Star.
London, England, 1829-07-15 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL I

GOVERNMENT CONTRAC"
Yexterdav the Coy+•--'

jeaty's Nary took contracts
SUpr, and .100,000 gallons

contracted to be delivered at .
the rum wait contracted to be

and Is. 9id. per gallon. There
for the rum, and three large houses ha►e portion, of the
contract. The contract was taken on much lower terms
than the last.

Setzunn by TII Excisr.—A few days ago a very
extensive seizure of soap, in nn unentered manufictory,
'situate in Sanilv-lane, Fulham, took place. Tho pre-
raises were fitted up in a most complete style to ea; yr on
an extensive business. The duty upon the soap !)v
the dicers, at the rate of 28s. the cwt. would have
amounted to 421. and the fraud upon the Revenue by the
working of that factory alone, is supposed to he at the
rate of 601. a week for a considerable time past.
The farmers of Northumberland have trenerally s:J;xl
very high for the management of their land and for tlx
breeding of stock. We have just heard of a saie of
sheep which seems strikingly to show their skill in t.ed-
ing or breeding, or both. Mr. Niel, of Rosden, totrint
of Sanderson Ilderton, Esq. of Ilderton, High Sheriff of
the county, lately sold twenty clipped two-year-old wet her
sheep to a jobber for 601. _ _

The quarterly sale of indigo commenced this morning
at the Fast India House. It consists of about 1,-IT.)
cheats Madras, 600 chests ()ode, and 4,000 chests Ben-
gal, with a few Java, &c. About 700 chests were sod
this morning, chiefly Bengal. The orders appear to be
very limited, and the sale, so fir, has gone off rather
heavily, at a reduction from the prices of the April sale,
of from 3d. to 6tl. the lb. on the fine, and from 61 to
9d. on the ordinary qualities of Bengal indigo, and at
these rates some proportion was bought in.
NORTH MAIL.—At the last Rows-shire county meet-
ing, it was resolved to send a copy of Sir (curie
Mackenzie's letters to the Convener, on the subject of
the conveyance of the north mail by the Highland road,
to the Post-office department in London, with an earnest
request that the plan contained in it should be adopted
with such modification as might seem to be necessary in
practice. It was at the same time recommended that the
burghs should send separate memorials. The county of
Inverness has also stirred in the matter, and we think it
is highly probable that the plan will be adopted. It has
been sufficiently proved that communication by the
Highland road is as little likely to be impeded by snow
as the coast road, by which the mail is now transmitted.
—lnverness Courier.

HERRING Bot'S TI ES.—At the Ross-shire Comity
Meeting, on Friday, a memorial was directed, on the
motion of Sir G. S. Mackenzie, to be forwarded to the
Treasury, praying for the continuance of the superinten-
dence of the fisheries for a few years after the bounties
shall have been withdrawn, which they will be after the
sth of April next, when the Act authorising them ex-
pires. Bounties were given for the purpose of inducine
our population to become fishers ; and the eagerness with
which the people on the coast now follow the business,
supersedes the necessity for further encouragement.
It appears to be necessary, however, to continue for some
time longer the regulations as to the size of herrings and
the mode of curing : there are many engaged in the fish-
eries tempted by the bounties, who care little for the cha-
racter of British cured fish in the market, and who, if the
restrictions were all at once removed, might injure that
character, and consequently affect the fishing, as a source
of national wealth : the bounties being withdrawn, and
the regulations continued for a few years, those only will
prosecute the trade who understand that their own inter-
est is inseparably connected with the proper condition of
the fish sent to market ; and when the withdrawal of the
bounties shall have removed mere adventurers from the
fishing, the regulations may afterwards be abandoned,
and the trade left to itself on the security of the capital
employed on it.
SHEEP.—The following plan for Wintering Sheep, af-
ter a summer of severe drought, and when the scarcity of
fodder renders a resort to some other expedient necessary,
is adopted with great success, by a farmer of New York.
About the 15th of December he commences feeding
them. He divides the sheep into flocks of 100 or
thereabout, and gives them daily half a gill of corn in
the ear, dividing it so as to give half in the morning,
and the residue in the course of the evening ; except
that to the lambs he allows nearly the same quan-
tity of oats in the sheaf. He feeds in this way till
about the New-year, when the quantity of grain is a little
increased ; so that between the 15th of December and the
15th of April, he says, he actually fed, to 380 sheep 14.5
bushels of corn, and to 120 lambs 40 bushels of oats—
which would be something less than a gill of corn and oat
per heat], per day, to both sheep and lambs during the
winter. The flock have little more than enough of hay to
form a cud, except that in extreme cold weather he directs
them to be full fed on hay. In this manner 501) sheep
were wintered, with the loss of only three lambs ; and at
the opening of the spring they were in better health and
condition than any flock he ever witnessed in any season
since he has been engaged in rearing sheep and growing
wool.

FALL; LAN Walter Scott, in company with the
Chief Baron and some other gentlemen, paid a visit to
Falkland on Monday week. The appearance of the dis-
tinguished Baronet in that ancient seat of royalty gave
rise to as many conjectures among the town's folks; as a
visit from the gudeman of Ballengievh vvou'd have done
among their ancestons. It was surmised by some that a new
novel was on the tapir, in which Falkland was to have the
honour of furnishing the hero, and Fife the scenery ;
by others that Sir Walter had been sent by the King to
ascertain if it was really true that the ruins nt Falkland
had again assumed an appearance worthy of one of the
Scottish palaces ; and some supposed that other improve-
ments are projected by the present liberal proprietor, still
farther to grace the national associations of his domain.
and in which he desired the ()Onion of the first of Scottish
literati and antiquarians. Of course the mystery remains
unsolved ; and as the author of each conjecture remain.:
Convinced of the correctness of his own, we hope they may
be all in the right.—Fife Herald.

CORN—EXCHANGE, MARK—LANK Jima' IS.
There were a few country buyers at market this morning ; very
little business was done, bet Monday's prices were sustained for
ins Wheat and Barley. Oats continue bulltale, but not cheaper.

WWI KOMMT.
510 Foreign .
I Oats, Foreign
1101100 English
• —l Irish .
• r•— Flour (mks) .