3 SEPTEMBER 1859, Page 4

IRELAND.

Reports come from the south of Ireland that the potato disease has extensively reappeared.' Such reports, more or less unfounded, have pre- ceded every harvest for the last eleven years, but in this case some facts are stated very positively. The Cork Examiner says-

" In one instance that has come to our knowledge a splendid field of fif- teen acres, excellent land and highly cultivated, the crop on which was at one time expected to realize 5001., is now become absolutely worthless. In many cases half and even two-thirds of the crops have been lost. An es- teemed correspondent informs us that the blight has set in with deadly viru- lence along the coastfrom Kinsale to Clonakilty.