The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

AUCTION OF THE CONNEMARA ESTATES.

?MI DAT.

Yesterday, at the Mart, Mr. Wainwright concluded
the attempt to disp MN of these 'suasive properties, but, as
on the former days, although the room was well attended, '
but very few bidding. were made, and it was understood
that not one single lot was mold yeeterday. The caralogne
for taat day contained seventeen lots, extending over a vast
district of land in the barony of Ballynaltineh, in the county
of Galway, with numerous islands and
Lots 98 and 99, containing the townlands of Dooletter,
east and west, Knock :icy and Colleen, 2,868 acres, were
passed for want of bidders.
Lot 100. Townland of Ardent and islands is AM Bay,
218 a., was bought is at 1.2001.-1501. only bent; offered.
Lots 101, 102,108, and 104, being Ardwrst, and various
townlands and islands in Ard and Bertughboy Bays, were
passed—ne bidders offering.
Lot 105. Croagnakeela or Doer Island, need as a deer
park, with 200 deer thereon, was bought is at 4001.-601.
' offered.
Lou 106, 107,108. Bt. Karidaras and other small islands—
no bidder, appeared for either lot.
Lot 109. Townlands of Murvey, Rubber', west and
east, Letterdife sad the denomination called Boundstone,
with a town of 70 nooses, the privileges of holding fairs and
markets, peincipally let on Isamu at cations terms and rentals,
total of the lot, 6,846 acres. For this lot 2,0001. was offered,
and no higher bidding being made, it was bought in at
12,0001.
Lot 110 was the principal lot in the sale, and somprind
the " Bally attuned demesne, withal* residence called Bally-
nahinch Castle, the magnificent lakes, rivers, woody glens,
fisheries, and mountains of marble, crinpvised in 76 town-
lands and islands, containine in the whole 60,645 a. Ir. 20,r.
of highly productive and improvable arable, pasture and bog
land." The description of this lot extended over eight pages
of the large folio catalogue. The auctioneer 'irked for some
bidder to oommease with 100,0001., mewing the company
that the smallest mane at which it could be stated would be
doable that use, hat no bidding at all was offered, and the
lot was pried.
Lot 111. Tim teweland of Bunnavirkans, in the half
barony of Roes, 1492 acres, occupied in 1847 by three tenants
at 1201. Foe this lot the bidding, commenced at 1,5001.,
sad increased to 2,6001., but the property was bought in at
2,8001.
Lots 112, 113, 114. Other large townlands in the half
barony of Bose, being also withdrawn from the want of bid-
ding., concluded the attempted sale.

RESCUE OF CATTLE.—COLLMON WITH THE
POLlCll.—Abott six o'clock on the morning of the 30th ult.
• party of men, numbering about 100, and Jumada by Denis
Crowe, Philip Russell, and Thomas Ryan. come to Michael
Kethicdy's pound at Kilnefloch, forcibly broke it open,
and earned awe seventeen hoed of cattle, which had bees
seised by Mr. Jain Maher, of BAllybag, for • rent charge
id due to Mr. John Hunt, untlogrotre. The cattle which
ware grazing on Mr. Rani's land were the property of
Crow.. While driving away the cattle the party met oa
the road Patrick Kennedy (rate collector and brother to the
pound keeper), whom they assaulted and robbed of a small
pistol. The uesurrence having been reported to the policed
Lathers, the Kennedy., a constable, and four sub.
constables went in pursuit, and came up at the
village of Clothholm to the cattle, with which there
was no person. On the poandliseper attempting Ito tura
them back, he and the police were immediately attacked with '
stones and other missiles by over • hundred pampas, who
were sheltered by ditches and the yards of houses. Oa the
plies remonstrating with them on the: impropriety of their
conduct, they were answered by a volley of stones, and a
sub-onstahle's carbine was broken. The police finding
themselves placed in imminent danger, and surrounded on
all sides by an exci able mob, hurling stones, the constable
ordered them to prime and load and lire. PIM, fired is the
nheetion of their assailants, who were covered by ditches and
hedges, =dom.( whom, named Casey, was slightly wounded
in the arm. The party, however, succeeded to driving off
the cattle. The police thought it prudent not to interfere
further in the matter, and returned to their barrack.—
Veriaph &tardier".
ENCUMBERED ESTATES COMMISSION.—The fol-
lowing additional petitions have been lodged in the
cake of the Encumbered Estate* Commission: William
Bulge, owner, John Waring, petitioner; Richard H. Le-
ring', owner, William Leetrange, pet. ; Jobs M. S:aekpoole,
owner, Robert M. Callinan, rot. ; Mary Brasill, widow,
Stephen Dick,on Bresill, and Richard Brasil), owners, Jane
Caroline B. than, spinster, pet. ; John D. Roland Bateman.
owner. El sabeth Stokes, pet. ; Robert Remington, owner,
Dania Curtin, pet. ; Hyacinth Darcy, owner, Coate Carroll,
pet. ; Nathaniel Alexander, owner, Helen pet ;
David Watson Rutledge, Samuel M'Clintock. George P.
M'Clintoe.k, John Samuel M'Clintock, and John *Can-
ted', owners, Denis Moylsn, pet.; Bind= Scott, George
Stamen Breretos, and John Richard Jackson, owners,
George Stainer Brereton and John Richard Jackson, pets.;
Elisabeth Eleanor Bingham, wife of Denis Bingham, owner,
John 11•01111, pet. ; Henry MseNiunara Morgan, owner,
Maria Diverting; Frederick T. Jump, and Thoobald Billing,
Psis•
HARTLEPOOL CHURCH LEASES, Conaidersbie

