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PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON PHRENOLOGY MR. RUMBALL'S CHALLENGE TO MR. BRINDLEY. TN consequence of Mr. Brindley's late Lectures in London and elsewhere, in which he has again repudiated the Doctrines of Phrenology, I HEREBY CHALLENGE that Gentleman to a fair and full DISCUSSION of its Principles and Deductions, in the Town of LIVERPOOL, where I purpose delivering a COURSE of FIVE LEC TURES, to con f St. Alban's. June 24, 184 MR. BRIA Mr. RUMBALL'S Ct DLEr S REP L I a Committee of Professional ( to act on my behalf, and it be lenge is couched in such terr that a fair and candid inquiry ACCEPT IT, on such condil tually agreed upon. Chester, June 2' lOg COI recited Challenge I a-L M.R.C.S rred by me to • who have consented eyed that that Chal. xrant the conclusior plated, I lIEREBY be hereafter IN BRINDLE'Y In accordance with t acceptance. it is hereby announced LI, A PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON PHRENOLOGY WILL B ALL BETWEEN MESSRS. RUMAND BRINDLEY, AT THE PORTICO, NEWINGTO.L ON THE EVENTvae MONDAY NE' XT, ti 4th, WEDNEgDAY , the 6th, and FRIDAY, the MONDAY, the 11th, and Vtir Commencing each Even; Admission to the Body of t, the Gallery, Sixpence ; Reserves Ticket only, Two Shillings each paper Offices- EDNESDAIC, the 13th instant tooin, One eats on the Platform, by to be had at the News- EN77I GRAND RO L GARDI ZOOLOGIL_ rprils EVENING, (Friday I. be repeated every Morn, Season, Ist of July, and to 'unDAY during the MODEL OF ROME THE PICTORIAL 3 At dusk, this novel exhiii seen under th, rejoicings in cele- aspect which the scene presents ourn,,,, bration of 11 Giorno di San Pietro, when the whole vast Edifice of St. Peter's is Illuminated, and every detail of the glorious Architecture shines forth in lines of resplendent light. It is on such festive occasions that the celebrated Girandola, or great FIREWORKS of ST. ANGELO, are displayed from the summit of the Castle and Bridge, beyond all comparison the grandest display of Pyrotechnic Art ever invented. A fac simile of this GORGEOUS FESTIVAL will he represented. Amidst tremendous FLIGHTS of ROCKETS, and CASCADES of FIRE, FOUNTAINS, and STARS, the whole of the Eternal City will appear as visible as by the broad light of ddy. Pyrotechnic - Artist, a. The ROYAL HARMONIC P Perintendance of Mr- Season. ;NOR SEMONI. ND, under the able so 3S, will perform during the CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. ON SUNDAY EVENING next, the 3rd instant, a SERMON will be preached in ST. BARTUOLOAdEW'S CHURCH, Naylor-street, by the Rev. JAM ES SCHOLE FIELD, M.A., Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge, and a COLLECTION made in behalf of the CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Divine Service will commence at Half after Six o'clock. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING TO CORRESPONDENTS THE BARD OF COLOUR AGAIN letter from this poetical persona K sillier than we took him to b( our reader's sides, and ti nave received another who is real e. We cannot, in mercy to reputation of Robert Rose, insert the letter itself. The sub'stance, however,—(as our correspondent has got into his head the absurd notiontbat the public is very anxious as to his whereabouts)—we are willing to give. Know all men, therefore,—and ladies too, —that Robert Rose, Esq., the bard of colour, " has during the last three weeks been in Buxton, Fleetwood. South port, Ela c kp oo l, & c ., en j oy i ng himse lf in the luxury of loathing ! or, to speak poetically, " The Rose has been washed, just Washed in a shower"— of salt and other waters at these various watering places.— We publish this explanation the more readily, as some of our lion hunters, we understand, have imagined that a certain unknown coloured gentlemen, who has lately amused the passengers in one of the Egremont ferry boats, by his exquisite performanle of nigger melodies, is the veritable Leo Africanus—Robert Rose, Esq., the bard of colour. " A Protestant and an Ora We cannot insert the noti authenticated. geman" was received too late ion of a marriage unless it is The grievance complained of In would soon be remedie, Committee, if the policeman refuses .. An Old Subscriber" ;(1 b an application to the Watch again to interfere. " GUADALOUPE," IRON STEAM-FRIGATE.—This fine vessel made a most successful trial-trip on Tuesday. We had prepared a description of the vessel and her equip ments, and also an account of the trip, but in order to do justice to the subject, by treating it more at length, we are induced to postpone both articles until our next publica tion. Ebe Etbrrpool &"tanbart. 