The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-05 00:00:00

THE HOP DUTY.

An account of the Duty on Hops, of the growth of the
year 1849, for the undermentioned districts, distinguishing
the old from the new duty:—
Districts. Duty.
Canterbury ... .. £27,197 10
Cornwall ..• .. ... 2 11 10
Essex 85 10 3
Hereford 11,344 13 11
Rochester ... .. 59,447 18 7*
Worcester ... 2,002 11 11i

A: 100,030 16 10}

Old duty at 1 12-20 d. per 1b.... 54,779 12 9i 16-20
New duty at 8-20 d. per 1b.... 40,489 6 0 4-20
Additional duty of 5 per cent.
per Act 3 Vic., c. 17 ... 4,761 18 C

£100,030 16 .1 Oi
The returns from the remainder of the districts will be
published as soon as received.
CHARLES S. HAWTHORNE,
Assist. to Acct.-Gen.
Inland Revenue-office. Broad. street, Nov. 3.
HA'YMAItKET THEATRE.

Le Tigre de Bengale is a farce which has lately
achieved a great success at the Theatre of the Palais
Royal, and Mr. Webster was therefore perfectly
justified in producing an English version of it, which
he did on Saturday, under the title of the Laughing
Hyena. The English Hyena, however, was not so
successful as the French Tiger, for the audience of
Saturday night, by one of those unaccountable fits of
fastidiousness which sometimes seize audiences as
panics seize armies, chose to be displeased with the
farce, and to express that displeasure in no very mea-
sured terms. It is true the farce, which turns upon
the unfounded jealousy of the Laughing Hyena
(admirably acted by Webster), the fears of
his wife (Miss Reynolds), and the gaucheries
of the object of his suspicion (Buckstone), is, per-
haps, somewhat long, but that is the only fault that
can be found in it, while the dialogue is smart, the
incidents ludicrous, and the acting of Webster,
Buckatone, Miss Reynolds, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam
(who acted the part of a drawling Somersetshire ser-
vant) perfection. We have no douht but that when
subjected to a little judicious curtailment, the
Laughing .Flycena will have a run. Some of our
most popular farces (Peake's 1001. Note to wit)
have been most unequivocally damned the first night,
and yet have afterwards become stock pieces. The
comedy of the Serious Family, which preceded the
farce, went off with great spirit. The house was
crowded.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING.—The Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship
Sultan, Captain Brooks, has arrived here from Constan-
tinople, Smyrna, Malta, and Gibraltar. She brings a
large cargo of fruit, with specie to the value of 68,0001.
sterling.
THE NEW BISHOP OF LLANDAFF.—By the nomi-
nation of Dr. 011ivant to the Bishopric of Llandaff the
following appointments become vacant:—The Regius
Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge, value about
8001. yearly, in the gift of the University, and to which
Dr. 011ivant was appointed in 1843; a canonry in the
cathedral church of St. David's, to which he was ap-
poined in 1826, value 60/. per annum; a prebendal stall
in the collegiate church of Brecon, to which he was ap-
pointed in 1830, value 1004 per annum; and the rectory
of Somersham, Huntingdonshire, to which he was ap-
pointed in 1843; this benefice, which is worth 1,7701. per
annum, is annexed to the Regius Professorship of
Divinity at the University of Cambridge. The appoint-
ment of Dr. 011ivant to the see of Llandaff has hardly
satisfied the Welsh people, who were very anxious that
the new Bishop should have been a native of the princi-
pality. The new Bishop was for some years Vice-
President of St. David's College, Lumpeter, and is a good
Welsh scholar, although an Englishman by birth.
INSTINCT OF A CARRIER PIGEON.—Mr. Vizard,
butler to the Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Saye and Sele,
has now in his possession an Antwerp carrier pigeon,
which was hatched in London in February, 1847. In
the early part of the year 1847 the pigeon, with its mate
and others, was sent to Addlestrop, near Moretcnain-the-
Marsh, which is about 100 miles distant from London.
In January, 1849, the bird of which we are more parti-
cularly writing was taken to Broughton Castle, in Ox-
fordshire. One day in the past month, Mr. Vizard wrote
to a friend at the castle, from London, telling him to
liberate the pigeon at a certain hour. Mr. Vizard's
friend wrote to tell him the time at which he released
the pigeon, and in three-quarters of an hour after the
time stated the bird arrived at his old quarters, at his
Lordship's residence in Londcn, after an absence of two
years !—Gloucester Journal.
NEWCASTLE BANKRUPTCY COURT.--RE CUTHBERT
BIPPON.—Tbe particulars of this case, which have al-
ready appeared in the previous examinations of the
bankrupt, were again minutely entered into by his
Honour in passing judgment on Tuesday. The bank-
rupt's debts, which were mainly contracted before he
became a trader, are 156,0001., and the assets will barely
cover the expenses. The accounts extend over a period
of thirty years, and disclose transactions of great mag-
nitude. The bankrupt's property, which was in mort-
gage, would not, his Honour said, be likely to produce
half the amount of his liabilities. Thirty years had
elapsed since the bankrupt succeeded to the property
left under his father's will; and this property, which
then produced 1,500/. a year, was subsequently increased
to 5,0001. From 1836, when the Manchester Assurance
Company took possession of certain securities they held,
the bankrupt ceased to have full control over his affairs;
he lived upon an allowance made by his friends or cre-
ditors; and when he entered upon certain colliery specu-
lations, about this time, he was insolvent. Among the
judgment debts oi 11837 was one obtained by Brockett
and Philipson; and it was for this debt that, in March,
1849, Mr. Rippon was adj,udged a bankrupt. His
Honour thought that the objections adduced to the
bankrupt's conduct were too general to be dealt with;
but his opinion was, that Mr. Rippon was open to the
accusation of culpable extravagance and reckless pro-
ceedings, and his Honour's judgment was, that the cer-
tificate be suspended for twelve months, reckoning from
the 25th of September last, with two months' protection
from this date.—Newcastle Guardian.
Reason requires culture to expand it. It resembles
the fire concealed in the flint, which only shows itself
when struck with the steel.--Eliza Cook's Journal.
RESPITE OF THE CONVICT JORDAN.—In Conse-
quence of communications which have passed between
Mr. Justice Cresswell and the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, the sentence of death passed upon
Stephen Alfred Jordon, alias Do wland, for the attempted
murder of Sarah Frances Ewings, at Dulwich-wood,
will be respired. Jordan is only 17 years of age, and
is now confined in Horsemonger-lane Gaol. The day
was not fixed for his execution.— Weekly Chronicle.

Dupes, indeed, are many; but of all dupes there is
none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror
of being dupede—Xliza Cook's Jornal,