The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-13 00:00:00

UST.

FORWOOD'S PHRENOLOGY.

There is a class of persons, and by no means a
small one, who are born with unsound constitu-
tions, made of sickly material, with delicate fibres,
delicate all over, incapable of really healthy diges-
tion and assimilation, and, of course, incapable of
making good wholesome blood. Such persons
favourably circumstanced as to air, occupation, diet,
and education often improve and hold on for many
years without becoming victims to any particular
disease. The brain, however distinct its functions,
may be from the functions of the organs
in the trunk, is nevertheless in close associa-
tion with these organs. From these it has to receive
its constant supply through the blood of food
wherewith to repair its waste of fibre. Originally
partaking of the constitution of the rest of the
system, its aliment in such cases as are here alluded
to is liable to be of a very unwholesome kind, and
thus its natural delicacy and liability to diseased
action are continually aggravated more or less ac-
cording to circumstances.
In many instances a scrofulous diathesis is at
the root of this kind of constitution. This fact
may notbe indicated by the ordinary glandular signs,
but it is discernible in the form and position of
the teeth, their early decay, the size, form, and
consistency of the nails, the texture and colour of
the skin, the hair, the mode of breathing, the clear
and watery eye, and other minute indications
known only to keen and practised observers of such
signs and tokens. But too many medical men are
unacquainted with these nice symptoms, and do not
see the insidious evil that they indicate. When
persons with this kind of constitution happen to
have sufficiently large and fairly formed brains, not
primarily attacked by scrofulous action, they may
ride through life's voyage unwrecked, circumstances
favouring them, though they are even in danger
of attacks of acute disease, whether of body or
mind. Such attacks may not produce common in-
sanity, but only some of the various eccentric no-
tions on moral, religious, or other subjects, call
them " hobbyriding," ruling passions," or " darling
ideas" of one class or another. Infelicitously or-
ganised in brain, such constitutions of body or
mind usually tell their story early in life, and at a
more or less rapid pace arrive at a tragic terminus
—best when this is the cemetery.
Of this class of constitutions was Forwood, exe-
cuted on the 11th inst. at Maidstone, for the mur-
der of three children by poison in London, and
of his wife and one child at Ramsgate. I did not
see him alive, but I could discern some of the more
obscure signs of a scrofulous diathesis. His teeth
were for the most part decayed, his nails small,
short, and brittle, his head partially bald, though
he was only 35 years old, and on his chin, at one
side, there was an obvious scar, indicative of a
lanced abscess long healed. He was, if not very
ill made, of a typeless figure. His feet were flat
and much turned outwards. Like many persons of
scrofulous habits he was a heavy feeder, and a great
bread eater. But his head was by no means of any
of the types exhibited in the numerous casts of the
heads of criminals in the phrenological collections.
He seems to have had a smattering of phrenology,
as of several subjects, and he requested of the Gover-
nor of Maidstone gaol that a cast of his head might be
taken, a report thereon had from a competent
phrenologist, and also that his brains might be ex-
tracted and submitted to surgical analysis. The
second request was not complied with ; the first was,
and the work of taking the cast and reporting thereon
has devolvedon me. A minute analysis of his mental
organisation, as bearing on his life, his crimes, and
his conduct since his apprehension and conviction,
your space would not permit me to enter into. In
another form such analysis may appear. It is a
very interesting case in a psychological, a medical,
and a judicial point of view.
Forwood's head, I repeat, cannot be classed with
' auy of the generally known criminal types. It
bears no resemblance to that of Rush, Greenacre,
Courvoisier, Palmer, Bellingham, Patch, Corder,
Burke, Bishop, Hare. In form it is proportionate,
and though it lacks coronal height as compared with
its width, there is nothing uneven nor obtrusive in
its general outline, nor any irregularity in the de-
velopment of its individual organs. Less than half
an inch more of height in the moral region would
have made the head positively handsome. The basilar
or animal region of the brain—posterior anu lateral
—is by no means coarsely developed. The coro-
nal region does not show meagre " Conscientious-
ness," neither " Self-Esteem" nor " Love of Appro-
bation" has a predominating organ, and of
" Firmness" there is a good development. " Hope,"
" Sympathy," and the other organs of the class
moral, are fairly developed. Th intellectual re-
gion, or forehead, though by no means of a superior
type as regards the higher spheres of thought, is
far from being of a meagre and cramped type. All
the perceptive organs are excellently developed—
givii 2; a more than ordinary power to acquire a
large share of practical and varied knowledge—had
education come to fertilise and utilise so competent
a congeries of capabilities. But such was not For-
wood's lot. He was probably exposed at an early
age, as many like him are, to most unfavourable
influences. He had little or no literary education,
yet he learned to write well, and to express himself
in a fairly correct and grammatical way. He
had words at will, and was most fluent in
speech, and had evidently tried at reading
works on subjects of which his limited education en-
abled him to acquire only a smattering comprehen-
sion.

