The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-09 00:00:00

HOP IN TELLIGENCE.

BERSTED.—We continue good, but shall not have
more hops than now show themselves. In about a
week we shall begin picking generally. Some of
the grounds promise to grow a ton an acre. We had
a very heavy frost this morning, which is against
them. - - - .

TROSLEY.—We are clean and all right, and shall
begin picking about the middle of next week.
WEST PECKHAM.—We cannot record any improve-
ment. The grapes are doing tolerably well, but tLe
goldiogs are all but gone.
HOLLINGFORD.—We are all right and clean ; a little
more backward than others; but, beyond that, we
have no cause to complain.
CHART SUTTON.—Upon the whole we are tolerably
good, but in some places have commenced picking to-
day (Thursday), owing to an irruption of lice.
EAST SUTTON.—We are going on very nicely, and
continue clean. We have not commenced picking.
BIRLING.—The crop will be a full average one, and
the hops maintain their colour well.
ALLINGTON.—We are looking very well, and shall
commence picking about the middle of next week.
DITTON.—We are doing w ell, and shall begin
picking next week.
. BATTLE, SEPT. 4.—Our hops have rallied, and look
very nearly
fit for picking. A few more genial day s
and nights, and our suspense will be lessened.
CATSFIELD, SEPT. 4.—The fortunate
idvhdoubt soonA have to
.esn.g_agTe hpoiucgkher
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jm :
turn of the
weather has been exceedingly beneficial, and we shall
no
we have had some
cold nights, we have had warmer days, with more
sun, and our hops have considerably improved since
last work; picking will partially commence the lat-
ter end of the week.
BRASTED, SEPT. s.—Our hops have improved since
last week ; in many of the gardens they have obtained
a good size ; within the last few days they are much
grown.
NORTHIA' M SEPT. s.—The hops are going on very
favourably. Several of the growers commence pick-
ing on Monday, and it will become general the latter
part of the week.
EDENBRIDGE.—We can say no more than we did
in our last report, only by saying we still flatter our-

selves of having a very fair averr.ge crop. Picking
will commence next week. Duty. with us 200,000/.
to 210,0001.

BSIGuTLING.--We are ping on favourably, ani
picking will be general by the latter end of next
week.

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COWDEN' SEPT. s.—The hops are going on well.
We have a little mould, but not worth talking about.
Picking will be general next week, and various are
the opinions respecting the crop; many think they
are overrated. _

BREDE SEPT. s.—The hop picking will commence
next week. Although we have had favourable wea-
ther, the hops in many gardens are very small, ~.nd
are getting yellow on the dry soils. We notice
mould in several gardens, but not to any extent, but
still increasing.
UDIMORE, SEPT. s.—The mould is doing mischief
in some gardens, so much so that hop picking com-
menced in one garden on 'Tuesday. The hops in
most of the plantations have obtained a good growth,
and will yield a good crop.
ICKLESHA M, SEPT. s.—There is a great variety
in this parish as to quantity of hops per acre ;
one garden on Brook Farm is estimated at 30 cwt.
per acre, some will produce a ton, and some will not
produce 12 cwt. per acre; but, taking the parish ge-
nerally, it will produce a very good crop. There is
mould showing, but at present not of much conse-
quence. In some gardens the
.hops do not come cut
well, and will be small.
EWHURST, SEPT. s.—The warm sun the last few
days has much improved the backward small hop.,
whilst some of the best grounds are very fine, parti-
cularly on Messrs. Daws plantation; picking will
commence about the 12th, and become general about
the 16th instant.
OTFORD, SEPT. 4.—The weather has been fa-
vourable during the past week ; picking will com-
mence on Monday.
KEMSING.—We continue as well as heretofore; no
change for the worse has taken place.
SEAL.—The hops afford a good prospect for both
growers and pickers.
HAWKHURST, SEPT. 4.—The hops are going on
favourably ; they have grown out more this last week,
and are getting forward for picking, which will be a
general thing next week. W•ii find in some grounds
the red rust in the hops ; where that is the case, they
will begin rather earlier. Surrey' Standard.

BRISTOL: ►S,EPT. B.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Foam,
Wood, Africa; Flora, Bond, Rio Grande.

