, 1874-11-28
The SAWS"
MISCELL N E 0 U S.
From the Spectator.)
Is PUBLISHED
D DNESDAY AND SATURDAY

son who has been delivered up by Scindiah
is the Mana of Bithoor. He looks too
young by ten years. DR.. Tresidder, a
specially intelligent surgeon who attended
him seventeen years ago, is not SATISFIED;
Colonel Mowbray Thomson, one OF the
four survivors of the massacre, does not re-
cognise him Scindiah's testimony is worth
little, as he scarcely ever saw him, and the
evidence of some relatives is accepted with
a certain suspicion. His head, too, is Nah
rata, whereas Dundoo Punth, the Mana,
who was not in the habit of mixing in
English society, was of the Brahmin type.
The man himself withdraws his confession,
attributing it to hemp, and altogether there
is much doubt about the story. 1t is sug-
gested thathe may be another relative of
Baiee Rao's, who would be Peishwah if
the Mana is really dead, and this rumOur
has one argument in its favour. Scindiah,
for several reasons would deliver up no
one whom he did not fear, and he
has no one to tear except the man whom
Mahrattas would regard as Peishwah.
Prince Jerome Napoleon, having been
rejected for the Council General of Corsi-
Ca by the electors of Aiaccio, through the
influence of the Prince Imperial, has adj
dressed them a letter in which he breaks
finally with the elder branch. He says the
Prince and his advisers would introduce q
Bourbon system of government; that the
Dictatorship is no longer needed that he
desires a pIebiscite only that the nation
may be free that he prays for a Govern
ment democratic and reforming; that he
would accept the peace without barren
recriminations, conine the priests to the
sanctuary, free the communes, remove adj
ministrative barriers to trade, and guard
the liberty of the Press and of association.
OF course he has no ambitious ideas for
himself, ''having lived too close to the
grandeurs of power" All this, if sincere,
would be an appeal to the democracy, and
almost justify the Parisians, who call the
Prince, Napoleon Egalit6;" but it is not
sincere. AS we have tried to show else
where, the Prince is no one, except as heir
of Napoleon after the Prince Imperial's
death and if that event should occur, he
will and must become an Imperialist in
stead of a Jacobin.
Sir Hercules Robinson appears to have
acted with great promptitude and deci-
sion in Fila colony, by the way, that
wants a name, and may just as we'll be
called "New Carnarvon.' He was only a
fortnight there, and in that time he re-
ceived the submission of the King and the
principal Chiefs, organised a provisional
goyernment-we imagine on the Jamaica
or Ceylon model established a tariff like
that of New South Wales, calculated to
produce 925,00O a year, and made, we
hope, but do not know, a compromise
about the debt. The real work of organi-
sation will, of course, have to be done by
the first new Governor; and Lord Carnar-
Won. who has just made an able Colonial
clerk the son of a Suffolk clergyman with
out 9 particle of interest the Governor of
the Bahamas, will, we doubt not, be able
to find the right man. The first Governor
should be paid without any reference to
the resources OF the colony, the work of
founding being too severe tor an a2pren-
tice to the trade. England can spare
$4,000 for the five years services of a real