Probably Forwood found his way early into the
billiard-room. He would readily have become a
good player, and soon learn to do a bit of picking tip
in order to keep himself in pocket-money. No
matter with what stock of native honesty he may
have matriculated in this college, he could not have
proceeded far without finding that he could not
afford to keep on billiard-playing and " keep a con-
science ;" and so he, no doubt, took the several de-
grees, independently of his troublesome companion
and impediment, and became in no brief time a
master in this smooth and gentlemanly art of be-
coming a confirmed and unscrupulous swindler, and
clever picker up. The dice-box and pack of cards
are seldom far from the board of green cloth—drops
of brandy come at call, and the maker of " can-
nons" and " hazards" "to a dead certainty" has,
in ninety-nine cases in a hundred, cannoned and
hazarded himself into thorough swindlerism, and
become

" Outcast to virtue, peace, and fame,
His country's curse, his children's shame."

When Forwood had risen, or sunk, to the office
of marker his education had been pretty well com-
pleted, and his onward career accelerated to a rat-
tling pace.
Are our magistrates acting wisely in licensing
unlimitedly the billiard " guilt gardens," where
young clerks and " gents" of all classes are to be
seen in crowds every night pacing more or less
rapidly the road to ruin. Formerly one or two
tables were licensed in a house, now ten or a dozen
or more are under one roof—the haunts of smooth
sharks on the watch for prey of all sizes, from a
green shopboy to a groggy country customer or
other novice, drunk or sober.
As regards Forwood's sanity, the question has
been legally disposed of by a fair trial, and, I think,
properly.
At the same time, I by no means question either
the motive or the judgment of whoever endeavoured
to save Forwood's life on the plea of his mental
unsoundness. I do not think that he came within
the class mad ; and I should not call him sound-
minded.
As to his ostentatious, stilted, and wordy decla-
rations on the subject of religious belief, they
e n and wife, I am
He
was full of vanity, and the kind of craftiness
were in harmony with the rest of his conduct
since his condemnation. As to the motives he as_
signed for murdering b
disposed to view them merely as after thoughts,
and not improbablyirapisosethiuli.ders on himself,
that is apt to blind the cunnthg, not alone to exter-
nal truth, but to cheat, most of all, and betray him
in whom it may dominate.
C. D oNov AN
School of Phrenology 111, Strand.
Jan. 12, 1866.

A FORTUNE-TELLER IN TROUBLE.—The Tribunal
of Correctional Police has just tried a man named Baumer
and a married woman named Estel, charged with fraudu-
lently obtaining money by pretending to tell fortunes by
means of cards, chiromancy, and somnambulism ; Baumer
was likewise accused of illegally practising medi-
cine. The defendants occupied an apartment in
the Rue Deaurepaire, and distributed prospectuses in
which the female prisoner was announced as Signora
Jeanne, an extra-lucid somnambulist, and the male pri-
soner as Signor Eaumero, professor of physiology, chiro-
ntahcy, and magnetism. They also profeosed to cure dis-
eases of all kinds, and to sell charms with which any one
could easily win the affections of the person whom he or
she wished to marry. Numerous witnesses were examined,
some of whom deposed that they had purchased from the
defendants ineffective remedies for various complaints;
others that they had paid to have their fortunes told. One
Young woman, a cook, stated that she had given them 20f.
for a ball of thread, some bran, and a stone, and 25f. for a
miraculous ring, which charms, she was assured, would
have the effect, if properly used, of winning the heart of a
man whom she wished to marry; but unfortunately they
had not produced the effect desired. Several other witnesses
deposed that talismans which they had purchased from the
prisoners for similar purposes had been equally useless.
After hearing counsel for the defence, the court declared
the charges of swindling established against both defend-
ants, and sentenced them to a fortnight's imprisonment.
Baumer was also fined 15f, for illegally practising medi-

