of leading to materialism as some, ignorant of the science, have alleged, it establishes, by clear elucidations of reason, both the spirituality and the immortality of man.

3. Resolved, That we hail the science as the harbinger of good to the race; and that we commend it to, the free and truthful examination of all the lovers of knowledge.

4. Resolved, That the temperance lecture of Mr. Fowler, delivered on the evening of the ninth inst., and based on phrenological and physiological principles, is characterized by much originality of perception and induction; that it called up the great and unchanging laws of the physical and of the mental man, to bear witness to the temperance cause; and that, in our opinion, said lecture should be given to every community in the world, whose moral condition requires the influences of this reform.

5. Resolved, That these lectures commend themselves to our reason by the clearest evidence; that they embody a high order of thought, aiming constantly at the highest utility; that we value them for their intellectual, moral, and religious tendencies; and that to Mr. Fowler, as the advocate and representative of the science, we tender our cordial thanks for his labors among us. J. OLNEY, Pres.

Southington, Conn., Jan. 15, 1848.

MESSRS. FOWLERS & WELLS:

REV. E. G. HOLLAND, Sec.

LANCASTER, Erie Co., N. Y., Jan. 22d, 1848.

By order of the North Lancaster Phrenological Society, I send you the sum of seventeen dollars for the purchase of books, busts, and specimens, illustrative of the sciences of Phrenology and Physiology. The society has just been formed, and has had no experience in the selection of books, etc.; therefore we leave that in part to your judgment, trusting you will do your best for an amateur society, particularly in the selection of specimens.* We wish you to send all the books advertised in the Journal.

Perhaps it will not be uninteresting to you to learn how the science progresses in this vicinity. Your last year's Journal, and “Phrenology Proved, Illustrated, and Applied," having fallen into a few hands, and being universally read and approved, led to the purchase of other works, which were admired, particularly the works on Memory, Self-Culture, Religion, and Hereditary Descent, were acknowledged intellectual feasts. Phrenology is gaining friends rapidly, and those, too, who are becoming thoroughly imbued with the doctrines of progression, benevolence, and morality which it teaches. True, there are a few, VERY few who raise the cry of Fatalism, etc., but it availeth them nothing. Our motto is Excelsior. Our treasurer, Abraham Gipple, is obtaining a list of subscribers to your Journal, and meets with good success.

SYLVESTER WHEELOCK, Secretary.

The following are the names of the officers of this Society:-JACOB G, ERB, ESQ., President; JOHN T. WHEELOCK, Vice President; H. S. BAKER, Librarian; C. J. WILTSE, BENJAMIN GIPPLE, and S. WHEELOCK, Trustees.

THE RAHWAY (N. J.) REGISTER of recent date contains the following: "It will be seen that the great apostle of practical Phrenology (Mr. L. N. Fowler, of New York), is at present giving a course of lectures in the Atheneum Hall on this favorite science. We have understood, too, that certain would-be intellectual dictators and philosophers in our midst, are magnanimously affecting to treat, with something like derision, the lectures of Mr. Fowler, as if they were competent-they who never descend below the surface of any subject, and have never as yet clearly discerned even the surface of Phrenology -as if they (we repeat) were qualified to sit in judgment upon such a man as * In the next number of the Journal we will publish a list of such specimens as we have prepared for the use of societies, with suitable descriptions.

Mr. Fowler, with reference to such a subject as Phrenology. We can find no terms sufficiently severe in which to express our loathing of the arrogant and conceited temper betrayed by these individuals. Here we have a man of uncommon natural parts, who during the last twenty years, has been enthusiastically and almost exclusively devoted to a particular study. He has left no stone unturned in this his favorite pursuit, and has probably collected a greater mass of important facts in relation to it, than any individual that ever went before him. To hear him discourse on the subject, it is palpably manifest to all that he is intimately acquainted with its every fibre, and his wonderfully sagacious remarks (as wonderful as they are continued), go only to prove that as a phrenologist, he has dissected the very heart of his subject, and is prepared, more than any other man, to reveal to us the most important truths in regard to ourselves, thus enabling us to become better men and better Christians. And yet such a man as this is to be set upon, and his doctrines aspersed by a conceited little knot of would-be's, as presumptuous as they are uninformed, in the pompous hope, forsooth! that their shallow ipse dixit will more than counterbalance the profound reasonings and striking illustrations of Professor Fowler. How true was the poet's remark:

'Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence,
And fills up all the mighty void of sense.'

