After some consultation, the magistrate said: "The case will be remanded until this day week, to see if further evidence is forthcoming; but I may say that, under the present circumstances of the case, we shall feel ourselves obliged to send it for trial.

The prisoner's account of his proceedings, from the time he left Lewes on the previous evening up to that of his return and arrest here, may be true; but so far it is entirely unsupported.

On the other hand, we have the evidence of the tools, admitted to belong to him, being found on the scene of the burglary.

We have the further important fact that he had been formerly employed upon the place; and had, it may be supposed, some knowledge of the premises.

He had been discharged upon a suspicion, rightfully or wrongly entertained, of his having poisoned a dog belonging to Mr.Ellison, and there is reason for the belief that the dogs poisoned before the burglary were got at by some one acquainted with the place." "Will it be any use my calling evidence as to character, at the next meeting ?" Reuben asked.
"No," the magistrate said.