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

VE, ING, sErrEMBER '25) 18 5 7

L W INTEILLMENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)

IN RE THE LONDON AND WEST OF IRELAND FISHING
AND FISH MANIIRE COMPANY (LIMITED).-PETITION
TO WIND UP THE AFFAIRS.

To-day was appointed for proceedings under a peti-
tion for winding up the affairs of this company, under
the provisions of the Joint-Stook Companies Act of
185 G.
Mr. Lowrance appeared to support the petition, which
had been presented on behalf of Col. Daniel, of Gros.
venor-square, the holder of 25 shares, and applied for
an order for the winding-up. Mr. Roxburgh appeared
fit the company to oppose the granting the order, and
Mr. Chidley and Mr. Linklater for the shareholders.
Mr. Roxburgh took a preliminary objection to the
crier being made, that the eharth‘ 1 :ors had taken all
the steps necessary fora voluntary winding-up of the
company, and the appointment of a liquidator. A pre-
litnivary meeting was hold on the 14th of August, when
a special resolution was passed for the voluntary winding
up of the Company, and ,a liquidator appointed at a
second meeting held on the 15th of September, awl
therefore became a binding re,olution on all the abate
holders, having been agreed to by three-fourths of the
shareholders at the first meetin4. He therefore con-
tended that no contributor was aqerwarde at liberty to
present a petition, and that the Court bad no power to
make an order which would poetically rescind the reso-
lution of the shareholders.
Mr. Linklater, oa behalf of Mr. Wtryghte, followed
on the same side, ar d further urged that the petitioner
was present at the first meeting, and was very ac.
tive in adopting the resolution to which ho assented,
and therefore, he was not at liberty to present the
petition.
Mr. Chidley, for several shareholders, also argued that
the Court had no power to make the order,
as although the petition was presented on the 14th of
September, the day before the resolution was confirmed
—he centended that the proceedings for winding up
must date from the 14th of August when the first reso-
lution was passed, and the confirmation was only required
of :lbsent or diieentient shareholders.

ills Ilonour—By the 34th section it would not be a
special resolution unless confirme.3.
Mr. Chidley urged that all the shareholders might be
present at the first meeting, and thou the word confirmed
might he used in a limited sense. _ _ _

His Honour said he quite agreed with Mr. Chidley as
far as he wont, but then what would be meaning of the
words special resolution?
Mr. Lawrance was heard at great length, and said
that at the first meeting no accounts were presented at
the first meeting, and the shareholders never had any
until the 10th of September, when one was presented by
Mr. Wryghte. lie contended at great length that be
hae made out a 2».inza facie c Age for calling on the court
to exsre6e its jurisdiction, as the company had lost more
than 3-4ths of teir capital and were unable to pay their
debts.
The case was proceeding, but will no doubt be ad.
Mourned.

POLICE INTRLT.IGENCE. —(This Day )

MANSION-HOUSE.

EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK.—Richard
Knowles, 18, late y a clerk in the employment of Mr.
Benjamin Bateman, metal-broker, Cannon-street, was
brought up for further oceminatton upon a charge of
embezzling various sums of money, amounting to 2001.,
the property of his employer.
Tne evidence previously given went principally to
prove that, on the 15th August, a cheque for 2001. was
given to the prisoner t) pay into the company's bankers
to their account, but that, instead of so doing, he
cashed the cheque, and only paid in 1001. to the com-
pany's account, appropriating the other 1001. to his
own use. _ _ _ _ _ _ .

The cashier to the London Joint Stock Bank, now
proved that he cashed the cheque with a Bank of
England note for 2001.
Mr. Bateman said there were several other cases,
which, however, he did not wish to go on with, as
the one already gone into would probably be sufficient.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was then corn-
mitted for trial.

been prevented by the arm of another person, comi 13in-
ant would have received a serious blew.

Mr. Safe (to the prisoner)—What do you say to the
charge ?
Prisoner—l was tipsy.

Mr. Selfe—You might have killed the man.
The prisoner was fined 31., or, in default, one mcnth's
imprisonment.

_FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT
NORTHERN RAILW.A Y.

TUXFORD, THURSDAY.

