1 JUNE 1872, Page 3

The lively account of the eruption of Vesuvius which we

pub- lished a fortnight ago will have prepared our readers to hear that the eruption has positively laid waste the country for miles round the burning mountain. A law has been passed in the Italian Parliament remitting the taxes of the year on the devastated district, and public and private subscriptions have been opened in Italy, England, and elsewhere, for the sufferers, who number many thousands of families. Sir James Lacaita, well known in English society as an accomplished Neapolitan who is as much of an Englishman as he is of a Neapolitan, is to deliver a lecture at Stafford House, by permission of the Duke of Sutherland, next Thursday (June 6th), at 3 p.m., on Vesuvius, with details of the recent eruption, the proceeds of the lecture (tickets, a guinea each, may be obtained at 33 Old Bond Street), will be applied to the relief fund ; and a Neapolitan relief fund has also been opened at Messrs. Coutts's.