eamotodon mist; at peewit is this lowa, Is esseequesse of
its hawing been discovered t►at the lessee grautedifeem dam to
time by the thurchwardeas, are iavalid. It would appear that
do Irises is vodka have bees ►estowed by the modem
sad Mayer, fustead of the wardeas and roamers, sad that
the church property so eammyed has bees let at mass ter
below the peeper value, and alder eiremastmess which lead
to the suspicion that other latereste ha►e bees studied ia the
wader this those which Mould have bees kept is view by
the astbotiries.—Nowasta deardiam.

WALLAIET COMMIMIOSMIL—The natal monthly
ea was held on Thursday evening at the Queen's Arms
Hotel, Liu mod ; Mr. Mean chairmen. Tkuremert of the
loam sommitte• recommended that a rate of li. should be
hid far the miming year. Kr. Hill, the chairman of the
Games menenittee, entered into a Wag statemegl why the
committee bad reessameaded that s ls. rate shout he laid.
He said*. IMM. wadi be regaled foe the }dish, SOL he'
Me surveyor 19111. kir tbe collector, 1601. for law deck, 1961 •
for bonds, 4601. for a debt owing to Sir. Hama, sad 1371.
kw 'midweek', making a total saes of 1,6001. la order
to met tat" It was necessary that lc rate should be laid.
He (Kr. Hill) said that the 'slue of prepay wormed was
82,0001 One shilling la the pound on that tam would pro-
duces 1,6001 , sad deducting 6 per mat fee empty homes,
he., ft would leave very little short of the mann of the
expense re quire& Mr. Meadows proposed, se on mead-
meat, that Me rate be 61 A motion that the 91. rats be
kid was Minutely carried. A motion of Mr. Meodayse',
for the dimissal of the surveyor, was diesusesd.—Liver.
pool Mau.
SIGNAL ILLUSTRATION OF ZEAL TOR TEE fiaBIATIL
—The Times, in &leg an aceoant of the preesedings at the
Pept-oMmi last Sunday is carrying the sow arraegmeeats
into effect, mentions s signal inflame of seal for the holy
observance of the 8 .bbath, and its protection whist profs-
nation Some misoltievoas person plena 24-round
ladder across the road witkia the iron railings at the bask of
the Post oSae, I. the way of the letter omnibus,. It is
fortunate, however, that it was broken by the passing of an
empty vehicle." We have seen how seal tor MN d the
commandments has made ma neglectful of another aeainst
false witness, but the same seal is new, it seems, mantles
to • madams to murder. We wonder whether this pleas
labour of Orin. Ma ladder to upset tie esielbeme sad
maim or destroy the drivers, wee perfumed ca the Sunday,
for the "sold hamar and It ly keeping of
_which it was
Wended ; and wheMar, ff so, it was aisd amongst the
necessary works—the works mon mos? than works of
charity sad benefinenes. Protia the at VS 141111111
1-nsly plead on the Saturday night is ratio& ot mkt
(Afar for Sunday. the saintly assassin (la intention) miding
himself on abstaining rigidly from following his usual avow,
lion of wickedness on the Sabbath.—Brarissisr.

ZCOUNT OF THR HEAD OF RUSH, THE
NORFOLK MURDERER, BY DR. ELLIOTSON.

(Alaidged Sia Ur Zoid.)