Au accident, attended with Ilya] coniequences to
four persons, and considerable injuries to s,:veral
others, occurred on the mainline of the G. Northern
Railway tr.-day, about noon, to th 3 express train
from Manchester to London. -

The train, which consisted of engine and break
van, second-class carriage, corn' o-eite carriage, first-
class carriage, and break, passed Tuxford station
at about the right time, and hal proceeded nearly
two miles further, when ou running over the via-
duct which crosses the Newark wid Tuxford road
something gave way,—it is supp6sed an axle,—the
engine became detached fro 4 the carriages and
bounded forward, while the vehicles separated into
two divisions, the first of which, c )mprising a
second class and composite cart i •g-, heeled over the
embankment on the south side of the viaduct,
whir) the hinder portion of the train, after strik-
ing against the buttress of the bridge on the north
side and -breaking off the stme c p and upper brick-
work, felt down with a tremendous crash en t' the
turnpike road below. The first two vehicles made a
complete somersault and alighted with the right
side up in a cottaget's garden, one or two of the pas-
sengers were much injured, but the majorityescne
and the carriages were very little damaged. The other
three vehicles, including the break van, were lite-
rally smashed to pieces, all the upper timbers being
entirely stripped off the platforms, while the break
van had fallen upside down, and the wood was
crushed almost flat on the •gr.::und.

Such assistance as was at hand was rendered as
promptly as possible, awl niewengers were
despatched to the nearest stations and to the nearest
medical men. Four of the passenger.s were taken
out of the debris quite dead ; three others were so
seriously wounded as to be scarcely fit to be re-
.

moved, and all the_ rest of the unf ,rtunale travel-
lers in this section of the train were more or less
.severely-injured.. The dead bodies and one or two
of the worst sufferers surviving were removed to
the Newcastle Arms, Tuxford. The remainder cf
the patients- were taken to Retft rd. The following
is a list of the casualties :—Killed—The Hon. W.
M. W. Clive, brother to the Hon. R. Cliie, M.P.,
who was also in the train ; Miss Letitia Paget,
Gortrn Lodge, Garston, Liverpool ; Mrs. Heaton,
18, Queen-square, Lancaster; Mra. Pitman, wife
of one of the- Great Northern Railway Company's
officers, who sat next to her when in the train.
Wounded—Capt. Marshall, who was going to 203,
Bath-buildings, Glossop-road, London, one eye
knocked out, his wife and child escaped with bruises.
Mr. J. Dansfield, hatter, Waterhead-mill, near Old-
ham, one of the town councl of that borough, frac-
tured ribs and internal injuries—bad case; John J.
Bourn, near Cambridge, compound fracture of right
arm, internal injuries, not expecte.' to recover;
Wm. Dyson,- the guard of the train, fractured skull,
internal injuries, not expected to recover ; Mr.
Sworder, Hertford, fracture of ancle ; Mr. C. Swordt:r
and Miss Sworder, slightly injured ; Mr. an 4 Mrs.
Peace, Sheffield, contused wounds on the head ; Mr.
J. Hatigus, Castle-street, Sheffield, cut and bruised,
returned home • Richardson, servant to Mr. Wm.
Winghatn, of Hitchin, slightly injured ; Mr. Wing-
ham was in the train and was seen walking on the
line after the accident, but he has not been heard
of since ; Mr. B. Rayner, commercial traveller, in-
ternally injured ; Mr. Jas. Smith, traveller, head
hurt a good deal, but not seriously ; Miss Marr,
daughter of Mr. J. Marr, 18, Queen-square, Lan-
caster, slightly injured ; she was travelling with
Miss Paget and Mrs. Heaton, one of whom was her
aunt, and both of whom were killed.
The head of one of the ladies killed was crushe 1

quite flat ; the face of another was cut in two from
top to bottom. A !gentleman's boot, wet with blood,
was seen on the rad, as it had been cat off. A
newspaper, smeared with blood, was also found.
Numerous articles belonging to the passengers were
picked up, and forwarded to Retford.
The officials of the line, acting under Mr. Leith,
superintendent, were incessant in their ex.rtions to
mitigate the sufferings of the passengers ; the lino
which was broken up for a d;stance of about 50
yards was repaired within four Inurs after the
accident by a staff of men under Mr. Sturrock.
There have been several accidents between Tux-
ford and Newark, the last of which occurred dur-
ing the flood about two months ago, but this is Vie
first fatal passenger accident that has ever occurred
on this line.

