The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-22 00:00:00

SAM OF OLD STORES AT GOSPORT.

ADMIRALTY, SOMMET-PLACE, 18th October, 1855.
THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, do hereby give notice, that on FRIDAY, the 2d Novem-
ber next, at 12 o'clock at noon, the Captain Superintendent will put
uP to Sale, in the Royal Clarence Vicwalling Yard at Gosport, severe
Lote of

OLD STORES;
e°nliisting of serviceable Tongues, Old Provisions, Biscuit Bags,
Staves, Casks, Paymasters' Implements, Necessaries, Ste., Ste., &C.,
all lYing in the said YEzd.
Persons wishing to view the Lots must apply to the Superintendent
fer notes of admission for that purpose.
Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may be had here and at the
Yard.

CONTRACT FOR BRUSHWOOD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all persons
who may be desirous of contracting for the supply of about
4,000 BUNDLES of BRUSHWOOD,
containing altogether about 125 Cords, to be composed of young
Oak, Ash, Willow, Hazel, and Beech, that proposals, addressed
to the Director-General of Contracts, War Department, Pall-mall,
marked on the outside " Tender fbr Brushwood," will be received
on or before the 31st day of October.
Persons tendering are requested not to use any form but that
Which can be had on application to the Director-General any day
previous to the above date (Sunday excepted), between the hours of
10 and 4.
War Department, Pal-mall, Oct. 20, 1855.

SIR BURNETT'S DISINFECTING
FLUID, for destroying all Offensive Smells and purifying Sick
Rims, Sce. Its cost is less than One Farthing per Gallon when
diluted for use.
Sold by all Chemists, and at IS, Cannon-street, City.
Gallons, 51. Quarts, 2s. Pints, Is. Half-pints, 6d.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE: - THIS
EVENING, and every evening
during the
week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great
Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety
of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary
effects.
Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment,poosf-
sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases
amusement. It is no:; a monologue, for the audience them-
selvesof perform their parts with the principal actor,sc some
them en the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition,
for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the
eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any
one thing ; but it is a comedy really performed by the com-
pany ; a melodrama replete with startly positions and unex-
Pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of
the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex-
travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond
the bounds of probability.
Proffessok Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and
fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum
Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he
has been erabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con-
tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art
has at any time or in any place been honoured with an
amount of memo so extensive, so decided, and so unusual.
lie would attribute that success to three causes; first, that
in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors
the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of
Perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he
has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that ho has
sPared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on
the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment
of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly,
that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those
who honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that
it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor-
tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where-
ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by
resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner,
the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the
credulous.
Ills 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro-
fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the
theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in-
terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst
Many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which
attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri-
tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has
resulted, Professor Anderson's exposé of spirit-rapping and
his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro-
duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex-
pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible
for Professor Anderson to reply atOength to a tithe of the
eeMmunications which reach him on the subject. He regrets
that, many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
1141 P, from their position in society and their well-known in-
tellectuall attainments, he would least have expected to have
been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so
easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every
evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on
.spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the
Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited
and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this
Public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his
Multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the
/Mines of the great and learned of the land should
have been made to figure in the documents emanating
from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Seotem-
her 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri-
tvat Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American
spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster
frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has
witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be
thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought
the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the
solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial,
actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits
who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate-
rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques-
tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the
above, has recently left England, and the following account of
who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648:
—" This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and new
in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations
without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout
the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendidhumbug, offered him 2,000
dollars per annum if ho would perform at his museum in New
York, Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could
be bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was
refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply
and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very
ac,cePtabla to hiin, for ho was poor, young (under 20), an or-
l' an and in very bad health: but he would have been afraid
9f:toeing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
lio inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the
greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer-
tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the
editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom
right be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
211 i spirit-rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
I s accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse-
ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credxlity, more likely
t(;lbe negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ;
but,
when lie finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
Itswindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
ev• N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
writes a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for
Tni to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
k l is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
"rang Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel,
;
company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that
which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that
EP, iriterappine is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
l'urPoses In the Morning Advertiser of the following day,
however; there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
_,Who was present when he and Lord Brougham had their
seance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that "the
table" (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac-
cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and
then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's
right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through-
out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of
the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that
the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves
to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the
greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the
subject of a now work, and that a " spiritual convention"
Professor
actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall,
frofessor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
28 received by the people of England as genuine honest at-
tempts to provide au antidote for the bane of the spiritual
Jugglers.
In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have
Visited the Lyceum Theatre, —a larger number, it is believed,
than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so
B,nort a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even.
'ng,• the programme being continually changed. Grand
fashionable Day Performance, on Saturday, October 27, at 2
O'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ;
Part Ls—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
l
Y magic that which some suppose to be effected by niesmer-
alln, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
the air,
Act 2. The Aqua-Axial Paradox,; exemplifying the power
( Producing animated nature from fire and water only, and
t 1
he Possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most
complex forms of ornithological existence.
_ Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own
rocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the
evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu-
minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude
out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears
for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and
in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
Place for to be found.
Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou.
hie. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed-
ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfer.
oration—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article
in the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
Act 5. L'Ecrin de Vern ; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into
which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent,
and suspended se as to be visible to the eyes of all present,
the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport
itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed,
locked, and the key in the possession of the audience.
Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the
Transparency
of Opacity.
Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine
and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible
bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in-
exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the
word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk,
Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky
lioyeau, or any other wine or spirit required ; and finally
Proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry,
and occupying the whole space when tightly packed.
Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of
Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and
tocsin of the invisibles.
Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property 41.1'
the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange motamor-
noses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become
transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng-
land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia.
Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which ho who
seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to
the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi-
tion as peculiar as perplexing.
Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the
Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the
audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part
of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin)
rii mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which
all will produced.
._ Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the 'Shortest
Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west-
ern to the eastern hemisphere.
Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8.
Private boxes, 1/. lls. 6d. and 1/. ls., to be obtained at the
Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. - dress
Circle 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, Is. ; gallery, 6d. The
hex-Office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction
Of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
formance en Saturday. October 27, at 2 o clock. Doors open
I hap* 1.

