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execution , eat frequently with a hearty relish , and displayed an intense love of food , tobacco , and brandy-and-water . Barclay , the Glasgow murderer , was even more remarkable in tins respect , and two or three hours before bein" hanged eat as much as would have sufficed for three ordinary men . Another characteristic is noticed—Secretiveriess . This organ was a leading- feature in Palmer ; and under the most trying circumstances , be could prevent expressing the slightest emotion of his feelings . The remarks made by Palmer's groom are strictly ^ illustrative of Secretiveness in his master . " He was a singular man . He never changed countenance whatever happened . We used to notice it as we passed by- " We jaever could tell whether he had won or lost . "
When Field and the other detectives called on Palmer , and Informed him of the ¦ suspicions that Walter Palmer had not been fairly dealt with , and that they were going to make inquiries , Palmer replied , ' Quite right . " without the 2 east expression of feeling- They thought they would try Mm further , and said ' they had also doubts about bia wife ' s death ; ' but he never said anything beyond " Very right and proper . ' Simpson , one of the detectives in question , is stated to have said , that he never witnessed such an impassibility in all his life . He expected that Palmer would Lave jumped up and knocked them down ; but he never stirred , but went on sipping Lis wine and cracking his walnuts as unconcerned as possible . " Secretiveness is very large in the head of Rush , which led him to conceive that the mask ? he wore when he murdered his victims perfectly concealed him from recognition . He never appeared to consider that his peculiar manner of carrying his head would point out his identity and lead to his detection . His large Secretiveness made tim feel perfectly secure within himself , and he , like Palmer , thought all his movements impenetrable .
Murderers in general , according to this theory , are wanting in caution . Hush , with all his power of secrecy , manifested the most singular want of circumspection ; Palmer was literally reckless ; both , however , were excessively vain , like the majority of their class . These studies of the heads of murderers are not without their value . The thoughtful reader , of course , need not be warned against allowing to every circumstance mentioned by Miv Bridges the interpretation he chooses to put upon it ; but we may say that , in general , he evinces a desire to be ¦ candid , although his convictions are so strong that they stamp all human nature according to a single pattern . He is of those who believe that 4 metaphysical philosophy as a great po-wer has been , hut no longer is , ' a proposition easy enough to assert ; yet mot likely to meet with more than a sectional and temporary acceptation . ^ Ve have been considerably interested in his hook , which we commend to public notice as presenting the latest view of phrenological science , as it is understood by the adepts in that Illuanination .
The author of The Refugee claims to be ranked among phrenologists ; we therefore give him a place . But his book is a mystery . We know not how much or how little is intended as reality ; whether the writer ' s name is really Alfred Godwine , or when he gives people fictitious titles . He is Tree enough in the use of proper names , and there is more of invidious personality than <» f phrenological observation in his story . However , vague , irregular , and indiscreet as it is , the volume is an amusing curiosity . It is evidently the work of a foreigner , who has seen much of the world ; that we might know from the orthography , faultless as it generally is , and from the style , although it evinces a most creditable command over the English language . The hero is one Skreny , a Hungarian and a poet , who gossips about Lamartine , Beianger , Mazzini , Victor Hugo , and a score of other celebrities , with careless ease . Saphir , the Austrian poet , he says was once asked by Baron Rothschild , of Vienna , to write something in his album ; he wrote " Lend me two hundred guilders and forget them . " The great speculator did not refuse . Skreny tells us how Balzac was wont to live * over the Cafe du
