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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-28 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS

Rev. John Faithful Fanshawe, 8.A., Curate of Moxley,
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 Thatcharn,
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 Hippuff 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.

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

Rev. G. P. 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 Colleze, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Steepleton-
Iwerne, Dorset ; patron, Lord Rivers.

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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 TAKEN BY MR. BRINDLEY, AND

ADMITTED BY MR. MATHEWS TO BE CORRECT.
Circumference of the whole head
From ear to ear over the forehead (Intellectual) 12 „
From ear to ear over the back of the head
(Animal) lO4 „
From ear to ear over the crown of the head

(Moral) .
Extreme breadth of the head, rather more than

an inch above the cars, in the regions of
cunning and murder
2. THE MEASUREMENTS runEtsuEß BY DR. ELLIOTSON
IN THE MEDICAL TIMES.
Circumfererence of the whole head
From ear to ear over the forehead (Intellectual) 10. (n) „
From ear to ear over the hack of the head

(Animal)
From ear to ear over the crown of the head

(Moral)
Breadth of the head immediately above the ears
(Destructiveness)
Ditto Ditto (Cunniny)
Without venturing to offer any comment on the above, we
would merely remark, that those who choose may judge
for themselves, by procuring the three drawings of Good's
head, exhibiting the three regions referred to, taken by
scale and accurately lithographed, which will be sent, post-
age free, on receipt of six penny letter stamps.—Antidote
for July.

A model illustration of an improved mode of stopping and
preventing collision in railroad travelling was on Tuesday
submitted by Mr. Lee to the Earl of Ripon and the Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone at the office of the Board of Trade.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—A most distressing accident occurred
on Wednesday afternoon last, on the north road, near this
town, leading to the race course, by which Henry Bateman,
Esq., of York, was so much injured as to cause his death the
next morning. It appears that the deceased gentleman had
been on a visit to his relative, Captain Macoy, of the Royal
Artillery, now stationed at Tynemouth, and that Captain
Macoy, with his lady, who was sister to Mr. Bateman, ac-
companied by that gentleman and another brother left Tyne-
mouth on Wednesday afternoon by railway for this town,
and proceeded hence to the race course in a carriage and pair
driven by a postilion. Mr. Bateman, the deceased, was sitting
beside the servant in the rumble of the carriage, the rest of
the party being inside, and after they had gone about half way
from the town to the race course, the postilion attempted to
leave the line of carriages in advance, when he met two carts,
the carriage slightly touching the first cart, but coming into
violent collision with the second cart, the vehicle was over-
turned, and Mr. Bateman was thrown to the ground with
great violence, which produced a concussion of the brain.
Every possible aid was immediately rendered to the unfortu-
nate gentleman, and he was removed to the Turk's Head
Hotel, where he lingered till seven o'clock on Thursday
morning, when he expird: Happily the rest of the party
escaped with but slight injuries,—Newcastle Journal.

tilt Eibtrpool otanbatt.

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. sandbach, 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 4,340,354 563,453
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 fora 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
satisfactory assurance afford-
former prosperity;—the
ed, by the appointment of the West India Committee,
that the truth would at lengt:i be permitted to be
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-

markably favourable for agricultural puruits ; and the

abatement of the intolerably ruinous rate of wages
demanded by the labourer, combined with this grati-
fying circumstance, affords some faint prospect of a
revival of the distressing state of this colony, provided
it be followed up by prompt measures on the part of
the home government. It is dreadful, however, to
contemplate the ruinous state of things existing even
amidst this dawning hope, as depicted in the " sum-
mary " of the Guiana 1 imes of May 13th .

" It is to be observed, that the individuals who are da-
maged and inconvenienced by the present depressed state of
things are by no means few in number. The distress of the
planters, let the low prices of plantations, the short crops
and ruinous wages, and frequent execution sales, evince.
But every other planter, carrying economy into all depart-
ments, places his manager on stinted pay, and turns adrift one
or, two overseers, no matter how well behaved. Dealers and
tradesmen, in a wide circle, are made sensible of the discon-
tinued custom that used to come from every such plantation.
Water-street, the only.thoroughfare of the mercantile classes,
exhibits innumerable stores and counting-houses closed. In
the establishments still able to keep open doors, you hear of
trustees in consequence of a suspension of payment, or of
totally unproductive sales, and the most extensive reductions
of expenditure, casting forth to beggary another batch of
unfortunate young men, guilty of no fault. The generality
of the stores hare not, for months back, done more than paid
their expenses. Merchants, who two or three years ago were
fain to obtain leases of premises at high rents for a long term
of years, find that they only hung millstones around their
necks. Thus we are introduced to a third and large class,
the owners of land and buildings in town. Compute their
solvency by what money they sank in the investment, or what
price their property would really fetch, if the colony prospered,
and they are wealthy men. Calculate it by what they would
be able to pay if you compelled them to bring their all into
the market, and you discover that they are bankrupts. Then
we have the carpenters and masons, both masters and jour-
neymen, no longer employed on sugar works or cottages for
plantations ; the boat-builders and coopers, idle, because
their is little produce to ship ; the numerous tribe of petty
ship-chandlers, a poor but industrious class, made aware, by
painful tokens, of the decrease of the shipping in the rivers.
Be it observed, that we take no note of the distresses of the
few absentees who own estates in this colony. The suffering
classes whose hard case we dwell on, are resident here, and
settled here, and have families here. They comprise nearly
the whole of the educated portion of the inhabitants, among
whom, from the late proprietor of handsome equipages to the
lowly artisan who sews clothes or makes boots and shoes, the
misery that at this moment prevails is hardly tolerable."

