ST. PETER PORT, the capital of the island and a seaport on the eastern coast, and the only town (with the exception of St. Sampson) in Guernsey, is 82 miles from the nearest English port (Weymouth), and 118 from Southampton; from London it is 224 miles by the Great Western railway, and 194 by the London and S. W. railway; its distance from the French port of Cherbourg is 60 miles, from St. Malo 63, and from Granville 66. The town is built on a site rising gently from the shore to the summit of a considerable hill, the public buildings, dwelling houses and gardens rising in succession above each other in the form of an amphitheatre, in which Elizabeth College, with its castellated towers, St. James’s Church and Castle Carey are conspicuous. The streets are well paved with granite, and the environs are studded with mansions and good villa residences, surrounded with beautiful gardens. In no spot are fruits and flowers more choice and abundant, and the country is exceedingly well-cultivated. A light railway connects the town with St. Sampson.

The town is lighted with gas supplied by the Guernsey Gas Light Company. The present waterworks are the property of a company formed in 1894. The water (of exceptional purity) is obtained from wells sunk in the highest parishes in the island; in addition to this, the company rent largo quarries in The Vale and St. Sampson parishes, from which they supply water to the very large greenhouses in these districts; the two systems are, of course, entirely distinct. There are electricity works, the property of a company, in Amballes road.

The Harbour, constructed at a cost of £350,000, is built of granite, is enclosed by a breakwater and quay, and has an area of 73 acres, The entrance to the outer harbour is 550 feet wide, and of the inner 80 feet. The depth of water at high spring tides between the inner pier heads is 24 ¾ feet, and at neap tides 14 ¾ feet, the depth along the quays being 20 and 12 feet respectively at the same tides. There are two esplanades (one on each side of the old harbour) running parallel with the seafront of the town, and together 2,500 feet long by 150 broad. From these esplanades are two breakwaters, on the north and south respectively, 2,500 feet apart at the base, and projecting eastward so as to enclose the natural sandy bay in front of the town.

The South, or Castle breakwater, 1,900 feet in length, is carried across the rocky isthmus, connecting Cattle Cornet with the mainland, and terminates in a trestle bridge at the north-west bastion of the castle. The Southern face consists of an upright wall of rough masonry, 15 feet above the highest tides, along which is a roadway and footpath 20 feet wide. A rough stone breakwater, 635 feet long, projects eastward at a slight angle from the north-east bastion of Cornet Castle.

The North, or St. Julian’s breakwater, 1,500 feet in length, commences at the north side of the old harbour, at the extremity of the new esplanade, and extends in an easterly direction along the rocky margin of the natural bay to White Rock. The western wall, 300 feet long, has a landing stage of 107 feet, forming an excellent berth, having an average depth of 6 feet at low water springs. The next berth takes a south-easterly direction for 270 feet, with a depth of 12 feet at low water springs, with a landing stage of 90 feet. From the extremity of this quay the remaining portion of the breakwater runs southwards towards the Castle breakwater, and serves as a landing place. The harbour wall is arranged so as to accommodate passenger steamers at all times of the tide. The parapet is 12 feet 6 inches above high water, and there is a roadway 40 feet wide, and a raised terrace 18 feet wide. To the eastward of the north esplanade a pier has been constructed from the angle of the old north pier, and it encloses a careening hard 300 feet in length and 15 feet in width, in which are two patent slips for the repairing of vessels. At its entrance is a tidal berth, 150 feet in length, having 14 feet water at neap tides.

The works previously described enclose an area of about 57 acres, the whole being covered at low neap tides. Of this apace 20 acres have from 10 to 22 feet at low water neaps, and from 20 to 32 at high water. At low water springs, only 26 of the 57 remain covered, 8 ½ of which nave a depth of 9 feet and upwards; high water springs increase the depth 30 feet. From this it will be seen that only 8 ¼ acres of anchorage are available in the new harbour, with an average depth of 10 feet.

Castle Cornet, which stands on a rock forming part of the southern arm of the harbour, is stated to have been originally built by the Romans, and reconstructed during the Norman period. It successfully withstood a siege in the reign of Charles I. but in 1672 a considerable portion was destroyed by the explosion of a magazine, fired by lightning; the damage, however, was subsequently repaired. It is at present occupied by a company of the Royal Garrison Artillery.

Fort George, built at the beginning of the 19th century, and occupying a commanding position on the cliffs to the south of the town, is the principal military station of the island, and is now used as barracks.

An adequate service of steam vessels accomplish the voyage from Weymouth in four and Southampton in six hours, respectively.

The number of steam vessels that entered the port with cargoes in 1902 was 2,077 of 366,880 tons; and of sailing vessels, 675 of 61,051 tonnage. The number cleared was, steam 2,078 of 399,097 tons, and sailing 627 of 57,504 tons. A local trade is also carried on with France, and in timber, for building purposes, from the Baltic.

