The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-04-28 00:00:00

Lain anb ertint.

MIL ETU, late Governor of JRlRaka, appeared at
Bowstreet on Wednesday to answer • summons homed
• few days sinee for misionduct in that sapscity. Mt.
Vaughan, the magistrate, considered that hi ha no
Jurisdistion, and refused to hoer the am except ander •
etendosaiss.
Ti CLAIR 01 LORD EMILITSIBITZT RID KZ. W• 7501.
—The cam in Chancery by Yr. Robert Waters saranst
the Kari of Shartoshery has received It. minas for the
twmant, the VioeCtiancellor having ordered On Friday
evening that the proem:ling on the meats he aus-
PendM, to enable the plaintiff to prepare for the trial
of the indictments positively Azad for the drat week in
May. Hr. fleineliy, for the plaintiff, applied on an
affidavit, which set forth that upwards Of 00 meetings'
of at least three hove each, had been held before the
Judger' Chief Clerk, in Chambers, lima the aceoants,
daring the last two yearn, that the amonats
Sited many folio vola„ extended over 13y..:., sad that
nearly 700 obJectiou• to hints and dram of items had
been made by the tisfasaaok yet only 105 had
bean dismissed, and a patio, of gimes mood over, and
the Portions dimmest oaly sum dews to No. 57,
although the amounts had hese farniebed yearly to the
defendant and his auditors sad agaminid by them ; and
the affidavit *sprinted that the plaintiff wee 'stilled
with the results of the sarstiny, and his °moieties tast
Nut balms, originally Hess than 111100) tag.
them would remain enamailed. Kum, Bailor, for
the dalandant.oesd the ligkittled, md His Homer.
Mk Jolts 84aar4 thought Perketil "
atiie anis( to du weardialii.

" SPIRITUALISM • IN CHANCERY.
As extraordinary ease was begun on Monday In the
W ll
V, Chanceor's Court. before Mr. Clifferd. 'lt is •
suit instituted by a lady named Lyon against the well-
known spiritualist, Daniel HOPS, foe the restoration of
mosey and property to the amount of nearly F 50.000,
given to him by the plaintifl' at a time, as she entice*,
when she was inflomeed by him owing to a belief which
she then setertained in his spiritual powers. Mr. W.
N. Wilkinson, the solicitor by whom the whole of the
business between the parties was transacted, was also
made • defendant. Mr. W. IL James, Q.c., said the
plaintiff, Mrs. Lyon, is a lady &deemed in life, whose
husband died in 1859, leaving her the absolute control
over • Isere fortune. She alleges in her affidavit that
before dying her husband informed her that be believed
a change would ciente in 10.1111 years from his death,
and that they would meet. This she Interpreted to
mean that she would di. in 1880, bat in
that year her views on that point changed,
In consequence of information received by her
from a female photographer in Westliourne-
grove, to which she had gone to have a photograph
of her deceased husband copied. The photographer
told her that death was unnecessary in order to meet
him, and directed her to Name a spiritualist, She also
lent Mrs. Lyon books on the art of spiritualism, and
directed her attention to the great head medium, Mr.
Home, who had jest opened an Athenaeum, at tiloaars-
street, for the encouragement of the belief. Mrs. Lyon
was also adv:sell to become • subscriber to the instatu•
tion. She immediately wrote to the defendant Home
for a prospectus and particulars of the Athenaeum, and
offered to pay a subscription. Mr. Home haying sent
her no reply, she stated that, on the 3rd of October,
1805, she went to 72, Sloane...treat, where the
.Ithenaeout wm, and where Mr. Home resided. She
was shown upstairs into a room where Mr. Home was
sitting in oomeuol with a table, which, directly after
the plaintiff had stated the case, began, with praise.
worthy seal, to rep • message, Home said at once that
"this was a call for the alphabet." Up to that time
the plaintiff sac ignorant that messages arrived from
spirits through medium only, ant that an arrangement
had been come to between the invisible world and the
•i-ible table ; that one rap should signify the negative,
three raps the affirmative, and five rape • call for the
alphabet. The modna operand' by the alphabet was
that on each letter being pointed out or uttered the
,pirtt rapped when he bad got the letter he wanted, end
so somewhat painfully the oracle was delivered. Home
then, by means of the alphabet applied orally, developed
the following message front the spirit of the deeemed
Mr. bro.:—, 'My own botched Jane,-1 am Charles,
yodr beloved hueband. I live to bless you, say own
precious darling, lam with you always,, I love, love,
love you." Tim spirit further added, "1 bare no power
to speak more; but I will never Imett you more, my own
darling," The plaintiff *Mt ins greatly sheered and
isoMiohed by this Vtious Intelligence, prokeossxl to
heeled Mc. Mine y • handsome subscription, but
having 04 tatque with her she postponed the donation
▪ second Interview, when amongst other things the
▪ idiarprodad by Flom, informed her " I love' love,
love you. Be very calm. I will touch yon." Thee
Interviews appear to have been worth to Mr. Home, of
the Atheneum, the sums of f:3O and f. 50. The
plaintiff bed no child by the deemed spirit, but this
omission was rectified at a third interview between
Home and the plaintiff at the plaintiff's house. The
spirit Ilea, with Horne'a 'existence, communicated the
tidings, "I lees Daniel," meaning presumably the
modern prtmhet, "be is to be your son; be is my son
—thetefore yours." The table then ecstatically kicked
np Its legs, and the spirit continued, "I am happy,
Imipy. In • little time I will make myself risible to
,ou. 0, do not say that the light of other days are
gene. I am with you,' or words to that effort. The
trifle* of this intelligence was overwhelming. The
defendant, Home. further informed her that it was the
tv•lt of the spirit that she should adopt him as her eon,
that a friend of Home's named Hall should be sent for,
and that she should product stook receipts for the inun
et *bout 1•24,000. Under the influence, as Mrs. Lyon
Wiese, of Home's spiritual powers and asceudaney, she
went on the 10th of October, to the Bank of
England, and there transferred the sum of £24,000
stook to Home. Shortly after this Home, at
another spiritual irterview, amend her that it was
the spirit's will that she should destroy her °listing
will, and make another will bequeathing everything
abe possessed to Home, and that • Dr. Hawksley and
• Mr. Ruder were to be the attesting witnesses. The
will to this affect was soon afterwards prepared for the
defendant by William Martin Wilkinson, • solicitor of
Lincoln's inn fields, and was egeonted by the plaintiff,
and attested by Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Hall. The
plaiutilTs property is said to be worth nearly £150,000.
On the strength of those spiritual communications, she
made over nearly £lO,OOO in money and property to
Home. The bill concludes with • charge that the
plaintiff discovered she but been imposed upon, and
tbst the gifta bad been made wider the spiritual
Inillmnbe of the defendant, and submits that she is
entitled to have the gifts set aside. All tho monies and
securities In question bane been brought into court.
There is, therefore, a certainty that the sulijeet matter
of the content is in safety whilst the contests pending.
Mr. W. IL James, Q.C., Mr. Druce, Q.C., and Mr.
Wither appear for the plaintiff :Mr. H. Matthews, Q.C.,
Mr. Fitaroy Kelly, and Mr. Walker, for the defendant
Homo ; and Mr. Lushington foe the defendant
Wilkinson.

