The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-17 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

Yesterday the market for new hops was regularly opened
in the Borough, and the supply was abundant. Many pockets
have been sold at good prices, but the merchants have not pur-
chased to any extent in expectation of a reduction in prices :
New Kent pockets, 90s. 120 s. a 160 s. per cwt.
Sussex do. 84s. 105 s. a 120 s. do.
The duty is calculated as under :
Kent £lOO,OOO
Sussex 45,000
Worcester 12,000
Farnham... B,OOO
All England. 5,000

£170,000

MAIDSTONE.—The bops seems to show well for a bright
sample, but great complaints are prevalent of their weighing
very lightly. In some grounds, where 1,300 bushels have
usually weighed a ton, it has taken from 17 to 1,800 to turn
the scale. This is attributable to the very short time in which
the hops have been able to ripen, so as to produce seed. The
lattar is in many instances without kernel, and evidently short
of condition. Many grounds have been commenced too early,
and some planters who had begun postponed their operations
for a few days. As the season advances, however, there will
probably be less ground of complaint on the score of weight.
SUTTON VALANCE, CHART SUTTON, AND EAST SUTTON.
—The hops come down of the finest quality, which has not
been known so good for many years past. In some grounds
they were not quite fit on commencing, which caused a few
planters to leave off picking for a short time. The late warm
weather has, however, assisted them much.

TICEIIVEST.—The picking in Ticehurst and adjoining pa-
rishes has now become general, and the number of bushels
confirms the planters' expectation; but it requires nearly 80
bushels to the cwt., which is attributed to the blight and the
short time they have had to ripen in.
WEALD OF KENT.—The hop picking will be general this
week. We have heard but few complain of the quantity of
bushels ; but several have complained of their weight ; gene-
rally speaking, the growers begin the worst pieces first ;
therefore it may prove different when they get into the better
gardens.
Stissax.—The bop picking in this county has been gene-
rally commenced, and is proceeding with alacrity. The hops
come down beyond the most sanguine expectations of the
growers.—Sussex Paper.

SUDDEN DEATll.—Yesterday morning, between
two and three o'clock, a gentleman, who was observed by a
policeman to be walking at a steady pace along Tottenham-
court-road, suddenly staggered forwards, and fell to the ground.
The policeman ran to support him, but the gentleman expired
nearly as soon as he was raised from the ground. In his
pocket-book was found 2941. in Bank of England notes; but
there were no papers on his person that could lead to a disco-
very of his name.
FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER.—On Mon-
day afternoon a lighterman, named William Frogley, in the
employ of Mr. Gammen, a coal-merchant, of \Yapping-wall,
while in the act of hauling a barge ahead, to prevent it staving-
in a skift, it came in contact with a coal-lighter, and Frogley
was knocked overboard. He swam a few paces and then dis-
appeared, api was not again seen. The accident happened
within sight of 100 persons, who, supposing the man would
be enabled to swim ashore, did not offer to assist him until it
was too late. Yesterday a ballast-getter, employed on the
ballast-lighter near London-bridge, overreached himself in
IU, • pulling up the staff and basket, and fell into the river. He
almost instantly disappeared, within view of the passengers in
the Comet steamer, then leaving Fresh-wharf, and was
drowned.

