The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-24 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

Woucerrna, SM. 12.—0 n Saturday 70 new Pockets
were weighed.—At our Great Fair this day the supply
was unusually small, in consequence of the backward-
ness of picking; not more than 900 new Pockets were
at market ; of these nearly 800 have been sold ; the
prices were 455. to 85s. }few samples, however, fetched
this latter price. Though there were some mouldy
hops, the greater part of those at market were much
better in quality than the growth of 1820.—N0 old Imps
were sold.—lt is the opinion of some persons that the
duty of the Kingdom will be the largest ever paid.

A dreadful accident happened at Keigbley last Sun-
day in the afternoon. There has lately arisen in York-
shire, and in various other parts of the kingdom, a
religious community calling themselves Primitive Me-
thodists, from what they consider an adherence to the
principles and practice of the original followers of
John Wesley ; by others they are called Ranters, from
the fervour of their devotion, which frequently mani-
fests itself in bursts of enthusiasm, which run through
their public assemblies. On Sunday last,in the after-
noon. upwards of 200 of these persons were assem-
bled in the upper room of a wool warehouse, at Keigbley,
for the purpose of holding a love-feast, which is a
species of religious service consisting of a simple
repast, after which, such of the congregation as think
their own experience will be edifying, relate the parti-
culars of it to their fellow-worshippers. When the
services of the day, whictt had been peculiarly ani-
mated, were drawing to Irclose, and the people were
about to depart, a dreadful crash was beard from the
breaking of the timbers of the floor, and in a mo-
ment the whole assembly was precipitated through the
floor into the room below. It Is impossible to describe
the scene of confusion and dismay which followed.—
The shrieks of the females and Itrgroani of 'the
wounded spread consternation through the neighbour-
hood. The young and the more active generally
escaped without much injury, but from 50 to 60 per-
sons, a large proportion of them old women, were se-
verely crushed and wounded. An elderly woman, of
the name of Martha Wood, died on Monday night tL
and a number of others lie at the present moment in
a very dangerous state. The following is a list of
some of the sufferers, with the nature of their injuries :
Timothy Ambler, leg and arm broken ; Mary Peel,
one of her legs broken; Harrison Ingrew, one. of his
arms broken • Widow Waddington, one of her legs
broken ; Blijab (keen, his leg broken in two places;
Sarah Sunderland, her leg and thigh broken ; Martha
Bradshaw, foot dreadfully injured and arm broken;
John Naylor, his arm broken ; Susannah Leach, her
thigh broken; Mary Jones, her leg and thigh broken;
Mary Carter, a widow, with three children, her collar-
bone and three ribs broken ; Mary Ramsden, severely
hurt, and since delivered of a dead child at a premature
birth ; Widow Wilkinson, crashed so dreadfully that her
life is depaired of.
The other sufferers are many of them laboariag
under severe wounds and contusions, and the situation
of the principal part of them is truly deplorable....
Poverty, in most of these cases, is added to their suf-
fering ; but the more opulent inhabitants of the
place bare very laudably opened a subscription for
their relief.in aid of which feed a charity sermon will,
we hear, be preached to-morrow,akibe New Jerusalem
Chapel, Kaigbley..--(teeds Nertieri)