"We are happy to assure our readers, however, notwithstanding this sorry opposition on the part of an envious clique, that the more Mr. Fowler is heard and appreciated, the more he is admired, and we doubt not, could he make it convenient to give us a course of twenty lectures instead of six, that his reputation and popularity among us would be in the same proportion increased. We advise every man who can conveniently pay a shilling, and who is not above being candid, to hear Mr. Fowler's lectures on this (Saturday) and Monday evening next."

A CASE OF SOMNAMBULISM.

ALTOGETHER the most interesting case of Somnambulism on record, is that of a young ecclesiastic, the narrative of which, from the immediate communication of an Archbishop of Bordeaux, is given under the head of "Somnambulism," in the French Encyclopedia. This young ecclesiastic, when the archbishop was at the same seminary, used to rise every night, and write out either sermons or music. To study his condition, the archbishop betook himself several nights to the chamber of the young man, where he made the following observations:-The young man used to rise, to take paper, and to write. Before he wrote music, he would take a stick and rule the lines with it. He wrote the notes, together with the words corresponding with them, with perfect correctness. Or, when he had written the words too wide, he altered them. The notes that were to be black, he filled in after he had completed the whole. After completing a sermon, he read it aloud from beginning to end. If any passage displeased him, he erased it, and wrote the amended passage directly over the other. On one occasion, he had substituted the word "adorable" for "divine," but he did not omit to alter the preceding "ce" into "cet," by adding the letter "t," with exact precision, to the word first written. To ascertain whether he used his eyes, the archbishop interposed a sheet of pasteboard between the writing and his face. He took not the least notice, but went on writing as before. The limitation of his perceptions to what he was thinking about was very curious. A bit of anise-seed cake that he had sought for, he eat approvingly; but when, on another occasion, a piece of the same cake was put in his mouth, he spit it out without observation.

The following instance of the dependence of his perceptions upon, or rather their subordination to, his preconceived ideas, is truly wonderful. It is to be observed that he always knew when his pen had ink on it. Likewise, if they adroitly changed his papers when he was writing, he knew it, if the sheet substituted was of different size from the former; he appeared embarrassed in

that case. But if the first sheet of paper, which was substituted for that written on, was exactly the same size with the former, he appeared not to be aware of the change. And he would continue to read off his composition, from the blank sheet of paper, as fluently as when the manuscript lay before him; nay, more, he would continue his corrections, introduce his amended passage, writing it upon exactly the place on the blank sheet which it would have occupied on the written page.-Blackwood's Magazine.

CONSERVATISM AND PROGRESSION.

REV. HENRY Ward Beecher, in his thanksgiving sermon, discourses thus: "It is not in the discovery of new and before unexpected religious truths, that we expect Progress; but in very unexpected practical applications of the long-known and simplest truths of the Bible. The world is able to bear the doctrine of Christ; but nothing would convulse it so soon or so profoundly as this day to insist upon the utmost practical fulfillment of that doctrine. It is sufficiently difficult to inspire men with the idea of high spiritual truth; but this is much easier than to procure their practical assent to the Golden Rule. The most radical book on earth is the Bible. Let the absolute requirements of the New Testament be peremptorily laid upon business, pleasure, social usage, political economy, and the whole of public procedure, and it would be like the letting loose of tornadoes in the forest. Let an angel of God come down to measure the ways of men, and to change all that disagreed with the Golden Rule, in the family, in the shop, in the ways of commerce, in social and political life, and the clamor of resistance would fill the heavens! What has been the occasion of all the heat and fury which has gone forth upon the slavery question, but the simple endeavor to procure for a despised class the simplest element of justice? Yet our ears are annually vexed with redundant arguments or eulogies of Fourth-of-July-justice. The whole mighty fermentation of England, the irrepressible throes of Italy, are but the result of the simplest truths of the New Testament. Let rulers who love absolute authority cast the Bible out of their dominions. It is as full of revolutions as the heaven is of stars. Little by little it leavens the lump. Each encroachment upon embodied and organic selfishness brings on a battle. Behold, indeed, the ax is now laid at the root; and every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down and cast into the fire!