lV
;

MESSRS. BLACKWOOD and SONS'
PUBLICATIONS.

This day is published.
I.
In Octave, Illustrated with Engravings, price 12s. 6d.,
MINNESOTA •and the FAR WEST.
By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Esq..
Late Civil Secretary and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs in
Canada ; Author of " The Russian Shores of the Black Sea," &c.
Originally published In Blackwood's Magazine.
Vol. 1., price 65., of
NOCTES AMBROSIANA.

By Professor WILSON.
To be completed in Four Volumes, Crown Octavo.
Vol. 2 will be published on 3'st inst.

NEW WORKS AND NEW EDITIONS.

PROFESSOR JOHNSTON'S CHEMISTRY
of COMMON LIFE.

In two vets., crown octavo, pricells. 6cl , with 113 Illustrations

on Wood, and a Copious Index.
" All will concur in-admiring the profound thought which has
ennobled so many familiar things, and-has even tinged the commonest
processes of household life with the hues of novelty and surprise.
The work deserves to be universally read."--British Quarterly Re-
view.

ATLAS OF ASTRONOMY.

By A. KEITH JOHNSTON. Edited by J. R. HIND, v.R.A.s.

In Imperial 4t.0., half-bound morocco. Price 21s.

" The illustrations are eighteen in number—lunar, solar, stellar ;
and are so constructed as to present to the eye a series of lessons in
the most captivating of human studies, simple in outline and cumula-
tive in result. To say that Mr. Hind's Atlas is the best thing of the
kind is not enough—lt kas no competitor."—Athenxum.

THE CRIMEAN ENTERPRISE : What
Should have been done, and what Might be Done. Predictions and
Plans.

By Capt. GLEIG, 92d Highlanders.
Price 2s. 6d.

INSTITUTES of METAPHYSIC; the Theory
Of Knowing and Being.

By JAMES F. FERRIER, A. 8., Oxon, Professor of Moral
Philosophy, St. Andrew's.
In Crown Octavo, 103. 6d.

5.
On the INFLUENCE EXERTED by the
MIND over the BODY in the Production and Removal of Morbid
and Anomalous Conditions of the Animal Economy.

By JOHN GLEN, M.A.
Foolscap, price 2s. 6d.
6.
DEDICATED BT PERMISSION TO THE QUEEN.
Complete in 2 large vols., royal Bvo.,
THE BOOK of the GARDEN.
By CHARLES APINTOSIL
The volumes are sold separately, viz.:—
Vol. I.—On the Formation of Gardens and Construction of Garden
Edifices, &c. 776 pages, and 1,073 engravings. 2/. 10g.
Vol. IL—Practical Gardening. 868 pages, and 279 engravings.
It. 17s. 6d.

THE RURAL ECONOMY of ENGLAND,
SCOTLAND, and IRELAND.
By LEONCE DE LAVERGNE.