In his answer to the plaintiff's bill, the defendant
said that he was horn in Scotland on the 20th
of March, 1823, and that from his earliest child-
hood he bad been subject to the occasional happening of
singular physical phenomena in hi. propene*, which most
certainly were not prixluocal by him or by any other
person in connection with him. He had Lao control over
them. They occurred regularly, and even when he was
asleep- Sometimes he was many month., and ones be
bad been a year without them nay would not happaa
when be wished, and his will had nothing to do with
them. Ile could not account for them furthtr than by
supposing thorn to be effected by intelligent beings or
spirits. Itimilar phenomena oceurred to many other
▪ Ill Ons in the United States of Awe riea, and he believed
Hist about 11,000,000 rational persous in that country,
ea well • very great number in every country in
Eurape, believed, u he did, that spiritual beings of every
grade, good and bad, could and did at times manifest
their present* to us. Mrs. Lyon told him that she
ditta Strad the Bible. at which he expressed his regiet ;
nn 'l he told her, as the feat was, that there were limy
ninuy Christians of all denominations and clereyman
alan who were spiritualist*. He &seeded that the gifts
of Mrs. Lyon to himself were entirely voluntary on her
pert, and that the instituted this suit because he
emphatically refused to marry her.
Mr. James, In addressing the Court, said the defend-
ant's insinuation that -he tad instituted this suit because
be had Mused to marry htr was a gross and unman!
calumny. TI • awe of the pla'ntiff was that the defend-
ant,
by fraud, induced her to believe that be had evoked
the spirit of her deceased husband. Under that
impression she, without consulting any one but Mr.
Hall, a great friend of the deft nasal, transferred to him
Hank stock to the amount of I:24,000. In the deed by
'which she transferred other property to him there was
• recital that she made the gift of her own free will.
Why was that recital Inserted? Because the defendant
knew that oho was sating under the influence of pre-
tended spiritual manifestations produeed by him. The
moment that spiritual connection was brought in the
remotest way with the transfer of large property this
Court said that that spiritual influence vitiated the
transaction.

_
Mr. Fisher read the affidavit of Mrs. Lyon, in which
she deposed, amongst other things, that many of the
letters which she had written for the purpose of
transferrng property to the defendant were written
from drafts which he gave to her, and which he
eh sired her to destroy after she had made use of them.
She deposed that in all she did with reference to the
snaking of gifts to the defendant, she was swayed by
the great intluenoe which he exercised over her. She
believed that in adopting the defendant as her eon, and
h making gifts to him, she was complying with the
wishes her deceased husband, as communicated by
his spirit to the defendant. The defendant introduced
her to several spiritualists in a good position is life,
with whom sbe sometimes dined, and at whose houses
there were spiritual sfanoes. At • stance at which she
wee present before the Institution of this suit, a com-
munication -or sham communication- was made to her
through a medium to the effect that she should not sit
at the table until her trial was over, and sines the
Institution of this suit she bad not been present at any
spiritual akance. One of the spiritual mediums
Informed her that she was deprived by the familiar
spirit of Mr. Home. But, before making that com-
munication to hsr, hsr eye. were opened by reading
books on spiritualism. She, however, Lad not
altogether rrnotineed her belief in spiritualism, berries
s',e had peen very curious occurrences at spiritual
atan-ea which she was unable to explain, except on
the theory of spiritual agency. But she did not (mo-
ulder herself competent to form an opinion on that
suhjeet, and she was determined to leave it alone for the
future. She bad always been superstitious, and her
mind was peculiarly open to receive superstitious
immessions from the defendant.
_

MIL lkoison, the niece of Mn. Lyon, WM than coon
-
examined ou ber affidavit, in which atm deposed to Mn.
Lyon haring in May, 1866, written to her, and caked
her to sone and to. bor. She went, and Mn,. Lyon
showed her a document, which she said we. her will,
ond in which she left Mrs. Denison her exventrix.
bald she never saw Mr. Lyon In his lifetime
&ince his infancy. She deposed to the feet that Mrs
Lyon had predicted her own death at the expiratior of
Preen yeses fNM her husband's death. She thought
It ."7 funny, and woe' oned it to her relatives.
They thought It odd, but did not consider Mrs. Lyon
insane.

