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London, England, 1846-08-27 00:00:00

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HOP INTELLSCHINtiI
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and will be ready for picking a few days earlier than we
expected. The earlier sorts, such as Jones's, will be
begun on Thursday, but the Colegates are only just
turning from burr to hop, and will not be touched for
two or three weeks. The Golding& are splendid. The
flea is doing a great deal of mischief in some districts,
and there is some mould, but the duty is rising, Our
Rochester collection is likely to exceed 8 cwt. per acre.
LENHAM. —The hops in this district have come on,
during the last ten days, in a most surprising manner.
There are still some grounds which will come off very
short, but in the remainder the crop will be most abun-
dant. Four or five planters have commenced picking,
but it will not generally take place for another week.
WILMINGTON.—The hop gardens in this parish be-
longing. to G. Russell, Esq., are now locking really
beautiful. It is estimated we shall average 30 cwt. per
acre. Mr. Russell intends to commence picking en
Saturday next.
°thaw.
From Boxley, Aylesford, Wrothans, Yalding,
Linton, Stapiehurst, Cranbrook, Goudhurst, we have no
aleration from previous reports, except that in some
places the flea is making great havoc, and mould has
appeared.
BRENCHLE r.—The blighted grounds have wonderfully
improved within the last three weeks ; and many plan-
tations which at-that time were not expected to grow 1
cwt. per acre, will now grow from 8 cwt. to 10 cwt. per
acre. Those pieces which were not so much blighted
are very good.
CANTERIICTRY.—The hops continue to go on well. We
have seldom seen a larger flower or a more luxuriant
show than is to be witnessed this year. The mould is
insidiously making ravages in a few grounds ; but as
picking will commence so early it is to be hoped that
many hops will be brought down before this attack be•
comes serious. In less than a fortnight picking will be
general. In this favourable state of things the duty is
still rising—it is now laid at 170,000/. General accounts
are alike promising, and state that, in addition to the
hops growing out much faster and larger than usual,
fresh burr is appearing, and where, but a short time
since, one pocket an acre was all that could be reckoned
on, from six to eight cwt. will be the produce.
Feasralm.—The hop plantations appear progressing
towards maturity most luxuriantly. The bines, which
were so complained of about six weeks ago, and were
then covered with vermin, are now entirely free from
those destructive insects, the plants having overcome the
injury; and now the burr on the branches is from twelve
to eighteen inches in length; in size, beauty, sweetness,
and colour, never exceeded, and almost breaking down
the poles erected for their support. The yield is ex-
pected to be far greater than last year, and several
weeks earlier for pickily, should the weather prove
favourable.
A LTON.—The gardens look well, the bines strong and
full of burr, ripening fast, and even earlier, should the
weather continue warm.

PRICE SD.

MARKING HOP-POCKETS AND BAGS.
We have been favoured with the following correspon-
dence on this subject, from which it appears that,
thanks to the interference of Messrs. Oliver, of this
town, the hop -planters will be relieved from a very
troublesome regulation :

(Copy.)
"To the Honourable the Commissioners of Excise.
" Gentlemen,—Daring the last hop season we were
visited by two surveying generals, who desired the officer
to mark on every bag and pocket of hops the date of the
month on which they were weighed, in addition to the
progressive number, weight, and date of the year. We
cannot find in the Act of Parliament any authority for
the introduction of the date of the month, and shall,
therefore, feel obliged if your honourable board will in-
form us if it is required by law, and is to be carried into
effect this season.

