Star.
London, England, 1831-01-15 00:00:00

FORRION CONTRACTS FOR ARM&

A good deal bas been said of late in the newspapers and Shen
where of the warlike preparation which have been set on that In
most of the great stales of imps, and of the contracts which howl
been ensued Into with Iligihk essenheanues, for the supply of
to France, Ueda, sad Premis, to the also, it is said, of lASS,IIIIIOI.
sterling. In coo account it is mod het MOO mama of alma are
In course of manufacture he Prialia, OSICOM he Perch, and
300,000 tor Prussia. In another It fa asmed that Men is is truth
in the stament, as far as the two latter powers are essemmed ; that
there is, indeed, • ensiderable order in progress at
on behalf of the Fres& Goverment, but that to Aussie'ltZ
muskets mid eestrei at hest that.... min, amass to that
rats at shish the Mlle- son now be smsetheissed In this ems,
hem whence It is hawed that a pang esplulen beet se near at hand
es ems alarmists are willing to wanes%
Thme is somadding in these osehwaosts so ahem* costeadkary, that
it moms to be wee* altile, !lea the gravity with whisk they are made
the kiwis of serious as well as from the imemenes of the
facts themeolves, r iminhy as to the tro' et what has thus
been simeed. The peeked ilky is, he it entracte Ude be. entered
into between Baglish mensdketnrste os the one bead, and the Mond_
natal fissesements shaded to on the Ober, the loam esstractus
would, in each ma, be Posh, Positional', or Berlin, the Capitals
of the eispastive Countries ; and that there is, therefore, very con.
skim & dlliselty, at this moment, to assert, with any pre.
imbue to assent,, that se snob contrasts are in selatence.—
In petal of fact, we have seen • gmehmen.tble main who, so late as
Sunday last, saw three dilletent sesteasts in Peels, the last of which heti
been entered into es the revises day, between the Fmk Gemmont
and the repreesstadve of a body of Meth onsnalhavast, kg the sup-
ply of arms, at Floss, and with ends el delimpas heseselem as can
well be esseeked whh the stommls in ebsoistime The first of
the these dessacts with the Plush Governmat. ad the only one
yet in peeress et execution, is he MVOS genhorth ; the second
is Is *PO harsh, locks, and ether meat hunishinp, the stocks
7: e 4 seetracted for in Frames; and the third, which was
Ismday lest, is for 4011,119 markets, without belt or
boyish, but hi other respects complexly used up, and ready for
laniaellele see.
The ruled othenbasd he the azatation of this last conaset, in place
of being IS a lime, is =mealy u•sid, mar a Iteavy penalty, to
lb semi; the awns to be dithered mil pelf Is is Iradoo, ual
me* lostalments ; the Ildtish (venoms holey sesawad to
castvis=kl order in Coma aliewhig eqavoindse the arms
; and the hash Govermset honing bumf Ong during
the sabsistence of this contract, to mob no father posh= of arms,
whisk have net ben, or are not to be, thandlegassividin the unitary
of Ranee. The price of sash musket, with bikini lama ampiste,
is thirty-eaves banes, or es am as mile Shia.ettehtg. The eedi-
my contract price of the ismsksta supplied to the R&M Oovemets
is, we believe, see me in • Sth lea the gan.barrels aged in
the Freak 'my age maiiimably imp tits owls, sad we have reason
to believe, that Is mead other smuts. the
_Smell tamest is a better
and mem /Meth hawsesthesis Polish. It is wise, of remark,
however, that the impeogithent .of dateallog a peginidaa leeks, so
valuable in the eyes if the epolania, kw nth yet beat NOM to ma.
lash rizessmilehantlemelissais mtlene
Ragilak s I
ereteres lisflthemer.
mithaas, when leeks are to boirr to the French thowsnothent.—
The we believe, we when these onthals woes mass
bag dm adspdsn pormalso. in pratmenes to the ilint
was aboogisned. In the lowest loath NNW the prim
of the biome Imo ; but Wimp& steel ii thaw in Sagami
then in Fwasa, a make was death no less than Is. cheaper
the the Sega& sad was la conattagase peakwal.—Nerning Paper.