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1134,

The splendid Ministerial Dinner given to Lords
GREY and BROUGHAM by the Reformers of Edin-
burgh, which was graced by the presence of the rank,
wealth, intelligence, and talent of the ancient kingdom
of Scotland, is one of the most incontrovertible proofs
which the Reform Cabinet has yet received of the
popularity of their opinions, the just appreciation of
their honesty, the universal respect for their zeal, and
the general thankfulness which pervades the commu-
nity for the many salutary measures, extensive reforms
and wholesale improvements, which they have effected
since their accession to office. To Earl GREY this
was a proud triumph, as worthy of that noble and
highly venerated Statesman, as it was honourable to
the patriotism of the distinguished individuals with
whom it originated. The people, with that generous
enthusiasm which ever marks the public conduct. of
a free and intelligent community, have come forward
and nobly proclaimed the grateful homage which they
considered due to the heroes who had achieved the
conquest of the enemies of their liberties. They were
grateful to Lords-GREY. and BROUGIIAM and their
colleagues for the benefits they had conferred on their
country, and they have manifested their gratitude in a
-way which their worst enemies—the traducers of their
thoughts, the misinterpreters of their words, and the
censurers of their actions—will in vain endeavour to
twist into the expression of ordinary hilarity or com-
mon-place satisfaction. There is no mistaking the feel-
ing which prevails when six hundred gentlemen, all
distinguished for rank, respectability, and talent, as-
semble together to do honour to the leaders of a
Cabinet by whom the modern charter of out
liberties, the purificators of all our venerable in-
stitutions—the R eform Bill was framed ; arid
from whom it derived not being only, but vi-
tality, vigour, and full efficiency. It is ridiculous to
suppose any other cause for the popularity of the Mi-
nistry ; the Whigs are only thought of, at the present
moment, as the stranglers of the rotten borough in-
fluence—as the purifiers of the House of Commons—
and the restorers of the rights of popular representa-
tion. The people of the United Kingdom, all look
up to them with the becoming gratitude of an enfran-
chised nation, and if the inhabitants of Scotland, and
more especially of Edinburgh, have been the first to
demonstrate their thankfulness, let it not be forgotten
that they have had the earliest opportunity of giving
public expression to their feelings,
We are not suprised to find that Earl GREY'S
speech was by no means as long as his Lordship's
delighted auditory would have wished, overcome
as he' must have been, by the applause which
his very name called forth from hundreds of per-
sons who had never before the pleasure of seeing him.
The venerable Statesman could hardly do more than

point to the multitude by whom he was greeted,
a proof of the falsehoods, which had been circulated
respecting a reaction in the public mind, and to pro-
fess his fixed determination never to swerve from the
righteous, just, and liberal policy which had raised for
him trophies in the boSoms of his fellow-countrymen.
But Lord BROUGHAM was more at home in the midst
of such an assemblage. He knew that it was expected
that he should dwell at greater length on the future
policy of a Government of which he was one of the heads,
and the detail into which he entered was well calcu-
lated to procure for him the continuance of that
large portion of public confidence with which
the whole kingdom has so long honoured
him. In the course of his Lordship's speech,
neither the Ultra-Radicals nor the Tories were
forgotten—the one for their extreme haste, which

uproots all in its progress, pulling up the wheat in
order to effect the destruction of the tares; the other
for their tenderness for all accumulated abuses, the
snail-like progress with which they proceed to the era-
dication of untenable abuses, and the crab-facility with
which they retrograde in their course whenever a
principle appears in view. His Lordship's description
of the Ultra-Radical march is, however, characteristic.

Speaking of their impatience, he says :

" We shall go on, however, in our course, heedless of the
attacks of these hasty spirits ; for they come from men of
much honesty, of hasty zeal, but of no reflection at all.—
(Laughter.) They would travel to the object which they
havo in view, but they are in such a hurry to get at the goal
three minutes before me, that they will not wait to see whether
the linchpin is in the wheel.—( A laugh.) They would hurry,
their vessel into the wished-for harbour by the nearest, and
not by the regularly frequented channel ; but they do not in-
quire whether there is a compass on board, and so they run
their vessel into the breakers.—(Cheers and laughter.)
They raise a scaffold, they build a house, they rear a massive
pile ; all they care for is the look and appearance of the
edifice, and they do not stop to see whether there are parti-
tions for rooms to live in.—(Laughter.) They will not
use the plummet and the line, and therefore it is possible that
the first story may tumble some fine morning about their
ears.---( Laughter.) I wholly respect the good intentions of
these men, I acquit them entirely of all blame of that de-
scription, I make to them my most respectful obeisance :
but when they as me to get into their carriage, I must decline
to accompany them—when they ask me to sail in their vessel,
I must insist on staying on shore ; when they ask me to enter
into any building of theirs, I shall not only not enter, but
shall also stand at a respectful distance from it, for fear it
should make an experiment, which I do not wish to see tried
either on their heads or mine, I mean an experiment as to the
relative resistance of the two bodies.-4 Cheers and laughter.)
We are inclined to believe, however general a con-
trary opinion may be,—and we do not speak in utter
ignorance of what prevails among the great mass of
the people—that the members who advocate, or rather
who struggle with might and main, for the erection
of crude systems on the ruins of established insti-
tutions, are hardly worth being honoured with
so distinguished a notice. The great majority of
the people including the whole of the workmen in
towns where there is a manifestation of public opinion
—are decidedly in favour of a gradual, but steadily
advancing system of Reform, which shall so proceed
as to base every improvement on a fixed and unalter-
able principle. The people are only opposed, in the
making of changes, to the patching up and bolstering of
one abuse by the aid of another, with the occult inten-
tion, on the part of a Government, of endeavouring to
preserve both. This is what the country is in reality
opposed to, and this is the real secret of the impatience
manifested by all, save a few political adventurers, of
any delay on the part of the Cabinet, which has called
forth sentiments -of discontent and dissatisfaction.
This point is thus referred to in the able and eloquent

