The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-18 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

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WORCESTER, Nov. 13.—There was a steady demand
fur all descriptions of new Hops to-day at about last
week's prices, which are likely to remain stationary for
some time to come. The duty will be declared in a few
days, and is likely to fall between 13,0001. and 14,0001.
BOROUGH, Nov. 15.—The HOp market is in a dull
state at present, as the official duty must come out in a
few days and set at rest all further doubts as to the
result of the yield. The duty last year was only
62,253/. Bs. 111 d., of which the old duty at 1 12-20 per
lb., furnished 34,0011. 16s. Id. 4-20 ; the new duty at
d. 8-20 per lb., 25,1981. ss. 10d. 16-20 ; and the addi-
tional duty of 5 per cent. 2,963/. 6s. i i d. The prices
rule about: the same as in our last. Estimated duty,
140,000/. to 145,000/.

Wednesday afternoon a fatal accident occurred
in Pedlar's-acre, Belvidere-road, Lambeth, to a young
man named James White, a drayman in the employ of
Messrs. Barclay, Perkins., and Co., the brewers. He was
returning with his dray, and endeavoured to clear an-
other vehicle which was passing at the time, when he took
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Miss AGNES TAYLOR.—We have the best
authority for stating that there is no truth in the para-
graph which appeared in our columns of yesterday, an-
nouncing
t Garden ofMiss.
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Theatre
Royal,the
to -say, is in the enjoyment of excellent health. The
paragraph was sent to us by an occasional Correspendent.
Captain Tayler, the projector of the Floating
Breakwater, and several members of the National Float-
ing Breakwater Company, have been in Brighton during
the week, with the view of making arrangements for the
forthation of a Company to lay down a breakwater off
Brighton. We hear that the arrangements are nearly
brought to completion.—Brighton Gazette.
The Directors of the Croydon Railway have
been unremitting in their exertions for the removal of
the obstruction occasioned by the late slip on their line,
near New Cross. Already one line of rails has been
cleared ; and a luggage-train passed through yesterday.
It is expected that both rails will be free by Monday
next
.; and in the mean time the passengers on both the
Croydon and Brighton lines are protected from the wea-
ther, in passing from train to train,•by the erection of an
awning along the side of the slip.—Brighton Gazette.
POVERTY:—Who shall say there is no want
and poverty even in Cheltenham; -when they are told
that at a Court of Appeal on Friday last, upwards of
450 persons were excused their poors' rates, en the
ground of poverty alone !—Cheltenham Examiner.
Two hares were killed last week by the engines
on the Carlisle Railway in the Alien-side Cut, close to
the railway station, Haydon-bridge. The first was found
by the repairers cut asunder across the rails, and the
other lying in the ditch, with some down struck off her by
the engine, apparently little the worse.— Tyne Mercury.
EFFECTS OF AN EARTHQUAKE ON THE YE.
GETATION OF WHEAT.--It is a remarkable circumstance
that since the great earthquake in 1687, no wheat will
grow on the coast of Peru. In some places, indeed, a
little is raised, but it is very unproductive. Rice, on the
contrary, yields a great return. Before the earthquake,,
one grain of wheat yielded 200 grains.— York Courant..
DISGRACEFUL RIOT.—On the sth of No-
vember the village of Slop Pond, in the immediate vici-
nity of Highcliif and Beacon Lodge, on the coast of
Hampshire, near Christchurch, the respective residences
of Lord Stuart de Rothesay and the Honourable
Grantley Berkeley; was the scene of a most disgraceful
riot. It seems that the vigilance of the game-keepers of
the latter gentleman since his residence there had made
them obnoxious to the lower classes, who consist
chieriy of deer-stealers, poachers, and smugglers, which
led to the disturbance. About half-past :eight at night,
from 50 to 60 people assembled, many of them disguised,
with their faces blackened, armed with bludgeons and guns,
and proceeded to burn figures supposed to represent Mr.
Berkeley and his men. They then broke the windows
of one of the keepers, who was from home, threaten-
ing to burn his house and to murder his wife, at the
same time throwing fire into his premises, in the direc-
tion of his fagot pile, but which fagots his wife had
previously removed within doors, to barricade her win-
dows, having had some suspicion that things were
going wrong. Having visited the head-keeper's (George
Targess) house, in the same manner, whom some one,.
a short time before, had fired at through the window in
an endeavour to take his life, they then went to
the house of Mr. Berkeley's butler, and to the residence
of a man who had been witness against some poachers,
and committed various acts of intimidation and excess,
concluding with burning the figures on the highway,
which runs immediately in front of these houses. The
road was thus rendered impassable to a horse for nearly
two hours. A single policeman approached when the
riot was over. Mr. Grantley Berkeley, who was in
Gloucestershire at the time, has since arrived upon the
spot, and his servants having taken down the names of
40 of the chief leaders of the riot, active measures are
being adopted for the punishment of the offenderS.
We are happy to state that the severe remarks
which we have been obliged to make on the • conduct of
the searchers at the Douane in this town has drawn the
attention of the Director to the subject, and that instruc-
tions have been issued to the searchers to perform their
duty according to the spirit of the law and with pro-
priety and civility.—Boulogne Gazette.
FALL OF SNOW IN PARIS.—A fall of snow
took place in Paris on Monday afternoon, between four
and five o'clock, but the weather was not'sufficiently cold
for it to remain on due ground.

