St. Croix Avis (Christiansted, St. Croix [V.I.]) 1844-Current
March 7, 1865

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A T 3 220 e 8 "‘f o -T- 5 N N At y R e i R S Fiy 9 bt B PREIR R (Y o 3 SERRN i SRR o 4 g S DR e E o A 3 N '2, 35 \42},:% iR e *"L D) bl VIR, g BVO aptaE L B T R (A e TNk N owy ?‘;L, e 5 LN Ny Rty s b AR v 4 R R2l LSty {.fi»‘.f,?r‘ ’*x e i o AR w 3 4 LA 33 2% R B fEc st T A 2 B H RS L riis RORT R 'y BT B s 0 HEe A .95 -t ..é{. (aRe, Hesowt X R X FRse VDCOIVER: HANS HBATOHETT. TRYKT 1 EUNREN HARRIET HBATORBRETT 'S BOGIRIKERRE Zlde.Aarg.] The “AVIS” EDIT:D BY HANS HATCHETT; AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. for the Proprietress. Terms of Subscription.——Six Dollars per an’ aum, payable quarterly in advance. Single number to non-advertisers——lo cents. g&~ Parties desirous of withdrawing theif subscription to the Avis’ are required to give three months previous notice. Terms of Advertising, Approved by Government, 25th June, 1853. Foran advertisement of 8 lines, or under, one tu threec insertions—— Small Type (Brevier) Ito Slines....sl 00 v 8 e b liße 0o 10 Larger Type (Long Primer, Small Pica, Pica, Columbia:) 1 to Slines 1 00 OUyer 5 himes, pr. lige 10 For s line of largest Type 12 For 1 to 3 subscquent insertions, the half amount of the first charge will be made. All advertisements for insertion must be delivered at this Office on Mondays and Thursdays, notlaterthan 4 o'clock P. M. accompanied with the CASIH, as otherwise insertion will be refused. The Postageon lettersto this Oftice from West End or St. Thomas must be prepaid, or no notice wili be taken o hem. w( o o "lliocence Shipping Intelligence. e e e e ENTERED AT CHRISTIANSTED March 4,—Danish ship Malvine, Baagé., Cardiff, Coals, §,—Dno. do. Jacob, Schow, Copenhagen, Provisious. e Overeensstemmelse med Coloniallovens Å $25, vil et offentligt Møde vorde af holdt Loverdagen den Ilte dennes. Kl. I j dette Steds offentlige Retshuus No. 10 i Kongens Gade, for at paakjende en mod Valglisten fremkommen Indsigelse. Valgbestyrelsen for Christiansteds Byes og Forstæders Valgkreds den 6te Marls 1865. J. A. Stakemann. E\N conformity with 25 of the Colonial W Law, a public Meeting will be held on Saturday the Jlth instant o'clock lln the public Court house No. 10 in Kings Street, in order to decide upon a protest against the List of Voters. The Committee of Election for the Town of Christiansted and Suburbs 6th March 1865. J. A. Stakemannmn. Ui AVING been asked by several voters in West End Jurisdiction to allow himself to be nominated as a candidate for the new Coloniai Council, the Sub scriber tales this method of assuring them and others, who may havq a similar opinion, that, with every wish to serve them, he cannot, under present circum stances, accede to their request. Frederiksted March 6, 1864. HUGH MAC WILLIAM. VALT bekjendtgjores herved, at Onsda- ZQ/ gen den 12te April forstkommiæende Middag Kl. 12 slet, vil Repartitionen paa Hr.C, Bærentsens Opbudsdoe vorde frem lagt, og ventes Boet derefter sluttet. St. Croix, Christiansteds Skifterets Contoir, den 3die Marts 1865. J. A. Stakemann. CHRISTIANSTED, TIRSDAGEN den 7de MARTS 1865. KT is hereby made known that on Wed nesday the 12th April nextat 12 o’clock at noon, the Repartition