Mrs. Suss. Catherine Fellows' made an affidavit to
the mine effect, and forth, said thst on a Sunday in
October, 1141.41, she called with • young lady at Mrs.
Lyon's lodgings, when, on going upstairi' she overhed
th are plaintiff (whose 'Mei .le knew) se out, "Oh
my darling V' Ou this she Paused ...t tan she beard
• man's voice in the room mvini "Don't ipterru
pt
me, or I can't pmuroceed." She then, upon i iry.
told that the person with the plaintiff was "M'.
the epirit•rapper." This story one confirmed by . Daniel
Phillips, aseistant to Mrs. Ass, the stationer at whose
house Mr,. Lynn lodged. This whiles. and Mrs Key
M ai said that Mrs. Lyon showed them a knotted pocket
handkerchief, in whish she said her husband'. spirit had
tied revers' knots. They deposed to many interviews
between Mrs. Lyon and Home.
Mrs. Sims's evidence was real. and also Mrs. Pepper's.
Tba latter deposed to conversation with Mrs. Lips,
in which she declarod she was in nom moniention with
her husband.* spirit, through Home's means. Mrs.
Pepper deposal that, amongst other remarks Mrs. Lyon
mai., to her, was this " Mrs. Pepper, some people any
lam God. and some say I am the devil ; but I say lam
neither, for I am between." She atked lite. Lyon
whether she meant to marry Home., at which Mrs.
Lyon was very much annoyed. After a time Mrs.
Lyon seemed to wake to her delueion, and after reading
a partieuLer hook it. said to Mrs. Pepper, "This book
has finished the opening of my eyes." She farther
obaerved what a curse ber husband's spirit had brought
upon her by banging that man Home on to her, and
rued similar ei premien".
Mrs. Lees was cross-examlnvd by Yr. Matthews,
She said eh* was married Is 1823. Darker the married
We she lived at Hinchester, in the oounty of Durham.
Latterly ohs and her husband lived at Wootb Orange,
Bridpurt. Her husband had a groat many relations
besides Mrs. Tom Fellows& Mrs. Jamas Fellows, and
Mrs. Denleou had siren evident), In this suit. There
were unpleasant eireunietanoss In the family about the
Hinsibester property, which was sold In Chanoery,So
pa
_y the brother's debts, All the rotations took alto
Wallies lark sad noso of them took ha huloatig

The creditors of Jobs Lyre brought the suit. The
reason of the quarrel was that her husband felt himself
aggrieved by being kept out of • mortgage. Her
husband made over to her the great bulk of his property
In his lifetime, and none of it every passed to Pny of his
retaliate. He was • very sensible man— (laughter).
Mr. Matthews: And he had • vary sensible wife.—
(laughter).
I Mrs. Lyon: At any rate, I have been • fool in this
matter.—(lauchter).
Crose-ezemanatioa oontinued : Before her husband's
death they had a conversation about death. He mid to
I her that after his death be should be lust as he was.
She asked whether he would sit there. He said, "No ;
but you will sit there—you will sit meetly in London."
She asked, "Could you speak to nor? He replied,
"Better not." She repeated the question, but she clul.l
not recollect getting any further answer. She would
have heed at Wooth Grange, but she had • quarrel with
Lady Barrington, who, instead of writing taint. herself,
wrote to herb, her agent, and she went to London. She
remembered her mortgage.; the money was lent at 5
, per mot., to be rednoed to 4 per cent. on punctual
' payment. There were generally powers of sale in the
deeds. She kept the deeds at her bankers at Bridport
The amount of her husbands property which
to her wu not £160,000. It was not even EltrOttsa
l
She weld not say bow muck; it had accumulated. She
went to tondos., then to Yarmouth. She then went to
live with Mrs. James Fellows in May, 186 d, meaning to
stay. She left in September, hearten Mrs. Fellmes
was going to paint her house. She was displeased with
Mrs. Fellowee for painting her home then. She did not
live with Mrs. Fellows, for nothing. She then went
to Mrs. Key's. She was obliged to go beak to Mrs.
Fellowea to take some things from her boxes, for which
there was no room at Mrs. Key'a She knew nothing
about Mr. James Fellowes's will. Mrs. Davison knew
better than she did. She did not recollect. She did
remand • story that Captain James Fellowes's will was
obtained from him, in favour of his wife, through undue
influents. She did not recollect about the lawsuit.
Mr. Matthews: I think I have refreshed your
memory. . .

Mra Lyon : No, you haven't.—(laughter).
Mr. Matthew.: Let me try to influence you.
Mrs. Lyon; No, you met j you are not • medium.
(laughter).
Cromeemunination continued: They tever dared to
dispute her husband's will. They never grumbled at his
will. They were satisfied with nothing. The Hoe. G.
Liddell, who married her husband's stater, the dean,
and all came to see her whilst she was at Mrs. Pepper's;
odes at Ur. KW.. Her huaband'a grandfather was the
elahth Earl of Strathmore. His father lived at
I.Ambert's Castle. The family were not proud of their
rank. She and her hasband spent their honeymoon at
Lambert'. Castle. None of the family invited them.
At Mrs. Kers the rent was 30e. • week. the had no
visiting acquaintance. then. Mr. Tcm Fellowes need to
come and see her when she came to town.