1, 1842 sews furnished , opulatior tna, (Lopatin upon it regpcl. the prospects of the emancipated negro in our West Indian possessions! Granted that he is happy, at present prosperous, re moved from every care, satisfied with the culture of his own provision grounds and an occasional day's la. hour in the plantation to provide him with clothing or luxuries, or that he can provide these from the surplus produce of those provision grounds without bestowing his hand upon the paid culture of the staples of ex port ;—yet the time must soon come when the provi sion markets will be glutted, and he will be in want even in the midst of abundance. We shall have res cued him from the slavery of man to hand him over lta the just, tile true pa on, in which we must to tie bondage of his own constitutional indolence. We shall have purchased—that is the strict and undeniable conclusion—we shall have purchased some h . undreds of thousands of human beings, far advanced on the path towards civilization and the light of christial truth, for no other purpose than to hurl them back into .. . their primitive barbarism and ignorance ! We chal- lenge any man, no matter of what creed or opinion, to .overt our position, that this mus t be the result of the adoption of a stand-still policy, and the consequ surrender to commercial ruin of these noble posses- But even admitting that by the intervention of some overruling Providence, the existing population of the West Indies, ceasing to be producers except for the supply of their own animal wants, may be preserved in theii present condition of comparati•c'e prosperity and happiness ; may not the question be asked of the abo- —to what important use have you applied the means placed at your disposal, by the measure of emancipation, for the gradual amelioration of the con- dition of the entire African race Although the chains have been struck from the . limbs of 800,000 slaves in the British possessions; is there one wretched African the less toiling in bondage throughout the world ? Have we realized, or are we in the way to realize by this measure, the magnificent dream which you held out to us of the cessation of slavery through out the world . ? No ! We repeat it—No On the contrary, you have stimulated—you are stimulating, day by day, the accursed traffic in human blood ; have ricetted the chains upon millions of human be- ings now toiling beneath the burden of tropical la bour ; and you are, day by day, for millions yet unborn ! Except through the prosperity °four West Ind possessions . ,—except from an extensive production of the staples of export in those possessions,—the mea sure of emancipation can have no effect, save one of serious' prejudice, upon the continuance of slavery in other nations. What country will pursue a course vo luntarily, which is fast desolating the colonies of Great Britain ? What country will voluntarily give up its slave labour when the example of Great Britain has shown them that the substitution of free labour leads to progressive decay and ultimate ruin ? forging fresh chains this nation, when it declares that it will not consent to the adoption of 'remedial measures to stay the decline of its own colonies—when it declares, in deference to the cry of a spurious humanity, that it will not afford to the suffering planters of the West Indies an exten sive supply of free labour—abandons, virtually, the noblest experiment ever made since the creation of the world by any great people; and says, virtually, to that system from which the dealer in human flesh derives his accursed gains—esto perpetua ! By the arrival of the Great Western, at Bristol, we have papers one day later from New York, containing, however, little which is worthy of comment in addition to the copious summary of news furnished in our se cond edition of Tuesday, and which will be found in our impression of this day. With respect, however, to the anticipated amicable termination of our differ ences with the United States; through the mission of Lord Ashburton, the New York Morning Herald of the 16th, in a supplement printed for the pacitet, has some remarks, professing to be founded on authentic infor mation, which we cannot resist placing before our readers " The north eastern boundary," remarks our transatlant contemporary, "is really the only serious point between us and Great Britain " The Caroline affair is susceptible of very easy and prompt adjustment. It is a matter of explanation and indemnity, and might have been finished by Mr. Fox in half an hour any time within the last eighteen months. INl`Nab had no auth ority for his conduct. His invasion of our territory was an act of gratuitous insolence, and the British government is ready to say so—not in such terms of course—and pay for FRIDAY MORNING, We return to a cot us by the last arrival from to the condition of the et and to the state of .ation c society at present existing in these colonies; and here we must addr anti-slavery party throughout ( ourselves to the at Britain, as well as to the committee upon West Indian affairs now sitting. The former bod have on more than one occasion shown a disposition to obstruct tt sures, which every fr nedial mea- Itness ad- lower y structure caused it to fall to the literati (lashed in raising it to it Wednesday night, to corner of Thom A police-office under his arm dropped the