in the dealing of Mr. C. Berentsen wiil be produced and the dealing closed. St. Croix. Christiansted’s Dealing Court Office, 3rd March 1865. J. A. Stakemann. AUCTION. PFTER Begjæring as Procurator i_'; Bahneberg paa vedkommende Pante- og Udlægshavers Vegne, vil blive opraabt til Bortsalg ved trende offentlige Auctioner i Overeensstem melse med Placat 22de April 1817, c EFiendommen Perseverance?! beljggende i Compagni Qvarteer her pan Oen under No. I Lt. B, tagen ved Execution fra Hr. F. E. Huyghue. Auctionerne afholdes saaledes: Iste Auction, Loverdagen den dste April næstkommende. 2den Aucetion, Loverdagen den 15de April næstkommende. 3die Auction, Loverdagen den 29de April næstkommende, de to forste Auctioner paa Åuctions Contoiret i Christiansteds offentlige Retshuus No. 10 i Kongensgade, den tredie paa den sælgende Eiendom, alle Eftermiddag KI. J slet. Auctionscouditioner, Vurdering, Panteattest m.v. ville være til Efter syn paa Åuctionscontoiret i Christian sted samt paa Procurator Bahne bergs Contoir fra den 27de dennes. Christiansteds Auctionscontoir, St. Croix den 2den Marts 1865. J. A. Stakemanmn., AUCTION. Y request of Lawyer Bahneberg in behalf of the mortgage and levyholder concerned will be exposed for sale at three public Auctions con formable to the Placard of 22d April 1817 0 The Property Perseverance?’ situated in Company’s Quarter in this island No. 1 Litra B, taken by levy from Mr. F. E. Huyghue. The Auctions will be held as fol lows Ist Auction, on Saturday the Ist April next, 2nd Auction, on Saturday the 15th April next, 3rd Auction, on Saturday the 29th April next, the two first Auctions at the Auction Office in the Courthouse, No. 10 in King’s Street, Christiansted, the third Auction on the premises, all of them at 1 o'clock afternoon. Conditions, appraisement, mort gage-certificate ete., can be seen at the Auction Office, Christiansted, and at Lawyer Bahneberg's Office from the 27th mstant. Christiansteds Auction Office, St. Croix March 2, 1865. J. A. Stakemann. BANK OF ST.THOMAHWS. i}%’O'l‘[CE is hereby given that the divi- As dend of Foar and a half per Cent on the paid up Capital of this Institution, declared at a Meeting of Proprietors held this day, will be payable at the Bank to morrow and every day after, during the liours of business. St. Thomas, 23rd February 1865. A. WOLFF, Manager. WANTED TO BORROW ‘lp/ %20,000, for which a liberal rate of interest will be allowed and good security given. Any person disposed to lend will please ad dress Borrower” at the Post Office, with real name, which will be attended to. AUCTION. AUCTION. T%Yroquest of Capt. Harboe, will be fi) sold from the Store yard of P. W. Schousboe Esq. on Saturday Ilth instant, at 1 o’clock, Sundry Articles consisting of 2 to 300 Pine Planks 3 to 9 inches thick and 10 to 20 feet long, a quantity of other Lumber, Spars, Boards, Scantling, empty Puncheons, Water Casks, Provi sions, Shovels, Oats, Barley, Oilmeal Bran in Hhds, bags barrels. ALSO 300 FUSTIC CAPA PCSTS. St. Croix, Frederiksted Ist March 1865. R, J. Robinson, Auctioneer. For BSale, imported pr. Ship “Birgitte Melchior” A SPANISH JACK, very large. 2 HORSES, 2 extra young and large MULES. Please apply to Capt. I'. Harboe, or R. J. ROBINSON. Frederiksted 27th February 1865.

