It is only by degrees that we have learnt the full extent of the disasters in the West Indies, but now we may fairly conclude that the worst is known. "The Lord Mayor has opened a Mansion House Fund for the relief of the sufferers in the Island of St. Vincent and subscriptions are pouring in. The King assent £400, having previously contributed £1000 to the Paris fund for the surviving sufferers in Martinique. It will of course be some time yet before we know how far it is possible to set these French and English colonies on their feet again, and what pecuniary assistance would be necessary to effect this object. Indeed a good man' ple are of opinion that the Btoest cause would be to abandon altogether places which are liable to these terrible Yisitations. But relying on the immunity of a few years or of a few hundred years no doubt people will go on building cities and establishing industries in the immediate neighbourhood of volcanoes,
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