Widnes Examiner. — 1881-06-25 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

CARPING CRITICS AT PRESCOT. -,-SittP-To see the "engineer hoist with hieiwn petard" ham always been accounted a delightfuttand improving spectacle. Such a .spectacle was last week furnished by youtPrescot contemporary, who, ignoring the .unfitness,nt glasS' houses' as a residence for -atone-throwers,,set himself to cc tifte errors of the Prescot correspondentit of the Liver; . pool ik papers, and then floundered into an errer-mtteh mere oss than any the said correspondents hid committed,. •• : ...sliming, which I'don't admit ; that the correspondents had committed any error at all. Acute observers have oatitt&that this is often the casswith would,be. infailibilitieereilat they seem not so much to be followed blentot, as to carry ,that infernal. deity , about' With Thera as part and parcel of themselves, and( t be themselves' the agents of tbele oath.] retribittion. Withetathe aid a .superstition; which in theief; days is inadmissible, it is difficult to &menet for thisqltlC , phenomenon. ;Tip most probable, solution, I hav'EfaCird is perhaps the dual brain theory, propounded going-Y.6ft ago by Sit'Retni Hamilton,'' and afterwards bY Duv,Bettion' Sequard. ' According to this theory every man has tieterbrains, one on. each side at, hie head, an one> of whiehrrasy retain its, normal condition while the other is altogether aberrant, and cue of which may rest while the other works. Which side of, the head 'Nva.sfin activity, and which in repose when the-censor of the correspondents in qitetdidamade the wonderful discovery-that there "seems to bet scarcely any bounds to the inventiver Tordui of the purveyers.,ogyrescot news to the Liverpool daily papers," and then proceeded to fortify the position by a statement of facts, nearly every one of which is open to dispute, -I wittiriketiketeed to say-; but certaltilts,thle, thhillrbte side; If.ca:r :not at • work- -when nbt: very .long previcutaly",cgissor recorded the death, by misadventure of a man t Whiston, who, when recovering from his accident, a' had his convalescence wonderfully promoted by reading the receed -of his death with the . cheerful addendum- that a egrepeee,jurrstoold," sit' upon his body. ,Tiaisi however, , weeded ; the criticism upon. the cerrespondsnts and therebbtbesalt to illustrate the phenotnen,h 'referred to. wior,.&4oes'illtistrate it, however,. happened `stibseqtrently„ medTh'rel OM to the. very occurrence, one of 01000114th of which gave the censor the cue for his censure--nainely;the Prescot murder,- It -was, natural, Mr. Editor,that,upon the bapp,ening of such an vest your contemporary, should inquire'Whether it ltselbY '0 arall el in local hiafory, and if the-Infallible brain haiOieen amtnissionut to' prOsecute the inquiry, the reaultirould have, an doubt, been satisfactory.; but unfortunately it, like Baal, Iwa3: ,asleep or on a journey, and . the., fallible .brain , usurping its fitnetions;irtidlliowinfiteelf beguiled Mperfect traditions, tdillatartivrievirtm-Tertor:- It !doomed the world thatyis about 1832,tewoman; infiaenced by jealousy, cut het husband's throat so as to cause his death Land that,"she was convicted of the offence, but owing to the effnrts of the Rev,: OcH-61'TP:vDriffield, vicar-Of 'Prese6VVnAlkithinl,the sentence. was - commuted."ne,:.-The vinfailibhi 'brain, wakening. up. „ wee,k,„„ ...atfterwards. found this an exaggeration, and after consulting the files of the Liverpool Mercury felt constrained to give the truth:of the amry, which', was that thelwoman stabbed her husband in the neck -with a knife/while he was beating leer, and was tried for manslaughter, and sentenc,d to a year's imprisonment—rather a different thing from committing wilful murder by cutting his throat while " infliikeed by jealousy." Truly, "the purveyors of Preacot newu to the Liverpool daily papers," may put to their ceneorq,s,,archt log question which James puts to man in general—" Who art thou that judgest ?" Thanking you, Mr. Editor, for the space yen have so kindly placed at my disposal, I ani, yours truly, AN