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London, England, 1856-05-17 00:00:00

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T. tion't think it likely that a syphilitic sore,. even if ex- !lance in the first symptoms. It is .sort of grin so attacked at 8 and died about 11. She had', been better I LA 17 lit.TTELLIG.ERCE. P trance by forcing a back door which had been strozo,"y a --
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COtitlltryr .:741,rket,3
_ ~.._ _ s,cuzz,(l with two bolts sold a crees.har, from its hinges,
f'l• feeT:t.. 'lte:tritlltpt§i. ',._kr,.,„ 1.,...%,, i fi. i ;,- .4.4 41 posed to wet or cold, would produce tetanus ; neither peceliar that having once been seen, it can never be and up on the afternoon of her death. She was attacked
INSOLVENT DERTORS COURT.-MAY 16. They also forcee the shop doer, and euoceeded ia cart, a,g -o•
qt-l- let doeee 'tett J. :714;;11 trete- t At' wsrdo I think any excitement would produce it. The con. inisteken. In the syniptobes I have here detailed there with t , itching of the muscles. She requested that her
IN RE JAMES IRVING sCOTT. away ptoperty consittnet efshaw is, manties,pie,•es efcleth,
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tractions of epilepsy are sot continuous for five minutes was stiffens about the feel ( r jaw. Cook'a case was arms and legs might be rabhed. ;
This ineolee,e, described .es tee edit ,r•, proprtetor,,aeld cethineree, and other articeee, tt, tee aineuet ot 2501. The LIVERPOOL-MAY 16.
d . Tlhe errs
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to
a.wasdbaoyn. at
levaTesotroydrl/qtetelliStli
esatotfe ilwdhaenue;
in of
moderatel:o i millers I_,:
.t- ! publiA:er'of the R(porter and the London Evening it ezeee no:. teee stampe feu ild on one et the prisoners were part of
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. together. Ido not know of a ease of convulsions attri- not attributable to apoplexy or any other disease I have -Crats•exa•nined-It, was at the be.einnine of the
tack she asked to be rubbed. When she asketl that aae further heard. Mr. Reed opposed for Mr. Conner, the teings St deo, and received on the day before train a maul,-3
• hatable to no particular cause, but occurring violently ever witnessed,
prices. Fair sale of flour,
,s
Taylor and Mr. Jones ; Mr. Macrae supported.
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produce tetanus. In respect of general convulsions not Crots•examined by Sergeant Shoe-The grin called her legs were rigid during the interval!. Touching her a bill discounter, and by two creditors in person, Mr, lady in the country to pay for a Pair of gloves to be for. full prices, Indian coin „titer and a slow- sal'
pressed, warded to her, and he put their identity beyond ques- . Barley scarce. Oak and. oatmeal tenninand extreme rate°.
THE RUGELEY POISONINGS. absolutely tetanic (without premonitory symptoms) but rises sardonicus is not common ;it may, perhaps, occur brought the spasms on. She could not, swallow during
producing sickness and vomiting, would not, I think, in idiopathic tetanus. The paroxyms of Cook the spaerns. After death her body was stiff. She was Tioe case occupied some time, and in the course of the Lion by producing the note in which they were enclosed, Beans and peas of s'
inquiry it appeared that the insolvent was the first te, part of which was still adhering to them. In
end in tetenus. Ido not know if convulsive shrieking have some resemblance to epilepsy. All conyul- sensiole, but did not speak. The last attack was the start a " penny" newspaper, which he said wag suspend- qnestion from the magistrate, the witness replysaidthattoona and American thins Gan be had a't 91.
e ciae..spt
emratkoen. of •t•ng'
woulds
produce tetanus, sions are not attended with loss of consciousness, most violent one, ed in consequence of his imprisonment in Whitecross- the night before, as was their custom, himself and his --a.
• Barley also Is cheaper. In other articles'37'
prices
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TRIAL OF 'WILLIAM PALMER. Dr. Todd, examined by the Attorney-General, said- Death from epilepsy, with convulsions, generally Geo, Morley, surgeon, attended the lady last alluded street Prison, where he had been imprisoned since Feb- brother went round the premises at 11 o'clock, and all ....... WAKEFIELD-Mat 16. ,es
rusty. Pe wee the editor and proprietor of the Re or- the doors and their fastening., were then cants secure wheat was 13 lower than last Friday, and trade B.L°
ter, which had existed 10 years, and on the type, &c., he Toe prisoners denied the arge. '
I am a physician at King's College Hospital. I have leaves a trace behind - a slight effusion of blood to. He was attending her for functional disarrangement.
no change.
le -
lectured upon tetanus, and I agree with the last wit• on the brain. I am not aware of convulsions unaccom- Upon the Monday before her death she appeared COM-
had gn two bills
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT (THIS DAY). ness. I have seen cases of idiopathic tetanus, they come periled by epilep-y leaving no trace behind. fortable. There was a twitching of her arms which I denceive was required.of sale, on which come further evi- Rogers said he was steward on board the Adelaide -- - -
steamship, a transport just returned from the Crimea,
CORN.-In our market wheat MmAayYble6.quoted from 93°`10,
FOURTH DAY, from no external wound, but from constitutional causes, By the Attorney. Genera- Cook had none of the thought was hysteria. She had another attack upon Mr. Taylor, one of the creditors, in perion, was a and Keeling said he was a tailor, living with his parents,
to 9. d. Malting barley, 43 9d to 5s 3d ; grinding doe oi
7actkcalvae ,s, -
This morning the court was more crowded than upon T. think the term tetanus ought not to apply to poison symptoms of epilepsy. I have never seen a case of con- ThursdaY. 1401 the morning. of her death elle aP• treditor for Peinting, and wished to prove a vexatious in Kenton-etreet, Brunswice.streare_
Od to Os Od. eats, 3s 3d to Ss 6d. Beans, Os Od i°
any previous day, there being an immense number of cases. The first symptom of tetanus is stiffness of the vulsive disease like this. Convulsions from other causes peared better. She described an attack which she had attetentcte:ehtitorbis attorney was not in attendance. The Both were remanded to a future day.
trig on besine;3ll:arj°thnee''iral'sollZirt:'Sd (v)filictetei:l_leirl,edartr
,Yv-o THAMES. -Bernardo Ilenri( ues a Portuguese se--
sOcd:reer;
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the medical profession present. jaw. There are no intermissions, but there are diminu- are very different from those from tetanus, and shortly before she spoke of spasms, and said she had 'el. e i..
-Fine -s Cld to 52s NI ; seconds, -s Oa --
wocag sold at from 103 tet to 61
Earl Grey was again present, arriving before the tions, but no subsidence. Acute cases will terminate Mr. Henry Lees, examined by Mr. Bodkin-I am a shot k, I was sent for upon the day of her death, and cheques, signed by him, on the London and Westmine• man, aged 23, was brought up 1 ' remand bet orebeforeMr.
calves, perto Hospitals,uponformurder of
elt
aj
d- per lb ; barrenuers, 03 " '
was amongst those upon the bench. 22 days. The locking of the jaw is the first symptom. have been connected with the latter for 18 years, and following Monday. We made the post mortem exa• men. The insolvent said he did net send the cheques to a Greek seaman, by stabbing him with a dagger.
money to pay the men. He he had about 251. several dais boarding at a lodging-house, No. 31, Wen-
Mr. Jones, but his foreman took them in order to get It appeared that II • •el Cali had been o pal)
The first witness called was- Epilepsy will produce convulsions, and epileptic con- specially devoted to syphiletic cases. I have seen at urination of the body. We found nothing to account
believedHenriques and egar
Sheep, ewes and lambs 1/ 14s to 2/ rs
George Bates, examined tier Mr. Edwin James.--I vulsions are tetanic in form. Epileptic convulsions are least 3,000 cases a-year at both hospitals. I have never for death. The face bore the appearance of anxiety :
in the baUle about that titne. The che .
ques were not close-square, kept by a Greek named Jolla Seymour, a t 611 • th 6A ' .1
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per' couple; t-
o et ,we t ors, ed to Gee ; lambs it es each. tat
was once a farmer. lam nothing now. I have known soon over ; they are not persistent. I should say that known that disease in any of its forms terminate in te- the bends were curved, the feet arched. We useel all paid.
respectable man, and a relation' of the deceased, n laree size, eos to 6is ; second size, 24s to 303 ; dirt is,
to '1'203 ; suckers, 63 to 12s. Rough fat, 30 le'
Palmer eight or nine years. In October and Novem- apoplexy would not produce tetanus •; but if there was an Wins. I have never see, nor read of such a case, but the usual tests, and in each case detected the presence of Mr. Commissioner Phillips examined the banker's Thursday at noon the deceased and anothr reigner Pork carcases from lOs Gd to lls 6d per score.
bet last year I used to look after his horses and boys. I effusion of blood upon the brain, that might produce I have heard of one, strychnine. We applied nitric and nrelo chloride of tine book, and said it appeared the insolvent had money in were playing at cards in the coffee-room of the lodeing-
he bank at the time -
. had no stipulated salary ; some weeks I had two tetanic symptoms. The spasm extends to the heart in Dr. Rob.ert Corbett examined by Mr. James.-I am sulphuricacid,andbi-chromate of potash,liquid and solid. t , • . . house, Mrs. Seymour, an Englishwoman, having just
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been
business
detnhud this we!ln.nbose ,
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paid 6s. 6d. a-week. I knew deceased. I saw him I think, have any difficulty in distinguishing tetanic recollect the case of Agnes Sinnett, a patient in Glas- contents of the stomach to two mice, two rabbits, and a
IN RE THOMAS HIGGINS. prices fully ed to ls per awt "'hos
man, came to the door and knocked violently, demanding those current at last report Refiners' a• d et hag
se
at prisoner's house in September. I cannot recollect from other „nvulsions. I have heard the examination Sow Hospital. She died 27th September, 1845, from Guinea pig. It Produced difficult a' of breathing, tetaeic This insolvent, a tailor, who had been "ProPrieto" of immediate admission. He was ieformed tiiat the door freely deadt in at an iin'pro;eniet of 1 per and "t;
the date. I dined there with them. After dinner about the spinal cord, and think that if disease had been taking strychnine. I saw her the day she was under symptoms, rigidity, and an arching. The rah- the Chelsea and Kensington Observer, wit() was on bail, was locked, and was requested to go to ariother door, manufacturers are askinie increased rates: cwt.,erltumcontiase
applied to be di charged, • only in limited demand, but prices are supported.
the subject of insuring my life was brought up. in existence it would easily have been detected, the influence of the poison. She was a patient in bits died one in two minutes, another in about five, but he refused to do so, and continued in the street knock-
• . There was no° osition and the learned Commissioner •
pp , . . mg and kicking at the door as hard as he was able. In
Mr. Sergeant Shee objected to this course of exa- the hospital, and was perfectly well the the mica in a few minutes. The guinea, pig recovered, Sir Benjamin Brodie, examined by Mr. E. James-I
intimated '
that it was a queer thin to join a tailor and a his rage q g j ehe broke a pane of glans a, the side of the door. DUBLIN, MAY 16.
urination.
day before. She took the pills by mistake, which bad but was found dead the next day, and they all exhibited
The general tone of the market was dull and insert
Y- am surgeon of Guy's, and have had many cases newspaper proprietor together in one person. After the He then went round to th d ' i '
Mr. Edwin James and the Attorney-General having been prepared for a paralytic patient. I saw her when symptoms of having taken strychnine. I tried the same insolvent stood down, re ,rotor to his adjudic alien of first directed, and entereadnotheecroffc3oerrtooo
tnwh
Soulech
h e wo
af
s thea t anti prime samples of barley supported Tuesday" 'lee*
of tetanus during the years I . have been there.
oct,hzikinds of produce,
.including Indian corn, .
said a few words as to the purport of the evidence tounder the influence of the poison in bed. She was la• experiments with strychnine, and produced the same discharge, it was ineutioned that seven daye ago the de• lodger 3 remonstrated with him and a Gent took place All I have heard the symptonm of death described. This
f , and the currencies in favuur of the buYe'•6.
be given, the objection was allowed. souring under a retraction of the mouth-the face much results, taming creditor had lodged the discharge at the prison, Caligar, who was playing at cards, and took no part in' white 6 -A 39.( '
idiopathic tetanus generally commences with a stiffness
' and the question was whether the court had jurisdictionwheat, 3u Od to 42s ; red ditto, 35s 0- to Or
the quarrel, rose from his seat and mildly endeavoured barley,
Witness in continuation-I recollect Cook's death. I • , • back and suffused and red the pupils of the eye dilated the head Cross-examined by Mr. Grove-I did not see the .
14s Od to 19s Oct ; oats, fly Od to 14s 0 ' • nap
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of the lower Jaw. The contraction of the
in the case. to make peace. The prisoner instantly took anew date -s Od to -s Od per bd. oatmeal 14s Od to le •01 ; bated