The number of sailing and steam vessels registered under Part I. of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, as belonging to the port, December 31st, 1901, was 52 of 6,002 tons. The number of fishing boats registered under Part IV. of the same Act was 91 of 348 tonnage, employing 234 men and boys.

The States Revenue.-Impost on spirits, wine and beer, £25,748; licenses for the sale of wines and spirits, £1,095; licenses to beer and cider sellers, £64; licenses to pawnbrokers, £8; licenses to hawkers, £54; tonnage dues, St. Peter Port, £7,790; wharfage duty, £16,636; tonnage dues, St. Sampson’s, £2,683; dues for weighing exported stone £1,298.

The principal manufactures are these of bricks, tobacco pipes, cider, beer, soap, candles, tobacco, and snuff. The Guernsey stone trade is an ancient and very important branch of local commerce, giving employment to thousands of workmen chiefly around St. Sampson and The Vale; and the Guernsey granite is unsurpassed for durability as a road metal. Ship building formerly was a more important industry than it is at present; there are good facilities for repairing yachts and vessels through the patent slips at St. Peter Port and St. Sampson.

Tariff of Duties.-The duties are 5s. per gallon on spirituous liquors consumed upon the island, 8d. per lb. on tobacco and 1s. per lb. on cigars. There is also a duty of 1s. per gallon on wine, 2s. 6d. per gallon on cordials, and 2d. per gallon on all beer imported, and 23. 6d. per ton wharfage on all goods landed, lime-stone and cement stone excepted; passengers’ luggage is exempted, neither is it subjected to Customs examination. Cattle and goods here enumerated, to pay as follows:-Horses, 4s. 4 ½d. each; bulls, oxen, cows and heifers, 2s. 6d. each; calves, under 3 months old, and all other beasts, 5d. each; corn, peas and seed of all kinds, 7 ½d. per imperial quarter. Pine timber “Petersburg standard,” estimated thus:-Boards, per 165 cubic feet, beams, 150 cubic feet and rough timber, per 120 cubic feet, 7s. 4 ½d.; oak and joined timber, 2s. 6d. per load of 40 cubic feet. In every case, the contents in cubic feet of rough wood shall be calculated according to the usages of commerce. Liquids, 2s. 6d. per tun of 210 gallons.

The trade consists principally in granite, and flowers, fruit tomatoes and vegetables for the London markets. Of these vegetables, the most important, commercially, is the tomato. During the year 1883 Guersey expored 138,508 bushels of tomatoes, in 1896, 1,403,943, and in 1902, 957,430. Large quantities of grapes are also grown, and some of very fine quality, as well as enormous quantities of bulbs, and large quantities of flowers and melons are grown under glass.

The parish church of St. Peter Port is a substantial edifice of granite, in the Decorated style and consists of chancel, with aisles, transepts, nave of two bays, aisles, and a square central tower containing a clock and 8 bells: the pulpit is of Caen stone and alabaster: there are several piscinae, and a handsome 16th century monument to the wife of Amyas De Carteret, bailiff of Guernsey, besides several of the 17th century, and one to Vice-Admiral Sir James de Saumarez bart, and 1st baron de Saumarez G.C.B, d. 9 Oct. 1836: the stained east window and the reredos of Bath stone, form a memorial to Mr. John Allaire: the oak fittings of the chancel, the litany desk, font, and pulpit were executed by Mr. Harry Hems, of Exeter: the church was restored in 1886 at a cost of about £3,500, and affords 750 sittings. The register dates from the year 1563. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £400, in the gift of the Crown, and held since 1881 by the Rev. George Edward Lee M.A. of University College, Durham, and F.S.A.

St. Barnabas church, Tower Hill, a chapel of ease to St. Peter Port, was built as a memorial to the Rev. Charles Guille, formerly rector of St. Peter Port, and is an edifice of granite in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, north-east transept, and a tower containing one bell: there are 500 sittings.

Holy Trinity is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1858 from the parish of St. Peter Port; the church, in Trinity square, built in 1789, is an edifice of local granite, consisting of chancel, nave and west porch, and a belfry containing a striking clock, presented in 1887 by Miss Gibaut, and 3 bells: there are 930 sittings, of which 300 are unappropriated. The register dates from the year 1848. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £350, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1861 by the Rev. Nassau Cathcart M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin.

St. James the Less, in St. James’s street, is a proprietary chapel, erected in. 1818, and used by the garrison and the boys of Elizabeth College; it is built of stone in the Classic style, the west front being relieved by columns of the Grecian Doric order supporting a pediment: the church consists of chancel, nave, aisle, and a circular tower, with cupola over the west front, and in the pediment is a clock with dial: a new organ was presented in 1898: there are 1,250 sittings. The living is an incumbency, net yearly value £330, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1893 by the Rev. John Brookes Vernon Penfold, of Trinity College, Dublin, and of Jesus College, Cambridge.