trout picked up trousers were r ROBBERY school nd prevent ri to follow t , t possession of the hating stripped a . that about two o'c observed witf, 1, and NI identified 1 had been in t tl al at tt CHARGE OF Ro ing were brought before .t robbed a ma mplainant, Is (Hug Ming, was coa little child of 'emus ►s afterwards sees denuded it of i prisoner of aecoying cni of robbery. SI ,oitce ma; d, got into a beastly st ,her pair of child .eet. One ss of *I even aithoug enough to talk of measures, as capacity, "for revivi The tariff of Sir Robert the estimation at fie new corn bill will not, of and prosperity to of Will his lordship ha world what will• effect except time anc On Suncla in's Col amounted to Xll 2: meetir of July should be celebrated fact that some societies will be u g day had some influen, with having clothes shop the sho whom 1 was toll CRICKET .nsington h at t 1 Majority in favour of t Owing to the - unfa - vo tually ag-weed, that t the Friday followin 1 victor when t by three notche of the p, d on the who state of the v ked up I swarthy, and i Hall, was yesterday pia Mancheste the steam- had, with his lady, j :kets, and were proceeding up Iprovir tariff 'es, give an-y diseased commercial system. jog the kindness to inform the I consummati bled wi Corps, )N THE .ham-street, TEI OF JE on the I her, it v played on arly two t k your iop. He v T at the latter str , re being to er well dressed man h a street robbery .ed for felony, was sent magistates It ap H eaton-Norris I picked her pocket .of mere Jov it into Klan! 31e I Lv, WINTON CRUZ r• to admit Id have 1 attf.!ntion influential k GUER mits to be imperatively requir our tropical possessions to a s sperity To this great happiness of the African race Fished, if not an exclusive °hie( the restoration of lth and pro- promotion of the er been a che- and by the work feel bound far, w Ing of the emancipation bill, t to admit that that object has been obtained. Let us beg their attention, on this point, to the following evi dence of a witness—the Guiana limes of the 13th of May—whose testimony will at least receive the credit of being impartial : " If we art! not of men, and to say that this comma proved in point of virtuous princiE be disputed, that the strides whi ternal decorum, which is like t hearts and consciences s a whole, has im- ist; is not to h it has made in that ex- ge that vice pays to f all but pe. virtue, must outstrip the highest concep,..-- sonal observers. The degradation and inhumanity of a ge neral system of licentiousness, the prevalence of the insti tution of marriage has everywhere rectified. The river no longer resounds, on the peaceful Sabbath-day, with the forced mirth of the children of bondage, plying their unintermitted tasks ; but every thorou-“ -rowded with well-dressed peasants, independently following the bent of pious inclina tions, and thronging to the places of divine worship. Even among the late owners of slave property, to be immoral has become unfashionable, and to be profane is no longer ac counted genteel." Again—. " Crimes are not disproportionately numerous or heinous. Want, the tempter to so many deviations ftom propriety of conduct, is unknown to the great mass, while the indolence induced by the climate, indisposes them to the violent and l ong -sustained bursts of passion, familiar to regions in which all the faculties of the mind are in a state of constant acti vity and energy. Lying, thieving,-eunning and other vices and defects, have ceased to characterise, peculiarly, the labourer in these parts, as he, ceasing to be the abject instru ment of another's will, has acquired self-respect, and learned fit notions of the value of a good reputation. In respect of these and similar results of the passing of the Emancipation Act, we encounter few planters even, hardy enough to pre tend to doubt the happiness of the change which has been so suddenly accomplished." Surely this is a state of thing both as regards the improved condition of 1..._ the advanced morality of the society which will be contemplated with delight by every abo litionist—by every lover of the human race. emancipated African and .n which he lives But the grave question will present itself,—is this a permanent improvement? Can this happy condition of the Afri can co-e x i s t w i t h diminished production, diminished exports, and diminished imports ? Can it co-exist with the annihilation of invested capital and the gra dual banishment of European intelligence from our West Indian possessions, of the same authority from which we have before quoted : " Could the present state of affairs remain stationary, they who insist on securing, mthigehtgreatest happiness of the greatest number of persons , that the distress of the intelligent was of no consideration,argue when weighed against the happiness of'the mass. Butarocess is at work, and by, involve the peasantry in the same which will, by ca tastrophe, before which their superiors will say that the riches of the soil will always falling. You