A PISIT TO NANA SAHIB.

(From the Illustrated Times)
We have received some additional interesting
particulars respecting Nana Sahib from a corre-
spondent, who writes to us as follows :

- As that arch-fiend and traitor, Nana Sahib, at
present occupies a portion of public attention, and
I may add, execration, and as I know him well,
having partaken of his hospitalities for one month,
I have no doubt my recollections of him and his
affairs may be interesting to the majority of your
readers. I therefore subjoin au aricount of my so-
journ with him in his den, and of the circumstances
that led the-eto.
Cawnpore,—a place, alas ! now uo disastrously
familiar to British ears—was visited in the rains of

1853 with a most fearful epidemic ; the cholera
carrying off, in the European corps in that station,
sometimes as many as eighteen individuals (includ-
ing women and children) daily, and in other por-
tions of that large cantonment being fearfully fa'al.
I do not know of any officer of that corps having
succumbed to it, buti believe the surgeon, whose
name I forget, died. However, to return to the
subject of my notice. Being at that time recover-
ing from illness myself, and my wife being also sick,
I was pondering on some change of air and s_'ene,
and having nothing else to do, I drove over to see
Bhithoor, about twelve miles (ehoakoss—six kos,—
a koss being two miles) from Cawnpore. I started
in a gharrie, a sort of fly, early on the morning of
the Ist of September, 1853, and arrived at
the Rajah's house, or rather one built for a
former Commissioner. _ It was a large and hand-
some building. At the entrance of the domain
were a pair of very handsome iron gates, and the
gateway-itself was as imposing as one in the best
parks in this country. The approach also to this
mansion was by a very pretty rather than a grand
avenue ; and on the right-hand side of this drive
was a very neat parterre, kept in as good order as
any of its size at home could be.. On arriving at
the house, I produced my basket of " prog," and
commenced breakfast. This being a place of resort
for pic-nic parties from Cawnpore, I, of course, at
once sent off a note to the Rajah, telling him of
my arrival, and, as a point of courtesy, asking his
sanction to my passing the day there. I had
scarcely finished. my breakfast when I heard the
noise of horses on the fine-gravel parade iu front,
and was somewhat astonished to see, not the
hUmble envoy I had, sent in the shape of my sirdar
bearer, but two or three individuals, accompanied
by a retinue of native sowers, with drawn swords,
prancing steeds, and other showy indications of
Oriental military display. These individuals prove .1
to be his Highness the Maharajah's—or as he, for
obvious reasons prefers to be called, the Peishwah's
—Moonshie, Prang Doss-Tewarrie • the treasurer,
Baba Butt ; and another old Mahratta distin-
guished personage, whose appearance I 'well re-
member, but whose name I quite forgot. I was
then informed by the moonshie, Prang Doss-Te-
warre, that his Higness was delighted to receive me
with cordiality and welcome, and that he had sent
them formally to request my presence at his palace
(the castle which is spoken of as having been burnt
down by Havelock's glorious band of hroic spirits)
in the evenoig, when the sun had rendered it cool
and pleasant for Europeans, and indeed natives, to
howrkana—i. e., "To eat the air." After some
conversation, interspersed with most flowery and
highflown, and no doubt equally empty, compli-
ments to my nation and countrymen in general,
and my humble self in particular, my guides left
me, and I amused myself by lookingover the house
and grounds. The former is very large, and the
rooms spacious and handsome ; the walls are
covered with stiff odd-looking pictures of former
Peishwahs, and amongst them the old gentle-
man so ably captured by Sir John Male lm, and
the man who was the first exiled ehief located at
Bhitoor. I must not omit to state that a khitmut-
gar and hawarchee reported themselves to me
during the day, and requeste 1 my hookm—i.e.,
commands—for dinner, as it was his Highness's
wish, as I might be detained until too late to travel
back to Cawnpore that night, that I should sleep
in the commissioner's house. And as the sun was
going down, up came an elephant, caparisoned in
the usual tawdry and semi-shabby magnificent
style, surmounted by a howdah of towering height;
and upon this huge animal, myself and my wife
were perched, and escorted by a guard of sowers in
front and rear. We were marched through num-
berless bazaars and native streets to the stronghold
of this potentate. I was asked into the august pre-
sence of the soi-disant Peishwah, and found him
seated neon a cushion raised somewhat in the
form of a throne of state, he (the magnate) sit-
ting as a tailor is supposed to sit. He imme-
diately shook me cordially by the hand ; and I
must not omit to state that, being myself a Ba-
hadoor—that is, of the rank of one who wears a
sword—l was not required to remove my shoes
in going into his presence. He, through his moon-
shee, asked me many questions about the Queen,
the nobility ! of England, - particularly mentioning,
and asking after Lord Ellenborough(Burra' buh-
out Burrs Lord Sahib), for whom, Nshether ho
knew him or not, he seemed to have a great le-
aped and veneration. Whether this was assume
or not, I cannot say.. He then asked me many
questions about the Hon. East India Company,
and appeared exhaustless in his queries
.abont the
Board of Control. These lasted about half-an-
hour, and he then requested that I would make
myself at home in his house, and remain as long
as I pleased. He himself supplied me with a
staff of servants, and furnished my bazaar—living
and board—dairy. He was, when I saw him,
about 28 years of age ; ho looked however at
least 40. His figure is very fat—in fact, the
very expression made Use of by his own moon-
shee was, that "His. Highness was a tight man
(taing admee)." His face is round, his eyes very
! wild, brilliant, and restless ; his complexion, as
is the case with most native gentlemen, is scarcely
darker than a dark Spaniard ; and his expression is
on the whole of a jovial, indeed somewhat rollick-
! nag character.
NANA SAHIB'S HAREM.