GOOD TIMES ComiNG.—The paupers in the work •
house of the Axbridge Union are nearly one hundred less
than the corresponding week of last year; and the out-relief
shows a decrease in the expenditure at the rate of 1,1001. per
annum, compared with the like period. We quote this from
one of the mort gloomy of our contemporaries, as to its pre-
dictions of the fatal consequences to be dreaded from free
trade.— Somerset County Gazette.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE."

On Saturday Ann IliCarthy, Jane Hades, and
Betsy Battsyant, who were a few days ago charged
with having robbed a gentleman named M'lntyre,
on the 20th of August, of five sovereigns and twelve
shillings, were brought up fur final examination. The
investigation caused much interest in a crowded court.
At the first examination it was stated by the prose-
cutor that between 11 and 12 o'clock at night Ann
M'Carthy, whom he had never seen before, addressed
him in Whitechapel. and he accompanied her to a
coffee-house at No. 37, in Somerset-street, where
Jane Hailes, the mistress of the house, put her hand
under his chin, after which he became completely in-
sensible, and remained in that condition until next
evening ; that he had been found in a dark place called
Lady Leke's-grove, by some persons who knew him,
and carried him home ; that he had been robbed of
his gold upon going into the house by Ann M'Carthy,
and that upon recovering he ascertained that the rest
of his money had been stolen from him also.
The following was the additional evidence :
Mr. M'lntyre—For four or five days afterwards I
was exceedingly ill, and scarcely able to lift my
head. I was perfectly sober when I went to the house,
and had nothing to drink in the house.
Alderman Ginns—Describe the manner in which
you were treated as accurately as you can.
Prosecutor—When M'Carthy put her hand into
my waistcoat pocket she ran to the other side of the
room, and I felt my pocket, and found that my gold
was gone, and then I placed a chair near the door to
prevent her horn going out. That was when I called
for assistance.

Cross-examined—l was quite sober. I am married.
I believe Battsyam was with the other woman, but I
swear Hailes was the woman who put her hand under
my chin. I had letters in my pocketbook with my
address upon them, and that is how I account for
having been found in Lady Lake's-grove, near my
own house. I was very ill and sick for five or six
days after. I applied to the police, and went with
them to Hailes's house, and was shown the room
where I was robbed. I said I was not sure whether
it had one or two windows. I looked at every room
in the house. I did not say that I could not find the
room. Hailes did not say, " There, you are satisfied
you have not found the room in my house." We left
the house, intending t.) find M'Carthy. I was in
di3guise when I found her, and she asked me
to give her something to drink, and took me
to the very same house again, and we took a seat, and
I complained of being ill , and She offered to get me
some nice strong tea. I found the officers outside
waiting, and I gave the prisoners into custody. The
prisoner Battsyam was, I believe, in bed at the time,
and one of the officers brought her down stairs. Hailes
said, to the best of my, recollection, that the business
took place through spite, and asked the officers to go
and search the house. I never said that I had been
robbed of no more than 13s. or 14s.

Mr. Stephen Algar, a &erk to the Eastern Coun-
ties Railroad Company, said—Last Tuesday night
fortnight I was with Mr. M'lntyre, and parted with
him at a quarter to twelve o'clock, at the corner of
the Minories. He went down the Minories, and I
went up Whitechapel. I had been with him from
half-past six o'clock, and we had nothing to drink but
a small glass of brandy and water each with supper.
He was perfectly sober.
A metropolitan policeman said—l went to the
house 37, Somerset-street, on Monday last, and the
prosecutor Wentified Hiles there, and on Tuesday
night be met me by appointment, in order to see if
we could take M earthy, which I did at the Leopard
Coffee-house, Somerset-street. There is another
Leopold coffee-housein Whitechapel, but not Lin
Somerset-street.
Cross-examined—There is another coffee-house in
S )merset-street, but I did not go there. I went to
the house of Huiles before she was taken for identi-
fication by the pro ecutor. The prosecutor said at
first that he believed the room had only one window.
He went into the room a second time, as he hesitated
about it. Hailer:said she hoped we were satisfied it
was not there. The prosecutor went into the attic.
Hailer said there was another room there. The pro-
secutor has since told me he was positive oftthe room.
On going out of the house I asked the prosecutor if
he was satisfied it was the house ? He hesitated. I
said then we would make every inquiry ; but he saw
me again on the Tuesday, and said he was perfectly
satisfied it was the house.

