30 MARCH 1861, page 3

• The Accounts From India Are Most Melancholy. The Famine

spreads rapidly, and it is calculated that seven millions of persons are affected, two and a half millions or whom are in actual want of food. Mr. Edmonstone, Lieut.-Governor of......

"east London" Has "demonstrated" This Week In Favour Of...

at the Standard Theatre. All the "great guns" invited were absent. Mr. Newton was in the chair. Ile asked : "What did Lord John Russell want? Did he wish to see the seditious,......

An Appeal Was Made To England To Aid In Relieving

the famine- stricken provinces of British India, and England, at first, refused! On Saturday the Lord Mayor, on taking his seat, made a statement. He said he had been appealed......

Lord Palmerston Was Re-elected At Tiverton On Thursday,...

of course, but not without an amusing scene. The Pre- mier is popular in the borough, and has it all his own way. In addition to the usual crowd olunteers paraded, and were......