The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The commercial advices from New York, per
steamer Arabia, mention that full employment is
given to capital in that city, and high rates were
paid for discount accommodation. At the latest
date there was a very active demand at 8 to 10
per cent., and the allowance cm deposit or on call
Was 7 per cent. This increased stringency in the
money market had caused a little depression in
speculative securities, and as there was no imme-
diate prospect of the rates of discount further de-
clining, a general disposition was evinced to operate
for a fall in values.
The last weekly City Banks Return showed an
increase in the loans and discounts of 1,438,0521.,
While the specie was reduced to the extent of
1,445,8041. Large sums continued to arrive from
California, but they were fully absorbed by the
extended exportation to Europe.
In the letters from Paris it is stated that the

Comptoir d'Escompte now discounts bills having
90 days to run, which is a great boon to the corn-
Menial public, whose operations have recently
been so much reduced in consequence of their in-
ability to obtain the necessary accommodation. It
is expected that the Bank of France will adopt a
similar course next week.

There is a very active demand for money in
Lombard-street and at the Bank of England to-day.
Six per cent. is the lowest rate, even for the most
approved descriptions of mercantile paper, so that
the general appearance of the market is rafher
tight. An increased degree of pressure, however,
was to have been anticipated at the close of the
year, as, in addition to other circumstances, the
settlements at the Stock Exchange, and the prepa-
rations for the " fourth" of the month, when a
large mass of commercial paper becomes due, assist
in augmenting the inquiry.
Last week the arrivals of specie amounted to
300,0001., and the exports to 245,0001
The Red Jacket has arrived from Victoria with
a valuable specie freight. The exact amount is not
Yet known in town, but she is supposed to bring
about half a million sterling. This remittance is
Very opportune, especially as the large amount of
Raid withdrawn from the Bank to Ireland is not
likely to return at present.
The Council of the Bank of France has fixed
the dividend for the present half.year at 135 t.,
Which, added to 137 f. (the former dividend), gives
total return for the year of 272 f. per share.
The Market for English Securities has been
rather heavy, owing to the advisee from China
announcing the bombardment of Canton. At the
,opening Consols declined about per 'cent.,
nut the arrival of the Red Jacket has
Since imparted more firmness to the quotations.
Speculation is very dull, and the arrangement of
the Foreign Stock and Railway Share accounts
occupies chief attention. Consols have been 94k
to 94k, and they are now again 944 I. The New
3 per Cents. have been 94i the Reduced 94k t,
and the Long Annuities 2.1. Exchequer Bills are
le. discount to 2s. premium, the Bonds 98k to 99,
and India Bonds 2s. premium.
Foreign Securities are extremely quiet, partly
owing to the progress of the settlement. Turkish 6
her Cents. have receded to 95. E k, and the 4 per
Cents. are 103. Sardinian are 89, and Guate-
kala 55.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks
:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 7 ; Mexl.
can 214 ;-; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 76 8 ; ditto
4 per Cents., 54 6 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents.,
44 6 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 106 8 ; ditto 4i per
Cents., 96 8; Spanish 3 per Cents., 42 3 ; ditto
Deferred, 24t ; ditto Certificates, 6i, ; ditto
Passive, 6 f.
The arrangements for the settlement of the half-
monthly account in the Railway Share Market
have proceeded favourably, and but little business
has been transacted except in connection with that
event. The " contangos " are very heavy. A de-
cline of about ± to / per cent. has taken place in
acme of the principal lines. Great Northern
receded 10s., Great Western 55., Lancashire and
Yorkshire 55., and South Western 10s. Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lineoln, North British, and
North-Eastern, York, improved about ss. Grand
Trunk of Canada were firmer, and advanced about
,61., and Great Western of Canada ss. The
-c reach lines are at nominal rates, and Lombardo-
Venetian declined ss.
In Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
the dealings are quite unimportant. City Bank are
69i. English, Scottish, and Australian Char
ew d
17k, London General Omnibus Company 1, N
Van
Wales Government Debentures 1021, and
Van Diemen's rand 16.