Another policeman said--I took Mrs. Hanes in
charge, and she said, " Ab, he will gain something
by this, as there are parties up this street have a spite
against us."

-Thomas Hall, of Queen-street, Stepney, said,—
Between six and seven o'clock in the morning, about
a fortnightrov ea
od saw
egO,MI
r7ai‘,ity
passingsin
re
lying
on the
through Lady Lake's-
grove, k e' s-
gground.
He was insensible, but he said, " Oh, my head."
Frances Buckley, a nurse in the house of the pro-
secutor, said that she was in Mr. M'lntyre's house
dußrient:thßeatwtshyoatn,
le of the night in question, when he
was absent, and the last witness brought him home,
and he was quite insensible till the afternoon.
against whom there appeared to
be no distinct accusation, was then discharged, and
was called as a witness for the prisoner Utiles. She
deposed that her name was Betsy Ann Cobbledick,
and that she had been 13 or 14 months in London, to
which city she had-come from Cornwall. " Mrs Jane
Hailes is," said she, ‘4 my aunt, and I came to assist
her. I was out with my uncle one Sunday night
about
of
eleven o'clock, for only that night. I never
heard
a ago.
lodger
The callinge
count
ot r for
came assistanceio on about
fortnight Monday,
and went up stairs. I was in bed when I was taken
into custody. I never saw the prosecutor till the
Monday. I never heard any one call out for assist-
ance from any bedroom, and I never saw M'Carthy
mtililstlraesstsTgueensderaavl-lynight in the coffee-house."
Cross-examined—We let out beds every night. My
uponthe customerstilsf
anyone wants a bed they
have it, a
ycan
they may go away before I go to bed. We have only
two beds. They pay Is. 6d. for the bed, or 2s. I
recollect ladies and gentlemen coming for a bed, and
going away when they liked.
Alderman GIBBS then asked the prisoners Ann
M'Carthy and Jsne Hailes, in the customiry terms,
whether they wished to say anything in their defence?
M'Carthy said—l have nothing to say here.
Haiks said—l reserve my defence.
The two prisoners were then committed for trial at
the Central Criminal Court.
IVORSHIP-STRRET.
On Saturday two powerful-1.4..ing fellows named
John and James Barrett, father and son, were
charged with the following brutal and cowardly as-
sault upon the Rife and infant child of the younger
prisoner, both of whom had sustained serious per-
sonal injuries.
The complainant, Anne Barrett, a delicate-look-,
ing young woman, whose face and person exhibited
traces of severe ill-usage, stated that the younger
prisoner was her husband, but, in consequence of his
violent temper and irregular habits, they had lived tc-
gether upon very unhappy terms, and, after suljeet-

kg her to a long continued course of ill-treatment,
he ultimately expressed his determination toNget rid
of her altogether, and turned both herself and infant
out of doors. They were reduced in consequence to
such extreme distress and privation, that she resolved
on the preceding evening to proceed with her child
to his father's house, where he had since taken up his
residence, in the hope of inducing him to contribute
something towards their maintenance, and, having
communicated the object of her visit to the
elder prisoner, he ordered her instantly to quit the
place, and before she had time to do so, struck
her a violent blow in the face, which felled her to the
ground. Before she could recover her feet the younger
prisoner rushed out from an inner room, and after re-
peatedly kicking her and her infant, which had fallen
with her, and which she endeavoured in vain to pro-
tect, he deliberately placed his feet upon her, and
commenced trampling cn her body. She was then
simultaneously seized by both the prisoners, who
dragged her forcibly along the paysage, and thrust her
into the street.

Police constable Teberner, H, 114, stated, that at
the time in question his attention was direct( d to the
prosecutrix, who was sitting with her child on the
steps of the prisoner's house, surrounded by several of
the neighbours, who appeared strongly excited, and
were vehemently expressing their indignation at the
ill-treatment to which she had been subjected. The
face and clothes of the poor woman were covered
with blood, which was also streaming down the face
of her infant from a deep gash on the top of its
head, apparently produced by a kick er heavy fall.
Having agcertained, upon inquiry, that the injuries
had been inflicted by the prisoners, he at once entered
the house, and took them both into custody.
In answer to the charge, the prisoners declared
that the complainant bad acted with a degree of
violence which obliged them to effect her expulsion,
but that no greater force was used towards her than
was absolutely necessary for that object.
Mr. HAMMILL said that it was a most brutal and
cowardly outrage, and he should impose the utmost
amount of penalty he was empowered to inflict upon
each of the prisoners, namely, 51., or, in default of
payment, order them to be committed for two months
to the House of Correction.
LAMBETH.

