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TRIAL OF THE REPUTED NANA SAHIB. The Overland mail brings information respecting the trial of the man who was supposed to be Nana Sahib. He arrived at Cawnpore on August 22 under an escort of Sikhs, the period of the year not being suitable for sending European soldiers in charge. The Times of India has the following from a correspondent in its impression of August 31: Cawnpore, Aug. 23. The man supposed to be the rebel Nana Dhoondia Punt was brought into this station a prisoner yesterday morning, and is now lodged in the station gaol. He was brought in by Captain Carnell with a guard of three Seiks. His arrival caused con-eider able commotion in the city at first, for it was generally believed that the coming prisoner was veritably the Nana. But in a very few hours after he left the railway station that excite- ment had subsided. Hundreds of people, to whom the person of the Nana was well known, had seen the pri- soner, and all declared that he was not the man. Among these are people who had been daily with the Nana, and some of them in constant attendance upon him at Bithoor and elsewhere for years before his flight. It might be expected, of course, that such persons would-most of them-deny his identity, even falsely but the tacit evidence of an entire population, as expressed in the marked and speedy cessation of their anxiety about, or further interest in, the man, is matter of great import- ance. It if, nevertheleef, still possible, however impro- bable, that circumstantial evidence, added to that of his blind companion-, who has turned informer, may yet prove him to be the Nana. Numbers of well-attested cases familiar to the physiological student may serve to explain away difficulties arising from his non-recognition even by men who must necessarily remember well the fefturef, completion, voice, attitudes, and general contour of the arch-rribel, as they knew him before 1857 at Bithoor. But-sixanxious years of travel, flight exposure, change of climate, of habits, and of diet, superadded to sickness, mortification, and despair- perh,-aps even re- morse—cannot have failed to work considerable physical changes ra the Nana, wherever he may be now. In- stances are not rare of the really honest repudiation, by affectionate wires and mothers, of their husbands and obiidmn, dfw long and distant voyages or travel. Cases are recorded where brothers and sisters, meeting after many years of adventure, have even married in perfect ignorance ofeach other's identity. It will be admitted, j by the lawyer at least, that circumstances such as those which must have attended the life of the Nana since his flight would render his ton-identification by witnesses who judge from his present appearance alone a matter of comparative insignificance in the face of a chain of facts connecting the changed man with the person he has been suspected to be-those facts and circumstances accounting more or less for the change itself. Whether auch evidence is forthcoming is to be seen. But to return to t'!is prieoner more particularly. His appearance in- disputably declares his high caste Maharatta origin. He is much darker than the N ana was, but not unlike what tbe fugitive life the Nana must have led would make, in six years, of a-formerly deHcately nurtured fair Maharatta Brahmin. These are my impressions, and they may, «of course, be wrong. But his height does notcorres- pond with the description of the Nana, nor does his ap- parent age. A careful study of the man, at the cutchery yesterday, during his examination, convinced :me, not only that he knows this place, but he was anxiously ob- servant of faces around him, as if in search of persons whom he recognised, and who might perhaps recognise Mm. The lame curious scrutiny on his part was ob- servable as he passed through the station, on his way from theTsilway to thegaol. He isnoetranger to Cawnpore, but that does not prove him to be the Nana. Indeed, he admits that he was here and at BithooT several years ago, when the Nana was there. It is worthy of note, that the personal appearance of the man is undergoing a slow and gradual, but plain change. I have seen three or four photographs of him taken at different periods, and though all bear some resemblance to him, not one is the likeness of the man as I saw him yesterday. He grows fairer, though more haggard than these photographs re- present him. May not the one be from his being less exposed, and the other from has imprisonment and con- sciousness of the fearful position he occupies, if the Nagai ■On the opening of the eutchery, the magistrate (H. Monctton, Esq., C.S.) at