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PHRENOLOGY.

Dt. fipurzteim delivered his eighteenth and last lecture, at the
Ctowie and Anchor Tavern, on Saturday last. In this lecture he
ewnposed to treat of the most important meek of applying Phrer.o.
leg .-he meant its application to the purposes of education. Look.
ing at mankitel in general, they were ch!iy,,ed to be treated in every
. 2=like children. Many books had been written do education,
so many, that whole libraries might be formed front beuks
on those subjects alone. But the fundamental principles of the art
of etluestion Itad been overlooked, and the consequence was, thee
faihne hid as often taken place as success. The real question was,
bow to excite the intellectual powers to activity. The animal poet-
ess, he was sorry to say, too generally prevailed over the intellectual
e these proper to man. Ile had, be hoped, shown that it was pose
• teak for the intellectual organs to govern the others. The laws of
propagation were not sufficiently attended to, or the race of man.
kind might be imrroved. There was a degree of certainty in a .
fawner wising good cattle, because he attended to these lases. Ile t
it teas not equally certain what sort of children might be horn from
-ray particular marriage. The neglect that was shown to these laws
lie supposed originated in the opinion that mat.kind were exempt
*cm the operation of the general laws or nature. But es .fry
bath violation of these laws inevitably brought with it its
own punishment. There was no doubt that the constitution
of the parents descended to the children. The manifestations
of the mind depended upon the body ; and as the body
was subject to certain laws, it was necessary to attend to them, in
seder to be able to judge of the organs of the mird. The Ancients
were well aequainted with the laws of propagation, and theft legia-
- Loon accordingly paid the greatest attention to them. For an ex-
ample of ilia they need only look to Moses, who they would find
'rode many regulations on this subject. But whilst, in society,
men in marrying only looked to a fine figure, or to pecuniary ad-
vantage, they could not be certain of haring a hardy offepring. It
was not only necessary to look to the sound state of health ora
. insetted pair, but to the sympathy that existed between them, and
. the harmony in which they lived. A man ought to seek an object
ib whom the whole of his powers might be satisfied, and with
whom he could live io peace. A man had the power of choosing
his companion, and in making that choice, he ought always to re-
retr.ber that not only the bodily constitution of parents descended
.11to their issue, but also the powers of mind. They might observe,
that some families were remarkable throughout for talents and in.
telleeetal capacities; this was the result of following, either inten-
tionally or by chance, the laws of propagation. It sometimes
lhappened that a family married within itself, as uncles with nieces,
,itepheers with aunts— reel nothing was more common than cousins
• with cousins • but this in-breeding had as bad effects in man as in
Jeeniroals ; sad would have the same effect as if a farmer were to
sow the some sort of seed in the same ground several years succes.
Overly : the quality of the produce was deteriorated. In short, it.
aroma be found, wherever families judiciously intermarried with
strangers, instead of brecdi'n among themselves, that the powers
tellere more active. With regard to physical education, to which I
Ais was now led, he should not say much e but in his opinion it
t' it to be commenced as soon as, or even before, a child was born.
- did not, however, go so for as some, who ascribed etch marvel.
- r efhets to it. The nature or temper of the person who suckled
ta child was supposed to be conveyed to the infant ; but he thought
*just as reasonable fur a man to account for his stupidity by saying
,be bad eaten beef, and therefore was a dull as an oz. Some food,
leaved, might be improper for children, but he thought that the
'only proper ground of preference was its capability of being di-
gested. Climate certainly had some influence on the constitution ;
-but he could not admit that it had such a paramount influence on
the mind as some supposed; for they found in the same climate
ten of all capacities. He did not even think that it had that in-
deence on the features that was ascribed to it, for if they looked to
the Jews, who were scattered all over the world, in every variety of
'climate, they would find that the character of the countenance re.
trained unchanged ; indeed, so much so; that it was possible even
as distinguish the difference between two tribes. The Professor then
proceeded to the subject of moral education. The nature of the'
exercise proper for the intellectual faculties had hitherto been very
little cousidered. That exercise strengthened them, was a truth
'well-known and universally admitted ; but the manner and degree 1
of exercise were not understood. Teachers had complained that
Ahoy were not so well able to guide the inclinations and feelings of
children As they were their intellectual powers. It would be just as
easy to guide the one as the other; but the proper way had not
been Attended to. If a child hal a very well-written system of
*ambling put into his hands, it would not make him a rod
enountebank ; for that purpose it be would necessary to ex-
ercise his legs, which reading the book would tint do. Nor
pould an essay en music or painting teach a child those arts,
beituse the corresponding powers of the mind were not ex.
ereited. It was merely the faculty of his memory that was
brought into play, which would not from a good musician or
ea good painter. The Professor further illustrated his arguments
on this point. He then reverted to the degree of exercise that was
to he giveq to the. powers. They were not to be exercised be-
prld their natural strength, or they would be exhausted. ' It Lad
been observed, that great preeoctty of talents had generally
:sweated disappointment by their decay in maturer age. The
proper way was, to exercise those powers that were not sufficiently
active, and to repress those that were too much so ; paying, at the
same time, proper attention to buddy health : and thus they would
have 'WHO Jana in carport- rano. The first intellectual power
isamcieed by a child was that of individuality: it was by this
faculty that a child first received knowledge, which was at the
same time pleasure, and therefore quickly and well acquired.
As the different powers expanded themselves, they ought to
Le cultivated, but, at the sante time, in such a manner as
to render it plcasent. A child ought not to be taught
things simply because it was fashionable to learn them, but
his attention should be directed to such ashe had a particular talent
far. Some children had the organ of language well developed,
others that of calculation. Now those children ought to apply to that
fte which they were respectively best fitted ; but why should a boy
be condemned to learn (heck and Latin if he had nut the inclina-
tion that war necessary to ensure success in those attainments ? He
was sorry to say that the knowledge of those languages was too ge-
nerally taken as a criterion that a man had received a good educa-
tion. The only sound reason for learning a language was, to read
Docks in thee language which contained instruction not to be found
fn those already known by the individual. Ile was, however, not
4ttinst the study of languages, but he thought that it was a waste
of time in those who had riot the necessary powers; for they might,
dtrittg the time so devoted to a useless pursuit, have studied some-
thing else in which they might have excelled. The Professor then
put several suppositious cases in support of his argument, for the •
etneloyrnent of children according to their different talents. It was,
he said, by a proper attention to this principle that the Jesuits at.
tained to such a degree of eminence.
in concluding his course of Lectures, the Professor thanked his
audience fcr the attention and kindness with which they bad heaid
Men, and then withdrew amidst the most lively exiereseions of ad-
miration and applause.
The audience was more numerous than at any of the former
lectures; indeed too numemus for the room in which they were
plotted. Sevenl ladies nearly fainted ; and the Professor was at
differed times so exhausted with the intense heat and confined at-
mosphere, that he was obliged to make several long pauses before
be could proceed.

