Star.
London, England, 1829-12-26 00:00:00

112,650 2 10

795 0 111

13,161 2 1

Inantities charged with Duty for Home
Consumption in the United Kingdom in
the month ended Ist Dec. 1529.

The Produce
Imported of, and int-
from ported from, Total.
Foreign British Pos.
Countries. sessions out
of Europe.
Qrs. Bus. Qrs. Bus. Qrs. Bus.
560 2 15 0 575 2
5,781 2 5,781 9
557 2 557 2
32 3 52 3
8.993 4 10 0 9,1102 4
27,644 6 87,644 6
45 0 45 0
14 3 • - 14 5
••••111.1.
43,628 6 25 0 43,653 6
Cwt. qrs. lb. Cwt. qn. lb. Cwt. qrs. lb.
2,615 116 539 211 2,923 3 7
6•=l,
2,615 116 532 211 1 2,983 7
Quantities remaining in Warehouse in the
United Kingdom on the Ist Dec. 1829.
The Produce
Imported of, and im-
g ported from, T
Foreign British Pos-
Countries. sessions out
of Europe.
Qrs. Bus. Qrs. Bus. Qrs. Bus.
803,702 5 47 0 203,749 5
62,129 3 62,129 3
445,922 1 445,921 1
24,154 4 24,154 4
15,399 3 15,389 3
2,558 1 2,658 1
1,362 1 1,362 1
9,775 7 2,775 T
757,994 1 47 0 758,041 1
Cwt. qrs. lb. Cwt. qrs. lb. Cwt. qrs. lb.
57,291 218 421 0 757,972 2 25
57,291 21S 681 0 7 57,972 225

Total of Meal and

Flour I
By Ori

57491 2 18
r of the Comp

[ORE, Secretuy.

USE OF KELP AS A MANURE.•••We formerly drew
the attention of the public to the heavy loss sustained by the pro-
prieton of land in the Hebrides, Orkneys and West Coast, by the
disuse of kelp as an article of manufacture. At one period a popu-
lation of no less than 50,000 depended upon the kelp trade for sub-
sistence, and it constituted the principal part of the property of
many extensive Highland proprlttors, as well as those of a consider-
able extent of country in Ireland. Kelp, however, has sunk even
lower than wool ; and has been driven our of the market by other
alkalis, such as Walla, pot and pearl ash, and black ash. It was tn.
tural that the kelp proprietors should lament or condemn a course
of policy which reduced their valuable product to so low an ebb;
but instead of sinking into despair, they have for some time been
engaged in considering to what other purpose kelp alight be ad-
vantageously applied, and their exertions bid fair to be crowned
with success. A committee of gentlemen was appointed is Edin-
burgh to collect the result of a variety of experiments, in order to
ascertain the quality of kelp as a manure ; and though it is obvious
that it will require a succession of experiments to determine the
fact, the past success has been so far saaidactory as to induce that
spirited nebkman, Lord Dundee, to take a cargo of fifty tons of
kelp to Yorkshire. for the sole purpose of agricultural experiment.
—bowers= Owner. _ _ .

We are informed that the system of district banks is
about to be promoted in this county. Several eminent capitalists
have already entered into some preliminary arrangements ; and It Is
expected that the plan will be placed to practical operation before the
expiration of the winter. On ibis subject we copy the following from
a correspondent : It is now certain that arrangements us made
bicb will leaa to the commencement of a joint stock bank in the
county of Lincoln before many months shall have passed. This row.
cern will be on cleats adequate to the agricultural importance of the
district, and well adapted for raising and tubas:ging capital in all the
varied processes required. After tbe ace afforded by she Toro.
abbe, Lancashire, and Norfolk eats it Is not to bv doubted
that much advantage will result from a system which may be said
so make every manilla own banker, which providesi beadle's' in-
agonises& for suplus capital, that hopes teall without preference, and
erbishmst effectually disengages from the business of banking all
still rtak.and all possibility of converting the trodden's of the
a dangerous mine for speculations in land; coat and po-
ndissene. The john•stock bank can only be alpuille depo-
"Kiri kr die metrol of surplus capital, and &amnesties k ground
en urns
,approved of by parties interested. The present time is
*trot with' mods difficulty to the farmer and dealer, white an ear
=system of.hanking is likely to antelimate and
one-pound notes has. alsq produced some locostronivet rem
shat eau Pi-m*4W by 111 *suasion• of jaiat-steeli banhsi
psosbably. Ilse. in no small degree by. the beneSts of a lendable,
poppetitlso, in vrbkliptinie banks Dike every other trading Spe
Wm) melt take their OW,. nr modify their illansco agree with
ibis increasing expectations of thepublis—Lissorhs -
John Rimy, Ho. man engaged at one' of thifaMotiao '
.