remember the inquest. I know Ward, the coroner. I bent back, the spine curved, and the muscles rigid patient during any severe attack. In the animals touch Duriug a, pause on the pcnnt a person who said his
muscles is an after symptom generally much later-
from a sheath suspended to his side and plus gad' dour, ttls Od to 273 Od' 1 'at 29' o.a to 30"
per
cwt; u rancorn, s
saw prisoner upon the Bth of December. He gave me a and hard like aboard, Her arms were stretched out produced the symptoms in a marked manner. The pa- name was Reeves claimed to be a creditor for 10 guineas
affects the extremities in a less degree than the back and
it into Caligar's belly, withdrew the (lave; from his bt,4y per 480 lbs.
letter. I think this is it. He also gave me one to • • and the hands clenched severe paroxysms occurring tient was at no titue that I eaw her in a state of insen. for writine his newepaper which appeared three or four dstabn d the f t n' d "
trunk. In ordinary cases it generally lasts for three or , e . e , an .e eun or una a man a seem. tune,Caligar
times and then ceased. He declared that he wrote the
France, a dealer in game at Stafford. I was to get some every second. She died in about an hour and a quarter sibility. On the post mortem examination the lungs fell, weltering in his blood, and the prisoner fled from CORK-STAY 16.
6s) 1`
of one case terminating in
four days. I have heard '
whole paper even the "Paris correspondence " '
rite the • d stairs, Cl. • d•b
room an. ran down a igar was raise • y White wheat, 32s ; red, 32s to 34s Od ; barley, 170 -
game from France. It was a basket. I did so, andafter taking the pills. The paroxysms lasted nearly an were much congested-a email quantity of bloody
twelve hours • but then I think the early symptoms bad
insolvent denied that lie owed him anything, .
and he only several mariners, and it was discovered that his bowels 183 Od ; oats, 13s to 15s. Gd.
according to prisoners orders I directed it to Ward, the ' hour. There should have been a quarter of a grain in cereum around the perricardium and 'sure •• the
been overlooked. I never knew that the ordinary symp- • , , appeared because he would not advance him today were protruding. He was removed to the London Hcs-
coroner. I gave a man threepence to take the game.
each pill. She took three pills. The paralytic patient muscles generally were dark and soft ; there half-a-crown. This allegation was denied, and a scene
toms lasted a few minutes, then subside and then return
petal, where be died yesterday rnornin, The prisoner'
I went to the Dolphin at Stafford, where I saw Ward.
was to have taken one each night. was a quantity of blood suffused on the brain ; occurred. A female friend of the insolvent declared that was found concealed behind the door of. the kitchen iii COAL MARKET.-MAY 16.
after a lapse of 24 hours. I have never seen the effects
He was in the smoke-room. He came out into the yard,
of str • in life. In • ' '
strychnia human my opinion Cooks Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Shee-The retraction cerum, slightly tinged with blood, was in the men,- what was written by Reeves was " rubbish," and the
paper failed. fie moor's lodging-house directly after the occurrence, Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market.
and I gave it to him I called him out because thereof the mouth was continnue, but was worse at one time. brane of the spinal cord. The large spinal vein was and, on being taken into custody by police•cenetab.e Cox, s. d. Wallsend, Sec. 6.
' death did not arise from either descriptions of tetanus.
A good deal of laughter wee occasioned be Reeves de- No. 138 EI every foreigner in the house drew his knife S.
were others in the room. I came back to Stafford and
I did not notice it after death. The hands did not re- much congested, as well as the membranes of the spinal , Byass's West Hartley .. 16 0
. I never heard that sore throats caused tetanus, or from elating that he wrote the "Paris Correspondence" in and would' have • '
ve killed the prisoner had not the officer Davison's West Hartley 16 0
saw Palmer and told him what I had done. About 1 2 main clenched after death ; they were half•bent, which cord. I opened the head first, and a great quantity of London, as his landlord could prove. Wallsend, tee. ,6 6
affection at all I never knew of either
any syphilitic , ,
beat them off with his truncheon. The situation of Cox [lasting's Hartley l6 0 Riddell ls 6•
upon the morning of the 13th December I was sent for was a very common occurrence in all cases of death by blood flowed out-part of it might have flowed from the Mr. Coturniseioner Piiiilips remarked on the deception 1 6
epilepsy or apoplexy producing tetanus , it is always
was very perilous for some time, until Mr. Seymour Howard's West Hartley Haswell
to the risoner's p house. I found him in bed. He said
violence. She was attacked with the symptoms 20 which rendered it uncertain as to what quan• Practised on the publc-a person writieg as from. Paris came te his assistance. The lodginteheuse keeper said a Netherton 16 0 Fletton IS 0
continuous. I may 'll state that, from what I aswe have .
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heart, . . . when he was iq Landon, and askine to be paid, Longridge's Wst Har
he wanted me to take a letter to Ward and I was not
minutes after taking the medicine, f tried to make her city was in it at the time of death. I havefew words to the foreigners, who threw their knives on tley 16 O, Plummer
' heard of the description of Cook's death, I do not
Reeves said he did ; d • 'an it wag because he took the Canfield Moor l4 3k-lartlepool •
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the floor, and Cox was ,'lowed to take away his prisoner. .is to let any one see me give it to him. He said, "Go . vomit with a feather after she bad an emetic first, and examined the hearts of many animals that have been
think that the symptoms arose from any disease at all,
idea from the insolvent, (Roars of laughter.)Cantield.ftf.oor Butes 14 3,South Hartlepool ........ ,/ 0
1 The daggere was found by police-sergeant Foay, No. 7
to Ben and tell him that I want Si., that he had noshe vomited partially, poisoned by strychnine ; the right side is generally found e
Reeves handed up two letters which he said he had West Riding Hartley _l5 61Whitworth ................ ''
(Great sensation.) I refer not to the particular symp-
H, undr a sink in the kitchen. It is a most fei ' • 'nuclable
small change."
Re-examined by theAntorney-General -.She could open to be full. I have seen animals attacked from one to received from Lerd J. Russell. They were handed to the Ships at market,,, 42 I Sold
toms, but to the course symptoms took.
double-edged weapen, with a sharp point, about ten
Mr. Edwin James-Who is Ben ? her mouth and swallow during the spasmodic action, two hours after the application of pure strychnine. I 1 Commissioner, issiotner, aheeerrteafiused to have themi3f read, ashhe inches in length and two inches in width.
Cross-examined by Sergeant Shee-I recollect being
Witness-Mr. Palmer's assistant, Thurlby,
There was what was called lock-jaw: discovered strychnine by all the testa I applied objectiie ze 02.
grade
.luout to certain high
I nrale''; Ilre'etvhees it'Ol -r: Mr. nose, the house surgeon of the London Hospital,
• shown one case of idiopathic tetanus, but doubted if it
The witness, in answer to further questions, said
By Mr, Serge ant Shee-I can't say if she was in such with more or less distinctness. In almost all the after informing the magistrate of the death of Caligar, SR A BORNE MAILS.
was one.
duce some letters which he -sield would prove hie :as:,t 00
Palmer told me to look into a drawer and see the
a state that mere touching her would throw her into a cases of animals to which it has been adminis- and the Commissioner sent the question as to the dis- said he would make a post mortem examination of the N lig/linos that tlio tafai6 are sent from the General ros-
By Mr. Sergeant Shee-Coneidering the rarity of the
body as early as possible, and rsquested that his attend- • y the night-and Mby the morning-Aespatch.) ...---
amount of a bill there. I did so, and saw the amount
paroxysm. tared, I have detected. In cne or two cases charge to the Chief Commissioner. The nuopinio f the , --
case would you form an opinion from the statements
once might be dispensed with that day, and that he mieht
illii° I
of the bill. It was a fifty-pound Bank of England note. .
D Watson, Dr examined by the Attorney-General, said I did not. One I had my doubts about. NVe knew Chief Cim'sioner was that the court had no jisdic- be allowed to leave the court immediately, as he was COUNTRItd. tVowehn‘ciriaTtloc,;::l From whit doe li
which you heard from a country practitioner oo a chain- left it there. It was before I took the letter to Ward,
he was a physician of the Glasgow Hospital, and recol- tion to hear the..case. . . .
subpcenaeras a witness on the trial of William Palmer, POrt 0.
Office, London.* Dispatch& . ''," -•"'
barmaid ? strychnine had been administered, but we doubted if it
Mr. Commissioner Phillips informed the insolvent that _
After finding the note T went to Thurlby's to borrow the
tsetse the case of Agnes Sinnett. I was called in aboutof Rug,•eley, at the Central Criminal Court. and he did --- rar tl
Lord Campbell interfered, and said he did not think had reached the stomach. I have detected strychnine he had no jurisdiction to hear his case .inerlca(byltrit.pack [were Friday .. , Liverpool 8.--•
five pounds, and I got a note on the Bridgnorth Bank,
a quarter of an hour after she was taken ill. I found hernot
nekrihve how soon he might be called upon to give evi- America (by United Ste - ''
such a question should be put. nearly decomposition The insolvent expressed his regret, seeing the six
two months after death, and after
e in the case.
which I took to Mr. Palmer. After that I went down
in violent convulsinns. Her arms were stretched out weeks imprisonment he had undergone before he got packet) •• •••• • • • .2' •••• •• •• • • fiverpool ...
Sergeant Shee-Which would you prefer, the chap- had set in to a certain extent. Mr. Selfe hereupon remanded h •t e prisoner till Thurs. America (by U. State,
stairs from Palmer's room •he was sitting u i
, e p n bed,
and rigid ; the muscles of the body were rigid, and kept Re • G II I •
ed by the Attorney- enera - 'aye given bail, and the expense he had incurred. packet) ..........N day next. •••••• •• • Southemptoi
berrnaid or the Cr 2 prac i loner .
-examin
The case was struck out, the court having no jurisdic- --ea. Australia (via South-
with the writing materials beside him. I remained down
quiet by rigidity. Her feet and legs were also rigid.
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The Court ruled that such a question should not be to a dog from a grain to two grains. Strychnine acts en .
-- arapten) ..........ai •••••• •••• •• eouthampioi
Wm,
stairs about half an hour in the yard or kitchen. When I
4110) 2
_Mao (vls Mane.
put. She did not breathe, from the muscles of the whole frame the nerves, and is also partly taken up by the blood and _ , TI3E 00YER. NMENT DIVORCE BILL.
Mtto (via cape of flood went up again Palmer asked me what was the amount
ten
i rigid from the tetanic attack. It subsided and Sergeant Shee-Have you heard of cases where being 11 , acts on it. It acts partiy on the nerves immediately on es.
Hope) ............2 .. Jro°7
of the bill in the drawer I took, and I believe it
POLICE ISTELLIGENCE.-May 16. The following are the principal clauses of the bill pre. Africa (west C0a5t)...1031 of tile Lioliii, • Plymouth... ,
after a short interval was renewed, and continued. She
syphilitic poison has caused convulsione ? its getting into the system. It is absorbed. When an
was the amount I have mentioned. Then he gave me
we seated by the Lord Chancellor, for transferring the juris• ue.andria..........!,;15, 9, 24, •!.: 30 ot n .!Dever ......
wa.a half au hour dying after that. She appeared per. • • •
Witness-Only when it has reached the bones of the , . . , animal is innoculated with it, it is found under the skin.
_eel ,20th of rnm••l iouthainpior•
the letter to take to Stafford. I delivered the letter in BOW•STREET.- Henry Barttelo a sorter in the diction in tnetritnonial causes an i establishing a Court kiV'narla-"" d„amas
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.. 5!117th of the mono 4
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head and caused disease. fectiy conscious. I did not observe the state of her When taken it is found in the stomach, that is the excess General Post -office, was broueht
e upon a warrant, under of Divorce :-
3elgium •. .. ...... •../.• ' pailY •••••. • • .. - i Dover ..„ .. mil/
Stafford, near the railway station. I gave it to Ward,
hands. On a post mortem examination the pores of the
The Court then adjourned for a few minutes. which has not been absorbed in the syetem. That the 23d section of the Post- ,flits Act, for detaining news- TITLE AND CONSTITUTION OF THE COURT. ,Irszil ........„ „,„:0 9th of the month.. I iouthamrci tfa7
and ho crumpled it up and put it in his pocket ; he did
heart were stiff, and the cavities empty. My father apers in their course through the post. The case was an Supposing the bill to become an act during the pre- 3uonoa Ayre5........et 3th of rho mown ..leeuth,te'rlci Oaf op
On the re•assembling of the Court, absorbed in the system has the effect of poiGoning euffi- 1,
Various pore lever
not read it in my presence. 1 think I told Ward from
published an account of the case. exceedingly singular one, from the absence of any eon- sent session, its title is to be The ',it/twee Act, 1856." (,!;aaPe° Ore tired