The inhabitants of Poole, Dorset, have agreed to a
-petition for extending the proposed Western Ship Canal to
that port.
DOTER., A r ate 29.—Passed by for the River the Prince
Regent, of London, Captain Lamb, from Sydney, New
South Wales. The Purser and two passengers landed
from her, and, with them, a kangaroo, two fine cardinals
(birds), and various other natural curiosities. Came in
yesterday the steam-ship Tartar, from Falmouth, and
sailed again to-day for the River.
The Stewards for the annual dinner of the St. Patrick's
Charity Schools and Asylum for Female Orphans, earnestly
request that the Noblemen and Gentlemen intending to
dine at the Freemasons' Tavern on ikionday, the 2d May,
will bc there by half-past five o'clock, otherwise it will be
impossible to place them according to their respective
ranks, consistently with a wish to show all possible respect
to the benefactors generally.
The Horticultural Society of London have despatched
one of their most able collectors to the mcuth of the Co-
kembia, David Douglas, who was formerly one of the head
gardeners at the Glasgow botanical garden. He had, pre-
vious to his being sent on the present expedition, done
himself great credit, and given his employers the highest
satisfaction during his mission to the United States, for the
purpose of procuring plants and fruits for the Society. His
undertaking is now a far more arduous one. After spending
the ensuing season in collecting on the North West Coast,
through nearly ten degrees of latitude, he will cross the Rocky
Mountains in lat. 63, and fall in with Captain Franklin s
line of route at Isle de la Crosse, and return overland with
that enterprising officer to liudson's Bay.—American
M.e Courier of Me llfease gives, from a letter from
Namur, very circumstantial accounts of domiciliary visits
made there on the 13th of this month, in the house of M.
Florenvillc, Canon of the Cathedral, and formerly a monk
in the abbey of Floresse, in the absence of the proprietor,
by two Justices and some polite officer', attended by a
locksmith, who opened the doors. All the papers of the
Canon were seized. Similar visits were made at the resi-
dence of Messrs. Martin and Stevens, likewise monks of
Floresse, and lastly in the Abbey of Floresse itself, to
which the King's Attorney-General went in person. The
next day (the 16th of April) it was found that La Vilette
de Fume had been the scene of a similar expedition. Some
Officers of the Domains, accompanied only by the 'Mayor,
had made a similar visit to the house of M. &halide, the
clergyman of the place, though he was absent. Another
house, inhabited by an ecclesiastic, had been 'kited in
the same manner as that of M. Florcnville. These pro-
ceedings have eanqed great surprise and sensation in the
place wnere they ware made, and have given rise to num-
berless conjectures.