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 10.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a,
Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land unto the undermentioned gentlemen, and the respec-
tive heirs male of their bodies laWfully begotten, viz. :
Edward Manningham-Buller, of Dilhorn Hall, in the
county of Stafford, Esq. ;
Sir Roderick Imney Murch'son, of B3lgrave-squaro, in
the county of Middlesex, K.C.8., Director-General of the
Geolog;_crl Survey of the Unit3d Y'ngdom
William Fergusson, of Sp- tlehaugi- tisi county of
Peebles, and of George-street, in the parish of St. George,
Hanover-square, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., one of
her Majesty's Surgeons Extrztoreina::.

7 - FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 30.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Hon. Julian licary Charles Fano, now Secretary to. her
Majesty's Einba,gy at Vienna, to be Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Emba: at Paris.
The.Qtteen has been graciously pleas( 1 to appoint Alfred
Guthrie Graham Boner, Esq., now Secretary to he: Ma-
jesty's Legation at Munich, to be Sc Tetary to her Ma-
jc-ty's Embassy at Vienna.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Edwin Corbett, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Le-
gation at Frankfort, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Lega_
tion at Munich.

The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Robert Burnett David Morier, Esq., now Secretary to her
Majesty's Legation at Athens, to be Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Legation at Frankfort.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL—JAN. 12.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Major-General William
Bell to be Colonel-Commandant, vice General Sir E. C.
Whinyates, K.C.8., deceased.
3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. Joseph William.
Fitzgerald to be Captain, by purchase, vice Alfred Hen-
derson White, who retires ; Cornet Henry Howard
Arthur to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fitzgerald ;
Arthur Sandys Brooke Forster, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Arthur.
7th Hussars—Surgeon Henry Kendall, having com-
pleted 20 years' full-pay service, to be Surgeon-Major.
10th Hussars—Surgeon Thomas Fraser, M.D., having
completed 20 years' full-service, to be Surgeon-Major.
13th Hussars—Lieutenant William Mitchell Innes to be
Car..tain, by purchase, vice Robert Macneill, who retires;
Cornet Joseph Mills to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Innes.
Royal Artillery—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel
Evan Moberly, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Nedham, re-
moved as a General Officer; Captain and Brevet-Major
Leopold Grimston Paget to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Brevet-Colonel Maberly; Second Captain Leonard
Sumner Joyce to bo Captain, vice Cecil Brooke Le
Mesurier, removed to the Supernumerary List ; Second
Capt. Ralph Gore to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Paget ;
Lieut. Arthur S. Macartney to be Second Captain, vice
Joyce; Lieut. Robert Emmett Cane to be Second Captain,
vice Gore ; Second Captain Robert Sandham to be Ad-
jutant, vice Pearse, who resigns the Adjutancy only.
The following Gentlemen Cadets, from the Royal Mili-
tary Academy, to be Lieutenants, viz.:—Kenneth
Howard, vice F. Schack, deceased ; Killaly Gamble, vice
Bowes L. Forster, promoted ; John George Uppleby, vice
J. Robertson, promoted ; Arthur Radford, vice V. F.
Tufnell, resigned ; Francis Newell Innes, vice E. A.
Slessor, promoted ; James Plomer Freeth, vice S.
Penny, promoted; Edmund Robert St. George Holbrook,
vice L. C. A. de Cetto, promoted ; Geo. Burgas Allen, vice
J. W. Macdougall, removed to the Madras Staff Corps;
Samuel Gardiner Smyth, vice M. M. Bowie, removed to
the Madras Staff Corps ; Charles Bell, vice E. G. M.
Donnithorne, resigned; Henry George Newcome, vice
G. P. Alston, deceased; William Campbell Black, Tice
H. C. Brown, promoted ; Henry A. Taylor Custance,
vice T. C. Fletcher, promoted ; Henry Humphreys
Crookenden, vice H. Anderson, promoted ; Charles
Arthur Cresswell, vice C. Trench, promoted ; James
Robert Silver Oliver Hewitt, vice H. C. Lew's promoted ;
James Anson Francis Nutt, vice Hon. R. Hare, promoted;
Arthur Bouverie Stopford, vice H. J. Thornton, pro-
moted ; Francis Horace French, vice K. J. L. Mackenzie,
removed to the Madras Corps • Al'-e I Gordon Alexan-
der, vice G. H. Trevor, remove eto the Madras Staff Corps;
Arthur Henry Annytage, vice A. S. Macartney, pro-
moted; Alfred Lionel Pringle, vice 1. E. Cane, pro-
moted ; Surgeon George Frederick Bone, M.D., having
completed twenty years' full-pay service, to be Surgeon-
Major.
Ist ReCnient of Foot—Fasign John de Stuteville Isaac-
son to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Stewart
Thorburn, who retires ; William Help y McCauseland,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Isaacson ; As-
sistant-Surgeon Matthew Lawrence While, from the
Royal Artillery, to be Ass;stant-Surgeon, vice Edward
Brock, appointed to the Staff.
9th Foot—Surgeon George Saunders, having completed
20 years' full-pay service, to be Surgeon-Major.
11th Foot—Staff-Surgeon John Henry West, M.D., to be
Surgeon,
vice William Thomas Black, appointed to the
taff.
13th Foot—Lieut. Matthew John Bell to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Captain and Brevet-Major Fred. Van
Straebenzee, promoted ; Ensign Richard John Wood-
_ .

