, 1863-09-05

After brief interval u suspense, all lin
geriDg doubt as to ths identity Of the creature
supposed to be Mani sahib IL dissipated. 4
late Bombay telegram says, positively, Mana
sahib has been identified by Chiab Bramin
priest, who was taken rith him, and turned
Queens evidence. Fol the last six years,
ever since the horrible massacre at Cawnpore,
in 1857, this nan, whose name will never be
aAantioned except with e1ecratlon, has been
proTlnE through .he Indian peninsula not
,Withstandirg the p8ncely reward Of a lac Of,
rupees (s5o, ,oo0 ohyta for his capture, But
st last his career Ia >neas It's c1osa, In tha;
wealthy town Of AjmeTe, Se capital Of Raj.
pootana, In Central India, th.e stands a H..
doc temple, far distant from tE,,cene ~ tba
Cawnpo1e butchery: Thither Il infamous ~
Mana was traced by Major Dayi1on the
Deputy Commissioner Of Ajmere, ac,mn,.
MED By detachment Of British troops.> For
some time previous, the Chief Of the Bom1v
police had been on his track, guided by nA
tive informers. Now the place Of retreat
was known beyond peradrenture. How to
secure the culprit was the question. A letter
to the Glasgow Herald, dated Ajmere, June
50, says: "
He was caught on the ed June. On that
day, while Major Davidson, the Deputy Com
missioner, vas sitting IN Court, man in the
lowed to speak privately with him. He
thought this at first piece Of 1mpertinence,
and Was inclined to treat 1t as such, but the
man took Piece Of paper from the cloth
round his loins, and handed 1t to the Major,
This proved to be letter from the superin-
farS aS.f ~ 7$yayY ali $n&9 AI.L
the bearer was a detective, and requesting
British officers to give him assistance. o.
reading this, Major Davidson ordered the
Court to be cleared, and, when he was alone
with the fakir, asked him what his business
Wns. Be said that he was detective, who,
along with three others, had been In pursuit
Of the Mann They had traced him from
Cashmere through great part Of India, and
at lust had come npon him ut Solumbar, from
which place they had kept continually In his
party. They had come to Ajmere, on their
way to Pokar, and had put up In a small
temple near the Dunlatbagh, In which the
Courts Of Jus:ice are held. Aimc1e vas the
first place they had come TO in Which there
we're British troops, and so be had come pri.
rately to Maior Davidson, as being the head
magistrate, to request that the whole party
might be seized. There were, besides the
Mana himself and the four spies, who pre.
tended to be his friends and enemies OF the
British Government, two other persons In
the garb Of taki16. who were his constant
companions, and one Of whom Was q leader
in the nutlny.
The Mana having already taken alarm from
the premature adjournment Of the court al
which Major D. presided, several temples
were searched In vain, till the British officers
arrived at small temple near the Delhi gate:
Here seven natives were sitting, and as Ma
jor Davidson eew Lis visitor OF the morning
among them, he knew that he had got his
BILE, but he accused them Of noisy, disorde,ly
conduct, ard eaid that they must come nlong
with him. According to concert, he asked
each Of them who be was, and the fakir who
bad given the information answered. Tie
Nana be indicated bT the words, "TAis is the
pundit.'' Major Davidson caught him BY the
wrist and told him to come along With him,
holding stout stick in the other hand to
knock down the Nana's disepgaged hand. II
he should try to bring 1t to his mouth, as It
is reported be carries poison about with him
Captain Brodigan and the Sergeant led of the
ti1eers, leaving the spies In the meantime to
shift for themselves
The prisoner had greatly changed since the
time Of the sepoy mutiny, the hair having be-
come white and the teeth decayed. Yet the
remarkable eye Vas there, and the manner
was most engaging. Even when sitting there
rettered, eaJs the writer, the talked with a
security, plausibl1ity and propriety that made
MS almost forget that he was d prisoner, and
accused Of the fou1eat crime In the records OF
modern history, and enabled Us quite to
understand how he could have deceived the
English Mt Cawnpore into the belief that be
was their friend" When confronted by the
spies Nho Wero NOW. his accusers, his apps
rent meelness Of department changed to rags
and an impezious manner TINT showed he na4
not accustomed to obey. )