At last the authorities appear to have woke up to the gravity of the distress in India. On Friday Lord George Hamilton intimated to the Lord Mayor that the time had at length arrived when a famine fund might be opened at the Mansion House, and on Saturday the Lord Mayor's appeal was published to the world. Up to last night it had resulted in the collection of some £60,000; and funds have since been opened in several of the great provincial towns. The subscriptions are not flowing in quite so readily as had been hoped; but with an effort they may yet be brought up to the £7,000,000 which was in round figures the total amount of the Famine Fund of 1877. Mr. William Waldorf Astor has signalized his naturalisation as a British. subject by heading the list with £2,000 for his fellow-subjects in India; and it is hoped that ambition to,
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