NEWPORT, a village, in the parish of Forgan, district of St-Andrew's, county of Fife, IO5 miles (N. N. E.) from Cupar; containing, in 1841, 260 inhabitants. This is a small but thriving village, situated on the southern bank of the river Tay, and forming a ferry-station for the opposite town of Dundee: the Edinburgh road terminates at Newport, and on the east a new road has been opened from the village to Ferryport- on-Craig. Newport harbour is capacious, of ample depth of water, and in every respect well adapted to its use. The chief feature of the place is its fine pier, constructed under the superintendence of the late Thomas Telford; it is 350 feet in length and sixty feet in breadth, with a good carriage-road on each side, and is furnished with every requisite for facilitating the business of the ferry, which since the recent improvements has been rapidly increasing. The width of the Firth of Tay, between Newport and Dundee, is about a mile and a half; and the passage, once dangerous and uncertain, is nowperformed with perfect safety and with the utmost regularity. In the year 1819 an act was obtained, constituting the justices of the peace and the commissioners of supply in the two counties of Fife and Forfar, with other official persons, trustees for the erection of piers, and for otherwise improving and regulating the ferry. By that act, the trustees were authorized to construct piers at Dundee and at Newport; and the works for the purpose were completed at an expense of £40,000. The ferry, which is in the occupation of lessees, pays an annual rent of fS'iOO to the proprietors; part is appropriated to the payment of the interest of the sum borrowed, and the remainder to the liquidation of the principal. The lessees, who are bound to maintain the harbour in repair, lately introduced a steam-vessel of sixty-horse power; in addition to which a large sailingpacket, a pinnace, and a yawl are kept in readiness, with the recjuisite number of men, for the accommodation of the public when wanted; and Newport ferry, now one of the best and most frequented on this part of the coast, yields to the lessees an annual income of £5000. In 1846 an act of parliament was passed authorizing the extension to Newport of the Cupar branch of the Edinburgh and Northern railway, now called the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee railway. The village is rather straggling, and numbers of neat houses and cottages are interspersed over the beautifully-wooded banks of the Tay. From the salubrity of the place, it is frequented in summer by families from other parts; and its delightful walks add to its advantages as a genteel watering-place. Tayfield is a pleasant residence in a romantic glen, surrounded by fine plantations. Upon the road to the hamlet and creek of Woodhead, on the west, is a small Independent chapel; and the members of the Free Church have also a place of worship.