" We are, Gentlemen, your obedient servants,
" EDWARD and JAMES OLIVER,
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an-
swer to your letter of the 12th instant, that it is not
necessary to mark your bags and pockets of hops with
the date of the month on which they are weighed. The
only date required is that of the year.
" I am, gentlemen, your humble servant,
" WILLIAM TRENT.
" Excise-office, London, August 17, 1846."
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE MAIDSTONE JOURNAL.
" Sir,—lf you report a great improvement in the
hops generally, will you also request the planters to
look closely and see how many mouldy pieces they have,
and how many flea eaten? If they pick these early to
save them, as they deem it, they will add to the quantity
without adding to their pockets, the price even of good
hops being much affected by the duty. If they leave
these bad pieces till last they will then see if they be
worth picking, and not early throw on the market bad
hops to reduce the price.
"Your most obedient servant,
" August 22, 1846." " A PLANTER.
(From the Sussex Advertiser.)
BECKLEY, AUG. 23.—The hops continue to improve,
and they are unusually large ; hops have been gathered
in this parish from 4 to 5 inches long.
BEXHILL, AUG. 22.—The hops in this and adjoining
parishes keep improving, and should the fine weather
continue, we may grow three-fourths as many as last
y ear. Picking will commence the first week in September.
BREDE, AUGUST 22.—Our hops in most gardens look
beautiful, and are remarkably large; in some we antici-
pate upwards of a ton per acre, and shall begin picking
in a few days.
EAST HOATHLY, AUGUST 22.—Our hops in most
gardens have certainly a good deal improved of late,
but on the same pole may be seen the fruit in three dif-
ferent stages, the burr, the hop without condition, and
the hop in its maturity, ready for the fingers of the
picker, which rather puzzles some of our hop-growers as
to commencing picking, but no doubt it will be general
in about ten days, here and there one has already com-
menced operations.
FARNHAM, AUGUST 22.—The hops in this parish were
never so largo as at present, and being entirely free from
disease, are now as handsome as they can possibly be.
We shall have an unusual crop in this parish, exceeding
even that of 1826 ; though the neighbouring parishes
will not realise so large a crop. Picking has commenced
in one or two plantations, and will be general in a week.
HURST GREEN, AUGUST 23.—The hops in this neigh-
bourhood are still improving, and the extraordinary
length of some of them, which measure four and a half
inches, surprises everybody. The duty estimated at
170,0001.
IDEN, AUGUST 23.—The hops continue to improve
very fast, and are now larger than they have been for
many years. We shall, if " all's well," get a good crop.
MAYFIELD, AUG. 23.—The hops continue in the same
flourishing state, and the plantations present a most grati-
fying appearance. The hops are larger than can be ever
recollected before, and should the weather prove favour-
able the planters will present the finest samples, in
consequence of the admirable colour and perfect condi-
tion of the hop. They expect to realise a good price
through the season.
NORTHIAM, AUGUST 23. —The improvement in the
hops far exceeds the calculations of a few weeks back
and the burr, which then appeared on the same branches
with large hops, has now come into equally large hops.
Some of the growers will commence picking on Tues-
day next, and it will be general by that day week.
RYE, AuG. 24.—The hops generally in this neigh..
bourhood are making very favourable progress towards
maturity, and it is expected picking will commence irt
some plantations the latter end of next week.
SEDLESCOMBE, Auc. 22.—We are pleased to say that
our hopes are splendid ; we have hops three and even
four inches in length, and at places it is thought a ton
and upwards per acre will be grown. We begin next
week.
UCKFIELD, AUG. 24.—Hops continue to improve very
much in this parish ; the late rains and now warm
weather tend very much to increase the crop. Even
many of the blighted grounds are throwing out
numerous branches, coming in burr. The duty is called
175,0001.
UDIMOBE, AUG. 22.—The hops in this parish hare
certainly improved since our last report, and farmers
now anticipate there will be a favourable crop.
WADHURST, AUGUST 23.—Hop-picking commenced
here on Friday, the 21st instant, but it will not be gene..
ral till about the 26th ; and unless the weather should
be fine and warm, many will defer their picking till the
21st. We cannot report much progress since the last
with the exception that the hops are looking exceedingly
well and bright, and mostly unusually large. The wind
of Tuesday last bruised them in the high grounds rathet
considerably.
WESTIFIELD.—Our hops are now, what two months
since the most sanguine of our growers did not expect,
they are exceedingly large; we look for quite an average
crop.

STATE OF TRADE.
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, AUG. 25.—There was
slight improvement to-day in the demand forone or two
descriptions of cloth, and an increased inquiry for,
though, perhaps, not much actual business in, some of
those counts of yarn which have been lately much
neglected, and are consequently the most depressed in
price. On the whole, the market, though still in a very
unsatisfactory state, might be considered a little better
than for two or three weeks past.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL Kula'', AUG. 24.—The wakes
having taken place last week, we have had few pieces
offered for sale, but the demand has been rather better,
at former prices. The wool market remains steady, and
prices firm.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY, AUG. 25.—We have had
another very dull market. Scarcely anything has been
doing, except in the best sorts of fancy woollens; for loir
goods there is no demand. In wool there has becen
scarcely a transaction during the week.
LEEDS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25.—The state or our
market continues satisfactory, as far as general employ-
ment goes ; but our business at the Cloth Sell to-day
was necessarily confined, owing to the few goods,
adapted for actual demand, which are to fr./ had.—Man.
chester Guardian.

THE CARDINAL SPIDER.—A large 'arced of spidert
abound in the palace of Hampton Court. They are caned
there " cardinals," in honour, r suppose, of Cardinal Wolsey.
They are full an inch in length, and many of them of the
thickness of a finger. Their legs are about two inches long,
and their bodies covered with a thick hair. They feed chiefly
on moths, as appears from the wings of that insect being
found in great abundance under and amongst their webs.
In running across the carpet in an evening, when the
light of a lamp or candle has cast a shade from their large
bodies, they have been mistaken for mice, and have occa•
sioned no little alarm to some of the more nervous inhabit-
ants of the palace. A doubt has even been raised whealer
the name of cardinal has not been given to this creature
from an ancient belief that the ghost of Wolsey haunts the
place of his former glory under this shape. At ssll vents
the spider is considered as a curiosity, and ,
H,riefairame.
Court
is the only place in which I have met Vila 46
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