LA IT INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY. FaurAT, Ann. 29•

ATIIIRTOX W. PINK AIM OTHERS.
Mr. StlADwlat said, when this motion was opened a few days
ago, rral irg fo- further time to enable Mr. Justice Park to put in
his answer to the bill tiled in this cause, tie Court desired Mr.
Cowburn to tyrke an ntridavit explaining a letter be had written to •
the plsir tiff 's solicitor. Mr. (lowborn icihe solicitor or Mr. Justice
Park, ar.d a con:iderehle time before litchi!l was filed, be wrote the
letter in caction, which stated that he was fully in possession of
all the accounts to enable him to meet a suit if it were instituted in '
this Court; but this motion was rendered neeessaty, because the
de:rodeo:a now applying and the solicitor, had considered that Mr.
Cowburn had not sufficient of the accounts to enable the defendants
to pot in such an answer as to bring all the rircumstauces of the
case before the Mart. The affidavit. of Mr. Cowburn. now made,
stated, the accounts he hod related only to all the accounts of one
I of the CU:COMM which it appeared there was 2,111.:01. due to
the pinintqr. which his client was wifirg to ray, bet the bill
clairrietlXl,ool. seeking the production of the papers of three de-
ceased executors. The Learned Counsel could album the Court.
that it was not the intention of hie client to impede the hearing of
the cause; lie was a town elem.:lca, but then there were country
defendants ;No; and even if further time was allowed to Mr.
Justice Park to put in hie answer, that would not delsy the pm-
Kress of proceedings at all, because the cause would not be
brought to a heatirg until the AllbriClS of the country defendants
also came in.
Mr. Otintawr appeared also on behalf of Mr. Justice Park,
and said, when Mr. Cowburn wrote the letter in question. it was
perfectly understood, both by the writer of it and those to whom it
was adHossed, that it related only to the accounts of one of the
deceased Athertons, and it Mel unfair now to say, it was to be
taken as referring to the accounts of the three. Only a day or two
before it was written, at a meeting of the solicitors it was most dis-
tinctly understood by fie solicitors of the plaintiff, that Mr. Cow-
burn had not the accounts the bill sought information respecting ;
he bad only those accounts which the solicitors for the plaintiff
themselves had copies of.
Mr. iiiCKERSTII it, centre, would Lave felt extremely happy
if any favourable explanation had been given of Mr. Cowburn's
letter; to his mind the mean unsatisfactory explanation had been
attempted to he given ; nor had one ground been stated why further
time should he given. In addition to what he had said before, lie
would say, that Mr. Cowburn, by his affidavit, now admitted that
at least 2,000/. were in hands in which it ought not to be permitted
to remain; therefore he had no doubt hie Lordship would either
order it to be raid to the plaintiff or into Court immediately.
Mr. SHADT; ELL said • word or two in reply.
His Lon nem ft desired to have Mr. Cowburn's letter and affi-
davit handed up to him ; after looking at them, he said, he could
not help thinking, both from reading the lever itself, and the ex.
planation now given, that the letter might (to say the least of it)
have been more carefully worded. This defendant would have to
be treated exactly as any other defendant might expect to be, and
should be treatcy. At the same time it was to be recollected that,
though he was a town defendant, yet having to go on the Western
Circuit, and subsequently to attend at the Old Bailey, his time
might not have permitted him to put in his answer at the time he
might otherwise have been prepared to do: anti therefore he ought
to have further time; but three months, the time sought by the
notice of mots m, was quite out of all question. The order should be,
that the 2,0001. should he paid into Court within a fortnight from
this time, and, upon consideration of that being done, and the de-
fendants paying all the costs now incurred, he should have six
weeks further time to put in his answer.

