The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-20 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL

an English Opera Company sulr,nitted Last night their
claims to public patronage at the Theatre. Royal.
lyric company embraces Madame Costantirfl, a lady alre. lit
favourably known to the musical world of Liverpool, nt%
life's
T.
Hamilton Braham, Mr. George Pe.meti, and Mr.
Haines. The brief season of -Alights opened with 8,.,
popular Opera, " The Bohemian Girl," in which Maak a.-
Costantini made her theatrical debut as the heroine. which
the the fullest allowance for that degree of nervousness si;". •
ordinarily attaches to a debutante, Madame
acquitted herself in a most creditable manner, as regal:ell,
her vocal exertions. Laying aside all consideratiate
of histrionic pretensions, it is but justice as
mention that the music allotted to Arline er
carefully rendered, and the deficiency of
was compensated by the tasteful execution of le:,„-raat
of the solos. The well known ballad, a ocl
that I dwelt in marble halls," was sweetly g'venr' fe't
elicited a judicious encore. The aria, " See at thy '-e,es
was sang with great effect, and in the concerte oflbe,
Madame Costantini evinced a perfect knowledge _,.,,...
art, though her physique was unequal to complete her und
ceptions. The debut on the whole was successful, wag
merited the plaudits bestowed. Mr. George Palen the
Costanto,);
the Thaddeus, and was honoured with encores, both lu
_„d
ballad, " You'll remember me," and in the recitative_;
aria, " Fair land of Poland." The character of i1r,4474.
was well embodied, and the music admirably 'feet:
by Mr. Hamilton Braham, who achieved a Per Is—
success in " The heart bowed down." The parts of pc f.
hoof and Florestein found effective representatives in
T. Haines, and Mr. D'Arcy Read. The chorus would
boot
done with a severe rehearsal, but even with this draw el ~.
the performances were successful. A " Ballet %Per
thes
,ed
ment," in which Mdlle. D'Antonie appeared, clor
not
entertainments, and dismissed a good hunaoure,a but
very fall audience to their homes

ACCIDENT AND Loss or torps.—A-
DREADFUL dreadful
accident occurred at Cork on boara the Nimrod static'.
from Liverpool, which arrived yesterday morning at ":
o'clock at the quay. As she was swinging "lift:
explosion was heard on deck, and a dense cloud of s'--111
hpnthe
was seen to ruah from the engine rooms. W"-- the
steam cleared away, the men on deck went into
0s
engine room, where they found six men lying in %eari:en
parts. The bodies presented a fearful appearance. "--
brought on deck, one of the men was found to aids,deuti's
and the others dying. Two died shortly afterw an4le
the rest were removed to the North Infirmary, whet
they afterwards expired. Their names are as follows"-
b,
Hugh Connolly, head engineer ; Archibald oinL.,
second engineer ; John Driscoll, Timothy DicanY'j,3Aregrizt
Logan, and Francis Kavanagh, stokers. The :loci"-
was caused by the bursting of the boiler.
• . and
COLLISIaN IN THE Rivxa.—The Juverna for 133b,it_i'river
the Empire for New York, came into contact in task, and
yeesrtesrtday morning ; the former lost her mizen Mast' po
hinjTunr or
yEecrniumdpaamNagleind ;ITAthßeylEatter sustained little
day, heard.
ex o
atnhaetions explanations
from , yes ter:
soutay,.-- Beath'
oil
from Captain M.
Flitter-
couater The Board
also app3ared for
, the purpose of explainino. a perthat'
his st t Colonel Gordon. - r. eon of
a a ement. The President of the Board then sal, per
s those persons who had applied to offer evidence bail
been_heard, the public enquiry was terminated• that
Tltl3 GREAT GUN."—It was rumoured in townsiore
thiswonderful gun would be tried yesterda- on
umber °f
near Crosby, and we believe a considerab enu tbe
people went out for the purpose of witnessinf di,
experiments. They were, however, doomed "
t nailer,
appointment. We made enquiry in the pro Per cidcrhen
and are enabled to say that it is not yet ascertainek the
the arrangements will be complete so as to ina :uusi-
experiments. Should the gun be got into prePe. 'oo'
tion, and all the other necessary preparations be acct ace
plished, the interesting event may possibly
ve°bteke "r
Pved.
some time this day orto-morrow, but, as we ha
all will depend on the circumstances alluded to. pout,
EXTRAORDINARY QUICK PASSAGE OF A riBSC LlVlonie
Saris.—Nire, yesterday, saw a new and very to
cos.
Gibbs, Bright, and Co., which has to 1% 'bee
ship —the Elizabeth Anne Bright, belonging
just arrived 41r.
front i St. John, N. 8., where she was built by one,
buti leasam
proved Olive.
herself,Th e
on vessel
n hisernofitrsotoliv.oyaalgtaen:lo;lll.oef°llteer
swiftest, as the following, which we extract rr(""Nitb.
log, will prove :—She sailed from St.
April, in all but a dead calm, and made 143 m 'ti:is to'
216 ; 28th, 138 ; 29th, 134 ; 30th, 14. Fr°113,,, don'
the 3rd May she made about 113, under great 41'1,, the
toge, but on that day she made 303, next day 3'4
iistal,C6
sth she reached 380, and next day she ran Bing ("- total
of 384 miles, and the succeeding day 293, mAci rig
of 2,916 knots, or 3,3.58 miles, the average sailin• , the
11 2 5 miles per hour, The actual §ailing time
oiliooht
John
passage was 294 hours to the pilot ground ; and 0 _ 0,01
when she is coppered, and in proper trim, sh:andup
attain greater speed. She is now in No. 5',, r of
Graving Dock, and attracts attention.
She is wort")
a visit, idestheq-47tb,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

rr ROUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY
'he Rouse met at five o'clock.

II " THE IRISH ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.
'4lll'
OF Dolzotraimoitz asked whether it was the
%lonof the government to abolish the Ecclesiastical
4tlit of Ireland.
4 t
014114,, tb CHANCELLOR said it was not intended to
totirt; 'an court, but it was contemplated, to establish a
tnoti:ular to that proposed for this country for matri-
-117 and divorce matters.
National Gallery
Bill was read a first time.

Fails PUNIIHMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.
tile at, ,1414110 PE moved for a select committee to consider
'°r substituting penal servitude for transportation.
LAW OF PRIVATEBRINO.
Art is "leREsTER fixed his motion in reference to that
toeth the Parii protocol which relates to the maritime law
ncxt.