St. John the Evangelist’s is an ecclesiastical parish formed from St. Peter Port: the church, built in 1836, is an edifice of granite, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave and a square embattled tower, containing 3 bells, hung in commemoration of the Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, in 1887: the pulpit, of English oak, was placed at the time of the late Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, in 1897, in memory of the Bight Rev. V. W. Ryan D.D. first Bishop of Mauritius, who preached his first sermon here: the stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. John Carey, second incumbent of this church, who died in 1850: a vestry is now (1903) in course of erection: the church was restored and decorated in 1883, at a cost of about £1,285, and affords 670 sittings, of which 270 are free. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £232, with residence, in the gift of five trustees, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Henry Clark M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and chaplain of the Hospital and Asylum of St. Peter Port.

St. Stephen’s is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1885 from that of St. Peter Port. The church at the Gravees, on the Rohais road, was consecrated in 1864, and is an edifice of granite, in the Early Decorated style, from designs of Mr. G. F. Bodley A.R.A., F.S.A, architect, of London, and consists of chancel, nave and aisle; the reredos, of veined alabaster, is a memorial to Dr. Lukis: several of the windows are stained, and three are memorials: a choir vestry has been erected from a bequest by Vice-Admiral Shortt: the church affords 750 sittings. The register dates from the year 1885. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £290, in the gift of the rector of St. Peter Port, and held since 1885 by the Rev. Frank Edward Lowe M.A., L.Th, of the University of Durham.

The French Catholic church, in Burnt lane, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, and erected in 1829, is an edifice of granite, containing three altars, the chief of which, executed in Caen stone, is surmounted by a fine reredos, with a statue of “The Good Shepherd,” twelve feet in height: the pulpit, of carved oak, was wrought and presented by a resident in the island; the church has sittings for 300 persons. The Rev. George Dolman is the priest.

Attached to this church are primary schools, under the management of the Sisters of Parame.

The Catholic church at Cordier Hill, dedicated to St. Joseph, is an edifice of local blue granite with Caen stone dressings, in the Early Gothic style, originally designed by the late A. Welby Pugin esq. architect, and completed, as regards the spire, by Messrs. Pugin and Pugin, his successors; it consists of sanctuary, nave, aisles, and at the north-west angle a tower with copper-covered spire, together reaching a height of 150 feet, the apex of the spire being about 360 feet above the sea level: the lower stage of the tower forms a porch: the high altar, at the eastern end of the nave, is surmounted by a handsome carved reredos of white stone with coloured marble columns, and contains two canopied niches with figures of saints on each side of the central throne; this reredos, the work of Mayer, of Munich, was erected in 1885: the walls and ceiling of the sanctuary, and that which terminates the southern aisle, have been beautifully painted by Mr. Pippet: all the windows are stained: white marble slabs on either side of the entrance porch record the opening of the church, July 2nd, 1851, by His Eminence the late Cardinal Wiseman, and its consecration in Sept. 1885, by the late Bight Rev. John Vertue, Bishop of Portsmouth: there are 500 sittings. Schools for boys and girls adjoin the church, and there are 250 children on the books. There is a convent of Sisters of Mercy in connection with the church. The presbytery is Ampthill House, at the south of the church and schools.

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian church, Grange road, erected in 1897, a cost of £2,500, is an edifice of quarry-faced granite, with a belfry, and will seat 320 persons: the organ was presented by the and Gordon Highlanders, in 1897. At the north end of the church, is a commodious hall for lectures and Sunday school purposes.

All Saints’ Baptist chapel, in North Clifton, was erected in 1899, in memory of the Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, at a cost of £4,300, and will seat 650 persons.

The Bible Christian Methodist ehupel, Vanvert, erected in 1830, and known as “Salem” chapel, was almost rebuilt in 1893, when galleries were added, and a new organ was provided in 1895: the chapel has 530 sittings. In rear of it is a Sunday school, built in 1885, minister’s vestry and a residence for the chapel keeper. The Rev. Corin Grosvenor is the present minister, and resides at 2 Columbia terrace.

Eldad English Congregational church, in Union street, built in 1830, was entirely renovated in 1882, and an organ was erected in 1887: there are 600 sittings.

St. Paul's Methodist New Connexion chapel, St. James’ street, first founded in 1797, was erected in 1855 at a cost of £4,000, and is a building of red granite, in the Gothic style: there are sittings for 950 persons.

The Primitive Methodist chapel, Truchot street, erected in 1840, is a building of granite, and has about 500 sittings.