speech delivered by the Earl of DURHAM
" My Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Brougham) has been
pleased to give some advice, which I have no doubt he
deems very sound, to some classes of persons—l know none
such—who evince too strong a desire to get rid of ancient
abuses, and fretful impatience in awaiting the remedies of
them. Now I frankly confess that lam one of those persons
who see with regret every hour which passes over the exis-
tence of recognized and unreformed abuses.—( Immense
(cheering.) I am, however, perfectly willing to accept the cor-
rection of them as deliberately as our rulers, and my Noble
Friend among them, can wish ; but on one condition, and
on one condition alone—that every measure should be pro-
posed in conformity with those principles for which we all
contend.—( Cheers.) I object to the compromise of opinions,
not to the deliberation of what they should be.---( Cheers.) I
object to the clipping, and paring, and mutilating which
must inevitably follow any attempt to conciliate enemies who
are not to be conciliated—(cheers)—and who thus obtain an
advantage, by pointing out the inconsistencies of which you
are guilty in abandoning your friends and your principles, and
attribute the discontent felt on this score to the decay or dearth
of liberal principles--( Cheers.) Against such policy, 1, for
one, enter my protest, as pregnant with mischief—as creating,
discontent where enthusiasm would otherwise exist—as ex-
citing vague hopes in the bosoms of our adversaries which can
never be realized, and as placing weapons in the hands of
those who use them to the destruction of our best interests."

This is precisely the language of every honest Re-
former in the United Kingdom, and we trust the LORD
CHANCELLOR will regard it as such. The country
is not impatient—it is prepared to wait the good time
of
.the Government—it is disposed to act generously
towards men who have so well proved themselves
by their acts the friends of freedom and of the people
—but it is naturally jealous of the principles upon
which all institutions to be pure and permanent must
be based. It will allow time for deliberation, but it
knows that an eternity would not suffice to con-
ciliate the Tories, and the old corruptionists
who live by abuses, and therefore it does not
choose that they should be deferred to when
its interests are at stake. This is just. It is
worthy of an enlightened community not to
endure wrong, in a case where to bear with it would
evince not forbearance, but ignorance and pusillanimity.
The LORD CHANCELLOR'S description of the re-
form progress of the Tories is as correct as it is
laughable—and not without a flash of that burning,
withering irony, for which he is so universally dreaded
by his'opponents :-
4, Those men are the most unsafe guides, for in point
of fact they lead nowhere.—( Laughter.) Though they
are not unfriendly to improvement, the improvement
which they would accomplish is so far off, that neither
their eyes, nor the eyes of their children, can ever
hope to see it. Reform, indeed, is always on their
lips ; but, as was once said at a meeting in this town,
their verb " Reform " assumes a shape unknown to the
grammarians, for it is an imperfect verb which has only
got a future tense.—( Cheers and laughter. )—They say that
all things ought to be done gradually and slowly ; and to
make sure of it, they move in such a way and at such a
pace that even the minutest eye cannot discern that they
change place at all. There is one kind of
movement, however, which they do not dislike any how. They
are ready to move into mishief, and to advance—back-
wards—.(A laugh)—and I never heard with greater surprise
in my life the statement,—for I have not seen the news-
paper myself,—that language of the most frightful, and
I may say the most incredible kind, has been used by
those who call themselves the friends of order, the haters of.
anarchy, the abhorrers of change, and who cry out revolution,
when any bill is introduced into Parliament to correct any abuse
however flagrant, and however generally recognized. These
men, who seem so anxious to testify their abhorrence of change
—their hatred of anarchy—and their love of order—only tes-
tify their lust of power and pelf—that power and that pelf
which the faction has already lost in Ireland, and which its
brethren in England will not be satisfied until they have made
a bloodthirsty attempt to regain.—( Cheers.) The power

