Newspaper Abuse. UNTRUTH FORM THE “DAILY NEWS." THE following is a leading article from the Daily News of Friday last:  “We published the other day a letter from a correspondent respecting an advertisement for haunted-houses, which was understood to have been connected with investigations con cerning spirit-rapping. Since then we have been favoured with the sight of a new organ, established to spread the doctrines of the believers in ghosts. The fact is that for the Spiri last few years — for the last three years especially tualism, or, as we should prefer to call it, Spiritism, has been gaining considerable ground in London. It was first taker up as a fashionable excitement by ladies of the Mrs. Leo Hunter type. These good matrons, having their Wednesdays or their Fridays with tea and foreign lions, were suddenly made acquainted with the methods of conversing with de parted friends. They attended a few séances at the houses of professional mediums, and were more than satisfied with what they saw and heard. From that time forward they devoted themselves and their guests to the invocation of what Johnson termed shadowy beings. A sort of rivalry was got up amongst them on the score of the character of the demonstrations. To secure a good medium was the first object. This medium was supposed to act as a sort of decoy duck ; he or she did nothing, and yet it was according to the powers of attraction resident in the lady or gentleman that the chairs and the tables became audible in their revelations. Hence a new branch of busines arose. Mediums were imported from America, and our own city of course soon began to furnish persons of the same quality. The market, however, has not yet been overcrowded for we read, in the journal before us 'that good physical media are much wanted in Glasgow.' By good 'physical media’  is understood persons in whose vicinity the spirits are numerous, communicative, many-sided, and brisk. Your inferior five shilling medium has only a limited stock of 'phenomena' at his back. The ghosts may rap for him, may even trace lines upon his bare arm, and jog the dining-table a little, but that is the most you can expect, whereas the good physical media (such as are now required for the Scotch in Glasgow) can send the upholstery into fits, and in a dark room cause the spirits to manifest themselves by thumping some of the company or the head. “It will startle our readers to learn that there are nearly four millions of believers in this creed in America, for those who imagine the vain things of this gross superstition, are already claiming for it a precedence of Christianity. The paper from which we derive our information contains messages of spirit doctrine, not only shocking to religious feeling,* but revolting to common sense. These revelations took place under the auspices of a decidedly superlative medium; and we hear of a table defining the attributes of the Almighty ('at each letter of the name of God a tremulous motion of the table was perceptible ’), followed by a tune on the accordion, the joint production of the medium and a spirit. The recorder of these marvels thinks it necessary to state, 'We were all per fectly sober ; and so rigid was he in his determination to remain in a clear state of mind throughout the evening, that he refused a cup of coffee, which suggests that he entertained an unworthy suspicion of his host. It should be known that there are several places of meeting now established by the spiritists in the metropolis. It is from these that the media are taken, who afterwards perform before the aristocracy For instance, there is the 'St. John’s Association of Spi ritualists.' Here a lecture was delivered on the 4th of November by a gentleman who was sadly serious in his folly. He has lost a number of children by death, and he seeks his consolation in this grotesque nonsense. It is very pain ful to read such a lecture, and note the misdirected earnest ness, and the dogged obstinate sincerity leading to the lowest depths of credulity. “We might fairly ask the few gentlemen of talent whose names are used as baits to catch disciples for Spiritism, to take a serious view of the situation. Spiritism throws weak souls into a desolate confusion, from which there is no relief, but in constant draughts from the same treacherous cup, to keep up the intoxication of fancy to which the whole mind is abandoned. It may not effect all this amongst students of psychology, who are never happier than when examining morbid human pathology, with a cruel craving for another intellectual sensation; but they should have mercy on their weaker brethren.† As for the fashion of wealthy people hiring mediums, at the least it is a mis chievous form of amusement, and tends to promote an ad ditional kind of imposture. If they choose to make fools  themselves and others, while encouraging a fresh race of rogues, they must do so, but they might certainly be better occupied than in sanctioning a degrading superstition.