The true nature of Rash cannot be mistaken. It is
certain that he was, in every respect, an atrocious
and a villain of extraordicary force of charaeter. Hie acts
were such that his thole nature is unveiled ; and If the de-
velopment of his head had not agreed according to
prinapaas with Lis life, Gall's physiology of the brain most
have fallen to the ground for ever. Therefore, before we
saw the east of Rusk's head, we all declared that his bead
must have bees very la-ge ; the organs of the disposition to
violence, of courage, sad of the love of property, of cunning,
of the love of the oppoeite sex, and of food, enormously
large; while thine of self-esteem and love of notoriety, with
the lower range of intellectual organs, mutt have been large ;
and, provided the brain were healthy, the organs of jetties
and caution, and the t labor intellectual organs, small.
As to courage, or combativeness, which is courage la
excess, Mr. Beattie—the alpines and useful lecturer en mes-
merism and cerebral physiology—lnforms me that • friend
of his sat on the same bench with Rush at school, and that
Rush was always reedy to fight any boy for a penny, and was
nicknamed "Gully " by the boys for his propensity to fight.
looker life he frequented fighting cribs. His great courage
wu manifested in his bold attacks upon Mr. Jermy's (may,
unaided by any antamplice, and when all were up and stir-
rirg ; by his unaided defence en the trial, before counsel,
judge, and witnesses, and the whole world, during six long
days; and the steadinees of his demeanour at his execution,
for his step
doom, and when the rope was adjusting be saideoolly. " This
does not go easy, put the thing • little higher—take your
time—don't be In a hurry ; " and these were his last words;
and his courage was as striking at the trial.
As witness after witness cut away every fragment of •
chance his nerves seemed to become more firmly strong, and
his reschnion more unassailable. Waite every eye was
turned on him with loathing—while 0.. every side his gest
must have rested on a maw of laces breathing but one stn-
clement—on pen and pencil busily engaged in writing the lines
which proclaimed his atrocity to the world—on &tents re-
cording the lineaments of his features for the gratification of
every vulgar crowd, and for the ornament of every village
alehouse—. tole he knew he stood there, ens, ntenced and
untri d, Rush, the murderer,—he looked about him with an
unahrinking eye ; arranged his papers as coolly as if he were
engaged in • college thesis, and never gave one single
minute touch which showed he felt leer or compunction. In
fact, he was a sort of rustic Rlebard the Third—bloody,
resolute, and cruel.

His l'ove of gain appeared in his extreme energy in
business, and his engaging in far more concerns than he had
the means or the time to conduct efficiently. He bad many
actions successively brought against him for breach of
covalent', and his endless pecuniary transactions appear to
bays been characterised by grasping and roguery. His
murderous attack upon the Jermys was partly to obtain pro-
p, ray fraduleatly and to escape the obligation of payment,
as well as to gratify revenge.
His cunning was displayed on all occasions; it mixed itself
with every act of his life; he did nothing without artifice.
He wished to appear a marvellously religious man. In his
croamexamination he continually urged religious ionsidera-
tions vim the witnesses to induce tb‘m by perplexing them
to rpeak the truth, as he coiled it, but which would here
bun a perversion of truth. He attended places of worship
with some regularity; listened emotively and with deep
emotion; sometimes disturbing the congregation with sighs
and sobs ; took the sacrament, and bed family prayers read
every morning, even while be was arranging Ids murders.
When two pennas Lunt!. and Jermy, were at his house,
that he night aid Ism in a claim upon Mr. leeway's estate,
and he was laying his plans to fix the future murders upon
them, he joined with them, upon his knees, in family prayer.
In addition to what bas been incidentally mentioned in
regard to another part of his character, we are told that,
when younger. " he was known among his companions as a
libertine, mid few have earned ant so regularly atd %minim
in this particular, the desires of a depraved and sensual
appetite."
His attention to taking his food was strikingly shown by
his words in the " indentned" cell, after sentence was
passed. " Where's my supper ?" he Exclaimed, " I want
my sapper after • hard day's work. I shall now live at the
country s expense;" no refreshment being ready, he threw
himself upon the bed.
However great was his cunning, he was deficient in cau-
tious's'''. His enjoyments beyond his mean", his idea of
murdering the Jermys and not bring at once suspected, big
not mfieeting that the sensation would be intense and the
murderer be ultimately deeeted, the defence of himself on
hie trial, and his absurd mode of conducting, all exhibited
a gnat deficiency of caution: as indeed did his whole life.
He was always sly, but never prudent; just like so many
bed man who form a false idea of the sources of true
happiness. In assuming the appearance of innocince and
piety io gaol, he so over acted his par. as clearly to show his
nypoormy.
Ws want of justice or co
with his want of pendent'.
He must have had a high opinion of himself or he would
not have tak nso much upon himself in busineu, nor relied
upon hit own strength for his deence. Throughout life be
had been fund of seltreliance.

