The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-08 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

BOROUGH, AUG, 6.—The accounts this morning
rom all quarters come decidedly worse and worse.
The duty has fallen to 65,0001. Nearly all the good
hops are withdrawn from sale.
MAIDSTONE.—The few good grounds still continue
to progress, and branches of hops have been gathered
in some forward grounds, such as that of Mr. White-
head, of Barnjet ; but where there is one good ground,
there are probably a dozen bad ones, and many which
promised to produce a few hops have decidedly
retrograded within the last week. The burr " hangs
fire," where there is any at the top of the poles, and
there are scarcely any lateral shoots. Even the
present duty will, we fear, go down.
WATERINGBURY, MEREWORTII, TESTON, AND
NETTLESTEAD.—The hops have improved only in very
favoured grounds, which are very few, but many have
got worse, and the mould is making rapid advances in
some of the grounds.

MALLING —The main bine now looks very black.
The young shoots, though green, are infested with
vermin, and the burr is very weakly and slow
growing. _ _

CRAIBROOK.—The few fine days, with which we
have been lately visited, has had the effect of improv-
ing those pieces of bine which have been compara-
tively clean, and of developing the burr ; but the bad
pieces, which are far more numerous, appear to have
lost all signs of improvement, save and except a few
green shoots which are at the heads of the poles, and
which, with a continuation of propitious weather, may
perhaps produce a few hops. Opinion here is de-
cidedly against 80,0001. duty.
GOUDHURST.—The late rain, followed by a succes-
sion of cold nights, together with the vermin close to
the shoots, will cause about three-fourths of our
plantations to be irrecoverably ruined, and the frosty
nights (having had two this week) will retard those
which looked a little promising, from growing to any
size. In a portion of a garden the poles have been
taken up and stacked.

HORSMENDEN.—Our plantations have not derived
the benefit from the showers that we expected they
would. In many gardens the vermin is following the
young shoots ; in others, that are clean, the bine
does not grow away vigorously. 'We do not antici-
i pate so large a crop as we did a fortnight ago. We
do not think it possible for our parish to average more
than from four to five cwt. an acre.
WuoTuAm.---The hops still look very black and
withering. The young shoots seem quite dying
away, and there is very little prospect of anything
like a crop of hops this year.
YALDING.—Our hops in some grounds have im-
proved a little since the last rains; but the others
are still getting worse.
BRENCHLEY AND HAWBHURST.—The weather being
more congenial, the hops during the last few days, in
our best grounds, are doing a little better, but not to
any amount. A great portion are completely gone
and given up to the blight.
IGHTHAM AND SEAL.—There is no material im-
provement in the hops during the past week, there-
fore the crop must be partial and very slight.
EDENBRIDGE.—We can see but little improvement,
if any, since our last. The nights are too cold to curl
the hops.

ORPINGTON.—The hops are decidedly worse. The
burr (what little there is) is followed up so close by
the lice, that it is very questionable whether it wid
ever come into hop, and their appearance is altogether
of a lifeless character.

ROLVENDEN.—The hops in some parts of the pa-
rish during the last few warm days and nights have
made improvement. The vermin is leaving the
young shoots. They are Coming into burr, and if
we get showers, with sun, we may grow a few in some
gardens.