Ebenezer English Wesleyan chapel, Saumarez street, erected in 1815, is a building of local granite, and was thoroughly restored and redecorated in 1895 at a cost of £500: it has 1,000 sittings.

Brock Road Wesleyan chapel, built at a cost of £6,000, is a cruciform structure of blue granite with ornamental stone work and Bath stone dressings, in the Gothic stylo of the 14th century, and consists of chancel, nave, transepts and a tower with spire 112 feet in height: the chapel has 800 sittings.

The French Wesleyan chapel, Victoria road, erected in 1851, is an edifice of blue granite, in the Gothic style, and will seat about 1,100 persons.

The Candie Road Cemetery, not far from the Victoria Tower, is for members of all denominations; it is about 2 ½ acres in extent, and was laid out in 1831, but has no mortuary chapel; it is under the control of the rector and churchwardens of St. Peter Port Parish church.

The Foulon Cemetery, formed about 1858, is very picturesquely situated, and has been well laid out and planted with shrubs and flowers; it contains a chapel and some very handsome monuments', and is under the control of twelve directors, all Nonconformists; chairman of the company, A. De Garis esq.; secretary, Mr. William Newbury, jun.

The Royal Court House, Manor street, erected in 1799, at a cost of £7,000, is a plain building of blue granite: it is used for States meetings, and both civil and criminal actions are tried here, In the large hall are hung portraits of H.M. Queen Victoria (copied from the Jubilee portrait, now at Windsor), Sir John Doyle bart. G.C.B., Vice-Admiral Lord de Saumarez G.C.B., Sir Peter Stafford Carey, bailiff, Gen. Sir John Boll, Daniel de Lisle Brock, bailiff, Gen. Sir Isaac Block and Gen. Sir John Colborne K.C.B. The building is now (1903) in course of extensive enlargement, including a new police court and greffe office, at an estimated cost of about £28,000.

The Statos Gaol, in New street, contains 23 cells for male prisoners, 4 for debtors and 6 for women, and has now (1903) 27 prisoners and one debtor.

The Guille-Alles Library and Museum, and the Artisans' Institute are the outcome of the generosity of the late Mr. Thomas Guille, of Montauban, St. Martin’s (Jurat of the Guernsey Royal Court), and of the late Mr. Frederick Mansell Alles, of Bon-Air, St. Martin’s, both of whom left the island in early life for America, whence they finally returned in 1869, and again united in carrying out these philanthropic enterprises for the benefit of their fellow citizens. The library was first established in 1856, when it was known as the Guille library, and for several years was located in the Commercial arcade, but in 1882 was removed to its present site in the Market square, and afterwards very largely extended under the title of the “Gruille-Alles Library.” It now (1903) contains some 70,000 volumes, mainly in the English and French languages, to which additions in all departments of standard literature are constantly being made. The reading rooms are wall supplied with the chief London daily and weekly papers, magazines and reviews, as well as several of the leading American and provincial papers; and there is a full daily service of telegrams.

The Guille-Allfes Museum, originally formed under the auspices of the late Guernsey Mechanics’ Institute, was transferred by the members to Messrs. Guilte and Alles in December, 1881. In the museum is a large collection of geological and mineralngical specimens, originally formed at Soho, near Birmingham, by the famous engineer, James Watt, in addition to which there is a collection of local geological and minerulogical specimens.

The Guille-Alles Artisans' Institute, established by the same founders, was opened March 27, 1895, and is reserved exclusively for the use and benefit of the working classes of the island of both sexes. The Institute contains comfortable and well-supplied reading-rooms, recreation rooms, and an extensive library.

Mr, Alles died February 20th, 1895, aged 77 years, and Mr. Guille, December 4th, 1896, aged 79 years. Both the founders having thus passed away, the direction of the two institutions is now vested in a council and a board of management, the property being held by trustees. Both institutions are amply endowed. The managing director of the library is Mr. J. Linwood Pitts, and the chief librarian Mr. Basil T. Roswell, with five assistants. Mr. G. Lamotte is the librarian of the Artisans' Institute.

The house of Victor Hugo, 38 Hauteville, is an object of much interest to visitors. It contains many quaint and valuable relics of the famous and venerable poet, and on the roof is the glass-covered belvedere which served as his study, and in which he wrote most of his later works. This picturesquely placed look-out commands magnificent views of the surrounding sea and the adjacent islands, as well as, in the far distance, the coast of France. Hauteville House still belongs to the Hugo family, and Visitors are allowed to view it any afternoon from 2 to 6 o'clock. A small gratuity is expected by the attendant.

