London via Bombay, 10th May The eruption of a volcano in the Island of Martinique has destroyed the town of St. Pierre. The com mander of the French cruiser Suchet reports that immense masses of fire fell in the town and harbour on the morning of the 8th May, burning everything. The entire population of 20,000 people, have been destroyed excepting thirty who were saved. Lhe shipping in port has also been destroyed—Reuter.
Martinique is a French colony in the West Indies of an area of 381 square miles, the chief commercial towns of which are Pierre and Fort-de-France. The intants of St. Pierre are put dow so that the number of people mentioned i probably underes through the appalling d stated.—Ep, "'N.-C.D.N."].
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