The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-02 00:00:00

SUNDAY WITH THE SPIRITUALISTS.

(Tram the New York Dail. Times.)

The Spiritualist. of Brooklyn hold their Banda;
single, or, as they may be called, Wa'pares Sabbaths, in
the Lissom Building, in Washington-strew. The Banda,
morning circles ere devoted mainly to manifestations of
various kinds, and the &fierce= and 'venlig 'settings are
more partkelesly devoted to trance lectures. Usdorstand-
ing that there were to be some tinuseally later-
eating inhibitions at the morning circle, whet some
diagrams of the present and former appearance of the
spiritual regions would be inhibited, we had the curiosity
to at:end the meeting, for it would be eontetbiag to beset of
to have had even a diagrantatio view of the abodes of the blest.
But is this puticular we were disappointed; for some
cause or other, which wee tot explained, the diagrams were
not exhibited.

The meeting was held in the Humus of the Lyceum
and the staffed alligators, petrified snakes, sad ladien idols,
which were ranged round the roost in glass eases, rather
helped to impart • feeling of awe as we entered the charmed
circle. The hour of admission was pealed when we turned
the handle of the door—for the spiritualists do not like to be
disturbed in their incantations after the spells begin to
work—hut we were admitted as • favour, and, gliding
quietly into the silent and mysterious apartment, we took a
seat a litfie distance from the spirituel circle, so that we
might be natof the math of the witch element. At a r•und

walnut table in the mire of the room set nisi or to per-
sons of tenth seas, sem quite young, sad some with silvery
looks; they were Sleuth solemn, with their bands craned
upon the table as if waiting for some manitestalloas
from the table, though they waited in vain, for the
table was perfectly will-behaved durum the whole
sitting, and
Sitting near the table were saes down or so of men and
women, sad apart from the rest were a temple whose con-
vulsions at drat alarmed us. One of them was a tall, gaunt
female, with a pale Wee, long skinny Bogen, and sunken
eyes. She was dressed in a light blue gauss gown with ,
flounces, sad kept flinging her thin hands violently, as if to
jerk something off from them. Her ecumenist was a short
man with long hair, a thick, bushy chestnut beard, high
cheek bones, sad small, slurp grey eyes, which, however, he
kept closed nearly all the time. His body was a good deal
convulsed, he sighed deeply, thumped upon his biome,
clasped his beetle over the tap of hie head, and measionally
thrust oat his arms horisontally. These performances con-
Sailed some minutes, when the gaunt lady in the blue gauze
dress rose with her eyes shut, and, after meandering around
the Mena awle=lirt Lag which she kept patting her hands
=mi a variety of strange motions, she stopped
los tittle MO of the circle at the table, and sow
massed tappllmbeilbstirson the shoulders ; a rather fat lady
lion arose mall UMW to her moistanee, and the two were
engaged some mintalse fa patting the lady at the table,
disser no explanation was given with respect to it. Thee
i surele in blue gess commenced an strati et with her
eye, shut, and her heads and arms quivering all the time is
&convulsive manner. She was in a Sauced condition, we
believe, which might be a sufficient apology for her lam-
brat sad anmeasing remarks. The only thing she uttered
which kid anything like a tangible idea involved in it was
that the mind mild not receive the truth unless the body
were free from all obstruations to the passage of the electric
Aside trough the system, from the zenith, tapping the top
of the head, to the nadir, running her quivering fingers down
her body to her feet. She said also that people might have
an Mlles of ideas from another without speaking—a fact
which there was so necessity of being entranced to learn.
When she eat down an old lady at the table remarked
that, while the means was speaking, she had herself
had an Mu" of something or other, we could not die-
tinctly hear what, and had seen a steeple surrounded by
balls of light. After this there was mon silent*, and as the
room was hot, a ooasiderable rustling of fans, and the long
lady and her male companion were a good deal convulsel.
Some of the members of the circle evidently felt • little die-
concerted at some not manifestations which were antici-
pated, and the fst lady remarked that if people would but
hese perfectly quiet it would gristly aid the spirits, and
added, that repose was easy enough to those who cultivated
that habit of body. She evidently thought that a fee
Misdeed pounds of adipose flesh might be taken on at
pleasure, by any spars and nervous person who found it
difficult to sit long in one resides.
The meeting was beseniag rather stupid sad sleepy,
when the lady in the blue dress commenced operations
upon • gentlemaa by robbing hie aims sad potting his heed,
which had the elect of closing his *yes sad musing him to
rise sad deliver use very commonplace remarks, the lady
Sandiest at ids bank all the while, and throwing her arms
about like a Python es, while her male companion kept up
an incessant jerking of his limbs, and flinging imaginary
thunderbolts from his beads.
When the 'airspeed speaker could think of aothing more
to say he sat down, sad the Pythoness having said some-
thing about melody a pump man in a red heard sang a
dolomite hymn in a dolorous manner, and the meeting ease
to an sad. Dr. Odes sanowaced that there would be ea-
treated lecturing in the afternoon ad evening, but the
performances of the morning were not of a kind to tempt
us to pto another. As we roes to leave the room we he-
eled that a staffed white wl in one of the glass eases winked
its round eye at ea, sad that a stuffed Muscovy duck, with
ite bill half open, was just going to exclaim, "Quark!
peek ! quack !" Bat we were probably mistaken.