"cared'—
th 41 of ELGIN drew attention to a letter which ap-
-414, e Papers from the Under Secretary for Foreign
io ati 6 t) tie representative of Costa Rica in this country,
r to an application for arms, an I asked whether it
0,13 a genuine
document? The United States were as anxi-
it :4,14'4 country for the protection of their subjects, and
4 been ,110,-YestA that they should unite for the

CENTRAL AMERICA,

11ie,141 (if MXLMESBURY asked whether Circassia had
tisa ° the British Minister at Constantinople for protec-
,thagaiust Russian aggression ?
l
the 141 Of CLA.RENDON said that no representations on
the ei—je2t had been made to the British Government, but
Itibi24BBialas bad addressed a letter to the Queen on the

Ti ~arl STATE OF INDIA.
•of ALBEMARLE moved for a select committee to
411''' Into the state of the Indian territories.
lqtim :14°11011 was opposed by Earl GRANVILLE, and, after
ttril fetloarks from the Earl ol ELLENBOR.OUGH and the
LIItENnoN, was negatived without a division.

would not be felt. The original army estimates for the
year were, £34,919,000, but they had been reduced by
£14,251.000. For the navy the original estimate was
£19,876,000, which had since been reduced by £16,568,000.
The total estimate for the service was therefore £37,315,000,
instead of £54,878,000, as presented, before showing a
total reduction of £17,559,000. The treaty of peace was
not signed until after the passing of the convention with
the Sardinian Bill, and her Majesty's government, consider-
ing the gallantry of the. Sardinian troops and the expendi-
ture Sardinia had been put to, proposed that a second
sum of £4,000,000 should be advanced. The esti-
mated expenditure for the coming year sv as from
funded debt £27,635,000 ; unfunded debt, £1,025,000 ;
permanent charges on the consolidated fund, £1,750,000 ;
army, £20,747,000; navy, £3,560,000; civil service,
£6,800,000; which, including the cost of collect-
ing the revenue, made up a total of £75,525,000. He
proposed to ask the House to allow him a margin of
£2,000,000, in the shape of exchequer bills, which would
make the total estimate £77,525,000. As to the revenue,
the income tax would be continued, at 15 6d in the pound,
for another year, according to the act of parliament, and
from this source he expected £16,000,000. The act
operated differently with regard to coffee and sugar. The
tea duty would continue, till April Ist, at is 91 per lb.;
from April Ist, 1857, till April, 1858, at is 3d per lb. ;
and, after that date, the duty would be fixed at is. The
right hon. baronet proceeded to refer to the duties on sugar
nod coffee, in which he stated the gradual reduction accord-
ing to the act of parliament, and afterwards to the duties
on malt and spirits, in which no alteration whatever was
proposed. Upon this subject he entered into a comparison
of the consumption of each article in each year from 1835
to 1855, showing that in tea, while in 1835 the amount
consumed was 36,574,000 lbs., in 1855 it reached
63,000,000 lbs., that the consumption of coffee in the same
period incrcasd from 23,000,000 lbs. to 35,000,000 lbs.,
and that the consumption of spirits showed a decrease as
between 24,000,000 gallons in 1835, and 24,000,000
gallons in 1855. In conclusion, he observed, there
was a total defecit of £6,800,000, to meet
which he had contracted a loan of 5,000,000 and
proposed to raise £2,000,000 be means of exchequer
bills, and he further proposed, in addition to this, to take a
margin of £2,000,000.
The financial statement was commenced in a full house,
but was concluded in a house of scarcely forty members.
It lasted two hours, and scarce a cheer was elicited.
Some discussion took place upon the various matters
connected with the finance, in which Mr. M. GinsoN, Mr.
DISRAELI, Mr. GLADSTONE, Sir 11. WILLOUGHBY, Mr. H.
INGRAM, and others participated. The various resolutions
carrying into effect the propositions of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, were then put and carried, after which the
house resumed,
The Fire Insurance Bill, after a long discussion, and a
division, in which the numbers were, for going into com-
mittee, 172, against it, 31, majority, 141, passed through

MARRIAGE LA.NT AMENDMENT.
t04)14 13nouon.tm, in moving that the House should go
titatoe°nraittee on the Marriage Law Amendment bill,
that he had withdrawn two classes relating to divorce
trorlldegitil:antY, and added that the bill in its present state
146,' not alter the marriage laws in Scotland, but would
t 4t evasions by the conflicting laws of the two
4111tri„.
Lord
CAMPBELL tte „ifAmPBELL believed that the measure would add to
Teii;usion that already existed.
11:1'41 Of ALBERMARLE approved of the bill.
roeasure then went through committee.
lev Proceedings of the Justices of the Peace (Scotland)
T, 43, read a second time.
aeir I.nrdships rose at half-past seven o'clock.

Tie ~ QII°U.SE OF COMMONS.—AIONDAY
P EA ER took the chair at four o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
4,Antrim and Coleraine Roads Bill, the Eastern Union
tow ialY Bill, the Glasgow Court Aiouse Bill, and the Glas-
a'ing Bill were read a third time and passed.

SLIGO ELECTION.
~The members appointed to serve on the Sligo Election
mlDittee Were called to the table, and sworn.

r„ THE BANDS 1N THE PARKS.
top.,‘ 'PLY to questions from Mr. OTWAY and Mr.
Lora p
ALltaan)ri said that the bands playing in Ken-
° n'gardens and the Parks, on Sundays, were stopped
e°llsequenee of representations from the Archbishop of
1:41)1117. But he (Lord Palmerston) still retained
°Pillion as to the advantages of the arrange-
r4t4, e which he had felt it his duty to abandon. No
i:43tion of Scotch members waited upon him on the
itenia_4eet. The prohibition of the bands applied only to
--ugt°ll-gardens and the metropolitan parks.

THE CAMPS

,
1, -61111 to Mr. HUME,
PEEL said that it was the intention of the govern-
mentto continue the camp on the Curragh, county of
are.
THE DM,RNCE OF KARS.
re
.DDii to Mr. ,aLIVEIRA,
td .kr,.IIERSTON said the government wished, in the
kloiof the gallant defenders of Kars, to act conformably in
tst4"2") and there was no precedent for the extending of
b,_ teards as had been conferred upon Ganeral Williams,
"load the cominanding officers.

committee.
The other business was disposed of, and the House
adjourned at one o'clok.

CHARITY COMMISSION.—The Queen has been pleased to
appoint the Right Hon. Matthew Talbot Baines to he the
Fourth Charity Commissioner for England and Wales, in
the room of the Right Honourable Lord John Russell.
ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR INSTITU-
TION, 9, ROSE-HlLL.—Week ending May 17.—New
patients entered on the books last week, viz—Relieved at
the institution, 174 ; relieved at their own dwellings, 6 t ;
cases of prevailing epidemic, 0 ; total, 235. Visitors, Mr.
E. Watts, Mr. T. Kirk. Hon Sec. and treasurer, Joseph
Kitchen, Esq.
JUSTICE INEXORABLE.--•M‘Donnell, the swell-mobs' man,
who was last week sentenced, by the magistrates to three
months' imprisonment, appealed against the decision to
the Deputy Recorder ; but that learned judge, not only
confirmed the de,igion of the magistrates, but condemned
the prisoner to pay the costs of the appeal, which, we are
told, will amount to something like £l4.
LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.—Week ending May 17,
1866.—Admitted : In-patients, 47 ; out-patients, 6 ;
casuals during week, D. Discharged : In-patients cured,
17 ; relieved, and at own request, 7 ; made out-patients,
8 ; irregular, 1 ; dead, 3 ; remain in the house, 172.
House visitors : Lawrence Peel, and: Joseph Matthews,
Esqrs. Physician and surgeon for ensuing week : Dr.
Turnbull and Mr. Long. House surgeon : Mr. G. B
Halford. Junior house surgeon : Mr. Cecil Webster
Chaplain : Rev. H. J. Garrod, B.A. Robert Hutchison