"Without doubt important changes are to be made slowly. There is too much human happiness involved in every form of social usage to justify rash experiments or sudden changes, which may be from bad to worse. Nevertheless,

no age will be allowed to shrink from the application of ascertained truths to known imperfections or misusages. Forever to pray, Thy kingdom come,' and forever to fight each step of advance as a rash innovation, is the wisdom of conservatism. Some would be glad if God's kingdom would descend, as the rainbow comes, in the air; a thing for the eye; a picture on the clouds which shines over a world without changing it. Yes-it will come like a rainbow!the sweep and the scowl of the storm first, which rends and purifies, and then the peaceful bow on the retiring cloud. The coming will be seen in the grow-^ ing humanity of the public mind; in the application of religious justice to the processes of society; in the eradication of all errors; and the subversion of all hoary evils of established fruitfulness, by which the progress of men in knowledge and goodness has been restrained."

The author of these progressive views is a thorough phrenologist, and began its study in connection with the editor. His natural talents are of the first order, and have been improved by this science, and directed to the great cause of human ADVANCEMENT. We want, and shall soon have, more PHRENOLOGICAL ministers.

TOBACCO.

TOBACCO plays a most important part in this country as to the habits of the people. However used-whether smoked, chewed, or used as snuff-its action on the system is but little different. It is essentially a narcotic; and as such, is detrimental to the power and healthiness of the nervous system-as such, it stimulates at the expense of subsequent depression and eventual loss of tone-as such, it interferes with the functions of assimilation, and expenditure-and as such, is injurious to the health of the system. Tobacco exerts more marked and injurious effects when chewed, less of these when smoked, and is least deleterious when used in the form of snuff. This is only, however, a question of degree; and in the temperate climates, the use of tobacco in any way can only be justifiable when, from poverty of diet, and consequent vital depression, the effects of a habitually-used narcotic may not be undesirable.-Robertson on Diet and Regimen.

I never saw an inveterate tobacco consumer whose nerves were not more or less disordered. Tobacco irritates both body and brain, and thus causes a feverish, restless, craving, excitable, hankering state of mind, which is in direct conflict with that quiet, contented, calm, and happy state of mind and equanimity of temper which is indispensable to all true enjoyment—or, rather, in which consists all virtue and happiness. The great evil of tobacco is, that it produces that ABNORMAL state of the brain and nervous system which vitiates all their functions, and substitutes one that is a DEPRAVED, and of course SINFUL action of the animal propensities. And any man who craves the stimulus of tobacco, may know for certain that this narcotic has thus VITIATED HIS MIND. as well as disordered his body.

PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETIES.-New societies are springing up, quite rapidly, all over the land. One has just been formed in Berlinville and Lykens, Ohio; another in Watertown, New York; and another in North Lancaster, New York; besides a large number in other sections, now in course of formation, more complete reports of which will hereafter be given.

THE BALTIMORE Phrenological Society is progressing finely. They have a collection of specimens, and meet weekly for investigation and mental improvement. They avail themselves of every opportunity that presents itself, to obtain lectures, and to interchange views with those who have given attention to the subject.

MR. JESSE J. SMITH, of Somerville, Tenn., has already ordered one hundred copies of Vol. X. of this Journal, besides a large quantity of our other publications. May Phrenology find a constant summer in Somerville.

J. W. COPES & Co., of Houston, Texas, are agents for all of our publications, including the PHRENOLOGICAL BUST, designed for learners. They have sold five thousand copies of the Phrenological Almanac for 1848. We have high hopes of Texas.

PHRENOLOGICAL LECTURES IN NEW YORK CITY.-Mr. L. N. Fowler will commence courses of public and private lectures on Phrenology, Physiology, and their various applications to human improvement, in CLINTON HALL, early in April next, to be continued through the spring.

NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

INFANCY-ITS PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MORAL MANAGEMENT. By ANDREW COMBE, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Physician Extraordinary in Scotland to the Queen, and Consulting Physician to the King and Queen of the Belgians. With Notes, and a Supplementary Chapter, by John Bell, M.D. New edition, enlarged and improved. Illustrated with a Portrait of the Author. Mailable. Price, only fifty cents.

This is the best work on the subject of infant treatment that has ever fallen under our observation. Those who read and apply the principles which it contains, will save the lives of many children, and themselves much anguish and suffering. It should be placed in the hands of every mother in cre

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MISCELLANIES TO THE GRAFENBURG WATER CURE; or a demonstration of the advantages of the Hydropathic method of curing diseases, as compared with the Medical. Translated by C. H. MEEKER, A. M., M. D., Member of the Scientific Hydropathic Society of Germany. Price, fifty

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This work contains some of the most scientific as well as philosophical views that have been advanced on the subject. It is from the pen of Dr. Rausse. The work has been received with great satisfaction by many of our practitioners.

THE WATER CURE IN AMERICA: two hundred and twenty cases of various diseases treated with Water, by Drs. Wesseloeft, Shew, Bedortha, Shieferdecker, and others. With cases of domestic practice, and notices of the Water Cure Establishments. Designed for popular as well as professional reading. EDITED BY A WATER PATIENT. Price, fifty cents.

A work combining the good qualities of both the practical application of the system and its efficacy as a remedial agent; giving full and ample directions how to apply it in various diseases. We regard it as every way worthy of its title, and of an attentive perusal.

MAN-MIDWIFERY EXPOSED AND CORRECTED; or, the employment of men to attend women in Childbirth, and in other delicate circumstances, shown to be a modern innovation, unnecessary, unnatural, and injurious to the physical welfare of the community; and the whole proved by numerous facts, and the testimony of the most eminent physicians in Boston, New York, and other places; and the education and employment of Midwives recommended. Together with remarks on the use and abuse of Ether, and Dr. Channing's "Cases of Inhalation of Ether in Labor." By SAMUEL GREGORY, A.M., Lecturer on Physiology, etc. Price, 12 1-2 cents.

"I view the present practice of calling on men, in ordinary births, as a source of serious evils to child-bearing; as an imposition upon the credulity of women, and upon the fears of their husbands; and as a means of sacrificing delicacy, and consequently virtue."-Thomas Ewell, M.D., of Virginia. "No man should ever be permitted to enter the apartment of a woman in labor, except in consultations and on extraordinary occasions. The practice is unnecessary, unnatural, and wrong-it has an immoral tendency."-W. Beach, M.D., New York.

"We should be perfectly satisfied to have any improvements in this kind of practice, and under no circumstances would we object to multiplying proper female midwives."—J. V. C. Smith, M.D., Editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.

"In the submission of women to the unnecessary examinations of physicians, exposing the secrets of nature, it is forgotten that every indecency of this kind is a violent attack against chastity; that every situation which produces an internal blush, is a real prostitution."-Count Buffon, the celebrated writer on Natural History.

"The French government wisely support such schools (institutions for the instruction of midwives) at the present day."-Rev. Wm. Jenks, D.D., Boston.

We fully coincide with the above views, and cordially recommend the work. It is a large octavo, in mailable form. Price only twelve and a half cents.

THE NORTH-WESTERN EDUCATOR-Published at CHICAGO, Il. A Periodical devoted to EDUCATION, LITERATURE, and News. 32 pages, monthly, at $1,0) per annum, in advance. Edited and published by J. L. ENOS, (Graduate of the State Normal School at Albany, New York.) Thus we have another accession to the much-needed educational reform of the age. We cordially recommend this work as a means of promoting the good cause of social and intellectual advancement. It should be well sustained, even by the state.

PHONOGRAPHY.-A new paper, called the EAGLE, is now being published semi-monthly in New York, devoted to the writing and spelling reform. Terms, $1,00 a year. A. Honeywell, Editor. Subscriptions received at the Phrenological Journal office.

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