The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-24 00:00:00

EVENING E 2)IT lON

PUBLIC DINNER to MR. RTCARDO,
THE LIBERAL CANDIDATE FOR STOKE-
UPON-TRENT.

On Tuesday last, the 21st instant, the electors of the
extensive district comprising the towns of Stoke-upon-
Trent, Burslem, Hanky, Shelton, Fenton, Lane-End, and
Longton, gave a grand dinner at the last-mentioned place
to Mr. Ricardo, the Liberal candidate for the represents,
tion of the Potteries. The preparations for this festivity
had created no little excitement among the inhabitants of
the district, and as the time arrived for it, the spirits of
the Reformers were greatly raised; whilst the Tory party
dwelling on their late unsuccessful canvass, were propor%
tionately depressed. On the .day appointed for the festi-
val, the district was the scene of unusual bustle, numbers
of respectably dressed persons hurrying along to the scene
and the echoes in the streets, awakened by the earriegve
and coaches of all descriptions, which might be every-
where seen conveying parties of electors to the dinner.--
Staflordsitire Examiner.

LWe shall perhaps give some portions of the speeches
cc-morrow, if we have space.--ED. Sun.]]

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

( From the dlueuocwet Gazette.)
MAIDSTONE.—The hops generally in the Mid-Kent dis-
trict continue to maintain ther superiority over any other
district. Since our last the weather has been generally
warmer, although a nipping frost was observed on Tues-
day morning. The only two grounds, however, which
bid fair to produce a heavy crop are the " Flower of Kent"
and that of Mr. Gurney adjoining, which certair4 present
a picture of health and luxuriance, the bines rank and
strong, the leaves of an immense size, and generally of
fresh green, the tendrils " shaking hands" across the
rows, and the burr just making its appearance, In maul
grounds in this district, however, the bines are very much
aver-poled. Very long poles, in any other than very
strong grounds and favourable seasons, are a sad strain
upon the bines, which before they can reach the top of
the pole have so much exhausted their vigour that th:i
have little left for the production of hops. Those grounds
which are under-cropped with other productions Will
scarcely do anything.
Another correspondent states that within the last three
days, taking a view of the whole district, the bad grounds
have become worse, and the good ones, which are confined'
as we have before stated, to a small circuit, are rather
deteriorated than improved, as the vermin are fast increas-
ing, even in the best grounds, and honey-dew and fire-
blast are rapidly making their appearance. The mould
has not increased. The weather of the last two days and
nights has been most unfavourable, and there is no pros.
pect of improvement. Our correspondent, who has paid
the most minute attention to the grounds, and made the
most extensive inquiries, is of opinion that there will be a
general blight, and that the duty will not reach 30,000 b
From the accuracy with which he has hitherto predicted
the unfavourable changes, and the gradual decline of tlatt
duty, we are disposed to attach great weight to his opinion*
Still further improvement has taken place in Merewortb
and Wateringbury parishes, in which many of the group&
look well-and tolerably clean. There appears, however'
to be nearly as many opinions as to the probable amount
of the crop as there are growers of hops.
THE FARLEIGHS.—.Some of the grounds in this proli6l
district will bear probably an average crop, but in some
these the bine appears nearly at a stand-still.
The favourite grounds in Chart Sutton, Boughton, Lie'
ton, and Hunton, are in worse condition that they were a
week since. The bine is generally average growth, bet
rather short in weak grounds. A week's still warm wet:
ther would give many of those a " top-crop" which Ow
look very badly.
SEVENOAKS.—The bops in this neighbourhood are look'
ing very badly, with an abundance of vermin. Some fe°
pieces, where they are strong in bine, are getting better'
but the prevailing opinion of the planters is, that there or'
not be grown above one-third of an average crop. 'llO
betting it the annual hop dinner, at the Chequers Inn, 011/
Saturday week, was that the duty would not exceeo
eighty thousand pounds.
TONBRIDGE.—In this parish there are said to ge 10°
acres which will not yield a bag an acre, as the bines er6
already much shrivelled and eaten up with vermin, before
they have reached their full growth.
The bines, in Hawkhurst, Salehurst, and Bodibarnt are
worse than ever. The leaves are all dropping off, andt°'
young shoots are followed up by the lice.
Pestevey.—We have often heard it said that the supe'
rior cultivation and management which the bop group'
receive would enable them to overcome the attack of yet.
min or blight. This year, we are sorry to say, we exPei
rience the contrary to this assertion; the numerical se
persevering attacks of the vermin have completVhr
checked the growth of the bines ; and many groutit
which in the month of Mav were the most promising, n
now the most sickly, and the bines will not get to the top
of the poles. The produce of the neighbourhood will be
very small indeed.
CRANBROOK.—The vermin appear to have comple.t I.
overcome the hop plantations in this parish and neir"
bourhood, and we think the crop will be a mere nothilg;
it being next to an impossibility for any material In/;'
provement to take place, on account of the forwardness
of the season. The vermin are as numerous and lively
as ever.
GOUDHURET.—The prospects of a crop are still less tl
they were last week. Some of the few comparative)
good gardens are becoming foul, and will, if the prege°
uncongenial weather continues, most probably get woft
There appears in some of the worst grounds a sliglir-eu°"(
at improvement, but, from the honey-dewed lousy state of
the plant, it is very improbable they can do much.
' Tuesday morning last we had a considerable frost.

