The Times announced on Thursday, and the India Office on
Friday, that Nana Sahib, the author of the massacre of Cawn- pore, had been seized in Gwalior. Maharaja Scindia recognised and apparently denounced him, and he has made a confession to the Political Agent. He will, of course, be tried and executed, as it is impossible to pardon a massacre like his ; but he did an enormous unintentional service to the British Government. He ended the possibility of surrender to a native rebel. His arrest in Gwalior is not a pleasant incident, for he must have been screened by hundreds who knew him, and we doubt if Scinclia would havosurrendered him if be bad notdreadedtheinfluence of the heir, in Hindoo eyes, of the Mahratta Peishwah. Hehas not forgotten how powerless he found himself in 1857, when the "Peishwah's " General, " Tantia Topee," called out the Gwalior troops against their Sovereign as well as the British. The Indian Princes do not forget history, and regarding British domination as a tem- porary phenomenon, are still furiously jealous of their old superiors. No Prince of importance was heartily for the MoguL
