Dr. WRIGHTSON, recalled, examined by Mr. SERJEANT SHEE--In your opinion, when the strychnia poison is absorbed into the system, does it become diffused by the circulation of the blood through the system, or does it collect in the tissues?--I should think it is diffused throughout the entire system by circulation if it be wholly absorbed, and it would depend on the rapidity with which death takes place after complete absorption, and on the quickness of circulation. Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Would the absorption be more complete if a longer time were given for the process between the administration and the death?--Certainly, it would be. Is that supposing a minimum dose given sufficient to destroy life; if a long interval elapses between the taking of the poison and the death, the more complete the absorption the less the chance of finding it in the stomach?--_Cæteris paribus_ that would be so. By Mr. SERJEANT SHEE--Would you have a very good chance of finding it in the kidneys and spleen and in the blood?--Yes. * * * * * [Sidenote: C. Watson] CATHERINE WATSON, examined by Mr. GROVE--I live at Garnkirk, in Scotland. Last October I was affected with a fit. I had no wound nor injury on my body before. I had taken no poison. Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL--I was not ill during the day. I was in low spirits, but not in pain. A few minutes before eleven at night I took a pain in the stomach, then two cramps in my arms, then I was very ill. I have never had cramps like this before nor since. The Court then adjourned. Tenth Day, Saturday, 24th May, 1856. The Court met at ten o’clock. [Sidenote: O. Pemberton] Mr. OLIVER PEMBERTON, examined by Mr. SERJEANT SHEE--I am Lecturer in Anatomy at Queen’s College, Birmingham, and surgeon to the General Hospital at Birmingham. I was present at the examination of the body of the late Mr. Cook after it had been exhumed in January or February. I observed the condition of the spinal cord. In my judgment it was not in a condition to enable one to state with confidence in what state it had been immediately after death. The upper part, where the brain had been separated, was green in colour from the effects of decomposition. The remaining portion, though fairly preserved for a body buried two months, was so soft as not to enable me to form any opinion as to its state immediately after death. Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL--I did not see the body till the day after the bony canal had been opened, which, to a certain extent, would expose the interior substance of the cord to the atmosphere. So far as I recollect, it was still covered with a very hard, dense membrane. Mr. Bolton, the professor at Queen’s College, was also present on Palmer’s behalf. * * * * * Mr. SERJEANT SHEE--My lord, this closes the medical testimony. * * * * * [Sidenote: H. Matthews]