hope
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Application was here made that the depositions of P cad e .
dent to cause death. I speak the facts not theoreti e p p
whom I had brought it, and then I returned to Rugeley,
ceivable motive for the offence, the prisoner having torn From and after a day to be named by her Majesty in Cabo do Vorda .....,N 9th of the month Southamptct
Crose•examined by Mr. Grove-The head was open
Dr Bamford •ht be • put in, as he wee too ill at pre- lam not quite our® strychnine will not remain in the
and saw the prisoner the same evening. I told him I
att attend, when I saw it; by that the blood might have flowed _. the addresees from three papers, and thrown them down Council, all jurisdiction of every kind in mattere ruatri- 0631cn ("6'1140
sent to se. en learned gentleman read an autho- stomach and act prejudicially without being absorbed the shoot which is used for conveying letters from the inopial is to be withd!wwn from every court in England :;:il.,°neii;lite:: :: :: ::ii ! Mon ~ wed., &Frt, ;33uthamplor re.Tligli
bad given Ward the letter, and he did not make any
out, and have emptied the heart. rity as a precedent for such a proceeding. Suppose the minimum dose that would cause death to Foreign-office to the room below. When taxed with this that now possesses it, and to be vested in a new tour', ehin................5e1m&t7th of mow, 'southampto.
remark.
By the Attorney•General-The spinal cord appeared misconduct by Mr. Willis Clare, inspector of letter-car- to be called "The Court of Divorce." China ... .. !Once a month.... NfaY 2
•
Sergeant Shee had not the slightest objection to such be administered I should 'expect to fail in detecting,
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Shee-Palmer bad
all right. riers, the prisoner, for some time, obstinately denied it, The judges of this court are to be the Lord Chancel- eonstantineele ......e18,13,18,23,5c28 of t Dover...,
a proceeding.
it in the system. The phenomena after death would Le
•enstantinopie ... I ith SD 20th of •noit 33,2thAmpto aye
Lord four brood mares and four yearlings, and ,three-year-By Lord Campbell-The heart was contracted. but on the constable, Pease, being sent for, he became lor, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's font. of Europe Ilf. ..S; N rwice daily ...• Dover ..... isvrieew--
Lord Campbell said if the Attorney-General wished different in a patient that had taken a eerie 3of minute frightened and acknowledged „Let he had done so. Ile Bench, and the Judge of the Court of Probate and Ad- ,e•yee. (see India)
old. I cannot tell their value. I heard that one sold
Dr. Patterson, examined by Mr. Welsby-In 1845, I
dsilf
the depositions of Dr. Bamford to be read, and Sergeant
in doses than in one that had taken a full one. said he did it because he was afraid of mis•sending them, ministration, with a proviso that the Lord Chief Justice 7,1)-1 ........ hi &i. rij.....,i!tii,i,;,., Dov,e, ~,,, mice
for 800 guineas. I cannot say whether any were in
Shoe did not object, the depositions might be read,laboratory,
was an apprentice the Glasgow Infirmary
By Mr, Serjeant Shee-I am not quite decided in opt- having recently teen fined for mistakes of that kind. may appoint any one of the judges of the superior courts kereaciea(sree.i....2.l iifiv3l En Sou.hampto
foal in November. The gables were at the back of the
but he would not give any opinion on the point. I dispensed the prescriptions. - In September of that
nion whether the unabsorbed portion in the (lawn would When searched by the officer, he had a number of enve• of common law to act for him in case he is unable to ireytown ..........milnd & 17th of mon 4outhamotot
~
house, and the paddock was also there. The stables)
rTuesday & Fridai London .• ,
lopes,, e,.ic'ently torn from newspapers which ho had end. The Judge of the Court of Probate may ant ttlameurl ..........
The Attorney-General asked the witnese, Dr. Todd, if year I dispensed a prescription for a paralytic patient, in
be changed. I have no fact to show it can be changed by
li r 2 d ft' t- •••
'
.......... al n o ne mon t southamptco suns
were in it. It comprised about 20 acres, and was fenced
, stopped in the same way. , alone, except in petitions for dissolution of marriage. 'a
Eloainicila ..........,,M Daily•• ••••• • • • • • Dover ......• .ia'f,,„6
,
ha bad seen Dr. Bamford lately ? the form of pills ; the four contained 1 grain-a iin . . .
any decomposing or fermenting qualities. I don t think
in with hawthorn. I remember a mare called the
In answer to a question from Mr. Jardine, In the absence of thin" functionary any judge of the ti0ndura...........mi17ta (Ithe month. Southampto tette:eels
Dr. Todd-Yes yesterday; he was then too unwell to
each.
it would. I dou't know that strychnia, after produc- Mr. Clare said the prisoner's story could not be true. superior courts, the Master of the Rolls, or any of the mdia(viasouthaniptomlith ''‘. 20th of moD. Plymouth •• t& 2°
Duchess of Kent slipping her foal, which could not be found. '
attend, By Mr, Baron Alderson-There was a complaint of . .
ing poisonous effects, has been found in the linen and if he had doubts about an address, he could avoid a risk ,
ld •cl 11 vice-chancellors may act as judge ordinary of the lndia (via efarsellles)M 19th& 45th of month D0ver......
Goldfinder's dam was there. On one occasion Invade a re-
Lenten Is' 17 17 & 270 f
.es (see eninal • • men Dover•• •• - 00
Another medical gentleman attending on Dr. Barn- their having been taken by another person. of blame by handing over the letter or paper to a person courts.
inland ........31 &NI daily ...... Hol7head . rwle,,,
blood as etrychnia.
mark to Harry the groom about the state of the turf. I
called the " blind sorter, whose business it was to send, The court thus constituted is to hold its sittings in Li5b0n..............hf :' 9' 17, &27 of fn., souihamptot way,-
ford having been sworn stated that he had seen Dr. Mary Kelly, examined by Mr. Bodkin-In Septem- A.• -• ..•
lan E. einore, a surgeon, said-I attended with Dr.
ttateira
............y sth of the inontllSouthampto)
never saw doge in the paadocks. I attribute the cutting
Bamford' ' ' ' leer, 1845, I was a patient in the Glasgow I according to the best of his judgment, letters and papers London and Middlesex.
k 23d of month •• .. Liverpool...
that morning, and he was too unwell to at- , ,
.Infirmary, Chambers a gentleman, named Clutterbuck, for para- tr throw, out"
up of the turf to the galloping of the horses. I have
by the other sorters. Besides, the ina• Except in proceedings for the dissolution of marriage I.l:4lltesir(te.t.,Kai;,; ---
tend, had to attend to a paralytic patient in my ward, and .
lying, about 15 years ago. I had been • • hits of
giving im entity these papers were not only legibly directed, but the court is to act on the principles of the ecclesiastioAl Kaita ...... ..... . -I.; 8,18, &28 of men Dover ..... I, 20 tee'
seen a gun where the corn was kept. I have not used• also a patient who went by the name of Sinnett or
courts. itauritins (see India)
The depositions were then read and the cause of Cook's
some small doses of strychnia. He left me were papers, which ought never to have passed through
it. I know now the person who came to me in Sep-
French, and died there taking, ills Prescribed forthe prisoner s hands, and he (Mr. Clare) unable to GROUNDS OF DIVORCE. X aurnius ..........N 14th of the moat,
death was attributed to apoplexy, a certificate being , from •e e e- re scribed went to Brighton, but returned and informed
icesico
......___..sl Ind of the ment`.. Sonthampt•i stay l ;
ternber is Inspector Field. I cannot tell whether he
the paralyttc patient. I saw her swallow two of the understand how he could have got possession of them. He On proof that a wife has 133 en deserted by her husband Vaples ...
.. 7::
.., Ist.hlsth2sthormor. Dover .... ,
given to that effect by Dr. Bamford. me he had taken stronger doses of stryeh-
saw Palmer. He wawa stranger to me at first. I never
pills and sit down by the fire. From twenty minutes to . could only account for the prisoner's conduct hy sup. for three years or upwards without reasonable excuse, elsw Granada .......'s 124 8. I.7thor month Southampto, .
..,„
Dr. Todd then said -I have heard the depositions of nine. In consequence of that I gave him a stronger poting it to be a wantnn act of mischief, the 00art may make an order for payment to her of 7:nwaf,t,',3llV•• •• •• "•• , ==go': va;us.fr, "cell'.
saw him but once, 2.6 d I don't know him now. I re-
three-quarters of an hour after she took them she was Dr. Bamford read, and I cannot agree that the de- lose than I had given him formerly. I made up a dose The prisoner, who adhered to the statement made to elimony, to remain in force until otherwise directed. ceinn;toa- . .........' Tchlith27thofhionn.;?o. outrl'am:Vi
member seeing Gillard, a sheriff's officer, in the yard of
taken ill andfell back on the floor, She was nut on the ceased died from apoplexy. There were poisons which
and of three draughts, a quarter of a grain in each Mr. Clare, was committed for tr:al. The adultery of the wife is to be a ground for diseolu- Peru ....,.....::::: I'l ac 27th °I ht°".`olltham;:f‘l
Palmer's house when 'I went down after looking at
bedandthe doctor for. Sh .could lc
sent e not move, Among the articles found on the prisoner were some lion of marriage on the petition of the hushaud, and the Port Natal ........ ~N .1.5 private ship... Various pon encers‘
will produce tetanus. Those -.poisons which containdraught. He took one, and I was present when
money in the drawer. ;
t.,............., tali ttheetive Dover
mon ....
was like a poker. The nurse had to cut her clothes cif. betting-tickets, and he acenowledged to the officer that incestuous adulter of the husband the . 'of '4.eily
~, Y on petition ohietheethotinon Dover ....
Tiscany .. ~......, J.
Re-examined by the Attorney-General-The time strychnine and brocia. The smallest quantity of these
Shespoke after she fell
never
was the habit •
ihe in of betting, and that the system was the wile. vageza„.
..„
.... 1 ld Sr 17th oltniont: 4onthamp,, . , 1,16 Of°
poisons that would kill would perhaps be half aa grain at Brighten. After he had taken the draught I i
the turf was cut up, was after hay harvest. I
carried -actively •
on as as ever, the bets running as low as Incestuous adultery, for the purposes of the act, is Van Diemen's L:nd (se.
- Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Shee-It wag about
cannot say how long it was before Cook's death that grain, but I should not like to give a quarter
i eft llthot!
three-quarters of an hour between the death of the girl I made the remark about the turf being cut up. of a grain. Half of a grain might produce death,, - said he felt quite comfortable. In about three-quarters George Lovell, a carter in the service of a cowkeeper with a woman with whom, if his wife were lead, he We'
'n(11"
.. -•'' mont!
'3nuthanti------;
and the taking of the pills.
in Ecclesford•street, was at the inetance of could not lawfully contract marriage by reason of her When any
Mr. Thomas C,nrling said-I am a surgeon at the Lon- but a grain certainly would. Half a grain would s often hour after taking the draught I was sum moned to him. of these dazes tali on a Sunday, the malls .111 e- 8
Carotins)`
Hickson-I was a nurse in 1845 to Mr . the Societ for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Society . .
.. Animals, for being within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or "I:
0-,autetinerneronnth, eanfollo egdate with the exceptien ot the 1n4,.. ft!,
don Hospital. I have turned my attention particularly kill a cat. I have given it to animals in solution. A When I got there I found him stiffened in every limb,
ill•usin
mith. Se lived at the time near Basingstoke. The • g a horse, by driving him with an excessive load, affinity.
vutehdingtlo),. dth biretta, both of which will be dentate •a
to tetanus. I have published a work on that subject large dose would act in about half an hour. The syrrip- . . , ' his head drawn back, end screaming violently that we Mr. 11. R. Foster h dtdtl f b The court on the hea • f
,w o con uc e le caoe er t e , ring o any petition, is to satisfy
• family were residing near Romney, Mrs. Smith was
,--,..
Tetanus causes a spasmodic affection of the voluntary tome would consist in strong convulsions, There
a air. Jones, a surgeon resid ng n the neigh- • •
LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.
muscles of motion. There are only two sorts of disease, would be violent jerking arising from the spasms. unwellb_ a_n
made , , , _ I I e " give him ammonia, and he• snapped at the spomi. was obliged to drive the horse in obedience to the coin- lusion. If not satisfied of this, or of the proof of adul•
ourhood, up a pre!tcription for Mrs. Smith. I mends of his master, he would withdraw this summons, tery, it is to dismiss the petition. If satisfied by the
idiopathic and traumatic. There are others, but not true Death would be over in a quarter of an hour, or half an fie suffered about three hours altogether before
remember the medicine being brought back, it was in proceed against the master, and put Lovell in the wit- evidence, it is pronounce a decree declaring the mar- LIVERPOOL, MAY 16.
tetanus. The idiopathic ie a. primary dieease. Traumatic hour, if a dose sufficient to destroy life was given. There T left him in safety. Ile survived the attack, and dur-
- -
the evening about 6 o'clock. It was a mixture in a ..__ ee _ ___,_ et .., ~ . nesobox nage to he rlmsnlst,l ,t,-.1,..,„. ,L,..... ~.._ t. . .__ , ..._._ _—
tetanus arises from injuries. Idiopathic tetanus arises would be -a marked distinction between that nane.,l 1-..• - •

Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Shee—Palmer bad
four brood mares and four yearlings, and a three-year-
old. I cannot tell their value. I heard that one sold
for 800 guineas. I cannot say whether any were in
foal in November. The stables were at the back of the
house, and the paddock was also there. The stables
were in it. It comprised about 20 acres, and was fenced
in with hawthorn. I remember a mare called the
Duchess of Kent slipping her foal, which could not be found.
Goldfinder's dam was there. On one occasion Invade a re-
mark to Harry the groom about the state of the turf. I
never saw dogs in the paddocks. I attribute the cutting
up of the turf to the galloping of the horses. I have
seen a gun where the corn was kept. I have not used
it. I know now the person who came to me in Sep-
tember is Inspector Field. I cannot tell whether he
saw Palmer. He warra stranger to me at first. I never
saw him but once, Mid I don't know him now. I re-
member seeing Gillard, a sheriff's officer, in the yard of
Palmer's house when I went down after looking at
money in the drawer.
Re-examined by the Attorney-General—The time
the turf was cut up, was after hay harvest. I
cannot say how long it was before Cook's death that
I made the remark about the turf being cut up.
Mr. Thomas C,nrling said—l am a surgeon at the Lon-
don Hospital. I have turned my attention particularly
to tetanus. I have published a work on that subject,
Tetanus causes a spasmodic affection of the voluntary
muscles of motion. There are only two sorts of disease,
idiopathic and traumatic. There are others, but not true
tetanus. The idiopathic is a primary disease. Traumatic
tetanus arises from injuries. Idiopathic tetanus arises
often from cold or exposure. I never saw a case of
idiopathic tetanus. I have seen 20 cases of traumatic te•
tanus. The disease first manifests itself by stiffness about
the jaws or neck, and a clagging pain at the pit of the
stomach ; in many cases the muscles of the back are
affected. The patient is liable to paroxysms, and as the
disease goes on those paroxysms become more frequent
and more severe. When this occurs the body is drawn
back—in some instances forward, then there is a diffi-
culty in swallowing and breathing during the paroxysms.
The disease may end two ways—the patient may die
somewhat suddenly from suffocation, or enclosure of
the windpipe or glotis, or the .patient might be worn
out with the paroxysms and then he would graduallf
sink and die. These are the general symptoms.
The locking of the jaw is constant from tetanus from
wounds—it is almost constant. I may say a constant
consequence. It shows itself early. There is also a
peculiar expression of the countenance—generally
throughout, which is . not peculiar he idiopathic
or traumatic tetanus. My observations are with
reference to the latter. There is a contracted con-
dition of the eye-lids—the rising of the angle of the
mouth, and there is a contraction of the bowels. The lower
extremities are affected, and sometimes, but rarely, the
upper exiremities. The muscles mostly affected are
those of the trunk. The muscles of the extremities are
affected at various periods of the disease, but generally
at an advanced peri3d. I have never known or read of
tetanus being produced by sore throat, nor from a cer
tain disease.

