... GOOD NEWS FOR POTATO EA.TERS. Fora long series of years it has been the fashion to abuse potatoes. No doubt all the world ate them and BREACH OF PROMISE OF MAna TA a f A n ee c e a ß c r t rd i i o e, n rcey w r a va s . tried on Monday, at the Salford ...

... breadth of land has been devoted to the potato; and it is stated in letters from the south, that already, even in harvest time, several farmers are manuring with seaweed near the , coast, to prepare the soil for the potato crop of next year. This has occurred ...

... both of these crops are everywhere admitted to be excellent. In most places, also, people are beginning to discover that the potato disease is far from being so bad as was feared; and it is said that some Irish corn-factors have already been convinced that ...

... her performances in the House of Correction. ANGUS B. REACII. THE POTATO DISEASE. — At the l as t s itti ng of the A ca demy of Sciences several communications were read on the potato malady and the means Of p reven ti on. M . Brierre, of Saint-Miche ...

... without a pilot. The inhabitants are not so robust as the English, nor do they live so long. They subsist chiefly on yarns, potatoes, and cocoa nuts. Once a week they taste fish or flesh, which they obtain by fishing and killing the goats on the island. ...

... FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11. BANKRUPTS.—Henry Stagg, grocer, Croydon. to s rren der Dec. 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy; John potato dealer, Outwell, Dec. 20, at eleve n, at the uunec. of Bankruptcy; Thomas Speed, butcher, Liverpool , ' olø 23, at eleven ...

... churchyard-ground. We are as we were; and in all probability the cholera is as it !was—coming. It followed the potato-rot: we have symptoms of potato-rot this autumn. It twice entered Europe by Poland: it is in Poland now. Fifty cases are said to have occurred ...

... IRELAND puiniN.—The blight in the potato now causes much less alarm than in former years, although most of the accounts from the country, especially from Connaught, are exceedingly unfavourable. The alarm, in all likelihood, is much exaggerated; but, ...

... THE HARTEST.—The weather still continues uncertain, but not not very unfavourable for harvest business. The reports of the potato crop are again rather encouraging, and it appears to be the general belief that the disease is abating, if not altogether ...

... packet, which state that two decrees, dated December 25, had been published by the king, one forbiddirg the exportation of potatoes, dried peas, beans, and maise; and the other levying on the exportation of olive oil four ducats the cantara when in Neapolitan ...

... military in garrison. A squadron of the 3rd dragoon guards, with infantry and police in their rear, were formed up in the potato market; when a sudden and wanton attack was made on the dragoons, for no cause save that of the corps being almost exclusively ...

... more Active than they lutve been -for years. The consumption of articles of comfort and luxury has largely increased. The potato crop seems to have been grossly calumniated, not being by any means in the diseased condition that it was represented. There ...