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It appears probable that the famine in Peraia la rising

to a terri- ble height. Sensational statements are sent by telegraph about people eating their own children, which they do not do, Moham- medans in all cases dying quietly ; but the actual facts of people dying in the capital and great cities, wholesale, read as if they were true. Letters, moreover, partly confirm them, and we take the facts to be these :—Persia has suffered from two consecutive years of drought, the stores are exhausted, the people are dying, and some epidemic, probably cholera, has broken out among the weakened crowds. That is a horrible state of affairs, and if the Indian or British Governments can and will help, any expenditure they may incur will be cheerfully sanctioned by the public.