During the t me I was occupied in making my
salaam to the Mararajah, my wile was conducted
into the zimanq. She thus describes her visit
of course this holy of holies was close to my pro-
fane gy :—"I was ushered into a room in the
most retired wing of the castle, through a series of

doors, each door being closed and bolted imme-
diately on my passage through. I arrived at last
before a large and handsome quilted crimson silk
curtain (purdah), which being drawn aside, I en-
tered a large room, the floor of which was covered
with beautifully white linen, drawn tight, and fas-
tened ut the four corners of the room. I was in-
troduced int) this santum sanctorum 'by no less
a person than his highriess'a treasurer, Baba Butt,
who, after introducing me, left me to commence a
convensatioa with the apparently stolid inmates of
the zenanl. The walls of the room were one mass
of mirrors fro n the ceiling to the ground. The
only furniture in the apartment were three Bareilly
couches,im one of which sat a child about seven
years old, dressed iu yellow gauze, the whole of
whose breast was covered with pearls, to the
amount of three lacs of rupees. The feet were
bat e, the ankles were adorned with large and heavy
bangles' (rings of gold), each worth about 5,000
I upees. The arms were also covered with the

sun() de3cription of ornament of different sizes, ex-

tending from the wrist to the elbow. This young
lady was very shy, hung down her head, and
seemed much abashed at the formidable apparition
of an European lady of the niuteenth century.
She was repeatedly urged to speak to me by her
companions, who said, ' Speak to the English
lady.' At last she mustered up the courage to
say, Ap ha misaj, atcha by mem-sahib ?'—' Is
your consitution in good order ?' literally equiva-
lent, in fact, to our flow d'ye do ?' This was said
with her head turned and eyes averted, in the
manner of the most coy and prim school girl. The
other two inhabitants of the zenana, or harem,were a girl of about 13 years of age, and one about
17—dressed in similar style and ornamented with
similar jewelhry. Such a liberal display of precious
stones—at least on these ladies—failed to produce
anything splendid in effect, none of the wearers
being good-looking, even for native women ; the
eldest, indeed, was repulsively ugly, with long
yellow teeth. This lady, who appeared to be the
spokeswoman of the party, and particularly amiable
and affable, asked me my age, and in return told
me hers.
" I was offered by all these nymphs native sweet-
meats, &c. They asked me numerous questions
about England ; amongst others, Whether t
ladies and princes' wives (Begums) were
be-
hind a purdah—secluded—as theybwuetrew,
my telling them that they went about itahupiduthueocilihr
faces perfectly visible in public,Boicstteceham,e_d,
astonished, but said
.it was. ' Very
good ;' and seemed to imagtihneattlgsreweopulladisntett
faces,tlietn
very well, and I must say
I should imagine, never were secluded behind a
purdah. Poor things, 'I pitied them ; and after a
little more conversation, under difficulties, I made
my parting salaam, and shaking hands with all
round, I retired. They expressed afterwards the
pleasure they derived from the interview, and the
moonshia (Prang Dos-Tewarrie) often spoke of
their having repeatedly b.quired for me since.
The two elder of the ladies, I was told, were married
(shadee) to nephews of the late Peishwah, but had
no family. They said indeed to me 'liummerah
pas kouch baba nay by,'—i e., We have no chil-
dren.' This seemed to distress the elder lady much,
as she appeared, and expressed herself to be, vet y
fond of children. The most astonishing thing was,
that the child of seven years old bad been be-
trothed for some time, I was informed, to a grand-