By Mr, Baron Alderson—There was a complaint of
their having been taken by another person.
Mary Kelly, examined by Mr. Bodkin—ln Septem-
ber, 1845, I was a patient in the Glasgow Infirmary. I
had to attend to a paralytic patient in my ward, and
also a patient who went by the name of Sinnett or
French, and died there from taking pills prescribed for
the paralytic patient. I saw her swallow two of the
pills and sit down by the fire. From twenty minutes to
three-quarters of an hour after she took them she was
taken ill andfell back on the floor. She was put on the
bed and the doctor sent for. She could not move, and
was like a poker. The nurse had to cut her clothes eff,
She never spoke after she fell on the floor.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Shoe—lt was about
three-quarters of an hour between the death of the girl
and the taking of the pills.
Caroline Hickson—l was a nurse in 1845 to Mrs.
Smith. She lived at the time near Basingstoke. The
family were residing near Romsey. Mrs. Smith was
unwell, and Mr. Jones, a surgeon, residing in the neigh-
bourhood, made up a prescription for Mrs. Smith. I
remember the medicine being brought back, it was in
the evening about 6 o'clock. It was a mixture in a
bottle. I saw Mrs. Smith take about half a wine glass,
full. She took it the following morning about 5 or 10
minutes past 7. Having given her the medicines I felt
the room. In 5 or 10 minutes I was alarmed by the ring-
ing of a bell. When I went in I found her leaning on
a chair in her night dress. I thought she had fainted.
She appeared afterwards to be suffering from spasms. I
ran down stairs and ordered the coachman to go to Mr.
Taylor, a surgeon. I returned up stairs
and found Mrs. Smith lying on the floor, she screamed
very much but she did not open her teeth. She wished
to have her arms and legs held straight. I took hold
Hof her arms and legs and found them drawn up very
much. She still screamed and seemed in great agony,
and requested that some cold water might he thrown
ever her. It was done. Her feet were turned inwards.
I put a bottle of hot water to her feet ; it bad no effect.
Sh, rtly before her death she said she felt easier, anti
before she died the last words she uttered were " Turn
me over." (Great seesation.) I turned her over. She
was lying on the floor. A very few minutes before
she died she said "Tura me over." She died very
tranquilly, and was quite conscious, as she knew me
quits well. Altogether it was about an hour between
-aking the medicine and her death. It was abont ten
minutes after she took the mixture that she rang her

