
ticles which we have seen, and from which it would be
supposed that the different parishes throughout the
kingdom were over head and ears in love with this
favourite child of the political economists. Not so
the parish of Shoreditch. That parish has exclaimed
against the measure, petitioned against the measure,
and, as our readers will see in the report to which we
have referred, remonstrated against the manner in
which their petition was treated by the Home Secre-
tary. It would be difficult to conceive a more ridi-
culous situation than that in which Lord John
Russell was placed upon this occasion, when he stood
as the repmsentative of the Whig Government to hear
the opinwris of practical men, deputed by the parish
to open his eyes as to the popularity of the New Poor
Act. Whatever influence their statements may have
with the Government, we feel very little doubt that
they will produce a strong effect elsewhere. At all
events it is to be hoped that they will prevent those
gross exaggerations in which the partisans of a false
economy are too apt to indulge.—Morning Herald.

We yesterday received accounts from Madras, which
state that great sickness continued to prevail at Goom-
soor, between 1,300 and 1,400 men being on the list.
The weather had been hot, the thermometer being at 100.
The young Inan who was in Lanark pi ison for shoot-
ing his sister's or servant's sweetheart near Biggar, has got
out on b.:411 ; the Lord Advocate having given his opinion
that tLe crime could be charged only as culpable homicide.
—Glasgow Courier.
BEAR HUNT IN THE CITY..---011 Friday after-
noon the inhabitants of Fleet-street and Fetter-lane were
thrown into a state of great alarm by the escape of a huge
Russian bear from the premises of Mr. Bailey, hairdresser,
where he had been for some time fattening, in order to
supply the citizens with crops of hair. Bruin, after slipping
his collar, and demolishing the den, made his first entree
through the window of a house in Hen and Chicken-court,
Where an old woman was busily engaged in ironing, and
who, saluting him with an emphatic " Who arc you r made
a rapid exit, leaving him in quiet :possession of the apart-
ment, and, hastily shutting the door, cut off his further ad-
vance in that direction. By this time an alarm was raised
and the doors closed, so as to prevent his 'egress to the
street, and a gallant sally was made front the windows of a
public-house in the rear, armed with whatever missiles the
place afforded. From this position he was driven into the
vaults below, one of the assailants receiving, however, a
grip in the arm, which rendered surgical aid immediately
necessary. He here seized a youth by the leg, which he
severely lacerated, but being hotly pursued soon surren-
dered at discretion, and by the agility of Mr. Bailey, who
in the attempt received a bite in the arm, a rope was
thrown round his neck, and Bruin was conducted back to
his head-quarters.