once had the prisoner brought before him, charged with being the rebel Nana Dhoondia Punt, He denies that he is so, and declares that he is a Brahmin who has been a faqueer nearly all his life; that his name is Appa Ram, son of Damoodhur, born in a village on the banks of an obscure river in the Deccan andtfeat while he was yet a child his father was mur- dered there. He says he had two brothers. On the death of his father, he (then twelve years old), with his I brothers adopted the vagrant life of a facqueer. His brothers, he says, he has nerer seen nor heard of since they set out after their father's death. He states that a few years ago he visited the village where he was born, and was then recognised by three or four persons living there, whom he names; but they are all dead now. (How does he know of their death?) The village itself, too, he declares has now ceased to exist, having been washed away, and entirely destroyed by an encroachment of the river; and its inhabitants are now undiscoverable, being, as he says, absorbed in the population of the surrounding country. (A rather suspicious and certainly unsatia- fattory tale). Dr Cheke and Dr Jones assisted the magistrate during the first day's proceedings, which bore solely on the point of his personal appearance. Dr Cheke was formerly civil surgeon of Cawnpore: Dr Jones is so now. In his offie as civil surgeon Dr Cheke attended professionally upon the Nana, but does not recognise the prisoner in any way. His person does not show the expected marks or traces said to have been left by surgical treatment for certain minor diseases. In fact, Dr Cheke Is very strongly of opinion that the prisoner is not the Nana. With the assistance of the medical officers above named, the magistrate drew up a most minute descrip- tion of the prisoner's person, and with that the first day's proceedings closed, to be resumed the following morning. At present it is the belief of the authorities here that the prisoner is not the right Nana; that so far from there being, as yet, evidence against him proving him to have been a rebel of note, or even a rebel at all, there has not been produced against him evidence sufficient to justify, legally, his continued imprisonment for any long period. The prisoner is confined in a separate ward of the gaol, apart from ail other prisoners. Inside the gaol is an additional guard of twelve men, who are quartered in tents immediately adjoining the cell, or room where the prisoner lies. The guard is under an European inspector, who remains on duty, in a room close by, night and day. Inside the prisoner's cell a sentinel walks on duty day and night, while two or three others are posted outside. The prisoner seldom speaks, but sits or lies on his rug for hours together, almost motionless, seemingly quite at ease. He eats nothing, refusing all solid food of every description, even from the highest caste men. He lives on milk alone, drinking one sedr in the morning and one In the evening. During the day he is fettered only on the legs, but at night he is closely handcuffed. He seems to care nothing about the curiosity of people who go to see him as he lies in gaol, and appears, on the whole, to have little fear as to the result of the case. The Times of India adds :The man was arrested by Captain Nuttall's police, and put upon his trial at Hyder- abad at Kishen Rao, turns out to have been, as we sur- mised, a mere police-made conspirator, and has been set at liberty. Simultaneously the man arrested at Khan- daUa by Mr Forgett as Kishen Rao, and afterwards let "se, has been identified as the Nana's eldest brother, and is again in custody. BOMBAY, SEPT. 9TH.-The Ajmere prisoner has been finally proved not to be the Nana Sahib. -♦ RENEWAL op GARROTTING.—On Saturday morning, about three, o clock, a most cowardly and savage attack was made by three men upon a young man named Joseph De Maroon, a printer, in the employ of Messrs. Elliot, of New Oxford-street. It appears that he was returning home from his work about the above-mentioned hour that morning, and when in the neighbourhood of Coal- yard, Drnry-lane, three men rushed out of a passage, and immediately afterwards Marooff felt himself seized by the back of the neck by a man, who nearly strangled him. In addition to this, another of the men hit him a tremendous blow in the abdomen, which deprived the victim of his senses. On recovering he found he had been robbed of all the money in his possession, aome 30s., at the same time his coat and waistcoat were torn to rags. Information was given to the police. It was noticed by Marooff that one of the men concerned was blind ot one eye.

