The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-26 00:00:00

TO TIT TDITOR OP THE rxraess.

Smethursea !apologists seem to be drives
disogsrat• &nth:fates for the evideece which satisfied the sad
mama ina at *alma, an Irma Ideglheh jury, sad one of
*sabot mg Writ jars as the lamb, of the guilt of the
oosaka sow lying ostler seat..., et death.
Ia a totter published to-day by waslof your cooteraporerisa
a arks of qaeadotta are pat by the writer, sad seaweed la
father of the aseviet.

To the quintles "Did Isabella Banks@ die of arsenical
01 sanneenial laden, or b tb, administered in smell dome
am a jaded el shoat kw weeks ?" the writs, sums that

no palms els burl ha t body of the &ennead, whereas it
Is to evidence that soul we. toned in the Intestines, and
satietoey in three eigente organs and in the blood of the
Mart of the decand.

To the question: "Did Dr. Smethurst schninistar the
parrs, if poison there were, with his own hand r it is re-
plied that no poison was found in the prisoser's poseseslos,
sad that sa poison we traced to have beer within his meth
ce control.

We are to presume that the mieoner had not arnpis time
and opportunity between Monday end the following day to
throw the minute instruments of murder into the Thaws,
or to dispose of these otherwise without a thane, of &tanks
by any human me; and that, as a medical man, the puss-
don of poison tenet have been always with& his Neat and
coetrol. The prisoner's voluntary assertion that if say poison
was administered it had come from Dr. Jams is endorsed by
this apologist, in spits of the tam that sampiss of ovary drug
supplied by Dr. Julia' to the deceased have been terstally
snared sad hand to be entirely fres Dam the silebtset
mixture of say prison; whilst, on the prisoner's own con-
farion, emitting is the ebape of food, drink, or mediate%
was pet into the hands of the deceased dozing her ►harm by
the prisoner Wawa

The serprising franknees of the prisoner, which seems to
bars captivated hie chunry apologists, is no new pheeommon
to those who are &mills: with the ease of Madame Lidera*.
Dr. lisnathurst en one tension saggested with the utmost
ithmineem a metals papatation at prairie meld, to which Dr.
JeDthateeneed ; but the phloem ordered on his own re-
optineibility soother sad a etrage: reparstion, which (but
for the rendes tithe sesietaat in declining to make it up) would
have lnluhbly brought poor Isabella Baskes's sufferiap to a
mere sadden end; and then, like the husband of Madame
Lafarge, the pour woman would have died " by aocideat."
The same spologist seta up the widow of nine
ralmage Rea egsinat the prisoner, against sewn in his
fewer. Bat he omit to add that among the nine
witnesses whet the primmer were men each is Dr.
Todd, the Prottheor of Physiology at King's College, and
anther of ems of the cheeks of the science ; Dr. Copeland,
anther of the meat memprebeesive dictionary of medicine in
the kagup ; Dr. threskis Babiagton, a 11111120 illustrione
in the minden ; Dr. Lewis Bewerbenk, a man for more
than twenty peen familiar with the treatment of ante dysen-
tery in Jamaica; besides all the profess !oust men who had
men the deceased during her Ilk, during the cause of her
Illness and Immediately after her death, all who had eta-
Weed the post stories appearances of the body. Among the
sewn winnows hi favour of the prisoner there was aot one
whir bad seen the deemed during her life, dune( the souse
elm Mari; or alter death ; or who had examined the put
swims warmer ; but amongst the mews thin were the
awes earn who lad given evidence in favour of Palmer, and
attributed the death of Palmer's victim to atipiesa pectoris.
There wee, however, one enthient prohstiosal man among
the levee—Dr. Tyler Smith; hie evidence, or far es it goes,
le el course unexceptionable; bat it is worthy of remark that
Dr. Tyler Smith was not In coon daring the progress of the
tow, and that he was not asked the ally quastion really de-
tabs, vie. : Is it your opinion that the woman died from
issawral mum

mord to $ native, that point has been sofficiendy
Irmehed by yow mirrapondsai ; and I will only
add one ward d warshir. If ibis aural terrible form of
order, bones the mart difficult to detect (consietins as it
dais to the art of making the effects al poison reemalde the
affects of dais...), be sallered to thrive an the prevalent
unwholesome sympathy for ceiminale, the Imethwete and
the Palmer, will soon outnumber the figs.—l am, km,
wsrue IT TINAX.