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DEPUTATION OF HOP GROWERS.

At one o'clock yesterday afternoon, one of the
largest deputations that ever assembled in London,
for the purpose of presenting memorials to her Ma-
jesty's Government, met together at the residence of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street,
when there were at least 500 or 600 of the most in-

fluential hop-growers, chairmen of boards of guar-
dians, clergymen, bankers, land agents, and land
owners, from the districts of Kent, Sussex, Hereford,
and Worcester, present, to enforce the prayer of their
petition, that her Majesty's Government would post-
pone the hop duty of 1848, payable in the ensuing
October, until some date in next year, on the ground
that so much distress existed amongst them, that it
was absolutely out of their power to pay the duty
until they should have received payment of the hops
grown during the present year.
Mr. HoDoEs, M.P., opened the proceedings by
stating to Sir Charles Wood that he felt it his duty,
on the part of the deputation of gentlemen from
Sussex, Hereford, Worcester, and Kent, to open the
case on their behalf, which was not a new one. He
was one of those who had, unfortunately, since 1819,
made repeated applications for relief from the charge
of the duty on hop. Feeling that this question
interestf_d almost the existence of hundreds of

.housands of persons, he knew that he was incompe-
;ent to do justice to the subject, and he should not have

undertEken it if there were not gentlemen present
who would give him their assistance in what might

be defective—in his statements—and which statements

they hoped would make such an impression upon his
mind as that he would feel it his duty to allow the
postponement of the duty due in the year 1848. If
the whole of the crop of 1849 were to be sold, after
the charges of the growth had been paid, enough

would not remain iu the hands of the growers to pay
the duty of the past year : money was so short in those
districts where hops were, grown, that the magistrates
were reluctantly compelled to issue summonses to a
very large extent for the payment of the poor-rates. He
knew one magistrate alone who had signed 40. If, there•
fore, money could not be found to pay the poor-rates, it

was perfecily impossible that it could be found to meet
the demands of the hop duty for 1848; and if, there-

'ore, he satisfactorEy proved to the Chaneollor of the

Exchequer that so much distress existed in the hop
glowing districts, he ventured to hope that what they
were now asking in the way of relief would not be
withheld. They were anxious that the payment of
the duty should be posponed—not by way of sus-
taining a cultivation that ought to be diminished, but.

simply because it was absolutely and physically im-
possible fur them to find money ; and he was quite
certain that if legal means were resorted to for the
purpose of enforcing the payment of this duty, it
wi:uld entail complete ruin upon many hundreds of
industrious men ; and certainly no men in England

were to be found who would advocate the payment of
any tax when such fearful consequences were sure to
ensue, and there were many magistrates i❑ that room
who would confirm his statement, that were this tax
attempted to be gathered, the result would be per-
fectly fearful to contemplate. On behalf, therefore,
of those poor people whom they were there to repre-
sent, he did entreat the Chancellor of the Exchequer
to reflect upon the-ir case, end he hoped he would con-
sider it consistent with his duty as a high public offi-
cer not to reject the application then made to him for
;heir relief; for he knew well that if the duty were
enforced it would be followed by consequences the
most dis=astrous. Such a deputation as that by which
he was then surrounded had never assembled within
those walls. It consisted of gentlemen of every shade
of political opinion ; but the gentlemen who stood
there to-day had no other object in view than simply
the one object before them. They had not met to
further the principler of free trade or the principles of
protection—they only met to advocate the postpone-
ment of the h.,p duty. That question they wished to
be kept distinct from all others—they wished it to be
decided upon its own merits alone. They had refused
to connect Fit and mix it up with any other agi-
tating question. They now distinctly appealed for
some relief, which they hoped to be furnished to them ;
and they also sincerely hoped that some better method
of collection might be adopted for the future. He was
not aware that he had at all over-stated the case, but

if he had, it was some satisfaction for him to know
that many gentlemen present would correct his state-
ments if he tad erred on any poiut. They had the
honour of presenting memorials from no less than
one hundred and thirteen parishes—the princi-
pal occupiers of whom were persons interested
in the cultivation of hops; and the object of all
the petitions was that he would have the kindness to
postpone the duty of 1848 for, at any rate, another
year; and if Sir Charles would grant them their
prayer, they were quite willing to pay the duty upon
the growth of 1849 at the period when it properly
became due. He had the honour of travelling that
morning in the train with the Attorney-General,
when he said, "I have paid my hop duty.' Indeed!