The Priaulx Library, situated on the Candle road, and opened Jan. 1891, was the gift of the late Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx esq. and comprises over 25,000 volumes, including a number of rare books, among which may be named a Black Letter edition of Hollinshed’s Chronicles (1577), a Black Letter Bible of 1478, the “H, B.” Political Sketches, and one of Cruickshank’s Caricatures. The library is open on week days (except New Year’s day, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Whit Sunday, Bank Holidays, the King's birthday and the 2nd Wednesday in each month) from 10.30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday’, 3 to 9 p.m.; but if there are no visitors in the library at 8 p.m. it is then closed.

The Society of Natural Science and Local Research. Guille-Alles Library, was founded Oct. 10, 1882, for the study of the fauna and flora, geology, meteorology, archaeology, folk-lore and language of the Bailiwick. It has published 10 yearly volumes of transactions containing papers of great local interest and value, and the results of this systematic research has shown that there is a much greater variety of both insect life and flora than had been previously supposed; the number of specimens catalogued in the entomological department being over 1,800, and some 2,700 species have been noted in the flora, in both cases showing several entirely new items. The research into the archaeology and folk-lore of the Island has also been productive of much information on this interesting subject.

The Guernsey markets for meat, poultry and vegetables are the property and under the control of the States of the Island, and stall holders are all tenants of a committee appointed by the States. All these markets are grouped together, an arrangement which is found to be a great convenience. The buildings themselves are lofty, well-lighted, and scrupulously clean. The weights and measures in the markets differ somewhat from the standard adopted in the mainland. A Guernsey pound weight is nearly nine per cent, heavier than the English, pound (averdupois). Corn, potatoes, and such like articles are sold by the denerel, which is the sixth part of a Guernsey bushel; the bushel for potatoes &c. containing 60 lbs. of Guernsey weight, and that for wheat 44 lbs. The quarter is 25, not 28 lbs. and the hundredweight 100 lbs. not 112 lbs.

La Societe Royale d’Agriculture et d’Horticulture de Guernsey has been in existence for 61 years, The vice-patrons are His Excellency Maj.-General Barrington Bulkley Douglas Campbell C.V.O., C.B. Lieut.-Governor; Sir T. Godfrey Carey; H. A. Giffard esq. K.C.; Lord De Saumarez; Lieut.-Gen. Stevenson; Lieut.-General Knollys and Sir E. G. Bulwer K.C.B. The president is Colonel William Bell C.B., A.D.C.; the secretaries are Charles T. F. Dommaille esq. and James A. Tostevin esq, and the treasurer is Henry Carre esq. The offices are in the States arcade.

The Masonic Hall, a spacious room, is at the King’s Receiver-General’s Offices in Court place. It is now the meeting place of only two lodges, but was the meeting place of all the lodges prior to the erection, in 1882, of the Masonic Temple, Le Marchant street, which is an excellently proportioned building of granite, in the Classic style.

St. Julian’s Hall, St. Julian’s avenue, was erected in 1876 by the Oddfellows in the Island, at a cost of £2,000, and was enlarged in 1885 at a cost of £1,800.

The Grange Club, near Elizabeth College, was erected in 1870. It is intended for the gentry of the Island, and is open to visitors who bring suitable introductions.

The Town Hospital, in Hospital lane, was founded in 1741, with the object of furnishing an asylum to the aged and indigent. On 31 Dec. 1902, there were 131 patients, in the hospital, the total admissions during that year being 195.

The Lunatic Asylum, near the Town Hospital, and established as such in 1832, is partly for pauper and partly for paying patients; it will hold 50 inmates, and there are now (1903) 29: in 1902, 7 patients were discharged as cured: the visiting days are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 to 4 p.m.

The Victoria Cottage Hospital was founded in 1888, and is supported by voluntary contributions. The hospital received great benefit from the will of the late Nicholas Carey esq. who left almost his entire fortune for the purpose of founding an Industrial Home for Girls, with the stipulation that, if the” Home” should fail in the purpose for which it was intended, the committee should have the right to hand it over to any other institution considered suitable; and such a contingency having arisen, that committee transferred it as a free gift to the hospital, and it was opened, after alterations, early in 1898. The hospital affords 24 beds.

Sir William Collings’s Fund was founded in 1849, “Pour secours aux pauvres necessitous natifs, ou recus habitans, ou qui auront reside sept ans dans cette Ile,” administre par la Cour Royale, en 1869, ce fonds est de qrs 65 bush 2 dls 4. The contributions to this fund since its institution has raised it to £1,682 12s.

Felix Allon de Nimes, Dept, du Gard, emigre, etabli et decede a Guernsey, par son testament du 26 Octobre, 1830, a laisse dans les 3 0/0 d’Angleterre £737 13s. 6d.

Tinteret devant etre distribue par ses executeurs Jean Elizie Tupper, Janies Jeremie, et leurs hoirs, “A tels pauvres honteux qu’ils crooiront en etre les plus dignes”; administrateurs actuels, Henry Bingham de Vic Tupper, Henrietta Tupper.

