... ON THE ADAPTATION OF DIFFERENT MA- NURES TO DJWFERENT CRops.-The records of nearly 20 years of experiments at Rothamsted have not afforded a single instance in which the application of ammoniacal salts to a cereal crop has failed to give a greater or less increase of produce. This is the case even where there has been a very unusual exhaustion of mineral consti- tuents; and this effect of ...

... LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. A SECOND newspaper in modern Greek has been addeOg to the list of the London journals. lis title is Tbeg Messenger of the Byzantine 'Nations, the Greeks, tbel Slavonians, the Daci ns, the Caucasians, and the Arabs, g THE inhabitants of Penzance are going- to honour ttie memory of their illustrious townsman, Sir Humphryi Davy. It is intended- to erect a granite column ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. ROGER EDWARDS' CHARITy.-In condensing our re- port of the meeting, last week, a few inaecuracies'occurred. In Mr. Baker's scheme, the word paid is twice inserted instead of fixed; and Mr. Blower and Mr. Jones only sanctioned that part of the scheme which related to the school. I he gifts to the poor, was a proposal from the Vicar, Churchwardens, and Guardian of Usk. With ...

... SEVERE WINTERS.—The Nord gives the fol- lowing details on the subject of rigorous winters:—In 1709 the cold was excessive throughout the whole of Europe; the Adriatic was completely frozen over; a general and destructive famine prevailed; food for the first necessity was at exorbitant prices; at Paris bread made of oaten flour was served at the tables of the rich and of princes. Cattle ...

... MURDER LY HOP-PICKERS. Four Irishmen, nav; d Timothy Sullivan, Charles M'Carthy, John M O rthy, and Patrick White, have been brought before the county magistrates at Maidstone, charged with having caused the death of a young man, named George Bennett, alias Reynolds, a labourer, living at Coxheath, near that town. The two last-named prisoners, however, were admitted as witnesses against the ...

... COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL. On the 4th inst., about five o'clock, a.m., a very serious collision took place in the Irish Channel between the screw steamer Semaphore, Captain Campbell, belonging to the Belfast Steam Ship Company, and the brig Nereid, )f Whitehaven, and resulted in the loss of the latter vessel, and the serious injury of the steamer. The Semaphore was on her way from Liverpool for ...

... THE MONET, STOCK, AND SHARE MARKETS has to a great extent, if not entirely, rec)vered its tone during the past seven days the easiness of the discount market and the plentiful supply of money occasioning this some- what unlooked-for buoyancy. It is rather surprising that the Bank directors did not reduce their minimum rate of discount at their meeting on the 30th ult., hut their failure to do ...

... T be correspondent of a contemporary dating from Buenos Ayres, September 29th, details a splendid victory for the constitutional party f the republic. Urquiza has been defeated with great loss, the affair being regarded as a complete triumph. The revolution of May, 1810, is ended, and for the fust time in history the Liberal party among the Argentine people is triumphant. The hasty dispatch ...

... (For the ensuing weei. FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES.—Look well to recently transplanted trees and shrubs, especially such as may have got shaken or partially uprooted by the recent high winds. Do not allow anything to suffer for want of water at the root. The soil about newly moved things should be kept moist but not saturated or run together by over watering, as is sometimes done. In the ...

... CHURCH BATES ABOLITION BILL.—Sir J. TRELAWNY moved the second reading of this bill. He said he would not dwell on the number of petitions which had been presented; but the fact was that during six weeks of the last session there were petitions presented in favour of the object of this bill having no less than 600,999 names attached to them. Neither would he enter into an explanation of the ...

... BOURBONS IN EXILE,-N OW that King Francis and his family have quitted Naples, there are in exile not fewer than 55 members of the Bourbon family out of the 74 who are the direct or collateral descendants of Louis XIV. The 55 are these: The Bourbons of Naples, con- sisting of King Francis, five brothers and four sisters; His Majesty's uncles—Prince de Capua and two children, Count d'Aquila and ...

... W. D. SIMPSON, Crayford, Kent, brickmaker. E. BOTIING, Brighton, grocer. J. B. IILTT, Cambridge, printseller. W. T. BELLIXGUAM. Graham-street, City, auctioneer. T. MOORE, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, licensed victualler. J CAnEY, Toiibridge-wells, Kent, boot and shoe maker. W. GKIFFIX, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, anchor maker. J. WEsyauisr, Gloucester, innkeeper. F. BEOTHEKTON, Middlesborough, ...