house to be tteutenant:by pu-rchase, vice Bell; Charles

George Brind, Gent., to -Co Ensign, by purchase, vice
Woodhouse.
17th Foot—Captain George Walker, from half-pay, late
47th Foot, to be Captain, vice John Hunter, who retires
on half-pay, on being appointed Staff Officer of Pen-
sioners ; Lieut. Edward Mason to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice George Walker, who retires; Ensign Frede-
rick Travers Blackley to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vies Mason; Morgan John J. P. O'Connell, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Blackley.
18th Foot—Lieut. George Denis Sampson, from 76th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Butler, who exchanges ; Ensign
Alfred Robert Hale Swindley, from the 65th Foot, to
be Ensign, vice Fife, who exchanges.
23d Foot—Lieutenant A. Mitchell Molyneux to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Lorenzo George Lysons, who retires;
Ensign Compton Noiman to be Lieutenant, by pus-
chase, vice Molyneux ' • Ensign. Charles Edward Pater-
son to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice George Wildes,
who ret' TS; Ensign John Grant Anderson, from the
24th Foot, to be Ensign, vie 3 Norman ; the Hon. Denis

John de ' Moleyns, to' be Ensign, by purchase, vice

Pal srson.
24th Foot— Lovett Holt Bennett, Gent., to ba Ensign, by
purchase, vice Andhrson, transferred to the 23d Foot.
39th Foot —Lieutenant John Sharpies to be Instructor of
Musketry, vice Lieutenant Edward Gatty, promoted.
44th Foot—Major John Geddes, from 76th Foot, to be
Major, vice Brevet Lieut.-Colonel John Hackett, who
exchanges.
47th Foot—Ensign John Arthur Smith to ho Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Lionel Wentworth Atkinson, who
retires. Ensign Harry Cooper, from the 98th Foot, to
be Ensign, vice Smith.
63d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Arnold Francis Yarker, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vka William David Maxwell BorthwiclE, who retires.
65th Foot—Ensign John Cookson Fife, from the 18th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Swindley, who exchanges.
71st Foot—George Augustus Aldridge GtAt., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Francis Arkwright, whose
transfer from the 100th Foot on 21st November, 1865,
has been cancelled.
75th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Arthur Romer Pigott, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Robert Fenwick Fenwick, who rot'rel.
76th Foot—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John
Hackett, from 44th Foot, to be Major, vice John Geddes,
who exchanges; Lieutenant Charles Crawford Yates
Butler, from 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Sampson,
who exchanges.
82d Foot—Surgeon Henry Day Fowler, having comple'ed
20 years' full-pay. service, to be Surgeon-Major.
87th Foot—Major Thomas Casey Lyons to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Co'. Alexander
Murray, deceased ; Capt. and Brevet Lieut.- Th3l. Lou's
H. Hamrton, to be Major, without purchase, N ce Lyons;
