The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-05 00:00:00

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ts Open TO-NIGhT, at 8 o'clock, abd every eve,,lng (~i.,--I,i,
Saturdayarda. The first Morning Representation will take place on
tu Dec. Bth.

R XHIBITION OF CRIMEAN
ir PHOTOGRAPHS, 5, Pall-mall East.—Evening, Exhibition
1 °in Seven till Ten, and from Ten till Five daily. Admission, lc
n foggy weather the Gallery is brilliantly lighted with gas.

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`°2.5. shallnot have bn paid previously to the Bth day of December,
will, in accordance with the Statutes of the ,'ompany, be For-
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By order of the Board. '
JOHN SADLEIR, Chairman.
London, 18, Cannon-street, 23d Nov., 1855.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. - THIS
EVENING, and every evening during the
week EVENING,
the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
'' MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great
lizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety
tf incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary
effects,

,__.l424iie and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
g distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of
'inneetnent. It is not a monologue, for the audience them-
thee their parts with the principal actor, some of
m on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition,
for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the
'Yes of the visitors. no one can be positive that he sees any
°lle thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the corn-
liany ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex-
pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of
t4lle Public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex-
itavaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond
the bounds of probability.
f Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and
aellionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum
Zheatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he
t.,-% been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for one
repetition. He believes that no professor of his art
Pais at any time or in any place been honoured with an
4,,roonnt ofnuccess so extensive, so decided, and so unusual.
no would attribute that success to three causes ; first that
la 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 he has
'Pared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on
the
stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment
that,'! the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly,
while endeavouring to provide amusement for those
the honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that
it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor-
111'4 should not be neglected of exposing conjuring wher
tver it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by
t~eQrtiug to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner,
8 designing have succeeded in making dupes of th,,
tredtilous.

The 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
111a113' 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
eebltecl, Professor Anderson's exposé of spirit-rapping and
his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro-
pileed a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex-
ree a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible
or Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the
.tleranaunications which reach him on the subject. He regrets
who
many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
from their position in society and their well-known in-
ieilectual attainments, he would lst have expcted to have
een converts to a belief so pereaposterous nitself, and so
t4"115' susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every
erring , from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on
11irit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within th •
'cum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited
F'ncl elucidated. It is respectfully requested that thi-
Ill_b.lic exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
74oclerson's only mode of replying at full length to his
multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the
aloes of the great and learned of the land should
Pave been made to figure •in the documents emanatine
from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem-
her 20, and taken by that journal from the Yew Fork Spiri-
val Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American
spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster
ITeltlY confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has
.4, tnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be
thoroughly.,, nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought
`.e whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the
!elution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial,
stbal hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits
Vbo t
• hus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate-
lral objects about the room, proved to be too much of aues-
':3 for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author oqf
the
above,: has recently left England, and the following account of
.4, "Lie, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648:
• This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now
M. Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations
Without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout
d 6 Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2.000
ollars per annum if lie would perform at his museum in New
Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could
bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was
refused. Hume, on telling the fact in Lounou otmris
end honestly remarked, that the money would have been very
acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or-
l'oan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid
of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
Ills life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
Be inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the
ereatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
44. e of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer-
tainly 6 surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the
',editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom
leight be supposed to he sane. Even if Barnum does believc
spirit-rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
t▪ his accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse
went to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likell
-° be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ;
"lit, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
Iswindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
ev- N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
motes
1 a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for
it is
to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
—l°Dn'ing Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
David; Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel.
„,41,erapany with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that
"",eli the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that
sPirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
Purposes. In the Llfarning Advertiser of the following day
h°,wever there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
...11
'° Was present when he and Lord Brougham bad their
dance
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-
erdion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and
then
. to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's
-Light hand, apart from any person, it played an air through-
With such a statement, printed for the edification of
,',"e People of the 19th century, with the facts before us that
0 most talented men of the day are permitting themselves
."
`o be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the
treatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the
subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
-"as actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall,
professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
be received by the people of England as genuine honest at-
tempts to to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual
Jeg2',lers.
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
nort a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even-
4asg, the programme being continually changed. Grand
fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, December 8, at
2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged
Part 1. —Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
.1▪
4Pabilitiee of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
the air.
Act 2. The Aqua-Axial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and
the Possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most
slomplex forms of ornithological existence.
Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or Puck's Own
pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. or,
the
evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu-
blinous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude
"t of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears
for its exisience, in discovering odd things in odd places, and
in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
Place for to be found.
Act '4. Maocal Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou-
In which will he comprised—the Adventures of a Wed-
'ling Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor-
itation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article
lb the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verre ; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into
'which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent,
and suspended so 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
1,1. Opacity.
Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine
Ittl 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,
lloyeau, or any other wine or spirit required; and finally
In.°l'ing 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 Exposé of
BPirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and
tocsin of the invisibles.
Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor-
phoses, 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 be 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)
in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which
all will be produced.

Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation or, the Shortest
Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
lidding 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/. Is., 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
Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction
of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
formance on Saturday, December 8, at 2 o'cloek.,,Doors open
at half-past I.