tiRMSH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY.
( from the Office Lid.)
,i, , nkr. dory
11)er Cent. Reduced Annuities
New `1 per ,ent. Annuities
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... 21
irin,- Itnnda. CIOVIP .... ... -- •• ••••
Ditto, under £lOOO 2 p
Console ,'or Account
Brohequer Bills, 24d.
£l000.
Aras.ll
Ditto Bonds. 1858. l per Cert. 9Si 9
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY.
Rueuos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. B3
Guatemala Bonds, 5 per cent 55
Mexican :3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Peruvian Bonds 412 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent. ....
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Ceti. 1841
Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ttr•kit.h ponds, 6 par cont.
Ditto Account (January 15)
Ditto Guaranteed, 1 per Cent.
rnvieends on the above ostvnble in T no,
Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cen;., 12 G uilders 651
THREE O'CLOCK.

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It was always a puzzle to those about the Court why
Lord Drumlanrig should have resigned the post of Comp-
troller to the Queen's Household. Those who recollected
at the period of tne noble Viscount's marriage the posi-
tion which her Majesty was kind enough to adopt by
inviting the young Viscountess to dinner before her
Preaentation, and the influence which this indication of
the opinion of the Sovereign had a ith the Viscount's
father, the late Marquis of Queensberry, on this occasion,
were still more at a loss to conceive the reason of Lord
Dremiaorig's quitting the Queen's service, after having
held office for so many years under a Whig Minister.
We believe the next session will, however, solve the
mystery, and the quondam Wh'g Comptroller of the
Household, having succeeded to the peerage and become
Marquis of Queensberry, will he found voting with the
Earl of Derby.—Court Journal.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The final Christmas
Performance of the "Messiah" takes place at Exeter
Ilan on Friday next, Jan, 2. Madame Clara Novello,
Miss Dolby, Mr. Sims Ree7es, and Mr. Thomas, will
be the principal vocalists.
A. TRUNDERSTORM ON CHRISTMAS-DAY.—ChristME49-
day was ushered in on the southern coast of Northumber-
land with a considerable fall of snow, and in the after-
noon a thunderstorm broke over the neighbourhood of
Tynemouth, accompanied by two or three very vivid
sashes of lightning.
CASHIORURY PARK.—On Christmas-day the Earl of
Essex caused to be distributed to 250 of his work-people,
with their wives and children, a large bullock and a
plentiful supply of beer and bread ; and the countess,
With her usual liberality, distributed a quantity of warm
Clothing to the cottagers on the estate.
The works on the Lyons to Geneva railway, which,
by continuing the Grand Central, is to connect the town
of Perigueux with Switzerland, are being actively pur-
sued. In the valley of St. Rambert the rails are being
laid down simultaneously on several points, and have
already arrived at Argis.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE FRAUDS.—The convict Robson
has for several days past been suffering in the infirmary
of Newgate severe illness, and for two er three days was
entirely deprived of his mental faculties. He is under
the care of Mr. Gibson, the surgeon of Newgate, and is
now improving. He has made but slow progress with
hie accounts, which he must file before p ,ssing his exa-
mination at the Bankruptcy Court, and he will not be
removed from Newgate till this is disposed of.
SUICIDE FROM LONDON-BRID&E.—On Saturday the
body of a lady, who committed suicide from London-
bridge on Christmas day, was found in the Thames at
Battle-bridge-stairs, near St. Olave's Church. The body
bad been reoognised by some persons who had witnessed,
but were unable to prevent, the rash act. It was that of
a female between 20 and 30 years of age, apparently be-
longing to the superior class of society, clad in a black
shawl and fawn-coloured dress. Nothing was found to
lead to identity, and the body was removed to St. John's
deadhonse, in Horaleydown.
THE LATE TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AND DEATH or FOUR
MEN AT THE BLAENAVON COAL MINES.—On Saturday
an inquest was held at the Kink's Arms Inn, Ble.enavon,
on the bodies of the victims of this accident. Mr. Llewel-
len, of Newport, appeared to watch the proceedings on
the part of the Crown, and Mr. H. Mackworth, her Ma-
jesty's inspector of colleries, was present, by direction of
the Secretary of State for the Herne Department. C. M.
Ashwin, Esq., the deputy mner, explained the nature
of the inquiry, and the jury having viewed the bodies
and taken evidence of the occurrence returned a verdict
of 4( Accidental death."