less was equally grist

His love of approbation oontribatai, no doubt, to Ms reli.
pions h)pocrky, and was exhibit. d to the last in his pro-
Mutation of innocence. His constant language is prison
was, "Thaak Gud, I am quite comfortable in body and
mind; I eat well, driok welt, and sleep well." After his
' committal, he was constant in his 'Mindanao at chapel,
and soon requested to have the scramtint administered to
him privately. He pretended to slap beaudtully when be
positively did not at all ou the las: night of Ins Me. When
the shaplein urged him on the morning of execution to
repent of his crime, he replied, " Gad knows my heat ; Ile
is my judge, and you have prejudged me :" and when the
chiiplain and a dissenting minister at a late hour urged
confession and repentance he began to quarrel violently
with them, and thegovernor entered this chapel and pinioned
him. Ho once coolly tutted if they bad begun to put up that
asao:.ine (the Hallows), and, haying no assent', said he
hoped it would be a fine day. He walked to the gallows in
black, with patent leather boo's, and his tempo) daily white
.hirt collar folded down, turning his face from the crowd to
the castle wall. He haul always made himself so agreeable
at a respectable party that be was considered an acquisition.
He was, not.ithstandiog, nit destitu.e of kind feeling
of love for his offspring, or of veneration. Wit, nhe found
he had wounded the maid-servant, who had nobly come for-
ward to defend tier mistress when terrified at tt.e reports as
toe two Me. Jercny's fell, he exclaimed, "Poor thine, p. or
thiug," and certainly from no other reason than pity, for
he ran a risk of his voice being recognised, and could not be
attempting to mace any one suppose that he regr-ttted it:
pity only will explain it. He was liked by bit workmen.
At chuck he would be as uni.oncerned as a rock while
future punishment will dwelt upon ; but, when • dying
Christ was the topic, he would be greatly effected, and
nothing but this seemed to cause emotion in him at
church.

He stole a cheque for 401. daring his trial : and absolutely
denied all knowledge of it till he became setisfied that it
would be appropriated to his children it found; and he then
took it Earth from behind the lining of his nat. He was
ointh moved when the Rev. Mr. Andrew. brought certain
family matters to Ile recollections, an.l.his Brittle for a time
seemed subdued. He was a very indulgent father.
Many a bandit, both robber and murderer, has been reli-
gious; that is, be has firmly believed all the supernatural
accounts and opinions inculcated on him, end worshipped
and humbled himself sincerely in prayer. How many of the
religions world around us are it.l utcharitahlene-e in de-
trimming others net of the mime faucies, malicious, and most
given to creature comforts, even to sensuality, so as to be
Cheistims moving up tt velvet; and yet are sincerely roll-
' gloss, that u, are r range* to the principles of Christ, but,
like Calvin, fancy themselves to be Christiana. no, a, in
Ruth, there is a great admixture of cant and hypocrisy in
the religious world, cannot be doubted; but how much it is
not always mey to determine.
People are excited to hypocrisy by the absurdity of too
many of the religious world who praise their neighbour,
not 6.r excellence of life, who
for all the outward per-
former:toes and show of religion, so profitable to the per-
former, and for his profession of particular opinions on
matters whieh would require for doe appreclati or even
tomprehension, if some can be comprehend. el, far more
intelligence and study than fall to the lot of the bulk of
those calls(' the educated. though sound and genuine
education has scarcely yet began among us. Europe
is christias ; yet bloody battles are incessantly fought
in it. Tyne millions and a half of soldiers with ample
instruments of dealt said to be maintained ; and England to
pay annually 46,000,000 pounds sterling fur ware past,
present, or to come. Were Christ to revisit earth, whatever
profession of christianity he might find, he woul t find little
conception of the baastifel spirit and little obedient, to the
precepiewhich he so simply and in so unpriestly a manner
inculcated ; be would have to recommence his great and
blessed work, slid show that he had been completely misun-
derstood. Hypocrisy, the mere @bedew of virtue, and a false
estimate of virtue aoditappiness, are sadly encounthed by the
richer ret, the instructed, and the teachers of dm people,
though they think it not.
Rush, though be could talk glibly, and was a sharp, moire
man of business, showed no force or grasp of intellect. His
defeat* was mat loose aid rambling ; he asked irrelevant
questions- sometimes he aimed at what mull be of no
service to him, and sometimes disgusted every person by his
stupid and glaring efforts to establi-h falsehood. His force
of cheracter was gnat, but it was the force of all the lower
feelings. Placed in certain high situations, be might have
become in the vulgar sense a great and renowned man—
might have destroyed nations most heroically, and, if cursed
with arbitrary power, have trodden ulna the necks of =A-
llots of sutdeets. But the want of high intelligence and f
a high sense of justice and benevolence rendered his strength
mere brutaiity.
Ia socardenee with his qualities, his heal is very largo.
The ipirminferenes of his oast over the eyes is 244 inches ; •
line draws from ear to ear one the eyes is 124; ditto back-
wards, 12; ditto over his head, 124. Bat, unfortunately, the
head* large where it had better have been sisaller, end
small where it had better have been large. TN had strikes
a perms, even unacquainted with phrenology. ae one of the
most monstrous and ill-shaped ever beheld—qttite as hideous
as his character, and his fete is in exact secordame—his
upper lip is frightful. The sides of his head sad the lower
part of its back are enormous, and there lay the pseritim—the
fzreibls part—of his character. The organs es •limentive-
sees, sexual impales the love of property (amaisitiveams),
the disposition to violence (destrarivenem), the disposition
to contend (enarair, combativeness), miming teseiretivenees),
are marmot*. The breadth at disposition te violence, 64
I Ware: ditto 066•146.56; alto love y, 84 ~ ditto
,14 ; ditto maze Memel ;
nea467.
m,
The remarkable negative part of his character arose from
the smallness of his organs of ;ratite and caution. In the

