The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-08 00:00:00

FAMINE IN ANGUILLA.

The following account of a dreadful famine in
Anguilla, a small island, and a dependency of St.
Christopher's r ppears in a Barbadoes paper:—
" The sympathies of this community have never been
more suddenly or more warmly called into action than by
the intelligence first announced from the pulpit at the ca.
thedral on Sunday last. The Lord Bishop, in a mat ner
whico reflects honour on his benevolent and philantbrop c
mind, announced to the large congregation which ha as-
sembled for the holy exercises of the Sabbath, that our fel-
low-colonists in Anguilla were suffering the dreadful Ili-
series of famine, and were dying from its effects. Tt e
int4ination has reached us in private letters, there being no
newspaper at the afflicted spot. We certainly are surpri-.(1
that in the neighbouring islands of St. Cinistepher nd
Antigua the public journals du not so much as allude to
the subject. We should therefore doubt the correctness of
the reports received here, had we not ourselves sera the
letters, and been satisfied that they came from a source of
undoubted veracity. It is much to be regretted that 'he
extract (tom the first letter, dated June 29, was not made
public the moment it was received. It is as follows :
" We have not had coffee, c.ndles, starch (arrow-
loot) and many other necessaries for a lung time, but ex-
pect a reitifoicernent of money to-morrow. Should I be
disappointed, Idu not know bow I shall make out, for I
am now crediting bread, and can get nothing else, except
meat on Saturdays. for there is not a pint of grain or a
pot 'toe to be obtained in the island; indeed the people are
on the bank of starvation. There has been such drought,
so mach so as to produce a salt crop, which it is expected
will be collected next month, if there be any persons alive
to reap it.'

The second letter, dated August 7, gives a more la-
mentable account of the prevailing misery. The writer says,
"• I come now to the state of things amongst us. I
never saw before the present time distress so great, so ex-
tensive, and so apparently irremediable as exists in this
place at present, and is likely to continue for some long
time. Poverty pervades the whole country, and the ex-
treme of it, actual stirvation, has carri,cl many a poor suf-
ferer, after a scene of suffering, to a premature grave. This
day accounts came in, through authentic sources, that four
individuals had perished for want of fail. Hitherto
children and the aged and infirm, have chiefly suffered. It
is however, not the young, the b gear, or the infirm
alone who feel the pressure of want, but the industrious
and healthy, and they keep up longer, but how lung many
wiil be able to support thi it present sufferings remains
to be sesn. I act as clerk and sexton (residing near ti c
churchyard, &c.), and I apprehend the call for a grave from
every individual that I see approaching. The calls on
private charity are too extensive to be complied with.
My house from sunrise to sunset is beset with applicants,
hom (quite doing violence to my feelings) I am now
obliged to dismiss unaided. The children cannot attend
the schools; such of them as I could relieve I have, but I
apprehend almost the same suffering for myselt it an op-
portunity does nut offer for St. Christopher shortly, and
there is no likelihood of it during the hurricane season.
The cause of this suffering ie the severe drought we have
experienced, 'he high price of provisions at St. Bartholo-
mew's, the want of credit here, and there being generally
no surplus of provisions from year to year, as at thrhadoes.
The three most industrious planters are obliged to pur-
chase provisions at St. Bartholomew's, which is an unusual
thing for Colonel Lake and his brother to do. A meeting
of the Council was held to-day, and they have petitioned
the Governor of St. Christopher's to present their petition
to Government to giant relief ; their representative in the
Assembly also is requested to use his endeavours to give
them immediate aid, but it is ' begged from the beggar,'
for the St. Christopher commun:ty, I believe, are very
much embarrassed. For some time past an emigration
from this to St. Thomas's and to St. Croix has been
going on. The President and family have left us, as also
his brother and family, and many others. Indeed, the
island craft have been for several months now eogaged in
taking lime, which gives no profit, and passengers,
amounting to 25 and 30 at a time, to the last-mentiozied
places ; yet those who remain suffer—indeed, the suffering
is extreme.'

" P. S.—This letter I concluded last night. This
morning application is made for two more graves.
" Forenoon.—One of the grave-diggers dropped down
from hunger. A child has been found dead in the woods,
where it strayed to pick berries.'
" In consequence of the above information (instead of
a public meeting being called, as stated by some mistake
in the Globe of last night), the committee of the Corn-
mercial-hall, at a meeting yesterday, appointed five of
their number to receive subscriptions, in order to ado.inis-
tcr inirnediite relief. Other benevolent individuals are
exerting themselves to obtain contributions.
" This evening the schooner Harper sails, taking the
Rev. C. Cummins as passenger, who will purchase at
Antigua the required food, so far as the present funds
will admit."

THE NEW SPORTING WORKe-.-." Where
can a nobler field be found for the im gination tf,an tout
opened to the man attached to rural pastimes ? To muse
beside a sparkling stream—to wander writing tighiand
solitudes—to feel the excitement of the chase, and after-
wards the delicious repose which evening and the fir -side
bring to the weary hunter—these inuAt be felt to be un-
(l rstood, and few of th pee who feel them can express the
luxury of their sensations. As a book, the' Wild Sports
of the West' is novel and unique—the ourbreakings of an
enthusiastic sportsman are apparent in every pipe. Spi-
rited events succeed each other rapidly. We are carried
away in imagination, we traverse moors and wildt.rnefe-s
with the dramatis persona, and by fl /oil and field' have
every thing as faithfully before us as if all was reality
itself."—Sporting Magazine, for Novemi:er:
carriages,haciey.co a ofc s
have just been started in Paris. They are upon two
wheel., and are drawn by one horse; the entrance is be-
hind, and the seats on the sides like the omnibus, and they
will carry six persons. There is a covered seat in front
for the driver, and each course is only 25 sous.
Noting ic
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There is now grazing on his Grace the Duke
of llxvoNsmax's farm at Chatsworth, an ox of extrawdi.
.ary size, weighing 165 stone of 11 Ib.. ; he is five years
id, and is showed by the first judges of cattle to by equal
in fatness and symmetry of shape to the well-known ox
;razed by his Grace last year. The animal has been fed
to hay and grass only.