said Mr. Home many curious occurrences, which I am unable to explain, in the way of singular phenomena, such as displacement of objects without physical con tact, &c., and from my personal and careful investiga tions (which Mr. Home himself ever urges) I am positive that it is not in consequence of any trick or device that such phenomena occur. I have even been witness to singular phenomena when the said Mr. Home was not in the same room, and also when he has been asleep. I have never known the said Mr. Home receive money for what is termed 'a séance,' but I have known him re peatedly refuse offers of as much as twenty guineas for “J. M. GULLY, M.D." a single séance. Dr. Hooker, in his opcning address, as President of the British Association at Norwich in 1868 spoke very highly of the scientific attainments of Mr. Alfred R. Wallace, F.L.S. Mr. Wallace is an avowed Spiritualist. Professor Hare, of Phila delphia, the inventor of the Harc’s Galvanic Bat tery, once refused to witness spiritual phenomena alleging that Faraday's “unconscious muscula action” theory explained all the facts. A friend wrote to him detailing things he had seen which were inexplicable by that theory. Hare at once, like a sensible man, went to see for himself. The result was that he came into communication with some of his own departed relatives. He then made mechanical telegraphic machines, which were intelligently worked by spirits while the apparatus was screened from the sight of the medium, and he wrote a book recording all these facts. That book is now in the British Museum Library. Judge Edmonds, of New York, is another 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. The Spiritual Magazine for October, 1869, gives the following names of friends of Spiritualism who have now and then contributed to its pages: “Viscount Adare; John Ashburner, M.D., Translator of Reichenbach, author of Philosophy of Animal Mag netism and Spiritualism; T. B. Barkas, author of Outline of Ten Years Investigation into the Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism; George Barth; Richard Beamish, F.R.S., author of The Life of Brunel; Rev. S. E. Bengough M.A.; Edward L. Blanchard; Edward Brotherton; Cap tain Richard F. Burton (the African traveller;) William Carpenter, author of Political Letters, The English Bible; Captain Edward Henry Chawner; Henry T. Child M.D. (Philadelphia, U.S.A.); Benjamin Coleman, author of Spiritualism in America; Robert Collyer, M.D., F.C.S. Christopher Cook; Robert Coopor, author of Spiritual Experiences; Mrs. De Morgan, author of From Matter to Spirit; Jacob Dixon, L.R.C.P., author of Clairvoyance Hygienic, and Medical; Hugh Doherty, M.D, author of Organic Philosophy; Captain Drayson, R.A.; Judge Edmonds (New York); Captain H. A Fawcett, R.N.; John M. Gully, M.D.; Professor W. D. Gunning (Boston, U.S.A.); Samuel Carter Hall, F.S.A.; Emma Hardinge George Harris, M.A., F.S.A., President of the Manches ter Anthropological Society; W. E. Hickson, late editor of the Westminster Foreign Quarterly Review; Rev. A. W. Hobson, M.A.; Baron C. Dirckinck Holmfeld; Daniel Dunglass Home; Rev. J. Page Hopps, editor of The Truthseeker; Mary Howitt; William Howitt; Henry D. Jencken, M.R.I., F.G.S.; John Jones, author of Man: Physical, Apparitional, and Spiritual; Rev. William Ker, M.A.: Seymour Kirkup (Florence); Andrew Leigh ton; Robert Leighton; Kenneth R. P. Mackenzie, F.S.A. Rev. William Mountford (Boston, U.S.A.); A. E. New ton (Boston, U.S.A.) author of The Ministry of Angel Realised; Mary S. Gove Nichols; J. H. Powell: Baron Reichenbach, anthor of Researches on the Dynamics of Magnetism; Elihu Rich, author of several articles in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana; J. Lockhart Robertson, M.R.C.P.: Mary C. Hume Rothery; Rev. W Hume Rothery, M.A.; Epes Sargent, author of The Planchette; Thomas Shorter; Rev. W. R. Tomlinson, M.A.; Crom well F. Varley, F.R.G.S.; C. Staniland Wake, author of Chapters on Man; Alfred R. Wallace; A. M. H. Watts; William White, author of Emanuel Swedenborg: His Life and Writings; W. M. Wilkinson, author of Spirit Drawings; James J. Garth Wilkinson, M.D., author of The Human Body, and its Connection with Man; Rev. F. 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 aund 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 sufficient to establish any fact in history or in a eriminal or civil court of justice. "First—That intelligemt 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 and hold rational converse with men. “A jury of twenty-fonr 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 eontained in the above propositious are conclusively proved per testes—i.e., 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; I 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.