THE HERRIN Ur FISHING.
ST. MONANCE.—Last week several of our boats
here have had good takes. From Tuesday until
Friday the success was good, when we take into con-
sideration the early stage of the fishing. On Friday
one crew had 36 crans, one 29, one 26, and 20, down
to half a eran. On Saturday very few were caught.
The Friday's herrings were spent—a sure sign that
the early shoal were about to depart. Prices have
been from 225. to 10s. per cran.-IVeshire Journal.
ANSTEUTHER.—We have had a fair fishing during
the past week, considering the early period of the
fishing. A considerable quantity have been cured
after supplying the cadgers, but as yet the price has
never been below 12s. to curers. A number of
French vessels are in the offing purchasing, which has
a tendency to enhance the prices during a light fish.
ing. The general average for the week is 121 crans,
and for the season 141 crans.—lbid.
SToNEnAvEN.—Our herring fishing is promising
well—one of the boats on Saturday last brought
ashore between 5 and 6 crafts. On Monday night
they did not go to sea, owing to the gloomy state of
the weather; but on Tuesday night they all went
to sea, and a few of the boats brought ashore 4 and 5
crans of excellent fish.—Aberdeen Journal.
WICK, AUG. 2.—The fishing continues to be pro-
secuted in this district with a very encouraging de-
gree of success. Since our last week's report, about
16,800 crans have been landed here, or an average of
twenty-one crans for each boat, bringing the entire
catch of the season to about 32,800 crans, or an ave-
rage of forty-one crans per boat for 800 boats. This
is eighteen crans more than the average at the same
date last year. In fact, few, if any, remember of so
large a quantity of herrings being caught in July
as our fishermen have this year brought ashore in that
month, or of so high an average as our boats have
now reached at this date. At th larger stations on
the Aberdeen shores, however, the take has been pro-
portionally under that of last year, while at the
smaller stations, Macduff for instance, the success has
been much better; but we believe the entire take on
that coast is several thousands of barrels under that
of 1848 up to the same period. Shipments, chiefly di-
rected to the Baltic, are going on pretty briskly, a
large number of vessels being now on their passage,
in the hope that the blockade may be off the ports of
their destination ere their arrival. Most of the car •
goes are intended for Stettin ; some four or five for
Hamburgh, and one or two to markets of less con-
sump o .ti n —North British Mail.

GENERAL POST-OFFICE, AUG. I.—The public are
cautioned against retaining money orders too long in
hand. By the 11th and 12th Viet., cap. 88, it is
en-
acted, " That all money orders issued before the end of
August, 1848, and not presented for payment before the
end of August, 1849, shall be mill and void." And by
s regulation made under the authority of the same Act
by the Postmaster General, with the consent of the
Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, every
money order issued subsequently to August 31st, 1848,
shall ho void, unless presented for payment before the
end of the twelfth calendar month after that in which it
was issuA. Thus, a money order issued in September,
1848, will lose all value, unless presented for payment
before the end of September, 1849.

HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS.
(From the Regittrar. General's Return.)
It is unsatisfactory. to observe that the constant
increase of mortality, which commenced in the
second week of July, was maintained in the week
ending Saturday Lot The deaths from all diseases
in ILIA week were 1,967—a mortality nearly double
the weekly average of the season, which is 1,008.
The progress of the total mortality is shown by the
following numbers returned in the last four weeks:--
1,369, 1,741, 1,931, and 1,967. The deaths from
cholera, which in six previous weeks were 49, 124,
152, 339, 678, 783, increased in the last to 926. A
feature worthy of notice in the present return is the
fact that while the mortality caused by cholera 1125
increased, there has been simultaneously a decrease
in the deaths attributed to diarrhoea; for whereas
the deaths from this disease (including dysentery)
were in four previous weeks 54, 100, 146, and 238,
in the last week they declined to 198, an amount
which is nearly the same as in the corresponding
week of the summer of 1846, and little more than
that of the same week of 1848. It is shown, there-
fore, that the total in srtality from diarrhcea, dysen-
tery, and cholera amounts in this return to 1,124,
while the average is only 92. Consequently the ex-
cess from the three epidemics exceed in some degree
the increase above the average of the mortality from
all causes, which is owing partly to the circumstance
that the aths from fractures, burns, and other in'
jury registered in the week were unusually few.
Other epidemics besides those mentioned are under
the average, with the exception of hoopingscough,
which a little exceeds it. The mortality from cbn"
lera still predominates on the south side of the river,
the deaths there, which in the preceding week were,
514, rose in the last to 621. On the north side 01
the Thames the deaths in the western districts
were 58, showing an increase; in the northern
27, or nearly the same as in the former week; in the
eastern 127, a slight increase ; and in the central,
which include St. Giles and St. George, Strand,
Holborn, Clerkenwell, St. Luke, East London, west
London, and City, there is a small decrease, the
number being 93, though in a previous return there
were 97 deaths. The .greatest number in any district
on the north side of the river is in West London-- I
namely 32. Of the southern districts there were 67
in Bermondsey, 86 in Newington, 112 in St. George,
Southwark, and 143 in Lambeth. The deaths In
Rotherhithe are now comparatively few. The death
of a man of forty years, in Broinpton, was caused
by erysipelas of both legs of putrid character
(after
five days' illness), caught from sleeping with a child
who suffered from the disease.
The daily mean of the barometer was highest on
Thursday, when it was 29.965. The mean of the
week was 29.793. The temperature was under the
average of the corresponding days of seven years on
every day except Thursday. The highest in the
shade was on Thursday, namely, 74.5. The mean
temperature of the week was 59.5.
The following is the return of cases of cholera
reported to the General Board of Health from the
13th day of July to the 6th of August, 1849, both
inclusive :

