Dr. JOHN JACKSON, examined by Mr. JAMES--I am a member of the College of Physicians. I have been in practice for twenty-five years in India, and have seen cases of idiopathic and traumatic tetanus. Idiopathic is more common in India than in this country. I have seen not less than forty cases. It is common with children. In children there is a more marked symptom of lockjaw, but in adults there is no difference between the symptoms of idiopathic and traumatic. I have always seen idiopathic tetanus preceded by a peculiar expression of the countenance, stiffness in the muscles of the throat and of the jaw. In infants it will kill in forty-eight hours; in adults, arising from cold, it is of longer duration, and may continue many days, going through the same grades as the traumatic form. Cross-examined by Mr. SERJEANT SHEE--The patient always appears uncomfortable for some time before the attack comes on. His appetite and desire for food are not much affected. He may take his food as usual within twelve hours of the preliminary symptoms. During the twelve hours, supposing the attack to be the first one under which he suffers, does he seem not to relish his ordinary food?--His attention is more directed to the stiffness of his mouth and the stiffness of his neck. You said to within twelve hours of the attack he relishes his food as if no attack was impending, but does he not appear less desirous of food and less inclined to eat it?--I have never heard that complaint. Re-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL--What interval has occurred in those cases that have come under your attention between the preliminary symptoms and the tetanic convulsions?--In an infant, not more than twelve hours, and in an adult, from twelve to twenty-four hours; sometimes more than that. And from the commencement of the tetanic convulsions to death, what time?--That will vary; three days to ten days; it may take place early sometimes, perhaps in two days, but that is early. Does that apply to traumatic as well as to idiopathic tetanus?--They are both alike, when the disease sets in, as regards the course of the symptoms. Are the symptoms more or less severe in India than in this climate?--I do not see there is any difference; when once set up, the symptoms of tetanus are the same. [Sidenote: John Jackson] In all your experience, did you ever know a case in which the disease ran its course and ended in death in the space of twenty minutes or half an hour?--I have never seen it. * * * * * [The rest of this day, after Dr. Jackson’s evidence, was occupied with taking evidence that there was nothing in Palmer’s papers to show joint transactions between him and Cook; as to Pratt’s and Padwick’s accounts; as to Palmer’s pecuniary position generally; as to the forgery of his mother’s name, and the forgery of an endorsement on a cheque for £375 of Cook’s name, by which he passed into his own account that sum which was intended for Cook.]