THERE are many Spiritualists, and persons interested in Spiritualism, living in the neighbourhood of Kingsland and Dalston. The result is likely to he the early formation of a local society in that district. Spiritualists are numerous in the picturesque district surrounding the Crystal Palace. There are also many at Kingston-upon-Thames. MESMERISM AND CLAIRVOYANCE.—Dr. Sheldon Chadwick is now giving a course of four lectures on Mesmerism and Clair voyance, at the British Schools, Stoke Newington. Three out of the four have been delivered, and the last one will be given next Wednesday evening, at eight o’clock. One of the most curious of the experiments is one wherein Miss Montague, a pretty little girl about thirteen years of age, is seated by her self in the middle of a large platform, with her eyes bound with a handkerchief. The lecturer then walks about among the audience, and the name of anything which those present choosc to take ont of their pockets and show the lecturer is spoken by the little girl. It is a common conjuring trick to get in this way the names of ordinary articles of dress and of figures, by wording the questions according to preconcerted arrangement, and having a sharp grown-up blindfolded col league on the platform to catch the signals and give the replies To Dr. Chadwick, however, nothing came amiss, whether the articles were purses, babies’ shoes, red tape, lockets, or the proper names inside the crowns of hats. For instance, on Wednesday, November 10, a perfect stranger to Dr. Chadwick wrote two words (chosen as being difficult to guess) on a piece of paper, and suddenly pushed them into the hands of the lecturer, by whom the action was totally unexpected. “What name is this?” said the lecturer. “Carter, said the hlindfolded little girl. “ What is the other name ?” “Blake was the reply. “Right,” said the lecturer. The distance between them was about ten feet, and no other words were exchanged. Ahont 200 witnesses were present. Dr. Chad wick stated that the result was obtained by his “willing" very strongly that Miss Montague should give certain answers, and they always came. In fact, it seemed to be a clear case of trance mediumship, only the patient was influenced by a spirit in the hody, instead of a spirit of of the body. He then exhibited some of the usual mesmeric experiments, from fifteen to twenty-two persons being influenced each evening and sometimes more than a dozen of them at the same time. He remarked that too many were influenced, and they had too many friends among the listeners, for the collusion theory to held good. A single word from the lecturer would make those under his influence exhibit the most violent activity and passions; another word would instantly fix them with all the rigidity of stone, and that, too, in uncomfortable positions with countenances still and immoveable. The lecturer stated that in the first instance he gave them eoins to look at, to withdraw their attention from surrounding objects, and to concentrate it upon one point. “Then,” said he, “ the various faculties of their mind began to sleep and fold up like the leaves of a flower, and when, with a strong will, I imperiously told them that they could not open their eyes, some of them were unable to do so. I then had the wills of these in my own possession, and the will is the governing power of the whole body, so that I could make them perform many things, but could not influence all of them in the same degree. When I told them to wake up, it meant practically 'I give you your will back again, and then they were all right once more.” In answer to the theological charge that the curative powers of mesmerism are due to demoniacal agency, he said that it was prepesterous to suppose that God sends diseases and the devil cures them. Dr. Chadwick has lectured before the royal household at Windsor Castle. CHARGE OF IMPOSTURE.—A Mr. Addison has been writing to the Standard, alleging that he, in the presence of some of his friends, had detected Mrs. Mary Marshall doing “ spirit writing” under the tahle, with a pencil held between her toes. and that he than seized hold of her naked foot. His letters were very rough in their style, and contained insulting remarks about the personal appearance of Mrs. Marshall’s mother-in law. Mrs. Marshall wrote that his tale was wholly natrue and narrated instances of his misconduct. Mr. Addison then called two of his friends to support his assertions, which they did not do, but they went half-way, and said they saw Mrs Marshall writing with her foot. One of these witnesses was a comic actor, wbo spent most of his time at the séance by roll ing about on the floor, pretending to be in a fit, and frighten ing the Mrs. Marshall’s considerably. The other witness spent some of his time in drawing a caricaturc of the elder Mrs, Marshall. In opposition to the testimony of these highly respectable gentlemen, attention may be called to the evidence given before the Dialectical Society, and printed in another column, wherein Mr. E. L. Blanchard, the author, testifies that his body has been uplifted and held in the air by the spirits at Mrs. Marshall’s séances. Mr. Hain Friswell, author testifies that table manifestations have taken place in Mrs. Marshall’s presence in his own house, and were obtained after she had been searched, as well as among his own relatives after she had left the premises. The evidence given hy Signor Damiani should also be read. Mr. Epes Sargent, in his book, The Planchette, narrates that Baron Reichenbach attended a circle in London in 1861, at the house of Mr. Cowper, son-in law of Lord Palmerston ; the media present were the two Mrs. Marshall’s. Violent physical manifestations were ob served, which the Baron was convinced were not caused by imposturc. The correspondence in The Standard ended with a letter from a philosophical instrument maker, named Faulkner, who wrote that he was a manufacturer of goods for spirit-rapping people, he having fitted up their houses with wires and concealed electro-magnets, to make raps. Mr. Faulkner has since been asked for references to those whose houses he has so fitted up, and the only reference he gives is to Mr. Addison. Genuine spiritual phenomena go on in any house, which the medium has never entered till the time of the séance, and Mrs. Mary Marshall has for years been in the habit of acepting such out-door engagements. Charges of the kind mentioned in this paragraph, more or less beset every paid medium, and are among the disagreeable things the have to endure, even when the manifestations are genuine. WHERE THE LIARS GO TO. —An anecdote is told by a correspondent of the New York World, the editors of which, in printing it, seem charmingly unconscious of its personality. A clergyman, catechising a little hoy, was trying to impress on his tender mind some useful lessons from the Bible. “Where, my child, do the liars go to?” “To New York, sir, to write for the newspapers.” We think some of them have found their way to London.—Spiritual Magazine. THE public Spiritual circles once held at 2, Great Coram street, under the mediumship of Mr. F. Herne, have bcen given up. MR. D. D. HOME has been giving public readings during the past few months in Bristol and other large towns in the West of England. He is a good speaker.