The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-07 00:00:00

HOP INTE, LIG&ACE.

MAIDSTONE.—In many of the grounds around Maid.
stone the hops are not so healthy as could be wished ;
this is evinced by the shortness of the bine, and the very
great number of jumpers, which have much retarded
their growth. There are, however, exceptions, and in
some places the hop grounds in the vicinity of the town
are in capital condition, and the midsummer shoot
growing most luxuriantly.
ASHFORD.—The hops in this neighbourhood have
greatly improred within the last few days. They-have
in most grounds reached the top of the poles, and the
fly has very much decreased.
BARIUM- —We have many *talc" and platty grounds
in this neighbourhood, where the bine is uneven and of
poor colour. The warm weather has had a good effect
upon the hops gerierally, and a continuance is very de-
sirable. Our strong grounds are improving.
BEASSTEAD. —Our hop grounds are improving, the
bine gets stronger, and the leaf is of better colour. We
find vermin at places.
BOSILEY.:—In this parish we have to notice an improve.
ment in the hop garden, the weak bine gets stronger ;
out we are not altogether clean, although we have but
little vermin.

CRANBROOK.—The bine has been rapidly progressing
during the past month, and the hops will yield about
half last year's growth.
GOUDRURST. —Since our last report the bine his prc-
gressed amazingly ; there is a slight increase of lice,
though not to any serious extent. Should the weather
long continue as favourable as at present there mast be
-a large crop.
HARTFIELD AND WITHTABL—The hops in this neigh-
bourhood are growing rapidly ; and, though a good deal
of vermin may be seen in all the gardens, the young
.shoots do not seem to be injured.
HonsmoNnErr.—Our hop bine continues in a ♦ery
thriving state, and is looking very luxuriant. The back-
ward bine is making great insprovenient. The fly has
entirely disappeared.
KRMSING..Vie are getting very foul indeed ; worse
every day.

ADMISSION OF DISSENTERS TO THE

UNIFEBSITk.

The following is a list of the minority on the Cam•
bridge Univert-ity Bill, clause 44, admitting Dissenters
to the Senate :
Lord Chancellor VISCOUNT.
DUKE. Sydney
Argyll
BARONS.
MARQUISES. Broughton
Ailesbury
Byron •
lieadfort Campbell
Lansdowne Congleton
Sligo Dacre
Westminster Foley
EARLS. Manners
Bessborough Monteagle
Granard Panmure
Harrowby Rivers
VISCOUNTS. Saye and Selo
Falkland Stanley of Alderley
Strangford Wrottesley

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I being enabled to revisit his native country, Nova Scotia.
General Dacres arrived at Woolwich garrison on Sa-
turday from -Portsmouth. tvhere' he landed feom the
steam transport Candia, Capt. Parfitt, from the East.
In order make room for.quartering the siege train
. companies; daily expected at Woolwich, all the dispos-
able companies in the artillery 'barracks are being de-
spatched to Sheerness and other home stations so as to
accommodate the needy arrived troops at head quarters,
where, immediately aftfr:their arrival, it is the intention
of her Maj?sty to heirtininepection.
The purchase'd thti-4ite for the new marine hospital
at Woolwich haabeen4ompleted, and the plans for the
building are to be arranged without delay.
The Osprey, 4, screw 'steam gun-vessel, has taken in
a portion of hergiiniffroin Woolwich Arsenal,,and is to
he supplied with her ammunition and provision for sea
forthwith.
The Roebuck, in Woolwich dock, is shipping her
boilers and machinery, after-which she will be removed
and replaced by the newly arrived hulk, which, after
being docket, is to supply the place of the Sailors Herne
--the Dreadnought. •
The transport Jura, Capt. Moodie, having landed abOnt
300 horses at Woolwich, steamed. up to Deptford on Sa-
turday, and is to return to Woolwich. on Thursday to
emba.rk cavalry horses for Dublin.
The following appointments' *ere made on Saturday
at the Admiralty :—Commander J. P. Palme, to the
Coastguard service • Lieut. W. H. Blake,. to the Excel.
lent ; James Drysdale master, retired as Commander ;
A. H. Markham, naval cadet to the St. jean d'Acre ;
W. H. Childers, midshipman, to the Tribune; C. P.
Grant, additional paymaster, to the St. Jean d'Acre.

