The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-16 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

BECKLEY, SEPT. 12.—The hops are a little better than 1
last week; they average about 65 bushels to the cwt.
Duty estimated at 200,0001.
BUL MASH, SEPT. 12.—Hopping goes on vigorously;
some planters, whose grounds have been cleared pretty
fast, will finish in a few days. Many plantations are be- I
ginning now to indicate the necessity of proceeding with
the picking as fast as possible: a high temperature is pro-
ducing a rapid change in them. The weight of the hops
has improved a little during the past week. Opinions
here are against the present high estimate of duty. Ex-
perienced planters will keep their produce at present out
of the market, in the belief that better prices than those
now prevailing will be realised.
EASTIIO4 THLY, SEPT. 12.—The hop-picking here-
abouts is proceeding rapidly. Never was weather more
favourable for the pickers; in many instances their la-
bours have been brought to a close, and the poles stripped
and stacked, which gives to the gardens a very winterly
appearance. Many have still a fortnight's picking, but
we fear by that time the quality of the hop will be much
deteriorated. The weight in general about here will
come far short of what was at one time expected, but
-the number of bushels grown doubtless far exceeds that
of many years past, in some instances supassing the num-
ber of hills on which they were grown.
GOODILITBST, SEPT. 12.—We are progressing very
nicely with our hop-picking, getting more bushels than
we expected, but not any more in weight; some pieces
are going- off very muck in colour, in consequence of the
severe drought; there will be but very few more good
coloured samples. The duty is considered too high at
200,000/.
GUESTLtNG, SEPT. 12.—The hops in this and the
neighbouring parishes are very large and plentiful. At
many places pickers are obliged to leave off before night,
in con sequklnce of getting more hops than the oast can
take. Samples are very good, but require 70 to 75
bushels per cwt.
How sioNDEN, SEPT. 13.—We have a general com-
plaint that the hops do not weigh well, though the
number (.4' bushels anticipated is in most cases realised.
There arcs some splendid samples produced in this parish,
but at pr es ent prices we trust our planters will not be so
insane as; to part with their hops, as from the great
deficiency in their weight we think the duty very much
overset.
Huns TaREEN, SEPT. 13.—The hop-picking is draw-
ing to r close in this parish, Salehurat, and adjoining
parish, )gtehingham; many of the farmers will finish this
week. The hops still continue very light-70 or 80
bushels to, the cwt.; and the general opinion is that the
duty e stimated too high in London ; the set here is
about 1'85; 0001.

IDEN, atm 12.—The hops are a little improved since
my last ,rew)rt, as it does not require so many bushels to
the cwt.. as t hey hitherto have done.
Me m IIELD, SEPT. 13.—The picking goes on rapidly.
The we Ober still favourable for the planter. Never
was the re a finer season. Should the fine weather pre.
vail ano liter week or ten days, it will be brought to a
close. .In some instances the red rust has got hold of
the hop but not sufficient to injure the samples;' and
they we tigh considerably better than at the commence•
me.nt of :the hop picking. Do not consider the duty
over set.
No xTsr. tat, SEPT. 12.—The hops weigh a trifle bet-
ter tha n th ey did at the commencement of the hop pick-
ing, b'at tl Ley are still light; we hear of none coming
under sever ity bushels to the cwt. The picking will
pretty gene rally close this week. In many grounds the
hops a re go log off very fast.
WA penrarr, SEPT. 13.—110 p-picking still goes on
most awourably, owing to the fineness of the weather,
but tf to lops do not weigh much better than last week.
One ; ;entleman's hops run about 65, whilst others re-
quire 7.15 bushels to make a cwt. We have plenty of
picket Ai-and the consequence is they do not work long
days, ea was the case last year, which makes them
rather Unsatisfied, many of them coming from a great
distan se. Duty set at 195,000 L, and many eminent
plante Ibirak that too high, as some of the hops were
picked :before the condition had arrived at its maturity.
The n se,dd makes sad havoc in some few instances,—
Susse. t Adrertiser.

The young Prince de Montfort, second son of
Jerome s Buonaparte, and nephew of the King of
Wurte) ml ,urg, arrived in London on Saturday last. He
proceee lei 1 immediately to Bath, where he intends to
visit 14i s c Gll9lll, Prince Napoleon Louis. It is known
that, i• )y the death of Louis Buonaparte, ex-King of
Hollan, i, the chief representative of the Imperial family,
is now s ex-prisoner of Ham, PrinCe Napoleon Louis.
Inerf is now exhibiting at Valencia, says the
Espanol ! o f Madrid of the sth, a child 14 months old, half
of whos a 1 iody is black and half white, covered with ex-
,traordit tar y marks. Its legs are deformed—one of its
arms is ne 2rly in the natural state, but the other is like
that of arY tonkey.
Mob .un , Lal and suite has arrived in Paris, en route
I for Ma peal es.