The news of the Famine received this week is, on
the whole, -consolatory. Sir George Campbell, at the Lord Mayor's meeting, stated that sufficient rain was falling, and this is confirmed by a telegram in the Tinier, which says the rivers are rising, and another of May 30, received from the Viceroy, who, however, reports a serious grain riot near Julpigoree, in which two rioters were killed by the soldiers, whom it was necessary to call out. 'The Government inspection has now covered 27,950 villages and two million houses, and the number relieved in some way or -other is 2,500,000, or one-fourth of the total population of the Famine district. Lord Northbrook was, therefore, right as to the number he should have to feed, but the Spectator right as to the,proportion. His lordship always predicted that 2,500,000 -would be left on Government hands, but calculated they would be only a tenth of the distressed. The famine has, in fact, been as intense as the Spectator predicted, but has not extended over the area-25,000,000—anticipated by the Viceroy.
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