24 JUNE 1865, Page 3

Mr. Farnall has sent in his final report, and the

cotton famine may be considered over. It has lasted in greater or less intensity nearly three years, for two of which relief has been provided chiefly through local public works, on which a million sterling has been expended, in addition to the amount levied in poor-rates and raised by a subscription so liberal that 275,0001. was contri- buted from foreign quarters alone, Asia sending 132,000/. We trust that Mr. Farnall will yet submit to the Poor-law Board an official account of the whole famine, the loss it has inflicted, and the resources through which it has been met. Such a report would, if not too severely statistical, be a most valuable addition to the history of English administration.