... PREVENTION OF POTATOE PUTREFACTION. Mr. J, Prideaux, a Devonshire agriculturist, in a letter which he has addtessed to the Editor of the Exeter Flying Post* recommends the use of soot as a remedy for the tendency o potatoes to putrefaction. The writer observes that the history of the potatoe disease, trom its appearance, a hundred years ago, is that of an increasing tendency to putrefaction ...

... DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. Ve believe that we can wiih cofidence announce an early if not an immediate dissolution of Parliament. This will. explain why no steps have been taken to provide seals for 1 £ Secretary, the Irish Secretary, and the seatless Lords of the Treasury and Admiralty. Ttie motives that acceleraled lhe dissolution are probably theseTha Whigs calculate upon a majority after ...

... At the Office of Messrs. Birch and Davis. Magistrates present—The Rev. J. Coles and O. Morgan, Esq. M.P. THE POLICE SUPERINTENDENT CHARGED WITH AN INTRIGUE. Nay by my staff, you do me grievous wrong Think'st thou, because I hold a place of trust, In which mine office is to check the sinning, And speak the law against improper freedoms, Which others revel in—I must be PURE, And have no taint of ...

... Recently delivered in the American Senate. I am opposed to war as a friend to human improvement, to human civilization, to human progress and advancement. Never in the history of the world has there occurred a period so remark- able as the peace which followed the battle of Waterloo, for the great advances made in the condition of human society, and that in various forms. The chemical and ...

... REVIVALS IN BIRMINGHAM.—Much sensation has been excited in Birmingham for some weeks past, by some very extra. ordinary exhibitions in two placesof worship connected with tbe Wesleyan Episcopal sect. It seems that for sixty successive nights the large chapel in Cherry-street was crowded to excess, and hundreds could not obtain admission. Latter:y the exhibit. Ofll have moved to another part ...

... DOMESTIC NEWS. | We believe that there is no doubt that the royal visit to Paris is postponed until next year.— Evening Paper. The Right Hon. the Earl of Elroll, Lord High Constable and Knight Marischal of Scotland, K.T., G.C.H., and P.C., Lord Lieutenant of the county of Aberdeenshire, expired at the man- sion of Viscouot Campdeo, in Portman-square, yesterday (Sun- day) morning, the 19th ...

... IRELAND.—A coasting sloop, laden with flour, has been at. tacked in the river near the town of Clare, and 15 tons forcibly carried off. At Clonmel, Tipperary, Limerick, Keny, aod other places, there have been riots, io consequeoce of the starving po- pulation aeiziog 00 food, coro, &c. The Marquess of Walerford, it is said, has evicted 247 tenants. He paid tbem £2 a piece for pulling down ...

... THE IRISH CURFEW BELL.—-As no persnn in Ireland is to bs allowed to leave his house after a certain hour of night, Punch reepeclfully ukl LOld Lincoln, how the evicted tenants are to manage, who have no houses to remain in 1 Are they to roolt io the bedgi-s I An answer will oblige. A SURE CAPTURE,— We recommend the following plan to the King of the French as an infalliable one for taking A bd ...

... PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, APRIL 17. The house resumed its sitting aher the Easter recess. Sir R. Peel, in reply to a question from Mr. R. D. Browne, said the goternoent bad made eveiy possible provision for the relief of distress and the suppression of outrage in Irelaod. Both his light hon. friend (Sir J. Glaham) aDd himself had received information, from time to ...

... THE determination of Government to proceed with this Bill, renders it fitting that we should again call attention to its very objectionable provisions, respecting which but little information seems as yet to be generally possessed. One main feature of the measure is its costliness. The Lord Chancellor, after eulogizing the Court of Chancery, made en important admission, by adding that it an ...

... OUR nlUNIBU8. METHOD or READING.—Every man should keep mioutes of what he lead*. Every circumstance of his studies should be re- corded—what books he has consulted—how much of them he has read—at what times—how often the same authors—and what opinions he formed of them at different periods of his life. Such an account would much illustrate 'he history of his mind. Wine is such a whetatone for ...

... THE frequency of a disordered state of the Digestive Organs, occurring in the people of this country, and the melancholy circumstances to which they give rise, are truthstoo often witnessed and painfully endured, to require here the symptoms to recognise the complaint. The numbers of authors who have elahoratclv written upen this insidious atfeetion, would take an industrious reader years to ...