Mr. Matthews requested the witness to lift her veil.
Hrs. Lyon: leant take it up, and I won't take it up.
Mr. Matthews: I should be sorry to have to appeal to
his Honour on the subject.
Hrs. Lyon: I am sure his Honour will usual mt.
Crom-exitmination ow:dinned : I made inquiries for
the Sprawl Atkexamin, but no one could tell me where
to find it. I had read *enrol books on spiritualism,
amongst which was Mr. Home's book. I had • photo-
graph of Home from Mrs. Sims. She is *photographer,
and sold me the portrait. I have bad very extrordinary
dream, for many years, and sometime. I might bays
had more than dreams— visions, in fact. I have heard
such • great deal about spiritualism from Mrs. Sims
that I was led to make inquiries. I told Mrs. Sims
that I wits going to my husband's tomb. She said that
he was not there, bet thosght if I became • spiritualist
he would very likely 00.0 to me. I did not know the
name of any of the remake at the Sloane-street
Athenaam. I know Milt Geens Houghton, If I
talked to her or any of Home', frauds I told them the
truth, but they tell ,0 many stories that you can't
believe them. I told Home in the Athenaeum that le
waren years a ohmage was going to take place. He asked
use to go up to his rooms. I did not go up at my own
request. I did not tell Ilas Houghton that I examined
everything in bin room, nor that I allowed him to go to
my wardrobe or drawers. I did not tell her that I pee
him money because I loved him. The second time I
saw him I gave him VW. I fancied on one occasion that
he WY euggesting that I .herald marry, but I silenced
him at once. I would not marry the beet men alive.
I sill never marry—(a laugh). It wee at the third
Interview when he brought the spoon. I was not par-
ticularly irritated. I silenced him at once, for I saw
what was coming. It was then the raps came upon the
table. I never went to the defendant's rooms. It is
untrue._ I went there at first, but not on the Bth.. _

Mr. Matthew,: But EiniliKingston?
Plaintiff : Oh, I know what use la—she will not
speak the truth.
Croas-examination °optioned : She was • servant at
Mrs. Key's.
Mr. Mathews: Dia you say on the Bth to the girl In
Sloane-street that those who put the counter there did
not calculate upon having stout people there?
Plaintiff : Olt, no, no, that is all bosh. lam not so
over stout. I
Croits-sratnination continued: I think I saw Mr. Hall
on the Bth October. Horne cum linst.

lir. Matthews drew attention to the affidavit in which
the plaintiff stated that Hall was brought by the de-
fendant.

The plaintiff said that must be untrue or • mistake.
Home came first. When Mr. Hall came, after a few
minutes' conversation' he told se that he had heard
thatthat it was my wish that Daniel (the defendant) should
be made independent. I said that the spirit had spelt
loot that Daniel wee his boo, end that he wished m* to
make him independent of the world. I eared him what
be thought would melte him independent, sad be replied
about two or three beisdeed • year. Ido not remember
his asking whether I bed any relations who were i
likely to oppress liberality to a strenger. I never
told Hall that I intended to adopt the defendant. i
She never remembered kissing Mr. Horne. (This was
denied indignantly.) But there were two occasion.,
once she was very angry, end be said, "Dear mother,
just put your lips to my forehead, or I shall not think
you have forgiven me." The other time was when be i
wits lying ill on • sofa, sad it was thought be would ,
die, Mr. Bedell being present. (The tone in which
Mrs. Lyon mimicked Home's entreaties that she would
tin him seemed to create great amusement.) ;
Several letters which bad passed between the plaintiff '
and the defendant were put in. They were relied on ,
by the learned counsel for the defendant to show that '
the plaintiff bad regarded the defendant with great
elation. Most of the epistles were of a very general I
character, relating prinply to the health of the
respective parties. The•ntiff addressed the defend-
ant as her 'Deer Son, and signed basal. "Your
affectionate" and "dear mother." In one the defendant
said, "I am sure I shall be worthy of your love," and
signed himself, "Your Soo." At one time, when the
defendant was absent Irons London, and appeared to
have been unwell, the plaintiff wrote him • letter in
which she said that she was half • doctor, and suggested
• variety of remedies for his relief, ammo( which caused
much amusement in (mirk
_ . . . . . _ .

—.— --
The witness desired to explain that she styled the
defendant her son beseuee ibe spirit o flier husband told
her that "Dan lamp son, and therefore he is your son,"
" I thought," mid the lady, "that it we. very extraor-
dinary that • stranger should be pat upon me ea my
son," but my husband said, "I love Dm • be in my me,
and, therefore, he is your arm, and I wisl: Dan to be in-
dependent of the world." I felt a reprignsnee to the
defendant when he Galled me " his mother," and when
he said "Mother I shall lore you," I drew away from
him when he mid that.
_ _