But it may be urged, and is urged, that the condi-
tion of the emancipated labourers is one of the highest
prosperity ; and a certain class amongst our pseudo-
humanists are ready enough to exclaim, "Perish the
planters !—perish the export of staples !—our concern
only is to see the African labourer prosperous and
happy"! With respect to this subject, in our next,
we shall have a few words to remark, founded upon
the information furnished us by this arrival.

We translate from the last number of the Courrier
de l'Europe the following striking remarks :—" The
critical position of England at the present moment
displays this peculiarity, that she is not, as is the or-
dinary course of human affairs, domineered over by
conflicting parties. This characteristic and exclusive
trait is worthy the attention of every observer of public .
events. In all other states, ancient or modern, we see
faction double its audacity and strengthen its position
in proportion to the embarrassments of the governing
power. It is in moments of distress that the platform
resounds with the cries of the seditious, whilst anarchy
and disorder follow in their footsteps. They feed—
they live upon the misfortunes of their country.
" In Great Britain, on the contrary, every new com-
plication of its affairs excites a new effort—a fresh
sacrifice—for the public good. To the pressing exi-
gencies of the Treasury, her people nobly respond by
the establishment of a War Tax—the Tax on Income.
The disasters of Affghanistan inspire but one feeling—
the desire for vengeance; and the sufferings of her
labouring classes are supported with a resignation
which amazes us. Whatever may be the elements
which mingle to form a spirit of nationality so all-per-
vading and so strong, the fact of its existence is not
the less to be contemplated with admiration."
There is much of truth, we are proud in acknow-
ledging, in these remarks; and they are honourable to
the writer who can afford to pay a tribute so flattering
to a rival nation. With the exception of a miserable
minority of feeble agitators—of men who would wil-
lingly fan the flame of sedition if their puny strength
could enable them to escape being drawn into its
destroying vortex when raised—England is at this
moment meeting nobly her unparalleled sufferings, and
she is now as in every time of trial, sound at heart, and
worthy of the confidence and the imitation of sur-

rounding nations.
And why is she thus ? Because her institutions are
based upon the rock of protestant truth. Let our
brother journalist pursue this enquiry.

It will be seen by our parliamentary summary that
the debate upon the motion of Sir James Graham, on
Friday night, to go into committee upon the New Poor
Law Continuance Bill, was adjourned until last night;
and from the feeling manifested by a portion of the
house—and no uninfluential portion—it is much to be
questioned whether the measure, in its existing shape,
can be passed into a law during the present session.
We are far from sympathising with a merely factious
opposition to this or any proposal of the government.
However distasteful to us is the whole system which
this bill purposes to 'establish amongst us, we would
only see it defeated, after fair and mature discussion,
by the legitimately expressed sense of parliament.
But neither would we willingly see the Conservative
majority of the House of Commons, which we believe
to be hostile to the measure as now brought forward,
dragged at the heels of the ministry, or led by a ridi-
culous fear of injuring that ministry, to sanction this
or any measure which does not receive their dispas-
sionate approbation, and which they know to be dis-
liked by the great majority of the people, whose repre-
sentatives they are.

The amendment moved by the member for Finsbury,
Mr. T. Duncombe, is one which we consider fair and
just to the government, as well as to the country,
which feels strongly upon this subject. The powers of
the poor law commission expire on the 31st July. We
have now arrived at the 28th of June, and there are,
therefore, only five weeks remaining for the discussing
and passing, through both houses, of a bill containing
surly clauses. That those discussions, faction apart,
must consume considerable time, will be evident from
the fact that there are now no less than 47 notices of
amendments upon the notice paper. Many members,
too, voted for the second reading only in the hope that
in committee the measure would be rendered more
palatable to them ; and there can be no doubt that
every clause in committee will be strenuously debated.
Under these circumstances, the proposition of Mr.
Duncombe to renew the commission, as a temporary
measure, for one year, cannot be excepted ugaiust as
any other than fair and legitimate; and, indeed, a dis-
tinct admission that it was so was made on Friday, by
the Home Secretary himself.

