... RAGLAN INSTITUTE.-Held over until next week. ...

... 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 ...

... AMERICAN INVENTIONS. — At the Societv of Arts, a paper read was Some Account of Aiiiericanfi-n- plements and Economic Contrivances, by C. W. Eddy, M.A., M.B., formerly Travelling Fellow-of the University of Oxford. The author said that he would first touch upon agricultural implements. The first he noticed was the American felling axe, so well known in timber regions. Large quantities of ...

... CREAM OF PUNCH., POT AND KETTLE. Being a Sheffield lesson as to the way a Constituency should treat its Member, and a Member should treat his Con- stituents. Dramatis Personæ. MR. ROEBUCK. A MOB. Enter to the Mob, MR. ROEBUCK. MOB. Yah Bah Whoo Off! Austrian Hum- bug Tyrant! Bah Whoo Off! MB. ROEBUCK. Hold that blackguard noise MOB. Bah! Yah! Whoo! Off! Shame! MB. R. You are a set of illogical ...

... FAR-FETCHED FUN. £ ) SOUND REASONING.-In a recent case of as- sault, the defendant pleaded guilty. I think I must be guilty, said he, because the plaintiff and I were the only ones in the room; and the first thing I knew was that I was standing up, and he was doubled over the table. You'd better call it' guilty. TOBACCO.—NEW ZEALANDERS.—One of the native poets of New Zealand thus praises ...

... For some months past the scientific world has been favourably made aware of the name of Mr. Petherick, her Majesty's consul for the Soudan. The exploration of the White Nile, the importation of a hippopotamus, and of that peculiar bird, Balteniceps Rex-the whale- headed storks which Mr. Petherick brought over, and which for many months were among the chiefest attrac- tions to the Zoological ...

... On Tuesday, the proceedings under a writ lunatico inquirendo, issued on the petition of the Hon. James King and Colonel E. R. King, in reference to the state of mind of the Right Hon. Richard Henry, Earl of King- ston, were opened by Mr. Commissioner Warren, Q.C., in the Hall of Clement's-inn, London. The petitioners were represented by Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Hodgson, and the Earl ...

... THE COURT, &c. GENERAL FLEURY gave a childs' ball last week to the Imperial Prince and about a hundred children of cour- tiers and foreign ambassadors. Most of the children were in fancy dresses, some of which were very splendid. The Imperial Prince wore a Pierrot's costume of white satin. The Empress was present and remained to the end of the entertainment. His Royal Highness the Prince of ...

... QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 7. The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, from New York on the 27th ult., arrived off this port at 9 p.m., landed all mails except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 9.20 p.m. She brings 44 passengers. She experienced easterly winds all across the Atlantic. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald states that the Cabinet was considering the question of evacuating Fort ...

... MONDAY, APRIL 8. THE KOSSUTH NOTES.-In the House of Com- mons, in answer to Mr. T. Duncombe, Sir G. C. Lewis said that no instructions had been given by Sir R. Mayne or himself to obtain information with regard to the notes which had been in course of manufacture by Messrs. Day for M. Kossuth; and he must decline to state any- thing further in reference to the obtaining of one of the notes by ...

... FmDAY, APRII. 5. R. G. DEAST, Trig-wharf, Upper Thames-street, lead, glass, and colour merchant. R SCOTT and W. T. SCOTT, Southampton, tailors. T. D. CARTER, Blue Anchor-yard, Coleman-street, City livery stable keeper. W. S. RHODES, Milton-next Gravesend, Kent, licensed victualler. C. ORMOM), Hemington, Northamptonshire, buyer and letter of thrashing machines for hire, and corn thrasher. G. T. ...

... TUESDAY, APRIL 9. DENMARK AND HOLSTE IN.-In answer to the Earl of Ellenborough, Lord 1V ODE HOUSE corrected a statement made by him on a former evening in reference to the dispute between Denmark and Holstein. He had not intended to say that the Danish Government had submitted the entire budget of the kingdom to the Diet of Holstein, but only that part of it which referred to Holstein itself. ...