4 FEBRUARY 1837, Page 13

PEEL'S BUMPS.

DR. EPP.i, in a phrenological view of the progress of Criminal Legislation, to Le Lund in the Christian Phy.sician for the car- relt mouth, has this iassage on the great Tory charlatan of Tam- worth.

Sir Hobert Feei has talc:: t1;,7. relit to Larself for amending and ame-

liorating t:y et in,hati anti. in c..cc to some of time :nlences alie.1.1, re- f,..rreii to, the 1.);:o,, , s l • ,. nnieli-plaised enien‘Litions. Sleal- iax to the value i.f •Haim &Atli : lie nude it to time amount of ; which act ii . •,! t!.e value thetime of Once:1.11m., .!, , 7 7 :r instea i ui iir.leashig the value of 1.11.1:1•S life, he dimiui-Lr.i i.

" He perpetuated the putii-"..:ent of death a, applicable to fsw;eries.

" An exaiii:nei.in of Sir Peel's tir,;aitization explaia thin.

Time speech Sir Robert Pei:: a.: his Ly:.1 !tern:- of the odt.g.w 1 uicerein, iniuriis one of the beet i}41,trations of the thaure of that olg lineation."

We are curious to see a plirenologieal estimate of the character of Sir ROBERT PLAUSIBLE. The phrenologists would advance their science in popular estimation, and afford amusement as well us instruction, by guag:ng the capacities of some of our legisla- tors—sounding the depths and shallows of their understandia;s. Expert practitioners of craniology, we understand, do not need actually to feel the pratuberances of the criminal, or measure the skull : they carry the callipers in their eye, and can penetrate through the thickest crop of hair, add any wig but a J edge's or a Bishop's.

The gallery of the House of Commons would be a capital place for surveying the skulls of senators when they dud- their hats to address the House ; and a ciue might thus be pt to the occa- sionally inexplicable freaks of some few well-meaning men. The t hing has been done a iready,we believe, in a few individual eases; but Dr. EPPS, who iliustrates his le,_eures on phrenology with living examples in public men, shouid follow out the exhibition regu- larly on a large EC.11..I.

\1' Ito knows, but at some future time, not very distant, a candi- diLe for the suffrages of a constituency inay be required to append to his address a phrenological testimonial of his capabilities for performing his senatorial duties. The state of the poll would then be the true index of the characters of the candidates.