To manager who makes the largest quantity of sugar per acre, from second ratoons, being not less than five acres—a silver ladle, value 4l. To manager who has been most successful with his stock during the year—a silver knife, value 3l. To the overseer who shall produce the best plan of a plantation, pay, boiling-house, and still-house books—a pair of silver spoons, value 2l. To labourers who have worked the greatest number of days in the year on one property—five prizes, from 10s. to two dollars each, currency. To those parents who have the largest number of children employed in agriculture—five prizes, from 10s. currency, to two dollars each. To stock-keepers who have remained during the year, and have been most successful with the stock—five prizes, from 10s. to two dollars. A popular institution for intellectual improvement has also been instituted at St. John’s, in which several lectures have been given upon various interesting subjects. On the 12th of June, 1842, a very bright and beautiful meteor passed over the town of St. John’s, in a direction from east to west. Its form was globular; and as it passed rapidly along the heavens, it emitted bright spiral flashes of fire, which gilded the sky, and threw deep shadows upon the earth. During its progress, it was attended by a rushing noise, sufficient to call the attention of those who did not even notice its extreme brilliancy. Possibly this meteor might have belonged to the class termed _aerolites;_ many of such phenomena have appeared, from time to time, in this quarter of the globe: one fell at Bahia, in Brazil, which weighed 14,000 pounds, and another, (still preserved in the British Museum,) which fell at Buenos Ayres, weighed 1400 pounds.