... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... IT appears, from the Irish papers, that a ray of improvement gleams over the face of the unhappy Island,—that the relief measures, devised by Government, are working, in several districts, with a healthy effect,-and that although the potatoe blight has again made its ill-omened appearance in some quarters, the hope-inspiring condition of the other crops generally, on which the people rely, is ...

... THE CHURCH.—The Rev. Charles Earl Marsh, M.A., been instituted by the Master and Fellows of Pembroke Collet Cambridge, to the rectory of Sail, in the county of Norfolk. ( APPOINTMENT —We have great pleasure in announcing th the Rev. Mr. Irving, of Llantrissent, and the Rev. Mr. Blo^ vicar of Llangua, are appointed trustees to Roger Edward': Charity, vice the Rev. James Ashe Gabb and the Rev. ...

... THE GREAT BRITAIN.—Several large cases, capable of car- rying thirty or forty tons of sand, or other material, are made, or are in progress of being made, on the sand opposite this noble ship, and a number of balks are being fitted with large sheaves. The Great Britain has been raised several feet, with- out any external application, except the lifting forward, by four large spars and penchans ...

... Liverpool, Sunday Night. The British and North American loyal mail steam-ship Bri- tannia, Captain Harrison, entered the river to-night, after the IDOSt f8pid passages ever made by thia celebrated hoe of ateam. ship*—having left Boston on the 1st, and reached bout the 13ih. The political news by this arrival is unimportant. From the seat of war we learn that there has been little or DO chaoge. ...

... HOI.LOWA Y'SPII.LS.—Cure of a Liver and Stomach Complaint. -1 he son of Mr. Thompson, National School Master, Stokely, had been in a most precarious way for upwards of three years, and at last became so consumptive as to be apparently in a dying stale. Three fistulous sores formed in his chest, so that the stomach usually lejected both food and medicine. Mr. Robert Calvert, chemist, Stokeley, ...