Levuka is not in nearly so prosperous a condition as it was two years ago, owing to the low price that planters are now getting for their cotton, in fact many of the planters are leaving their estates for the present, as it will not pay for growing, and this being the piincipal product of these islands, many white men who were employed as overseers, &c. , have been forced to leave the place entirely. But, if the experi ments now being tried with sugar should turn out successful, as there is every rea son to suppose they will, Levuka will once more go ahead on a surer foundation than ever ; and as these islands are now an nexed by Great Britain, they will no doubt in course of time become one of its most prosperous and wealthy dependen cies. Experiments have been tried both with the tea plant and coffee, and found successful, while tobacco can be grown of first-class quality ; in fact, some of the natives grow very tine tobacco, some of the loaves being as much as fifteen inches across, and as some of the planters are now turning their attention to that article we may soon hope to smoke Fiji tobacco as well as use Fiji sugar. The grand mistake the planters have made here is, they all expected to make their fortunes of sea-island cotton, neglecting other things equally profitable ; the result is, that they flooded the market with this commodity, and immediately reduced the price from about 3s. Gd. per lb. to some thing like Is. Bd. at Home. If, on the contrary, they had gone in for tobacco, sugar, coffee, and cattle at the same time, cotton would have retained something like ita original price, and they themselves would at least have been in a prosperous condition, instead of a state bordering on bankruptcy as they now are. Another industry is rapidly being overdone — viz., Beck de Mer Fishing 1 ; at one time this article was fetching as high as £160 per tot ; for the best quality of fish, it is now selling at £90, and fish that used to bring £80 is now scarcely worth fishing for. 