6. z%&wb, AGENT FOR ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY FOR FIRE LIFE IN ST. CROIX. Y\ SUB-AGENT IN FREDERIKSTED [Nr. 19,

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T Bommaniraiing, i ot I 8 P AN B B PSSP 5 B 7SI NI G To the Editor of the St. Croix Avis, Dear Sir! After reading the piece in your issue No. 16 of the present year, signed Tho mas Thompson, I was not a lLittle aston ished and pained to fiud that gentleman, who is held up as a prodigy for learning and the Prince of teachers, so utterly anacquainted with the art of successfully and unimpeachably enlisting sympathy in a cause. 'The article referred to is, in my humble opivion, a complete failure. It is too gross an outrage on truthfuiness to be credited by the public at large, or by sober minded persons in particular. It refutes itself, defeats its own end, and recoils with redoubled force on his own character. Be that as it may I thinkl owe it to myself as one of the stafl of the Country schools teachers, and also to my colleagues to contradict roundly and flatly that there are any mecasures brought to bear on the teachers but such as grow naturally, would say pleasant ly, out of all urgent, lawful and noble designs, among which the Rurval Schools rank unquestionably feremost. And so far from being acted on by any “Oppres sive measures iocredible” mitigating against my choice and standing as a teacher I take this opportunity to declare that I deem it a privilege to be engaged in the said schools under the happy Au spices of the present inspector, the Revd. T. Gardin. So much once and for all from Your Obdt. Servt. T. H. McINTOSH. P. Rest School house, March 3rd 1566. M 1 THE “AVIS.” Buristiznsied, By Grois ___‘-*-*——-——- TUESDAY, 7ruH MARCH 1565. o THE Royal Mail Steamer Aéralo arriv at St. Thomas on the 3rd inst. The DBritish Parliament and Frencli Chambers have severally assembled for business. From the United States we learn that Charleston is now occupied by Union Troops, having been evacuated by the Confederates on the 17th ulto. -=ooo= A shipment of Cotton from the Istates Petronella, Cotton Grove and Southgate Farm, realized in England 3s. 6d. per Ib. The Brokers describe the article, as Sea Island Cotton of fine staple, soft aind long. e i e STARs AND GARTERsS. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold is deputed by Her Majesty to invest his Serene High ness the Grand -Duke of Hesse with the order of the Garter. Earl Cowper 1s commissioned by Her Majesty, in like manner, to bear the Gurter to His Majesty the King of Denmak. He will be ac companied by the Hou. Evelyn Ashley, the Hon. J. F. Stuart Wortley, Lieute nant-Colonel Tower, Coldstream Guards, and the Hon. E. Scott Gifford, of the Foreign-office. The Larl of Sefton will convey the same illustrious order to His Majesty the King of Portugal, and will most likely take with him Colonel Lord Henry Percy, C. 8., V.C., Lieutenant- Colonel Dudley Carleton, Coldstream Guards, and Mr. Abbott, of the Foreign office.— The Owl. ST.CROLX AVL S, From the 111.-Trondon News, Feb. 11.) HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuEsDAY. The seventh Session of the present Parliament was opened by Commission. l The ceremony was a very simple one. A few ladics assembled in the House of Lords and oceupied the back seat usually taken by the peers. In the galleries é there were also a few ladies. As soon as the Royal Commissioners entered, the Lord .Chancellor directed the Usher of the Blick Rod to summon the Honse of Commons, and in a few moments after- wards the Speaker, in his state robes nnd accompanied by a few members of the 5 House of Commons, appeared at the bar. The Lord Chancellor then read the QUEEN’S SPEECII. My Lorps AND GENTLEMEN, i We are commanded to assure yvou that her Majesty has great satisfaction in re- curring again to the advice and assis- tance of her Parliament. Z 'he negotiations in which the limpe ror of Austria and the King of Prussia were engaged with the King of Denmark were broucht to a conelusion by a treaty of peace, an the communications which j her Majesty reccives from foreign Powers lead her to entertain a well founded hope that no renewed disturbance of the peace of Europe is to be apprehended. The civil war in North America still unhappily continnes. Her Majesty re- mains steadfastly neutral between the contending parties, and would rejoice at a friendly reconciliation between them. A Japancese daimio in rebellion agaiost his Sovereien infringed the rights accord ed by treaty to Great Britain and to cer tain other Powers; and, the .];:.;)::n":t:\, Government having failed to compel him to desist from his lawless proceedings, the diplomatic agents and the naval com manders of Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, and the United States of North America, undertook a combined operation for the purpose of asserting the rights which their respective Govern ments have obtained by treaty. 