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pifin EVENING, TUESDAY, July sth. the feNiirrvitc
Drama of

ASK NO QUESTIONS.
After which, HIS LAST LEGS.
To be followed by the Melo•Drama of
THE VAMPIRE.
The whole to conclude with
THE GRAND DISSOLVING VIEWS.

THEATRE ROYAL.
MR. CHARLES SELBY'S BENEFIT.
TO-MORROW, (WEDNESDAY), JULY 6TH,
FIVE NEW PIECES.
CHRISTMAS EVE.
SECOND ACT OF JACQUES STROP.
CAPTAIN STEVENS.
BEHIND THE SCENES.
SONG, by Mr. J. RUSSELL.
THIRD PART of MAXIMUMS and SPECIMR4VTS.
Tickets to be had of Mr. C. SELBY, at Mrs. Gunn's, No.
56, Seel-street.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
r HIS popular and pre-eminently attractive Resort is open
it. Daily, from Seven A.M. till Dusk. The

GRAND EVENING FETES
take place every Monday and Friday during the Season, with
THE ROMAN FESTA.
At Dusk,

THE GRAND ILLUMINATION OF ST. PETER'S.
This inconceivably magnificent Spectacle is succeeded by the

Pyrotechnic Wonders of the
GIRANDOLA OF ST. ANGELO,

with all its splendid incidents, terminating with the gorgeous
Cascade of brilliant Fire, arid tremendous Flight of Rockets.
To enliven the Evening's Promenade,
MR. STUBBS' ROYAL HARMONIC BAND
will perform the following selection :
GLEE—" Red Cross Knight." I " Valse La Caille".Jullien
GLEE—" Hail, Smiling Morn." " Hark !, the Vesper."
" Rondo Finale." La Cenerentola
CORA—Scena E Cavatina Nell Opera—" Beatrico de Tenda"
Bellini
Opera, La Somnambula
Il Barbiere di Seviylia
Aldridge
Tolbecgue

" Corma Me Sereno"
" DunqueE Vero Io Nen Mingano"_ -
GLEE.--" We Three be Farmer Lads"
QUADRILLE-" Sur Les Huguenots" _
With other Selections of
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PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON. PHRENOLOGY

MR. RUMBALL'S CHALLENGE TO
MR. BRINDLEY.
consequence of Mr. Brindley's late Lectures in London
and elsewhere, in which he has again repudiated the
Doctrines of Phrenology, I HEREBY CHALLENGE
that Gentleman to a fair and full DISCUSSION of its
Principles and Deductions, in the Town of LIVERPOOL,
where 1 purpose delivering a COURSE of FIVE LEC-
TURES, to commence in a few Days.

J. Q. Ri.IMBALL, M.R.C.S
St. Alban's, June 21, 1842.

MR. BRINDLEY'S REPLY.
Mr. RUMBALL'S Challenge having been referred by me to
a Committee of Professional Gentlemen, who have consented
to act on my behalf, and it being considered that that Chal-
lenge is couched in such terms as to warrant the conclusion
that a fair and candid inquiry is contemplated, I I I EREBY
ACCEPT IT, on such conditions as may he hereafter mu-
tually agreed upon.

_
(Signed)
Chester, June 29, 1842

JOHN BRINDLEY

In accordance with the above recited Challenge and its
acceptance, it is hereby announced that
THE PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON PHRENOLOGY

WILL BE CONTINUED BETWEEN
MESSRS. RUMBALL AND BRINDLEY,

AT THE PORTICO,

NE WING T ON,

ON THE EVENINGS OF
TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) the 6th, FRIDAY, the Bth,
MONDAY, the 11th, and WEDNESDAY, the 13th instant,
commencing each Evening punctually at Seven o'clock.
Admission to the Body of the Room, One Shilling ; to
the Gallery, Sixpence ; Reserved Seats on the Platform, by
Ticket only, Two Shillings each ; to be had at the News-
paper Offices.