OOURT OF KING'S BENCH, FATE)42', ArIIL 29.

In Banco.
TIFIZ_ZING V. sm. IPTWNIff

On Friday last ii7.Pilliaitain7,4;,;fe:ealling on Mrs. Penny
to show cause why an attachment should not issue against her for
having made a false return to a writ of Habeas Corpus, which re-
quired her to bring up the body of her daughter, Mary Ann Fur-
ore, who was supposed to be under the power and control of the
defendant.
Mr. Scant-TT T now showed cause against the rule. It appeared
by his affidavits, that Mee. Penny, who was living with her hus-
band in the city of Gloucester, and was possessed of some con-
siderable penperty,had been acquainted with a person who formerly
resided at Gloucester, but who had since become the wife of a per-
son named Forster, who lived in London. Mr. aed Mrs. Penny
I had an only daughter (the lady in question), and who had often
been issited by Mrs. Forster to come to town and spend a few
weeks with her, and Mrs. Penny was at length induced to permit
hir daughter to do so. After the young lady had been in town
About five weeks, Mrs. Penny was astonished at receiving a letter
from some person, stating that her daughter was under the most
perilous circumstances, and that It was absolutely necessary she
(Mn. P.) should come to London immediately. Accordingly she
came to town, a I went to the house of her acquaintance, Mrs.
Forster, where she found her daughter in bed with that person.
No :antler did the daughter behold her mother than she fainted.
After she had recovered, the communication was made to the
parent, that her child (for she was butt about le or 16 years old)
had been led into a marriage with the brother of Mrs. Forster's
husband, who was a nelson of no property, and was by trade a
journeyman paper-hanger. The daughter entreated her mother to
rescue her from her dangerous situation, and then it was that the de-
fendant took her daughter away, and left her under the protection
of a friend whose name was Hail. Previouelv, however, to the
return made by the defendant to the writ of Habeas Corpus, Mr.
Hall informed her that her daughter had left his house, under the
apprehension, as he believed, that her husband would discover
where she was living, and contrive in some way to get her back to
himself. The return, therefore, was strictly true; and he (Mr.
Eesrlett) was sure, that if their Lordships had known the facts,
and that the daughter was not in the possession or under the con-
trol of the mother at the time the writ was applied for, they would
not have allowed it to be issued.
111 r. PLATT said it was quite clear, from the affidavit which he
had, that the mother did know where l:cr daughter was at the time
of her making the return.
Mr. SCARLETT replied, that Mr. flan was quite ready to make
affidavit, that the daughter was placed in his house by the mother.
and that the latter went down to Gloucester under the belief that
her daughter would remain with him. It seemed strange that the
Habeas Corpus should have been issued under these circumstances,
and it was more strange that an attachment should row be applied
for against a married woman, who was quite willing to disclose all
the frets within her knowledge.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.—There may be a wilful igno- '
ranee on the part of the mother as to where the daughter is to be
found. lam afraid we must deal with the return in this Instance,
as we do in all other cases, unless you can show that there are some
peculiar circumstances attending it. This writ is a very great one,
and there would be much daeger in rendering it altogether nu-
puny, if we were to accept the excuse now offered. Nothing
I would be more easy than to evade • Habeas Corpus, If a per.
son who gets poesession of another person, and deposits him or her
with some third friend, were to be permitted to turn round and say,
" I do no: know where the individual is, for I am told that be has
absconded from the person to whom I entrusted him."
Mr. Justice BATLEY.—Perhaps if the rule were to be enlarged
for a few days, the lady would be forthcoming.
Mr. PLATT—WO have • promise from the opposite party, that
she shall be produced under certain circumstances.
Mr. SAaLETT—If you have, then there is less reason for your
preesing for the attachment. Mr. Hall is willing to make affidavit
that he 'believe, Mrs. Forster left his house to avoid het husband ;
and that if she were to appear, and your Lordships were to allow her
to choose for herself (and that is all. your Lordships can do, for the
Court have no power to compel her to live with her husband). Mr.
Hall says he believes she would immediately go home toiler father
at Gloucester.
The Loan Cietee Jc remit—het the rule be enlarged to
Tuesday.
Mr. PLATT said, that as there was reason to believe the daugh-
ter was in town, he thought she might appear before Tuesday, for
the parties had only been together eta days, and to keep them apart
another week was perhaps rather too hard. He also proposed
that she should attend at one of their Lordship's Chatnli n, as
it was desirable to avoid her rushing into her husband's arms in
open Court. (A laugh.)
It was flatiliv agreed, that as the mother was waiting In London,'
her daughter should attend at one of the Judge's Chambers on Mon.
day next.
MURDER OF A NEAL/A G PARTY IN NEW
• SOUTH WALES.

