... THE FARMER'S COLUMN. HEREPATH ON THE POTATOE DISEASE. [To THE EDITOIl] SIR.—Since I last addressed yon on the potatoe disease, 1 have received numerous communications on the subject from different parts of England and the Continent, and have been repeatedlyappli.d to for a full description the changes I have proposed to introduce in the mode of cultivation now adopted, with the view of ...

... TREDEGAR. A writer, who signs himself Cymro Bach cwm Rhose, respectfully and earnestly urges upon the paymasters of the great Works in this place, the great convenience which would result to the operatives by the pay being made at an earlier hour in the day,—say ten in the morning, instead of two o'clock in the afternoon. A variety of advantages to the workmen are mentioned as inducements to ...

... THE ftioniriiittfljoljii? Jtlrrlni. NEWPORT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1853. EAST INDIAN RAILWAYS AND AME- RICAN SLAVERY. FOR a long time, the MERLIN has co-operated with those who have advocated the promotion of cotton cultivation in our East Indian possessions, commercially, that a wider supply might ensure moderate prices,—protect us from the serious consequences of fluctuation in the American ...

... NEWPORT TOWN HALL.—THURSDAY. Present Stephea Iggulden (Mayor), William Evans, and R. F. Woollett, Esqrs. THE GREAT ROBBERY IN FRIARS' FIELDS. Elizabeth Smith, John Davies, William Gregory, Ann Lewis, Catherine ReJS, and Catherine Sullivan (defended byMr. J.G.H. Owen, and Isaac Phillips (defended by Mr. J. Philpotis), were charged with stealing eleven £ '10 notes of the Bank of England, and £ ...

... USK. THE REGISTRATION. On Wednesday, the I2th inst., T. C. Sneyd Kitinersley, Esq., the revising barrister, held his Court at the Town-hall, to revise the county list of voters for the division of Usk, and also to. revise the list for the borough of Usk. This dirision contains twenty-nine parishes. There were no county objections, either by the Liberals or Conservatives, except as to the ...

... DISASTROUS SHIPWRECK. The following is an account of the foundering at sea, in lat. 33 N., long. 26 on the 13th of September, of the barque Henry Horbeck, Captain True, from Cardiff to New York, laden with railroad iron. Ten men, in eluding the captain and a woman and child, were saved. On the 8th of September, at 12 p.m., it came on to blow hard from the southward, when the ship was hove to ...

... i urs ay morning, intelligence was received by the firm of Messrs. Ashurst and Son, solicitors, of the Old Jewry, of the capture of Michael Thomas Stacey Welsh, at Southampton, under the following circumstances:- Some years ago Welsh was made a bankrupt upon the pe- tition of Mesf8- Whlte, Son, and Co., wholesale ware- housemen, 101, Lheapside; but he had previously disposed of hia stock, &c., ...

... ERRATUM.—In our article, last week, on East Indian Railways, for the French paper, read Mr.Webb's paper. HASTE TO THE WEDDING !—Yesterday, A carriage, containing a gay bridal party, proceeding from Christchuich, got so deeply imbed.led in the mud of the Moors, that the strength of waggon horses was necessary, to extricate the vehicle from its awkward position. BURGLARY.—Yesterday morning, ...

... NASH. BAD ROADS-A correspondent, who has often occasion to travel to and from Nash, complains of the roads being in so bad a state, that he considers himself warranted in believing that there can be no attention paid to the matter. Horses stumble and break their knees; spring carts get jostled, and farmers' wives and daughters are as much endangered as arc the vehicles' springs while ...

... PON i. YPOOL. ST. JAMES'S CHAPEL, PONTYPOOL.- We are pleased to notice the rapid progress that has been made during the last fortnight, in the works carrying forward for the altera- tions of St. James's chapel of ease. The chancel windows are two or three feet above the sills, and the vestry is nearly completed; so that we hope to congratulate the townsfolk on its speedy completion, and on ...

... PEMBROKE. THE SOUTH WLUES RAILWAY.—The cutting, along5 upper part of X eyland pill are proceeding with rapidity, there being now a considerable number of employed upon them still, at Neyland itself, it is STRAW' it is passing strange, to say that no preparation is B6' made for the pier or jetty for the large steam packet3' which that is to be their arrival and starting point. 1 ■ to be hoped ...

... APPREHENSION OF ARISTOCRATIC GAMBLERS AT THE COCOA TREE CLUB, ST. JAMES'S- STRELT. The following prisoners were apprehended at about two o'clock on Sunday morning, engaged in gambling :—Wm. Brown, Frederick Thomas, George Hunter, George Liley, James Webster, George Williams, John Fredericks, Wm. Jackson, Samuel Hawkins, George Frith, Wm. Richards, James Joel, Henry Baker, Henry Thompson, ...