treasurer
IMPUDENT FELONY.—The halls of justice in Liverpoo
have been desecrated I The thief has not confined him-
self to the dark alleys and lonely spots where policemen
show their face—no, he has boldly entered the very foun-
tain of justice, and plundered it of a hat! Mr. Thomas,
one of the ushers of the Police Court, and who also acts as
Welsh interpreter, left his " bran new hat"—a guinea one,
too—in his room in the lobby of the court, and some vile
snapper, in a brief period, went off with it—not even leav-
ing a " shocking bad one" in its place. The fellow is
known. A learned advocate, whose business in the court
is ex'ensive, on hearing of the felony, at once presented
Mr. Thomas with a new hat, to make good his loss.
THE HOLIDAYS. —GREAT INFLUX. OF PEOPLE INTO
TOWN.—During the poet week, the holiday folk from all
parts of Lancashire and the adjoining counties poured into
town in great numbers, but it was reserved for Saturday to
bring in tens of thousands of visitors from all quarters.
We imagined that the prodigious number of people who
41san visited us on Monday could not be equalled, but Saturday's
The
visitors eclipsed those of Monday in extent. The streets
e esssof
seas e meson of the EXCHEQUER then rose to pre- in the business portion of the town, the docks, and their
his 0, •
that financial statement. He reminded the committee localities were literally crammed with human being.
he Is In the Prince's 13 )ck there was much attraction for the
bessf ad at the end of February last stated the difference
visitors, in the shape of that splendid Australian vessel
4,40 eta the revenue and expenditure of last year, and the the " British Trident," belonging to the " Liverpool Line"
thes:filta actually realised, and observed that it would not of packets,' as she wasof tfhoruorwtnh,leanatdoptehresoinnsspweecntitotnhrefutohe
am h°l6 be necessary to trouble the house with a repetition, peeorplfer,oamndtouppwards
tobottem during the day. The Landing-
ereee a Would confine himself to stating that the receipts n
stage and ferry boats were, as is usual on such occasions,
pew somewhat less than was anticipated, and the ex- crowded, and the railway stationsdwere not. less so. the
44
eatcture had been somewhat greater, and he had shown early partb etfathhentdnaoyonwathsewsnetnashonuenpornotmtishiengrafionr
ceased,excnr-
I,ltd
moved
deficiency of £3,560,000. To cover this he
atindruastfis'ne stiff breeze set in which lasted till night. Every-
Os this
a resolution for a loan, in consols, of £5,000,000•
thing went off quietly.
tisk 14 sum £3,500,000 were received last year, and the PASSENGERS PER R.M.S. ARABIA, FROM BOSTON TO
ka, received in the present year had been £1,500,000, HALIFAX AND LIVERPOOL. Mr. Graves and lady nurse
, ee It, y,
14 h„.ir the total amount of the loan. In addition to this, andschild, Mrs. S. 0. Ward,— Mrs. S. P. Bidder and child,
Mr. Qaancv A. Shaw, Mr. G. H. Shaw and lady, two
1'417 submitted a plan, which had received the assent of
servants and two children, Rev. H. de Roven, lady, child,
ehksaalent, for providing a sum of £3,000,000 of ex- and two servants, Messrs. Quental,AT.l‘lSiasrhego;keil-ft.zfi
eSever-
Prol4eCcir bills. This had been carried into effect, and had toe anti daisillsetsr,BE;rrlierrnivettrrong.,
E Martin' and lady, Misses
1856.5 successful. The revenue of the financial year, Donnas,Efiler Messrs. P. Donald, D. Morguerd, J. Hilton, J.
ttlB,426sLwas £65,705,000, and the expenditure was
D. Hall, Willianastone and two daughters, Mrs. Dyer
teessm:"°°, showing an excess of expenditure over and servant, Mr. J. B.
Donnas,
Mr.T Johnn a Brooke,
of
stl,oo-cei of £22,723,000, which was exclusive of a sum of ;Messrs. J.
onN.adawehtoiln, ;
d J.
Mites lisil.atii, Bradford Dr. Dr. E. ;II
•t2es 0:1:,:100 paid by way of loan to Sardinia, and of I s
I‘Clark and lady ; Messrs. E. Kelly, E. S. Milton, S. G.
this
e'x Y° redemption of hereditary pensions. To cover Grafton, J. T. Burr, Landon C. Haskeu, F. Zamern, E.
the eass of expenditure, £26,478,000 had been raised by F. Lebrun, M. Frankenthat,or J. G.
iEti7ltafi‘aan;eEirs.,S4l,oDmoaung:
left :all and by exchequer bonds and exchequer bills, which Iligelen,ePr.aill3desisaidnygeriiiss
sg
leeper Messrs. J. H. Sleeper,
sioarsissura of £2,542,000 to be accounted for. This was a .1
B. J. lt)lanby, S. S. Lewis and two daughters, Messrs. R.
is the
matter, On the 31st of March, 1856, the balance
Revnolde, S. Law,son, A. Nelson, J. Lailey and lady, Mr. D.
t3g4e exchequer was £5,600,000, and in 1855. it was wKay, Kahn,lSernmarb„eiregJ.JelKoesesrell.ltelissußaichaarrdd.s,AMirra..
saes
of AO, and to this latter amount was to be added a L. DI,. 0
anweanndlin.fant, Miss A. Plipelp,s, Mr. C. A. gScott, Miss
The
I" £1,000,000 advanced in anticipation of the revenue.
41.65,111,)°16 War expenditure during the two years, was Isiliacriamllodgetts, Mr. Thomas Williams, Miss Jane Tresi-
home, Mr. Benjamin \V. Rogers, Mrs. Jonesj and two
'hit, '1'"0, including the loan to Sardinia, childrer, Messrs. 5. Carry, Thomas Blanquit,_
g, W WhitheadveAn'
Peace, the expenditure during the two years of W. Wright and. lady;a h
here,. 1854 and 1855, was £102,032,000. The ,helol,mLaasylefo,rLanoutsl rsjoß nMiiieur,n-M. Legrand, I. Jacob.,
lady andy Child, Howe, D. Christy, Dortolla,
Nall -e, a the revenue from taxation in the two
there ° the D. B. Cliff, Louis Qrengo, Miss Copeman, Messrs. Marvin,
war was £17,118,000, and during that period Appleton, Lauder, Xaynes, Rev. Frith, Mrs. Stow,i J.Mhran.
za3 61141 been added to the funded and unfunded debt Dowding, two fem_ale sersvants,
tchild, aßnd4nafannte,rll
arn. _ omr.
tso'Q4'°44°. Thus the total receipt in the two years was illeach.lan, Mr. E, F. tewar. , Mr. rd , d
"86,000 L. Pottier.
''Pith te beyond the ordinary revenue, as compared SCENE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE.—During a
that ste two preceding years of peace, and the result was, debate on the slavery question in the United States Senate,
ever tia
sum available for the war, during the first year, on the 2nd inst, an excited stchenre
sideo of
flatt wAhtilcahnthieas caumserd
.
seeessdPeace expenditure, was £56,772,000, while on the sore
Hale,
alluding amusement t
oo , thewhat, hee said, were grossly personal
-UN year it was £24,500,000 in excess of the expendi- attaers on him in Mr. Clay's recent speech, remarked that
That during the year of peace, immediately preceding. be had but one word to submit in reply, that it will take
litiri',,rnade a total of £77,588,000 for war expenditure sometthingmbres6sli
leas malignity(. totorelelliesezeitinbreecaitiliytyefro c
itsclndjonl-
ue the two years of the war. The American
tdeenflithe senator'symasfirclenFtsinguch as I contemn his baseness.
oartile lasted six' years, and added £1,024,000,000 No man shall assail my rights, or those of my constituents,
eta national debt, whereas the war with Russia added and shirk his responsibility by skulking behind the plea of
lledr,Yie
iitr£l.olll2,obt ogoo to the funded and unfunded debt, the non-combahtanhcY'he plrldheessweserieleawniomulaatednolt;L,Teousepohnert94iics
principally to the unfunded debt. After feelingsn which
under the protection of its rules, seek immunity
of refraining
to the policy of the government during the war, for his insolence. I know he is pleased by this attention.
The ;lining from adding fresh burthens upon the people
lo,,ilglst h„. ) There are those of biz class who, liket the losorndokrlcacttorney,
baronet expressed a hope that the amicable Mark Meddle, in the play, are
havrabLimouarskifn, athatl hesenlesaad-
,erl: °as with America would remain undisturbed, and he tniooitrln Mr.
eClt
aoysacortiocluthat senator, having twice declined
N), Irindsd the committee that all the money asked for the his acfsurnia onrtapee, )alnd he asked pardon of the senate for
,N,`' heel not been expended on the war, but had been made consuming so much time about a senaptolrewlrastoils_thaed
~,,,4,111_ le for the improvement of the army and navy, and carpet upon which he treads. My. Bale replied
odnel2o he h
end that
1, ),,1:01 thee be of permanent benefit to the country. H e nweayse ro soua
,rgobfet an i introduction
rM rt .h
eClay h bat
;ear,proceecled to the estimated expenditure for the coming Inc& of a citizen of
Alabama.l - sMl°rn. aCtay businessrejoined that be did not think his
._,.; _ remarking that the present year must be looked upon reputation for veracity would suffer by_ cemparis m with Rne.
who bad repeatedly eaten his own words. D.lr. ITale
i; "._, tleally as a year of war, extensive preparations having
_l'u made for another campaign had it being necessary, replied
that, if he did eat his own words, he would have a more
a d that till another year had passed the benefit of peace palatable meal than the senator from Alabama if lie should
undertake to eat his. (Laughter.)

