The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-27 00:00:00

ME SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1865.

MISCELLANEOUS—Continued.
English and Scottish Marine, lim.,
Financial Corporation, 6
Financial Discount, lint., 1
Pore-street Warehouse, 11m., 98/
Gen. Credit and Finance 01 London, lint., 7 61
Hudson's Bay, 161 16
Imperial MerCantile Credit Asso., 1im.,17& 8
International Contract, 61 71 9
International Financial Society, lien., 71 7
Italian Irrigatitin (Canal Cavour), 91
Ditto,6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 811
Joint Stock Discount, lint,. 91
London and Caledonian Marine, lint., 51
Londim Financial Association, lint., 231
Ditto, new, 231
Lon o a acd Provincial Marine, 31
Madras Irrigation and Canal,
Ditto (all), 20
National Discount Company, Um., 151 1
Oriental Inland Steam, 21
Pen•nsula and Oriental Steam, 802 80
Ditto, new.
Societe Finat,ciere d'Egypte, lira., 41
Telegrat h & onstruc. anti Maintenance, lint., 21 .
Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lint., 71../
Universal Marine. Insurance, lint., 6

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
SMYTHE V. SMYTHE AND JONES.

This was a suit instituted by the husband against the
wife for a dissolution of marriage.
The case was of the ordinary description, and granted a
decree nisi with costs.

Cerebral Organisation of Kohl..

That Franz Muller spoke truly in denying his guiltiness
of murder, whether designed, or actually perpetrated by his
hand, may be admitted as likely by persons competent to
infer character from cerebral organisation. For Mullees
head stands forward boldly from that animalised contour
of brain which is now becoming familiar to persons much
in contact with the lowest class of convicts. " The type
of the criminal head and face," says a late writer in the
Times, "is well known in Portland and its neighbour-
hood."
. .

So well is this type and its varieties known to duly in-
formed phrenologists, that any of them with a little skill
in drawing could delineate with considerable accuracy the
outline of the head of any convict, the details of whose life
and crime were well established.
In the case of Kohl, who Was executed on the 26th inst.
at Chelmsford, for the murder of ruhrhop, there could be
no doubt as to the type of his head. By the kindness of
the High Sheriff of Essex I was permitted to take a cast
of Kohl's head after his execution. The reality almost
exceeded what I expected to see.
If, as there is now little ground for doubting, the inborn
moral and religious sentiments are the functional result of
action in the coronal parts, or organs, of the brain, the
animal feelings being in like manner connected with the
basilar region, then Kohl may be said to have come into
existence devoid of a moral nature ; and therefore to have
been, what he has proved himself to have been, a born
brute. I doubt if in the large number of casts of mur-
derers' heads in the phrenological collections there be half
a dozen of so low and dangerous a type as Kohl's.
In addition to the ordinary characteristics of the
brute man, Kohl had that one which intensifies every
other. He was a voracious eater and an epicure. The day
before his execution he asked for an extra allowance of meat
and bread, and at his last breakfast he called for new breed.
Cceteris paribus, the heavy feeder is ever the more brutal.
Kohl's demeanour since his condemnation was an alternation
of outbursts of savage rage and lapses into meek and smil-
ing craftiness. He had to be watched as if he were actu-
ally that to which his nature so closely approached, a
homicidal maniac, or a ferocious wild beast. The very full
development of his perceptive organs gave him the
intelligence so remarkable in most. of the savage races.
He was " quick to learn," but not " wise to know."
Of power to trace, prospectively, the concatenation of cause
and 'effect he must have been miserably deficient. His
forehead was "villainously low." Of coronal, or moral,
development his organisation was "below Zero." Reli-
gious and moral sentiment he must have been almost
totally devoid of. When even on the brink of "the jump
into the dark," (the fear of which alone restrains many of
the savages in this country from murdering), a word of
truth did not burst from Kohl's lips. The contrast between
the heads of Muller and Kohl must be very interesting to
phrenologists. Even to the number of intelligent persons
who, from ignorance of the doctrines of phrenology, or in-
attention to the language of the head (not an easy one to
learn) think of.phrenology as if it were a crotchet of a few
minds—not a new revelation of an original law of nature,
which not to know and obey is to be ever in danger—the
crimes, the fates, and the cerebral organisations of these
men ought to teach a lesson of at least modesty in judging,
and in speaking of, a subject of which all who have
not studied it can speak only at random. Of course
this observation does not apply to " critics," who have the
privilege of knowing all things, not by ex but by in-tuition,
and who are " all ready made." Let us not forget, in our
detestation of crime, and in the just punishment of crimi-
nals, that no man chooses his own mental organisation, nor
his education. In phrenology man is informed of a whole
code of laws, revealed in God's good time, but as yet
lamentably ignored and despised, even in quarters where
all the divine laws ought to be reverently studied, and from
which they should be loudly promulgated.
School of Phrenology, 111, Strand,

