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    cecution , eat frequently with a hearty relish , and displayed an intense love ' food , tobacco 3 and brandy-and-water . Barclay , the Glasgow murderer , fis eveu more remarkable in this respect , and two or three hours before jing hanged eat as mueli as -would luive sufficed for three ordinary men . notber characteristic is noticed—Secretiveiiess . This OTgan was a . leading feature , in Palmer ; and under the most trying circummces , be could prevent expressing tlie slightest emotion of his feelings . The reirks made by Palmer's groom are strictly ^ illustrative of Secretivene 9 s in his ister . "He -was a singular man . He never changed " . countenance -whatever hapned . We used to notice it as "we passed : by . We never could tell "whether he had > n or lost . "

    When Field and the other detectives called on Palmer , and informed him of the spicions that Walter Palmer bad not been fairly- dealt ¦ svitb , and that they were ing to make inquiries ^ Palmar replied , li Quite right , " without the least expression feeling . They thought they would try him further , and said ' they had alao ubts about his wife's death ; ' but he never said anything beyond " Very right and aper . " Simpson , one of the detectives in question , is stated to have said , that he ver witnessed such an impassibility in . all his life . He expected that Palmer -would ve jumped up and knocked thejn down ; but he never stirred , but went on sipping 5 vine and cracking his walnuts as unconcerned as possible . Secretiveness is very large in the head of Rush , which led him to conceive that

    a mask he wore -when he murdered his victims perfectly concealed him from recogiion . He never appeared to consider thnt his peculiar manner of carrying his heed . mid point out his identity and lead to Iris detection . His large Secretiveiiesa made m feel perfectly secure within himself , and he , like Palmer , thought all his moverjnts impenetrable . Murderers in general , according to this theory , are -wanting in caution . ash , -with all his power of secrecy , manifested the most singular want of rcumspection ; Palmer was literally recklessi both , howevec , were excesrely vain , like the majority of their class . These studies of the heads of aHirderexs are not without their value . The

    oughtful reader , of course , need not be warned against allowing to every rcurastance mentioned by Mr . Bridges the interpretation hie chooses to it upon it ; but we may say that , in general , he evinces a . desire to be ndid , although his convictions are so strong that they stamp all human ture according to a single patera . H « is of those who believe that aetaphysical philosophy as a great power has been , but no longer is , ' a oposition easy enough to assert ; yet not likely to meet with . more tiian a ctional and temporary acceptation . Wehave been considerably interested his book , which we commend to public notice as presenting the latest ew of phrenological science , as it is understood by the adepts in that llluinatio-n .

    The author of The Re fugee claims to be ranked among phrenologists ; we rerefore give him a place . But bis book is a mystery . We know not how uch or how little is intended as reality ; whether the writer's name is really Ifred GJ-odwine , or ¦ when he gives people fictitious titles . He is free enough the Use of proper names ,, and there is more of invidious personality than ' p hrenological observation in his story . However , vague , irregular , and discreet as it is , the volnme is an amusing euriosity . It is evidently the ark of a foreigner , who has seen much of the world ; ihed we might lenow Dm the orthography , faultless as it generally is , and from the style , although evinces a most creditable command over the JGnglish language . The hero

    one Skreny , a Hungarian and a poet , who gossips about Lamartine , Granger , MazzinJ , Victor Hugo , and a score of other celebrities , with care-3 s ease . Saphir , the Austrian poet , he says , was once asked by Baron othsehild , of Vienna , to -write soniethingin his album ; he wrote Lend me to hundred guilders and forget them . " The great speculator did not fuse . Skreny tells us bow Balzac was wont to li \ e ' over the Cafe du ardinar and what were his favourite dishes . Moreover , he describes him-¦ U fighting in the revolution of 1848 , flying to Paris , trying to obtain craoyment on the public journals , and being informed by l ) r . Veron that the jn ' slitutiotinel dared not advocate Constitutionalism , in Prussia since that

    ould weaken the claims of France upon the Rhenish provinces . In Paris a was unfortunate and saw the interior of Clichy , although he enjoyed appier episodes—ithe acquaintance of Ancelot , Ponsard , Eazy , and De igny- He-was iu the streets when they ran with tbe blood of . December , B 51 ¦ ; but next day was dismissed for having doubted tbe legitimacy of the Imperor , and for havin-g circulated certain anecdotes implicating the men f the day . In London , he was delighted . England , he says , is not a luropean China . It is progressive : the ladies improve in their attire ; its limat-e , though praised by Agricola and Tacitus , is bad ; but what of India , pain , Germany ^ and America ? No women have such exquisite waists as

    English women . Their manners aa-e all grace—at least the manners of those horn he met in London and at Nice . At ! Nice , moreover , he saw the Prince t Monaco , who had just sold his coach ,, to pay a tradesman ' s bill ; Kossuth , lazzini , and Safli are brought in , turns upon the stage , with a Scotch lord ml lady , Madame Muller , lunkul , and a certain 'Prince of Colchis , against rhoiu the author directs , a sarcastic chapter . At last , Skreny became a hronologist ; Imuicq this book , or , at . least , its title . He told a Crimean ero that he was not heroic , a aioblenmnfs son that his brains were cxausted , a young lady that she was liable to bo deceived , an editor that he ught to have "been a baker , Ledru ltollin that he had wiud in his brains , and

    bo Lord : Chief Justice , who brought him a criminal to examine , that the iwlt Jay with those who had selected a sedentary life for a man filled by ature for an active owe . Phrenology , therefore , is making way , after a