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THE RETIREMENT OF CORNET AMES FROM
THE ARMY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING ADVERTISER.

Second quality.... 4 0
Prime large oxen 4 8
Prime Scots, dm 5 2
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Prime arse.-wlled.s 0

TOTLL SUPPLY.

Sir,--A correspondent in your impression of the
23d inst., while damning with faint praise the indi-
vidual on whose behalf he interferes, challenges a
decision as to the course to be adopted by a young
officer joining a regiment in the event of his being
subjected to practical jokes, and calls for an opinion
as to the line of conduct resorted to by Mr. Ames
under such circumstances. I answer unhesitatingly,
after some experience of the army, that these jokes
are never attempted unless a young man's character
gives evidences of the necessity of some correction
in his manners and conduct ; and, secondly, that
in this life, though the authorities presiding, in such
matters, over any profession, may give theoretical
data as to the line of conduct to be adopted by
those under their rule, the individual concerned
can alone be the judge and guardian of his own
Honour, and with reference to Mr. Ames, I express
not fit to hold a commis-
my opinion that a man is not
even seeking
advice as to his means of redress
with a most offensive insult, without
till reminded by
I sion in her Majesty's service who silently puts up
the adjutant of the regiment to which he belonged ;
that such a stoicism, though perhaps justified in his
honour
as was not according to the code of
as adopted in the army, and I may add in any class
of society.
The would-be reformers of the army, those who,
forgetting the distant graves so many officers have
found of late in the noble discharge of their duty
—who, oblivious of the heroic conduct of the
officers of the British army during the late war
(better exemplified by the statistics given in a note
at the end of this letter), who with presumptuous
empiricism would destroy the present system,
Without the knowledge or imagination to
enable them to suggest a remedy, indulge
in warrings against " the cold shade of the
Aristocracy," and because a physically unfitted
man, like Arr. Ames, unfortunately finds himself
shovelled into the army, they complain that the
officers of his regiment exhibit, by their conduct
towards such an individual, their opinion of his
unfitness for the service. This may be the tone of
irresponsible anonymous contributors to journals,
but I believe it is not the judgment adopted by
the British public.
Let, then, Mr.
Ames , unchallenged, be allowed
to console himself by exhibiting in the meritorious
discharge of his duties in some other sphere of life
those charitable qualities of meekness and endur-
ance, the Possession of which he has given so nega-
tively a forcible proof, and let him frame, glaze, and
hand down as an heirloom the courteous and sym-
pathising letter, we are told H.R.H.
army has sent him.
H.R.H. the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Englis
And with his happy hearth, thus furnished,
what Englishman will envy him his home ?
Are there not some generous ones who would
rather entertain an unexpressed feeling of pity for
the practical joker in this case, whose different na-
ture could not suffer him to consider so meek a
lamb as fit to bo a dragoon, who, for attempting to
correct that too peaceful nature, was expelled the
army as guilty of conduct unbecoming the charac-
ter of a gentleman and an officer—a sentence
allowed by competent law authorities to be illegal.
Will not some, rather than subscribe to what will
probably be proposed, a testimonial to a Mr.
Ames, give a passing regret for one who, at barely
20 years of age, has been branded, through an
illegal sentence, with a mark as cruel and as in-
delible as could be inflicted on the worst male-
factor of the day.—Your obedient servant,
JUSTITIA.
NoTE.—Copied from a tabular statement of the number
of killed, wounded, and missing of the British army from
the first landing in the Crimea till Sept. 8, 1855
OfUeora—EillQ4l, 1%; wcotuadvd, 077; inilfikug, 13,

10 8 d'
6 ;;; id

TEE SUN, LON/DON, MONDA. EVP.NING, DECEMBER 29 1856

MAiiKET NEW ay )