'That operation has been attended with com- plete success and the result has afford ed security for foreign commerce and ad ditional strength™to the Government of Japan, with which the relations of her Majesty are {riendly. Papers on this subject will be laid be- fore you. 1 Her Majesty regrets that ihe conflict with some of the native tribes in New Zealand has not yet been brought to a close but the successful efforts of her Majesty’s regular forces, supported by those raised in the colony, have led to the submission of some of the insurgents; and those who are still in arms have been informed of the equitable conditions on which their submission would be accept e:l. Her Majesty has had great satisfaction in giving her sanction to the meeting ol a conference of delegates from her seve- ral Nortic American provinees, who, on invitation fron her Majesty’s Governor- General, aszombicd at Quebec. Those delegates adopied resolutions having for their object a closer union of those pro vinces under a central government. If those resolutions shall be approved by the provincial Legislatures, a bill will be laid before you for carrying this impor tant measure Into effect. Her Majesty rejoices at the general tranquillity of “her Indian dominion, but her Majesty regrets that long-continued outrages on the persons and properly of subjects of her Majesty, and for which no redress could be had, have rendered it necessary to employ force to obtain sa tisfaction for the past and security for the future. Her Majesty deeply laments the cale mity which has recently occasioned great loss of life and property at Calcutta and other places in India. Prompt assistance was rendered by the officers of the Go vernment, and generous contributions have been made in various parts of India to relicve the sufferings which have thus been eccasioned, GentreMEN oF TinE House oF CoOMMONS, Her Majesty Las direeted the Estimates for the ensuing year to -be laid before von. They have been prepared with every atiention to ceonomy and with due re gard to the ciliciency of the public ser vice. My Lonrps axD GENTLEMEN, Her Majesty commands us to inform you that the general condition of the country is satisfactory, and that the reve nue realises its estimated amount. The distress which prevailed in some of the manafacturing distiicts has greatly abat ed; and the Aet passed for theencourage ment of publie works in those districts has been attended with useful results. Ireland during the past year hias had its share in the advantage of a good harvest, und trade and manufacturcs are cradually extending 1n that part of the kinedom. Various measures of public usefulnes will be submitted for vour consideration. Bills will be laid before you for the coneentration of ail the eourts of law and equity, with their attendant offices, ina counvenient site; a measure which her Majesty trusts will promote cconomy and dispatel in the administration of justice. The important work for the revision ot the statute law, already carried to a con siderable extent by recent Acts of Parlia nient, will be compieted by a bill that will be laid before vou. Her Majesty hopes that this work may be a step towards the formation of a digest of the law. Bills will also be submitted for your consideration for the amendment of the laws relating to patents for inventions, and for conferring on the County Courts an equitabic jurisdiction in causes of small amouunt., Your assistance will also be invited to give cffeet to certain recommendations made to the House of Commons, after in quiry, directed by that House, into the operations of the laws regulating the re lief of the poor. A bill will be laid before you founded on the report of the Commission for In quiring into Public Schools; and her Majesty has directed that a commissjon shall be issued to inguire into endowed and other schools in England which have not been .inciuded in the recent inquiries relating to popular education. Her Majesty commits with confidence the great interests of the country to your wisdom and care; and she fervently prays that the blessing of Almighty God may attend your councils and may guide your deliberations to the attainmentof the object of her constant solicitude, the welfare and happiness of her people. On the conclusion of the reading of the Speech, the Speaker and the members of the House of Commons retired, and the Peers adjourned during pleasare.