Priaulx’s Fund. The late John Priaulx of Hauteville bequeathed by his will, dated the 24th day of April, 1829,” Unto the poor indigent of this island, who labour under hernia or ruptures (and who do not belong to any of the hospitals of the island), fifteen hundred francs per annum in the French Rentes 5 0/0 Consolodes to procure them bandages or trusses as they may require.” The administration of this charity is in the hands of the Royal Court and the Town Douzaine (vide ordinance of the Royal Court, 6th May, 1837).

The De-la-Court Fund comprises donations and legacies, Au fonds constitute dans Panne 1588, par Mons. Jean De-la-Court, pour soulagement des pauvres mariners qui auraient perdu par neufrage ou autrement leurs navires on vaisseaux et pour autres objets charitables selon Pavia at discretion des Justiciers de cette Ile.” Since the institution of the fund, it has been increased to £3,566 and qrs. 50 bush, 0 dls. 2 ½ by donations and bequests.

The Victoria Fund was founded on October 4, 1897, in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria; it consists of 23 qrs. 3 bush. 4 ½ dls. of wheat and £30 sterling, and is intended for the relief of deserving poor who are not provided for by the Sir William Collings and De-la-Court funds: it is under the control of the Royal Court.

The Victoria Tower is a structure of red granite, about 100 feet in height, erected at a cost of nearly £2,000, to commemorate the visit of H.M. Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort, who landed at Guernsey on the 24th August, 1846. The site was presented by the heirs of the late Mr. Mourant, and the first stone was laid by Lieut.-Governor Bell, 27 May, 1848: the tower is square in plan, and has an embattled parapet and angle turrets; it stands at a height of over 300 feet above the sea-level, and serves as a landmark to ships approaching the roadstead.

The Albert Statue, in front of the Old Harbour, is of bronze, on a granite pedestal, 17 feet in height; it was unveiled in Oct. 1863, and is a copy of an original statue of the late Prince Consort, by the late Joseph Durham, A.R.A.

The Candie Gardens, Candie road, opened in 1890, command an extensive view of the ocean and surrounding islands; during the summer concerts are given here. The Jubilee Memorial statue of Her late Majesty Queen. Victoria, a replica of that at Bombay, was erected in these grounds in 1900, at a cost of £800, raised, by public subscription.

Cambridge Park, or the New Ground, originally known as L’Hyvreuse, was purchased by the town in 1772; the present name of the park was given in honour of a visit of H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge K.G. in 1862, to review the militia.

The land is owned by numerous proprietors. The soft is good loam; subsoil, mainly clay. The chief crops are vegetables, tomatoes and grapes. The area is 1,499 acres of land; capital value, £2,935,075; the population of the civil parish in 1901 was 18,264, including 477 military, 128 in the Town Hospital, 41 officials and inmates in the Lunatic Asylum and 100 on board ships.

QUEEN ELIZABETH COLLEGE

This College was founded by that sovereign in 1563, and endowed by her with lands and tenements in Guernsey previously belonging to a convent of Franciscan Grey Friars, the date of the deed of foundation being 27 Sept. in the year mentioned. In 1568 the school property was transferred by the Governor of the Island to the Bailiffs, Jurats and States of Guernsey, and in 1825 (Sept. 30) a new charter was granted by Geo. IV. The first school-house was built in 1566, with funds raised by taxation, and appears to have lasted till 1753, when it was taken down, and in 1760 a new building, called the “New College House,” was erected at the public expense, at a cost of £600: in 1816 this structure, except as the residence of the master, was disused, and from 1817 to 1824 the school was carried on in a house in Saumarez street. On the granting of the new charter in 1825, it was resolved to erect entirely new buildings, the foundation stone of which was laid 19 Oct. 1826, by Sir John Colborne K.C.B, the Lieut.-Governor, and the college was completed and the school transferred thereto, 20 Aug. 1829. The cost of building amounted to £12,000, and the inclosing and levelling of the ground, £2,000; and the old college was also enlarged at an expense of £400, and is now a boarding house. The college, as thus erected, stands on a hill overlooking the town, and commands a magnificent sea view, including the adjacent islands and the coast of France: it is a rectangular edifice of three storeys, with embattled parapets and square towers at the angles, also embattled, and on the principal front is a large battlemented entrance tower, rising considerably above the roof line, with octagonal pinnacled turrets: it comprises a residence for the Principal and 40 boarders, ten large class rooms, and a fine central hall, enlarged in 1862, when a stained window was placed in the bay, displaying figures of Queen Elizabeth, Chas. I. Bishop Morley, and Dr. Adrian Saravia, the first master. In the grounds stand the gymnasium, completed in 1883 at the expense of Mrs. Anthony Delacombe Maingay, who in 1880 had presented a sum of £1,000 for this purpose: there is also an adequate workshop under a professional carpentry instructor, and an excellent school library of upwards of 2,000 volumes, formed in 1868, with a supply of daily and illustrated newspapers. In 1883 three fields off King’s road were purchased, at a cost of £1,638, and formed into a cricket field, and in 1888 a new cricket field of about 6 ½ acres was acquired, at a cost of over £2,000, and now contains a handsome pavilion and several huts for general uses, and also has a good bicycle track. St. James’s church, which stands close by, serves as a college chapel. A college magazine is published twice a term. For teaching purposes the school is divided into upper and lower departments, and there are special classes for instruction in chemistry, physics, and botany, engineering, military, and commercial subjects, and an extra class for boys requiring exceptional help.