CO It_N EXCHANGE.
There was an irnpro wed demand for wheat in the leading
country markets, hold on Saturday, and, in some instances,
prices were on the advance. Barley was very firm, at ex-
treme rates. Most oth or articles moved off slowly, on

former terms.
The continental mark( s have been fairly supplied with
most kinds of grain, in which only a limited business has
been transacted. Steady shipments of produce continue
to be made from the Unit ed States.
The arrivals of English grain up to our market, last
week, were again moderalie. From abroad we received
20,776 quarters of wheat, 117,118 barley, 25,084 oats, 200
rye, 2,365 beans, 3,219 peas, 787 tares, 615 rapeseed, 1,690
Indian corn, 511 sacks and 16,163 barrels of flour.
Fresh up to-day the arrivals of English wheat, coast-
wise and by land carriage, were limited, and the general
condition of the samples was by no means first rate. As
a good clearance of last Monday's unsold supply was effected
on Friday, the stands we re scantily filled, and factors
generally were firmer in their demands. The trade, how-
ever, though the attendance, of millers was en the increase,
was not to say active, yet most of the samples were sold,
at only last Monday's quot
There was rather a large show of foreign wheat, never-
theless more disposition was shown to purchase most de-
scriptions, and late rates were well supported.
Floating cargoes of grain were held at very full prices.
We were moderately supplied with both English and
foreign barley, in which rather extensive business was
passing, at an improvement in value of is per quarter.
Malt was in moderate supply, and fair request, at full

prices.
The supply of Irish and foreign oats was good. Dry
samples were steady, at full quotations, but other descrip-
tions meta dull inquiry.

Both bean~ and peas were in good supply, and rather
heavy request, at barely the late decline in value.
We had a fair demand for flour, at last week's prices.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.

Wheat—Essex & Kent,
Red •• .. new 535 to 673
Ditto•• • • .... old —8 —3
Ditto, White new 56s 74s
Ditt0........ old —a —a
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red, old —l3 —3
Ditto new • • • • •• 52s 655
Rye—Old .• • • —a —Bl
New •• 38s 423
Barley—Grinding .• • • • 31s 33a
Malting 365 39;
Chevalier.... . . 40s 4331
Malt—Bnffolk and No-
rfolk • • •• • • 678 7781
313C0W13 ............. 63a 6551
Kinston and Ware 76s 79a

Malt—Chevalier .. • • 76s to 77s
Oats Yorkshire and
Line°lnsk.,Feed 21s 253
Potato • ... 25s 321
Yonghal aad Cork
81ack....... 193 223

Cork, White

Sootch, Feed. 26s 29s
Beans—Tick ......• •• 34s 351
Pigeons •••• 433
Peas—Grey •• •• 369 39s
•••• •• 40s 418
White.....— 3929 429

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before "Mr. C,,minissioner Goulburn.)
IN XU DELLEGANA AND DELLEGANA- I)I1011TANT TO

Boilers ......•... 409 43i
Flour—Town-made... 589 609
Suffolk ...... •• .• 429 439
Stocktn & Norfolk 423 43s

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

Owing to the severity of the weather on the Continent,
the imports of foreign stock into London last week were
limited—the total supply being 1,119 head. In the corres-
ponding week in 1855 we received 247 ; in 1854, 1,410;
in 1851, 1,802; in 1852, 2,568; and in 1851, 2,40 S head.

LANDLORDS.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEER.
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
Rotterdam lO 99 „. 8
Guernsey
Oporto
Harlingen 284 •• •
Palermo 2
Amsterdam
Antwerp —

These bankrupts were described as of Red Lion-street,
Clerkenwell, stereotype founders, and to-day was ap-
pointed for their last examination.
The bankrupts passed without opposition.

The principal creditor is Dr. Varoni, of whom the
bankrupts purchased the business ; the other debts are
about 1501. The assets ara between 2001. and 3001.

591 ... - ...

