... Moot. OF INCREASING POTATOE CROPS.—M. Zeller, Diiecto of the Agricultural Society of Darmstadt, in 1839 planted two plots of ground, of the same sizc, wilh potatoes when the plants had flowered, the blossoms were removed from those In the first field, while those in the other field were left untouched. The former produced 47 ...

... An account of coal and iron brought down the Tram-road, during the week :— 7,228 tons, 4 cwt. Iron. 1,302 6 An account of coal and iron brought down the Canal, during the week 925 tons. 1934 MR. ScitALr.EtiN's CONCERT.—On Tuesday se'n- night, Mr. Selisllchn gave a grand concert, which was iittended by a uumerous and highly fashionable audience, amongst whom were Mrs. Williams, of Llangibby ...

... iL Richards, W. E. It illiums, ami J. William 3'orgaD> of Llantrissant, weaver, was charged witb violently Rssauti..r,g his brother-in-law, John Llcweilin, on Sunday the 14th io»v.^n, 8nd also deliberately breaking bis ann with a p ...

... ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. The recital of the following affecting narrative will, it is presumed, create a sympathy in the minds of the public, and will lead, it is hoped, to a development of a transaction, which at present appears a perfect mystery, if not a cruel and artful transaction. The editor of Trueman's Exeter Flying Post is mware of the correctness of the narrative, and will furnish fur. ...

... FltANCE. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday by our usual express. The case of a negress of Guadaloupp, confined for twenty-two months in a stone kennel, less than three feet iong, and (lie acquittal of her master for this atrocily by the colonial ti lbunal, gave rise to an animated debate in the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday. M. Lacrosse made the complaint, and terminated by asking ...

... SHIPPING AND MERCANTILE. N FORI IMPORTS for lhe «»i.iVs.r M:u~rh 1 ot-h, 1841. Ceorg.>, Tanipliu, Bris'oi cask ci soap. P. Thomas 12 bar- rels tar, A. Crossfield barrel of pork, Stouehouse and Co. Z barrels of tar, c ask of oil. 2 casks paint, cask of sulpher, cask of alum, Garrail Bmth-ers, sacks flour, 10 bales bacon, Jf hags and a hogshead of -sugar, W, Evans bag ol nails, ran ot oil, keg ...

... INTERNAL MACHINES—The Times gives a formidable account of an experiment which was tried on Saturday with the infernal machine for destroying ships, citie*' and armies, which it was last autumn anxiously urgi £ Lord Melbourne to patronize. In this experiment 4 boa'» twenty-three feet long and seven broad, filled with sol'd timber, firmly rivetted together, was in a moment shattered into a ...

... NEWPORT POLICE OFFICE.—MARCH 9, 1841. Before Thomas Hawkins, Esq. Mr. Hawkins attended at 7 o'clock this evening to take the examinations against 18 individuals who had been taken up in the course of the two preceding days for s'ealing a quantity of beer, the property of Messrs. Allfrey, from 3 tram on (he tram- road, near the Salutation, on Saturday and Sunday nights last. A great crowd of ...

... Before Major Mackicnrth Thomas Fothergill Estjs. • William Jones v, William Hunt—Non-payment of wages. Dismissed with costs. Jonah Evans v. Joseph Sharp-Non-payment of wages. Ordered to pay 7s., and costs. Richard Godwin, process-server, Pontypool, was charged wilh obtaining certaill sums of money from Hopkin Davis, by false pretences, and committed to take his trial at the ensuing Assizes. ...

... Sin, From the filihy state in which the streets of Abeiga- venny arc allowed to remain, 1 am induced to send you these few lines, hoping that if they meet the eye of the Contractor, who has engaged to keep them clean, he will endeavour for the future to order his scavengers, when tbey are swept up in the morning, to have the mud and dirt accumulated from the same, carted away before the ...

... The Assizes for this county were holden on Thursday, the 25111 of February, before the lion. Sir Thomas Coltman, one of her Majesty's Justices of the Court of Common Pleas.-J oseph Martin, Esq., High Sheriff. The Sheriff's ordinary on Wednesday, 24th February, was very respectably attended, and a greater number of carriages foimed tlie procession to meet the Judge than we have seen for some ...

... On Thursday evening last, a council meeting was held at the public office, Commercial Huitdings present, Mr. George Gething, in the chair, Messrs. James Gough, Samuel Jones, John Johns, Daniel Tombs, Thomas Morris, Frederick Webb, and Stephen Iggulden. Mr. Morris laid beforo the council a plan of that portion of the corporation property about to be submitted for sale, to en- able the council ...