Cardinal and what were his favourite dishes . Moreover , he describes himself fighting in the revolution of 1848 , flying to Paris , trying to obtain employment on the public journals , and being informed by l 3 r . Veron that the ConslitutioJinel dared not advocate Constitutionalism in Prussia since that would weaken the claims of France upon the Rhenish provinces . In Paris be was unfortunate and saw the interior of Clichy , although he enjoyed happier episodes—the acquaintance of Ancelot , Ponsavd , Ifazy , and Do Vigny . He was in the streets when they ran with the blood of December , 1851 ; but next day was dismissed lor Laving doubted the legitimacy of tlie Emperor , and for having circulated certain anecdotes implicating the men of the day . Xn London , he wns delighted . England , he says , is not a European China . It is progressive : the ladies improve in their attire ; its climate , though praised by Agricola and Tacitus , is bad ; but what of India , Spain , Germany , and America ? No women have such exquisite waists as
English women . Their manners are all grace—at least the manners of those whom he met in London and at Nice . At Nice , moreover , he saw the Prince of Monaco , who had just sold his coach to pay a tradesman ' s bill ; Kossuth , Mazzini , and Safli arc brought in turns upon tlie stage , with a Scotch lord and lady , Madame Muller , Kinkel , and a certain 'Prince of Colchis , ' against whom tho author directs a sarcastic chapter . At last , Skreny became a phrenologist ; hence this book , or , at loast , its title . He told a Crimean hero that he was not heroic , a nobleman's son that his brains were exhausted , a young lady that she was liable to he deceived , an editor that he ought to have been a baker , Lcdru Kollin that he had wind in his brains , and tho Lord Chief Justice , who brought liim a criminal to examine , that the fault lay with those who had selected a sedentary life for a man fitted by nature for an active one . Phrenology , therefore , is making way , after a fashion .
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THE LAKE DISTRICT . Rambles in the Lake District in July , 1857 . By Harry Hardknot . Whittaker and Co . The characteristics of that part , of Westmoreland , Cumberland , and Lancashire popularly termed the Lake District , must , indued , have sadly changed and woefully deteriorated when , in a mere three days ' sojourn , the tourist gets continually entangled among nuisances like these :: A cotton-mill , ironworks with old tumble-down buildings , men with black faces and red clothes , red curia piled with red mineral , rod horses , red drivers , the stink of tho forge , and Jerry shops ;
again , a blacking manufactory—men , horses , carts , buildings , everything partaking - of the character of the employment , and wearing a m-iniy look : a bobbin-null , including within its operations the manufacture of Hollowav ' s 2 oO gross of pill-boxes weekly , together with thousands of supplementary brush and mop handles . Everything , as in the great city the author had just fled from , goes , as the Pacha emphatically termed it , "Whirr ! whirr I whirr!—all upon wheels—all upon wheels !" Nor are we at all disposed to admire as he does the manner and deportment of the rustics in that portion of England Mr . Hardknot has undertaken to portray . Your northern villager seems far too canny' to meet our southern ideas of rural simplicity . His ' plain speaking' has a dash of impertinence to which this said plain speaking—as in more polished communities serves but as a stalking-horse , behind which many a malicious bolt is shot . Bythe-by , their appreciation of certain individuals of the so-called 'Lake school' is prodigiously quaint and amusing . It has been truly said , a
prophet hath no honour in his own country ; and the impression left by certain celebrities of tlie school , long resident among these Westmoreland clodhoppers , is in strong confirmation of the truth of the axiom . " They did not think much on Wordsworth or Southey , and would like to know whether ony yan has takken till his job . Taeerwur some talk aboofc yan Kenny ' sor ( Tenny ' s son ) , as wur at Cunnyston , but t' fellow did l yle else but smooke . " The man of Kent Avould , perhaps , require a glossary to aid his interpretation of our countryman ' s Doric . By 'job' nothing less is meant than the honourable office of Poet Laureate , who , in our juvenile days , ' when George the Third was king , ' earned his annual butt of sherry sack by writing odes in celebration of the royal natal day . As to the gentleman so irreverently stigmatized for his attachment to the ' weed , ' he surely can be no other than Mr . Tennyson , a delightful poet , though of the Lakes ( or Fens ) , and therefore entitled to a more genial epitapli than that bestowed upon him by the north-country road-scraper .
