The accounts from the hop-plantations are very unfavourable. The dllaidsiolle
Gazette gives the apportionment of the duty throughout the kingdom as tbilows, on the authority of a correspondent to be relied upon. The Rochester district, 15,000/. ; Canterbury. tutu!,; Sussex, 2,0ta ; Farnham, 7001. ; Worcester, 400/. ; the kingdom. 2,10/. : a total of 22.100/. The Brighten Gazetie says- " We have taken some pains to ascertain the state of the imp-gardens in this county ; and we regret to say, that in answer to all in1 tides we have received the most deplorable accounts. At Mayfield, liotberfield, Tunbridge Wells, Pembury, Lamberhurst, Ilawkimrst, and Burwash, the hop-growers do not expect to get more than half a hundredweight per acre. The !lines are exceedingly black ; but in sheltered sit tuitions, under trees where they usually expect to get to get scarcely any hops, the hills have been most productive ; and amidst all the blight and destruction—the late gale having made sad havock—there is now Mal then to be seen, though very rarely, a hillock fresh and green."
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