ANIVI'VERSARY OF THE 1S 'et ARA TION

OF INDEPISND4NOB.

On Friday last a sumptuous dinner was given by Mr.
Peabody, at the Star and Garter, Richmond, to upwards
of 100 American and a few English gentlemen, in com-
memoration of the 80th anniversary of the declaration
of the independence of the United States. The grand
dining hall was fitted up for the occasion with busts of
the Queen and of Washington, the American eagle, the
qaodarde of England and of the United States, and
other appropriate decorations. Mr. Peabody took the
chair shortly after 7 o'clock, supported on the right by
the American Minister Mr. alias, and on the left by
Mr. W. Brown, M.P. Mr. Steil, of Manchester ; Mr.
Morgan, of London ; Mr. Somerby, of B ,ston, United
States ; Mr. P. N. Della., Secretary of Legation ; and
Mr. Croskey, United States' Consul at Southampton.
acted as vice-presidents. Mr. John Macgregor, M P.,
!qr. S. C. Hall, and Mr. J. E. Jones, the sculptor, were
among the English guests.
After the removal of the cloth,
Mr. PEABODY rose and said—Your Exc.!llency and
Gentlemen,—l am now about to pass, in the common
acceptation of the phrase, " the loving cup." But I
have before me two cups, the one of British fabric, the
other of my native oak, presented to me several years
since by my esteemed friend :Sir. Francis Peabody, who
is now present. Before passing these cups allow me to
-ay a word or two with respect to the day in connection
with myself. The first dinner I gave in commemoration
,f the 4th of July, 1776, was in this hall in 1850, and
I was then, as now, honoured by the presence of the
American Minister, of a large party of my own country.
men, and of several English friends, some of whom it is
my happiness to see around me to-day. That experi-
ment proved successful, and in 1851, in consequence of
the large number of my countrymen who came over to
visit the Great Exhibition, I determined on substituting
for the dinner a concert and ball. A few of my coun-
trymen endeavoured to dissuade me front the attempt
to bring Englishmen and Americans together on such an
occasion ; but the. acceptance of the Duke of Welling-
ton put an end to my doubts, and a thousand happy
faces, at Almack's, on the 4th of July, 1851, sealed
my success—(cheers)—and, I trust, broke down the
assumed barrier to the union of Englishmen and Ameri-
cans in celebrating this glorious anniversary, never again
to he erected. (Cheers.) This is the seventh year that
I have had the honour of presiding on these occa-ious
over an assembly of English gentlemen residing at home
and abroad, and my own countrymen from almost every
State in the Union, and I am happy to say I have never
heard, and I trust and confidently believe I never shall
hear, a word uttered by any epeaker calculated to dis-
turb in the slightest degree the harmonious feelings of
my guests. (Cheers.) For 20 years, gentlemen, I have
not been out of this kingdom, but during that time I
have closely watched the progress of my country and
my countrymen; and, following the fashion a.. home, I
have ereetel in a very humble way my " platform" here
—a platform of peace and good-will towards all men,
which I feel assured will be supported by my guests
to-day. (Loud cheers.) I knew no party—no Nortb,
no Smth—but teat which includes our whole country.
(Cheers ) But to return, gentlemen, to the cups ;
these cups of love and peace, the one of British fashion,
the oth -r of our American oak, filled from the same
fountain of good shier, I send one to the East and the
other ter the West, and when they meet in the circling
bound mty they pass with the touch of friendship.
(Cheers.)
The two cup, were then passed round, Mr. Pea'body
drinking to the guests from each State of the Union
separately, and afterwards to those from " Old England
ani' her Colonies "

