The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-22 00:00:00

KEN T HOP INTELLIGENCE.

MAIDSTONE.—Hop-picking is proceeding with great ra-
pidity. We hear of no single case where the hops turn out
heavier or better than was anticipated, but we hear on all hands
of disappointment in both quality and quantity.
WATERINGDLI ItY AND AIMIEWOR,TH.—The picking has
been general during the last week, and the crop is complained
of by nearly all the growers as being deficient in quantity, and
very light in weight. A very general opinion prevails that
the duty is far too high.
TICEIWRST.—Picking is now in full operation in this and
surrounding parishes, but the crop will be nearly a third short.
Notwithstanding the hops are now ripe, they require more
than the usual quantity of bushels to the cwt., and it is the
general opinion that the duty will not reach 150,0001.—Maid-
stone Gazette of yesterday.
The accounts from other parts of Kent are nearly .f the same
description, and all concur in the opinion that the duty will
be between 150,0001. and 160,0001.

The Gazette da Midi informs us that thirty-two
Spanish refugees, who were working in the canal of Arles,
have been arrested and sent to prison. It appears, from an
article in the Courrier de Lyon, that the Spanish refugees,
employed as labourers on the repairs of this canal, had been
guilty of insubordination, and, in consequence of some dis-
pute with the French labourers, a severe conflict, in which
the Spaniards were the aggressor., took place, and it be-
came necessary to imprison some of the most culpable of the
Spaniards.

A New York Paper publishes the following un-
dcr the head of " London versus New York" :
In London. In New York.
Murdered 1 17
Poisoned 6
Killed by accident - ... 83
Killed in various other ways 9 .... . 28
Drowned 76 - 86
Burnt to death 0
• Suicides
_ _

_ ..._
Unknown deaths, probably
murdered' l2 179
Still-born 432 •••••• b 92
Intemperance

Total 740 1,130
Why is it that the murders committed in New Yot k are 17
times greater than in London, whilst the populution of the lat-
ter city is five times greater than that of the former? and why
are the number of d?aths from other causes above-mentioned so
disparaging to our metropolis? The answer is, there are in
New York five grog-shops where there is none in Londo!
THE CAIRO.—A new steamer, bearing this
title, made her first. appearance in the Thames on Tuesday, and
excited general attention. She was built by Messrs. Ditch-
burn and Mare, of Blackwall, for the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigrtion Compsnv, for the navigation of the Nile,
and is intended as a branch steamer to convey passengers
and luggage to and from various places on the banks of that
river. The Cairo is a remarkably elegant vessel. It is flat-
bottomed, to adapt her fur the shallow waters of the Nile,
her draught only being two feet. She is propelled by two en-
gines of 16-horse power each, from the factory of Messrs.
Penn and. Son, of Greenwich. The cabins fore and aft are
tastefully fitted up with bed places and other conveniences
fur passengers. The Cairo is an iron vessel, and divided
into five compartments, with water-tight bulk-heads separat-
ing each, which adds much to the safety of the vessel. The
engines and machinery occupy such a small space that 100
persons can be accommodated in the cabinA, and there are
two spaainus stow rooms for luggage only between the en-
gine room and the fore cabin, and the engine room and
after cabin. The Cairo made a trial vo3age from the Black-
wall Pier to Gravesend and back, and with all the disad-
vanges attendant upon the working of new engines and ma-
chinery, she passed everything un the river, the Star, a large
Gravesend Steamer, only excepted, and fully came up to the
expectations of the builder and engineer. Mr. Ditchburn and
Mr. Penn, jun., who entertained a select party of gentlemen
connected with steam navigation on board, have guaranteed the
average speed of the Cairo at fifteen miles an hour, but for
the Nile a light draught of water is her greatest recommenda-
tion. Several other iron steam-boats of similar dimensions are
to follow the Cairo to the Nile.

A SUCCESSFUL STRATAGEM.—A few weeks
since a bride and bridegroom came to Paris to pass the honey-
moon in the enjoyment of the capital's delights, before settling I
down for life in the sober gravities of matrimony. While
walking arm in arm cue day, in the Tuileries, an exquisite,
whose vanity led him to imagine that, from ;he lovely, and
perhaps demeanour of the lay,
wemayadd slighd, hei ttitgeofrural simplicity
in the should find her an
easy conquest, instantly began to display off all his fasci-
nations,
with the usual means to convince her that she
had captivated him. From the effect of all this upon the
lady, our Giovanni was speedily assured of his success, and
perceiving a favourable opportunity given him as he imagined
by design, he approached her with an air of elegant non-
chalance, and in passing slipped a billet-doux, with which
he was provided, into her pocket. Now the object of this
polite attention had maliciously whisitered to her husband
the entire proceeding, and the latter, at the fitting moment,
suddenly turned upon the. gay deceiver, seized with Her-
culean grasp the hand still within the folds of his lady's
garment, and bodily dragged him to the guard-house at tho
garden gate. where he charged him with attempting—not to
steal his wire's heart, but her purse—in other words, with
being a pickpocket. 'the evidence against our luckless Lo-
thario was irrefragable, and the prisoner was committed for
trial before the Correctional Tribunal. '1 he trial of the " irre-
sistible" came on yesterday, when M. Faronain, the husband,
perfectly
weeks'saixiithegeneral hilarity of the
imprisonment he had
fr;explainedsatisfied
story m
Court. The, prisoner' was of caurse set at liberty, and the
miserable Lovelace ( whose name is Gedeon) retired with an
air that, told plainer than words his determination never to
offered,
,
make such advances in foture—at all events towards ladies who
ai;pear fret,h from the country.
.
We regret to say that an Englishman has been
condemned by the tribunal of this town to twelve months im •
prisonm, nt tor one of those crimes that should never be heard
of among Christians We understand that his offences had been
for some time known to the police, and that he had been warned
to change his life, but in vain ; the old siray.r would not listen
to wholesome advice, and he is now suffering the penalty ar.d
d;s,7.racte afteehed to his vie,:.—Roulogne, Gazak.
The Members of the Ecclesiastical Commission bad a
meeting yesterday afternoon, at their Office in White-
hall-place.