The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

nephew of the late Peishwah, and incredible as it
may seem to European ears, was to be formally
married to him almost immediately."
Thus ended my wife's interview and mine ;
which, though a very cordial and clamorous
andience, was withal a somewhat stupid one. After
it was over, we mounted an elephant and went to
our new residence, which for ono month I found
very comfortable. The Rajah Nana Sahib made
his appearance about breakfast-time, and usually -
brought some handsome flowers or valuable fruit,'
and his emissaries besieged me daily with a long
account of the wrongs he had experienced at the
hands of the British Government, by their having
stopped the pension granted to former Peishwahs
on the demise of the late one, his reputed father,
he being the adopted son. This kind of life con-
tinued for one month, at the end of which time I
returned to Cawnpore. I did not see the soli-disant
Peishwah again, but he sent a gharrie and an escort
to bring me from Cawnpore to _Bhitoor, at twelve.
o'clock on the last night I staid in Cawnpore,
which was about the end of January, 1854. ,

I knew Nana Sahib intimately (says a writer in the
Illustrated Times), and always regarded him as one of
the best and most hospitable natives in the upper pro•
vincee, and certainly one of the last men to have been .
guilty of the atrocities laid to his charge. A.s is the
case with many natives of India, it may have been
that Nana Sahib cultivated the acquaintance and friend-
ship of the Sahibs solely in the hope that through their
influence, direct and indirect, his grievances would
be redressed. But the last time I saw Nana Sahib
—it was in the cold weather of 1851, and he called
upon me twice during my stay in Cawnpore—he
never once alluded to his grievances. His conversation
at that tine was directed to the Oude affair. The fol.
lowing questions, amongst others, I can remember he
put to me :
•' Why will not Lord Dalhousie pay a visit to the King
of Oude ? Lord Harding. did so.
"Do you think Colonel Sleeman will persuade Lord
Dalhousie to seize the kingdom (of Oude) I—He (Colonel ,
Sleeman) has gone to the camp to do his best.
So far as I could glean, Nana Sahib wished for the
annexation of Oude—albeit. he expressed a very decided
opinion that, in the event of that measure being resorted.,
to, there would be a disturbance and perhaps a war—
such as happened when Mr. Vans Agnew and Lieute-
nant Anderson were murdered by the rebellioassoldiery
of Moolraj, at Mooltan.
A fsw words as to the nuns of Nana Sahib, which
after all, is not his name, but a "nickname." His name
is "Sreenath," and amongst his retainers and friends he
is addressed (in correspondence) as "Maharajah Sreenath
Babadoor." Few Hindoos of Nana Sahib's rank are
ever alluded to by the name given to them by. the Brah•
min at the time of their birth. In most cases the nick-
name, or pet name, that clings to a high caste Hindoo
for life, is the favourite word that he distinctly utters
in infancy, in the zunana. In the cane of Sreenath, the
subject of this sketch, there can be no doubt that,
" Nene," or " Nana," was the favourite word of the
child, who in manhood has gained such an unenviable ,
distinction in the eyes of the world. The word'
" Nene" has no particular signification, We are
informed. But the word "Nana," in lltindostanee,
signifies "grandfather." His retainers and servants
used to speak of him as "Nena Sahib," and not "Nana
Sahib."

The grievance of the Maharajah Seernath was simply
this :—The East India Company guaranteed to the late
Peishwah, his heirs and successors, a certain pension.
The Peishwah died without heirs born of his body, but
previous to his death he adopted Sreenath (" Nana
Sahib"). Now, according to the Hindu° law, an
adopted son is entitled to all the rights and :pd.
eileges of an heir begotten of the body of the
deceased. According to the Hindoo law, " Nana
Sahib" was entitled to the pension of the
Peishwah ; but the claim, as before stated, was not
allowed. It is a pity that the East India Company have
not been consistent iu their decisions upon this head. In
some, indeed in very many cases (where the pensions
have been insignificant comparatively), the Hindoo law
has been recognized, and the claim of the adopted von,
granted. In other ewes (where the pension has been
very considerable. or the amount of territory to be
" absorbed" extremely profitable), the Hindoo law has
been shelved and the claimant favoured with a letter
from the secretary to Government, informing him that
the " GrJvernor-General in Council has dismissed his
petition, but that the ordinary channels of redress are
open to him." He sends home an agent, who haunts
the India House and the Beard of Control.
At both places be is "referred to the local
Government"—the local Government which has
already decided against him. Such has been the case of
Naua Sahib ; such has been the case of the Rajah
of Coorg ; of the Ranee of Jhansi, where another
frightful massacre took place ; and such has been the
case with numbers of Indiana of rank, with whom we
have not dealt either wisely or well. Far be it for
us to offer even the shadow of an apology for the
authors of the atrocities which have plunged nearly
half of the nation into mourning ; but, at the same
time, we cannot forbear expressing our opinion, which
is now generally felt and acknowledged, that to the
gross mismanagement of our Indian Empire, and the
manliest injustice of which the East India Company
has been so frequently guilty, may be mainly attri-
buted the deplorable state of affairs which noW exists.