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    THE LAKE DISTRICT . " amble * m Hie Zahe District in July , 1857 . By Harry H-acdknot . Whittalcor and Co . me characteristics of that part of Westmoreland , Cumberland , and Lancashire popularly tunned tho Lake District , must , indeed , have wuy changed and woefully deteriorate *! when , ia a nicro three days ' j > jqurn the tourist gets ... continually . entangled among nuisances like ixea ^ : a cotton-inill , ironworks with old tumble-down buildups , men 'UU black i * cea and , » ed « lotUefi , red carts piled with red mineral , ea 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 grimy look ; a bobbin-mill , including within Us operations the manufacture of Hollowav ' s 250 gross of pill-boxes weekly , together with thousands of supplementary brush and mop handles . Everything , as in the great city the author had just lied from , goes , as the Pacha emphatically termed it , " Whirr ! whirr I whirr I—all upon wheels—all upon wheels !" Nor are weal all disposed to admire as he does the manner and deportment of the rustics in that portion of England Mr . Hardknot has undertakea to 1

    portray . 1 our northern villager seenis far ' too cannyto 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—ser ves but as a stalking-horse , behind whict many a malicious bolt is shot . B ythe-by , _ their appreciation of certain individuals of the so-called 'Lake school' is prodigiousl y quaint and amusing . It lias been truly said , a prophet hath oxo honour in his own country ; and the impression left by certain , celebrities of the 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 . Theerwur some talk aboot yaoi KLenny ' sor ( Tenny ' s son ) , as wur at Cunnyston ^ , but t' fellow did fyle else but smooke . " The man of Kent would , 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 stigmatised for his attachment to the ' weed , ' he surely can be no other than Mr . Tennyson , a deliglitful poet , though of the Lakes < or Fens ) , and therefore entitled to a more genial epitaph than that bestowed upon him "b y the north-country road-scraper . J 3 ut 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 , laving dulydigested the annual mess of Greenwich whitebait , took their coiige and departed—Lord Palmerston to his patrimonial acres , through -winch for miles Hows that primest of England ' s trout streams , the Hampshire Test , and was returning each evening with shoulders aching under tbe weight of his full-gorged pannier . Panmure , ever impatient to wander , rifle in ° liaad ,

    'Midst lone Inverniark ' s hazel shades , had been driven almost frantic by the weekly glowing telegramic reports of his Scottish foresters . Even the Council Chamber re-echoed with the low and dolorous accents of his sylvan lament : — My heart's in the Hielands , my heart is not here , My heart ' s in the Hielands , a chasing the deer , 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 AWerley . Should Invermark , 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 th « antlered monarch of the Highland wastes .

    Our turn came at last . From Euaton-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 , gravelly rapid is no other than Severn swift , guilty of maiden ' s death , of Miltonie fame , and at its termination expanding into an 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 slun <» - our pannier , and , rod in hand , departed from the station and the town . Wandering along a valley skirted by jrreat conical hills , densely clothed at their base with autumnaLtinfced oaks , but shooting upwards in bare rose-liufced pyramids into tho blue ether , the path at length wound close to the waterside . At this season most riven * of the principality teem with salmon , salmon-trout , the trout of the river , and that delicious species of Sctltno salar , in Welsh styled sewin—a morsel worthy of Lucullus—never yet seen within the confines of Billingsgate , ami therefore likely to be wanting even at the great inauguration banquet of the worthy Sir lioberfc Garden ° ou the J ) th of ^ November .

    Every lieherman should properly be his own 'fly maker . ' Those who liave not patience , time , and ingenuity necessary for tho attainment of this art , may invoke the aid of our worthy neighbour , Mr . Charles Farlow , iu the Strand . As , however , some enthusiastic tourist , pinning his faith upon the Leader ' s sporting reminiscences , im » y choose to travel in our footsteps , we will just indicate two Hies which at this fag end of tho season will assuredly fill his basket . Let him pluck one of the brown 1 reck led hackles from , the neck of a blue dun cockerel , a breed of which your AVelsh angler seems to enjoy the monopoly , and twisting it , secundani artem , round tho top oi ' a No . 7 hook , let him form below a body of strong yellow wool , mingled with tho dark fur with yellow tips from the our of a jack hare , and rib with h ' ne gold thread . This will be his point ily or stretcher ; for the usual drop lly , the blood-red feather with black butt growing on a game fowl ' s ikjoIc ; tho body , blade ostrich herl and silver rib . s . Here you have the famous coch y bon < ldhu of Welsh anglers . These two arc most effective during all autumn ; with just ten besides , fi . sh are killed during spring : md summer also ; they form , as quaint old Jzaalc Walton would suy , a jury ° f lies that shall condemn every trout in the river . With the two first named wo went sedulously to work , casting , light as a

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    ; Npu 394 * dcicl&Ei 10 , 1857 . 3 THE ' ItlADiB . 979

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 10, 1857, page 979, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2213/page/19/