The Sun. — 1864-09-22 (London, England)

BENARES PLOT.—The Maharajah of Benares  lately sent word to the local authorities that a Mahomedan stranger in the city had made urgent applications for an interview with him, on the plea that he bore confidential despatches which must be delivered into the te granted, Sittana. and dMaharajah's own hands. For some reason the roan was slut swpaesc ttehdert oefhave decidedcom efrom that tthbe.ew b inery neighbourhoodinterview of at the special request of the Maharajah au agent of Government be concealed in the room of audience to hear what passed. The scoundrel, who gives the name of Goon Khan of Rewah, duly kept his tryste, and presented what purported to be letters bearing the signature and seals of the Akhoond of Swat and Itajah of Jummo, introducing the bearer as their confidential agent, who would receive anything the Maharajah would send them, and who bore messages of importance from them to the Maharajah. The man then went on to state that it was arranged by the Akhoond and the Rajah of Jummo that they should make a joint attack on the British immediately after the rains, and the Rojahs, Nam abs, and other men of influence in liindostan be invited to co-operate by simultaneously rising and by sending recruits and money to Sittana. When he had exhausted his budget the agent of Government stepped from behind the purdeh and arrested him. Other Punjebees have since been taken in the city who have been consorting, with this man, and from whom further revelations may be expected. Meanwhile Government is vigorously prosecuting inquiries in other quarters. It is suspected that these men are mere imposters, and in no way connected with or commissioned by the Akhoond or Cajah, but merely trafficing on the discontent of the people for their own peculiar benefit.—Dahl Gazette. The first stone of a new Congregational Chapel was laid at Scarborough on Tuesday, by Mrs Titus Salt, on a site near the South Cliffs. The chapel is being built in the Gothic style. It will cost nearly £3,000, and accommodate ten or twelve hundred persons. The Gazette del Popolo of Florence states that tha police of that city has just effected an important capture of two men strongly suspected of having murdered three women that kept furnished lodgings. This capture required a good deal of dexterity. The police having learnt that a woman of the neighbourhood had expressed her surprise at the disappearance of one of the lodgers in the house where the murder had been committed, asked whether she could identify him, and upon her replying in the affirmative, made her walk about in Florence for edi,x,ydsehyea insacwouttphaeny with a police-agent, On the sixth man, and pointed him out to the agent, who from that moment fdlowed him like his shadow, ma 'e his acquaintance, and ultimately went to Leghorn with him. litre the suspected man found an acquaintance, who joined the party, and the agent then proposed that they should all three take a cicerone to showthem the town, Another police-agent having offered Himself in that capacity, he was accepted, and by degrees became quite familiar with them, and ultimately told theta that a deal of money might be got with very little trouble— just by murdering an old woman who lived in such a house where they might take up their lodgings. The bait was eagetly swallowed, and no sooner had the two men repaired to the house in question, than they avers arrested, and the evidence of their guilt was found about their persons. The Senate of Frankfort has sent to the Legislative Body a bill for the abolition of all religious dipabilities. The measure has been referred by the last-named assembly to its committee on coutAitu'Enal The villege of D.ziu (Ain) has just been almost entirely destroyed by fire, one isolated house only having unped. Twenty-seven honves or barns were consumed with the furniture of crops contained iu them, Several heads of cattle also tell a prey to the, fi Atu,..s.