Attacks. Deaths.
In London and vicinity, viz.:—
Lambeth .. .. .. 1,160 484
Bermondsey ... ... .. 630 102
Southwark .. .. .. 316 169
Newington Butts .. 337 196
Camberwell ... .. ... 173 124
Whitechapel ... .. .. 166 52
Poplar .. .. ••• .. 138 26
Stepney 35
Limehome •• •• •• 51 15
St. George's-in-the-East .. 65 21
Shad well 9
Wapping • • .. .. 37 13
llatclitl 6
Spitalfields ... ..• .. 26 S
34
Holborn Union.. .. ... 91

St. Giles's

Rotherhithe

40 19

38 34

Deptford .. ••• ••• 98 V,
Greenwich ...
.. ••• 104 38
Lewisham .. ••• .. 25 19
637
Other localities in London .. 1,313
--- _

Total • . .. 4968 2,06
In England and Wales, viz.:—
Liverpool • • ••• .. 1,970 694
Merthyr Tydfil ••• ... 405 169
Dowlais • • ••• .. 650 279
Gloucester ... .. - 47 2438
Cardiff ••• ••• • • 59
Salisbury .. ••• • • 81 71
Nantwich .. ••• ••• 126 69
Portsmouth .. .. - 115 73
Portsea Island ... ... ••• 443 259
-
Ply mouth ... ... ... 484 164
Mevagissy - •••
••• 87 41
Bristol
••• ••• ••• 176 97
Taibach
•• ••• .. 65 36
Aberavon
.. 45 0
Cwmavon 29 11
Clifton Union ... ... •.. 82 47
Brighton
27
Poole 236
Other towns in England and
Wales
••• ••• .. 1,901 870
.....--• Totals ... ... .. 6,831 3,005
In Scotland, viz, :___.
Dundee
532 264
•• ••• •••
Other towns in• Scotland ... 42 97
.......--
291

574

General total
... 12,373 5,366

THE Moous.—Recent reports from the hills as t°
the prospects of sportsmen, though not so favourable a 3
they were represented in the early part of last month,
are on the whole more cheering than for some yeori;
past. In the crack districts of Aberdeen and
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shires, the birds are said to be plentiful end strong. I'l,'
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covies are not so numerous as expected, many biros
having proved barren this year, but it is nothing uncon3"
mon to startle eight or ten birds, which is fully an ave-
rage. On the Deeside moors there is au excellent poi
spect--partridges everywhere well-grown and stronkan_
promises better sport than for several bygone seasons
—Aberdeen Journal.

