The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-07 00:00:00

TO TUE EDITOR OF THE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

It is now evident that the potato disease is likely to
prove injurious to this year's crop of this valuable vege-
table in this country, and in Ireland the whole crop
is threatened with destruction. It is, therefore, a
matter of the deepest interest to ascertain, if possible,
how the evil is to be remedied. My own opinion is, that
the potato has beer. so long propagated by cutting in-
stead of seed, that it has gradually deteriorated, until it
has become fatally diseased, and that the remedy is to
procure potatoes for planting which have been pro-
pagated recently from the seed. I wish to call the at-
tention of the public to the fact, that a gentleman in
this city, Rev. N. S. Smith, has been for several years en-
gaged in his garden in producing the potato from seed,
muchYo
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and with great success. He commenced, as he informed
me, some four years since, by sowing the seed from the
ball. These, the first year, produced a very small tuber.
The next year he planted the tuber, and also sowed the
seed which was produced from the vine of the new tuber.
The tuber, as is usual, next produced a potato of a large
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was the result in both cases. This remarkable fact is
now stated by Mr. S. that the seed of his new potato
will now produce a potato of a respectable size, and,
while the seed of the old worn out plant at first gives a
potato hardly the size of a pea, the seed of the potato so
renewed will now produce a tuber of an eatable size.
This, to my mind, shows clearly the process by which
the potato is recovering its vital energy. Besides, the
new potatoes are finer in the texture than the old, pro-
duce more, and show no signs of the potato disease,
though planted in the vicinity of those affected by it, and
are as hard and fine in the spring as when put in the
cellar in the fall. Mr. Smith has been many years en-
gaged in his garden in producing this result, and he has
now a large quantity of the renewed potato on hand of
different varieties. Every farmer and gardener should
procure some of them for seed, for lam very confident
that their product will be found entirely free from the rot.
Mr. Smith lives in Jefferson-street, and will give a
more fall statement to any desirous of seeing or pur-
chasing the renovated potato. The same plan has been
resorted to in Germany, and I understand with equal
success. The different varieties of this potato will be
exhibited at the annual agricultural fair in this country.
P.

Cuurcn EXTENSION.—The following new churches
are at present in course of erection in various parts of
the country, under the auspices of her Majesty's Com-
missioners:—Ashton-under-Lyrae, 696 seats, 500 free,
founded October 9, 1846; Birstall Wyke, Yorkshire,
704 seats, all free., founded, October 1, 1845; Brighton,
(All Saints,) 1,200 seats, 701, free, founded April 18,
1846; Bury, Lancaster, 832 seats, 365 free, founded
December, 1844; Gateshead, Durham, 588 teats, 284
free; Howard's Town, Glossop, 1,000 seats, 500 free,
fforeuendfeodunde
September
Septembertem ber2 7, 11864, 41;8415I7Hearcticonne,
Hackney,
seats,seats, all
19r93d
yn93eotsrti:f ,
free,
ffsf(o.
seatsrudnsd h ei
rd e 3 , May l5, 1845; King's Cross, Halifax,
e4n6s;
Quarrybank, Staffordshire, 596 seats, 364 free, founded May 8, 1845; Keighley,
free,Gsh, iarlel founded. 7 free,.ts
foundeds eaAtugauxl
I frsi ta,rlceBhe4,2s4, P
18unded
October 28, 1845; Llangollen, 322 seats, all free,
founded June 24, 1845; Hamilton-terrace, St. John's
1W)
u0r0hda,m1,,455844 seats 400
184
free;free, foundedE November, 1845;
Well-street, St. Marylebone, 1,200 seats, all free,
founded January 13, 1846; Merthyr Tydvil, 1,208 seats,
600 free, founded March 23,1a8s4t6boAmlopntkon, weaormidohuarath:
586 seats, 340 free; Waterhead Mill, Oldham, 300 scats,
all free, founded March 11, 1846; Walstlen, Lancashire,
633 seats, 246 free, founded May 1, 1846; Rowley
Regis, 1,216 seats, 716 free, founded October 24, 1845;
Whitechapel, 1,006
1845 ; Wool ch, 1,250 seats, 653 free, founded May
7, 1845. seats, all free, founded Michaelmas,i
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lIAPPY IS THE WOOING THAT NOT LONG A
DOING.—In a single recent number of the Washington
Intelligenccr are paragraphed three marriages. The
first was a couple who had met at Vicksburg, on their
way westward, and as the boat in which they had to
embark was waiting, they were married in the strret,
not to lose the boat. The second couplo were married
in a Newhayen steamer, chancing to agree during the
six hours'
Pass
The third case was rather more romantic. A Spaniard,
just arrived at New Orleans from Rio Grande, went on
age, being on board.
and a clergyman b
board a steamer bound for St. Louis. A German lady,
just landed from a voyage across the Atlantic, and be-
longing to a party of emigrants' chanced to be a pas-
senger in the same boat. Oa the second day of their
passage to the Mississippi, though they did not under-
stand a word of each other's language, they were married
by a justice of peace, who was on board, having courted
and made the bargain by aid of an interpreter I To
these examples of notable diligence (all recorded in one
day's paper) may be added one more instance of much
the same spirit, as to making the most of the present
morcent. A Texas paper complained, a few days ago,
that a certain candidate for Congress, Judge Baylor, has
an unfair advantage over his competitor, as he can, and
does, electioneer tram the pulpit and bench as well as
from the stump (hustings or platform). He is a clergy-
man as well as a judge and politiciau.—Americun paper.