The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-01 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

Southwark, August 30.—We beg to say our Market exhi-•
bitcd seven Pockets of new hops this morning ; two of them
arrived last Wednesday, from Canterbury. but they are so
very mouldy no one seems inclined to purchase them at any
price; the others are much the same as we are accustomed to
have at the commencement of the season ; they are asking
CI. per cwt. for thew, but we believe they remain unsaid.—
Nothiug doing in old hops.—The duty is at 210,0001.
Aug,tst 30.—We believe the mould was scarcely
ever known to spread so fast. as it has done during the last
week ; there are hot few grounds in this neighbourhood but
what are more or less affected by it ; this -caused some few
of the planters to commence Vpling yesterday. From the
present very low prices of hops, it is thought many of the
grounds which are bad cannot pay the- expellee of pick-
ing, &e.

The following extraordinary performance of a
galloway over a nine miles piece of ground, irons
Kingsmill towards Stony Stratford, Bucks, on
Miutday,.exceeds all the peiformances of the kind
we have lieard ot. The animal, the property of
Ciptain Weston, of Kingsmill, was matched for
200 guinels, to go 56 miles in four hours, and to
carry two stone. The gallowsy was led by two
p rsons, vao rode four horses over the ground,
and d.d as follows, without the whip, until in the
last tour miles
Ist hour

14i wiles.

zu -
3d - -
4th - - - 13-561
The animal may be said to have two seconds only
ro spdre, and su close was it that the refer( e's- iiro-
nirc's watch was consulted, and which fixed the
precise time. There was no flo;.ging until in the
last 20 minutes, and the bit was only drawn once
in the third hour's performance.

CHILD) STEALING.-Sal:urday a boy about eight
years of age, son to Mr. John Slurier, of 21,
iimerott's place, Mile-end-toad, went out to
pl .v in an adjoini,ig field, taking his brother
veil] him. a child of fourteen months old;
They had not remained long there, when a gen,;.
teelly-diessed woman came and sat near them,
and after having some conversation with the eldest
of them, as to tire child's name, age, and place
of residence, she presented the boy with a slbilijoig,
with which she desired him to go and buy some
cakes, and said she would. mind the hAby until he
returned. He went cif to buy the cakes, and at his
tetuirn he found that neither the child nor the
woman were there. After a fruitless search,
he went home to his mother, thinking, as he
cola the woman where he lived, that she uni:!lut
have taken the child home, which was not the
case. The parents of the child went out in •a
state of distraction to look for him ; after search-
ing a long time, they learned at • Ratcliffe-high-
way that the woman hail taken a coach to
the Saraceti's-Head, Snow-hill, where going,they
learned that shestoned but a short titne to take re.
fresh went ; she there stated herself to be an of-
ficer's wife from Portsmouth. and that she had
come for her child, who bad been at nurse in Lon-
don. The par2nts of the child haVe been ever
since in the deepest distress, having received no
further tidings at it.

Sunday, between eleven and one o'clock, while
the family were at prayers, some thieves broke
into the dwelling-house of Capt. CHIVERS, of Bri.
tannia-row, Commercial-road, Limehouse, and'
stale several articles of wearing apparel, which
they found about the room ; they also broke open
the dui \et's, and tifl.d them Of two gold notches,
three 101. Bank of England notes, duce 1/. ditto,
owl some silver, together with a great many va-
luable trinkets, and teveral articles of plate.