Mr. Matthews : You felt a repugnant* to him?—
Witness; Certainly. I disliked him; I bated him. He
made me angry. I did not like his love. I did not
like hint to say to me. " I shall.. love you." I did
not went any of his love. I had only seen him three
or four times. and why should • stranger love me I
did not love him, but was obliged, in a manner, to love
him, because my husband said he was my son. I did
not consider in reality that be vu any son, only the
spirit spelt out that he was my son.
Mr. Matthew, (reading): Did you say to the defend-
ant in • letter, " Your health is of the greatest non.
sequence to me. I have written to our darlingr Who
was that t—Witnees : The Add, I suppose, is Horne's.
"Onr" eon according to the iny in which my husband
spelt it out.
Mr. Matthews: You say, "Our darling child."—
Witness: I do not know why I should have written in
such • foolish way. It is • foolish way. It most have
been under the influent* of this fellow. It could not
have been anything else.
Other questions were put with the view of showing
that the plaintiff wrote the letters on which she was
being examined quits Independent of any influence of
the defendant, and that she used affectionate terms
towards the intendant and his son from her love for
thous. The plaintiff kept ea replying that all the did
was merely through the lateen.' of her husbasd's
spirit, and affirmed very positively that she had no
, affection for the boy. Us was from-examined with
rugard to convereationswith a Mr. Perdissuis relating to I
a dream 'hid) the plaintiff had some years ago. The 1
I dream was that she thought her guardian angel brought
! her • look and showed it to her, end said, "No one
could open it but her son." A boy mine out of the
hookas*, like the ticture of her husband. He was •
boy, and she used to sal him her eon. The picture was
hung up in the aitting.room, When Loy one said
"What a pretty little boy," she would say "Yes, it is
my son."
Mr. Matthew': But it we. the picture of your
husband when he was a boy.—Witriess : Yes; but I
celled him my eon just the same. I said to the boy in
the dream). "Can you open the look r and he said,
"Ye.." In the dream I remember • crowd, aed the boy
talking to IL
Mr. Mathews : From the U. that you had the dream
owere you under an impression that you were
to vision,have eon who was to bee superior beingt—Witness:
I thought that it was very extraordinary that I might
have • mon. I thought be was to be like the pieta* of
my husband.
Mr. Matthews: What was the look he unlocked ?
Witness : Dan acid it wee the leek of spiritualism—to
unlock the door of spiritualism. I had this dream many
years before I knew Mr. Home. In the dream the boy
addremed • number of ;maple from • pulpit. I saw all
this before I was married. I was married when I was
between twenty and thirty. You (the learned counsel)
know my sge, and you mu calculate, it you like, how
long ago it was. I don't choose to tell you. You can
calculate yourself. (Thia was said very sharply.) The
witness handed In a portrait of her husband when he
woo ahoy.
Mr. Matthews then read another letter, in which the
plaintiff said to the defendant that she had an his son,
" that he we. • decr boy, and that she had kissed him
mistral tinue."—Witness : That was likely to be true,
beaus, it wee written.
Mr. Matthews: You ray you love him 7—Witness :
Y". trit 50. 111 k, Mr. Perdlearis. He is • very
sensible mac. He is a spiritualist, you know'
Crom-esuninatioupoutinned : I slimed myself "Too
loving by half,. I anstaint for it by the feat that I
111711tiorh.laltemymaiewia"b"anted...4meZto Ituemovues.h'folleado.ianwial:drrespoi°l:"lo6..
which was set forth in the affidavit of Mr. Willis°
Martin Wilkln.oa one of the Masdaels. It was •
Uttar spat by the plaintiff to Mr. Wilkinson.
Mirklit Private.)
Dear wish you todran up a an. the mom of Jan*
Lyon. widow of Ch.A. 140 n, ofWooth Ohmic Bridport,
Doran, Inaning._", hub% sdo ow Daniel Moen..
Hose mon of William Holm and •ftbstn liannell his wile.
the ale DOOlBl punt". Holm. *h. 1•12 tabs Or mow ot
Daniel Lton. and mins ot quanimid
Wheat M Morthunabsdauds Was my cm' amigdg homing,,

Id Daniel Lyon my sdopeed eon. to boo. I beim
sad, eole heir, reskluart letantee, of all such meets, proper'
reef. 4,4 pommel, I UMW or may bee..
you will hove the blodnem, dr. .Ir, to make thh;
my loot will and tcetatneno, Go lAndlog, and precise. In all Its
legal fonnelitl.•, that there cannot he any pow.ILIIIty of dis-
puting the claim,' of my adopted eon. a% vole heir and executor:
1 on Monday meet, et half-put for, Monday being the tn•etreh
of November, you • 111 brlng me the oil, when after reading,
I will be prepaid, to bleu It In the presence of wltamomw•
I am, dem Mr, your. mg Mlthlullv. Jain Leon.
18, Westboarue place. November Mb, net,

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On the same tisy I wrote her a letter, and received an
answer in her handwriting, of which the following are
copies:
41, Lincoln's Inn-Gelds, London, W. c.. Nov 0, igen
heg to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter giving me Instructions for your will, •nd I sill hare It
prepared. and ready to submit to you for your apprwral on
Woodsy at Walpole foeir SI you requeet. I Onuld hare been
glad to hate men you before completing the will, in order that
I might have inquired of the amount of the benefit you are
giving by the ciii, and aim whether there are not any relatives
to whom you might think it right to givo legacies. The • ill,
however, can at any time he revoked or added to by a call IL
doer madam yours faithfully, W. IL Witatgeog.
—Mrs Lyon, It, Westbourne-pleee. W.
le, Wastbounne-place, 10th November, '66.
liner Sir—l beg to my ma my husband did not mention any
of his relaUon. in his will, I OM me no plaudbie rearm why I
should do m. New to leave no blanks in the will you make,
lii. not requialte.—And am, yours faith, oily, .1•11. Lyon.
Witness : As my husband did not mention any of his
relatiree I did not no. why I should. I wrote every.
thing under the mimetic influence of Mr. Home.
Mr. Matthews then read the will which the plaintiff
had ordered the defendant Wilkinson to prepare.
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This I. the last slit and testament of me, Jane Lynn, of
Westbourne-plece, In the connty of Middlesex, • Mow of theist.
Charles Lyon, of Wooth Grange, Ittidport, Dorset, Esquire. I
desist, and bequeath all the nal and renotml estate to which I
shall be entitled at the time of my decease, or over which I
shall at the time of my decease hero a general power of
mspointenent .3r disismltion by will, unto my adopted son,
Daniel Dunstan. Home. of tt, Sloane-wrest, ChM..., require,
his heirs, executors, administrator., and maim'. respectively,
for his and their own absolute use and bench; nevortlteles.,
as to estates sated In me upon trust, or by say of mortgage,
subject to the trusts and equities affecting the mew rupee,
Lively ; and I hereby declare It to be my wish that the said
Daniel Dunes.. Donse aball take upon bitumen and be ealled
by the surname of Lyon and shall thmoeforth style and write
himself In II letters, deeds, and instruments. and upon all
occasions whatsoever, by that surname mid shall alto use and
bear the Ivens of Lvon, quartered as the ...aware now quartered
• Ith the ann. of Me fitbsone of Northumberland, as the IMMO
are now used and borne by ma. I appoint the mid Daniel
Dunglas• Home so's executor of this my will, and thereby
revoke all other testamentary writings.

