The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-10 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

BURIVASIL—The picking of the hops still goes on slowly,
and unsatisfactorily to both pickers and planters. The latter
are in fear that many more hops will be blown away or be-
come worthless, before they can be picked; the former, not-
withstanding their " strikes," still say they can earn no-
thing. We have heard of no instances in which the hops do
not weigh tolerably; still, the produce per acre cannot by
possibility reach the average; for although the ground is not
gone over quickly, the owners continue to get little more
then half a supply. One planter here, who, we understand,
will have finished picking to-day or to-morrow,- had his crop
set at six tons, but it will not realise three.. We have jus:
heard of some thousands of pickers being wanted in various
parts of Sussex, Kent, and Essex.
EAST HOTHLY.—Most of our planters are now drawing
their labours of picking to a close, and many of them have
forwarded their first pocket to market, the result of which
has been quite satisfactory, as was expected, the samples
proving much better than from the bruised state of the hops
they could have any reason to expect. There is still a great.
lack of pickers, and long prices have been offered and are
given for bands; the fact is, that where the poles have been
so terribly laid by the wind, the hops are found to be so
much bruised that if they are not immediately placed under
the process of drying, it will be next to impossible to make
the sample in any way marketable.
FARNIIAM—The hop-picking. is nearly at an end in this
neighbourhood, and the crop will fall very short of what was
anticipated, as there is a number of acres without any hips,
and others with so few as to be scarcely worth picking, The
general opinicn seems to be, that the duty must be much
lower than the present estimation.
MATFIELD,—The rains have very much retarded the pro-
gress of picking this week, and consequently injured the hops
as to samples, after they have been battered so much before,
still they weigh remarkably well. It will be late before it
is finished. Some of the planters have sold, varying from
Bs. to 71. Picking will last a fortnight longer, without
more hands are set on. Much dissatisfaction has prevailed
this season among the pickers, but they are more generally
reconciled, the planters having made conciliatory arrange-
ments with them.

RYE. —Th e hop-picking is progressing, but, owing to the
roughness of the bine, and the smallness of the hops, at a
much slower rate than is consistent with the interests of the
grower; for, should there be a recurrence of the gales with
which we have lately been visited, the injury to the planta-
tions would be attended with considerable loss. About 40
persons arrived from London on Wednesday night last, to be
employed by Jeremiah Smith, Esq., on his grounds at Iden.
Much discontent prevails amongst the pickers on account of
the very few bushels they are able to pick in a day, ano
which is insufficient to keep the casts properly supplied.
The weather, too, has been very unpropitious. The gene-
rality of the hops continue to weigh well.
WARTLING.—Our picking is very protracted to what it
was expected at first, throug,h the hops rising so badly; and
some gardens that were set at one ton per acre, hill off to 17
or 18 cwt.—Sussex Express.

CAR IGANSHIRE,

ABERYSTIVITH.-THE LORD BISHOP OF ST.
DAVIDS' VISIT.

His Lordship arrived at the Belle Vue Hotel, Aberystwitb.
on Friday evening last. On the next day he held a confir-
mation at St. Alichael's Chinch, in the town, which was
numerous*y attended. On Sunday morning he preached in
English at the same church, to a very crowded congregation.
In the afternoon he walked from Aberystwith to Lltinbadarn,
the parish church, calling on his way at the vicarage, whence
the Eev. John Hughey, the vicar, accompanied him to the
church. The announcement that his Lordship was to preach
in Welsh, had effected a larger congregation than was per-
haps ever before witnessed within the precincts of the Old
Church. We entered it at least half an hour befogs the corn-
menc, ment of the service, and then found the place already
crowded to suffocation. There was not a pew but had douhie
its usual compliment of inmates, and all the aisles were
thronged with (agar and attentive listeners. Of this vast con-
gregation some had walked ten miles and upwards to hear his
Lordship. There was not a class in society but had its repre-
: entative. We saw several that receive parish relief, and many
that came in their carriages; yet. the whole was so admirably
blended es to appear one harmonious mass; and we much
doubt whether an equal number of the rustic population of any
other part of the world could present so much of the externals
of comfort and respectability. They were by no means all
Churchmen ; we saw a great many Dissenters of different
denominations, but they were all Welshmen, and came to
render their willing homage to one of the strongest intel-
lects of the age, who came to preach to them in the
same language and on the same spot as Bishop Padarn
probably preached some thousand years past. The
fact of his Lordshrp having taken so much trouble to