Correspondents say the magistrate's line of questioning on Wednesday indicated he may be considering bail.

That, said the magistrate, would be impossible until his inquiry was closed.

It shall be carried out this very day, said the magistrate.

I suppose we maun wait a bit, said the magistrate.

Let Ishmael Worth, of Washington, come forward, said the magistrate.

I s'all commit them for trial, said the magistrate.

Where is he? said the magistrate, looking round for some fourth member of the incomprehensible family.

Did you not say the Magistrates were blind?

I give it you, said the magistrate.

But as to whilk pairty the infamy attaches to, there we may differ, said the magistrate, nodding.

'Sir,' said the magistrate, springing up with a face fiery with wrath.

Mr Hoffer says the magistrate had no right to exclude his planned submission before the trial had opened.

Tabaret," said the magistrate, "your investigation is admirable; and I am persuaded your inferences are correct."

Mr Wamytan says the magistrates don't exercise their full powers, with organisations withholding relevant information by citing privacy concerns.

'I'd say the magistrates have had their bellyful,' Morgan says.

"Last year the train went off the rails here," says the magistrate.