14 MARCH 1868, Page 3

We publish elsewhere a report from a correspondent of unusual

experience upon the present condition of Orissa. It will be seen that the original accounts of that catastrophe were not exag- gerated, that the old have disappeared from the land, and that in -one place more than half the population died of actual hunger. The results of the famine are, however, disappearing, the people have obtained a new settlement for thirty years—they were pro- mised a perpetual one,—and cultivation has recommenced. The curious outbreak among the women, who, enraged at their deser- tion to die, are refusing in thousands to re-enter their husbands' houses, will probably be the most permanent consequence of the scarcity.