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hi page 563 were also some figures, which he believed
were in the prisoner's handwriting.
Mr. Mowatt proved that the letters addressed to the
prisoner were in Redp ith's handwriting.
Mr. Ihimphreys said that was the case for the prose•
cut ion, and asked for a remand.
The prisoner, when asked if he wished to say anything,
said " No. L should like to sea my solicitor first."
Mr. Tyrwhitt then remanded the prisoner.
Prisoner—Can I be alwitted to bail?
Mr. Tyrwhitt—No, not at present.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
(From. the Morning Chron; de.)
The amount of the frauds committed by Leopold
Redpath, the registrar in the transfer office of the
Great Northern Railway Company, will, there is
reason to believe, bel very considerable, but perhaps
not to the extent of even the lowest estimate cur-
rently reported. We are not at all surprised at
this act of rascality, and we can only wonder at the fact
of such a person ever having received so responsible an
appointment. We think, bad the directors, before they
placed so great an amount of trust in his hands, taken care
to inquire more fully into his previous career, they would
have discovered that his antecedents were not such as ren-
dered it at all desirable to confer the management of so
large an amount of capital upon one who bad previously
victimised his creditors by means of false and specious
representations. How the directors could have been se
grossly misled to attach such weight to his assumed
honesty and presumed wealth is most inconceivable.
Still more surprising is it that when, some time
back, a deputation from the Stock Exchange waited
upon them, pointing out the extravagant mode of
life pursued by Leopold Redpath upon a small sa-
lary, not exceeding 300/. per annum, and the question
was put plainly as to whether such proceedings were
compatible, they should have received the communica..
tion with such an amount of incredulity. They pooh-
poohed tee doubt and caution of the members of the
Stock Exchange will brought the subject to their notice,
with the assurance that "All was right." Now that
this gigantic swindle has been perfected, and the
name of the perpetrator is found associated with
luxurious living, good society, works of charity,
&c., the question has been asked—Who was Leopold
Redpath ? No one appears to know, and it would
evidently be folly to apply to the directors of the
Great Northern Railway Company. As some in-
terest is naturally felt in a man who could palm him•
self off for attributes and means he never possessed,
a slight sketch of his previous career may no.
be without utility. Leopold Redpatb, some eiihteen
or twenty years ago, was clerk to Messrs. Wilcox
and Anderson, then the owners and managers of
the hue of steamers to the Peninsula and Mediter-
ranean, with mails from her Majesty's Post-office.
He left their employment shortly before the service
became so extensive that it was found expedient
to organise the Peninsular and Oriental Steam.
Mr. Redpath then attempted to estabish lammed
in business as a seller of steam-vessels, but after
contracting debts which he never paid, ho suddenly
disappeared, and would seem to have retired to a
very private life. He next makes his appearance in
want of employment, and something else, not ex-
pressed in words ; and suddenly becomes trans-
ferred into the registrar of the Great Northern
Railway, greatly to the surprise of some persons
who knew him. He quickly became a pike
amongst the minnows, and the rest is known.
Having given this slight sketch, we should like to
know if the directors of the Great Northern Rail-
way Company can inform us from whom, and from
whence, Leopold Redpath derived his presumed
wealth, otherwise than from the exercise of his in-
genuity and penmanship in the transfer-book of the
company ? There is, however, another point to which,
before closing these comments, we desire to direct
attention. ILow any sensible men, much leas those
accustomed to business, could have been content
to pay, over and over again, a much larger amount in
the shape of dividends than was requisite is ac-
cordance with the capital stock of the company,
without becoming suspicious of some irregularity,
us "-snt:cactolu.. t institutingy.,s an
is t
investigation
usstig even more ationintosuch
an umystery,
in-
conceivable than their disbelieving or disregarding
the doubts expressed by the Stock Exchange. if
this is, the way the directors of the Great Northern
Railway Company superintend the interests of the
shareholders the sooner they are changed the
better. Really so much negligence and indifference
to their duty has been shown lately by directors that
it would seem they consider themselves nothing more
than mere useless machines, so far as the shareholders'
interests are concerned, or else as placed in their posi-
tion for the sole purpose of appropriating the "
which such a station throws in their way.

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