The Scholarships and Exhibitions include two or three Entrance Scholarships, given every year on the result of an Examination held about Easter in Guernsey and London simultaneously. They amount in value to about £20 per annum for three years in the case of a day boy, and about £30 per annum in that of a boarder. Four Scholarships of £100 a year, and six Exhibitions of £60 a year are tenable at Exeter, Jesus, and Pembroke Colleges, Oxford, and at least one Scholarship and one Exhibition are competed for every year in February. Both Scholarships and Exhibitions will be held for four years. All boys are eligible who have been educated at Elizabeth College during two of the three years immediately preceding the election, The following are tenable without distinction of place:-The Queen’s Exhibition (£30 per annum for four years), open only to boys of three years' standing, and between the ages of sixteen and twenty, being natives of Guernsey, or sons of natives. The Lord De Saumarez’s Exhibition (£15 per annum for four years), open to all boys of three years’ standing and over sixteen years of age. The Maingay Scholarship (£40 per annum for two years), open to all boys above sixteen and under nineteen years of age, who have been at Elizabeth College for one year immediately preceding the examination; this scholarship is specially intended to encourage competition for the Indian Civil Service. The Upper School Prizes include:-The Miller Prizes, for general proficiency, and range from £3 to £20 in value; The Bishop’s Prizes, for Scriptural knowledge; The Colling’s Prizes, for Greek, consisting of £5 in books; The Maingay Gold Medal, for Latin; The Le Boutillier Prizes, for French, instituted in 1869, first, £3 in books, second, £2 in books; Two Henry Tupper Prizes, value £2 each, founded in 1893 for French, chiefly conversational; The De Havilland Carey Prizes, for German, one of £3 and the other of £2, both in books; The Frederick Carey Drawing Medal, value £5, for the student who produces, without assistance, the best drawing in any medium whatever, water-colour, crayon, pencil, pen and ink, or the best etching or sketch; The Le Marchant Prizes, four of £2 and four of £1 each, for general subjects; The Beesley Prizes, founded in 1871, for geometrical drawing and engineering, value two guineas in books or mathematical instruments; the College Fund Prizes, of one guinea each in books, for speciall subjects; The Principal’s Prize, for geography, consisting of two guineas in books, and numerous other Class Prizes. The Lower School Prizes include:-The Le Merchant Prizes, for Latin and French; The Principal’s Prize, for geography, and various Class Prizes and Certificates.

MILITARY

Guernsey & Alderney District Command. Head Quarters, Ann’s place.

Wo. 13 Company, Royal Garrison Artillery. Head Quarters, Castle Cornet.

CHANNEL ISLANDS MILITIA

Based at Ann's place.

Royal Guernsey.

Cadet Battalion (Volunteers). Attached to Engineer Co. Elizabeth College.

1st Battalion (Light Infantry).

Head Quarters, Town Arsenal, Monument road.

2nd Battalion (Light Infantry). Head Quarters, Naftiaux Arsenal.

PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of Services

St. Peter Port Church, Rev. George Edward Lee M.A, F.S.A, rector; Rev. Abraham Bromley Crane, curate: services, Sundays (English), 8 & 10.30 a.m. & 7 p.m. daily, 11 a.m. & 4 p.m. (English).

Holy Trinity Church, Rev. Nassau Cathcart M.A, vicar; Sun. 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. (English).

St. James the Less Church, St. James’ street, Grange road, Rev. John Brookes Vernon Penfold, incumbent; holy communion, 8.15 & 11.45 a.m.; garrison parade service, 10.45 a.m.; catechism, 3 p.m. & 6.30 p.m. evensong (English); daily, 12 noon; holy days, 11 a.m. & as announced.

St. John the Evangelist Church (English), Rev. Henry Clarke M.A. vicar; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. in Lent & Advent, 7 p.m.

St. Stephen's Church (English), Les Gravies, Rohais road, Rev. Frank Edward Lowe M.A. vicar; Rev. Roland MacDonnell B.D. curate; Sun. 10.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.