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THE DUCHIES. The Ausirian Gazetle announces that necotintions have taken place between France and England upou the subject of the Duchies of the Elte The two Pow ers are said to agree in euvergetically op posing the annexation Prussia meditates; but as there is no official coufirmation of her annexationist tendeuvecies. all interven tion is withheld until Berlin distinetly makes known its desires. Until then the two Cabinets of the Tuaileries and St. James's will wccept, it is aflirmed, as sincere the reiterated assurances by which it has been declared that thesolution of the question of the Duchies will lead to no angmentation of territory for Prussia. The Avenir National, in commenting upon these statements, savs M. de Bismarck may convince himeelf that in order to ac complish his ambitions dl'(‘:lm:‘%'lh(‘ mere permission of Viennais not of it=eit sul ficient. If Vienna gives him a satisfectt, Paris and London may gire him an exveal. But even at Vienna publiic opinion, what ever may be the disp sitions of the Cabi net, openly pronounces agaist the nilitary vapourings of Prussia.” The semi-oflicial Provinzial Correspon denz of Berlin says:—¢lt is said that the deliberationsg®™f the Cabinet onthe Schles wig-Holstein question will in a very short time have so far advanced as to render possible a precise.statement of the indis pensable conditions aud stipnlations, the fulfilment of which Prussia will sce guinr anteed before any further step can be taken towards a decision of the future destinies of the Duchies”, FRANCE. M. Nigra, the Italian Minister, has made a present to the Empress Fagerie of a Venetian gondola, to navigate the calm waters of Fontaineblean. M. Nigra, be sides being a diplomatist, is also a poet, and accompanied his present with a son net engraved in gold letters inside the gon dola. The verses aresaild to be very well tnrned. A French version has heen publiished, of which the substanee may be thus rendered:—«Christened in the stormy waters of the Adriatie, the fatal city of the Doges sends me to thee. Al 1?":_':‘ feet, fuir Empress, I lay the anger, hwp"s and fears of an -nppru.\*swi Face. b winged lion, erst so proud.-is now i chains; the soil of Bt. Mare echoes to the toreigner’s tramp; the iaithless sea has broken the ring of our mystic nuptials; the gondoilers’ lipsare mute. The moon sadly tinges the golden domes; silent is the Lagunae, and the sea without a sail; the lion slumbers yet on his bed of sea weed—till the day of vengzeance wakes him to life azain. Woman If the silent Emperor ever lingers on this peaceful lake, tell him that on the Adriatic shore, Veniee—spoiled, naked, bleeding—-suafters but lives still, and waits for the hour of her freedom.” GREECE Prince John of Gluckshurg, the uncle of the King, has summoned MM. Bul garis, Mavrocordato, Tricoupi, Miaunlis, Christides, Zaimas, Czaimas, and Condur rot, and asked their advice on the state of the country. They almost unanimously repited that the dismissal of Count Spon nek was necessary. The Ministry com plained to the King of this act of his uncle. The King replied that it was done with out his consent, and that the Ministry en joyed his confidence. He also intimated that his uncle would leave on Saturday next. It is said that Count Sponnek has sent in his resignation. S Te CREOLE AV] S o CHINA. From the Times' Correspondent.) The news from Japan is more satisfac- tory. Two men said to have been im- phicated in the marder of Major Baldwin and Lieutenant Bird were executed on the 16¢h inst., and itis hoped that through their revelations the other marderers may be betected. The anthorities endeavour- ed to keep the matter quiet to prevent a crowd, but it somehow oozed out on the preceeding evening, and a large number of foreigners assembled. A correspondent i of the North China Herald zives the fol- lowing concise sketeh of the proceeding: “The door opened, and a man bound with cords aund blindtolded was led through the crowd, and made to kneel down oo a mat placed before a hole dug to receive his blood and head. The at tendant drew his clothes down oft his neck, and guve a few preliminary broshes with the hand upwards, asif to stroke the hair all one way. The executioner was one of. the 'l'_\"\"o 0w soldiers, whe had purchased a new sword blade, and had asked permission to do the daty, and thus try his weapon. After securing the liven round the handle, and earefully wet- ting the blade, he took up his position deliberately on the less side of the vietim, and, raising the sword hich above his head with both hands, let it tall with a swoop which severed the neek (’~)!):§}1e‘1-":\'. The head was held up for the inspection of the chief officer present, who sienified his approval—T have seen)—and 1t was then thrown into the hole. The other man was carried in, and they appeared to find some little difficnlty in getting him to kneel in a convenient position but when his lknees had been pron: riv adjusted and his neck laid bare the other execuationer, who had also petitioned that he might fill the office, advanced, took his place by the prisoner’s sgle, and, drawing the sword over