25 JANUARY 1868, Page 3

The eruption of Vesuvius appears to be still active. About

the 4th and 5th of this month we reported that the streams of lava were threatening Regina and Torre del Greco. They diverged; however, slightly, and these towns were saved, and the separate streams after describing an ellipse united again. The depth of the lava is about 20 to 25 feet, so that the stream must come on like the wall of a house two storeys high. Latterly the lava has been cooling and advancing more slowly. Thousands go up every night to watch this vast, red-hot, slowly creeping river of destruction, and probably no spectacle in the world can be much more grand and awful.