dilation of these organs the head grows aurow and slope.
down in a most singular manner. The contrast with the
ether organs aL-aady mentioned strikes every eye. At caution
the breadth is only 4i inches.
The organs of attachment, love of offspring, love of no-
toriety, or vanity, a. Gall terms it, and of self-esteem, are
large. The foto, of any of them would be my great when
one or more of the six very Large organs at the lower part of
the sides and beck of the head—destructiveness, nubs-
' limner, cumin, An., acted In concert with them ; but
must have been overpowered when opposed by one or mere
of them.

The same remark holds with newt to benevlenee,
veneration, and firmness, which are not gaits so large as the
four former, but still are full. The organ of ideality is not
at all deficient. The organ of firmness, or rather perseverance,
is not an overpowering organ in him, but much that is
called Armour' is really either oonrage or the strong action
of sems other organ ; and his organs of perseverance were
so supported by the immense power of the very large organs,
that I see no reason to doubt, from Rush's heed, that Gall is
correct in what he advance • upon this faculty and organ.
The term firmness, in common acceptation, signifies some-
times steadiness in a course, sometimes resolution or courage
in some particular circumstance. The termer is supposed
to be the faculty of the organ. The disluice immured by
callipers Iron the orifice of the ear to firmness is 61 inehea ;
ditto from veneration, 6 ; ditto benevolence. 61 ; ditto self-
teem, 61 ; ditto pare ntal love, 51. The breadth at the centre
of the two organs of attachment is 4.
The development of his intellectual organs is is aecordaace
with what we know of Lim. The lower range, the percep-
tive organs as some term them, were in g I large ; while
the higher or reflective range were poor.
The ergot's of music, the sense of persons, form, lan-
neap., and locality, were large. His speech in his defence
for 14 hours proved he had words enough at command, and
he was known to be very Lnd of music, and to play well
upon the flute.
His organ of observation, of the sense of things, as
Gail denominates It, divided by Dr. Eipurzheim, on • hat
groand I knew not, into individuality and eventuality, was
not quite so large. The length from the orifice of the ear
to it is Lie inches.

• organ of order was small.
The upper row of intellectual organs was among the
smallest of his head. Hie forehead at this part was narrow
and did not advance. Casualty was small, wit small, and
comparison was larger. The length from the orifice of the
ear to comparison was 61 inches. Tree distance of the
cen.re of each organ of casualty 21 inches; the breadth at
the outer extremity of the orbits being dl inches. Si that
the want of intellectual power exhibited In his defence is
fully accounted for.e Such a brain would ntv,r have
chosen intellectual pursuits, but must always have eceui.ied
itself in the gratification of the feelings which Vie brute de-
partment of animals possess, some one, and soma moths'', is
equal force with ourselves.}

• Tbe head is farther ill.ebaped. The posterior portion of the
right side and the superior portion of the back are matter ; and the
anterior portion of the Lett side smaller than their opposites.
•

♦ My cast of Rush was taken from the corpse at Norweb, by en
Italian dr/re-maker resident there, and sold by hbai to B. Pad, No.
3, klerford-place, Drury-lane. who sells copes for a few "Wing%
and is a man whom I can recommend for taking casts, both on so.
count of him vial' and inteirity. Whoever wishes for a rat of a de-
ceased relative will Pad In him an admirably-eonducted man.