Star.
London, England, 1826-08-14 00:00:00

SALES OF ESTATES.

The following Iratates were brought to the hammer on Friday,
at the Aston Mart, by Mr. Howes.
A Freehold, and small part Copyhold Estate, situate in the parish
of Great Easton. near Dunmow,in the County of Eases, comprising
an catenates residence, with numerous attached domestic GEM.
waled garden, orchard, shrubbery, trout.atream, outbuildings, and
nerdy eighty acres of land; also, sundry farms, farm yards, cot-
tages, agricultural and other buildings. and enclosures of meadow,
putts% arable, and wood land ; containing In the whole, including
the land attached to the residence, on. hundred and silty acres,
land.taz redeemed--fixtures in the house, and timber on the notate,
to be taken at a valuation—knocked down at £9,700.
A Freehold Residence, Weatbers9eld, near Braintree. Essex,
comprising a mansion.hone, with domestic °aces, farm-yard,
walled garden, barn, sheds, and other buiklings, and mien acres of
land—,Cl,94o. •
A Freehold Estate, comprising a dwelling house, situate No. 19,
Lincoln's Inn Fields, with paved yard, coach house, stabling, and
loft Over, subject to a land tax of £9 10s. per annual-44910.
THE HERRING FISHING!

The following is a letter from a Gentleman in Ork-
ney. eminent for his talents and extensive information g
The hert ing fishing in Orkney is going on with great
success this season. compared with former periods. Eight
years ago thete were not eight herring boats belonging
to the inhabitants of the Orkney islands ; and the curers
and vesse's from the west coast of Scotland, and from
Leland, passed through the islands to purchase her-
rings at Wick or Cromarty ; and returned, often late in
the winter, with their cargoes, to wait in the Orkney
islands a favourable opportunity of getting to the west-
ward. Ihete are now above five hundred sail of herring
boats assembled in the beautiful little harbour of Papa
Sound, and between forty and fifty sail of vessels from
Ireland and the west coast of Britain, purchasing their
fish, and sailing every day with cargoes. From the
entire absence of aid and encouragement, with the con-
comitant expenses of harbour dues, and pier dues, and
anchorage dues, and ground-leave for curing, and from
the natural advantages of the harbour, its easy access,
its safety, its proximity to the fishing ground, and its
favourable situation for a start to the westward, this
station is now second only to Wick in that branch of
our northern fishery which consists in supplying curers
from Ireland and the western parts of England and
Scotland, with their green fish. As the curers take
their cargoes to their own ports in general, to be made
up and branded for the bounty, this extensive branch of
the fishery does not enter into the annual report of our
Scotch Fishery Board ; and fortunately perhaps for this
station. the curers areas free from idle interference and
regulations for the conducting of their own business,
as they are from expenses.-43 August, MS."

The following- 'snits were lately delivered to the
parish-officers, by four individuals, who were willing to
contract for repairing, with Parker's cement, one side of
a church is the county of Hens, not including the
steeple, which had been previously repaired,—vis. 1,2501.
1.1501.6501. 3301.—A contract was entered into at the
lowest offer, and the parish officers appear satisfied with
the manner in which the work is now in progress.
An aged farmer. whose farm is a little south of
Edinburgh, has kept a journal of his farming opera.
tions for the last thirty years; during which time the
earliest periods he has commenced hat vest work, were
route on the 3 st, and again, on the 2d August. Accord-
ing to his domestic record. the harvest this season has
commenced six weeks earlier than the average period
of the preceding thirty years.
The young lioquois Chief, who has been residing for
some time at Paris, has embarked at Havre on his re-
turn to America, accompanied by a missionary, and
taking with him the body of Sr. Felix, three pieces of
the real cross, some of the bones of St. Peter and St.
Paul, and of several other saints; besides ten gold and
silver medals, six large copper ones, and thirty small
ones, with an agate crown, estimated at 6000 francs,
and a chaplet, said to be worth 2000 francs!!
The boys of St. Paul's were famous for acting myss
teries, or holy plays • and were also amongst the very
fi tof those who performed the more regular dramas.
They trequently exhibited before our Monarchs, and
even so early as the year 1378, or second of Richard the
Second, they petitioned the King to prohibit some
ig-
norant and ,4 inexpert people from presenting the history
of the Old Testament, to the great prejudice of the said
Clergy, who have been at great expense tr) represent it."
The project of a canal to unite the 10 ine with the
Seine, thus giving Paris the advantage of water com-
munication, and extending to Havre de Grace, is still
pursued. Engineers are employed in surveying the in-
termediate cout.try, and this great project bas roused
intense interest.