but it was quiekly followed by raps, not only on the table, but in different parts of the room; the table was moved up and down—lifted perfeetly off the ground made 'light' and' heavy' at the request of one or tw of the gentlemen present; and, after the lapse of, I suppose, nearly an hour, Mr. Home went into a trance Presently he pushed his chair, or the chair was pushed quite away from the table. He got up, walked abou the room in his usual manner; went to the fire-place half knelt on tho fender stool; took up the poker and poked the fire, which was like a red-hot furnace, so as to increase the heat; held his hands over the fire fo some time, and finally drew out of tho fire with hi hand a large lump of live burning coal, so large that he held it in both hands, as he came from the fire place in the large room into the small room, where, seated round the table, we were all watching his movements. Mr Hall was seated nearly opposite to where I sat; and saw Mr. Home, after standing about half a minute a the back of Mr. Hall’s chair, deliberately place the lump of burning coal on his head ! I have often won dered that I was not frightened, but I was not; I had perfect faith that he would not be injured. Some ond Mr. Hall answered, "warm said: "Is it not hot?" but not hot." Mr. Home had moved a little way, but returned, still in a trance; he smiled, and seemed quite pleased, and then proceeded to draw up Mr. Hall's white hair over the red eoal. The white hair had the lappearance of silver thread over the red coal. Mr Home drow the hair into a sort of pyramid, tho coal still red, showing beneath the hair; then, after, I think four or five minutes, Mr. Home pushed the hair back and, taking the eoal off Mr. Hall's head, he said (in the peculiar low voice in whieh, when in a trance, he always "Will you have it?" speaks), addressing Mrs. Y., She drew back, and I heard him murmur, "Little faith little faith." “Two or three attempted to toueh it but it burned their fingers. I said, 'Daniel, bring it over to me; I do not fear to take it.' It was not red all over, as when Mr. Home put it on Mr. Hall's head, but it was still red in parts. Mr. Home came and knelt by my side; put out my right hand, but he murmured, 'No, not that, the other hand. He then placed it in my left hand, where it remained more than a minute. I felt it, as my husband had said, warm,’ yet, when I stooped down to examine the coal, my face felt the heat so mueh that I was obliged to withdraw it. After that, Mrs Y— took it, and said she felt no inconvenience When Mr. Hall brushed his hair at night he found quantity of einder dust. Mr. Home was elongated, and all the manifestations that evening were very remark able; but, I believe, your Lordship requested me to relate only what I remember of the eoal test "Dear Lord Dunraven, sineerely yours "ANNA MARIA HALL" (Mrs. S. C. Hall.) Of course if these manifestations were the only ones obtainable through Mr. Home’s mediumship, they would be more severely critieised than now may be deemec necessary. A wet hand may be momentarily dippec with impunity into melted iron or copper ; the sudden transformation of the liquid into vapour tends to chill the skin, and during the instant the ehill lasts, thin layer of vapour lies like a cushion, between the metal and the skin. This is why blacksmiths can for Conjurors, who an instant lick a white hot poker. handle hot things, are said to previously toughen the skin of the hand, by repeated washings with diluted sulphuric aeid. In Mr. Home’s case, the question resolves into one of length of eontact, and temperature at the point of contact, carbon not being a very good conductor of heat. The first eoal which we saw lying steadily on his hand, was so hot at first, that its refleeted light made the skin of his hand appear to be ineandescent for a little distance all round the edge of the plane of contact The second and larger coal he carried about the room a first, so that it was not so minutely examined at the point of contact ; it was not shifted from its one place on the hand until he threw it in the fender THE Rev. Charles White, of the Free Christian Church Notting Hill, recently delivered a lecture on Spiritualism, in the Shire Hall, Haverfordwest. The tenor of his remark was to the effect that modern Spiritualism consists of a little truth and much falsehood.