Star.
London, England, 1821-12-06 00:00:00

GRENADA, SEPTEMBER 29.

We are happy to be enableA to state, that the first
ploughing match that ever occurred in this island,
took place on the 26th inst. according to the notice
given by the Agricultural Society. The day was fine,
and the spectators were aumercrus. On no public
casion can it be remembered that so many Ladies and
Gentlemen attended—lBo were counted on the ground
—9O of which were of the most respectable class of
white inhabitants, from different parts of the i•:land.
The teams, eight in number, exhibited as fir:e a
shew of cattle as could be produced in any of the
neighbouring colonies ; each plough held by a negro,
and drawn by four yoke of oxen. All the teams had
finished their task by about half an hour after ten.—
The work was then carefully inspected by competent
judges, and the Premiums awarded as follows:
The Silver Medal, with the inscrirtion, ac Industry's
HonouraWe Reward," on the reverse, 44 Grenada, a
Piough in the centre, and the year, was given to
Charles, of Simon Estate, and £3.65. in money.
Pierre, of Grand Bras Estate, £3.6,. in money.
Claude, of Tele,core Estate, and the unsuccess-
ful candidates, received two dollars each.
After the Judges had decided on the work, sixty
Ladies and Gentlemen sat down to a neat cold co:la-
.

tion, provided by the Agricultural Socie y, and the
following toasts were drank :—" King and Constitu-
tion"—" Governor and Co:ony"" Ladie; of the-
, nada"—" Members of the Agricultural Society, and
success to their undertakings, proposed by the Lathe:.
At this time the medal and rewards were dist: ibuts.J.
" Speed the Plough," to which the Ploughman added,
" And GOD bless rite LaJiei."—" health of the Hon.
R. H. Church," who persevered in the use of the
plough, and to whose exertions is principally to be
attributed its new more general use in the palish.—
" Health of the Hon. John Ross, and the Gentlemen
whe honoured the Society with their company."—
These Gentlemen returned their thanks, and expressed
a hope that the use of the plough would be more
genet al throughout the Colony.

Thursday se'nnight, a shipwright, named Foremar,.
fell from the orlop deck into the hold of the Macquin
Indiaman, at Northfleet, and was so much injured
that he died on the Sunday following, leasing a wife
and two children. This k the ship lately launched at
Frindsbury, when Mr. Cobb unfortunately lost his life.
MANCH EST ER.—A most violent hurl icane blew
here on Friday night, from the westward, which did
considerable damage by blowing down chimnies, unss
.roofing houses, and tearing off the lead from build-
ings, in very many instances. Several persons were
very severely hurt by the falling of bricks, slates, &c.
The effects of the storm presented a singular pheno-
mena on Saturday. Windows which had a western
aspect, bad the appearance of being extremely dirty;
and, on examination, the materials adhering proved
to be similar to what is often observed after a strong
gale from the seaward, at Blackpool, Southport, &c.
viz partially crystalized salt, as was ascertained by
submitting it to the tests of the taste and the micro-
scope. This fact proves the violence of the wind,
which had brought so far (nearly forty miles) inland
the spray of the sea, which it bad swept from its
perturbed waves.
LEEDS.—Friday night and Saturday morning, Leeds
was visited by a tremendous gale, accompanied with
hail and rain, which blew incessantly for several
hours frqin the northavea. A part of the roof of the
new barracks was blown off; the lead and 'slates were
nearly stripped off Fat rigid Cottage, at Little London.
—A large tree was torn up by th?. r, o s at Camp
Hall, and ano.her just above the toll-bar in %%Tod-
house-lane. A chimney of Mr. N. Cash's dryhouse
was blown down; it fell on the rod; which it broke
through. Two new houses were partly blown down
at Black Bank; severallouses at Buriey were injured,
and other similar accidents occuri ed. Saturday after-
noon, about four.o'clock, the:e was a violent hail-
storm; the hail-stones were uncommonly large.—
During the prevalence of one of .those heavy gales
which marked neatly the u hole of last 'seek, a why-
mill at Appleton was blown down ; there acre two
persons in the mill at the time o£ the acciaat, boo),
of whom escaped unhurt.

