The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-18 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

BOROUGH MARKET.--(THIS DAY.)
Our market this day ha; been supplied with one pocket cf
New Hops, the growth of Mr. Tilden Smith, jun., of Vine
Hall, MountfieW, Sussex. The quality considered excellent
for the first picking. It readily sold by Messrs. I'. G. and J.
Russell, at 141.. 14s. per cwt. The picking will commence
generally about the second week in September.

The Earl of Essex is now entertaining a Party at
Cashiobury Park. Fishing is a favourite pursuit.

Mr. Stanley and his lady are at present enjoying the
hospitalities of his venerable grandfather, the Earl of Derby,
at Knosley Park, where the Countess of Wilton, the Right
Honourable Gentleman's aunt by half blood, is expected' on a
visit, having returned with her Lord from an aquatic excursion.

The Marquis of Hertford and his numnous at-
tendants have left town for the Continent. They will first
visit France, and pass the autumn Sri the southern part of that
country, where the climate is so genial. The Marquis has of
late become extremely partial to Naples as a winter residence.
He will, we understand, resume the possession of his former
hotel, having, when he departed from thence, left several do-
mestics to superintend the house in his absence.—Court Journal.

LANCASHIRE AssizEs.—Tne Privy uouncil have
decided that all the business of the hundreds of West Derby
and Salford shall bo removed to Liverpool from Lancaster ;
the business of the other hundreds being transacted as usual
at Lancaster.—Leeds Paper.

ATHEN/EUM CLUB, ST.JAMES'S-STREET.--BIL-
LIARDS.—The match for 5,0001.; which has created so great
a sensation, is, we hear, to come off on Tuesday. Those who
are acquainted with those matters think the club chosen very
appropriate, so many having been done by winning and losing
hazards. It is reported that the match has already cost one
Noble Lord 3,000/. So much for curiosity.

William Crawshay, Esq., the wealthy iron-master
who died a few days ago, has left behind him measureless
wealth. His large iron-works in Glamorgan and Brecknock
are given to his second son. His funded property, and other
personals of great value, it is said, he has divided between
his eldest and youngest sons, with the exception of sixty
thousand pounds in cash, and.the house and grounds at New-
ington, where he died, worth about twenty thousand pounds
more, bequeathed to his only unmarried daughter.

Miss Martineau sailed on Saturday from Liverpool,
in the United Stales, for New York.

Miss Charlotte Zone!' has been an in-patient for
some time for spitting of blood and weakness of the lungs, in
St. George's Hospital. and is now endeavouring to gain inte-
rest to get into the Pantheon Bazaar, if by the subscriptions
of her well-wishers she can obtain the means of doing so.
Sunday Times.

EAR THQUA K E.-011 Monday afternoon, the 4th
inst., a shock of earthquake, accompanied by a noise like the
distant discharge of artillery, was felt at Ashby-de-la-Zouch
and the adjacent villages ; in some houses the windows shook
with considerable violence, and on a large piece of water on
the Wolas, belonging to the Marquis of Hastings, a party
fishing observed a considerable undulation, and the water ap-
peared to travel from north to south.--Derby Mercury.

A prospectus for establishing a new patent soap
company has been issued at Birmingham, a " valuable sub-
stance or compound," for which a patent has been granted, to
be employed in the manufacture; the capital to be 250,0001.,
in Si. shares.

A rumour, going the round of the Papers, states
that Abbotsford is advertised to be let furnished for a term of
years. If this be so, is it not time to come to some settle-
ment of the subscription account ?—Atitenceum.
BOTH.—I never meet with, or hear the monosyl-
lable " both," without calling to mind the story they tell of a
worthy in our Green Sister Land, who gave a dinner-party,
the first course of which, to do the thing genteelly, was soup ;
the guests amounted to some half dozen, producing an incon-
venience, inasmuch as the spoons were restricted to a brace.
When was an Irishman ever nonplush'd? " Paddy,".cried the
host to the gossoon who represented the butler, " Paddy,
where's all the silver spoons ?"---" Yer Honor," replied the
shoot of shamrock, with most unlucky candour, " sure they're
both on the table. "—Hint illce lachrynue.—Sporting Magazine.
KELso.—The sport on the moors, in this district,
has been excellent, the birds being plentiful and the weather
all that could be wished.