CIA' Etimrpoot at tanbarri.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1842

If there is one public question more completely es-
tablished than another, it is the almost universal pre-
valence of severe commercial distress, and the cause,
as well, from which it has originated. Whatever may
be the differences amongst us, with respect to the pro-
per remedies to be applied,—although one may pre-
scribe a free trade in corn, another a free trade in su-
gar, another an action upon the currency of the coun-
try, and another extensive emigration,—the fact that
suffering is rife throughout the land is admitted by all;
and there is not one man in a hundred competent to
form an opinion upon the subject who is not, in his
own secret soul, ready to admit that at the root of all
this suffering is the late over-production of manufac-
tured commodities, the undue stimulus afforded to
commercial operations of every description by false
credits, the stoppage of foreign markets, and the reck-
less competition which these causes combined have in-
troduced into every branch of trade.
Yet, with these facts before us, we have a member
of the House of Commons deliberately proposing, and
a large minority of that house supporting him in the
proposition, that her Majesty he requested not to sanc-
tion an adjournment of the legislature until an inquiry,
conducted by the House of Commons, shall have been
instituted into the existence of distress, its cause, and
the remedy to be applied, and until that house " shall
have been assured by her ministers that effectual
means are secured to provide sustenance for the un-
employed and their destitute families, until their suffer-
ings shall be terminated by a demand for their industry
and wages for their labour ! "—an inquiry, in fact,
which will enable every demagogue in that house, every
trader in agitation, to rake up and foist upon the world
his exaggerated statements of distress, the reality of
which is already amply provocative of sympathy and
alarm, and every philosopher and state doctor to pro-
pound his particular nostrum for its alleviation or
cure !

Surely, a madder or a more mischievous course
could scarcely be adopted than this, which was pro-
posed on Friday night by Mr. Wallace, the member
for the borough of Greenock. If the commerce of
the empire is to continue in its present ruinous state ;
if the revival of confidence amongst mercantile men is
to be retarded; if the salutary operations of the mea-
sures already passed to promote industrial prosperity
is to be impeded ; if the patience, under suffering, of
the industrious classes of our population is to be in-
terrupted ; if the hopes of the well-disposed are to be
blasted, and the bad passions of the evil-disposed are
to be stimulated to outrage and crime ;—what instru-
ment so powerful to effect these ends as an agitation
carried on within the walls of the House of Commons,
which may excite expectations, but cannot, by any pos-
sibility, conduce to any useful or definite result ! There
can be none ! Unmitigated evil,—disappointment and
exasperation,—must inevitably be the result, and the
only one, produced by such an inquiry.
And yet, although brought forward at a moment
when pressing public business calls for the action of
parliament, and necessarily, if not intentionally inter-
rupting that business, we cannot regret that the pro-
position has been mooted. Absurd as it is in itself,
we are satisfied that, from the discussion upon it, im-
portant truths which it behoves the country seriously
to weigh, will be elicited, and have already been elicit-
ed, by its discussion. The speech of Sir Robert Peel
on Friday night will he read with satisfaction by every
dispassionate man, and the convincing statements with
which it aboundi will afford ample arguments to en-
able Conservatives to tear into very tatters the flimsy
sophistries by which they arc assailed ; but the most
striking remarks during the debate, and to which we
beg here the particular attention of our readers, were
those which fell from Mr. D'lsraeli, with respect to
the operation, in producing commercial difficulties, of
the foreign policy of the late administration.
For years past it is well known that a commercial
treaty with France has been one of the favourite hob-
bies of the government of Lord Melbourne. To pro-
mote the attainment of this object the illustrious Dr.
Bowring voyaged, wrote lengthy reports, and received
his pay; to promote this object Lord Palmerston prote-
coiled and diplomatized. By its operation the vast
markets of France were to he thrown open to the cut-
lery of Sheffield, to the hardwares of Birmingham and
Wolverhampton, to the linens of England, Scotland,
Ireland, to the woollen cloths of Leeds, and to the
cottons and yarns of Manchester. The treaty, in
question, was all but signed; the markets, in question,
were within the very grasp of our manufacturers.
What, then, prevented the realization of the great be-
nefits thus held out to our hope ? The intermeddliny
of Lord Palmerston with the affairs of the 3fediterra-
neon powers ! By the treaty, for settling the affairs of
Syria, which placed the French government for a time
in a state of isolenzent, the vanity of that people and
their growing attachment to amicable relations with
Great Britain were dealt a blow which years will not
efface from memory ; and to the estrangement, thus
produced, we owe not only the loss of the particular
good held out to us as the result of tedious and ex-
pensive diplomacy, but those measures of absolute ex-
clusion from her markets with which France is at the

present moment visiting our commerce.
To the result of the same
policy we owe the deterio-
ration of our commerce with Syria and Egypt. both of
them important inlets for our manufactures to the