A startling illustration of the indifference of England towards its great Indian dependency is provided by a comparison between the plague returns from Maocbaria and those from India, On Febroary 21 Renter cabled that the total number of deaths in the Far East since the begioniog of the present epidemic was now estimated at 19,000. All the correspondents attention to the "exceptional mortality of 99 per cent of cases, Now in India daring the frst three weeks of January alone the deaths from plague amounted, according to the official retame, to 44,981. The Latest Sgares received la this country are those for the week ending January 21, They are aa fol That is to vey, the plague deaths in India daring the third work of January were at least 1,000 in excess of the estimated total in the Far East since the appearance of the plague there last sotamo, while the mortality reaches the terrible ratio of 81 per cent. The pestilence is most virulent in the North-West (United Provioces) where daring the week referred to the deaths were 11,235, the death-rate in some districts being 100 per cent, thus Mozaffatnegar District, 4a 4 Ballia District were 222, the dete 220. In the In the city of Cawopor re ons seizures district of Asamgarh there were 1,183 deaths out of 1,388 seizores. Ever these figares, however, are trifling compared with those of the " million years" of the last decade. Daring 1907 the plagoedeaths officially recorded numbered 1,315,892. At one time the weekly total rose above 75,000, the Panjab alone (a province of some twenty millions of people) registering 30,000, or over 4,000 a 4 ily News.""
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