his head with an eliegant 5 flourish, infiieted the blow as effectually as his predecessor.” B DEATH OF CALRDINAL WISEMAN. Death has removed from this earthly seene another remarkable man, in the person of His Eminence Cardinal Wise- l man, the head of the Roman Catholic Ciiureh in this country. A long and pain- tul iliness eame to o fatal termination at 8 o'¢lock on Wednesday morning the 15th t ulte., the Cardinal dying at the compara- tively early age of 62. IHe was born on the 20d of August, 1802 To the Lon- don world and to the public at large Car- dinal Wiseman’s name was rendered most familiar by his frequent appearance upen the platform as a public lecturer upon a wide range of subjects connected with education, history, art, and science; and in this capacity his Eminence always I found an attentive and cager audience, even amongst those who were most con- scientiously opposed to his spiritual claims and pretensions, and who most thorough- j ly ignored Lim as “Archbishop of West minster.” ‘The illness of which ljis Emi nence has died has been of long standing, and when he left England for Rome in the Spring of 1860, there were many of his friends who feared that they would see his face no more. But he lived to return to England, and to recover some portion of his former health. His Emi nenee’s loss will be severeiy feit among the English Roman Catholics, both lay and clerical, as he was nearly the only mem ber of their body who had earned for him self a wide and lasting reputation for ability and learning. THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS AT LIVERPOOL. Liverpool, Feb. 15, The performance of the Davenport Brothers at St. George’s-hall, Liverpool, came so an abrupt termination this eve ning. On Tuesday night two gentlemen —Hulley and Cummins—were selected by the audience to stop upon the stage and bind the performers. The process of binding was proceeding when one of the Davenports objected to the tichtness of the rope and declined to go en with the performance. A disturbance ensued, and the performance came to an end. Many persons obtained their money back. This evening a large audience was present. Dr. F'erguson opened the proceedings by reading three conditions, by which the Pavenport reserved to themselves the right of rejecting any particular gentle man in whom they might discover a dis position to deal untairly with them. Dar ing his address the greatest uproar pre vailed. Messrs. Huolley and Cummins were again selected by the audience, and on mounting the stage Dr. Ferguson an nounced that the Brothers objected to these two gentlemen on account of the brutal manner in which they had previ ously bound them. The uproar continu ed, the audience insisting on the perfor mange proceeding. After very cousider able delay the Davenports presented themselves, and the binding process com meneced. One of them, however, immedi ately protested against the tightness of the cord, and was Immediately relcased by [rr. Perzuson, both of them loudly ex pressing their indignation, and Davenport showing his bleeding wrist. The audi ence, however, and those on the stage assoited that Fergason intentionally in flicted the injury while removing the cord. 'The Davenports then retired, which was the signal for the audience to take pos session of the stage. Dr. Ferguson was hustled; the cabinet upset, jumped upon, and utterly demolished fragments of it were stronzly contested for, and even, in deed, sold at a shilling a piece the ropes were eut up and divided, and the musi cil ins‘ruments, trumpets, and bells dis appeared in the general scramble.— Lon don Times. I'rfom the New York Herald, February 22.) THE SITUATION. Details of the ocecupation of the city of Charleston by the national forces are fur nished in the Herald despatches by the steamship Fulton, which arrived here vesterday, and in those of Secretary Stan ton and General Gilmore. It was evacu ated by the enemy on the night of Friday Jast, and on the following morning occu pied by the Union troops, into whose hands fell, among other, property, one hundred pieces of good artillery and a’ large supply of ammunition. The forti fications were found uuninjured; but be fore leaving the rebels fired the upper part of the city, and it is thought that two thirds of it, together with six thou sand bales of cotton would be consumed before the flames could be subdued. An explosion took place in the Wilmington Railroad depot, killing several hundred citizens. Two iren-clads in the harbor were also blown up by the enemy, and some other vessels were burned by theg, The buildingsin the lower part of the town are found to be completely riddled by Union shot and shell.. The impor tant event of the restoration to national authority of this rebellious city has been received with manifestations of enthusi-

