We regret deeply to see that the Viceroy has called
for sub- scriptions, and that subscriptions are shortly to be raised in England. Any expression of sympathy with the people may be grateful to them, as that of the Queen was, but contemptible trifling of this sort is only worthy of the old school of Indians. The catastrophe needs millions, and there is every reason to believe that the millions are ready, the financial arrangements, up to a certain point, having been very complete. All we fear is that Lord Northbrook, looking to India rather than Bengal, which has fed India with money for a hundred years, may guard his treasury too carefully. Note, Members of Parliament, that the passage in Mr. Fawcett's recent speech, which excited the strongest enthusiasm, was his reference to the famine, the only one made during the election.
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