The depositions were then read and the cause of Cook's
death was attributed to apoplexy, a certificate being
given to that effect by Dr. Bamford.
Dr. Todd then said —I have heard the depositions of
Dr. Bamford read, and I cannot agree that the de-
ceased died from apoplexy. There were poisons which
will produce tetanus. Those poisons which contain
strychnine and brocia. The smallest quantity of these
poisons that would kill would perhaps be half a
grain, but I should not like to give a quarter
of a grain. Half of a grain might produce death,
but a grain certainly would. Half a grain would
kill a cat. I have given it to animals in solution. A
large dose would act in about half an hour. The symp-
toms would consist in strong convulsions. There
would be violent jerking arising from the spasms.
Death would be over in a quarter of an hour, or half an
hour, if a dose sufficient to destroy life was given. There.
would be a marked distinction between that caused by
strychnine and tetanus. I bare heard the description
given by Dr. Bamford of Cook's death, and I don't
think he died from t►aumatic tetanus. I have seen a
case of a person suffering from an overdose of
strychnine. There would be a stiffness of the limb,
and the other symptoms that have been described.
I am of opinion from what I have heard that Mr.Cook'e
death resulted from tetanus produced by strychnine.
Cross-examined by Mr. Grove—There are cases of
every degree of convulsions—running from the mild
form into the tetanic form imperceptibly—but then there
would be a difference in the muscles affected. The wit-
ness was then examined on the scientific effect of strych•
nine on the human body, and also with reference to a
work he has published bearing on the point, but which
was devoid of interest to the general reader. He wa,
also examined with reference to the evidence of other
medical men on the effect of this poison.
Witness continued--A speedy examination of the
spinal cord immediately after death was imoortant in
a pathological point of view. Morbid appearances of
the death are produced, similating the appearance of
disease before death. Tile signs of decomposition would
be easily recognised. Granules upon the spina;
as described, I think, were not likely to pro-
duce tetanus. I am not aware of any cases

