Show Famine and Distress London 2The Bank of England voted 50H to the lord mayors fund for the relief of distress in Ireland The fund now amounts to 3000 There were land meetings yesterday at Rath drum Wicklow Tully near ClifTdon Scryne and Sligo Several thousand persons per-sons attended The Turkish Missions Aid Society have written to the Times regarding the I famine in northern Persia stating that they have received a telegram from Oormeah to the efIect that famine in nil that region is increasing daily and that unless strenuous efforts are made to send help from England and America a great number of the population must perish There nee only two months supply food to sustain the people for the next seven months The Society of St Vincent Depaul in France has resolved to have a special collection in each of its conferences to relieve I re-lieve the distress in Ireland Madrid IKing Alfomo has given 10000 marks for the benefitof the famine stricken in Upper Silesia St Petersburg 2Tho country between be-tween the Volga and Don is famine stricken Many persons have already perished The prefect of Toaritzin has arrived in St Petersburg to urge contributions contri-butions for the relief of people of that place Famine and typhus fever have appeared |