The only point of interest was an application on the
part of the landlord of the premises for an order on the
assignee to pay one quarter's rent, He said that the
bankruptcy took place a few days before the rent be-
came due, and the assignee, to3k possession of the pro-
perty and removed it off the premises, so that he could
not distrain.

His Honour—You can't prove, because i.-he rent was
not due at the time of the bankruptcy. I suppose that
is what you mean to say. It is a very bad case, but I
do not think that the law has provided for it.
The applicant asked whether be could not prove, and
come in with the other creditors.

52 ... - ...

... .--

His Honour—That I can't say at present. First lei
me see the form of proof you tender.
The applicant said he was not prepared at present, but
considered it very hard.

_

15

... -

IN RE BYERS, WALKER, AND SYERS.

These bankrupts were described as of Ball-alley,
Lombard-street, and to-day was appointed for choice of
assignees.

The failure is for a large amount.
Proceedings had been taken under the prirate act,
but it was ultimately brought into the public court.

T0ta1,... 375 ... 742 ... 102
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs
.855 247 100
854 621. 693
853 405 1,678
852 3ll 1,867
851 451 1,196

- •••
... 93 ...
... 293 ...
- ... 319 ...
- ... 155 ...

Mr. Linklater now said that there had been no con-
test in the choice of assignees, for whom he now ap-
peared, and had no objection to the bankrupts receiving
a continuation of the allowance they had been receiving
under the arrangement, viz., 51. per week each.

His Honour asked what were the amount of the debts
and assets.

Mr. Linklater said the debts and liabilities were set
down at about 170,0001., and the assets at 34,000/.

-* •••

His Honour ultimately said he would allow the
bankrupts Si. per week each ; and when the accounts
were brought in, if they were satisfactory, the creditors
ould not, he should think, object to its being increased
to 5/.

Very few creditors were present, having proved at the
private meetings.

Mr. John Bread, iron merchant, Drury-lane, and Mr.
Wm. Gray, merchant, Cullum-street, were chosen
assignees.

From Norfolk anal Suffolk we shall now shortly receive
our first supplies of beasts for the season, and our corre-
spondents state that very large numbers, in excellent con-
dition, will be forwarded between this and the end of
June. Tho quantity of food on hand is very extensive.
Very limited supplies of foreign stock were on sale to-
day, in middling condition.

From our own grazing districts the arrivals of beasts
fresh up this morning wore very moderate for the time of
year, but we observed amongst thorn some very good Scots,
both from Norfolk and Scotland. As the weather conti-
nues cold, and as the butchers have disposed of their
Christmas purchases, the beef trade was very brisk, at an
advance in the quotations realised on Monday last of 4d
per 81bs. The best Scots sold at 5s 4d per Sibs.

The arrivals from Norfolk were 700 Scots, from Lincoln-
shire 600 shorthorns, from other parts of England 500 of
various breeds, and from Scotland 160 Scots. There were
no Irish beasts in the market.
We had a very limited supply of sheep in the market,
in, for the most part, fair condition. All breeds sold
briskly, at prices fatty equal to the rates current on this
day se'nnight. The best old Downs were worth quite 5s Gd
per 81bs. No fresh arrivals were reported from Ireland.

The show of calves was very limited, and the veal trade
ruled brisk, at a further improvement in value of 2d per
81bs. The primest veal was worth 5s 8d per Blbs.
The few pigs in the market realised very full pricers.
Per albs to sink the offals.
e. d. e. d.
Interior Beaste....3 Bto 3 10

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. -- (This Day.)

4 4
5 0
5 4j
4 4
4 101
5 2

SOUTHWARK.

UTTERING FORGED DRAFTS. Anthony Flood, a
young man of highly respectable connections, residing at
Brighton, was placed at the bar for further examination,
charged with uttering a forged draft to Mr. Burrell, the
proprietor of the Bridge House Hotel, Wellington-street,
London-bridge, purporting to be drawn on Messrs.
M'Gregor, army agents, 17, Charles-street, St. James,
by Lieutenant Dundas, 60th Rifles, who is at present
with his regiment at Bengal. There were also two other
charges of a similar nature.
_ _

N. d.
JPrimeSouthdown 5 4 5 6
Large crse. calves 4 9 410
Prime small do 5 £ 5 8
jLargo hogs
!Small porkers 4 6 5 2
Suckling calves 24 0 30 0
Quarter old pigs 23 0 29 0
FOREIGN SUPPLE.

