7 MARCH 1874, page 2

The Viceroy Of India Has Forwarded A Telegram To The

Secre- tary of State, in which he states that the area of severe distress covers parts of Tirhoot, Sarun, Chumparun, Bhagulpore, Burmah, and Dinajpore, and the area of distress,......

Sir H. Thompson Has Another Article On Cremation In The

Contemporary, in which he answers his critics, and among them the Spectator. He makes, however, one or two curious mistakes. He says, or implies, that we attacked his veracity......

Piecing All The Information Carefully Together, We Should...

Government was fairly aroused, and willing to fight the famine as it would an invader, but that it was three months too late ; that transport, in spite of Sir R. Temple's device......

• - Sir Garnet Wolseley's Report To Lord Kimberley On.

the battle of Amoaful, or Accromboo, was published on Friday. It is short, straightforward, and soldierlike. Sir Garnet confirms our guess that the King had carefully deceived......

M. 011ivier, An Orator Of Some Ability, But Otherwise...

fit for the French Academy, was in the last days of the Empire admitted as Napoleon's Premier into that august body. During the war which he had advocated he fled into Italy, to......

The True Pinch Has Not Come Yet, But Mr. Forbes,

though he reports Northern Tirhoot as on the whole not so bad as he ex- pected, telegraphed on Wednesday that in Eastern Tirhoot suffering was rapidly increasing, that eighteen......

The Reaction Has Again Been Defeated At The Polls In

France. In Vienne, which was supposed to he entirely Conservative, the electors have obeyed the hint in M. Thiers' letter, and have sent up the moderate Republican, M. le Petit,......

Professor Huxley Has Made The Best Pun Of Recent Years.

He has been elected Lord Rector of Aberdeen, and delivered an installation lecture on Universities, what they are, and what they ought to be, his object being as usual to press......

The Carlists In Spain Have Gained A Somewhat Serious...

General Moriones, with 20,000 men, has made a desperate attempt to break the Carlist lines round Bilbao, and announces (February 25) that he has been defeated. He is said to......

Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, And York Have All...

towards the Bengal Famine Fund, and we believe, upon the whole, they are right. So far as such subscriptions tend to show English sympathy with the people of India, they may be......