NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IT seems to be still doubtful if the person who has been delivered up by Scindiah is the Nana 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, Aloes not recognise him ; Scindiah's testimony is worth little, as he scarcely ever saw him, and the evidence of some rela- _fives is accepted with a certain suspicion. His head, too, is Mahratta, whereas Dundoo Punth, the Nana, 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. It in sug- gested that he may be another relative of Bajee Rao's, who would be Peishwah if the Nana is really dead, and this rumour has one argument in its favour. Scincliah, for reasons stated elsewhere, -would deliver up no one whom he did not fear, and he has no one to fear except the man whom blahrattas would regard as Peishwah.
