On the other hand, it is also clear that the
Viceroy was, on November 10th, and indeed before, very uneasy about means of anything beyond expressing his uneasiness, and assigning some Commissariat officers to Bengal, that he rode over the in- terior himself, or that he issued any peremptory order on the subject. He left the preparation of transport mainly to the Lieutenant-Governor, but refused him the grant he asked to pay for it, and nothing sufficient was really done until the despatch of Sir R. Temple to Behar with powers apparently to spend as much as he liked. Lord Northbrook, in fact, upon the one point which made him uneasy, acted on the usual routine, expressing wishes, but relying for their execution on non-existent resources, on the Lieutenant-Governor, and on the subordinate officials, who, as they were to be held "severely responsible "for any case of death from starvation, of course reported none.