THE ALABAMA AND THE GEORGIA OFF THE CAPE. The whale colony had another cause of great excite- ment in the visit of the Confederate war steamers Alabama and Georgia. The Alabama captured, in full eight of thousands of the colonists, a fine Federal barque, the Sea Bride, as she was running into Table Bay. The Georgia was in Simon's Bay when the Cambrian left. The Alabama had been repairing in Saldanha Bay. She then visited Table Bay and Simon's Bay, and was still on the coast cruising. The Confederate cruiser Tuscaloosa, formerly the barque Conrad, captured by the Alabama, and manned by Captain Semmes, had also visited Simon's Bay. The Alabama had captured altogether 56 vessels and the Georgia 15. Tbe Alabama was visited by hundreds of colonists, who crowded her decks during her stay. They were received most cordially by her officers, and the most kindly feeling prevailed towards Captain Semmes and his crew. The united States consul piotested against the capture of the Sea Bride, on the ground that British waters extended to the range of an Armstrong cannoa shot from shore, and claimed the delivery of the Tus- caloosa to himself as the official agent of the owners of the Conrad. He grounded his claim on the fact that, being a prize, and not having been condemned by a court of any recognised country, her entrance into a British port was a violation of the Queen's proclamation, and that she had, therefore, reverted to her real owners. The governor decided adversely to both demands, and against the decisions the consul formally protested in the name of his government. He also complained that the original cargo of the Tuscaloosa had been sold to mer- chants of Cape Town, and that the cargo of the Sea Bride would be disposed of in the same manner. Her Majesty's ship Valorous left on the evening of August 19, for Saldanha Bay, to observe the movements of the Confederate squadron. There is said to be every probability of the squadron making a large number of further captures in the vicinity of the Cape. The Federal war steamer Vanderbilt left St Helena, August 20. She was said to be in pursuit of the Alabama.

DEATH FROM A STRAW.—Helen Stewart, wife of Alexander Taylor, labourer, New Elgin, was recently engaged in the harvest field at Glasgreen, and unfortu- nately pierced one of her fingers on a sharp stubble. Inflammation of the hand ensued. The swelling and severe pain affected her arm. Dr. Mackay did all that medical skill and attention could accomplish, but with- out success. The poor woman lingered in great agony till death put a period to her sufferings. DYING STRAINS. — Chopin, feeling the approach of death, wished to bid a last farewell to the instrument which had given utterance to his poetic inspirations, and bad been the means of his great success. A piano was brought to his bedside. With icy hands and clouded vision be attempted to draw a few sounds from the in- strument. A sweet and touching melody, deeply ex- pressive of regret was whispered forth but the musician was unable to complete his pathetic improvisation. He fell back on his bed of suffering, and expired a few hours afterwards. Lablache the incomparable artist, the worthy man par excellence, who is still regretted by the musical world, attempted to sing on his death bed, in order, as he said, to die as he had always lived, devoted to his art. 4 Go,' he said to one of his children, go to the piano and accompany me.' The son, struggling to conceal his emotion, obeyed his father's last request. Lablache then sung the first verse of the English ro- mance-" Home, Sweet Home.' At the second verse the singer's throat contracted, and not a note could issue from it. 4 Ah said Lablache, 41 can sing no longer. I am a lost man!' He died that very night.—All the Year Round. SINGULAR DISCOVERY IS THE CLYDB.