guarantee them against starvation. Granted. As, however, you be lieve that man is born to some higher end than er animal en joyment ; that, as he cannot be always eating, drinki ng, sleeping, there are some rational occupations which l o ng E h a t n t d o fill up the intervals that appetite leaves vacant ; and that tl he has faculties to improve, separate from , the limbs of his body, have a spirit ua l ex i stence w hi c h is to last long after thL. crumbled t o d ust, geu.lemen of the Anti we warn You' very party, of the perils to which your mistaken kindness subjects your favourik of a middle class, beta L plantations and the proprit before them a prospect of advb. will be a fatal day for them and t tivation of their staples is total' know not how, in the absence the toil which the freeholders have Lis—, any inducement to undertake, the educate rising is to find employment. It is trul' the number of young persons, of all for want of oectioatin„ As the component parts ing drudges of the new freemen will see :es without limit. But it -.- heir families when the cul- ... abandoned. Indeed, we ;rants to ur ertake nd never will have, partment, is incumbehts generation nos, to see to IV I CCli lancholy The misfortune is, that this is a country in which the deprava,— faculty, and the (deterioration of the understanding, are as precipitate as the putrescence of animal matter after the withdrawal of the principle of life." on of the moral identif to the seizure of our vessels on the coast o when taken the indemnity awarded in the case of the Tigris, concedes tl principle, and we want nothing mom Creole, the ground assumed by Lord Palmerston is obviousl As to the case of tl unsound, and it is believed that Lord Aberdeen will recede from it. In any event no difficulty is apprehended :frau this source. " With respect to the question. of right of search, it is impossible for England to quarrel with us because w•e will not make a treaty with her—besides, Lord Aberdeen has yielded all we ever asked." steaming ente e hear of distanci davit If these may be taken as the expectations generally entertained by the American people, we apprehend that brother Jonathan is doomed to experiencte a trifling disappointment. If the important questions referred to are to be settled in this off-hand style by rord Ash burton, as the representative of Sir Robert Peel's government, then the people of England will h.ave just cause to say, that their country and their so vereign have been dishonoured before the face of the world, to appease the blustering swagger, and gratify the N why of the people of this model Republic. Lord Ashbu. rton, we trust, will never submit to stigmatize the destoie tion of a piratical vessel, in the act of levying war ui 101/ British subjects as "an act of gratuitous insolence" or any other than an act of strict legality and justice an d certain we are that the British parliament and people will never sanction such an adjustment of our diffe- ca;ion of the Columbia Tuesday last, our London earner rea LondOn in six' hours, of a special e of leaving Liverpool— parture from Amc re in pc The wonderful rapidity of the voyage acrc gether with this minghani and I time than the first equal to that of th 3ireninghat TUE FUNDS : WEDNESDAY EVENING. — English funds remained flat throughout the day, with a decline in price in the earlier hours of business, which, however, to a certain tent, was counteracted by one or two small purcnasi ions to the close of the market. Consols for the a ere quot6d at the ced, 014. 'to 2d. issu- A,- day 91i 166 to 167 ; 1; and Ditto, 2 rences with the United States, however "easy and premic ,tock mart half-mont prompt" that step may appear to the inflated imagi- nation of transatlantic journalism. The same remarks apply to the absurd anticipations of our contemperary, with respect to the settlement of the Creole case and the right of search. Great Bri tain will not, we are confident, even to secure the fa vour of the American nation, which can only be done by flattering its vanity, yield one step from her present dignified position upon these questions. The conces sion said to be made by Lord Aberdeen is pure fudge ! count, V 3 is finally arrange •eciation in Colombian was What mostly caused a the progress of the business, and the 1 Pressure of t 1 tock in effect upon the general tenden the party out of doors who h failed employed as ma rehension with which tt win the Money commands a value pr )ectability of the borrows t. has been accepted, in 01 per cent. has been refused. After the settlement is over a more healthy tone is expected in the market. Spanish Ac tives left off 202 to i; Ditto, New, 22k to 2 ; Portuguese 5 per Cents., 35 to 4; Ditto, 3 per Cents. 