We are well aware of the fact—and we call to it the
attention of our liberal philosophers, who are just now
chuckling mightily upon the subject of this measure—
that by the bill of &lir James Graham many important
ameliorations are proposed to be made. The measure
of the right hon. baronet is conceived throughout in a
much better spirit than has ever hitherto characterised
this obnoxious system ; and it is no more like the pro-
position of Lord John Russell, last session, than the
breeze now blowing is like the hot wind of the desert.
We contend, however, for still greater concessions.
We ask to have this system pared down to the require-
ments of public opinion ; stripped of its harsh features,
and rendered one to which the poor of England, in the
day of suffering, can look up for protection and suc-
cour, without that shrinking of the spirit with which
it is now contemplated. We ask for a system not de-
vised for punishment; not treating poverty as a crime;
but for one which looks to the better side of human
nature, and exercises charity with a healing, not a har-
rowing hand ; and we trust that the poor law commis-
sion will not be prolonged an hour until these changes
are effected.

Upon this point we cannot but cordially coincide in
the view taken by our noble representative, Lord San-
don. "It was his opinion"—(we quote from our
parliamentary summary)—" that it was desirable to
confine the powers of the poor law commissioners within
the narrowest possible limits. He thought that during
the last two months the commissioners had evinced a
disposition to reconsider and relax some of their most
severe and extreme regulations—regulations which
were wholly inapplicable to many districts of the coun-

fry. He would like to see the commissioners conti-

nued in office for a short time longer, in order that an
opportunity might be affbrded of ascertaining whether
they still continued to effect modifications in their for-
mer plans; and when he had seen the line of conduct
they pursued, he would be ready to give an opinion as
to whether they should be intrusted with the power
for the term of five years." To such a declaration,
coming from such a quarter, and echoed by the voice
of reasonable opponents of the system throughout the
country, we would gladly see the government of Sir
Robert Peel defer. We have no doubt of their power
to carry their proposed measure in its present state,
unless obstructed by a resort to the forms of the house;
but we are satisfied that it would infinitely more ad-

vance their real strength—which is in the affections of
the people of Great Britain—if this medium step, be-
tween the successful exercise of that strength and de-
feat by faction, were acceded to with a good grace and
in time.

We are not disposed to quarrel with the course ta-
ken by the authorities, in dissuading the members of
the Orange Societies from their proposed procession
on the 12th of July, although we must acknowledge
that we are not assured of its perfect justice. Of the
ridiculous anticipations of danger to the peace of the
town, trumpeted forth by the Radical and Popish press,
of course we entertain the most profound contempt.
The leaven of the old serpent, and not the spirit of
Englishmen, spoke in those tirades. It was Rome
herself' which feared the open display of Protestant
strength—of Prc testant union and Protestant loyalty,
and not any body of the right-hearted people of Liver-
pool, which feared outrage and commotion. The
Orange
body of Liverpool, as they have shewn in the
ready
response which they have made to the wishes of
our local government, are not the men from whom any
danger to the 'Jr:ace of the town was to be feared; and
upon no other-grounds, certainly, ought a demand to
have been made upon them, involving in its concession
so much pecto iiary sacrifice—not only of a temporary,
but of a permanent character—as that which will result
from this disuppointment of their most ardent wishes.

For it mutt be borne in mind that the object of this
display was •not merely the commemoration of the de-
l►very of ou r reformed religion from the hand of Po-
pery ; far 1r !ss was its object to triumph over the feel-
ings of any class of our fellow subjects. The Orange
body conta ins amongst its members numerous and well-
managed 1 ienevolent societies ; and it was to strengthen
these, rnai nly, that the proposed procession was resorted
to. It is well known that the accession of young mem-
bers is a desideratum with all benefit societies. By their
imposing processions, which gratify the young, the
Odd Fe llows Order, the Druids, and many others,
have, wi• thin the last few years, very materially increased
their fui ids. At the present moment a society—the
Bold-sti •eet Club—the oldest and perhaps one of the
most re spectable benefit societies in the town, is pre •
Paring, having experienced its urgent necessity, for a
process ion ; and it certainly does appear a little hard
that, of • all these, the Orange Benevolent Societies are
the onl y ones which are not permitted to resort to so
legitim ate a mode of furthering those charitable pur-
poses for which they are especially designed.

They have submitted, however, with a readiness
which does them infinite credit,—but which, however,
in one quarter at least, we do not expect will be appre-
ciated,—to the request made of them by the authorities
of our town. We do trust, in consideration of such
submission, that the, rule as applied to them will be
strictly applie Ito all. In themselves, we can see little
that is worthy of being perpetuated in any of these
processions. They are silly and childish affairs ; ex-
pensive to the actors in them, and a nuisance to the
town. We trust, therefore, that, whether connected
with political societies or strictly non-political ; whe-
ther on St. Patrick's Day or St. David's Day; whe-
ther to celebrate the memory of the great and good
Ring William, or to celebrate rebellion, and to deify
rebel leaders or agitators—Sarsfield the brave or Daniel
O'Connell—we have done for ever with these fooleries.
If this result be achieved, the inhabitants of Liverpool
will have cause to congratulate themselves upon the
absurd fears or the dishonest machinations which have
led to the suppression of this display, and thus laid the
foundation of a rule which, for very shame's sake, must
now be adhered to impartially towards all.