—We take the following from the North British Daily Mail of Saturday A strange treasure trove was yesterday picked up from the bed of the river near Rutherglen Bridge. Two lads resident at Caiton, while passing along the banks of the river, near the bridge, observed some bright object gleaming up from amid the mixed sand and mud of the river bed. Getting near the place where it was lying, they saw from the portion that was exposed that no valueless treasure had been found, and, on withdrawing the article from the mud, brought up the lower portion of a large silver epergne. An inscription on the side stated that • This epergne, part of a service of plate, is presented to William Ewart, jun., Esq, by his fellow- townsmen, in recognition of his private worth as a citizen and his public services as Mayor of Belfast during the year 1859-60.' The date of the presentation was March, 1861. Aware of the importance of the discovery, the lads at once took their prize to the Fastern Police Office, whence it was conveyed to the Central, and infor- mation sent from the officials there to Belfast. On in- quiry, says a Belfast contemporary, we find that the j aragraph quoted from our contempory is strictly correct, and that a portion of the handsome pabtic testimonial presented to Mr W. Ewart, jun., in 1861, has really been found in the Clyde as stated above. About a fortnight ago, an entrance by burglars was effected into Mr Ewart's house on the Crumlin Road. Mr Ewart had some time previously left with his family for a watering place having previously deposited all his silver plate at his warehouse in Donegal Place for safety-the portion found in the Clyde being silver plated, not being depo- sited with the remainder. This portion, which was the stem of the epergne, and which was very heavy, was left in his town house, and the burglar, thinking by its ap- pearance that it was solid silver, carried it off—no doubt thinking it a splendid piece of booty. The robbers, no doubt, sailed for Glasgow forthwith after committing the robbery, and finding what appeared to be a great trea- sure was comparatively valueless to them-being the only portion of the presentation that was not silver— threw it into the Clyde in disgust, or as the easiest mode of riddance. SINGULAR MARRIAGB CEREMONY AT MALABAR.— Their marriage ceremony is very simple, but it is also employed by some of the other inferior tribes, at certain times, although quite contrary to their rites. A large round building is made of leaves, and inside this the bride is ensconced. All the eligible young men of the village then assemble, and form a ring around this hut. At a short distance sits the girl's father, or nearest male' relative, with a tom-tom in his hands, and a few more such musical instruments complete the scene. Presently the music begins, and a chant, which may be translated as follows, is sung by the father :—. Take the stick my sweetest daughter, Now seize the stick my dearest love. 1' (: Should you not capture the husband you wish for, Remember 'tis fate decides whom you shall have The young men, each armed with a bamboo, commence dancing round the hut, into which each of them thrusts his stick. This continues about an hour, when the owner of whichever bamboo she seizes becomes the fortunate husband of the concealed bride. Amongst the Nicomars, the bridegroom on his marriage invariably kills and eats a cat, in which he is assisted by the bride.-Day's Land of the Permauls. The following lines, the idea contained in which is really sublime, were said to be written by nearly an idiot, Living in 1799, at Cirencester. They are extracted from Grose's Olio Could we with ink the ocean fill- Was the whole earth of parchment made— Was every stick of wood a quill- Was every man a scribe by trade- To write the love of God above Would drain the ocean dry. Nor would the scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky to sky; A BARRISTER'S PUN.Plunkattj' said 0'Conn ell, 'had great wit. He was a creature of exqtiisite genius. Nothing could be happier than his hit in reply to Lord Redesdale about the kites. In tt speech before Redesdale, Plunkett had occasion to use the phrase 'kites'very frequently, designating fraudulent bills and promissory notes. Lord Redesdale, to whom the phrase waa quite new, at length interrupted him, saying, I don't quite understand your meaning, Mr Plunkett. In England kites are paper playthings used by boys in Ireland they seem to mean some species of monetary transaction.' There is another difference, my lord,' said Plunkett; 1 in England the wind raises the kites in Ireland the kite raises the wind.' EARL RUSSELL ON FOREIGN A FFAIRS,-Earl Russell was entertained on Saturday at Blairgowrie by the tenants on the Mciklour estate, where he has been staying for some weeks. In his speech he