3,113 •....• • 62
Beasts . .
iheop I •• ...... 15,700 Sheep . ..... 250
Calves Si iCalves ..••••.............• 36
A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat
stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle
Market, on Monday, Doc. 31, 1855, and this day, Monday,
Dec. 29, 1856.
Per Sibs, to sink the Odds.

Mr. W. H. Gutteridge, of Brighton, appeared for the

Dee. 31, 1855.1D5c. 29, '56.
s. d. s. d.ls. d. s. d.
Coarse and inferior beasts 3 6to 3 8(3 Bto 3 10
Second quality ditto ... 310 4 214 0 4 4
Prime large oxen ... 4 4 4 814 $ 5 0
Prime Scots, &c ... 410 5 0 5 2 5 4
Coarse and inferior sheep 3 4 3 614 0 4 4
Second quality ditto ... 3 8 4 214 8 410
Prime coarse woolled ditto 4 4 4 6 5 0 5 2
Prime Southdown ditto 4 8 5 0 5 4 5 6
0 0 0 010 0 0 0
Large coarse calves ... 410 5 614 0 410
Prime small ditto 5 8 6 0 5 0 5 8
Large hogs ... 3 111 4 4 3 8 4 4
Neat small porkers 4 6 5 0 4 6 5 2
Beasts... 2,992 3,113
Sheep 18,000 15,790
57 58
...
110
Surnixs ox SALB, Jan. •1, • 1855.—Beasts, 4,202 ; sheep,
25,6110; calves, 113; pigs, 290.
January 2, 1853.—Beasts, 4,082; sheep, 22,430 ; calve.,
160 ; pigs, 310.

prisoner.

Thomas Hughes, waiter at the Bridge House Hotel,
said that on Thursday the 11th inst. the prisoner came
to their establishment and represented himself as
Lieutenant Dundas, 60th Rifles, and that he in-
tended to atop a few days. On Saturday morn-
ing he spoke to witness respecting the banking-
house in London, as he wanted to cash a cheque. He
told him the time the banks closed, and in the evening
came to him and expressed his regret at not going to
the banker's in time, and he produced the draft for 10/,,
payable to Lieutenant Dundas, by Messrs. M`Gregor,
army agents. Witness took it to Mr. Burrell, who ob-
jected at first to cash it, but on the prisoner banding a
letter, purporting to be written by Messrs. AVGregor,
authorising him to draw on them for 101., witness was
directed to go to the cashier and obtain the money. He
did so, and handed it to the prisoner, who, ou the fol-
lowing morning, paid his bill and left the hotel. The
draft passed through a banker, and on being presented
at Messrs. M‘Gregor's, was found to be a forgery.
Mr. Walter M`Gregor was next sworn—He said
that Lieutenant Dundas, 60th Royal Rifles, kept an
account with their firm, and he had been in the Indies
with his regiment about 18 months. The draft is ques-
tion was, to the best of his belief, a forgery ; and as for
the letter, that was not in the handwriting of their firm.
It was with great reluctance that he was compelled to
give evidence, as he understoood that the prisoner's
family were highly respectable.
Sergeant Smith, of the A detectives, who apprehended
the prisoner, said that he had uttered similar drafts to
Mr. Buckmaster, tailor, and Mr. Hayward, a jeweller
and watchmaker, of Regent-street. They were both
drawn on Messrs. M`Gregor, and one was signed An-
thony flood, Lieutenant 60th Rifles. He, however,
did not succeed in obtaining anything from them.
There was no such person in that regiment as Anthony
Flood, a lieutenant.

The Magistrate said that it was requisite that some
person who knew Lieutenant Dundas's signature should
be present, therefore he should remand the prisoner
until Wednesday, when he should recommend that some
attorney should be instructed by the prosecution, as
there were several new points of law in the case.