IteD STAFF OFFICERS.
LO a question from Sir De Lacy EVANS,
ilave PEEL said, he thought staff officers should either
s 4„ "Pensation for their buying hors3s, or have
tei4l4 allowed to bring them home, and believed
Pente!raPh message had been sent to the Crimea to pre
-`ue recent order on the subject being acted upon.

THE BUDGET.

Tile house haring gone into committee of ways and

THE

RUGELEY POISONINGS.

TRIAL OF PALMER AT THE CENTRAL
CRIMINAL COURT.

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER)

FIFTH DAY.

LONDON, MONDAY

The trial was resumed this morning at ten o'clock,
when the judges took their seat precisely at that hour.
Long before the time arrived for the commencement of
the trial the court was crowded in every part, and even
increased interest was manifested by the public. There
were from two to three hundred medical gentlemen pre-
sent who had, no doubt, come to hear the evidence of
Dr. Taylor.
Mr. Baron Alderson was not present at the opening of
the proceedings, being engaged in the House of Lords,
giving his judgment, along with several other of the
judges, on the Fermoy peerage.
Lord Campbell and Mr. Justice Cresswell alone pro-
ceeded with the case.
The prisoner looked rather pale, and during the day a
strong nervous twitching of the lower muscles of the face
bespoke the intense anxiety which he endured.

The jury having re-assembled,
The Attorney-General called Professor Taylor, who,
having been sworn, said—My name is Alfred Swaine
Taylor. lam a Professor at Guy's Hospital, and a Fel-
low of the College of Physicians.
Lord Campbell: Let your statements be slow and

tests. Strychnia has a strong bitter taste. Another
test is that strychnia is nearly soluble in water ; it is
is soluble in acid and in alcohol. It is precipitated by
acid when it has been dissolved in them. The colour
test is applied to the evaporations. A mixture of strong
sulphuric acid and bi-chromate of potass produces a blue
colour changing to a violet, then aaurple, and passing to a
red. These colouring tests are very fallacious. When
we have separated strychnia in its crystaline state, we
have recognised the crystals by their form and their
chemical qualities. You may produce all the symptoms
by introduciug strychnine into a punctured wound ; it
operates in that case more quickly. There are other
vegetable substances which will exhibit similar results
after the colouring tests. A mixture of sugar and bile
will produce the purple red tint. A substance called
phyrozantin produces precisely similar colours as
strychnine. I have known cases occur in my own
laboratory of persons thinking ;that they had
strychnia when it was only phyrozantlu. A small
quantity of salucine added, gives the mixture a bitter
taste. Vegetable poisons are more difficult to discover
than mineral ones. In the rabbits I have destroyed, I
have tried to discover the strength of the strychnia in
four distinct cases. I was assisted by Dr. Rees. I
applied the processs I have just described. I endeavoured
to reproduce the strychnia if present, and then applied
those coloury tests I have mentioned. In one case by the
colour tests I had given two grains of strychnia, when it
was discovered by the colour test in the other case, I had
given one grain. I attribute the absence of strychnia in
some of the cases to its absorption into the blood, and
therefore it would be no longer in the stomach. It is
in great part changed in the blood. In some cases
there would be a retention of some not absorbed, there
being an excess of what was required to destroy life.
Supposing the minimum dose given, I should not expect
to discover any, if it was required to destroy life. There
is no process by which I am acquainted with of detect-
ing strychnine in the tissues. Half a grain has destroyed
life, and supposing it to be absorbed in the system by
circulation I should find in the blood, assuming that it
be 251 b. in the human subject, there would be 1-50th of
a grain to 11b. of blood. A physician in Canada died in
twenty minutes from a dose of half a grain. I believe it
undergoes a partial change in the blood. I have never
heard of its being separated from the tissues in a crys-
talised state. The crystrals are peculiar in form. They
present themselves in the form sometimes of octahedra and
quadilateral prisms, terminating in four-sided pyramids.
There are other organic substances which crystalise in a
similar manner. After Cook's death I received a brown
stone jar from Mr. Boycott covered with bladder and tied
and sealed. It contained the stomach and intestines of the
deceased. I experimented on it with a view to discover
poison. We sought for varnous first, prussic acid, oxalic
acid, morphia, strychnia, veratria, the poisons of tobacco
and hemlock. We only found small traces of antimony.
The parts sent to us to experiment on were the most
unfavourable that possibly could be to find strychnia,
from the stomach having been cut completely from end
to end, and all the contents gone, and the fine mucous
surface in which any poison, if present, would be found
lying in contact with the outside of the intestines, all
thrown together. On the surface of the mucous mem-
brane of the intestines there was feculent matter. No
doubt, in its journey up to London, it had been shaken
in every possible way ; the contents of the intestines
were also gone. if this poison had been in the system
I should have expected to have found it in the contents
and on the mucuous membrane. At my request other
parts of the body was sent—the liver, spleen, and the two
kindeys, and in addition a small bottle of blood, 11b
weight—it was unlabelled, giving us no idea from whence
it was taken. We analysed all the liver and kidneys for
mineral poison, and discovered in one-eighth part of the
liver antimony. We analysed the left kidney and the
spleen—they all yielded antimony, but the quantity was
less in the spleen than in the other parts. The blood
also yielded antimony. It was re-produced or brought
out by boiling the animal substance in a mixture of
hydro-chloric acid and water, and copper in a state
of foil and gall was introduced into it whilst boiling,
and the antimony appeared on the surface. Ve
applied various tests to it—both the established
tests andl others. [The professor handed in a small
quantity of the antimony so produced.] It is im-
possible to say with precision when the antimony was
taken by the subject, but it must have been within a few
days. The longest period I have known antimony found
in the blood after the person has ceased to take it, is
eight days; antimony within my knowledge has got into
the blood in the quickest time in eighteen hours. I found
it in the liver, the boy having died within nineteen hours
after taking it ; it was a small dose, and was not the
cause of death. It was about five or six grains of anti-
monial powder. Antimony is given in tartar emetic. It
acts as an irritant, and produces vomiting. Repeated
doses would, notwithstanding the vomiting, leave a
portion behind, and that would find its way into the
Fystem. It is often given in minute doses with impu-
nity, and it might be given so as to produce symptoms
that would produce death if continued. I heard
from the servant her description of Mr. Cook's vomiting
both at Rugeley and at Shrewsbury, as well as the
accounts given by Mr. Jones and Mr. Gibson, and it was
such as that which would be produced from antimony
antimony is partly soluble in fluids, and does not affect
the colour of the fluid in which it is mixed, if used in
small quantities ; a quantity sufficient to produce sickness
would not affect the colour of toast and water, brandy,
wine or broth. I should think the antimony found in
the deceased must have been given three weeks of death
—there was no evidence of any having been given within
a few hours of death.
By Lord Campbell: It might have been administered
within a few days of death—ln fact within eighteen hours
of death.