nephew of the late Peishwah, and incredible as it
may seem to European ears, was to be formally
imartied to him almost immediately.",
Thus ended my wife's --interview and mine ;
which, • though a very cordial and clamorous
audience, was withal a somewhat stupid one. After
it was over, we mounted an elephant and went to
our new residence, which for one 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 granei to former Peishwahs
on the demise of the late one, his reputed father,
he being the adopted son. • This kind of life coil-
tinued for one month, at the end of which time I
returned to Cawnpore. I did not ace the soi-disant
Peishwah again, but he sent a ghat rie 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 Nara Sahib intimately (.ays a writer in the
Illustrated Times), and always regarded him as one of
the best and most, hospitable natives in the upper pro.
vince., and certainly one of the last u.en to have bees
guilty of the atrocities laid to his charge. As, is the
case with many natives of India, it may have bees
that Nana Sahib cultivated the acquaintance and hien&
sh,p 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 ca'l .d
upon me twice during my stay in Cawnp -re—he
never once alluded to his grievaacJi. Ilk conversation
at that there was directed to the Oude affair. The ful•
lowing questions, amongst others, I can remember he
put to me

• •' Why will not Lord Dalhousie pay a visit to the Sing
of Oude? Lord Liardinge did so.
"Do you think Colonel Sleeman will persuade Lord
Dalhousie to seize the kingdom (of Oude) ?-11e (Colonel
Sl,einan) has gone to the camp to do his best.
So 'ar as I could glean, Nana Sahib wished f r the

antexation of Oude—albeit, he expressed a very decided
opinion that, in the event of that measure being resorted
to, theca would be a disturiatce and perhaps a war-..
such as happened when Mr. Vans Agnew and Lieuta- ,
nant Anderson were murdered by the rebellioussoldiery_
of Moolrati,.at .Meeltan.
A fiw words as to the mine of Nana Sahib, whioW,t'
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
Bahadoor." Few Hindoos of Nana Sahib's rank ar•
ever alluded to by the name given to them by the Drab-
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 be distinctly utters
in infancy, in the zunaua. In the case of Sreenatht the
subject of this sketch, there can be no doubt that
" Nena," or "Nana," was the favourite word of the
child, who in manhood has gained such an unenviatle
distinction in the eyes of the world. The' word
" Nena" has no particular signification, we are
informed. But the word " Nana," in Hindostanee„
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
Peishwab, his heirs and successors, a certain pension.
The Peishwah died without heirs born of his body, but
previous to his- death be adopted Sreenath ("Nan*
Sahib"). Now, according to the Hindoo law, an
adopted son is entitled to all the rights andrpri-
vilsges 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 atated, was not
allowed. It is a pity that the East India Company have
not been consistent in their decisions upon thia 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 son
granted. In other ca=es (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 "Governor-General in Council ha 3 dismissed hie
petition, but that the ordinary channels of redress are
open to him." He sends home an agent, who baunts
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
Nana Sahib ; such has been the case of the Rajah
of Coarg ; of the Ranee of Jhansi, where another
frightful massacre took place ; and such has been the
case with numbers of Indians 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 far 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 genera!ly felt and acknowledged, that to the
gross mismanagement of our Indian Empire, and the
manifest 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..