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THE QUEEN V. HARVEY

In this case a rule had been obtained for a quo u,arranto,
calling on the defendant to show by what authority he claimed
to exercise the office of alderman of the town and borough of
Liverpool. The defendant was elected to that office in Oc-
tober, 1841, in order to fill an occasional vacancy, and the
objection to this title was, that not being upon the burgess
roll for the then current year he was ineligible to- the office
of alderman. It appeared that though his name was not on
the burgess roll for the year ending on the Ist of November,
1841, he was on the burgess roll for the year beginning on
that day. It was, therefore, argued that, being in fact qua-
lified when this rule was applied for, he was to be deemed as
sufficiently eligible.

The court had taken time to consider the question, and
Lord Denman now delivered judgment. It was ele@r that
the party elected ought to possess at the time of election the
qualification required by law. The defendant ought, there-
fore, to have been upon the burgess list of the year in which
he was elected. In order to be well elected in October, 1841,
he ought to have been on the burgess roll for the year ending
on the Ist of November, 1841 ; and, not having been so, the
rule for the quo warranto against him must be absolute.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE

(From the Oxford Herald.)

The Rev. Piers Calveley Claughton, M.A., Fellow of
University College, has been instituted, bp the Lord Bishop
of Ely, to the Rectory of Elton, Huntingdonshire; patrons,
the Master and Fellows of University College.

The Rev. Alexander Henry Bridges, M.A. ,Of Oriel College,
to the Vicarage of St. Mark's, Horsham, Sussex.
The Rev. James Arhur Dunnage, M.A., of Brasenose
College, to be Assistant Chaplain to the Tower of London.
On Thursday se'nnight the Rev. J. C. Pring, M.A., of New
College, Vicar of Heading ton, was unanimously elected Chap-
lain to the Union in that parish.

The Rev. Frederick Woods Mant, S.C.L., of New Inn
Hall, Curate of Carrickfergus, has been presented to the Rec-
tory of Ballintoy, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Trail.

PROMOTIONS

Rev. John Faithful Curate of Motley,
Staffordshire, to the Perpetual Curacy of Lancaster, Dur-
ham, vacant by the death of the Rev. Joseph Thompson ;
patron, the Bishop of Durham.
Rev. John Hanbury, M.A., to the Vicarage of Thatcham,
near Newbury, Berks, on his own petition, vacant by the
death of the Rev. Joseph Lowthian.
Rev. William Gore Burroughs, late Curate of Kilbeacon,
has been appointed by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to
that Vicarage, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Pack.
Rev. Edward Alcock, Vicar of Durrus, to the Rectory of
Kilmeen, vacant by the death of the Rev. Edmund Kenney ;
and the Rev. William Moore Crosthwaite, Vicar of Kilcoe,
to the Vicarage of Durrus, vacant by the promotion of the
Rev. E. Alcock ; patron, the Lord Bishop of Cork, Cloyne,
and Ross.

Rev. T. Storer, M.A.,late Curate of St. John's, Deritend,
Warwickshire, to be Assistant Minister of St. Peter's, Dale-
End.

Rev. James Harris, to be Curate of Yarnscombe, Devon.
Rev. T. D. Young, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Nicho-
las, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire.

Rev. Charles Hippuif Bingham, 8.A., formely of Caius
College, Cambridge, to the Curacy of Kettering, Northamp-
tonshire.

Rev. G. Evans, to the Vicarage of Vervic,. Cardigan ; pa-
tron, the Lord Chancellor.

Rev. A. Paul Hughes, to be Minister of St. Peter's, Co
ventry.

Rev. T. Corfe, to be Minister of Bethel Episcopal Chapel,
Guernsey.

Rev. O. F. Gataker, to be Minister of St. Paul's, Jersey.
Rev. W. Fox to the Chaplaincy of the County Gaol, Lei-
cester.

Rev. J. Willis Saunders, 8.A., formerly of Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, to be Chaplain to the King's College Hos-
pital, London.

Rev. John Cleobury Prattent, LL.B., formerly of Pem-
broke College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Steepleton-
Iwerne, Dorset; patron, Lord Rivers.

Rev. James Brothers, formerly of Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge, to the Curacy of Brabourne, Kent.

PHRENOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF GOOD
THE MURDERER.

As we last week quoted the phrenological description of
this murderer's head, drawn by Dr. Elliotson, we think it
only fair that the following counter-statements, furnished by
Mr. Brindley, should also be given, leaving phrenologists
and anti-phrenologists to draw what conclusion they think
well :

