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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-01 00:00:00

A POLITICAL PARALLEL.

We take the following from D' Vindication of the
English Constitution.---Instead cf Political Unions, they ap-
pealed to the city apprentices, and the trained bands: mobs
were hired, petitions forged,all the arts of insurgency practised.
The Peers were daunted, the King frightened; Strafford was
executed, the Bishops expelled the House of Lords,_ the House
of Commons itself rendered independent of the King and its
constituents by the act which made its dissolution consequent on
its own pleasure. At length,lY the remonstrance and the pro-
positions, the very abrogation of the monarchy being attempted,
•the King raised his standard, and so completely had the nn-
happy monarch, by his conduct, placed the commons in the
_wrong, that the very personage who, two years before, had ab-
solutely no party in the nation', found himself supported by a
considerable majority of bis people, and nearly the whole of Inc
peerage, while the vote which virtually occasioned the struggle,
and was the triol of strength of the two parties in the House of
Commons, was only carried by a majority of eleven. The suc-
cess of the royal arms, and the unexpected strength of the royal
party, filled the commons with consternation. The' moderate
member continued to flock to the King. Pym and Harnpden,
finding that they were deserted by their aristocratic companions,
and that the puritans androot-and-branch-men were not pow-
erful enough to support them, mode an open and absolute alli-
ance with the Scotch presbiterians, with whom they had olways
had a secret understanding,, swallowed the covenant which they
had before disfavoured, decree the extermination of the church
of England, beheaded Laud, called in a Scotch army, and main-
tained their cause by a connexion offensive to their countrymen.
Am I indeed treating ,!f the reign of Charles the first ? or is it
some near epoch that I ant commemorating, ? Am I writing of
the affairs of the seventeenth, or the nineteenth century? The! e
is such a marvellous similarity between the periods, that, for my
Part, I find great difficulty in discriminating between the two.
In both instances the church of England is the
great victim,
and at both seasons the vast majority of the English people
were warmly and tenderly attached to -their establishment. In
koth cases the aristocratic leaders of the movement thoubgt fit to
secede from their own party, while in both cases their more deter-
mined or desperate associates compensate tliemseh-es for the
desertion by the alliance of revolutionary or anti-national sup-
port. In one instance the radicals, in the other the root-and-
branch-men; in one instance the dissenters, in the other the
puritans, and in both instances, when radicals and dissenters in
the one case, and puritans and root-and-branch-men in the other,
fail in making up with their influence for the loss of the aristo_
cratic connexions of the leaders who,.had summoned them, we
find the same desparate and treasort,ableponPact made in one age
with the Scotch presbytericrlid in the other with the Irish
papists; the solemn leam nd coyenant, so long repudiated,
swallowed as the condition
,in the first instance; and the Irish
church scheme, one so warmly opposed, gulped down in the
other.

PHRENOLOGY.
"It is impossible to read Mr. Cornbe's testimonials, now in
pretty general circulation, without arriving at a conviction that
phrenology is actually embraced as a science by the first physi-
ologists in Europe, and is rapidly diffusing itself over the
civilized world."—Scotsman.

NV e must put our contemporary, and those whom his remarks
may mislead, right as to the opinion of the first physiologists in
Europe with regard to phrenology, Magendie of Paris, and
Tiedemann of Heidelberg, and we believe we may add Sir
Charles Bell, assuredly the most eminent physiologists in the
world, are decided anti.phrenologists. Magendie says, "Phre-
nology I scruple not to denominate a pseudo-science, such as
was formerly astrolorry or necromancy."
Tiedemann, we know, has a proper feeling of respect towards
those clever phrenologists of Whom we have a few here, whose
(I)rzans of acquisitivetnent and self-esteem (to speak in their own
lard") are largely developed, and which we presume satisfac-
torily se,„„ts- for the "pretty general circulation?' of Mr.
Combe's testimonials. We should like to know if phrenologists
admit of
We thittrrg?,ll of misrepresentation or bombast. .
it r,ht to
and Fletcher of 7h• add, that the late Drs. Gordon, Milligan.
all the eminent this place, were opposed, to plarenplogy—and
authority, surely,
than
aomists here and. elsewhere, are so--better
high or ow degi.ee.._27,4,llan eracks or Edinburgh scribes of
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FACTOIIES' 11:EGt•LATto,' -
Robert Rickards, Esq., having resigned hit. oMcc of is'l,Aec„l:
e.tii.ii,ont thoarsliractnries, Abe Secretary
of State for the Hinde.D
cteries". to take char„
Leonard Horner,
Esq:, Inspector of g
cif M r. RiB,a,ds:
~7zf th;kodistrict hither-
to under the inspeotion
,cashire, and theshi re, with the dljacent part; kshire,
—LondonLan-
Gazette.