distinct.
The Attorney-General: You are, I believe, a lecturer
upon medical jurisprudence at Guy's Hospital? I am.
The Attorney-General : And author of a work upon
poisons ? I am.
The Attorney-General : Have you, amongst your studies
upon the nature of poisons, turned particular attention to
that of strychnine? I have.
The Attorney-General: It is, I believe, the produce of
nux vomica ? It is.
The Attorney-General : And nux vomica contains, I
believe, besides strychnine that which is called bouschia ?
It does; nux vomica contains about twelve of bruschia
to six of strychnine, and the impure and not properly
prepared strychnine contains more or less bruschia.
The Attorney-General : So that, unless you know the
purity of the article, you may be misled as to the strength
of the strychnine? You may.
The Attorney-General: You have, I believe, tried
various experiments with strychnine upon animal life?
I have.

The Attorney. General : Have you ever witnessed an
instance of its action upon a human subject? I have not.
The Attorney-General: In how many instances have
you tried its effects upon animal life ? Ten or twelve.
The:Attorney-General: What class of animals ? Rab-
bits. _
•

The Attorney-General : Have you found the symptoms
produced universally the same ? Yes.
The Attorney-General: What has been the. quantities
you administered ? From half a grain to two grains.
The Attorney-General : Have you found half a grain
sufficient to destroy life ? Yes.
The Attorney-General: In what manner have you
administered it? Solid.
The Attorney-General : And also liquid ? Yes.
The Attorney-General : Were the effects between that
which you gave solid and that given fluid different ?
They were.
The Attorney-General : How long was that, given in a
fluid state, before it took effect ? A very few minutes.
The Attorney-General; And how long that which you
administered solid? That which I gave solid in the form
of a pill or a roll did not produce any effect from six to

seven minutes.
The Attorney-General : Do you find the the time of its
taking effect influenced by the strength of the dose ? Yes,
and also by the strength of the animal.
The Attorney-General: How does it operate upon the
system to produce the symptoms ? First, by absorption
in the blood. It then circulates through the body, and
especially acts upon the spinal cord.
The Attorney-General: Suppose absorption to have
taken place, how long is it circulating through the body ?
The supposed circulation of the blood is once in from
three to four minutes. Through the whole system it
would be about four minutes. The circulation in the blood
of a rabbit is quicker. The absorption in a rabbit would
be quicker. The rapidity of the absorption also depends
upon the state of the stomach receiving it as to whether
there is much food to prevent its coming in contact
immediately with the coats of the stomach. I think it
must be first absorbed before it will act upon the nervous

system.
The Attorney-General : Describe the symptoms which
it produces. The animal, for the first five or eight
minutes, does not appear to suffer, but runs about as soon
as the poison acts. It suddenly falls on its side, and is
seized with a trembling of the whole of the body.
The Attorney-General: What first causes the trem-
bling? A general motion of the whole muscular system,
arising from the poison producing' an involuntary con-
traction. Upon this taking place, the fore and hind legs
are stretched out, with the head drawn back, and the
body is bent in the form of a bow. The jaws are closed,
and the eyes are prominent, protruding after a short time,
there are slight remissions of symptoms, and it then
appears to be quiet. The slightest noise or touch pro-
duce convulsions or spasms, and the animal shrieks or
screams as if suffering great pain. The hearts beats very
violently during the fits, and after a succession of those
fits, it dies quietly. Sometimes it does not die quiet,
but appears to die during one of these spasms of the

heart.
The Attorney-General : "What are the appearances after
death ? In some instances, they appear to differ, but in
general, the animal is in a strictly rigid state throughout.
In one instance the animal was so stiff after death, that
you could hold it horizontally by taking hold of its hind
legs, as I now hold this book (taking up the Testament).
It remained in that state for a week. In the case of an
animal killed the other day by strychnine, it was flaccid
at the time of death, but became rigid in about five
minutes afterwards. The witness in answer to other
questions said, I have opened the bodies of animals thus
destroyed, and found no appearance of the stomach being
congested, and in one or two cases found congestion of
the membranes more than due to the gravitation after
death. The congestion, I think, is due to the succession
of fits the animals had. In three out of the five cases
I found no abnormal change. The heart in all the cases
has been congested.
By the Lord Chief Justice : The right side more

Examination continued: Antimony to cause sickness
would not be perceptible to the taste. A large quantity
taken might leave a tickling or choking sensation for a
time. In the analysis made we found no trace of mer-

