EVIDENCE THAT SPIRITUALISM DESERVES INVES TIGATION The testimony of reliable and respectable wit nesses that the phenomena of Spiritualism are actual facts, and not imposture or delusion, has of late years so accumulated as to possess very great weight. Iu the case of Lyon v. Home, Mr. Robert Chambers, Mr. C. F. Varley, Dr. Gully, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, and others, all made affidavits strongly in favour of Mr. Home. The following was the affidavit of Mr. C. F. Varley, C.E., F.R.G.S., M.R.I.: “I, Cromwell Fleetwood Varley, of Fleetwood House Beckenham, in the County of Kent, Esquire, make oath and say as follows: “I have been a student of electricity, chemistry, and natural philosophy for twenty-six years, and a tele graphic engineer by profession for twenty-one years, and I am the consulting electrician of the Atlantic Tele graph Company, and of the Electric and International “About nine or ten years ago, having had my atten Company. tion directed to the subject of Spiritualism by its spon taneous and unexpected development in my own family in the form of clairvoyant visions and communications, I determined to test the truth of the alleged physical phenomena to the best of my ability, and to ascertain if possible, the nature of the force which produced them. “Accordingly, about eight years ago, I called on Mr. Home, the defendant in this suit, and stated that I had not yet witnessed any of the physical phenomena, but that I was a scientific man and wished to investigate them carefully. “He immediately gave me every facility for the pur pose, and desired me to satisfy myself in every possible way, and I have been with him on divers occasions when the phenomena have occurred. I have examined and tested them with him and with others, under con ditions of my own choice, under a bright light, and have made the most jealous and searching scrutiny. I have been, since then, for seven months in America, where the subject attracts great attention and study, and where it is cultivated by some of the ablest men, and having experimented with and compared the forces with elec tricity and magnetism, and after having applied me chanical and mental tests, I entertain no doubt whatever that the manifestations which I have myself examined were not due to the operation of any of the recognised physical laws of nature, and that there has been present on the occasions above-mentioned some intelligence other than that of the medium and observers. “The subject of course offers many opportunities and inducements for fraud, and I only speak of what I have myself seen and tested. Since my acquaintance with Mr. Home began I have pursued the enquiry, and I have found engaged in it able, learned, and scientific men who are convinced as I am, that the physical manifeste tions are but the introduction to an extensive fleld of mental and physical knowledge which will in a great measure explain and reconcile the beliefs of all ages and nations. I know of several instances both in Europe and America in which this course of study has awak ened the perception of the purest and loftiest truths and principles. There have been no doubt cases in which the intellect has been too feeble for the stimulus, and has been overpowered by it, just as frequently results from excessive application to religion and other exciting topies, but such cases have not come within my own observation. “Mr. Home, like several other non-professional me diums whose cases I have studied, was passive during the occurrence of the manifestations. He, like the other mediums, is extremely susceptible to external in fluences, and has a mind better suited to receive impres sions than to prosecute enquiries. I willingly testify my entire conviction of his truthfulness and honesty. “C. F. VARLEY." It also came out in the evidence given at the trial, that Mr. Home had been the invited and un paid guest of the Emperor and the Empress of the French, the Emperor, Empress, and the late Em press Dowager of Russia, the Grand Duke Con stantine, the King of Prussia, the late King of Bavaria, the late King of Wurtemburg, and the Queen of Holland. Mr. Home says that all his life he has never taken a farthing of pay for his séances. In March, 1869, the Spiritual Magazine gave the names of the following gentlemen a those who have long been investigating the sub ject: Cromwell F. Varley, Esq., Fleetwood-house, Becken ham; Alfred R. Wallace, Esq., 9, St. Mark’s-crescent, N.W.; Professor De Morgan, 91, Adelaide-road, N.W. Captain Drayson, R.A., Woolwich; Dr. J. M. Gully, The Priory, Great Malvern: Dr. J. J. G. Wilkinson, 4 St. John’s-wood-villas, N.W.; Dr. Dixon, 8, Grcat Or mond-street, W.C.: S. C. Hall, Esq., 15, Ashley-place, Victoria-street, S.W.; Newton Crosland, Esq.; William Howitt, Esq., The Orchard, Hare-green, Esher, Surrey; Robert Chambers, Esq., St. Andrew’s, Edinburgh; H. D. Jencken, Esq., Kilmorey-house, Norwood; J. G. Crawford, Esq., 52, Gloucester-crescent, N.W.; W. M. Wilkinson, Esq., Oakfield, Kilburn; Lord Adare, 5, Buckingham-gate; The Master of Lindsay, Grosvenor square. Mrs. De Morgan has written a book, entitled From Matter to Spirit (Longmans), where she gives many interesting particulars, the result of ten vears' experience in Spiritualism. Professor De Morgan, President of the Mathematical Society of London, in his preface to the book, says: “I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen and heard, in a manner which should make unbelief impos sible, things called spiritual, which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by impos ture, coincidence, or mistake. So far I feel the ground firm under me." The following is an extract from another affidavit, made in the suit of Lyon v. Home: “I, James Manby Gully, of The Priory, Great Malvern, in the County of Worcester, doctor of medicine, make oath and say as follows: “I have known the above-named defendant, Daniel Dunglass Home, for seven years and upwards, last past and have during that period been in the habit of attend ing him professionally, and also of receiving him in my house as a personal friend, and I have never had the smallest reason to doubt his character as a man of honour and proper moral feeling. “I have during the past seven years witnessed both in my own house, and elsewhere, in the presence of the