Witness: That wee eating,' umder the dietnliort
Den, in_s trance.

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Mr. Matthews: Did not his friends wish him toretain
the name of Hornet—Wane= $ Yea.

Mr. Matthews: You say that he desired tn retain the
name of HOMO. and yet you say that he (basted thi. in
the name of Lyon. How do you aoomest for that ?
Witness : I cannot tell; but be dictated it.
Mr. Matthews: Please esplain this—why be gave In-
structions sioutrary to his wishf—Witnese : I know
nothing at all about it. The aphil of Alexander came
and said that be wished to have the name of Home.
Perhaps be (Home) had some scheme la his bead. When
It. dictated the iestractions for the will belied • pocket-
hfindkerobief about his eyes.
Mr. Matthews then read • long affidavit, in which Mr.
Wilkinson stated what had passed between himaell and
the plaintiff in taking his instructions.
The affidavit stated at length that Mr. Wilkinson had
represented to her that she should duly consider the step
she was taking, but that she persisted in acting in the
way she did.
Witness said that Mr. Wilkinson did not say anything
like so much to hoc a• was stated in the affidavit, nor did
he section her in nisch strong terms as were net forth.
She did receive a letter from • lady, in which it was
stated that her relatives were thinking of trying to prove
lksh obeys. insane.

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Mr. Matthews questioed the witness respecting a
panties of Home's life written by himself, and pert of
which she had destroyed, as she said that it was not
true. She destroyed the leaves because the statement
was untrue. He told her that he had written it thus,
as his father told bias to do so, u there would be law
some day after her death. Home said, "Don't destroy
it, but keep it a little while." She wrote that which
was true. The history that Home wrote was his adop-
tion by her. She wrote • true secount from serape
which she bed kept She copied it in the book (pro.
dosed) from time to time. Mr. Home had not objected
to Mrs. Pepper's lodgings, as besought them oat. There
was a proposal or allusion that we should live In the
same house. I treated it with contempt. I did not
know what people might say. Mrs. Tom Fellowse
might have said so, bat I don't mulled whether it was
Mrs. Tom Fellows. or Mrs. anybody else—(a laugh).
Don't know when Mr. Home changed his name to
Lyon. All that she had done was tinier mediumistie
power. Unleu she was insane she amid not have done
as she had. If she ws• not insane, thea she was under
some extraordinary lateen«. She warn under such
strong power that she did not ksow what she did. It
was spelt out by the spirit that she was to give the de-
fendant £6,000. It said that the £74,000 was not
retpectable for "oar sou," and that he was to have
£3,000 added, to make it £30,1300. The £6,000 was to
be • "surprise."
At this point the witness deseribed the way in whisk
"Dan" read the maga given by the opiate, which mond
great amusement,. He read it off so feet that she said,
: "Don't go so feet." But Dan said, "1 Imio• what it is
before it ocones"—(latighter). She said that he was not
to go on so fast, and that there was not time given to
' the spirit—(renewed laughter). She told him that be
I Aid not give the spirit& time to write, and added, "If
you can tell what it is before it eomee, what is the use
I of having any raps at all r—(a laugh).
' Did you not urea Mr. Home in the office of Mr.
Jones ?—Witness (with great Indignation): Canes hint
Certainly not.
Ills in the afSdavit—Witness : I don't we whit It
Is, It In Manhood. . _ .

It is stated by Mr. Jones—Mr. Arthur Jones—ln bis
affidavit.—Witness : I don't awe who it i& It is false.
He is an author—a spiritual author.
Mr. Matthews read extracts from the affidavit of Mr.
Wilkinson, to show that he had particularly cautioned
the plaintiff against disposing of her property by will
without due consideration.

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Witness (with great warmth): The 99th part of that
is not true— (a laugh). At a séance, the spirit of Dan's
wife said that Dan would never marry again, u Dan
was married to her (the spirit). My husband's spirit
spelt out that I wee to have the interest for my life,
and that Du was to have the prineipal—(a laugh).
The learned counsel read letters for the purpose of
showing that they had been written by the plaintiff for
the disposal of her property of her own free • ill, and
judging by the terms in which they were worded, could
not have been dictated by the defendant.
The witness (mouldy said in reply that when she
wrote these letter, she was spiritually mad; that she
was constantly under the influence of the spirit of her
husband. She disliked the business the whole time,
and allure had apprehensions about it. Notwithstand-
ing the high and affectionate terms in which she spoke
about the defendant, she disliked him all the time. It
appeared that she bad unfidenee in Wilkinson, but not
In Home. She thought he might go off to America with
principal and intermit.
Mr. Matthews real several extracts from the answer
of Mr. Wilkinson, the solicitor by whom the business
between the plaintiff and Home had been transacted,
and in almoit every Instance the plaintiff said that they
were substantially correct.
Mr. Matthews: Do you remember that whilst one of
the deeds were being looked at /on had your arm round
the defendant's neck ?—Plaintiff: No, certainly not ;
but I do remember that he Iliad one of his arms round
my waist. and one of his hands upon my bud. smooth.
lug my hair. He was sitting upon a *hair by my side.
Mr. Matthew. read • letter dated Jan. 28, from
plaintiff to the defendant, in which she said, "Inquire
of the spirits if you can whose face item they have given
me now to look at instead of yours. I will not describe
it. It was an extraordinary hoe, like no sue I ever saw.
I first saw your face ; and then the face of another
appeared to me. Can it be—." Whose face was
that? -Plaintiff: I impricee it was ode of the delusions.
Mr. Matthews: Whose fare was It? : Some
face in a dream, I suppose. The magnetic inflasnee
wai there. _ _ .