201 to 21 • Dutch 21 per Cents., 522 to ; Danish, 81 to 82 ; Colombian, 211 to 21; Brazilian, 644 to 651; Belgian, 102 to 103 ; and Mexi4;an, 361 to ; - r, for c some cases 6 per( At length the tariff bill has passed a third reading, and we shall be relieved for a time from the eternal carping and cavilling of Whig-radicalism upon each Pooi I and every of its 800 items, from " asses" foreign and colonial, the first of the list, to "lees" of wine, the last;—items, by the way, peculiarly characteristic of the pristine and ulterior condition of that fallen party. The young donkey, alternately gambolling and restive, vicious and stupid, how excelllent a type of Whiggery in its day of elevation ! The settlings of the beer or the wine cask—the " lees"—the dregs— by the deposit of which the body of the generous liquor itself is purified—h'iaw apt a type of that decedsed and wrecked faction, by whose prostration society is purified and invigorated ! For a time we shall be re lieved of its gentle plainin gs upon all the fertile themes which this tariff has suggested, and the world will be permitted to go on in its usual round, without being astounded every alternate hour by some explosion of Whig incapacity—some specimen of the extraordinary ignorance, upon political sribjects, of this inflated an d pompous party. _ _ _ delivered t was on the first lua,ve of t new po If he h on this hould scarcely man would dr to die a nallural death, no provision being made tor the poor in its absen,le. The very feelings which made him adverse to the poor law bill also impelled him to support the continuance of the existing measure till some better one be substituted. Some hon. gentlemen had objected the new poor law bill because it was a great and excessive change it and yet they were prepared at this time of day to whole country into confusion by suspending t 4 •- without proposing ar' _ lequatt I himself ready to wave some cony._ _ the unconstitutional nature of the the right hon. bai onet proposed to only instead of ten gentleman was iue it f believed the that he did Lt that he would work i speedily as possible. (Hear, hear.) He bad not armed himself with tales of sorrow, or with statistical facts in rela tion to the operation of the Poor Law—not that he was unac quainted with cases of hardship and oppression, or with evi dence of a statistical character. He thought that a measure of this kind should be viewed in connexion with certain principles, and with reference to its bearing on society gene rally. We approach the government calmly and expound our views, and we say, " If you will satisfy us that the re medy which you are about to propose shall be co-extensive with the disease, we will promise to take no step which shall have the effect of embarrassing'he Government." The posi tion which the right hon. baronet held had not been properly considered. His (Sir R. Peel's) was not so much the tri umph of party as the well marked expression of.public opi nion. (Cheers and "Oh !") Reference had been made to the majority who supported the right hon. baronet. H e (Mr. Cardwell) thought that the circumstance of the right hon. baronet being supported by sopowerful a body in that was a subject of congratulation. , The right honour -,c 4.,_ The tariff has passed ; lout not without a record ing left to the world of the opinion, with respect to it, of that profound statesman,. Lord John Russell, as the representative of the collective wisdom of the Ex-whig administration. His lordship is happy, and yet he is sorry ; h e is pleased with what has been done, and yet displeased because somethin g has not be done. On cheese and butter no reduction haS been made. .On coffee a ll t h e reduction requiured to swamp that odious body --the W est I n di a body---has not been made. On sugar, th e decrease of the differential duties necessary to insure th e conversion of the colonies of G reat Bri tain into deserted swamps, amd to afford a stimulus to the lash of the foreign slave —owner, has net been made. The duty upon foreign corn, is at this moment just tiro shillings per quarter above the duty fixed upon by Lord lohn Russell, and t herefore..the " corn monopoly" has 9t been dealtwitli t his lordship to his. l or d s hip's satisfaction. In out of humour; and perhaps the able baronet could afford to listen nority vvithout compromising his charactei• that what had fallen from the Government justm,— expecting some mitigation of the provisions of the bill o- -n. baronet bad stated that certain amend the right lit, might be introduced into the, bill when in committee, it v, not inconsistent for the house to ask the Government for little delay. Why . should those who wished for the poet little consid , cause of that unfortunatee, circumstance may he attri= that was not granted 8 was thew - bated to the fact that his. lordship Js j ust now out of they did not n luck and out of office , should vote 4gainst this clause. to t y l i e el s d ho o u n ld th b i : i a l s t e . d if f the trov.— cboeufldrebtebienhdouucesed Reduc bills, ! 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I to be ad ' Ten l so many ;urn out WpAton the deceased's _ _.— intoxi- like the tzement arrival of n attack lin of an, ega,,rb •Of a ling of thi . , f Jerald. T REA ad their r. Jones j ' s.p l ac had reveal