The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-16 00:00:00

HOP DUTY.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE DUTY ON HOPS OF THE GROWTH OF
THE YEAR 1844, DISTINGUISHING THE DISTRICTS,
AND THE OLD FROM THE NEW DUTY.
DISTRICTS. DUTY.
Barnstaple
Cambridge
Canterbury
Cornwall

Derby
Dorset
Essex
Gloucester

273
24
821
12

0 21 7
10
7 51 1
7

Grantham

11,083 8 11 k
25,142 3 11 f
562 16 641
7,296 17 is
1,086 7 10
11 11 2
10 0 Of
2 10 2f
113,960 18 0

3 11

Hants
Hereford
Herts
Isle of Wight
Lincoln
Lynn
Oxford
Reading
Rochester

Salisbury
Salop
Stourbridge
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Wales, Middle
Wellington
Worcester

16 18 2
6 8 3f
1,327 3 5
615 12 34-
9;11 3
49,857 5
55 10 11
73 18 4
5,265 17 11

£256,240 15 21

Old Duty at 1 12-20 d. per lb 140,322 17 21 12-20
New Duty at 1 8-20 d. per lb 103,716 17 114 8-20
Additional Duty of 5 per cent
per Act 3 Victoria, c. 17 12,201 0 01

£256,240 15 21
G. F. COTTRELL, Accountant-General.
Excise-office, London, 16th November, 1844.

LATEST FROM CHINA.

Letters have been received overland, from her
Majesty's ship Iris, 26, Captain G. R. Mundy, dated
Hong-Kong, July 31. The Agincourt, 72, Captain
H. Bruce, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas
Cochrane, was lying there, in company with the
Minden, hospital-ship, Captain Quin, which ship was
to be paid off in a few days, and the officers and crew,
it was reported, would be sent home in the Pelican.
The Wolverine, 16, Commander Clifford, it was ex-
pected, would take a second instalment of the Chinese
ransom to Singapore, to be forwarded by the Harle-
quin, 16, Commander the Hon. George Hastings,
which ship may be expected to arrive in England
about the end of January or beginning of February.
A court-martial had been held on Lieutenant James
B.:Kinsman, of the 'Wolverine, on charges of drun-
kenness, which being proved, he has been dismissed
the service. The commands in the East were to be
divided, that of the China forces to remain under
Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, and the East
Indies to be under a Commodore, supposed Captain
Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart., of the Fox.—Devonport
Independent.

THE FIRE AT WEST BERGHOLT.—APPREHEN-
SION OF THE INCENDIARY.—Yesterday a man named
Enoch Bibby was taken before the magistrates of Col-
chester, charged on suspicion with having set fire to the
premises at West Bergholt Ihll, the property of Mr. J.
Round, M.P., in the occupation of Mr. Ward. The
prisoner was in Mr. Ward's employ, and had, it ap-
peared, been seen by one of the police, near one of the
barns, with a candle and lantern, without being able to
give any satisfactory account of himself. He had also
said, while the fire was raging—" This is the way to get
Ward's old beer out." Dlr. Ward had just at this time
sent some beer out to the men who were helping to ex-
tinguish the flames. At the house of the prisoner s
grandmother was found a part of an old stuff curtain,
which exactly corresponded with a piece of stuff, found
partially burnt, in the farm-yard, and the prisoner had
first denied and afterwards admitted that he had been at
his grandmother's on the Sunday. The prisoner denied
all knowledge of the cause of the fire ; but the circum-
stances stated in the evidence appeared of so suspicious
a character that the magistrate remanded him until
Monday next.—Abridged from the Chelmsford Chronicle.
CONVEYANCE OF TROOPS BY RAILWAY.—A cir-
cular to the Railway Companies has been issued from
the War-office, referring to the Act of last Session
which renders it obligatory on the proprietors of several
existing and all future railways authorised by or re-
quiring further powers from Parliament, to convey the
military, their baggage, &c., at fixed rates, and stating
that the Secratary-at-War considers it proper that the
existing contracts with the railway companies for the
conveyance of her Majesty's troops should be revised,
am; !hat. if possible, the rates of charge and general
terms for their conveyance should be the same upon all
the United Kingom. The circular ex-
the railways 12
presses an opinion 'that the rates fixed by the Act will
" afford adequate remutination for the service per-
formed ;" and an early answer is requested, as to whether
the company addressed, if not coming under the Act
will consent to these terms.—Railway Record.
SUICIDE FROM DISAPPOINTED A FFECTION.—An
inquest was yesterday held at Brompton, on the body of
a soldier of the 11th Regiment, who had shot himself
while on duty in his sentry-box, in Chatham Dockyard.
The mother of a girl whom the deceased bad desired to
marry stated that on the morning he committed the
dreadful act she had told him it was of no use his seek-
ing her daughter, for that she was about to be married
to another man. The deceased, she said, shed tears.
She told him it was of no use his fretting—she thought
nothing about him. He said, " Let who will have her,
I hope the Lord will bless her." The girl herself was
examined, and said that she had never given him any
encouragement. The deceased's comrades deposed to
some recent expressions of his strongly indicative of
despair. The verdict was—" Temporary insanity.
LOCAL LEGISLATION.—Last night's Gazette, amidst
the now usual host of railway notices, informs us
that the Corporation of London are about to apply
for amended powers for improving the navigation
of the Thames westward of London-bridge, and
that a railway is projected, to commence at
Richmond, by a junction with a " certain intended
railway, called, or to be called, the Richmond and
West-end Junction Railway," and to terminate at
Staines, passing through Twickenham, Isleworth, Hamp-
ton, &c. Further, it appears to be designed that the
present thoroughfare for carriages, horses, &c., along
the eastern side of Lincoln's Inn-fields shall be stopped
up, and a new footway formed " of the width of twenty
feet," on the same side, in lieu thereof ; the residue of
the present road to be " annexed to the gardens and
ground" of the society.
ELECTRICAL TELEGRAPHS IN FRANCE.—The Mi-
nister of the Interior has just appointed a Special Com-
mission to report on the advantages of the system of
electrical telegraphs, and the possibility of their appli-
cation. The Minister had previously directed M. Al-
phonse Foy, the administrator in chief of the telegraphic
department, and two of the principal employes, to inspect
the model of Mr. M,in's electrical telegraph, which has
been for some time privately exhibited in Paris.
We are happy in being enabled to state, as we be-
lieve we reay do on competent authority, that the
Benchers of the Honourable Society of Linc,oln?s Inn,
and the Benchers of the Honourable Society of Giay's
Inn, have instituted an inquiry into the alleged malprac-
tices at the bar of Messrs. Pyko, Crouch, and FnlT,en.
Fur the present we abstain from all remark.—Chronicle.