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astic delight in all the loyal States, and has occurred most opportunely for its appropriate recognition in company with the celebration of the birthday of the Father of His Country, and Secretary Stanton has accordingly directed that salutes be fired at noon to-day at every military post and headquarters through out the country. A meeting of our pro minent ecitizens will be held to-day to arrange for a grand celebration. The public buildings in Washington will be illuminated to-night in honor of this and otherrecent greatnational successes. The despatches which we pabhish this morning are illustrated by a map of Charleston, showing the portions of it burned by the last and the previous fires, and that part rendered temporarily uninhabitable by the Union guns. ERUPTION OF MOUNT ETNA. Letters from Sicily, received on Thurs day, announce an eruption of Mount Etna. It will be remembered that the mountain showed signs of activity on the first day of the year, when a smart shock of earth quake was experienced throughout the surrounding country. A letter from Mes gina of the sth iust. thus describes the eruption :—*During the last few days a fresh eruption of Mount Ktna has taken place. It being an extraordinary specta cle, and a phenomenon only repeated at Jong intervals, I went to the mountain at the first receipt of the news, and stayed there two days notwithstanding the ex cessively bad weather. The lava is not abundant at its source, and immediately divides iteelf into two prineipal branches; neither are the two torrents very wide. That which I have seen and the largest, was about 15 metres high, and of a width of 250 or 300 metres. It issues on the east side of litna, and hardly reaches the border of the cultivated vine distriets, but it has overwhelmed two cottages, and if it continues it will probably destroy the villages of Mascali and Piedimonte; at least it is likely to take that direction, for it is impossible to establish the laws by which these enormous masses of" red hot liquid matter are guided. The other braneh runs down the northern side, and threatens the village of Linguagrossa. This is the smaller torrent, and 1t 1s al ready subdivided into several ramifica tions, which tend to take a course in the direction of the uncultivated region.”” A letter from Catania, of the sth inst, on the same subject, says:—“We arrived here on the 2d inst., and came from Bron te by Piedimonte and Giarra, to get a view of the eruption. The daylight pre vented our seeing much, but after dusk we saw one of the principal streams of molten matter, and all day were stunned by the tremendous noise. Cannonading is nothing to it. There are five craters hard at work and various streams. No accommodation is to be had near; so it is not accessible to ladies, or I would make .au effort to go. Foreigners and Sicilians are pouring towards the spot. 1 am afraid to give particulars, as ru mours are conflicting but be certain that there is much to see awfully grand, and more to hear than most people’s tym panums will bear.”—Malta Times, Feb. 9. e—— —Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor, Jan. 28. ON THE BEST MODE OF PROTECTING LONDON FROM THE RAVAGES OF FIRE. By Cuas. F. T. Young, Esa, C.E. (Continued.) Dickens gives the folowing capital Idescrip tion of the progress to, and arrival at; a fire, of ST CROLX AV LS, a parish engine :—**We never saw a parish en gine at a regular fire but once. It came up in gailant style—three miles and a-balf an hour at least; there was a plentiful supply of water, and it was first upon the spot. Bang went the pumps; the people cheered; the beadl: per spired profusely but it was unfortunately dis covered, just as they were going to put the fire out, that no body understood the proc:ss by which the engive was filled with water; and that eighteen boys and cne man had exhausted themselves in pumping for twenty minutes with out producing the slightest effect.”” My friend, Mr. Ww. Baddeley, whose thorcugh and pruc tical acquaintance with [London firesis so well known, writing on this subject in 1838, remark ed, that “scarcely a week passes in the metro polis without the rehearsal of some such absur dity; and it has been my lot to witness many sccnes of this deseription, even more abomina bly ridiculous than that which has been so graphically depicted by Boz.” I also, in the same letter stated that at the great fire in which the Royal Exthonge wis buint, alihough there were no less that 17 fire engines within a few yards, one of the smallest engines only was brought up, and that, as a matter of course, would not work. On several oceasiong, quite reeently, we have other examples of a most ludierous character, two of which wil be suffi-ient to prove the dis graceful state of inefficicucy of the present pa rochial system of means for extinguishing fires. A fire ocenrred tast vearin one of the subwiban districts of the metropolis, to which an engine was brought out, the hose were laid out, the le vers fully manned, but all to no good purpose, not a drop of water was thrown on the fire from the engine. A fricud of mine came past at the time, and, not understauding the resscn of the fire being left perfectly uncontioiled, stopped to sce the cause, and found—it will hardly be creditcd—that the suction hose had taken the place of the delivery, and the delive ry that of the suction. It is necdless to say that the fiie destroyed the premizes in which it had broken out. In the pext case the engine had been run