they mean is the power of misgoverning the King's subjects
for their own profit.—(Cheers.)
Contrast the beginning with the end of this passage,
and observe the mock solemnity with which the
LORD CHANCELLOR prepares to stoop and seize
the victims grovelling beneath him ; and the agony
with which they writhe as he holds them up in their
naked deformity to the scorn of the whole kingdom.
But the public has nothing to learn on this sub-
ject. The Tories are dead, buried, and rotten as a
party, for whom there exists not the hope of a resur-
rection. We shall early return to this most important
subject.

It is diverting and edifying to witness the ridiculous
figure that the late Newton Conservative Dinner cuts
when brought into contrast with the grand Liberal
one that has just taken place in Edinburgh. In the
former instance, we see a set of small provincial com-
moners, headed by one small Lord, huddled together
in a small room in a small Lancashire village, and
exhibiting a painful consciousness of the absurdity of
their position, in every sentence that falls from their
lips. Though they beat up for recruits in every
quarter ; though stage-coaches, carriages, and rail-
waggons, are all put into active requisition to faci-
litate arrivals ; though a great Conservative Duke is
implored, almost on bended knees, to turn the light
of his countenance upon them—all is vain ;—few or
no recruits are obtained ; no rail-waggons are
needed ; no Conservative Duke thinks it worth his
while to sit down to such a feast of fools. The
very utmost number the Conservatives can muster is
some two hundred odd I And such a pack ! They
may be rivalled in St. Giles's ; but unquestionably
Wapping would feel itself disgraced for ever by such a
gathering. Turn we now to the Edinburgh dinner. There
we find, not a few reluctant recruits dragged to the
scene of festivity like a bear to the stake, but a whole
kingdom pressing forward, by means of deputations, to
take a share in it. From the north—from the south
—from the east—from the west—the provincial ma-
gistracy=the men of rank and substance—the very
elite of their respective districts, hurry on to Edin-
burgh, as to the rallying point of attraction—such as it
was during the memorable visit of GEORGE IV.—and
this not to pay homage to existing power, but to
power whose very shadow is fast passing away. The
Scottish Ministerialists know that they have nothing
now to expect from Lord GREY. Their tribute of
respect to him has no regard to the future, but the
past. It is as disinterested as it is unanimous ; and
they may say of themselves with perfect justice—

" Let others hail the rising sin,
We bow to that whose course is run:"

The Lancashire dinner was got up on the com-
pulsory, the Edinburgh one on the voluntary, principle.
The former was an ebullition of party spirit ; the
latter, of national gratitude. We can conceive nothing
more humiliating than the failure of the Conservatives
at Newton, or more honourable than the triumph of
the Ministers, at EdinbuSgh. The former, as a mat-
ter of course, will now grow as sick of the mention of
the word " dinner," as ever was HENRY THE FOURTII
of the name of " Mortimer." For at least six months
to come, it will keep click—clicking in their ears like
the tick of a death-watch. It is hard that such
should be the case—that a word replete with such
magic—which usually

4' Comes o'er the ear like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets"—
should be the means of recalling such a host of
humiliating associations ; but the Conservatives hay e
only themselves to blame for it. They would persist
in getting up a show-dinner, and are now paying the
penalty of their rashness.

The French papers give the following as the names o'
those who are likely to form the new Spanish Ministry :
Count TORENO, Finance—M. DE F. BLANCA,
Foreign Department—General VALDEZ, War De-
partment—M. GIL DE LA CUADRA, Home Depart-
ment. These papers contain no other news of cor.-
sequence.

The following is an extract of a letter from Paris, by ti.e
express of the 15th inst. ; but we do not vouch for its truth :
—" An express has this moment arrived from Madrid of the
10th inst. The report of the Finance Committee has been
signed as follows, who unanimously declared for the integral
acknowledgement of the Cortes Bonds; five rejected all the
Loans made with France ; four proposed some kind of settle-
ment for the latter. On the 11th inst. the discussion was to
take place in the Cortez."

We are sorry to announce the death of Sir JOHN
LEACH, the Master of the Rolls, which took place
In Edinburgh on Sunday last, after an illness of four
days.