LATEST NEWS FROM THE RIVER
PLATE.
(From the Times.)
._ _

For the following intelligence we are indebted to
the courtesy of a highly respectable firm at Liverpool.
The date from Buenos Ayres is the 31st of August.
The Argentine Minister, General Guido, had in-
formed the Brazilian Government that Buenos Ayres
would consider the departure of General Paz through
their territories as an act of hostility, and accordingly
Paz had been detained at Rio. This had caused a
great sensation at Monte Video, and the circum-
stances was considered as most unfavourable.
There had been a guerrilla on the evening of the
29th, in which the Monte Videans were said to have
lost 100 men, their advanced posts having been sur-
prised by the Italian Legion of Oribe, so that the
fight was entirely between foreigners.
A French corvette had arrived at Buenos Ayres
with dispatches for the French Admiral,
The news brought from Europe by the packet was

considered favourable for the Government,* and the

accounts from Brazil being pacific we may naturally
look forward for an improved business here, but no-
thing satisfactory can be done until the war with
Monte Video is ended, on account of the constant
squabbling with foreigners which the blockade and a
state of warfare creates.

The following protest against arbitrary and inju-
rious impositions by the Monte Videan Government
had been signed by the various British residents and
mercantile firms in that city :

" Monte Video, Aug. 22.
" Sir,—The undersigned subjects of her Britannic
Majesty, reading in Monte Video, and occupying or
owning houses or warehouses therein, respectfully call
your attention to a decree of this Government, confiscat-
ing the real and personal property of all absentees (na-
tives or Spanish), also all rents due, or to become due,
from such property.
" Also, to another decree of the present month, exact-
ing new and exorbitant taxes monthly of four and six
rials on each window or balcony, and two, four, and
eight dollars per month on each door of house, shop, or
warehouse, in addition to the municipal tax of ten rials
per month hiterto paid on each door.
" We beg to remind you, that under the first-men-
tioned decree, both shops and warehouses have been
forcibly opened, and their contents seized by the existing
authorities, to the serious loss of their lawful creditors,
amongst whom are some of the undersigned.
" We have also to remind you that the rents of the
houses we inhabit belonging to absentees (if paid to the
present authorities as demanded) will, in the event of a
change of rulers, be inevitably demanded from us a
second time by the owners, and we shall, at any rate,
be liable to troublesome and expensive law suits and their
results.

" The second decree imposes upon us new and exorbi-
tant monthly taxes on our doors and windows. We be-
lieve this to be in direct violation of the tenth article of
our commercial treaty, which exempts us from all mili-
tary contributions. .Some of us are proprietors, against
whom this is a direct tax ; others are only tenants, but
such have no hope that their landlords will deduct the
amount from their rents ; and such tenants will be finally
implicated in the same vexatious law suits as before
stated, should a change of Government take place. Be-
sides, the tax (not only contrary to the treaty, but enor-
mous in amount) is to be exacted by force monthly, and
to support a war which has already ruined one half of the
inhabitants of Monte Video, and is rapidly conducting
the other half to the same abyss of misery, and, in many
instances, to death.

" We, therefore, request that you will allow us to ex-
tend a protest to her Britannic Majesty's Consulate in
this city against both of the above decrees, as well as
against the seizure of goods belonging to parties absent,
indebted to us as before stated, and against the acts and
deeds which have or may be practised against any of us
by the existing authorities in endeavouring to carry the
above into execution.
" And we further request that you will permit us to
deposit in her Britannic Majesty's Consulate the full
amount in cash of all and every claim which the Govern-
ment may make against any of us, under either of the
decrees above stated, suck deposit to be finally paid over
by you to the parties that her Majesty may in her wis-
dom direct ; or, if you object to this, that you will be
pleased to guarantee us,- that whatever change may
take place in the political relations of the country, we
shall at no future period be liable or be compelled to
again pay the sums thus exacted.
" We finally request that you will, at your earliest
convenience, forward to her Britannic Majesty's Go-
vernment copies of the decrees in question, and also a
copy of our letter, and be pleased to solicit their early
attention to, and decision upon, all bearings of the ques-
tion, and beg respectfully to assure both them and you,
that we confide in the wisdom and justice of their
decision.