It will show pretty clearly that EACH of the two military commanders was conducting his operations with perfect success.

Three of the detachment of five attacked by the Corporal surrendered to him: Mr.Bullock, namely, who gave in at a very early stage of the evening, and ignominiously laid down his arms under the table, after standing not more than a dozen volleys of beer; Mr.Blacksmith's boy, and a labourer whose name we have not been able to learn.

Mr.Butcher himself was on the point of yielding, when he was rescued by the furious charge of a detachment that marched to his relief: his wife namely, who, with two squalling children, rushed into the "Bugle," boxed Butcher's ears, and kept up such a tremendous fire of oaths and screams upon the Corporal, that he was obliged to retreat.

Fixing then her claws into Mr.Butcher's hair, she proceeded to drag him out of the premises; and thus Mr.Brock was overcome.

His attack upon John Hayes was a still greater failure; for that young man seemed to be invincible by drink, if not by love: and at the end of the drinking-bout was a great deal more cool than the Corporal himself; to whom he wished a very polite good-evening, as calmly he took his hat to depart.