he had no doubt of that, and so there were many pre
sent there to-day who had also done so, but he would
venture to say without fear of contradiction that where
one person had paid, at least 20 could not ; and on
behalf of those 20 he hoped from Sir Charles a favour-
able consideration of the case that had been laid before
him ; and that he would consent to the postponement
of the duty to some distant period.
Mr. Hodges' statement was then confirmed by
several magistrates, clergymen, bankers, and some of
the principal land agents and land owners, all of
whom represented the distress of the poor in the
hop growing districts to be most severe; and that if
the duty should be attempted to be enforced by
legal means, they were one and all quite certain
that the distress would be far more deplorable than
in
.the years 1822 23, when incendiarism prevailed
to so fearful an extent. Whatever might be said of
other kinds of agricultural produce, it was certainly
true, though it must appear paradoxical, that when
the crops of hops were largest and most abundant, the
distress amongst the growers of those hops was the
greatest, so that the blessings of Providence were
actually turned into a curse.
After the various speakers had occupied the atten-
tion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by dwelling
upon the same topics for nearly two hours, the whole
of the memorials were presented to him, after which,
Sir CHARLES WOOD said, that nothing could be
more painful to him than to listen to the statements
that had been made—the accuracy of which it was
impossible for him to doubt or deny; but they had
placed him in considerable difficulty, and in a position
of such difficulty that he must decline giving an
answer on his own personal authority. He should
feel it his duty to-morrow to have an interview with
Lord John Russell upon the subject, and after commu-
nicating with him he would give the deputation his
answer, which he would do as soon as possible, for
he well knew how desirable it was that an early and
final decision should be come to upon the subject.
Without, however, disputing the accuracy of the
statements that had been made, he confessed he did
not quite understand the present extraordinary state
of the hop-growing districts. Some allowance might,
perhaps, be made for various circumstances that might
be peculiar at the present time. Re had requested to
be made out fur him a paper containing the amount
of relief paid to the poor during the years 1822, 1830,
and 1848 ; and by looking at this paper he saw that
there was a diminution in the poor-rates paid during
1848, as compared with the years 1822 and 1830, of
about 50 per cent. The amount yielded in these dis-
tricts, which contained 462 pariahea, was 433,0001. in
the year 1822, 398,000/ in the year 1830, and 219,0001.
in 1848, being a diminution of 49i per cent. He
was quite aware that some portion of this diminution
had arisen from their having got rid of the payment
of wages out of rates, and he hoped that they were
better off after having got rid of the vice; but 50 per
cent. was a large reduction, even allowing for the
most that could be said upon that subject. On looking
over the returns he found that distress existed nearly
in the same proportion in those districts where hops
were not grown as in those districts where they were
cultivated. They asked him for relief, amounting to
400,0001,, to be extended to certain districts of the
country. That amount of money was due to the
Government. That they did not deny, and as they
must have money somewhere, if that relief were
granted to the hop growing districts, it must press
more severely where hops were not grown. Now,
with regard to any alteration in the hop duty, either
with regard to its taxation or the mode of its collec-
tion, as had been suggested by the deputation, that
was a question that must be deliberated upon in the
next session of Parliament, and could not be deter-
mined by any officer of the Government. With
respect to the question, however, that had been
brought more immediately before him that day, he
would give them an answer as soon as it was possible
for him to procure the determination of his colleagues,
after they had considered the subject ; hut he wished
them to understand, in the plainest terms, that he
coal(' not forego the eventual payment of the duty ;
and 1:13 regarded the further postponement of the duty
payable in October, he was sure the Government
would require a very strong case indeed to induce
them to postpone its collection.
The deputation then withdrew.

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The aristocracy are prone to ridicule the elevation
of [nen of tho middle classes to high official situatiuns,
not reflecting that it is easier to transmute men of talents
into gentlemen than it is to convert mere gentlemen into
men of talents.—Eliza Cook's Journal.