teraiscUtte.LrVWßEßFON POST-OFFICE.—The Ulverston and Lan.
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our first despatch to London was at eleven o'clock in the
morning ;it is now a quarter-past seven in the evening,
whilst we have an evening delivery front London and
the south.— blverston Advertiser.
INTERESTING RELIC OF PRINCE CHARLES STUART.—.
In the public room of the Caledonian Hotel Oban, says
the North British Daily Mail, there is an antique oak
chair, with the following inscription on a silver plate :
—" This chair was sent by Lochiel to Prince Charles
Stuart, on the occasion when the Royal Standard was
unfurled to claim the Crown of his ancestors, at Glen-
finnin, on the 19th August, 1745."
SIR JOHN BOWRING AND THE LORCHA ARROW.—YeT.
terday morning was issued, in the form of a return to
Parliament, a letter from Sir John Bo wring, dated Hong
Kong, May 8, in which he replies to the technical argu-
ments which were advanced against his proceedings, dur-
iog, the debates in Parliament, upon the Chinese ques-
tion, before the dissolution. He concludes his letter in
the following terms :—" I repeat then, that whether the
Arrow was entitled to protection or not, the Chinese had
no jurisdiction ; and their proceedings were unwarrant-
able, and to be resented. The expiry of the license did
i.o. make the lc rcha a Chinese vessel, and gave the Chinese
no right to interfere, except through the Consul. She
could be a foreign vessel in their eyes. The papers,
whether in order or not, were deposited at the con-
sulate, and if they had acted in accordance with the
cinditions of treaty, and had put themselves in com-
munication with the consul, there would have been no
collision. The papers granted were, I contend, of un-
doubted validity against any but British authority—
the authority which alone granted, and which alone was
entitled to withdraw, protection. If, then, the fact of
the expiry of the license, of the right of the loroha to its
renewal, did in no respect concern the Chinese, but the
British alone, my action was a necessity—at all events
pa far as placing the question in the hands of the naval
authorities when I could obtain no redress."
Loss OF THE SHIP FUSILIER AT ST. GOWAN'S HEAD
—This iron-built ship, 500 tons burden, homeward
bound from Valparaiso with a valuable cargo of copper
and wool, was totally lost on Tuesday night under St.
Gowan's Head, the crew having a miraculous escape.
Captain Carmichael, the master, has made a sworn de-
position before the Admiralty receiver of wreck respect-
ing the loss of the ship. It is as follows :—" We sailed
from Valparaiso on the 10th of last June bound to Liver-
pool, and proceeded on the voyage without occurrence of
any note till the 9th or 10th of the present month, when
they spoke the Dutch ship Hugo Urotius, from Batavia
to Rotterdam, and they compared longitude and detected
that one of the Fusilier's chronometers gave but
10 miles to the eastward of the Dutch ship. From
that time till the 11th encountered winds variable
and fresh, course E.N,E, northerly, with wind
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miles. Found that she had made no better than a course
of E 04 N. lat. at noon, 5.30 N. lon, by one chrono-
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course,
and fresh points in both compasses. At 4 p.m. it be-
came thick. At 11.40 p.m. hauled up the cross jack
a mainsail, and
ay. A
arndicalledt
11.50 t thehewat lookout manchotoh-oeuaveth called
elead,
still
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"Land ahead." The helm was put down, but soon
afterwards the ship struck on the rocks, and the main
hold quickly filled with water. For the preservation of
their lives took to the boat, and at daylight, discovering
the position of the coast, made for Milford Haven."
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EXTRAORDINARY MISTAKE.—CAPTAIN ROGERS THE
WRONG MAN.—It will be recollected that immediately
in
Liverpool,
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not ththheeed,
tiMarthahnetrhoeu executionnJane,Nd:r, toh
paper, went
trial that Baron Watson was " visibly moved" in
passing sentence of death upon the unfortunate prisoner,
and accounting for the emotion of the judge by a state-
ment that he and the malefactor were Northumberland
men, natives of the same neighbourhood, and compan.
ions in early youth. In addition "to this strange and
affecting coincidence," the Express has since been fur.
nished with a biographical sketch of " the unfortunate
captain," which it published in its *Mon-
day's impression. The correspondent, making
sure tlett the Captain Rogers cf his acquaint
ante wet the Capta n Rogers that was ignominious!
hung at Liverpool, gives a sketch of his life Now, un-
fortunately for the editor and his correspondent, and all
those papers which printed the cock-and-bull story about
the judge and the prisoner—if they are right the autho-
rities at Liverpool are wrong, for the Captain Rogers
born at Belford, and the acquaintance (if he was
the acquaintance) of Baron Watson in early youth,
is :dive and well. He has been as long at sea as
the man hung at Liverpool spout years on earth,
and is returning to the Tyne in a veesel belong-
ing to South Shields, which ho has commanded.
with credit to himself and profit to the owners, for a
considerable ptriod. Captain Rogers is an "old salt"
of the Captain Cut' le school, and his friends have written
to the editor of the paper that he and his correspondent
may prepare themselves for his arrival in port; The
wretched man who commanded the Martha Jane, at
who properly forfeited his life for the cruel murder of
the seaetan Rose on board that vessel, was not an Enp.
Hellman. He was a native of Aberdeen, served his tin 0
out of that port, and was a seaman and chief officer ea
1 board Aberdeen vessels before he came to England,