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Mr. Matthew,: Home had been gone three days at
that time—Plaintiff : Three days is nothing- The
magnolia influence remains longer than thsA. It was
one of the delusions.' was subjected to whilst acquainted
with the medium.
Cram-examination continued : Mr. Dyne said be could
corny his thoughts to anybody, aod make them dose be
claimed. I did not like him. I thought him cracked.
kir. Matthews: Do you remember when you first left
off signing yoarattlf " mother" in your letters to him?
—Plaintiff: No; I left off by degrees. heft off signing
"affectionately." but he begged me to put it in again,
and I did so out of pity, for he rid It cloprived him of
sleep.
Mr. Matthews: What was your remota for leaving off
signing! yourself " mother r : Beceues I did
not wish to be on snob intimate terms.
Mr. Matthew. (putting in • letter dated 10th March):
Can you tell me whether this la the date at whlett you
left off signin yourself "motherl—Plainliff : That waa
the laat time! signed my lettersto him in that manner.
Mr. Matthews produced a letter of the 2nd April, to
the defendant, in which she ad•ised him to go to Ply.
mouth, itating—" Mine Peel is there, and that will be
an inducement for you to go." and that she (plaintiff)
was going to leans her lodgings at Mn. Pepper's because
the servant, Dom Climer, WY a "17ing,dIrty. &arrow
slat."

Mr. Mathews: Had the defendant any attachment
to Miss Peel 7—Plaintiff : No, he bated her, and I wrote
it by way of satire.
Mr. Matthew.: What Ilea did Visa Climes. tell ?
Plaintiff : Oh, I eau% tell exactly. In everything.
Croes-examination ciontinned : Her affidavit is eatirely
untrue.

--lir7Vatthews put in a letter, dated 4th man lea,
written to him whilst at Mahim), in which, after
making tender inquiries as to his health, she requested
him In the future to put in all his letters the day of the
month Slid address.

Mr. Matthews : Could you not let him have bit own
way in such a simple matter as that? Plaintiff :
Certainly not, Inmost it is proper that everybody should
give a data to their letters. You will me that I did not
sign myself " mother" in that letter.
Mr. Matthews: Have you any Manes) with Miss
Nichols ?—Plaintiff Oh, yes ; but there were no
messages—only "tilts."
Crom-ezamination continsed.—l had a Mules at Mrs.
Harry's house injure last. Thaw were Rowers thrown
about. - .

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Mr. Matthews: Any " raps?" —Plaintiff : oh, yes;
and thn spirits walked about the floor, and when they
were told to walk louder they did so.
Mr. Matthew.: When warn the lut seance you had?
—Plaintiff: That was at the time when I had the
message, "Sit not at the table till the trial comes off."
I heard the spirits walk away. Fred Kass w.th
Mr. Matthews : What date wee that?—Plaintiff : I
cannot say.
Mr. Matthew,: Did you ever talk to Fred Kent se
your .on ?—Plaintiff: Certainly not. I might as well
talk about you as m sou.
Mr. Matth. WS y I trust —Plaintiff (interruptin():
There, don't talk such 11011/011111H% Ludt).
Croesexemlnittion continued : Mr. Jenkin called spots
me in consequence of a letter I wrote to hint on the
30th Jae., 1867. I did not complain of Mr. Homes
neglect of me and of his ill-health.
Mr. Matthews : Did you say to him that "the P:90,000
gut given was my owe free gift r—Plaintiff : No, for
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Wally not —nerer--uver.
Mr. Matthews: Did sou not my to Mr. Jukin that
UM A 00.000 1144 gtys ii 70ar own hob will, ba*

that Home sad Wilkin had so apired together to obtain
the other!—Plaintiff; No, it is all ont4ue—concooted
by the up
Mr. Matthews Did you take a dislike to the de-
fendant's Pon because he squirted oranceloloe over the
sofal—Ylaintiff No, certainly not. It WU because he
was every rude ani impertinent boy.
Mr. Matthews then read • letter dated May 27, 1867.
in which she said, "And ths spirits say that you will
be strong again in ten days."
Plaintiff (interrupting): He said that the spirits said
SO.

-Mr. Matthews: No, he mil that the doctor had said
so The learned counsel proceeded to read the letter,
which want on to pay, "That will soon he ur, and then
JOU 111.11 prove their lower.. The tiou, hui not 001111)
for them to diatala7 it however, the great Ood's will
mud be done, and we must also succumb to ih•t sooner
or later, and as the world goes these to not moon worth
living for, and if we have not health there is withing if
robbed of life's great blrscing—we but drag on our weary
way with pain, distaste, sad sorrow ; but let us look
forward into the 301.herf of mysteries, another and
better state—another world. 'Oh, had some power the
giftie gie us, to ere that world as spirits see it.'"
The witnese !interrupted the learned counsel, and, in
a very gaissina manner. mired him if he had never read
Waller Scott or Robert Burn., that he did not know
that it was "Oh I wad, w-a-d" (spellisg the word).
bfr. Matthews : it is "hail' here.
Witness (contemptuously); Then ig ii wrong—(e
r. Matthews: lied you ever any idea that life was
not safe with Nome I—Plaintiff No, certainly not. A
Er. sickly fellow like him could not take anybody's
Mr. Matthews: What wen the first thing that opened
your eyrie : When Dan said the spirits bad
nothing to do with the gift—jssl before the last time
he went to Malvern. He called the spirit of my
husband, and said—" Father, did mother have any
=mit station before she gave the money 1" and the
spirit replied, "You are quite right, Daniel." I said
It wu a lie, and that the spirits were not to be rtlieci