St. Barnabas Church, Tower hill (English), served from the parish church; Sun. 8 & 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.15 p.m.

SS. Joseph & Mary Catholic, Cordier hill, Very Rev. Canon WilIiam Foran (rural dean), priest; Sun. mass, 8 a.m.; high mass, 10.30a.m.; vespers & benediction, 6.30 p.m.

Our Lady of the Rosary, Burnt lane (French), Rev. Geo. Dolman, priest; Sun. mass, 8 a.m.; high mass, 20.30 а.m.; benediction, 6.30 p.m.

Presbyterian (St. Andrew’s), Grange road, Rev. Frank Rutherfurd-Rawle B.A.; Sun. 10.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Society of Friends, Clifton; 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Baptist (English) (Spurgeon Memorial), North Clifton, Rev. John Gard; 10.30 a.m. 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 p.m.

Bible Christian Methodist, Vauvert (Salem), Rev. Corin Grosvenor; Sun. 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Tue. 7.30 p.m.

Brethren, Valnord road; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Congregational, New Town (Eldad), Rev. George Hurst; (English) Sun. 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Methodist New Connexion (English), St. James’ street (St. Paul’s), Rev. Marmaduke Langdale; 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; week days, Wed. 7.15 p.m.

Primitive Methodist, Truchet street, Rev. Ernest Warburton; 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.

Wesleyan Methodist:-

English.

Rev. John D. Stevens (supt.), Rev. Frederick Tunbridge & Rev. George C. Clarke; Rev. George Terry B.A. supernumerary.

Brock road; Sun. 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 7 p.m.

Fort road (Morley), erected 1862; Sun. 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Thur. 7 p.m. & Sat. 7.30 p.m.

Saumarez street (Ebenezer); Sun. 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

French.

Rev. Philip George Adair (supt.), Rev. John Du Feu & Rev. Lucien Meuret; Rev. Jos. Wood, supernumerary.

Victoria, erected 1850; Sun. 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Tue. 7 p.m.

Salvation Army, Clifton hall; 7 & 11 a.m. & 3 & 6.30 p.m.; Mon. 8 p.m.

Sailors' Bethel, North Plantation (English); 2.30 & 6.30 p.m.; Mon. & Sat. 7.30 p.m.

Gospel Hall, Paris street (various); Sun. 6.30 p.m.

Bordage Street Mission Room (various); 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Mon. 7.30 p.m.

SCHOOLS

Guernsey School of Science & Art, Victoria road, J. A. de Garis, sec.; A. E. Hewitt, principal.

The Primary Schools are under the direction of the States Education Committee; Rev. H. Walter Brock M.A. supervisor of attendance officers; J. A. Munday, supt. of primary education; office, Vauvert road.

States Intermediate (girls), Granville house, Mount Durand, opened May 6th, 1895; present attendance, 82.

States Intermediate (boys), Brook road, built in 1895, for 180 children.

Central, entrance by Clifton steps, built for 250 girls & 600 infants; average attendance, 140 girls & 183 infants.

Vauvert, built in 1842, for 150 boys & 150 girls; average attendance, 150 boys & 148 girls.

Parochial, Guille road, built in 1900, at a cost of about £7,000, for 250 boys & 250 girls; average attendance, 230 boys & 210 girls.

Infants, Guille road, erected in 1903, at a cost of £3,000, for 250; average attendance, 240.

St. Stephen’s, Stanley road, built for 160 children; average attendance, 120.

Holy Trinity (infants), Park street, erected in 1892, at a cost of £1,200; average attendance, 159.

St. Joseph’s Catholic (boys), Cordier hill; average attendance, 75.

St. Joseph’s Catholic (girls & infants), Cordier hill; average attendance, 65 girls & 68 infants.

French Catholic, Burnt lane, erected in 1902, at a cost of £2,000, exclusive of land; accommodation, 250 boys & girls; average attendance, 190.

CONVEYANCE BY WATER

To England, Southampton, daily, Sundays excepted, in summer & Mon. Wed. & Fri. in winter, L. & S. W. Co.; Weymouth, daily, Sundays excepted, in summer & Tue. Thur. & Sat. in winter, G. W. Co.

From England, Southampton, daily, Mondays excepted, in summer & Mon. Wed. & Fri. in winter, L. & S. W, Co.; Weymouth, daily, Mondays excepted, in summer & Wed. Fri. & Sun. in winter, Gr. W. Co.

For Jersey, daily, Mondays excepted.

Alderney, The Alderney Steam Packet Co. Limited (A. & W. Coles, agents, Guay); Tuesdays & Saturdays during winter months; Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays during summer.

Sark, The Guernsey Steam Towing & Trading Co. Lim. The Quay; daily during summer; twice a week during winter.