C. DONOVAN.

Jan. 27, 1865.

The Grievances of the Coalwhippers.

Last night an adjourned public meeting of coalwhippers
was held at the Phoenix Tavern, Broad-street, Ratcliff-
cross, for the purpose of receiving a report from the com-
mittee appointed at a former meeting, to decide upon what
steps should be taken to maintain the present price of 9d.
per ton per gang, for whipping coals from the colliers in the
river or basins to barges or wharves alongside, and to re-
port to the men.
C. C. HOOD, Esq., chairman of the Rateliff Board of
Works, was unanimously voted to the chair. In opening
the business of the meeting he expressed his hearty
sympathy with the coalwhippers in their present emer-
gency. He had on former occasions of strikes supported
the men, because he believed their complaint a just one,
and one which imperatively demanded remedy. He enjoined
them to be united amongst themselves, and to have faith in
each other, and he could assure them that they had the
sympathy of all right-minded men. He thought there
was every reason to be gratified that the factors had con-
ceded what the men asked. True, extraordinary pressure
had to be resorted to, and they were for the time helpless
to resist the men ; but small thanks were due to the
factors for an ungracious and compulsory concession.
But there was every reason to fear that a reduction to
the old price of 7d. would bo attempted by the intro-
duction of surfeit labour. He sincerely hoped, however,
that such would not prove the fact. He had been an ap-
prentice on the river himself, and could appreciate the diffi-
culties under which the men laboured.
Mr. KENNEDY, a coalwhipper, complained of having been
suspended from performing his work, and being summoned
to appear before the factors, because his name had appeared
upon the bills as hon. secretary to the movement. He ten-
dered his thanks to the men who had supported him and
themselves by refusing to work until he was allowed to
resume his duties. He hoped that in the event of a similar
circumstance occurring to himself or any other who made
himself prominent in that righteous movement the men would
act in the same manner. The committee had waited upon
several gentlemen since the last meeting, and their success
had been such as far exceeded their most sanguine expecta-
tions. The committee recommended that a society should
be formed, and a register of the names of the men kept, the
men to take ships by rotation, so as to secure a certain
amount of work to every gang. (Hear.) He hoped all the
outsiders and basket-men would fall in with that arrange-
ment—(hear)—and register themselves. (Cheers.) Al-
luding to the benefits which had accrued to the men by
their determined stand, he said that during the last three
weeks the advance of 2d. per ton, taking GOO ships, with
an average burden of 600 tons each, had distributed
£1,500 amongst the men, and as many appeared at that
meeting in " pea jackets" and better hats, he took it
for granted that they were a little better off than pre-
viously. (Cheers.) There was a number of gentlemen
(amongst whom was their staunch friend, the Rev. Mr,
Atherton, the rector) who were anxious to support them,
and the committee had received promises from various

gentlemen to support the men, and a sum of money in
furtherance of that object, amounting in the aggregate to
a little over six hundred guineas, had been promised—
(cheers)—which it was proposed to invest in the names of
trustees, to be appointed by the men themselves, to form
the nucleus of a fund, to which they must subscribe, to
render the establishment of a society, with rules certified
by Mr. Tidd Pratt. The details and rules would be sub-
mitted at a subsequent meeting.
Several other speakers having addressed the meeting,
the proceedings closed with the usual compliment to the
chairman.