7 JUNE 1879, Page 3

The accounts of the famine in Cashmere are most deplorable.

It is stated on good authority that when the Government of India sent its officers into the State to inquire and -provide food, the Maharajah, who is the grand regrater of cereals, and his great officials, threw every impediment in their way, either from a desire of profit, or from a more natural jealousy of British interference. The people, therefore, starved4 andit is announced that whole villages have been found depopulatedi—in part, let us hope, by flight. The Government of India has at last been wearied out by the Maharajah's evasions, and has ordered him peremptorily to Srinugger, to superintend relief himself.