This wretched criminal furnishes one case amongst thou-
sands, contradicting the phrenological mode of deciding
disposition and character. We need not here enter into de-
tails of his sinful career. The broad outlines of his conduct
all must be familiar with. In his head there should have
been developed enormous organs, phrenologically speaking,
of murder, cunning, and more particularly those animal pro-
pensities with which his crime was marked. In benevolence,
veneration, and conscientiousness, he should on the con-
trary have been just as deficient. In intellectual develope-
ments a like marked depression should have been mani-
fested. But, what says the head? Does it correspond in
any degree with these requirements ? Undoubtedly not. A
better relative developement, phrenologically speaking, of
moral and intellectual endowments, is rarely to be met
with. An immense preponderance of brain before the
ears, a full coronal region, and a narrowing off be-
hind the ears. Benevolence, veneration, conscientious-
ness, firmness, cautiousness, comparison, and causality,
all remarkably full. Destructiveness, combativeness,
and cunning small, and amativeness very small. Yet
Phrenologists, with these facts plain to be seen by any im-
partial man, claim this murderer's head as a case in point for
phrenology ! Fortunately. however, the head was measured
by others besides themselves. By the kindness of the senior
sheriff, Mr. Brindley, as well as Dr. Elliotson, was admitted
to the examination. Mr. Mathews, Mr. Deville'a foreman,
actually assisted Mr. Brindley in his manipulation, by putting
down the measurements for him as they were severally ascer-
tained, and keeping a copy for himself as a check upon Mr.
Brindley. This gentleman, a few days afterwards, admitted
before a crowded audience at the Adelphi theatre, in Lon-
don, that those measures were all of them correct—save one,
that over the region of amativeness. As this, therefore, was
disputed, though not disproved, we will omit it, and give
only those measurements which Mr. Mathews approved of,
and contrast them with their corresponding measurements,
as given by Dr. Elliotson, in the Medical Times of Saturday,
the 4th of June instant:—

1. THE MEASUREMENTS TA KEN BY MR. BRINDLEY, AND

ADMITTED BY MR. MATHEWS TO BE CORRECT.
Circumference of the whole head
From ear to ear over the forehead (Intellectual) 121 „
From ear to ear over the back of the head
(Animal)
From ear to ear over the crown of the head
(Moral)
Extreme breadth of the head, rather more than
an inch above the ears, in the regions of
cunning and murder '
5I
2. THE MEASUREMENTS PUBLISHED BY DR. ELLIOTSON

Ely. Kalamai c,talllTarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 1842

By the arrival of her Majesty's mail steamer Med-
way we are in receipt of Guiana papers to the 13th
May. The Combined Court and the Court of Policy
had assembled, and on the 30th of April had been ad-
dressed by Governor Light in a speech, congratulating
the colonists upon the improved state of the colonial
finances, and upon the appointment, by Lord Stanley,
of a committee to inquire into the internal condition of
these settlements. An address, in reply, had been
moved by Mr. aandbach, of the Financial College, and
seconded by Dr. Ranken, and carried without dissent,
alleging the existence of unparalleled distress, and
completely upsetting the calculations of the Governor,
with respect to his alleged financial prosperity. We
give here the statements of these gentlemen, which
were not attempted to be denied, in proof of the de-
clining condition of the industrial resources of British
Guiana ; and we call to them the earnest attention of
the parliamentary committee now sitting, as well as
that of every wellwisher of the great experiment now
at issue in our colonial possessions.

In 1837, the last year of the apprenticeship system,
the crop was as follows :
lbs. of sugar. lbs. of coffee. lbs. of cotton.
101,651,300 4,3-10,354 563,453
That of 1841 was
lbs. of sugar. lbs. of coffee. lbs. of cotton.
52,043,897 1,214,010 19,200

Thus, nearly twice as much sugar, more than three
times as much coffee, and nearly thirty times as much

cotton was grown in 1837 as in 1841 ! We are re-
minded too, by the Guiana Times, that " the stand of
the planters for a reduction of wages, to which so
many ills are ascribed, did not occur until 1842." The
same document shows that whilst production was in-
creasing, the tax levied upon produce was increasing
in an inverse ratio. In 1837 the produce tax was
102,714 dollars. In 1841, upon much less than half
the production, this tax, levied exclusively upon the
planters, was 253,343 dollars, or nearly two and a half
times as much as in 1837 ! In addition to these strik-
ing facts, the figures brought forward by these gentle-
men, on behalf of the entire body of the colonists and
in refutation of the hocus pocus prosperity on paper
of Governor Light, prove a positive deficiency, in the
productiveness of the revenue, of 127,736 dollars, of
which 91,000 dollars are in the customs alone ; thus
showing the decreasing power of consumption of the
colony.
With these facts before them, undoubtedly the only
resource of the colonists to procure a remission of the
intolerable burden imposed upon them for the main_
tenance of the Whig officials, which swarm around the
seat of government must have been a refusal of the
annual supplies ; and such, it is admitted, would have '
been the course pursued. The friendly tone, however,
of Lord Stanley's speech in the House of Commons,
and the hope that the present government will not sub- •
mit to be hoodwinked by the specious representations
of the Governor and his satellites, but proceed to in-
quire for themselves, with a view to do something for
the restoration of the colony to a state resembling its
former prosperity;—the satisfactory assurance afford-
ed, by the appointment of the West India Committee,
that the truth would at length be permitted to he
heard ;—all these combined have, for the present at
least, appeased the just complaints of the colonists,
and determined them, before adopting any hasty mea-
sures, to wait the issue of the pending inquiry.
The weather, we are happy to observe, has been re-