Translated from the French. With Notes by a Scottish Farmer.
In Svc., price 125., cloth.

YESTER DEEP LAND CULTURE : being
a Detailed Account of the Method of Cultivation which has been
successfully practised for several years by the Marquess of Tweeddale
at Yester.

By HENRY STEPHENS, F.R.S.E., Author of the "Book
of the Farm."
In foolscap Bvo., price 4s. 6d.

MISS STRICKLAND'S LIVES of the
QUEENS c f SCOTLAND, and ENG LIS II PRINCESSES connected
with the Royal Succession of Great Britain. Vols. I. to V. In port
Bvo., price 108. 6d. each, with Portraits and Historical Vignettes.

THEISM : the Witness of Reason and Nature
to an All-wise and Beneficent Creator.
By the Rev. J. TULLOCH, D.D., Principal and Primaries
Professor of Theology, St. Andrew's.

Being the Treatise to which was awarded the Second Burnett
Prize for 1854. In post Bvo., price 103 6d.
11.
FIRMILIAN ; or, the Student of Badajoz. A
Spasmodic Tragedy.

By T. PERCY JONES.
In foolscap Bro., price ss.

HISTORY of GREECE and BYZANTIUM.
By GEORGE FINLAY, Esq., LL.D.
In 4 vols., Bvo., price 21. 15s. 6d. Each Volume may be bad sepa-
rately, viz.:-
1. GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS, B.C. 146 to A.D. 717. 16s.
2. THE BYZANTINE and GREEK EMPIRES, 716 to 1057. 12s. 6d.
3. 'IHE BYZANTINE and GREEK EMPIRES, 1057 to 1453. 158,
4. HISTORY OF Gazzcz, 1204 to 1461. 12s.

WORKS OF SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L.
A Cheap Edition in 5 Vols., price 245., bound in cloth, viz.:—
I. DIARY of a late PHYSICIAN, ss. Gd.
Ir. and 111. TEN THOUSAND A-YEAR, 2 Volumes, 98.
IV. NOW AND THEN, &c., 43. Gd.
V. MISCELLANIES, Is.
14.
WORKS of DR. THOMAS M'CRIE. A New
and Uniform Edition, edited by his Son. To be completed in t our
Vols., crown octavo. Vol. I. is now published, containing—
THE LIFE OF JOHN KNOX,
With Portraits, price 6s. bound in cloth. The remaining Volumes
will contain—
IL LIFE of ANDREW MELVILLE.
111. HISTORY of the REFORMATION in SPAIN and in ITALY.
IV. SERMONS and MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.

THE HISTORY of EUROPE, from the
Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Battle of
Waterloo.

By SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., D.C.L., &c.

Library Edition, in 14 Vols. demy Byo., with Portraits ..£lO 10 0

In 20 Vols. crown 8vo.....••••••• •••••.•• 6 0 0
People's Edition, publishing in Monthly Parts, at Is. each.

CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF EUROPE.

THE HISTORY of EUROPE, from the
Fall of Napoleon to the Accession of Louis Napoleon.
By SIR ARCHIBA D ALISON, Bart., D.C.L.

Volumes I. to IV. are published. In decoy octavo, uniform with
the Library Edition of the author's " History of Europe, 1789-
1815." Frice 15s. each.
The Fifth Volume is in the press.
17.
ESSAYS ; HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, and
MISCELLANEOUS.

By SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart.. D.C.L.
3 vols. demy Svo., uniform with the Library Edition of the "His-
tory of Europe." W. ss.

18.
LIFE of JOHN DUKE of MARLBOROUGH,
with some Account of his Contemporaries, and of the War of the
Succession.

By SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., D.C.L,

The Third Edition, 2 vols., Bvo, with Portraits and Maps. 30s.

i 9.
ATLAS of 109 COLOURED MAPS and
PLANS of Countries, Battles, Sieges, and Sea-lights, to illustrate the
" History of Europe," With a Vocabulary of Military and Marine
Terms.
By A. KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.S.E., Geographer to the Queen.
- --.•-

Demy 4t0., Library Edition, 31. 38. Crown 4t0., 21. 12s. 6d.

TIPITOME OF ALISON'S HISTORY OF
EUROPE, for the use of Schools and Young Persons. Ninth Edi-
tion, price 7s. 6d., bound.

LAYS of the SCOTTISH CAVALIERS,
AND OTHER POEMS.

By W. EDMONSTONE AYTOUN, D,C.L:,
Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of
Edinburgh.
Eighth Edition, price Is. &1.,

of the F A RM.