to a fir: some distauce cff, and when it arrived, and they began to sec about getting to work, it was found they Lad come away without any hose; consequently the en gine could not be used. These would be look ed upon as ludicrous in the extreme were it not that they are far too serious and important facts for other than mecfancholy consideration, and couvincing proofs of our utterly unprotected state at the present moment—a state which i 3 a ierrible disgrace slike to our autboriiies snd ourseives—'o our euthorities for not having lotg sinee devised and carried out an efficient means for the parpose; and to ourselves fur suf feting such a state of things to exist, e¢specialiy as we have the remedy in our hands. It is worthy of remark, that the terdeney of the fires of the present time is to become of far greater extent thin formerly, and to cause far heavier losses whilst our means of controlling them are pot increased in proportion. It 1s a fact that most of the large Loodon fires, within a few years past, have occurred 1 what are termcd (almost in ridicule it would seem) *fire proof” buildings, haviog either originated in or extended to them and as in these go-called “fireproof’’ structures the most valuible goods and materials have been stored, on account of the assumed security afforded thereby, the losses have been correspondingly heavy. When ouce the fire has got hold of one of these build ings it is found to be a waste of power to at tempt to save it; and the exertions cf the fircmen have been found to bo beiter employed in preventing the fire from extending to the adjoining premises. This was particularly the case in the great fire in Greshham-street, which annihilated the “fireproof”” building in which it originated. Theso “fireproof” buildiags are invariably found, in case of catching fire to “hold” the fire, and by this means render their destruction, and that ¢f their contents, a dead certainty and they are to all intents and pur poses most efficient “blast furnaces,”” whenever they, or rather their contents, unfortunately become ignited. It may be noted that floor cloth factories, the inflammable character of whose contents is well known, are required to be built of wood, it being considered far better for the entire building and contents originally ignited to be destroyed, than by meaking them “fireproof,” and of a nature calculated to hold the fire, to run thereby the risk of burning a whole neighibourhood: For sowme time past we have heard that the Government were to bring in a Bill to give them power to create aud maintain a system for controlling and extinguishing fires in the metro polis absorbivg the men and plant of the pre sent establishment of the insurance offices; but there serms no probability of this at present, nor is it on the whole desirable, seeing that they (the Government) have already quite as much, or more, on their hands than they can conveni cutly manago noe is it probable that it could be doue by them in tha mode which is best cal culated to make the required protection tho roughly complete, aud of the nature required by the publie. In the “Ifires .in the Metropolis Bill” it is proposed to begin with a tax of £65,000. The next proposition is that the pro tection of the metropol s (rom fire shall be en trusted to the Metropoiitan Board of Works, who are to be empowered to purchase the ex isting plaut of the Lovd n Fire Engine Esta blishment and levy such necessary rate on the ratepayers of the metropoiis as may be required to meet the expenses of maintainiog it; but this is a proposivion I foel sure will be oppcsed by all the parisiis of tLe metropolis, and the ratepayers goneraily, for though the insurance offices would have t outribute towards its maintenarce, s'ill it woull ba impossible to con trol the expenditure in a satisfactory maoner, or to fix a point which should be the maximum the ratepayers would have to contribute. I think that this proposal also will not be the ore calculated to proicet tue public in the wanaer reqguired, and it will Le cgreed by most of us that we have i‘:“.i{r- cn '?;__‘h rates nh'eudy for other purposes, none of whieh, it may be re ma ked, deererse in am unt, and that any fur ther iucrease of them, eitlber in amcunt ¢r num ber, is far from deswab’e. [To be continued.] B 0 RT Gl BCH &Y B Os the Receipt ol Deposits at the St. Croix

SAVINGS BANK, On Saturday, 4th March 1866. Recgivers: IN CHRISTIANSTED: Rabert ifi:,?ia:’? 1“.-‘(} Truates. In FREDERIKSTED: Geo. Walker, Esq., Trustee. Amount of former deposits. $229,555 67 9 deposits of 20 cents each. 15 above 20 cts. and under 1. 23 81 5o 8 E 10, S 5 3 it s 59 I a0 100, 67 deposits, of which 49 in Christiansted amounting o A Bin rederiksteddo. 28 64 307 71 Total 229,863 28 Balance of «'Jt‘,—lpOSitS 48,446 60 4 new deposic accounts, viz.: 1 Shoemalker. 3 Various. 6 Withdrawals amounting t0..5§203 64. Receivers for Saturday, 11th March 1865. CHRISTIANSTED Carl Hattensen, Esq., Trastee. A. Just, Esq, Member. IN 'REDERIKSTED L. Faber, Esq., Trustee. F. A. Lund, Esq., Member. GEO. BEHAGEN, President, St. Croix, 6th March 1866. S S Sy executed at this Ofice JUB PRINT'NG with neatness and deg paien.