§ MR. FORSYTHasked the Under Secretary of State for India, If he will state to the House the exact number of cases of death from starvation, owing to the famine in Bengal, so far as authentic information has been received up to the present time?
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTON, in reply, said, the latest authentic information 699 received at the India Office reported the actual number of deaths from starvation in Bengal as being 23.