FIRE AT IPSWICH.—A fire broke out in the
premises of Mr. Horn, sailmaker, on Wednesday mornig!
which destroyed the whole building, and upwards of twenty
houses, besides granaries and warehouses. he
IRELAND—THE SUB-LETTING
greatest excitement has been raised amongst the peasantry
the west of Ireland by the novel attempt to bring the con;
acre system under the operation of the Sub •lettino• Act ; rb
it is too monstrous to suppose that it can be effected.° The e
tempt of the Marquis of %Vestmeath has totally failed, as
."it
Jury in all the actions brought at the Leitrim Assizes 3,,g31b.1 e
one of his tenants gave their verdicts against the most
Marquis.
DOVER, JULY 23.=DETERNIINED
—On Tuesday last a gentleman, a passenger on board t,';
Courier French steam-packet, leaped from the deck of t'o
vessel, when she was about half-way across the Channel' C,1,5
the passage from Dover to Calais, and was drowned. Preci°ii,
to jumping overboard deceased attempted to shoot himself W,1,i3
a pistol, but being frustrated in this attempt to take awaYfr,
life, he had recourse to the one just stated, in which, ur(l,-,e
tunately, he was but too successful. He is supposed to h%5
been an Englishman, but nothing has yet transpired, so far -
we can learn, of his name or connections.
BAD TIMES FOR THE BAR I—The lawYer:e
are growing up like mushrooms, while the business in, t„-,
Courts and upon Circuit is running down like an hour-g'3-,e,
At the present Assizes the lawyers of the Munster bar ha ',,it
for the first time, worn their wigs and gowns on circuitt;..
the same principle, probably, that a fashionable tailor en`7l,
yours to attract business by exhibiting well-dressed figures, 'g
his windows. The Waterford Chronicle has the folio 1
is
doleful intelligence for the gentlemen in horse-hair s
said that there are about eighty lawyers at present in
large number, it must be confessed, taking into considerat!,"th
the business they have to do. The records are few, and "tip
one or two exceptions, light ; whilst the criminal businessco9
the city is a nonentity, and in the county unprecedenfe
trivial. Certainly, unless the desire for litigation beectr
somewhat more vehement, and there are inure candidates 'of
the penal colonies, we do not know what will be the fatet 3
these important gentlemen who periodically import so vaso t
a quantity of grave looks, wise physiognomies, black coats, I,
t, allude to profound learning, into our ancient city. —D ub
E eniny Post.
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ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.—The fable of t
was the subject of a burlesque produced on Thursday
gigo
under the title of Life in the Clouds. Like all other InYtthe
logical pieces of the kind, the humour consists in inyolving.nio
ancient deities in modern squabbles, and making the reigulattiti-er
of Cockaigne apply to the inhabitants of Olympus. The aLufa,t.
divides his burletta into three epochs, supper-time, bre" 21.
time, and dinner-time, a most legitimate division, and ayi,le-al
ing far more forcibly to the memory than any lwr°,l°,7oral
system. In this short period he works out the grant' IL iee
that it is expedient for married men to be select in the en°,,r,
of their guests. Ixion was prettily played by Miss M. Gl°vib,
who danced the cachucha with some: grace, but no (tp/°la;f,
and was encored. Mrs. Brougham, with her half-virtue,
coquetry, her sense of propriety and love of flattery, and °'fl'
Juot
all her really majestic deportment, made an excellent ,____2l,
In Wild's Bacchus there was much unctuous pleasanatr?,,,,
kind of fidgetty hankering after rows" that was nerl).:ernice)
ing. Brougham, who played the constellation ( Cornell..
O'Rion, plumped his chees o give an imitation of %,(35
and drew much laughterk int a small part. The burletta
loudly applauded, and announces for repetition.

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A printed warranty is given, with fixed terms, on whit, th°
Watches will always receive any attention needed.
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Watchmaker, Silver and Goldsnn.,,t, 47, Cornhill (Seven JO°
from Gracechurch-street), London.
N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchangei...o

BIRTHS.
At Little Campden House, Kensin:lton, La ly
a son.

At Tunbridge-wells, the Lady Sarah Taylor, of a son. ~,
On the 23d inst., at Denmark-hill, the lady of Joseph Guru"
Es 1., of a daughter. i• 4
On the 23d inst., in St. llelen's-place, the laly of Richa
Davis, Esq., of a son.
'
On the 22d inst., at Grove-place, North Brixton, MO
Sidney James Fletcher, of a daughter. of
On the 23d inst., at St. George's-place,' Mrs. Davidson,
.
a son.
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IttiARRIED. c,
Oa the 23d inst., at St. Pancras Church, James Small,
of Bedford, to Miss Dorothy Thompson, of the same place. act
OA the 21st inst., at Landford Church, John llibb
Brewer, of the Middle Temple, Esq., only son of J. linab,
Esq., of Melborne, to Eliza, daughter of the late Richard W
Esq., of Melchet-park, Wilts.

D I.ND.
On the 18th inst., at Dover, Charles John, third son oft I'
late Admiral Wilson, of Itedrave Hall, Suolk. PaYfu
On the 21st inst., at Kidwgells, Maidenhead, William-1
Esq., Treasurer for the county of Reeks, aged 65. et,
On the 23c1 inst., Richard, only child of Richard Span
bookseller, High Holborn,n aged 5.
Blunt,
On the 18th inst., at ames Ditton, Richard Tilyer Joi"
Esq., of Dorset-place, Dorset-square, aged 70. n Wil
On the 19th inst., Joseph Rich md, only son of J. '-',,,g1,
hams, Esq., of Lower Clapton, and of Clement's-lane, ..'
bard-street. —...4

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No. 112, Strand, at he Sun Office, No. 11°. Strati 3
the county of Middlesez.—Frittay, July 24., 1 .1()