The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-18

10 very the efncisis FOR oauyau NO have
report oy young civilian the district, admirably
only for four months being worst In Bshar in August
and in Canaan IN July In Orissa II reached its max
October 1858 OF one year after the first deaths from
starvation and after Mr. Barlow had vain called for
the importation of rice into Pooree.
Taxing. then, the results OF these three reports
we ma tna' me great famine OF 1860 affected
an area Of 77.4l3 square mes-nearly as largo
10000 600. The deaths were 1850, o0O have added
10000 for the hill districts of Orssa Of which
Mr. Campbell's commission PROCESSES total ignorance,
but which must have suffered more terribly than the
plains, for there WAS no relief there and hundreds
poured into Balasore from the hills only to die The
famine were not quite half the above In Orissa Choa
Naspose, ana M.anapore for instance the commission
OF l.s4s 646 and over Of l7s square miles and
as Intense" among 2062. 725 and over an area OF
Behar the famine was intense" over 92so SQUARE
miles, in population about as that or England
rue or'ssa commission accept tho estimate OF one
fourth oil the population dead as not high and
OF one-eighh in Uhota Nagpore. OF all other dis.
trics the statement continually appears that the
nomber OF deaths gwen refers only those recorded
that IL is much 100 low &C. On tho whole II We add
the unavoidable deaths this year as the rasult of the
starvation OF last year, and allow even for ordinary
taity, Tear we must estimate the number of victims
in oil Eastern india the OF land going north from
the coast between the mouth Of the Hoogy aud Canaan
10 tue Nepaui border a. not less than lpe Ru
oed ttou.ond-haf tie population of London or Of all
Scoldnd. Fancy If Paris were depopualed Bui the
anime ""s as intense as " was extensive All the evil
dence shows this and the native evidence Is peculiarly
interesting. The pictures drawn by Dr. Jackson and
Judge Wauchopc OF baasore OF the crowds OF starye
pgs, the three hundred bodies day in the streets the
pestena stencil, the filth Of the hospitals tho starving
failing into the water when they DIR nix, from
sheer debility and the skeletons W hch the com
lnissoners themselves saw even at that lae date com
bDe 10 make thus 0risSa famine more horrible than al
Of which have q record
Nor is the last clement of horror wanting capnibal
ISM The h3sy illusions in the evidence this arc r-
resst'Ose We find Mr. Commissioner Rayenshaw telling
subordinate IN letter avowculy written prevent
alarm, that one man had been eating dead body but
he was sad TO hc idiot. Tho native deputy mags-
crdinaies IN Juy-a Hindoo had cooked the body of q
chic be had found in the river. A Cut,ack deputy
MAGISTRATE repeats ar Ravensbaw's story Of the IDIOT
canaibsi Most important OF all, however is tho tcst-
mouy OF The Rev. Mr. miller, missionary OF Baasore
Ho says:-"Nothing that have ever read has enabled
me To conceive anything equal TO III famine have
Known 40 instance OF the Hipdoos eating dogs or cats
or cows OF ey AID ga, then children en then vere
dead heard well authenticated instance ia which
mother and son wcIc found eating dead child know
OF nothing to surpass this famine either excnt or
severity.
The largest number relieved daily was 634 taking tho
daily in 0rssa October 81 329 in Behar in August and
5000 Ia Canaan IN July. Government in 1866 spent in
reei ana pubic works or remited OF land GcI6 SS4
While the Ango-lndan public subscribed r cash. in-
Guiding the old relief fund, apart from the extensive
daily charity Calcutta the afflicted districts el2O
So In tue present year, government WIN not escape
under hall million sterling, and the public have already
subscribed TO the new fuEd f4., 600 NAV report in
passlng tue as,onshment which has been expressed
INDIA that Lord Derby should be asked by an Influential
reputation TO send the balance OF the Lancashire fund 10
the freedmen OF the Southern States when Orssa is in
such condition. England has done nothing for IL, and
India subscribed to that fund f5I 400 IL that were sent
back 1t would suffice for the permanent maintenance OF
the orphans.