SUICIDE IN A WATER-BUTT.—On Saturday
night, at eight o'clock, an inquisition was taken at the Gold-
smiths' Arms, Bartholomew-close, before Mr. Payne, touching
the death of John Routledge, aged 40, who drowned himself
in the water-butt. The deceased has left a wife and five chil-
dren. Verdict—" Temporary Insanity."
CORONERS INQUEST.—MYSTERIOUS AND ME-
LANCHOLY DEATH OF A YOUNG FEMALE.—An inquest, which
did not terminate till a very late hour on Friday night, was
held at the Vernon's Head, North Audley-street, Grosvenor.
square, before Mr. Higgs, on the body of Miss Ann Taylor, a
young woman of respectable connections, whose death was
occasioned by taking laudanum. The following verdict was
recorded—" That the deceased died from taking laudanum,
when she was in a state of temporary mental derangement."
A corpse was left unburied, on Tuesday morning
last, in Merrion church-yard. P. 0. Campaign, upon hear-
ing of the circumstance, got some persons to dig a grave, and
performed the last rites for it.—Dublin Freeman's Journal.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 16.—We
have had only a very moderate demand for cotton to-day, sales
being limited to 1,500 bags, chiefly American descriptions, at
Friday's quotations.
CHURCH OF TIIE MADELINE IN PARIS.--The
nave of the church of the Madeline is crowned by three
cupolas, and it is upon these that the labours of the artists
are at present concentrated. All their ornaments are in an
advanced state. The sculptures of the twelve pendentives
are nearly finished ; they will represent the twelve Apostles,
of colossal magnitude ; Upwards of 300 sculptors are at this
moment employed upon the interior of the edifice. As soon
as they have completed their work the painters will take pos-
session of the scaffolding, and commence their portion of the
decorations. The roof is completely finished.--Paris Paper.
IRVINGITES.—A party of the disciples of Mr.
Irving, consisting of three men and two women, are at present
in Inverness, expounding their peculiar tenets. On Sunday
evening one of the men preached in the open air, near the old
bridge, and drew a considerable audience. The principal
point insisted upon by the speaker was the immediate approach
of the judgments of Providence. We have not heard of the
females making any public appearances of this description;
and unless the men learn Gaelic, they have but an indifferent
chance of making converts among our Highland population.
It is but right to add that the party seem quiet and respectable,
and have made no attempt at the "unknown tongues."—ln-
verness Courier.

PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—On Wednesday the
6th inst. as the field batteries were at exercise upon Wool-
wich Common, during a sudden and rapid evolution, the
leaders attached to a 24-pounder ran down and overthrew
Lieut. Pierrepont Mundy and the horse on which he was
mounted, and instantly passed over them both, but, strange to
say, without any very serious injury to either of them. The
rider had been thrown under his horse, whereby he escaped
destruction from the heaviest wheel of the two, which passed
over and severely bruised the poor animal, whilst the lighter
one only partially pressed upon, in its career, the partly ex-
posed leg of Lieut. Mundy, -who is fast recovering from the
accident no fracture having taken place. He is one of the
sons of General Mundy, and was late an elhe of the Rev. Dr.
Everard at the Wick.
MODE OF MAKING SHEET LEAD IN CHINA.—
The Chinese, in manufacturing the thin sheet lead in which
their teas are imported into this country, conduct the opera-
tion in an exceedingly simple manner. The laminae are not
rolled, as from their extreme thinness might be suppoied, nor
even hammered, as the appearance of the surface might indi-
cate, but actually cast at once in the state in which we see
them. Two men are employed: one of them is seated on the
floor, nth a large flat stone before him, and with a moveable
flat stone-stand at his side. His fellow-workman stands beside
him with a crucible containing the melted lead, and having
poured a sufficieit quantity on the slab, the other lifts the
moveable stone, and placing it suddenly on the fluid lead,
presses it out into a fiat and thin plate, which he instantly re-
moves from the stone. A second quantity of lead is poured on
in a similar manner, and a similar plate formed, the process
being carried on with singular rapidity. The rough edges of
the plvte.i. are then cut oil; and t.r.-2y are afi,erwards soldered
together for use. Mr. Waddell, a Scotelunan, who witnessed
the operation in China, applied a similar method with great
success in the formation of thin plates of zinc for galvanic pur-
poses.—Lardner's Cyclopedia.