HOP MARKET.
(From the Trade Circular.)
Southwark, Sept. 90,1832. Though the crop is not large, we believe it will amount to nearly a year's consump- tion, several circumstances have tended to assist the advocates for high prices, such as lateness of picking ; the hop fairs following so immediately, before the market could be well supplied ; some shipments of old hops to the Continent, and the estimate of the extent of the crop having declined late in the season. The market, however, will soon be regularly supplied, when prices will find their proper level. None of the very superior Middle or East Kent growths have yet been offered, and but very few bags. The duty is estimated at 135,000/.
CURRENCY.
New Kent pockets 120s to 160s. per cwt. New Sussex pockets 120 to 140
Yearling pockets 90 to 140
Yearling bags 80 to 120 Pockets, growth 1830 75 to 100 Bags, growth 1830 30 to 80 Bags and pockets, growth 1826 and 1827 40 to 60
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