•161 Matthews produced a book which the defendant
said had been written from acrape of memoranda before
she found out the imposition, and proceeded to read,
"I slid to Perdicoris I bare seen through.—"
Plaintiff : That book ought never to hero some into
'own.
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Mr. blattbewe oontinued :"1 bolieve myself hi a
dangerous poeition, an 4 if I bad gone abroad with him
I should not again bare been heard
Plaintiff I wanted that book to be produced.
Mr. llatthewo continued to read "I oonaider him to
he a greedy, fawning, lying fellow."
Plaintiff: That was never intended for report. Ido
not we it to be read.

Mr. Matthews oontinued : "I thought if I went
abroad I should soon be • freed spirit."
Plaintiff : I say that ought not to have been brought
into court.

The learned counsel then proceeded to read ontnerou•
estrum@ from the book, nod asked to give htm no explo.
nation of • dream mentioned in it.

Plaintiff : I don't remember in my dreams. Da you
remember all your drums?
Mr. Matthews : I never dream, I am happy to sty.
Plaintiff: Perhaps you have no soul then.
Some other questions were then put to the plaintiff
respecting statements in her affidavit, and the moss-
examination was clout .

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Mr. Kay, Q.C., for Mr. Wahiawa, said that ha should
not cross-examine her.

Mr. James, Q. C., very briefly re imarr bled the plaintiff
chiefly noon the history of the connection between the
plaiutiff and the defendant.
Mrs. Jame. Fdlowes, Mrs. Elisabeth Kay, and Mr&
Tom Fellowes were briefly croacazamined by Mr.
Matthew&
Mrs. Sarah Pepper was called, bat her evidenoe was
not material. This concluded the evidence for the
plaintiff.
Mr. Drone, Q C., then Bummed up on her behalf. His
cue was that the defendact himself brought that in•
fluenee upon the plaintiff which had resulted in this
wonderful feature, that the defendant called himself her
adopted son, and found b smelt enriched within • few
days with • sum of not less than PC.0,000. The learned
Donned then went through the leading parts of the cross-
examination of the plaintiff.
The cam was then adjuutuel till Monday.

A RE AAAAAA LE 1.11111101? INCIDENT.-0a the 1711,
of December, 1866, the,. was to be seen la Glasgow,
near the Broomielaw, • lifeboat named the "Edinburgh
and R. IL Eallantyne." It bore this composite title—
only, perhaps, to be matched by that of "Mr. Tee.
thousanildopsailnheet-blooka" became the working
men of the Scotch capital had clubbed their money to
build it, and. had then wished to associate with its
serviette the honoured name of the author of "The
Lifeboat." There it was, however. name and all, on
show at Glasgow ; end suspended also upon the wul,
in the plus of exhibition, was • money-box for the con-
tributions of those visitors who should call In to look
at the "beetle,* end should wish to lead a hand towards
completing her outfit and providing to keep her afloat.
Among the number of such as came to see the little
craft before she went to her station at Pert Logan. on
the Wigtonshire coast, was the wife of the captain of
the Glasgow bark Strathleven, accompanied by her
children. A sailor's wife and a sailor's little ones would
naturally look at the boat with other feelings than those
nof • landsma's household. One can imagine how she
would tell her small companions of the awful sour,
when the ship comes upon the cruel racks, and the hairy
grinds. and the masts lash like a whip, and crack, and go
over the Aldus, and the grey and white seas sweet) the deck
while there is go hope for the crew unless a boat like this
be nigh at hand. And then the thought would and did
come, "If • father' were ever in such • Wait, and his
life were hanging on the ;pineal strokes of the lifeboat.
men u they fought winds and waves to save him l"
Whereat the heart of the sailor's wife sent her hand to
her pocket purse, and one of the little ones was hoisted
" aloft to dron something kind and helpful into the
box foe the fund of the " lidingbargh and R. 11, Hellen-
tyne Lifeboat." A simple incident enough I the nubile
will say. But exactly • year afterwards, on the 17th of
Dew miser. 1867, • barque, with • captain and crew
of fourteen men aboard, was caught in the cold wild
weather off the Wietonshire oust, and driven upon the
rooks. The situation of the men was desperate the
vessel would soon break up; the fifteen souls who slung
about the riggice knew that, unless they were quickly
seen by the watchers at some lifeboat station, Muir fate
must be death. Happily they were seen, and very soon
the captain of the Btrothloven observed the boat
coming—for the Teasel was none other than the
Glasgow barque, and the captain was the husband of
the kindly lady who hod gone to visit "the Edin-
burgh and B, B, Ballantyne," sad had helped
to sot the craft at its work. But that was not all the
marvel of this strange coincidence I When the lifeboat
warped alongside, uel took the fifteen helpless marioers
safe off the wreck and set of the jaws of death, she
proved to be none other than the P.ll Logan boat, with
that sesquipedalian sod welLretnembered name
painted on the stern-sheets. And go when the
captain of the Btrathleven same to his home safe
and sound, instead of drifting • corpse out Into the
rolling North sea, with ell his ship's company, he had to
tell his glad and happy spouse, and that tiny public who
tiad heard " Mother'e little lecture upon lifeboate, that
MI the very Sams day of the year that they WM their
money for love end charily to the boat, that ultsame
boat had eared him from death, and sent him alive and
grateful to thole arms.