mand, that the consequent exhaustion has made her ill, and it is said that she is now out of town. In fact, the best way for non-Spiritualists to get manifestations is to form private circles in their own homes. Then, when they see manifesta tions for the first time, they will have the satisfaction of knowing either that the facts are true, or that they are cheat ing each other, and they will have no unfortunate medium from without to make uncomfortable with suspicious glances words, or acts. MESMERISM AND CLAIRVOYANCE.—Since our last notice, Dr. S. Chadwick has given two other Wednesday-evening lectures on mesmerism and clairvoyance at the British-schools Stoke Newington. Speaking of the curative power of mes merism, he gave the name and address of a lady who was mesmerically cured by him, in half an hour, of paralysis in one of her legs. For years previously she had been unable to walk. This, he said, was the most successful ease he had ever had ; for judicious mesmeric treatment, though beneficial docs not always produce such striking results. He spoke highly of Dr. Elliotson, who battled all his life with popular prejudices on this subject, and who founded the Mesmeric Hospital, Weymouth-street, Regent’s-park. He said that the combustion of the elements of food in the body, manufactures invisible forces, and that mesmerism may be compared to the transference of a dose of good health from one person to another. Frequently he misused the words “electricity” and “magnetism, by applying them to these unknown vital forces. SPIRITUALISM IN BRISTOL.—During the past few months Mr. D. D. Home has given several public readings in Bristol and other large towns in the west of England. During his stay in Bristol he was the guest of Mr. John Beattie, 2, West bourne-place, Clifton, who has written a detailed description of some séances held in his house during Mr. Home’s visit This account is published in Human Nature for Deeember and is well worth reading. Mr. Beattie says that on the 13th of September Mr. Home first visited him, and he was then totally unacquainted with him (Mr. Beattie), or his relations. On the 16th of September, at the first séance, Mr. Home went into the trance state, and then followed conversations with Mr. Beattie’s father, mother, brothers, uncle, and aunts, long since passed away. One aunt’s name was given, and Mr. Beattie himself did not know at the time that such a relative had ever lived. Some visitors who had been invited to attend also had communications from their departed relatives. Other séances are described by Mr. Beattie, at which other residents in Bristol were present, most of whom had evidence of a most conclusive nature, that they were in receipt of messages from departed friends. The physical manifestations were, as usual, of a remarkable character. DARWIN ON MAN.—The Daily News says that Mr. Darwin is about to publish a book in which his theory of natural selection will be carried into the domain of the human family. The significance of this brief announcement is evidently scarcely appreciated by those who have noticed it. The “rivalry between males of the same species for the pos session of the female” has, indeed, long been a patent fact in ball-rooms, at pienics, and wherever flirtation can be carried on. Are not our plays and novels mostly built on this founda tion ? indeed, are not grave historical crises constantly traced to it? But hitherto nobody has ventured to look on these things with the cold, discerning eye of the natural philosopher, much less to trace the preference among ladies for “attractive males” to those remote consequences which Mr. Darwin con templates. It may be hard upon the “ plain people” that they must eventually become extinct; but Mr. Darwin will no doubt be able to show that the principle of natural selection which has improved so many species out of existence must eventually take man in hand until the ill-favoured and the ungraceful shall have gone the way of the Dodo. THE VALUE OF REASON.—Reason and logical habits of thought are of more value to man than his legs and arms. When Hindoo priests ask men to throw themselves under the ear of Juggernaut, the dupes are very properly punished by the loss of legs and arms, and sometimes of life. Also, when priests or dervishes ask men to sacrifice reason, the dupes who do so very properly punish themselves by mentally maiming themselves for life, so as to be unfit for all responsible posi tions, and qualified only for the commonest drudgery. AN ECCENTRIC WILL.—The following (according to the Toronto Globe) is the will of Dr. Dunlop, at one time a member of the Legislature for Upper Canada :—“In the name of God. Amen. I, William Dunlop, of Gairbread, in the township of Colborne, county of Huron, Western Canada Esquire, being in sound health of body and mind, which my friends who do not flatter me, say is no great shakes at the best of times, do make my last will and testament as follows revoking, of course, all former wills. I leave the property of Gairbread, and all other property I may be possessed of, to my sisters, Helen Boyle Story and Elizabeth Boyle Dunlop ; the former because she is married to a minister, who (may God help him) she henpecks ; the latter because she is married to nobody, nor is she likely to be, for she is an old maid, and not market rifc. And also I leave to them and their heirs my share of the stock and implements on the farm, providing always that the enclosure round my brother’s grave be re served; and if either of them should die without issue, the other is to inherit the whole. I leave to my sister-in-law. Louisa Dunlop, all my share of the household furniture, and such traps, with the exceptions hereafter mentioned. I leave my silver tankard to the oldest son of old John, as the re presentative of the family. I would have left it to old John himself, but he would have melted it down to make tem perance medals; and that would have been a sacrilege. However I leave him my big horn snuff-box; he can only make temperance horn spoons out of that. I leave my sister Jenny my Bible, the property formerly of my great-great grandmother, Betsey Hamilton, of Woodhall; and when she knows as much of the spirit as she does of the letter, she will be a much better Christian than she is. I leave my late brother’s watch to my brother Sandy, exhorting him at the same time to give up Whiggery and Radicalism, and all other sins that do most easily beset him. I leave my brother-in law, Allan, my punch-bowl, as he is a big gauey man, and likely to do credit to it. I leave to Parson Chevassie my big silver snuff-box I got from the Simcoe Militia, as a small token of my gratitude to him for taking my sister Maggie, whom no man of taste would have taken. I leave to John Caddell a silver tea-pot, to the end that he may drink tea therefrom, to comfort him under the affliction of a slatternly wife. I leave my books to my brother Andrew, because he has been jingling wally, that he may yet learn to read with them. I leave my silver cup, with the sovereign in the bottom of it, to my sister, Janet Graham Dunlop, because she is an old maid and pious, and therefore necessarily given to horning ; and also my grandmother’s snuff-box, as it looks decent to see an old maid taking snuff.