THE YACHT FLEET.—The following is a list
of the yachts, with their tonnage and owners, at present
lying in Hasiar Creek, Gosport:—Schooners—Mischief,
091 tons, owner Sir Joseph F. Hawley, Bart.; Flower of
Yarrow, 141, Viscount Exmouth ; Gem, 125, Marquis
of Ormond; Merlin, 104, William Lyon, Esq. Yawl—
Arundel, 210, Hanhani, Esq. Cutters—Flower of
Yarrow, 145, Marquis Conyngham; Adelaide, 124, Hon.
IL F. Walker; Dream, 100, G. Bentinck, Esq.; Nelson,
Quantock, 04 ;Antelope, 90,Viscount Powerscourt; Norai, 70, Ma-
jor James Mill; Asparah, 50, Bill, Esq.; Matilda, 44,
Bawn
Esq.; Giulia
Spider, 33, F. S. Greville, isq.; Nymph, 31, Bayley,
Esq.; Violet, 22, iEusliqa,; 4352 i d
g e Earl,
315,0 of
Colonel TyreoTyreo npnieklel ;
Naiad, 40, —;
Hon. F. A. Berkeley; Louisa; Gipsy.
The gross tonnage amounts to 1,711 tons.—Portsmouth
Paper. '

WILD CAT,—.About the middle of the last
month, Sir Pyers Mostyn, the young Baronet of Talacre,
emulating the family skill in the use of the gun, shot a
wild cat, in a covert in the parish of Llanasa. The cat
and a brace of foxes started from the same gorse bush.
but Joe Manton soon dissolved the partnership. A simi-
lar animal had not been seen in the country for fifty ,
years. The tail is annulated with black; body with
black stripes. The dorsal ones, three in number, longi-
tudinal; those on the sides, spiral. The length is three
feet two inches, the girth sixteen inches and a half, and
the weight thirteen pounds two ounces. These strangers
have been induced to come by the extensive plantations
made by the late Sir Thomas Mostyn upon this part of
his property in the Principality ; but they will not be
welcome visitors, as, after the wolf, now happily extinct
in this country, they arc the fiercest and most destruc-
tive beasts of prey in the island. The same gun laid an
embargo upon a male hobby, a beautiful specimen of a
small hawk, which was upon the point of setting out for
his winter quarters in Western Asia. This little fellow
was formerly used in hawking to dare larks and other
small game. In early times he was employed by the
Welsh falconers, as is testified by an ancient bard of the
fourteenth century.—Carnarvon .Herald.
ANOTHER ACCIDENT AT THE OLYMPIC
THEATRE.—Last night, about nine o'clock, another ac-
cident, which bears a great resemblance to the one
which occurred on Monday night last, took place at the
above theatre, and which had well-nigh terminated in
the loss of life. During the performance of Jack Rann,
the Reever, or Sixteen-string Jack, at the end of the se-
cond act, Mr. Leman Rede, .who is the author of, and
takes the principal character in the above piece, jumped
from the window to escape the officers of justice, a height
of about fifteen feet, and dropping upon the stage it un-
fortunately broke in with him, and to the astonishment
and dismay of the audience the body of Mr. Bede was
suspended by his arms; his head, shoulders, and arms
being only visible. The scene immediately changed,
and after some few seconds, Mr. Baker the acting-ma-
nager, came forward and intimated to the house that,
notwithstanding what had occurred, he trusted Mr. Redo
would be enabled, in a few minutes, to carry through his
personation of the character. In a short time Mr. Rede
again made his appearance, and, although evidently suf-
fering from the accident, maintained the personation of
the character throughout.
MEETING OF THE CUARTISTS.—On Mon-
day evening, a meeting of the ChartiStS was held at the
Ebor public-house, Straker's-passage, Fossage, in this
city, when a lecture was delivered on the Charter by. a
person from London. After the lecture, it was stated,
that in consequence of the proceedings that day in the
Guildhall, with reference to presenting an address of
&c., on her safe deliverance
ets henad sent a deputation to the
that lie
gisening, for the purpose of agreeing
would allow them the use
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it. It was now therefore moved
Lord-
ship stated to the deputation that it was contrary to the
sent ou people. His Lord-
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and
to the Lord Mayor, desiring him to
call a meeting of the working classes, in the Guildhall,
on
which was agreed
to,
INTOLERANCE.—At a village not ten miles
Thursdayood
the
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toi
m -odga)s,) separated,—York a
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from North Newbald, the funeral of an Odd Fellow took
place, last week, when, as it frequently happens, the
principal officer of the Lodge to which the deceased be-
longs, reads the funeral oration of the order over the
grave, after that of the Church is concluded. The officer
was proceeding with his duty, and had almost finished,
when lo ! the Curate stepped to him and requested him
to desist, as he could not allow . hint to proceed, at the
same
time liberal(' pointing out that he might go into
the highway and there finish if he thought proper.
How long will it be, ere the Church purge itself of such
imbecility, pride, and absurdity, and which can only
exist in the minds of those of her ministers who are pro-
foundly ignorant, and of the meanest understanding.—
York Courant.
DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT.—On Wednes-
day week one of the elephants in tho menagerie of Mr.
Wombwell, now exhibiting at Leeds, died, It was a fe-
male, and supposed about thirty years of age. The
cause of death is not satisfactorily explained. It has
been sold to the Leedsphilosophica society for 20L ; the
hide weighed five hundlld "Ott-- rork Courant.