Star.
London, England, 1830-06-23 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

During the last fortnight, six hundred and twenty-one
individuals have shipped at Cromarty for Quebec.
Such is the distress in the county Clare, that several
notices have been served in the neighbourhood of Cord!,
on such persons as have potatoes, requesting to have them
sent into market for sale.—Clare Sentinel.

EMIGRATION.—Tuesday last, a number of families
from the counties of Denbigh and Flint passed through
Chester, on their way for Liverpool, where they will sm.
bark for the United States of America. The emigrant.
appeared to be of that class of persons denominated small
farmers, possessing small capitals, and sufficient enter-
prise and spirit not to languish in misery and want in a
country which no longer affords them encouragement or
support.
The poor peasantry in the upper part of the county of
Leitrim are literallly starving. Several heads of families,
who, two or three years ago, were each known to possess
five or six head of cattle, are now without one ! The
gentry are leaving that neighbourhood, to escape the ins-
portimities of their starving tenantry !—who, without
provisions, or any employment by which they could earn
a sixpence to buy them, are forced either to subsist upon
cabbage and weeds, or to join some of the more reckless
in plundering by night the houses of their more fortunate
neighbours, who are known to have provisions.
We have been informed that the application for gold, in
exchange for bank notes, has been almost incessant for the
last two days in this city. We are bound, however, to ac-
knowledge that the mercantile and trading men of Water-
ford were, in general, averse to any simultaneous applica-
tion being made at the banks for gold, until it should be
first ascertained whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer
would abandon his projected scheme for destroying the
country.— Waterford Chrimicle.

We have experienced most unseasonable weather in this
neighbourhood since our last, and considerable damage
has, we fear, been done to the crops of corn, grass, tur-
nips, and potatoes, by the continued rains and floods,
while the gardens and orchards have suffered severely
from the boisterous winds. A favourable change took
place on Friday, which we hope may not be too late to
repair in a great measure the injury which has been sus.
taMed.— Durham Advertiser.
During this week the weather has been unseasonably
cold and backward. On Tuesday last it blew a vio-
lent gale from the northward, and continued on Wednes-
day with little abatement ; the rain almost incessant, and
very heavy. The temperature is still very cold, with
frost in the night occasionally, and daily showers, so that
the ground is saturated with inuisture.—Aberdeen Chron.

Stockbridge Races, last week, were numerously at-
tended, the sport and the company being equally good.
The race between his Majesty's horse Colonel, Morris
Dancer, and Tyke, excited the highest interest, the Co-
lonel only winning by a neck. The course has been re-
moved to a spot contiguous to an old Danish encamp-
ment, called Deanbury-hill, from the rising circular sides
of which the spectators have the finest view of the races
that can be imagined.

In the parish of Lenhatn, Kent, there have been lately
observed large cavities where none existed before, and in
some places trees and underwood, from 12 to 15 feet
high have disappeared.
The town of Romsey is remarkable for the longevity
of its inhabitants; among other proofs of which it may
be mentioned that the united ages of its patriarchical Vicar
and Moses amount to 163 years !
STATE 01 TEA D E.—The general trade of the County
of York, in the manufacturing departments, is proceeding
satisfactorily, and it is a circumstance well deserving of
observation, that in Germany, where we are the most
likely to be met by the competition of foreign nianufac-
tures, an unusual quantity of bubiness has been done by
our merchants during the present year.—Leeds Mercury.
We are happy to perceive that the trade of Manchester
and that of the manufacturing towns in Scotland are also
improving.
It bas been stated in the London papers, during the
week, that Lord Belfast has challenged Mr. Weld to
' sail against his Alarm for four hundred guineas. We
know that his Lordship has sent a challenge through
Mr. Stephens, the Secretary of the Royal Yacht Club,
to Mr. Weld, to sail for two hundred and fifty guineas,
and which Mr. Weld has, through the same channel,
declined. We believe also that Lord Belfast has pri-
vately offered to Mr. James Weld to make the match
five hundred guineas. Mr. Weld has, however, thought
fit to decline this also, in consequence of the unsub-
stantial objections raised by his Lordship to Mr. Weld's
right to sail in the Champion Race. Lord Belfast has,
we understand, offered to refer the matter in dispute
to a Member of the Club, but Mr. Veld has expressed
his determination to abide by the course already de-
clared. —Portsmouth Herald.

NEWCASTLE Et.t.criox.—A strong rumour has ex-
isted within these few days of a desire to bring forward
Mr. Ellison at the next election for this town, but, how-
ever much we should rejoice to see so worthy and so able
an individual once more returned as the representative of
Newcastle, we conceive that his singleness of purpose and
integrity of mind would render such return entirely nu-
gatory,—and would cause also much unnecessary con-
tention and expense. The inveteracy of certain classes
of the burgesses against Sir Matthew White Ridley, and
in favour of a third man, is still considerable ; but we are
glad to find that they are generally free-men of whom
Sir Matthew would gladly be as independent as possible.
We understand that Sir Matthew's wannest friends
would not be displeased to see a third candidate, if it
were for no other purpose than to show how triumphantly
he would be carried through a contest. Leaving the ex-
pense out of question, we are quite sure that Sir Matthew
would rejoice to show that he depended more on the uni-
versal suffrage of the free-men than on the bare suffer-
ance of the discontented part of them.—Tyne Mercury.
Between the Bth and 18th of the present month, four
persons (two men and two women) were buried in suc-
cession, whose united ages amounted to 325 years. And
from the commencement of the year till the 19th of Jona
the total number of deaths is 47 ; ten persons of whom
were between 60 and 70 years of age; five between 70
and 80 ; four from 80 to 90 ; and two between 90 and
100. The vicar and his clerk too, whose ages exceed
160 years, are enjoying good health ; the former has re-
tired from public duty, but his clerk, Mr. Thomas Mere-
dith, when not prevented by gout, performs his duty so
effectively that, large as the Abbey Church is, his re-
sponses are heard at the most distant part nearly as dis-
tinctly as they were forty years ago.—Harnp. Advert.
ACCELERATION OP TILE MAIL.-At It meeting of
the Magistrates and Masters of Incorporations at Leith,
it was resolved to petition both Houses of Parliament,
praying that the bill for the improvement of the reads
from London to Edinburgh, and from London to Ped-
rok, do pass into a law ; the petition to the House of
Cons to be forwarded to Sir James Graham, of
Netherby, Bart. M.P. and that to the House of Lords to
lard Melville.—Mercury.

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