Mr. PEABODY, in I r iposing the first toast, " The day
we celebrate," called o oily upon his own countrymen,
but upon all who were friendly to the sacred cause of
liberty and civilisation, to do honour t , the memories of
those great men who had pledged their fortunes, their
honour, and their lives to support that cause.
The toast was received with loud acciatnations.
Mr. Pesnorer claimed a bumper for the next toast,
which, he was sure, needed no speech from him to re-
commend it. The toast he had just proposed was the
only one to which he would have given precedence over
the present. He bad never yet known an American
who would not drink the toast of " Her Majesty the
Queen" with as much enthusiasm as the most loyal of
her subjects.
The toast was drunk with enthusiastic cheering.
Mr. PEABODY said he should next have the pleasure
of proposing a toast in honour of the chief magistrate
of the land of hie birth, which be was sure would be
received both with the respect due to that gentleman's
high position and with the feelings of enthusiasm that
all Americans must feel fir the country over which he
had been called to preside. (Cheers.) lie gave "The
President of the United States," which was received
with great applause.
Captain MACKINNON, R N., in proposing the next
toast, thanked their host, the merchant prince, who had
entertained them in so princely a manner—(sheers)—for
the efforts he had made to cultivate relations of friend-
ship between John Bull and Brother Jonathan. (Cheers.)
Every right feeling Englishman must be proud and
happy to assist at the celebration of the national festival
of the United States. They all, too, reverenced the
memory of the illustrious Washington, who had been
selected by the great Disposer of events as an instru-
ment fur carrying out a great purpose. (Cheers) One
proof of that great man's wonderful prevision was his
a-sertion that, within 50 years, more than 500 persons
per diem would leave the Old World to seek prosperity
in the New. (Hear.) He had stood on the wharf at
New York, and seen 10,000 people from the Old World
land there in one day. (Cheers.) Four years ago he
had travelled on horseback from Michigan to the Mis-
sissippi without meeting with a living soul. Three years
afterwards he had traversed the same country along
good roads, and had seen golden harvests waving in the
fields. (Hear.) In tbs course of that three years a
country as large as England had been occupied and cul-
tivated. Captain Mackinnon concluded by proposing
" The Memory of Washington," which was drunk stand-
ing aid in silence.
Mr. W. BROWN, M.P.. said—Before proposing the
toast which has been placed in my hands, permit me
to congratulate you on meeting you to cele-
brate a day which will ever be remembered in the
history of the world—a day from which we, the
subjects of her Majesty, have derived as much
advantage as you, the citizens of the United States.
(Cheers.) We are not answerable for the sins of states-
manship, for the grievous errors of our forefathers; and
your illustrious Washington--wise in the Senate, skilful
in the field—who must for ever live in your hearts, is
also remembered with profound respect by England as
well as by the whole of the civilised world. (Cheers )
How rejoiced would he be, were he living at this
moment, to see the prosperity of the country which be
may be.said to have brought into existence, to see the
enterprising spirit of his countrymen leading them, now
to make a communication between two great oceans—the
Pacific and the Atlantic— now to bridge over lofty rocks,
and now to explore the perilous Arctic seas. (Cheers.) I
deny that England feels any jealousy towards the United
States ; we rejoice in your prosperity, we have wisdom
enough to know that by the prosperity of other nations,
particularly as regards the United States, we are as much
benefitted as they are. (Cheers.) The notion that the
fortunes of one country arise from the misfortunes of
another is, I trust, by this time exploded. True, some
slight differences exist now between us, but when we find
gentlemen like his Excellency, for whom we all feel the
deepest respect, and the Minister with whom he has
to negotiate, anxious to get rid of those differences, there
can be little doubt that they will soon be amicably ad-
justed. (Cheers.) I beg to propcse. "The health of his
Excellency the American Minister," whose character
stands so pre-eminently high both in his own and in this
country.
The toast was drunk with loud cheers.

Mr. DALLAS—It is extremely difficult, amid expres-
sions of so much personal kindness, not to lose sight for
a moment of the great• nationddemonstration on ac•
count of which we are assembled, and I return you my
most hearty thanks for the personal compliment you
have paid to me. I rejoice to find in this land so many
ardent and patriotic Americans met to celebrate the an-
niversary of our independence. (Loud cheers.) We are,
as a country, but ao rwi Qf age ; via ale at this mama

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