After this, and immediately boforo the apprehension of the prisoners, On Sunday, the 15th of August, some iced water, had been adminis tered to Mrs Hall, and tho connection, as you will Bee by and bye, of the peraons accused with this iced water will be explained to you ; but this iced water produced sickness — violent sickness. It was tasted by the nurse and, I think, by some other persons, and it was found to bo bitter. A portion of the contents of the vessel m which the ice hod been placed the night before, and m which it had been the wholo night before, was taken away by the nurse and put into a clean bottle. It was afterwards made the subject of an analysis, and m the wnter was fonnd a coniparatiTelj" largo portion of antimony. The symptoms' l need _ not go into, but the operation of antimony is that a large dose would be not unlikely to carry away all traces of the poison, but, administered from timo to timo, it is a poison which would operate on tho human body by creating groat prostration and ex hausting the vital powrr. I cannot tell you how, but the probable result of such ex haustion would be death. I need not tell you that, had tho courao of treatment continued such as it had been before the arrest of tho prisoners, there would have been overy probability of Mrs Hall dying, and there is this remarkable fact, that from tho time of tho arrest of the prisoners sho rapidly became better, no longer showing similar symptoms to those before observed. Such are the facts, not m detail at ull, for I am purposely avoid ing going into details. The next question now is by whom was tho poison administered. Now, tho persons who had an opportunity of administering it were Dr Maclntyro, who did not administer and did not prescribe antimony ; the servants of tho house were : first, Mary Hassen, and tho second was a girl named Jeanie Turnbull, and the nurse, who had been with Mrs Hall from the 17th June, two days after tho con finement, up to and after August 15th. Those were the persons attending on Mrs Hnll going backwards and forwards giving her tea and food and so forth. 