Art INCORRIGIBLE BEGGAR.—A man who had been
employed in the ateliers nationaux was recently brought
before the Tribunal of Correctional Polica on the cbarg,
of mendicity.'" Have you ever been condemned before?
sz.id the President, "I should think so!" answered be'
"How often?" "Always; in fact the thing has becoin:
a perfect bore, for every time I've been caught, I've bee,,
condemned." " You have lived 40 years by begging `'t
No; 39 only—as I passed the first year of my We ;le
nurse!" " And you ore decided not to work',
" Why, if I found a lucrative place with nothing to do
might not object to take it." The tribunal condemn
the fellow to three months' imprisonment.
BIRMINGHAM AND STOUR VALLEY.—The --If-
yearly meeting of the sharebo.ders of this company Via'
to have been held at the company's offices in f3irming;
ham yesterday; but at the hoar appointed there was 13°."
a suffici9nt number of proprietors present to constitute
a quorum, and the meeting consequently adjourned. .1"
report was produced. In the course of the morning
deputation from the inhabitants of Dudley, headed by
Thomas Badger, Esq., waited upon the board of direr'
tors to complain, which they did in strong terms, of tile)
proposed abandonment of the fork or branch line froth
Oldbury to Dudley. If the directors persevere in their
present intentions, the nearest station (Tipton) will be
one and a half or two miles from Dudley, by far the
most important town in the district. Mr. J. F. Ledsan'.
the chairman, intimated that they were in communication
with the directors of the South Staffordshire Company'
with a view of running on a portion of that line; and
that the subject should also be mentioned to the dime.
tors of the London and North-Western Company, non'
lessees of the Stour Valley Railway.
lIURSTGREEN.—Some grounds have slighly
proved since our last, while others are worse,
and get blacker. The fresh shoots that do look
well do not seem thick with fruit ; taken in the
aggregate they seem to have made a retrograde
movement.—ln one instance the poles have been taken
up.—Maidstone Gazette.

BIRTHS.
On the sth inst., at St. Ann's-road, Norland, Notting-hill'
the wife of H. J. Butt, Esq., of a daughter.
On the sth inst., at Kynastone-house, Herefordshire, the
wife of T. Batson, Esq., of a daughter.
On the sth inst., at Walthamstow, the wife of N. Powell'
Esq , of a daughter.
On the 6th inst., at Upper Harley-street, the wife of C. 131*
Archibald, Esq., of a son.
on the 6th inst., at Upper Woburn-place, the wife of J•
Clarke, Esq., of a son.

At Albany-street, Regent's-park, the wife of Henry C•
Barfoot, Esq., of a son.
On the 6th inst., at Lowndes- street, Be'grave-square, the
wife of J. Harvey, Esq., of Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire, of a
son and heir.

This morning, at St. James 11ARRIED. s
Church, Piccadilly, by
e the
Rv. Dr. Swiss, Charles Jones, Esq., of Islington, to App
E iza, eldest daughter of Dr. Culverwell, of Argyle-Place'
Regent-street,
Oa the 4th inst , at Froyle, William Smith Nicholson,
Captain Cameronians, second son of George T. Nicholson'
Esq., of Waverley-abbey, to Charlotte Elizabeth, Odest
daughter of the Rev. Sir T. Miller, Bart., of Froyle-par

DIED,
On the sth inst., at Qaeen's-row, Walworth, 31r. Christo-
pher F. Seyfang, aged 77.
On the sth inst., in Queen Anne-street, Jane Catherine,
eldest daughter of C. P. Ittlshworth, Fsq.
On the 4th inst., at ChelnasforJ, John M. Wood, Esq., of
Golden square, London.
On the 4th inst., at Albany-road, Camberwell, aged 73'
Susannah, widow of the late J. Green, Esq of Stebbing
Parsonage, Essex.
On the 3d inst., at Dedham, Essex, Mary Eleanor, youngrc lst
daughter of the late Venerable Thomas Warburton, Ah'
deacon ( f Norfolk, aged 78.

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