his head drawn back, and screaming violently that we
should turn him and rub him. (Sensation.) I tried to
give him ammonia, and he• snapped at the spoon.
fie suffered about three hours altogether before
I left him in safety. Ile survived the attack, and dur-
►eg the whale of the time of the attack he was perfectly
conscious.

The court, on the hearing of any petition, is to satisfy
itself, so far as it reasonably can, of the absence of col-
lusion. If not satisfied of this, or of the proof of adul.
tery, it is to dismiss the petition. If satisfied by the
evidence, it is to pronounce a decree declaring the mar-
riage to be dissolved, unless there has bee❑ unreason-
able delay in presenting the petition. It is to make
such conditions as to alimony and the custody of
children, as with reference to all the circumstances of
the case it may deem reasonable. If no appeal is pre-
sented against its decree of dissolution within three
months, or if such appeal fails, the parties may marry
again.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.--The market has been active to•aff;
and prices are a shade higher than yesterday, closing 5,,t
following rates : —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 904 F.
Milo an 76 —London and North Western, 101 i B 4,
North Eastern, Berwick, 204—Ditto, York capital stf;il.,
28i—South Eastern, 244 fi c. s—Caledonians, 31-46 t,
Manchester, Sheffield, p
and Lincolnshire, 29t,—Ditto,
new 6 per cent., p.
-Dutch Rhenish, l
.—Luxembo"
Pref. 5 per cent. bonds, 34—East Lancashire, 193.

As defendant stated that his master had directed him
to drive the horse with the load in question, this course
was taken, and the master,
Charles Glover was charged with causing the horse to
be cruelly treated.

Cross-examinaa by Sergeant Sbee—ffe was about

three hours in recovering from the effect of the spasms.
The rigidity of the muscles remained for a consiclErab!e
time. When first attacked with the spasms his head
Aud feet were drawn back. After he recovered he
thought his parAlysis was better. Ha had been taking
strychnine fur paralysis in small doses.
By the Attorney.Cl-eneral —Strychnine excites the
actions and gives muscular motion.

Mr. J:Saunders, of Taplow, near Maidenhead, a jus-
tice of the peace for the county, stated that at about 2
o'clock on Monday afternoon he saw Lovell driving a
horse in a waggon loaded with grains. The hor-e—a
fine, noble animal—was in good condition, and defend-
ant was using him as gently as he could, but the load
was evidently tar too much for him. He (Mr. Saunders)
had seen a great deal of horses, but never in his life had
he seen one in such distress. Th poor brute was pant-
ing leirrfully, and not only perspiring, but absolutely
foaming.

PROCEDURE AND PRACTICE.
The court may, if it pleases, direct questions of fact
to be determined before itself, either by a common or
special jury ; it may also direct such issues to be simi-
larly tried by the judges of assizs or nisi prius. Every
petition for nullity or dissolution of marriage, or for di-
vorce, shall be supportA by an affidavit of the party
petitioning, negativing the fact of collusion. Such peti-
tion is, as a general rule, to be served on the parry
affected thereby. The petitioner may he examined per.
sonally. The evidence is to be given viva voce, except
in cases where the court may deem it expe,lient to per-
mit the same to be taken by commission, in which cases
the proceedings under the commission are to be con-
ducted as in the case of commissions at common law.
Shorthand writers are to be employed and paid by the
court.

MANCHESTER, MAY N.
.iTOCK EXCHANGE.—This market has been doingfoj
firm but quiet business to-day, and prices closed
lows :—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 291 !Ili
nidland Railway Consols, 761 s—South Eastern rtto
Dovers, 21 946—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 90a 4-9
16/. Shares F, 4 d.

At a quarter past 5 o'clock the learned Attorney-
General stated that his next witness was Professor
Paylor, but as his examination would occupy several
h-mrs he wished to know if their lordships would sit on

The constable on duty at the time, F 99, corroborated.
The load was enoigh fir two horses. On beim,. spoken
to by witne4s and by Mr. Saunders the man consented
to get another horse.
Other witnesses were called to show that the cart was
loaded with five quarters of distillers' grains, a quarter
being about five or six hundredweight. They were still
heavier at times. They were much heavier than brewers
grains.

or adjourn.
L )1.1 Campbell said the Court would adjourn.

A long convers:itioti eusuad as to whether the jury
might be permitted to go at large till Monday, but
Lord Campbell said it was impossible. He im-
plored them not to converse amongst themselves about
the case nor form any opinion on it until they bad heard
both aides of the question. His lordship suggested that

- Lovell stated that he was sent by his master to fetch
five quarters of grains from Whitechapel. The horse
had drawn the same load that distance before without
being distressed. On this occasion the horse was dis-
tressed " a little," but that was owing to the stones
being slippery and his shoes smooth. The load was not
more than a ton, for three out of the five quarters were
stale.

Attendance of witnesses ig to be made compulso;y,
and the penalties for false swearing to be the same as in
other courts.

the jury should be taken to Epping-forest to•tnorrow to
have some fresh air and exercise. Ile did that because
Epping forest was not a place of public resort.

Tile court iste be open to barristers and attorneys as
well as to advocates and proctors.

The appeal (which must be made within three months
after decree pronounced) is to the House of Lords,
who, if dissatisfied, may remit the ease to the Court of
Divorce, order any particular Witnesses to be examined,
or direct an issue to try any fact.

were small granules on the arachnoid have produced

tetanus. I think the cause of death from strychnine to

Cross examined by Mr. Grove —She could not sit up
at all after I saw her. The cold water did not take any
effect, as she was in a paroxysm. The paroxysms lasted
about an hour and a quarter. Her hands were clenched.
By the Attorney•General—The fit came on in about
ten minutes.
Mr. Taylor, a surgeon, living at Romney---I attended
Mrs. Smith, and I remember seeing her dead. It was
between Eight and nine. The body was on the floor.
The hands were clenched, the feet were contracted and
turned inward. The soles of the feet were hollowed up
and the toes remarkably contracted, I should suppose,
from spasmodic action. The inner edge of each foot
was turned up. The limbs were remarkably stiff.
By Inrd Campbell—The body was still warm.
By Mr. Welsby—The eyelids were tightly adherent
to the eyeballs. The druggist who made the mixture
was Jones. I met him running up to the house. I
made a post mortem examination three days after
death. At that time tho contraction of the feet con-
tinued, but it bad gone off somewhat from the rest
of the body. I did not find any trace of disease in the
body. The,.heart was contracted and perfectly empty,
and all the large arteries leading from the heart were

The jury were then conducted back to the London
Coffee-house, and th 3 Cilia adjourned till Monday
morning at 10 o'clock.

arise partly froma difficulty of action in the respiratory

Mr. Glover' defended himself to the same effect.
Mr. Jardine, after some severe comments, fined do
fendant U., or in default one month's impribonment.

organ; and partly from general nervous excitement. I
think there is a difference of opinion with reference

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•
Lord Campbell naked whether it was necessary ti
proceed with that investigation ?

TATTERSALL'►S.—(This Evening.)

to tbat, or whether the animals experimented on

WORSHIP-STREET.—EmiIy Godfrey, a wretched.
looking young woman, was charged before Mr. Hamm ill
with attempting to commit suicide by swallowing lauds.
num.

The Attorney-General said yes. The prisoner has
given us notice that that would be one of his defences.
Mr. Sergeant Shee explained.
The Attorney-General Paid he could only anticipate
that course.

•
died from asphyxia. I thinkithe word "suffocated" is
used loosely in the medical works. If an animal dies of
asphyxia the heart is full of blood. I can't remember

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17 to 1 agst Prince (taken)
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The bill concludes* with a compensation clause fix all
judges and officers of the different ecclesiastical courts
removed from office under its provisions.

