The latest telegrams from Calcutta on the Famine are all
favourable, the rains being still ample, but the latest letters are not. We have published one of them elsewhere, and their general drift is that relief equals famine, but that there can be no security until the September rains have fallen, and have been found sufficient. Our own Correspondent, who has been always on the Government side, estimates the Famine deaths up to May 25th at 2,000, a number which, if correct, is less than one for every ten villages examined, reported on, and relieved,—an astounding success, when compared with the result of our operations in Ire- land. The total of such villages is 29;000. Both he and Mr. Charles Bernard, whose letter to his uncle, Lord Lawrence, was read at the Mansion-House meeting on Tuesday, are clear that, without the expenditure incurred, the 2,500,000 persons supported by Government must have perished.
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