brieftyalluded to Poland, and said in reference to that country, he did not think it would be proper for England to go to war for Poland. As to Mexico, if the Mexicans chose to have an Emperor to rule over them, let them by all means have one. He then referred at length to the war in America, and vin- dicated the policy of the English Government. As to the fitting out of ships of war in ourports for the Confederates, he declared that whatever could be done should be done to stop it, even though Parliament bad to be asked to paSS new measures on the subject. At the same time nothing would be done which would be contrary to British law. and there would be no yielding to foreign menace. MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BRADFORD.—On Wednes- day morning, a young woman named Amanda Lazenby, the wife of Jonathan Lazenby, a striker in the Union Foundry, Manchester-road, Bradford, and residing in a back yard in Kent-street, in the same neighbourhood, committed suicide by cutting her throat with a razor, after having by the same means put an end to the life of her infant son, William Henry, a child of some five months old. The poor woman, who was only twenty- two years of age, had been married a little more than twelve months, and about the time of her confinement had fallen in a desponding state, and evinced, it is aaid, decided symptoms of mental derangement. By the ad- vice of Dr Macturk, under whose care she was, the went to live for about a fortnight in the country, and on her return home she had apparently recovered her former tone of mind. It would seem, however, that she had again relapsed, and there appears to be no doubt that she committed the dreadful acts of murder and suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity. The Lazenbys resided with her husband's mother, who is a charwoman, and who went out to her occupation on Wednesday morn- ing, after preparing the dinner, the cooking of which sbe left her son's wife to attend. Mrs Lazenby was last seen alive by some of the neighbours about ten o'clock. Her sister-in-law, who lives in Kent-street, went into the house on coming home from the mill at noon, and not finding her in the lower room proceeded lip-stairs, and was horrified to discover her laid on the bedroom floor with the child at her feet, both with their throats cut and quite dead. An alarm was instantly raised and the afflicting intelligence communicated to the husband, who was coming home to dinner at the time. The scene was a horrid one. The child was lying on the hearthrug and the mother in an opposite direction near the bed. The heads of both the mother and child were nearly cut from each trunk, and the bodies and floor were covered with blood. Her dreadful purpose appeared to be effected with a fixed determination. The razor of her husband had been obtained from a drawer in the bedroom, and the drawer, which bad bt.-en locked, had been Coreel open. An inquest on the bodies of Amanda Lazenby and William Henry Lazenby, was held on Thursday evening at the Hope Inn, Hope-street, Bradford, before J. R. Ingram, Esq, the deputy coroner. The jury returned in the case of the child's death a verdict of Wilful Mur- der' against the mother, and in her own case the verdict that the mother destroyed herself when in an unsound state of mind. I.

THE iONDON MARKETS. Coaw EXCHANQK, MONDAT, September 28.-The supply of wheat from Essex and Kent this morning was short; that of barley, beans, and peas liberal; with few fresh arrivals of oats from our own coast, Scotland, and Ireland. There have been good imports of foreign articles of the trade, including some large parcels of wheat and flour from America. Some heavy showers fell from Monday to Thursday in the past week, stop- ping harvest in Scotland; the two last days were dry and breezy,, with a low temperature. Yesterday was fine,. this morning very wet. English wheat met a steady sale at last week's prices for all choice qualities. Other sores were takenolf slowly, at boxoiy former rates. The demand for foreign wheat was in retail, and prices were without any quotable variation. Town made flour was unvaried, country marks were easier to purchase. Ameri- cans slow, and rather lower. Malting barley was in limited request; choice qualities being scarce, supported nearly former quotations. Secondary