If it had been taken recently, to the extent of two
grains, 1 should have expected to have found some trace
of it in the liver. If he had taken any for a syphilitic
affection, I should have expected to have found it; and if
taken within a few hours of death, I should have expected
some traces of it would have been found from its slowly
passing through the body. Three or four grains taken
then, I should have expected, would have been traced. I
recollect finding it on the liver on one occasion 24 hours
after being taken ; half a grain had been taken daily for
four days previous to death. I have heard the evidence
relative to Mrs. Smith's death ; that of Agnes Sinett,
Mrs. Dove, and the gentleman about whom Dr. Moore
gave evidence, and I coincide with them in opinion that
the three former died from stryahnia. Mr. Cook's symp-
toms were of a similar character to those referred to. As
a professor of medical science, I know of no other disease
to which Cook's death can be attributed than that it arose
from str ychnia.

especially.
By the Attorney-general: I have seen, years me, a
case of ordinary tetanus, but I have not had much expe-
rience. I saw a case of tetanus in the human subject last
Thursday week, in St. Thomas's Hospital. It did not
end fatally; the person recovered. I have heard the
symptoms of Mr. Cook described. Those symptoms
appeared to me precisely the same as those which
appeared in the animals I have described. The animals
have died at variable periods. One died in 13 minutes
and one in 17. Symptoms appeared more rapidly when
the styrehnine had been given in a fluid state. Death
takes place in about 17 minutes. The experiments T have
made lately have been confined entirely to solids. The
symptoms appeared in the first case in 7. minutes, and
the animal died in about 13 minutes. In the next
case symptoms tt,ppeared in 9 minutes, and death occurred
in 17 minutes ; in the third, 10 minutes and died in 13
minutes ; in the fourth, in 12 minutes and died in `,14
minutes ; in the fif, in ten minutes and died in 23
minutes. The poisonth would take longer to act on the
human subject. The pill structure would require to be
broken up in order to bring the poison in contact with
the mucous naerribrane of the stoTach. In the case of
the rabbits I have destroyed, I have administered the
poison in the form of pills. I don't think we can draw
any inference between the death of the animals and the
human subject, because the circulation and absorption
are entirely different. There would be a difference
between one human subject and another. The strength
of the dose would also make a difference. lu the experi-
ments made upon the animals I have reproduced the
strychnia. The principle of extraction consists in putting
the stomach and its contents in alcohol mixed with a small
quantity of sulphuric acid to dissolve the strychnia. We
then get sulphate of strychnia, if any be discovered.
Having got the sulphate of strychnia, the liquor is filtered
and gently evaporated, and then an alkali added---carbo -
nate of potass. It combines with the sulphuric acid, and
so produces the strychnia, if present. Besides this mode
of ascertaing the strength of strychnia, there are other

go out by the bowels and part by the urine. Orfile
inclines to the opinion that in from four to seventeen
hones it passes out from the urine. I believe I was
justified in coming to the -opinion that Cook might have
died from antimony. The qnantity found in the body
does not always prove the cause of death. Any anti-
monial preparation, taking judiciousiy or injudiciously,
might have given the results of antimony which we arrived
at. -.Tames's powder, or any such preparation, might have
left enough in the system. The accounts which 1 received
of Cook's :death guided me in the opinion I came to,
that he, Cook, might; have
_died from; the effects of

antimony.
Mr, Sergeant Shee : Do fyouNallow yourself to be di-
rected in the opinion you arrive at by hearsay statements ?
—A. man may die from many sorts of poisons. The
learned professor explained that an account of how a
man died would tend to assist and direct him in the
analysis, but not influence the opinion of such analysis
beyond guiding him in the conclusion drawn. that the
symptoms exhibited by the deceased had been caused
by whatever poison might be traced. I was not at the
inquest on Cook at its commencement. Some of the
evidence was read over to me. Dr. Harland was
being examined. I also heard Dr. Bamford, Lavinia
Barnes, and Elizabeth Mills examined. I had not
experimented on the rabbit before I went to the
inquest. Five of the rabbits were experimented on 2e
years ago. I had a great objection to destroy life except
in extreme cases. My last experimentd were m ide
after the inquest. I don't consider a rabbit an unfair
test; dogs are not, so good. They are not sb dangerous
to handle. I think the rabbits as good as any animal, as
the poison is retained and the effects are visible. I
attended the inquest and suggested questions. They
were put to the witnesses, I remember Roberts being
examined, but I only paid attention to the medical part
of the case. I did not hear Roberts say strychnia had
been bought, but I knew it had been bought on the
Tuesday, from Mr. Gardner's letter to me, and it was
with that knowledge, and after hearing some of the evi-
dence, that I gave my opinion.
Mr. Sergeant Shee : I think, my lord, we ought here to
have the witness's depositions read.
The Lord Chief Justice: Very well.
The Clerk then read the evidence given by Dr. Alfred
Taylor at the inquest held on Mr. Cook.
Examination continued: I returned to town immedi-
ately after giving my evidence, and the prisoner was com-
mitted for wilful murder. I thought it my duty to abstain
from all discussion calculated to influence the public mind.
I wrote a letter to the Lancet contradicting some state.
ments that had been made.
The letter was here read. It was one complaining 01
certain statements, and also misquotations that had been
made from his evidence.
The court adjourned for a quarter of an hour.
The learned judges returned in about a quarter of an
hour, together with Baron Alderson, who appeared to be
suffering from indisposition.
The cross examination of Dr. Taylor was then pro-
ceeded with as follows :
Mr. Sergeant Shee referred to the last paragraph
of the letter, where he stated that the mode in which
the case would affect the person was a minor security,
but that the interests of society were concurred in it.
Witness : That is my opinion now. I could have no
prejudice whatever against the man. I alluded to the
assertions which have been made; and I stated that if
they were to have their sway no life would be safe. I
stated that the life of the prisoner was of little importance,
and I still adhere to the opinion that several lives are of
more value than one.
Mr. Sergeant Shee : Had any remark been made by the
prisoner or his family ? Witness : No, but the man
below him, Mr. Smith, has ; and statements, unfounded,
have appeared in all the papers by him. I never received
Mr. Mayhew in my laboratory.
Mr. Sergeant Shee : Did you notl sanction your like.
ness being taken for the Illustrated Times. Witness : Call
it a caricature. (Laughter.) I never knew that my
likeness was being taken. I never sanctioned it.
Mr. Sergeant Shee : Upon your oath, sir, didyon not re-
ceive Mr. Mayhew at your house, and sanction his report-
ing your conversation. Witness z He represented himself
as connected with an insurance office, and I informed him
the number of cases of poisoning. I never sanctioned his
reporting our conversation, and I remonstrated with him
for doing so. 1 think it was a gross imposition to come
and get information in that way. I permitted him to draw
up an article, but it has been considerably altered, and I
wrote a letter complaining of it. I have not seen Mr.
Mayhew since, but I received a letter from him stating
that an advertisement which appeared in regard to this
information should be withdrawn.
Mr. Sergeant Shee: Did you not say that you would
give them enough strychnine before they had gone ? Wit-
ness (with great warmth and indignation) : I assure you,
sir, you have been grossly misinstructed ; aud Mr. John-
ston, who suggested that to you, has been guilty of other
falsehoods. (Sensation in court.) I entirely deny any-
thing of the kind.
Mr. Sergeant Shoe : I would not have put the question
had not been so instructed.
The Witness, in reply to further questions put to him,
said there was not anything in the symptoms of Cook
inconsistent with those of strychnine. He should expect
to find in a person suffering from such effects, a degree of
agitation, and beating the bed with the arms, would be in
perfect conformity with the effects of strychnine. There
were only fifteen cases on record of poisoning by
strychnine. lie had not known many instances
where persons screamed before the fit. He had
not known that they would speak freely after the paroxysm
commenced. He agreed with the description given of the
effects of strychnine in Dr. Watson's book, viz , that the
opening of a door or other slight movement, &c., would
cause paroxysm so far as animals were concerned, but he
could not say as much with respect to a human being. He
had known a fatal case with the symptoms as evinced by
Cook on the Tuesday evening ; and quoted a ease where
a healthy young woman died from the effects of a grain
and a half of strychnine, taken by mistake, the symptoms
not appearing for an hour after taking the poison. That
was a remarkable case. Knew a case where two hours
and a half elapsed, but it was not a fatal one. A. grain
and a half was a full dose, There was a fatal case from a
grain and a half, where the symptoms did not come on for
three hours. There was no case in his book on poisons
where more than half an hour elapsed before the effects of
the poison began; but that book was written eight years
ago, and, therefore, the case mentioned in that book could
not be looked upon as any authority at the present time.
Never heard of a fatal case where the symptoms showed
themselves more than an hour and a half after the inges •
tion of the poison. Had never himself known a case
where a man recovered from a paroxysm caused by
strychnine poisoning, in so short a time as Mr. Cook on
the Msnday night; but had no doubt it was not an
unusual circumstance. Believed several circumstances
might be found in medical practice, He could not refer

Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Shee : The term trace
means a small quantity ; but I do not use it in that term
now. The whole which we found was about half a grain.
That would not cause death. The tests are used for anti-
mony after obtaining the deposit by boiling the animal
matter. Nothing but arsenic or antimony would deposit
upon the copper. We found no sublimate of arsenic.
We next used the test of sulphuretted hydrogen, and after
twenty-four hours there was a deposit of a reddish colour,
like sulphuret of antimony, and was soluble in hydro-
chloric acid. He then described the tests employed, which
produced a deposit, which, upon being dissolved in hydro-
chloric acid, converted the black precipitate into antimo-
uial An inaccuracy in the tang process or badness
of the instrument might affect the experiment. The
antimony which I found might have been taken
three weeks before. I should think antimony gets
quicker out of the body of an animal than a man.
lam acquainted with the works of Orfile. He was
one of the most esteemed chemists. He makes men-
tion of a dog in whose body after it had lived four months,
was found to contain antimony, but that dog took 45
grains. That was a large dose, and some of the dogs died
who had taken the dose. I never knew of a case of such
a quantity being taken. We cannot clearly tell when it
gets out of the body. I was first applied to about this
body upon the 21st of NorenAer ; by Mr. War-
rington. I did not know Gardner. I have not had any
previous cases at Bugeley. Mr. Stevens and Boycott
brought in the jar with the contents of the stomach- I
wrote a letter in answer, giving my opinion of the cause
of death. The letter was here read, and went on to state

strychnine

to any case of strychnine puisoning where so long a
period elapsed between the paroxysm as in the case of
Mr. Cook, between the Monday and Tuesday night.
Did not know that immediately after/ death from
strychnine poisoning the body took its rigidity, but in the
case of five rabbits four of them were quite stiff, i rime-
diately after death, one of them only being placid. The
clenching of the hands ocevred in other eases of convul-
sions besides those occasioned by strychnine, but accord-
ing to his knowledge the hands were clenched where
strychnine had been administered, lie still believed
colour tests were so fAllacicus that they could not be
depended upon unless strychnine was found in a tangible

form.
By the Attorney-General : Had heard of cases where
the heart was found empty immediately after death. He
thought this was occasioned by the spasmodic action on
the muscles of the heart. The rigidity always affected
the same muscles —those of the limbs and the back In
cases of poisoning by strychnine, where the rigidity of the
limbs relaxed at the time of death, it returned while the
body was warm; but rigidity in ordinary cases only
occurred after the body was cold. Had rover heard of a
case where the rigidity lasted so long as two months. The
effects of the same dose of strychnine would vary accord-
ing to the constitution, &c., in the persontaking it. The
feeling of suffocation was one of the earliest symptoms,
such as that evil eed by Mr. Cook on the Tuesday
night

Three distinct doses produced the same
result. As to the discovery of the antimony in
the portions of Mr. Cook's body he analysed,
there was no doubt it was antimony he discovered.
tla could not tell by the quantity he found what quantity
was taken. Never knew of a case where antimony was
known to have been taken where it could not be discovered.
The coroner did not put questions to enable witness to form

that the centents of the stomach did not give the pre-
sence of either strychnia, prussic acid, or opium ; but that
the deceased might have died from the effects of antimony.
A man will vomit upon first taking antimony—part will

an opinion, and he therefore suggested some which ought t o
have been put ; but he did not think the coroner omitted t
put the questions for any reason, excepting that he did not
understand the medical questions; he certainly noticed the
omission to write down some of the answers. He had been
misrepresented in the newspapers as to his opinion whether
strychnine could or could not be found in a dead body ; he
bad card that when the poison had been absorbed in'o the
thod, it could not be separated as strychnine. He had
written various letters in his own vindication.
Dr. George Owen Rees, Fellow of the College of Phy-
sicians and Lecturer on Materia Medica at Guy's examined
by Mr. Edwin James: I assisted Professor Taylor in his
analysis, and it has been very correctly stated. I hate
directed my attention t ) the discovery of poison after death.
Professor Taylor has correctly stated the quantity
antimony found in portions of Mr. Cook's body.
have been administered two hours or two days before
The stomach was presented most unfavourably fo
discovery of strychnine. The stomach had been cut
and turned inside out, the lining of the stomach coma
contact with the intestines. The contents of the stc
had there been any, must have been mixed with the intee.
That, of course, rendered it unfavourable for the diecovery o
strychnine. I agree with Professor Taylor as to the el'
of strychnine on human life. If, by ace
enough strychnine was given to destroy life, it might n.
found after death. It is only the excess, as stated by P,
fe:s Taylor, that is found after death. Saw the caper.
ments mode by Professor Taylor on four of the rabbits, :an
assisted I inn in the endeavour to find strychnine after death
but, as stated by him, we failed in detecting it in thre,
The symptoms in the aaimals resembled those of Mr. Cu,
up to his death. Never saw a death of a human sub;
from strychnine. He generally agreed with all Prof,
Taylor bad said wi:h respect to the experimeof-

oni lob,

Neat or desigr.

