The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-18 00:00:00

THE HOP DUTY.

AN ACCOUNT of the DUTT on Hors of the growth of the year
1845, distinguishing the districts, and the old from the
new duty.
Districts. Duty.
Barnstaple
Cambridge 23 6 21,4

Canterbury
Cornwall

Derby ll3 5 514
Dorset lO 7 103/
Essex.
Gloucester 2l 1 8%
Grantham

Hants
Hereford
Hertford 762 5 1%
Isle of Wight
Lincoln

Lynn
Oxford
Reading
Rochester
Salisbury
Stourbridge
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Wales, Middle 26 12 73/
Worcester

£288,536 10 7A

Old duty, at Id. 12-20 per lb 158,008 17 214 i. 4-20
New duty, at 3/4d. 8-20 per lb. ...
Additional duty of 5 per cent., per
Act 3 Vic., c. 17

£288,536 10 714
G. F. COTTRELL, Accountant-General.
Excise-Office, London, Nov. 17, 1845.

DIRECT LONDON AND MANCHES.

TER RAILWAY.

As a small Ere of small articles and long advertisements
are continually kept up by means of the press, in addition to
various false reports industriously spread on the Stock Ex-
change and elsewhere, by interested and hostile parties,
with a view to injure this line in public opinion, and to do as
much mischief as evil intentions and perseverance are able to
accomplish, it becomes necessary as frequently to disabuse
the public mind en the subject. One of the great objects has
been to discredit the declaration signed by the engineers that
" they would be ready to deposit their plans ;" this has been
again and again refuted by the joint declarations of the en-
gineers, advertised and re-advertised in the public journals. A
second attempt has been made to insinuate that the Directors of
the two Companies are not harmonious. We are enabled to
state, upon the best authority, that this report, too, is wholly
groundless; that the Directors of the two Boards act in per-
fect unison with each other, and have the best of reasons to
believe that all that has been promised will be fully realised.

We do not doubt that the writer of an article
in the Railway Chronicle of last week, " had good
reasons of his own for giving the warning he did;"
but even according to his account, the Direct London
ar.d Manchester Company have got everything . ne-
cessary for success--engineers, surveys, and surveyors.
Perhaps one might surmise that the writerreferred to one who
signed " Gone to the Devil," in the Times—the scribe of the
article just mentioned—and the individual so zealously and
virtuously interested for the hard case and impending fate of
the scripholders, is merely the same individual under the
variety of garbs necessary for the occasion.
If the agreement against which all this virtuous and dis-
interested indignation is expended be really executed "in
defiance of all legal and moral obligations, and the interests
of the scripholders have been sacrificed in any respect, it
would occur to every man of common sense that the discon-
tented portion of the shareholders, whether solicitors or
others, should call a public meeting of the shareholders,
point out to them the manner in which their interests have
been sacrificed, and thus obtain some substantial ground of
complaint. This would, at least, be a straightforward course.
We repeat, upon the best authority, that the reports re-
ferred to, with others of a similar kind, are wholly without
foundation; that the two Boards act most harmoniously
together ; and that there is not the least doubt of being fully
in time for compliance with the standing orders.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Nov. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The only sale to-day was—North
Devons, 2.

SHEFFIELD, Nov. 15.

SrocK EXCHANCat—The sals are—North Staffordshire
51Xi—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 34.
LEEDS, Nor. 15.

STOCK EXCHANGIL—The sales are—Huddersfield and
Manchester, B—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 19%—Leeds and
Dewsbury, 181/2 c. n.—Leeds anti Thirsk, 131/2—North Bri-
tish New, Carlisle Branch, 31/2—Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton, 161/2—Trent Valley, 15—Wakefield, Pon-
tefract, and Goole, 351/2—London and York, 41/2—Sheffield
and Lincoln, 31/2—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 31/2—Li-
verpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4—West Riding Union, 71.
Is. 6d.—Clitheroe Junction, 3'4—Great Eastern and West-
ern, 7s. p.—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, is.
p.—Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 10s. dis.—Leeds and York,
is. p.—Leicester and Birmingham, ss. p.—Leicester and Bed-
ford, 17s. 6d. p.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid.
land, 31. is. p.—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby,
314—North Staffordshire, 51/2—Nottingham and Grantham,
3—Wakefield and Bradford, 3s. p.—Welsh Midlands, 2%—
York and Carlisle, 3%.
HUDDERSFIELD, Nov. 15.
STOCK EXCUANGE.—The sales are—Huddersfield and
Manchester, 9%—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton,
161. 3s. 6d.—London and York, 4%—Liverpool, Ormskirk
and Preston, 43/4—Great Eastern and Western, 23/4
Leicester and Bedford, 13/—Wexford, Waterford, and Va.
lentia, 1%.