THE PRETENDED NAMA SAHIB.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 61, 12 March 1875, Page 4

THE PRETENDED NAMA SAHIB.

A correspondent of a Madras paper,/ writing upon the doubtful nature on the evidence in tbe case of the man who has been taken aB Nan a Sabib, thus cuts tbe knot summarily : — "My theory is this, that, whether he be ot be not the Nana, he should be at onae hanged, as, having tinder the influen* c of intoxication (whiqh is no pallialioi ) stated his being that murderous villain; ho must, at any rate, be only fit for tl c hangman should he even have belieVi his identity. To prove his being th\s arch-villain in truth, the carcass should^ be duly pickled, and kept on hand for identification, when, if the Nana's corpse, it should be drawn and quartered and have the usual stake driven through it, then the four quarters should be handed over to the birds of the air and the beasts of the Geld for cousumption. If, on the other hand, he be an impostor, then hanging will be Buflicient_punißhment, aud his body might with tbcency be given to his friends to be interred. But at all risks let him be hanged, and whatever be done let it be done quickly. The Bombay mail brings advices from Bombay to November 9tb. The Gazei'e of this date sayß:— " Public 'opinion regarding the supposed Nana/ Sahib has undergone a great change/ within the laat few days, it boing now generally believed that the present prisoner is the wrong man. Pub/ie interest in the prisoner has oflso dwindled down, so that the brief chronicle of the movements of that individual in his journey from Mhow to Cawnpore, where he arrived under a strong escort of Europeau and nitive infantry and cavalry, is exciting pone of the feverish attention with wbilch a fortnight ago, his least actiou vlould have been regarded." j