rabbits, &C.
Cross-examined by Mr. Groves, Q C.: Ti
nit reject the pills in four cases ; but in th
of the strychnine adhered to the animal's r -
kno

any satisfactory experiments wh're the
een found after it had been absorbed into the bloo,.
witness then corroborated Professor Taylor's evidence a_
the colour tests, and to the positive finding antimony in
Cook's body.
By the Attorney-general: The presence of antimony was
clearly shown.
Mr. William Thomas Brand, examined by Mr. 'Si
Was professor of medicine at the Royal Institi.
Had the report of Drs. Taylor and Rees sent to him for
opinion. Was present at Guy's Hospital on Saturday, th
3rd of May, when himself and Drs. Taylor and Rees mad
an examination of the action of copper on a very weak -
tion of antimony, and found there was no action until Cie
solution was slightly acidified by sulphuric acid and heated.
The antimony was then deposited. Could state positive y
that that deposit was antimony.
Cross-examined by Mr. Groves, Q C.: That test used
by them was known by the name of Wrench's test for
aisenic. He only knew of three poisons which would
be precipitated by the same test, viz., antimony, ar:e.lia,
and he believed bismuth. Sulphur did not leave the
same appearance on the copper—the difference was

manifest.
By the Attorney-General : The tests used were the proper
ones to ascertain the presence of antimony. Had no doabt
about the presence of antimony.
Dr. R. Christonson, Fellow of the College of Physiciaas,
and professor of materia medica, in Edinburgh : Was the
author of a work on poisons, and amongst others, hal
directed his attention to strychnine, which acted on the
human frame by the absorption of the blood, and acting
also on the nervous system. Had seen a case of poisoning
from strychnine, though not a fatal case. Had seen frogs,
rabbits, cats, dogs, and one wild boar, experimentalised
upon by strychnine. He had directed his attention to this
poison since 1820 in Paris. It was discovered two years
before in Paris. In most of his experiments he had given
many small doses, but sometimes as much as
a grain. One-sixth of a grain had killed a dog in two
minutes, when injected into the cavity of the chest
by a small incision. He had administered a grain to a
( rabbit, and death had been occasioned thereby. Witness
I then described the general symptoms and effects of s'.,ry-
chine, both ire animals and human beings, and to the
appearance of their body after death, agreeing in all par-
ticulars with the views expressed by Professor Taylor and
other witnesses. lie always found blood in the hearts of
animals, but had heard of persons having found the heart
empty. The poison was longer operating in the larger animals
than in the smaller. Generally gave the poison in a solid form
but had administered in a liquid also. The method of
mixing the poison made a difference in the action upon the
system. If given in pills much would depend upon what
the pills were constructed of. Absorption would begin as
soon as the pills were broken up or digested, and not before.
The less soluble the pill the longer the time that would
be required. Could not Si the precise time, in the preset,
state of medical knowled?.-,e, that would be taken by t'
p )ison to operate. When administering the
. it shout

..on to an animal ere is taken that
given at a time the most favourable to its action
aeon cases of tentanus of a natural kind arising both f
wounds and disease. Would not place much rel
on the slight difference existing in the c.nr
of the symptoms between tentanus arising f
poison and disease. The symptoms begin
advance much more slowly, and in caie of discasl I
prove fatal much more slowly than in tentanus produ
by poison. Strychnine is one of the four natural p,.11
contained in nux vomica. No natural disease that
knew, or even heard of would produce such symptoms
as these which preceded the death of Mr. Cook.
death takes pace from spasm of the -heart,
would not be found in it, Should not expect to
strychnine in the body after death, where the quantity v
small. If the dose of poison was in great exe
.
expect to find it.

The. witness considered the col

tests uncertain. Vegetable poisons were mori
discover than mineral ones. Should net have
have discovered strychnine in Cook's stoma(
analysis. The symptoms in Cook'
similar to those cases in which de

th was p.

Cross-examined by Mr. Grove : Had made ex,
upon the body of a man who died from stryeb
failed to discover the poison '
tests. That was in the year 1851

the usual c

.
in that case was th?, development of the violet COluur
by means of sulphuric acid and the oxide of lead.
[With( es here entered into some explanations ro:Tecting
cases of poisoning by strrehnine mentioned in a
book written by him: There was no taillency,
he observed generally in cases of poisoning by strychnine,
that the patient should be thrown into paroxysms by the
touch, but in animals it was invariably the case. The
bitter taste of strychnine was so remarkable, that one
grain would be discovered in more than a gallon. • If ad-
ministered in pills, they would not necessarily be dis-
covered in the system, forthey might pass off by digestion,
The witness generally agreed with the previous evidence,
as to the time taken for absorption. &c.
By the Attorney-General: In the case of the man
whose body he examined, the appearances of the body
were precisely similar to that of Mr. Cook's. It was
very easy to'detect styrchnine if found in a state of purity.
Colour tests were not to be relied upon for styi•chnine rn
an impure condition.
The Attorney-General intimated that he should finish
the prosecution by two or three o'clock to-morrow, and it
being arranged that Mr. Sergeant Shee should commence
his address on Wednesday morning, the Court adjourned
until ten o'clock to-morrow (this) morning.
It is now considered certain that the case cannot
terminate before the end of the week, and many persons
imagine that it will not conclude before Monday or
Tuesday next. The witnesses for the defence number-
ing between twenty and thirty, are, most of them staying
at Peele's Coffee House, Fleet-street. Amongst those
present to-day was Calcraft. He remained in court

several hours

The Daily News mentions a report 'gnat the Govern-
ment of Victoria has been offered and refused by, Sir
H. Bulwer, and the Hon. Cliv.iies Villiers.

THE PARES ON SuND:.r.—The countermanding by the
Premier of the perfnrrnances on Sunday of the military
bands in the parks of the metropolis was expected to havo
led to some poPftlar demonstration, but the heavy rain
which felt during the morning prevented any gathering
of the pe:;ple.

THE PREMIER.—Some very foolish statements have
found their way into some of the papers respecting Lord
Palmerston's health. The Premier has never enjoyed
better health. He arrived in London from Broadland,
Hants ; attended the Cabinet Council on Saturday at
the Foreign Office; and went to Brocket Hall, 'legs,
the same evening, from whence he is expected in Lon-
don this morning, to be present at the bidding for the
loan in the morning, and at the meeting of the House of
Commons in the afternoon.

Orss9rzyrtoti3 OF PARTNER3IIIP.—J. Goodwin
Goodwin,
Liverpool, grocers. R. Webster and W. Gr
wood, Bradford, Halifax, and Huddersfield, cement dealers
3. Blagbrough, and J. Mortimer, Bradford, woolstaplcrs
T. Stores and I. Storey, Manchester, brassfounders.
Brooke, Brooke, and J. Brooke, Morley and Letds,
general commission agents. H. Taylor, H. Hoyle, and 3,
Barlow, Manchester, commission agents, so far as regards
J. Barlow. H. Newsum, jun, W. Newsuni, W. J. Walker,
and J. Norton, Rotherham, Yorkshire, engineers. J.
Speigh and C. Simpson, Wakefield, Yorkshire, joiners.
CAIIINET COUNCIL. —On Wednesday summonses were
issued to the ministers to attend a cabinet council on
Saturday at one o'clock, at the Foreign Office, Downing-
street. Lord Stanley of Alderney travelled to town front
Alderley in order to attend the meeting. Sir Charles
Wood also came up to town to be present at the council.
Mr. Lahouchsre travelled from Chiselhurst. The Lord
, Chancellor, Lard Clarendon, Lord Palmerston, Sir
George Grey, Mr. Baines, and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, attended. Lord Granville was absent, being
at present at Drayton Manor. The Duke of Argyle, Lord;
Panmure, and the Earl of narrowly, are also out of
town. The ministers remained in consolation until four
o'clock.