become a bright amber colour, but the marks made by each person who uses the leaves are of different colours, but I did not understand that then. Before I saw all this two persons came down and assisted me to rise, and de posited me on a bank of leaves, a peculiar scent from which invigorated me and made me strong. One of them began fanning me with the hands round the head and face, and down my chest to the extremities; a warm glow seemed to run through me ; I soon was able to stand and look arouud me clearly, and then I saw what I have described to you. The two friends then I recognised to be an aunt and a cousin, who had passed over to the other side some few years before I did. They took me into a house and into a beautiful apart ment, where I saw many more that I knew. There were pictures round the room, which seemed to be painted upon the walls of the house; some appeared to be portraits of people I knew, and among them was my own. Soon I fairly knew where I was. My first thought was, “ What has become of my child ?” and the next was, "How is this? This is not what I expected from my belief in the flesh." They told me not to be anxious about my child, and at once I felt it was true and that I had nothing to be anxious about, though I did not know why. I could not keep quiet about my religion. I wanted to know, “ Was this heaven, or what was it?” And I told them that I had been taught of the merits of Jesus. Their answers shocked me at first. I gave them much trouble and bother to answer my questions, and it was long before I became recon ciled to my condition. I expected to be in heaven singing Hosannas to the Lamb. I did not find the throne of God, or the Lamb, or angels singing, and yet had anybody said anything against that belief in the flesh, I should have thought them very very wicked. I find that there is no hell, and I am very glad that there is none; I find that all people, no matter what they are, have good in them which will be brought out soon, and that knowledge gives me pleasure. We meet at times for mutual instruction ; we have conversational meetings and ask each other for advice. The patriarch of the family gives us missions to perform. Some of us are sent back to the earth to become masters of what belongs to your world; others in the spirit world study science ; some want to learn the geography of the spirit universe, or the conditions of spiritual existence. We come to earth and learn the conditions which govern you, and then we can advise you. I love to remain above with kind and tender friends. I must go now for I cannot control the medium much longer. My name is Mary Willett, I died giving birth to a child. The spirit of that child fled before it came to the material life. I was the wife of a baker, and "died" as you call it, at Orpington, a village just outside of St. Mary’s Cray, Kent.* Do all spirits go where you are? There are many who never reach the spirit world or summer land for years. Many never pass outside the atmosphere of your earth, but, as the Scriptures say, “ wander up and down like a roaring lion." The “spirit world” is a confusing term, for it means “ the are a distinct spiritual inner life. The “spheres" universe. The spirit, whose control of the medium had been very weak throughout, then left. THE address of Mrs. John Olive, the trance-medium mentioned in our last, has been changed, and the new one will be found among the advertisements on the last page. PAUPERISM AND EMIGRATION.—At the present time peti tions to Parliament in favour of free emigration have been displayed for signatnres in several public thoroughfares in London. Every person signing them gives his full address, and tens of thousands of signatures have thus been given, as the amount of pauperism in the country is growing so rapidly that soon the authorities will be unable to cope with it.—A more stringent Bankruptcy Act, re-establishing, to a large ex tent, imprisonment for debt, will come into force very shortly, and as many persons know this, they are hastening to get “whitewashed ” as soon as possible. This explains the enor mous number of bankrupts recorded in the daily papers during the past fortnight. Most of these people and their families will have to go into the poorhouse, while those who become bankrupt under the new Act will, for the most part, have to go to prison. Hence the necessity for facilities for emigra tion. Since the publication of our last issue our rulers have poured a vast number of extra troops into Ireland ; they have sent several additional men-of-war to guard the coast ; they have also began to fortify the police-stations in some of the chief Irish towns by lining the window shutters with sheet iron plates, furnished with loopholes for musket barrels. The daily newspapers keep as quiet as possible about all these facts, because they have always hidden from the public those violations of the fundamental principles of political economy which cause all these evils, and they do so still.