Accounts have reached us of an attack recently made unon a
party of sealers in Bass Straits, by the natives of Van Diemen's
Land, in which attack all the men belonging to the boat, except
one, were massacred. It appears that the leader of this party had,
shout three years ago, got hold of a native girl, with whom he had
since cohabited, and that this girl was with them In the boat.
When out sealing one day, their resolred to run ashore and amuse
themselves in the country. When they landed, they sent this girl
to a party of natives to endeavour to decoy some females from their
coot panions. After remaining absent two or three days, she re-
turned, and stated Writ she expected some of the native girls to
join them very shortly. In the night-time she contrived to secrete
a musket, the only one they had. Next morning a band of blacks
came down and murdered them, without their being able to de-
fend themselves, or make the least resistarce. A man who had
been left in charge of the boat, contrived to make his escape. He
having got some intimation of the fate of his companions, had just
time to get away wish the boat, when dip natives arrived on the
beach with the Intention of despatching him also. The name of the
man to whom the boat belonged was Duncan Bell. Under his
pmteetion also was this girl, through whose treachery the party
lost their lives. :The has a child, of which Hell is the reputed father.
The name of another of the sufferers is samuel Siewatt, the son of
the well- koown Nobby Stewart, who met a similsr fate some time
ago, having been murdered by natives on the coast of this island.
3 he names of the others are unknown..—sfustra/ian of Oct. 28.

HUNT, TUC CONVICT.-It has been reported in several
of the papers, that Hunt, whose sentence of death was commuted
to tranhponstion for life, had died, or had been shot in a mutiny
that occurred oa board the Countess of Harcourt convict ship, on
her ptraage nut to New South Wales. It happens, otifortunati.ly
for the foregoing statement, that the Countess of Harcourt has re-
turned to England, having disembarked her living cargo (Hunt
among the ram) at their ordered drAitation, and the Captain of
the said convict ship states, that the whole of the report Is utterly
destitute of truth.

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