THE EVENING STAR•

LONDON.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1821.
STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
The Market looks much better this morning, and
an improvement has taken place. Consols opened
at 78, and have risen a quarter, and the prospect
still continues favourable for a further rise. There
are various rumours in circulation—one that the Go-
vernor and Deputy Governor of the Bank have had
an interview yesterday with MT. VANSITTART, and
the object of their business is said to be an arrange-
ment for discounting at 4 per Cent.—Current prices:
Bk. Stock 237%-3 per Cent. Redu.76s/x 77 76 /8
3 per Cent. Cons. shut-31h per Cent. 871/4 Vs
4 per Ct. 9631 %-5 per Ct. Navy Ans. shut
Bank Long Annuities 19% 7-16
India Stock shutlndia Bonds 645. 6.55. pre.
Excheq. Bills £lOOO, Is. pr. Is. dis. par
Ditto (Small) 2s. pre. par
Consols for Acct. 777'8 783/4 Vs.

We are still without any further arrivals from
France, though the Journals of Sunday and Monday
are now due. We anxiously wait their arrival, to
know the proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies on
the subject of the KING% Answer. An English
House of Commons would petition the KING, to know
by whose advice' he gave such an Answer t• a Con-
stiturional Remonstrance, and to call for the dismissal
of the Minister who dared to advise his Sovereign
thus to treat the-Representatives of the Nation. The
great probability, however, is, that by this time a
change has taken place in the French Ministry; for
we can scarcely think the KING would hazard the
experiment of dissolving the Chamber and trying a
new Election, under the present circumstances.

The Irish journals received this morning are filled
with details of new outrages committed in various
parts of the country, some of them of a more daring
description than have yet characterized the present
unhappy disturbances. It is not to murders and burn-
ings that the peasantry now confine themselves, bur,
trey have dated to attack the Military. It appears
that a detachment of fifteen soldiers, sent to take two
men who had been taken in execution for debt and
rescued, were attacked near Waterford in great num-
bers by the peasantry, and compelled to retreat into
the Castle; and so determined was the spirit of these
rioters, that they were only prevented from storming
the place by a threat that, if they attempted it, the
prisoners whom they. sought to rescue should be in•

stantly shot.
In other parts of Ireland the spirit of disaffection
is rapidly spreading, notwithstanding the embodying
of the• Yeomanry, the searching for arms, and the
seizing on all the gunpowder in the disturbed dis-
tricts. That the power of the Irish Government
should Le actively and vigorously employed to put
down the present tumults, as well to punish the de-
linquents as to protect the innocent, no one will deny ;
but something more must be done than this before
the happiness or tranquillity of Ireland can be assured;
nothing but an entire change of the system by which
it has been governed can do t'ais. Let the policy be
as liberal and cherishing as it has been hitherto con-
tracted and repulsive, and Ireland may rise to that
importance to which her•physical resources entitle her.
Notwithstanding the assertion of Major TIGHE,
noticed yesterday, as to the origin of the present dis-
turbances, there is its doubt that the main cause of
the tumults in the south .of Ireland, is poverty.—
" The distress of the labouring class," says the Dub-
lid Journal of Monday, " in the greater portion
of the disturbed districts, is excessive. Many, both
able and willing to work, cannot obtain employ-
ment. They will offer to labour for the farmer at
4d. per day—' they would be happy' says our in-
formant, if they could obtain Gd. per day:—Their
food, when they can get it, is potatoes, twice or thrice
a day, without even the luxury of buttermilk.—
In this state of things, the roving vagabonds, who
always, more or less, infest the Southern and Western
Districts of Ireland, have found the present time
snost apt for their wicked schemes. They pretend
to redress grievances—to reduce rents and tithes—
hence, they obtain -patronage among the small
tenantry—they live better than the industrious—they
find food and protection in the cabins, during the
day, and at night they sally forth to pursue their
rnaurading expeditions. Through a system of inti-
midation, almost every man, of the lower orders, has
been sworn to secrecy. This oath is deemed obliga-
tory, or the fear of unrelenting punishment makes it'
so ; and the banditti, although not very numerous,
bare thus the command of the life and property of
thousands."

We have received Quebec Papers to the Ist ultimo,
fr2m which we extract the following :

BROM THE QUEBEC MERCURY or THE 30TH OCTOBER.
At a numerous and respectable *wing of the Inhabitants of
st. John's, Newfoundland, to hear a Report of the Proceedings -
of the Committee appointed at a Public Meeting on the 14th of
November last, it was
Resolved, That the Committee merited the confidence of the
lteeting for their services; and that thanks be given to his Ex-
cellency Vice-Admiral Sir C. Hamilton, Bart. Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of that Island, for his promptitude in for-
warding the Petition to his Most Gryious Majesty: the thank.
of the Meetirg were also gilt.* to jord Liollasid4 Sad Darnley',,