Lieut. Walter Carr Mackinnon to to Captain, without
rimarrschdaSene,tovbeiceLßieruevteentaLnite7uwtithCoolli.tilLarchilatosen,;vEicnesiaiganclyinni_.
Mackin-
non ; Gentleman Cadet A. D. Young, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice

Truce, with Marsden.
's approval, assumed
in-
stead of Bruce.
98th Foot—Ensign George Carew Fenwick, from the 100th
o
Foot,° to be Enstc, viii Harry Coot sr, transferred to
94mthaFjeosotyt—Captain and reyetth-310 a
surnamej o Bwa
the 47th Foot.
109th Foot—Captain Edward Valintine to be Major, vice
W!'liam Augustus Armstrong, deceased ; Lieutenant
Cearlc3 Pulteney Forbes ' 1 ba Captain, N:ce Valintine;
Ensign Thos. Viret Shepherd to be Liout., vice Forbes ;
Gentleman Cadet Wm. Harry Salmon, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensiga, vice Shepherd.
4th West India Regiment—Saluebury Davenport Crooken-
den, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice F. E. Lin-
doe, transferred to the Ist West India leginient.
RVET.
Major Richard Young, E , half-pay Depot Battalion, late
Assistant Inspector of Volunteers, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel.
The following promotions to take place consequent
on the death of General Sir Edward Charles Whinyates,
K.C.B.

Lieutenant-General Sir Wm. 'Maebean George Cole-
brooke, C. 8., Royal Artillery, to be General.
Major-General Thomas Gordon Rigging, Royal Artil-
lery, to be Lieutenant-General.
Colonel William Robert Nedham, from Royal Artillery,
to be Major-General.
Major William Bellairs, half-pay, Unattached, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel.

ADMIRALTY, Jan. S.
Sub-Lieutenant Robert William Evans to be Lieuten-
ant; Sub-Lieutenant Cranford Caffin to be Lieutenant.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE--Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 18 11 19
Ditto 3 Months. 12 2* 12 24
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 47* 25 b 5.
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 12 x 5 17/
Ditto 3 Months. 25 47f 25 524
Marseilles
Frankfor on the Maine 1204 121
Vienna.
Trieste — 10 85 10 92*
Petersburgh - 294 30
Berlin
Madrid — 464 461
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples — '25 67/ 25 72
25 72
Palermo
67t
Messina
Lisboa — 51} .....1 51i
51* 51
Oporto
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) ......... per oz., 43 17
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MANCHESTER AND LONDON.—MANCHESTER, Jan.
11.—A good deal of inconvenience was experienced
here to-day owing to communication with London being
interrupted. Not only was telegraphic communication cut
off, so that the usual summary of market, commercial, and
political intelligence was not forthcoming to be posted on
the Exchange and in the newsrooms, but some block on
the railway caused the early morning train to be late, and
the London early morning train with the newspapers did
not arrive till two o'clock in the afternoon, instead of at
12 in the morning. A report was spread that the Fenians
had cut the wires on the railways, but this, of course,
was soon understood to be a canard