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Famine IN Hdia.-lt appears from the recent
transactions Of the British India Society, that
within the last seventy three years no less than
sixteen desolating famnes have occurred, and that
too in country the soil of which is allowed to
be one of unexampled fertility and the resources
Of which, it cannot be denied, ifproperly managed,
would be fully adequate to all the demands OF It's
teeming millions. The dates at which these
famines arc said to have occurred are 1865, ITO,
1882, 1892, 1903, 1909, 1919, 1920, 1924, 1928,
1892, 1893, 1886, 1887, 1888, and 1889. Some
Of the earlier of these famines may, it is stated
be referred to the simultaneous occurrences of
wars but with respect to those of the last twenty
years, which have been time of profound peace,
no such cause can be assigned. The accounts
which are given of the famine Of 1888 are APP
,palling in the extreme. At Agra $4,000 pining
wretches were fed by the public bounty on the
l4th of April and between the lst and the 9th
of March, II, 533 infrm and sightless wrclches
were fed in the same manner. So great were the
ravages of death that the air for miles was tainted
with the et1luvia from the purifying carcasses of
men and cattle, and the rivers of the Jumna and
the Ganges were closed up and poisoned by the
dead bodies thrown into their channels. The
water and fish of these rivers were rejected as
unfit for use. The mortality was at the rate
of O,000 per month; destruction Of life, which,
had it continued, would have been sufficiently
large to have swept off the entire population in
less than year.