Mr. Francis Playford, a stockbroker, residing at
Putney, was charged with having assaulted and
beaten one Thomas Townsend, a sworn constable, in
the service of the London and South-Western Rail-
way Company.
Complainant stated that on the 29th of last month,
at a few minutes after 6 o'clock in the afternoon, he
was stationed at the gate in the IVaterloo-road ; his
duty was to inspect every person's ticket who was
going by the 6f train ; two gentlemen came up to him,
one was the defendant, and endeavoured to pass by
him. He asked them to show their tickets. Defendant
refused, and said, "It's all right." Witness said they
must show their tickets, or they could not pass: De-
fendant upon this flourished a stick over him, and
said he would be hanged if he should stop them, and
that they would go on. Witness got before them,
when defendant pressed him against the staircase and
struck him a severe blow on the back of the head with
the same hand in which he held his stick. The in-
spector and superintendent came to his assistance.
The gentleman who accompanied Mr. Pia) ford
begged of him to go back and not persevere, or he
would be sure to get himself into a mess. Defendant
had no ticket, or at least, could not show one.
Mr. Playford—Did I not ask you for your autho-
rity, and to produce your staff, if you had one ?
The MAGISTRATE remarked that he did not think it
a very safe movement to ask an officer to produce his
staff.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Play ford (to the constable)—How has it hap-
pened that you and your brother constables have let
me go up and down these stairs for two years, and
never stopped me before ? Becsuse, perhaps, you
have often told us falsehoods before, and pretended to
have tickets.----(Loud laughter.)
Mr. Playford, in his defence, denied having ever
struck the man, and said that if he did he must cer-
tainly have knocked him down, being so much the
heavier man.

James Lamb, railway constable, No. 72, saw the
defendant on the above-mentioned afternoon strike
the complainant in the face.

George Tofield, railway inspector, saw Townsend
trying trying to stop two gentlemen who were forcing
their way. Saw defendant strike complainant in
the face.

Mr. Young, superintendent on the London and
South-Western Railroad, told the magistrate that any
unprincipled person might get into the railway car-
riages by that back passage without paying, if they
did not place a constable there to prevent it.
Mr. Playford said he had been in the habit of
going up and down that passage for two years, and
had never been obstructed before. He was positive
he never committed any assault; he might have un-
intentionally broken through some of the by-laws of
the company. _ _

The MASISTRATE said ho thought Mr. Playford
had behaved with great intemperance on the occa-
sion, and regretted to observe his conduct was equally
so there in Court. He should like to know whgt the
company wished to do.
Mr. Young said the company's only wish was to
protect their officers.

Mr. Playford was sentenced to pay 31., or to go to
prion for one month.—The fine w.►s instantly paid.
WANDS ter ORTH.

O❑ Saturday Richard March, beer-'hopkeeper, in
the Plain, attended a summoas for opening his house
on Sunday morning.
Sergeant Read, 18 V., stated that on Sunday last
be saw defendant's brother standing outside the door ;
on recognizing witness he gave a signal to the in-
mates, and on his reaching the door he heard the
bolts drawn. He knocked, calling out, "It is the
police, open the door." There was a great scuffling,
and he heard the defendant ordering some one to run
up stairs. After a while witness was admitted. He
aw several pots, pints, &c., some of them full, and
the froth fresh. He went up stairs to a bedroom,
where he found fourteen persons, some lying on the
floor, others in and behind the bed. Some of them had
dogs in their arms, and others had children, and all
were striving to keep their " armfuls" silent. He
knew most of the persons present, some of whom were
now in court.

The defendant said he did not sell any beer. He
was anxious to get in his money, and the men only
came to pay him, but it should not happen again.
➢Tr. PAYINTER said it was a very bad case, and un•
fair to his brothers in the trade. He would inflict
the full penalty, 51., or one months' imprisonment.
The fine was immediately paid.