SPIRITUALISM AND POLITICS AT NAPLES. THE Anti-Œcumenical Council met in St. Ferdinand's Theatre, Naples, on the 9th of December last, under the pre sidency of the convener of the meeting, Count Ricciardo, a Spiritualist, and a member of the Italian Parliament The PRESIDENT, at the close of his opening address to the vast audience present, submitted the following questions to the congress for discussion :—I. Religious liberty, and the best means for rendering it full and permanent. II. The com plete separation of Church and State. III. The necessity of a code of morals, independent of religious belief. IV. The establishment of an international association to promote the principles of freedom, and the general good, intellectual and moral. The secretaries read letters of adhesion and approval from Garibaldi, Victor Hugo, and many other distinguished patriots authors, thinkers, in Europe, Mexico, United States, Brazil Chili, West Indies, the Grecian Isles, and some of the cities of Asia and Africa. Signor Damiani and Mr. J. M. Peebles were present among the audience. Mr. PEEBLES, in course of a speech, gave the following as his definition of the principles of Spiritualism, and we quote his words from a New York paper called The Universe:  “As a general definition of Spiritualism, the following is submitted: Its fundamental idea of God—the infinite spirit presenee, imminent in all things. Its fundamental thought is joyous communion with spirits and angels, and the practical demonstration of the same through the instrumentality of media. Its fundamental purpose is to rightly generate, edu cate, and spiritualise all the races and nations of the earth Spiritualism, considered from its philosophical side, is rationalism, from its scientific side, naturalism, and from its religious side, the embodiment of love to God and man, a pre sent inspiration and a heavenly minister. In the year 1900 it will be the religion of the enlightened world. It underlies all genuine reform movements, physiological, educational social, philanthropic, and religious, and spanning all human interests with holy aim, it seeks to reconstruet society upon the principles of a universal brotherhood, and the strict equa lity of the sexes. Desirous of greater knowledge touching the relations of spirit with matter, and of men with God and the intelligences of the surrounding world of spirits, Spiritua lists study and reverently interrogate the laws and principles that govern the phenomena and occult forces of the universe, the histories of the past, and the experiences of the present, anxious to solve those psychological and spiritual problems oi the ages—man’s origin, capacity, duty, and final destiny. Interrelated with spirit and matter in their varied evolutions and with the highest interests connecting all worlds, Spiritua lism is neither supernatural in philosophy, nor sectarian ir tendency; but broad, catholie, and progressive—the voiced truth of God through nature to the rational soul—a science, a philosophy, and a religion. Contemplated from the mount of vision, it may be compared to a temple whose outer foun dations are upon earth, and whose golden dome is in heaven Its facts, its workmanship, are embellished by the fingers of angels, and its principles are upheld by the hand of God. Thanking you for your patience in listening to a stranger in a language that few of you understand, I close with the senti ments:—May Italians speedily possess all Italian territory may proud historic Rome be its capital; may capital and country constitute one united Republic, and may that Republic be sustained by the enlightened influences of education, jus tice, universal suffrage, the equality of the sexes, and the beautiful peace principles of love and wisdon." On the second day of the session, while a fiery Frenchman was speaking eloquently of the value of republican institutions and of freedom in religion, and hundreds of listeners were applauding, up rose an officer searfed and ribboned, and said "In the name of the laws I pronounce this meeting dissolved !" An intense feeling of indignation, which broke into murmurs. pervaded the meeting; it seemed as though a storm were about to burst, when President Ricciardo rose and said,—" beg of you to disperse quietly—quietly and in order.” In this manner the meeting was brought to an unexpeetedly prompt conclusion.