Show fanine FAMINE 2 r AND destitution the tho london tims tras has the tho f from rom calcutta alc utta august 2 2 the famine is sore in orissa ln in the afteel fifteen affected amm aff acted districts but chiefly in the three districts of orissa and the adjoining country of midnapore Midna pore are daily fed by public charity if you double that for forthe the numbers bers fed privately and chiefly by Hin doos vou you you will bo be still within the truth out oui of orissa and midnapore Midna pore half of the destitute are professional beggars in these provin provinces eeg nearly all are the laboring poor and the lower alases of agriculturists the largest number of deaths from orissa aid and midnapore Midna pore reported in one week is and in the manthai country 12 the average aver arye atye number of deaths reported to the atit authorities during the past six weeks may be and is by officials taken as not less than a week add to these the deaths witnessed by no human eye in the far interior where aid has never penetrated and you will have by no means an exa exaggerated 11 idea of the state of orissa ail ali and midnapore Midna pore I 1 will not harrow the feelings of your readers by the details of cases which appear in the daily papers here re reported portet appear by eye witnesses of theja ehaas chals eating the corpse of one wretch while they wait for his companion who is dying or of the child taken from the breast of its mother do who has been dead two days wo know still till less of the state of gandam the madras district immediately to the south of orissa the famine bean beggan be an in october last it became so grevious by december that gold silver sliver and brass work sold at twenty percent per cent below the usual rates and the magistrate of poo ree urged the establishment of a relief fund and public works as well as the revival of thewalt the tho salt sait manufacture the december crop was saved by the rain but hut buffit it was so scanty and the peasantry had to give lve ive so much of it to the ian lan landlords and antl money lenders in repayment of advances that by the middle of february prices again fell to the starvation level of five pounds of rice the shilling the people managed to struggle on till by the beginning of april they had hao ex hausted their stores and froni the first week of that month when the missionaries artesand sand and the magistrates appealed for public assistance the famine jn in orissa and gadi gani am iu dates uncle bill tidd was a drover from worcester county being exposed to all weathers ills his complexion Ufler ered ed a little but bilt at the best he was no neof the whitest stopping at a public house near tona man manrich rich in this worlds good goods s but of notoriously bad character thought as uncle bill came in he would make mahe him the butt hutt of a joke gjoke As the black face of the weather beaten mah appeared in the doorway lie he exclaimed mercy anlis on us how dark it grows uncle BI bill lili s surveying urve ying him from front head to foot coolly C 00 ay answered yes sir your character and my complexion arb enough to darken any room DENSITY OF population the new volume of the british board of trade statistical tables gives f the follows following P g statement of the pip population of countries with more than inhabitants according to the most recent census J united lang lUng kingdom langdom dom 33 persons to the english square mile upon the average italy france prussia t 1 austria spain and balearic E islands 84 turkey 19 united states 11 russia 9 0 russia in europe 31 brazil 3 1 the population of the eight above named states of the old world ex cecys |