... CUKE FOR THE POTATOE DISEASE.—The Rcfjrme states that M. Ratier, a farmer, near Poictieis, has completely succeeded in preserving his potatoe crop from the prevailing malady, by placing a handful of common salt on each poition of seed. A similar experiment has been tried at Thaou. in the department of the Upper Rhine, with equal success, by M. Willien, a che- mist. In the latter case, twenty ...

... TUESDAY, JUNE 15. Lord Stanley rose to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice respecting British intervention in Portugal; and after premising that he was influenced by no desire of factious oppo- sition, but solely by a wish to justify the house against the sup- position that they approved the policy lately pursued in Portugal, proceeded to charge the government with having ...

... THE CRops.-I have. in the early part of this week, taken a ride through the extensive parish of Bedwelty, and minutely noticed the progress of vegetation on the best as well as the poorest land. Never, perhaps, has fine weather done so much in so short a time every description of crop shows health and luxuriance, particularly wheat, where there has been any thing like good farming; the ridges ...

... EDUCATION IN WALES an Argument for State Inter- ference, in reply to John Bright, Esq., M.P. By a Welsh Incumbent. Reprinted from the John Bull newspaper. A copy of this well-timed and forcibly-written parn- phlet has been received by us. It is addressed to the Premier; and is in reply to imputations made by Mr. Bright: first -That the Church has neglected the educa- tion of the people of ...

... MURDER.-On Friday a most atrocious murder was committed in open day near Rotherbam. A man named Linley, a joiner, was walking along the turnpike road, when he met a woman, 60 years of age, named Susannah Jaggers, when he turned from the footpath and seized her by the arm. She struggled to escape his grasp, got loose from him, and ran along the road. He followed and struck her on the back of ...

... 'IiIE IUl'IILA ,IAERS AND) TIIE BOAR. On tbe banks of the Albany tRier, which fills i:t to the lludson's lay, there is anioouget others a smoall coltny settled, iy hich is m ostly made up b3 emilgralts rioto the Highilaiids of St olaud. Though tile soil of tihe valleys ccnti-gioo to tthe river is ex erediogly rich and fi'tEfile, yet the winter being so long anti sererr thliee peeople do not ...

... We have the painful task to record the decease of D. Mushet, Esq., F.G S., M.C.E.. &c. &c at his residence in Monmouth, on the 5thinst., in his 77th year. Nature had been for some time sinking, from the effects of an attack in October last. Mr. Mushet has long earned himself a high reputation as the first manufacturer who gave the subject of iron and steel a practical exposition. Foreign ...

... BLAENAYON. WHIT MONDAY, MAY 24.—On Monday, the 24th instant, the officers and brethren of the Prince Howell the good Lodge, No. 541 of the Manchester Unity of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, celebrated their Sixteenth Anniversary at the Old Crown Inn, Blaenavon Woiks. The weather being very pro- pitious, a great number of the brethren assembled, who, together with visiting brothers from ...

... JUtrfceU Bing. Vaulting ambition doth o'erleap itself. IN the olden times there liyed a wicked, proud-hearted king, who thought of nothing else but conquering .11 the hods io the world, and making his name a terror to every one. He hurried about with tire and sword his soldiers trampled down the corn io the fields, and burned the houses of the peasants, so that the red flame seemed to lick ...

... SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. Third CaU, £ 5 per Share, making £ 15 paid. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That, pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors, the Proprie- tors of Shares in this Company are required to PAY the FOURTH INSTALMENT of E5 per Share, on or before the 12th day of JULY next, to any of the under- mentioned bankers:- London.wMessrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co. Liverpool.-The ...

... NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS of the PEACE, for the County of BRECON, will be held at the SHIRK-HALL, in BRECON, in and for the said County, on TUESDAY, the TWENTY-NINTH Day of JUNE next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, at which hour and place the Business relating to the Assessment, Application, or Managementof the County Rate or Stock will commence. And ...

... The consumptive demand for wheat has within the last few days increased materially, and, no corresponding increase having taken place in the deliveries from the growers, the supplies have scarcely sufficed 10 meet the inquiry; aud prices have, conse- quently, again begun to lend upwards, notwtthttandrcg the continuance of high-v auspicious weather, and very favourable reports from all paits of ...