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turns are still keeping up to Planters expecta-
tions. Showers have fallen pretty generally
during the fortnight, and they were much re-
CURED for the young canes, while they have
not been 50 heavy as to affect Su9ar-making.
The Coffee crops for 1866 are almost finished;
and the prOspects. for the following crop have
MOI been so good for years there has been
abundance of healthy blossoms, and the Wea-
Their has been very favorable for its develop
ment, The bulk of the crop will be much
earlier than the previous one, and good deal
Will be picked before the close of the wear.
A correspondent, who has been travelling
through several parishes, reports-"As far as |
have heard, the crops of the current year are
very promising. The month of June has
brought with it several fine and soaking show
efs. These to the plants are very OppOrtune,
and with a continuation, of which the indica-
tons are cheering, we may hope for large crops
of Coffee and Sugar during 1866 and 1867. I
have heard, but without vouching for the state
ment, that in Manchester alone the sum of not
less than 5980,000 found its way into the hands
of the small settlers and others in the way of
purchases Of Produce. In the district of Man
deyille alone, the small settlers have largely
been possessing themselves of several hun
dred acres of land which they have purchased,
and which they are now turning to profitable
account.
A number of vessels having arrived in bal
last, there is not that want of tonnage for Eu-
rope which lately was felt, and Sugars are be-
ing more freely shipped.
Tonnage for America is still wanted.
The late monetary crisis in England has not
affected business here, but it is feared that. if
money continues at 10 per cent, in the mother
country, the Bank here may be unwilling to
grant its usual accommodation.
During the past fortnight rather more illness
than usual has prevailed in this city, though
not more perhaps than might be expected, con
sidering the intensely hot weather which W.
have experienced. Dysentery and Dlarrhoa have
been very prevalent; and when attacking
children, have proved fatal in many instances.
A few cases of Choleraic Diarrho6a have oc-
CURED, but as far as we can learn, have proved
amenable to treatment. Some alarm has been
created by the report that two or three cases
of Cholera have appeared in this city. We are
in a position to state that though two or three
cases have certainly appeared, all of them were
mild, and not one has prOred fat0I. We see
no reason, merely from the occurrence of these
isolated cases in different parts of the city, and
totally unconected with each other, to fear an
epidemic of this disease. Sporadic instances Of
this disease, are by no means rare in this city.
Malarial Fevers prevail, principally in the In
termittent form, though mild, and to a limited
extent. We may, however, expect an increase
of this type of disease, after the 'rainy seasons"
which appear to be setting in.
His Excellency Sir Henry Storks, in accord
4ance with the uniform and praiseworthy inter
est he has taken, in every thing connected with
the social and moral condition of the people,
Since he assumed the temporary government OF
the island, visited the different Educational In
s~titutions of this City on Wednesday, the BOIL
ult., accompanied by Gen. O'Connor, C.B. and
the Rev. DR.. Milne, principal of the Collegiate
School.
Apart from any directly beneficial results
which may arise from the personal aequalnt-
anceMthus made by her Majesty's Representa-
tive, with the real condition the efficiency,
capacity for Improvement, or defects of the ex-
listing apparatus of instruction-we are of opin-
(, ion that such visits of men of high position and
talent, betokening as they do something more
than a cold formal appreciation of the unobtru-
'sive, but alLimportant agencies employed in
the education of the young, are calculated to
produce otherwise a very s%ulutary effect. Go
vernon Storks, by his visit ON Wednesday to
our Schools and Industrial Institutions, has
shewn to the Public the value which a distin-
guished and accomplished Officer attaches to
them. BY bis kindly interest in the success OF
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