very eminent American Spiritualist, who has also written interesting books on the subject. Recently, in England, Viscount Adare has written a book bearing testimony to the truth of Spiritualism, and it has a preface by Lord Dunraven. This book is printed for private circulation only, which is an error in judgment. Valuable evidence in favour of Spiritualism is given by John Wesley and his family; for spirit rapping and movements of wooden materials by invisible agency occurred in their own house. Documentary evidence of what they witnessed was drawn up and signed on the spot, and is published in Southey's Life of Wesley. Signor G. Damiani, a Sicilian gentleman living at Clifton, has written a pamphlet, still in print in which he severely censures Professor Tyndall, Mr. G. H. Lewes, and others like them, for refus ing to investigate the subject. He further offers a reward of 1,000 guineas to any respectable, scien tific or educated men, who will investigate the subject and prove it to be an imposture. The following are his words: “I now offer you two challenges. “First, I challenge you, or either of you, or any of the public who, like you, disbelieve in the genuine cha racter of spiritualistic phenomena, to deposit in the hands of any well-known London banker whom you or they may name, the sum of five hundred guineas; and I pledge myself to immediately deposit in the same bank a like amount,—the ownership of such sum of one thou sand guineas to depend upon my proving by evidence sufficicut to establish any fact in history or in a criminal or civil court of justice. First—That intelligent communications and answers to questions put, proceed from dead and inert matter in a manner inexplicable by any generally recognised law of nature. "Secondly—That dead and inert matter does move without the aid of any mechanical or known chemical agency, and in deflance of all the admitted laws of gravi tation. "Thirdly—That voices appertaining to no one in the flesh are heard to speak aud hold rational converse with men. “A jury of twenty-four gentlemen, twelve to be chosen by each party (such jury to consist exclusively of mem bers of the learned professions and literary men), to decide whether or not the facts contained in the above propositions are conclusively proved per testes—ie., by witnesses of established character. A majority of the twenty-four to decide. If the verdict be that these facts have not been established, the thousand guineas are to belong to the party accepting this challenge; if the verdict be that these facts are established, the thou sand guineas to be mine. “Secondly—Immediately after the above wager being decided, either way, I offer a like challenge of five hun dred guineas (to be met on the other side in like manner as above)—the ownership of the second sum of one thousand guineas to depend upon the establishment of the facts contained in the propositions already given, by experiments conducted in the actual presence of the twenty four gentlemen who have decided the previous wager; the verdict of the majority to decide in this case likewise “In either case, the séances are to be conducted in an public or private building which the jury may select, and which may be available for the purpose. “The result of these challenges (if accepted and de cided) to be advertised by the victorious party, at the expense of the defeated party, in all the London daily papers. “I hope this is plain English “Awaiting a reply to this letter, and to the challenge with which it concludes, I am, gentlemen; your obedient servant, “Clifton, Oct. 1, 1868 G. DAMIANI. “P.S.—Letters addressed “Sigr. Damiani, care of Manager of West of England and South Wales Distrie Bank, Corn-street, Bristol, will always reach the writer." In addition to the above evidence, there is the testimony of numbers that the modern spiritual manifestations are realities. Mr. Hepworth Dixon in his New America estimates the number of Spiri tualists in the United States at rather less than three millions, and this is about the lowest estimate that anybody has made. There are no accurate sta tistics, and different authorities vary in their esti mates from three to eleven millions.