Playford, 417 N. division, said he was on duty early
in the morning at Shacklewell, and observed a Fernald
lying in the lane, apparently dead. An empty phial was
by her side, labelled "Laudanum." Some signs of life
remaining, he conveyed her with all speed to the station,
where, by aid of the stomach-pump, the pais was
ej-cted.

whether in my experiments on animals with strychnine
it did not take effact for an hour or so after adminis-

Cross-examination continued—l think it very ur,\-
likely tetanus should arise from that. I know of no
such a case. In a cage of traumatic tetanus, after the
disease has taken a fatal turn, death ensues from 21
' hours to 3or 4 days. The shortest period might be
8 to 10 hours. The exact time cannot be
Precisely ascertained. The disease is continu•
ous. I have
,pever known an interval of 24
of
hours between the attacks, From the description
Mr. Jones, the symptoms in the deceased were dif-
ferent from traumatic tetanus I have ever seen. There
was here a sudden onset of the fatal symptoms. In
all cases the disease would be preceded by the minor
symptoms of tetanus, which gradually
develops them-
' selves into the more serious and fatal symptoms. Oa
the Monday night I should think there were no symp•
Wining in the deceased of either idiopathic cr
traumatic tetanus. There is also hysteric tetanus,
hysteria combined with spasms, but I know of
instance of its being fatal, or of a male sufferino
n:r
from it. Nnx vomica, in its two forms, will
produce tetanus. No other poisons will produce it.
I have never seen any cases of tetanus resulting from
poison.

tration.

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THE GENERAL ILLUMINATION.

Re-examined by the Attorney-General—l should ex-
pect to find the heart rather empty of blood, and rather

contracted after the use of strychnine.

Itt reply to Mr. Hatemill, the miserabl&defendant said
she had known better days. Her father was for a long
period, up to about two years back, coachman to her
Majesty Queen Victoria. Unfortunately, however, he
had died aince, and her mother's demise quickly suc-
ceeded. Since that period she had been destitute, earn-
ing a precarious subsistence. A few hours previously to
-wallowing the poison she had pledged the gown off her
back for Bd. She belonged to the parish of St. Luke's,
Chelsea.

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Dr. Daniels, of Bristol, was called, and said,--I have
retired from practice, and have seen a great many cases
of tetanus. I agree with the medical gentlemen who
have been examined. I have seen two cases
of idiopathic tetanus, and one of which terminated

. _
fatally. The symptoms were not so severe as in the

case of traumatic totaoua. I could not trace those

caw.es. I agree with the statement of the prisoner's

witnesses as to the causes of ordinary tetanus. I have
heard a description of Cook's symptoms. They
were distinct from the symptoms of the cases of tetanus

Mr. Hammill said it wag indeed a sad reverse of cir-
cumstances, and on hearing that the girl had expressed
much contrition for the rash attempt, he dischargvd her
with advice to apply to the parish where she was found.

also empty, and the blood was fluid. I subsequently
analysed the medicine, and found in it a large quan-
tity of strychnine, dissolved and undissolved. The
mixture contained nine grains of strychnine, of which
Mrs. Smith had taken three, so six remained in the
bottle. (Great sensation.) I took out the stomach and
bowels, but did not examine the parts sufficiently to
say from the examination the cause of death. That was

I have seen. I agree with Sir Benjamin Brodie as to
the points of distinction. Tetanus begins with uneasi-

LAMBETH—Jas. Rogers and John Chas. Keeling,
well•dressed persons, were coarged with being concerned
with two others, not in custody, in burglariously breaking
into the premises of Messrs. Butler, mercers and drapers,
in the Old Kent-roal, and stealing therefrom property to
the amount of 250/.

ness in the lower jaw, followed by spasms of the muscles,

- -
I don't think the clenching of the hands is the

effect of ordinary tetanus. I have seen a great many
cases of syphilis. I never remember a sore from such
a cause produce tetanuq. I do not consider Cook's
eYtnptoms were either apOplexy or epilepsy. In my
judgment Cook's symptoms could not be referred to
idiopathic or traumatic tetanus.
Cross-examined by Mr. Grove--I am not aware of
excitement or irritation proceeding from vomiting or
tetanic convulsions. • I have seen the bodies of persons
who had died from suffocation. I cannot say whether
the heart generally was full. The diseases producing
tetanus bear a very small proportion to those which do
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Police-constable J. W. Saward, 120 M, deposed that
about 5 o'clock on that morning he saw four men walking
after a cab, and from what he was told he followed the men
and cab, and after a smart run succeeded in securing the
prisoners, who were two of the men he had seen. On
searching them at the station-house he found on the per.
son of Rogers a pair of gloves and three shillings' worth
of postage staulp3, which formed a part of the robbery,
and 12s. 6.1. in cash. He also found on the other pri-
sonere 5 7.1. in money.
Mrs. Mary Sorrail said that on that morning, while
on her way to a laundress's where she was employed, she
paw two persons walking up and down near the shop of the
Messrs. Butler. Prt-sently a cab drove up, out of which
the prisoners alighted. The cab drove up to the front of
Messrs. Butler's shop, and all four men—the two she had
seen walk up and down and the prisoners, who had got
out of the vehicle—entered the honse. They did not re-
main inside more than a moment or two, when they re-
turned with two largo packages, which they put into the
cab, and the vehicle drove away, the four men following.
Slr. W. D. Butler said that his brother and himself car-
ried on the business of dra,pers at Nos. 3 and 4, Watt',
terrace, O'd Kent-road, and that about Fir o'elncic nn that
morning he was called to by his servant, who informs
him that the place was broken into. Oo coming down
stairs he discovered that the thieves had effected au en

so very apparent that no close examination was made.
Cross-examined by Sergeant Shee —A. corpse would
stiffen in the position it died in. In this case there

Cross-examined by Sergeant Sbee—l have known
spasms arise from a disease of the spinal cord. A disease of
the nerves proceeding to the spinal cord might produce
tetanus. I agree with Dr. Watson that in four
cases out of five traumatio tetanus begins with
lock-jaw, and that it frequently arises from slight
causes, such as a blow from the lash of a whip
under the eye, though the skin was not broken—the
cutting a corn, bite of the finger, &c. Traumatic tetanus
I don't think could occur within a quarter of an hour
after an injury. I know of no such a case.
Lord Campbell objected to the cross-examination
being conducted from printed books.
Cross-examination continued--I know of a case where
a body being opened after death from tetanus, and sy-
philitic symptoms were discovered. It was not my
case. The man was out of the hospital half an hour.

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body. The feet had to be tied together. We first exa•

mined the trunk and then the head. Charles Brrucholme

was the apprentice to Jones, the chemist. Jones is

since dead. Mr. Smith's prescription contained a
salicine. Upon the shelf beside it was strychnine, and

a mistake was made, and strychnine administered. I
did not give it ; it was my master, who afterwards corn-

Mr. Solly—l am surgeon in St. Thomas's Hospital. I
have been 23 years connected with that hospital, and I
have witnessed a number of cases of tetanus. I cannot
lay how many, but I have had six or seven under my
rwn care, and I might have seen nine or ten others
rhey were traumatic cases. Death in no case
ocesarred under thirty hours. The symptoms
Wen always progressive. Cook's case differs men.
7 from the cases I have seen. In all
eases I have seen there is an alteration of the counts.

mitted suicide.

Jane \Vitham examined by Mr. Edwin James—ln
March last I attended a lady who died.

Lord Campbell—You need not state her name.
Witness—She first complained of her back, and said,
"Come to my back." I could not get to it. There

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was a twitching. Her eyes were staring and fixed.
She first complained of this illness upon 25th February.
She died the 3d of March. She had five attacks, one a
slight one, upon the day of her death. She was first