Star.
London, England, 1827-10-13 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

rat Macquarie, we understand, will be gives up to'
free settlers, as soon as arrangements can be made for
receiving the prisoners at Moreton Bay. This is a step'
which may give satisfaction to those emigrants who
have been disappointed in not obtaining land according
to their expectations at Hunter's River. •
In the Custom-house establishment at Sydney Mr.
Campbell's ..ppointment is 2,0001. a year ; Captain
Rosa,. 8,001. Mr. Onslow's, as surveyor and searcher,
poi Mr. John Piper, jun. 3001. Then there is a host
of tide waiters, &e. &c. The sum total of whose sala-
ries in the department, amounts to more than 5,0001.
Orders, it is said, have been received by Government,
'rot ter grant any more laud on the sea-coast, or on the
poigkok part of our riven ; it being expected that such
sitoariobkwill be required for some pauper emigrants,
about to be eot out to this country (New youth Wales)
at the expense o?-thc_parishes in England.—Sydney
roper. 111111•111.11 ME,

HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES.

ANTIGUA, Amon 21.

Errly on Thursday the wind was perceived to veer
from its usual tropical direction to the north. and fre-
quent puffs, with a gloomy atmosphere, and
imptoms of a change of weather for the worse, which,
however, (Si not create much alarm. The evening set'
in darkly, and it blew very hard during the night,
with frequent showers. At daylight the violence of
the wind appeared to increase, although up to tl•is pe-
via., it hod done but trifling damage; but as the morn-
ing advanced, it came round to N.E. and then to E. and
between seven sad ten o'clock it rose to a tempest, and
raged with tremendous fury, levelling every thing of
feeble resistance, and severely injuring others whose
weight or strength prevented their entire destruction.
Gnat numbers of large full grown trees were torn up,
and thrown to a considerable distance ; and heavy bo-
die., such as carts, the leaden gutters of houses, etc.
whirled from their places in every capricious direction.
Many 41 the larger buildings in town suffered more or
less damage: while the smaller and less substantial
habitations have, in some instances, beiewentirely de.
molished, and in others rendered so dilapidated, as to
afford but a precarious shelter to the needy and unfor-
tunate inmates. From every past of the island webs,*
accounts of the most gloomy description. Every plati-4
tenon has suffered, and some to a considerable extent,
in stigar•works, dwelling and outhouses, &c. The pro-
vision crops scarcely retain a vestige of verdure, from
being seered by the wind; and the cane-fields, which
showed the highest bloom and promise, now have the
appearance of guinea-grass in dry weather, The pub-
lic works at the Ridge and its vicinity have likewise
suffered most severely and extensively, but we feel plea-
sure in stating that embalm nut heard of any lives being
lost in that quarter.
'The harbour of S:. John being more exposed to a
north-west wind, the shipping did not experience so
much of the violence of the storm as they have done
at former periods. The schooner Robert Grant and
sloop Sophia were upset at their moorings ; and we
are concerned to say, that two men belonging to the
former lost their lives. A valuable boatman also lost
his life in attempting to secure his craft from the fury
of the elements. The brig Strabo, of Glasgow ; schooner
Eliza, of Prince EJwatcl's Island; sloop Venilia, of
Bermuda ; and ten other vessels belonging to this port,
rode out the storm. The schooner ll.li,ence, of flab.,
has; sloop lath rine of Tortola; a French sloop-4.0ml
Guadeloupe; and eight of oar oww vessels, went ashore.
Some of these, 'however, are already afloat, and the
others are likely to be so shortly. •
Theday of this awful visitation exhibited a picture of
desolation not easily described. At its close his Eacel-
Itney the Governor took the benevolent precaption of
ordering a patrol of the Ist West India Regiment, which
paraded the streets all that night, for the protection of
properties, whose fences and enclosures being blown
down, exposed them to the plunder of thieves, with
whom these occurrences are considered as a jubilee.

BARBADORS, Ans.
The threatening appearance of . the weather since
Thursday last naturally led us to expect that it would
be attended with more disastrous consequences than
what we have yet experienced here, and our fears on
this head base been realized with regard to some of
the Leeward Wands. By the arrival yesterday even-
ing of the schooner Sir Edward Barnes from Fort
Royal, Martinique, we learn that that island had been
visited by a hurricane, and that an express had arrived
front St. Pierre, giving an account that eleven vessels
were then ashore, amongst which was the schooner Ze-
phyr, and it was feared, from the continued violeaceof
the sea and the force of the wind', that still greater
damage would arise to the shipping in that harbour.
JAMAICA. Aua. 55.
ELTAACT 07 A LIMA, DAVID atANctitoNBAL, AUG. 21.
On the night cf the 18th we experienced here a most
tremendous gale from the southeast, which has done
an incalculable deal of damage to the estates in this
quarter, particularly those situate in the higher parts.
Most of the cane pieces absolutely appear as if a roller
hid passed over them • and it is much feared, from the
forward state of the canes, that they will Dever be able
to recover the injury sustained.

lITIACTOE A LETTIIR, DATED ST. TROHASIIN THE
EAST, THII 93n INST.
On the morning.of the 19th inst. we experienced in
this district one of those destructive visitations which
mark their course with detulation, and in a few brief
hnurs blast the husbandman's hope. The gale corn-
lanced about ten o'clock on Saturday- night, and
continued to increase in violence till about two o'clock
stn Sunday morning, the 19th, when it blew with tre-
mendous fury, and with little intermission, until about
noon, ltifting round from the N.E. from which quarter
it commenced, to N.W. then to S.W. and ended from
the S.E. Fortunately the canes have not yet acquired
sufficient growth to be so seriously or so generally in-
jured, as they would have been by such a storm two
months hence; still the damage done is very great. No
exposure could escape the fury of a tempest that came
from all points of the compass, consequently the whole
of the forward canes are completely prostrated—some
fields laid down from the north, some from the south,
aril others rooted out and broken down its every direc-
;l4l. These may be considered as in a greet measure
'eh, and even the young canes, beginning only to joint.
!le in exposed situations much shaken and broke down;
bet with favourable seasons they will recover them-
leliel• The plantain walks, which the late fine seasons,
*ele just bringing into abundant bearing, are completely.
destroyed. Scarcely a tree et any magnitude is left
standing. The loss a sea cannot yet be ascertained.

•
Thursday evening, as a Lady, *ith a child in her
arms, was passing up Blackfriars Road, she was at-
tacked by a ruffian at the corner of Cross.street, who
matched her ridicule from her hand, sod. despite of her
um of " Stop thief," escaped With his booty.