2 DECEMBER 1876, Page 3

The reports from India are not cheering. The Times' cor-

respondent, telegraphing on November 26, confirms all that has been related of the cyclone, which swept three storm-waves across the districts affected, which cover 3,000 square miles—say, Suffolk and a half—and contain 1,062,000 people. Of these 215,000 cer- tainly perished, and the Government dread an epidemic, from the number of unburied bodies of men and animals. Fortunately the weather is not very hot. Great apprehensions of scarcity are felt in Madras and Bombay, more especially the latter Presidency, where Government has been compelled to open a system of relief works. These circumstances will not prevent the grand pageant at Delhi on January 1, but they will limit the expense, and expenditure is of the essence of successful pageants.