But to return . Patiently , during a summer of almost tropical heat and unwonted rural temptations , had we sat vainly sighing for the pleasures of hill and valley , even as the hart panteth after the water brooks . But emancipation came not . Her 'Majesty ' s Servants , indeed , having dulydigested the annual mess of Greenwich whitebait , took their conge and . departed- —Lord Palmerston to his patrimonial acres , through which for miles flows that prhnest of England's trout streams , the Hampshire Test , and was returning each evening with shoulders aching ; under the weight of his full-gorged pannier . Panmure , ever impatient to wander , rifle in hand , 'Midst lone Invermark ' s hazel shades , had been driven almost frantic by the weekly glowing telecfmmic reports of his Scottish foresters . lEven the Council Chamber re-echoed with the low and dolorous accents of his sylvan lament : —
My heart's in the HielancU , my ieart is not here , My heart ' s in the Hielands , a chasing the doer , A chasing the wild deer , the hart , and the roe , My heart ' s in the Hielands , wherever I go . At length , he too disappeared , and is next heard of , one day , up to his waist in the heather of a grouse cover , —then , as having stalked a stag often — ' the fattest of' this season' — in company with the equally successful Lord Stanley of Alderley . Should Inverniark , like Balmoral , be beyond the reach of telegraph , we trust that the war minister , ere quitting his post , carefully provided that our brave soldiers have every appliance and means to boot for stalking the Sepoy demon rebels as effectually as his Lordshi p proposes to stalk the antlered monarch of the Highland wastes .
Our turn came at last . From Euston-square the journey was rapid to the ancient border town of Shrewsbury , with its quaint dwellings , all gable and pointed arch —its Welsh bridge and Welsh quarter , so suggestive of estrangement between alien races , though separated only by the breadth of an inconsiderable stream . That stream , however , here dwindling to a clear , gravel ly rapid is no other than Severn swift , guilty of maiden ' s death , of Miltonic fame , and at its termination expanding into itn estuary five miles in width .
Intending to make our legs our compasses , like the worthy Martinus Scriblerus , during the whole of this three weeks' excursion , we slung our pannier , and , rod in hand , departed from the station and the town . Wandering along a valley skirted by great conical hills , densely clothed at their base with autumnal-tinted oaks , but shooting upwards in bare rose-tinted pyramids into the blue ether , the path at length wound close to the waterside . At this season most rivers of the principality teem with salmon , salmon-trout , the trout of the river , and that delicious species of Sulmo sular , in Welsh styled sewin—a morsel worthy of Lucullus—never yet seen within the confines of Billingsgate , and therefore likely to be wanting even at the great inauguration banquet of the worthy Sir Itobert Garden on the 9 th of November .
livery fisherman should properly be his own ' fly maker . ' Those who have not patience , time , and ingenuity necessary for the attainment of this art , may invoke the aid of our worthy neighbour , Mr . Charles Farlow , in the Strand . As , however , some enthusiastic tourist , pinning his faith upon the lender ' s sporting reminiscences , may choose to travel in our footsteps , we will just indicate two Hies which at this fag end of the season will assuredly fill hia basket . Let him pluck ones of the brown freckled hackles from tho neck of a blue dun cockerel , a breed of which your Welsh angler aeems to enjoy the monopoly , and twisting it , secundetm artem , round the top of n No .
7 hook , let him form below a body of strong yellow wool , mingled with tho dark fur with yellow tips from the ear of a jack huro , and rib with line gold thread . This will be hiss point ily or stretcher ; for the usual drop fly , tho hlood-rcd feather with black butt growing on a game fowl ' n neck ; the body , black ostrich hurl and silver ribs . Here you have the famous coeh y bon tldhu of WeLsli anglers . These two are n & ost effective during all autumn ; with just ten besides , fish are killed during spring and summer uluo ; they form , as quaint old Jzaalc Walton would say , a jury of flies that ahali condemn , every trout in the river . With the two lirst named we went sedulously to work , casting , light as a
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 10, 1857, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10101857/page/19/
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