descriptions were abundant and duU at Is to 2s decline. Malt supported former rates with a steady sale- Beans were sold at as much money. Peas realised as much money slowly. There was a fair extent of business transastti in oats, at no further decline' in the value of any description. Linseed was steady in value and demand. Rapeseed brought as high prices, and was in moderate request. Red cloverseed was held firmly. Winter tares were abundant, and rather lower. BRITISH. Shillings per Qr. I Shillings per Qr. Wheat—Essex and Kent, Oats-English feed. 18 1& white, 44 48 Poland. IZ Si Ditto, red 42 44 Scotch feed 23 24 Norfolk, Lincoln, and Ditto potato 24 Yorkshire, red- 43 45 Irish feed, white,. 18 23 Yorkshire, red- 43 45 Irish feed,white. 18 23 Barley—Malting SO 31 Ditto, black. 17 IS Distilling 28 29 Beam—Green 40 43 Chevalier Ticks 83 36 Grinding ?7 28 Harrow 36 40 LFO?S7FFO8FKXAAIERF0LK'AILD«9 AS WHITE BOIIERS""MI 88 40 ChevS P i MaP»e « Kmadi»ne'^are'fifi fR ^ow-Towiii' household *2 43 Brown I: 5456 —-SS Rye 31 35 Norfolk and Suffolk. 30 32

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. LONDON, MONMAT, September 28.—The supply of foreign stock on offer in to-day's market was again extensive; most of the Dutch sheep and calves appeared in good, in some instances prime condition, but the quality of the beasts was inferior. From our own grazing districts the arrivals of beasts were ex- tensive as to number, but somewhat deficient in quality. Very few Scotch beasts were on offer, but there was a fair sprinkling from Ireland. All breeds met a decline in the quotations com- pared with Monday last of 2d per 81b, and a clearance was not effected. The top figure for the best Scots, &c. was 4s lodper 81b. This, however, was obtained in very few instances. The receipts from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton- shire, comprised 4,950 shorthorns and crosses; from other parts of England, 600 of various breeds from Scotland, 10 Scots; and from Ireland, 800 oxen and heifers. The show of sheep was seasonably good, and for the most part in prime condition. Nearly all breeds moved off slowly at 2d per 81b less money. The best old Downs changed hands at 5s 2d per 81b. We have to report a dull sale for calves, the supply of which was good, at 4d per Sib less money than on this day se'nnight. There was a fair average business doing in pigs, at very full prices. Per fids, to sink the offals Coarse and inferior s. d. s. d. i Prime coarse woolled a. d. a. 4 beasts. 3236 sheep 4 8 4 19 Second quality ditto 3 8 4 2 Prime South Dowa Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Sheep 6 0 5 2 Prime Scots, &o. 4 8 i 10 Large coarse calves 3440 Coarse and inferier Prime small ditto. 4 2 4 4 sheep 3 6 4 0 Large hogs 3 10 4 4 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 6 Neat small porkers 4 6 4 IS Sucking Calves 12s to 20s; and Quarter old Store Pigs 208 to 30s. each.

BREAD. LONDON, MONDAY, Sept. 28.-The prices of wheaten Bread In the metropolis are—Wheaten Bread, per 41bs Loaf, 7d to 8Jd, Household Bread, 5d to 614.

BUTTER MARKET. 'li LONDON, MONDAY, September 28.-For Irish butter the de- mand has been moderate during the past week. English sells slowly at 114s to lIGs for the finest Dorset, and lOgs to UOs for Devon. Fresh butter is exceedingly dull of sale at former prices* The supply is plentiful, and quality good, with unaltered quota- tions.

POTATO MARKET. LONDON, MONDAT, September 28.—Full average supplies of potatoes are eIi sale at these markets, and the quality of the pro- duce is excellent. The demand, generally speaking, is in a sluggish state, at fully the late decline in prices. There were n* imports into London last week. Yorkshire Regents. 95s to 110s perttn. ¡; Yorkshire Flukes 100s to 120s Scotch Regents to 90s It ,<g Kent and Essex Regents 70s to 110s" Foreign .« •••» ••• 50s to 60s »

HOP MARKET. LONDON, MONBAT, September 28.—The large arrival still con tlnues, and the* demaad is equal to last week. <. -'T £ S. £.. s. £. t. 6 *• EastKents 6 0 9 o Low 10 „ MidKents CO 9 0 „ 4 0 Wealds 5 5 6 « „ 4 0 » J Olds 2 0 3 0 „ I 9 « Printed and Published, on behalf of the Pr0Prje,f_r,,tiie JOSEPH POTTER, at the Office in H'gh-strei-T. Pariuh of Saint Mary, in the County of the Haverfordwest o.„ Wednesday, September 30, 18W«