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Do, ember 17.

LAST FEW DAYS.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. —THIS
I EVE NrING, and every eVenino- (luring- the
the GRAND ELELTSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
'lld MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great
Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety
`t incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary
Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
"'inZ distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of
amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them.
elves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of
them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition,
,
.er though everything becomes metamorphosed before the
'Yee of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any
'4O thing ; but it is a comedy really performed by the com-
a',3' ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex-
I'!eted denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of
t
,ue Public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and as ex-
',lltvaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond
'4 bounds of probability.

'Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and
sshionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum
Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he
48 been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con-
lisnons repetition. He believes that no professor of his art
'as at any time or in any place been honoured with an
'Mount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual.
4e would attribute that success to three causes; first, that
his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors
the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of
l'erfeeted skill in ono peculiar art, and to perfect which he
4es travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has
a'ared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on
„;,° stage in tho most elaborate manner, by the employment
the 'first mechanicians and artists of the day; and thirdly,
while endeavouring to provide amusement for those
vnck honour him with their presence, he has not foreetten that
j'a possible to afford information also, a
gnd that the oppor-
'llllity should not be neglected ot exposin conjuring eviler
'? er it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by
?isortime, to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner,
e designing have succeeded in making dupes of the
redulous.

The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pr
,
reesor Anderson kas received, from the time of opening th-
heatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in-
erest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst
any of thorn bear melancholy evidence to the daneers which
ttend a belief in the superstitions nonsense of the " I:iri-
'tialists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has
resulted Professor Anderson's expose of spirit-rapping and
hid illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro-
`,,need a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex-
tee° a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible
er Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the
llsimunications which reach him on the subject. He regrets
4t many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
'me from their position in society and their well-known in-
11.1f:ettial attainments, he would least have expected to have
ti7-In converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so
. °HY susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Ever
,w4ening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions e
lrit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within tie
Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited
4.12 d elucidated. It is respectfully requested that ad
P,nblic exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
obderson's only mode of replying at full length to hi-.
multitudinous correspondents. Fie regrets that the
Fames of the great and learned of the lan 1 show•
re hen made to figure in the documents emanatie
'QM the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex
h'aetecl from the Morning .4 dvertiser of Thursday, Septetn
per 20,•and taken by that journal from the Neu, York Spiri
gad Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an Arner'ean
irit-rapper, Mr D. D. Hume ;—" Sir David Bresyste,
rankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has
,ltnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be
t
110rolighly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought
ee whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the
'elution of the phenomena ; but the presence of substantial,
Atual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits
e4O thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate-
-34 objects about the room, proved to he too much of a ques-
, for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the
I,lvye, has recently left England, and the following account of
e•
n: sad what lie is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648:
This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now
e Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations
'Ttlinut apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout
etee„Angle-Saxen world as a splendidliubue., offered him 2,000
f'utra per annum if he would perform m
at his museum in New
e°ll,-- Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could
7 -bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was
k• sed. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply
ad honestly remarked, that the money would have been very
illeePtable to him, for he was poor, young (under 28), an or-
lon, and in very bad health , but he would have been afraid
• losiug his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
44 life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the
'seatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer-
141Y surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the
Ikl.itorial article of au established journal, the editor of whom
a413'4 be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believr
. .
pirit-rapping—does spirit-rapping gain or lose be
this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse
iruent to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likel
be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe note'
teate
when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church: of
;land have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
itoarindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
t 2•• N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts has belief in it, and
sites a book on the subject, he considers it t • be time for
it to state hat which he knos of the mechanism by which
j.lB effected, and the mischief w
to which it tends. In the
jp-fi*Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
u Did Brewster, relative to that which ho saw at Cox's Hotel
Neemaspany with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that
ee'leh the Wizard of the North proclaims every night--that
~Vit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bail
ri)oses. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day
e,;),:g'ever, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
ur was present when he and Lord Brougham had their
Lce with the spirits. in which the writer says, that " the
teule (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
tatrordinar y manner and, amour other a large ae-
i°lllaon was conveyed, by au invisible agencythings. to my hand and
en to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship'.
hand, apart from any person, it played an air through
4s With such a statement, printed for the edification of
th People of the 19th century, with the facts before us that
e.,e Most talented men of the day are permitting themselves
ke be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the
eliet°.test novelist of the age is now engaged in making it tie
Oeet if a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall.
s„,;:fessor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual
of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
received by the people of England as genuine honest at-
a4'Ps
sto provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual
igletr.
v.l/1 the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have
,piteel the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed,
sn has ever before been :iseembled within its walls in so
1,211' a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even.
Ze. the programme being continually chaneel. Grand
e,lenahle Day Performance, Or Saturday, December 22, at.
%elock ; the programme being thus arranged ;
terart 1. —Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinica
.enabilitiee of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
t; 'beagle that which some suppose to be effected by mesiner-
-141, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
go air,
I ef'ket 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
Ith_PlYeducing animated nature from fire and water only, and
possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most
'nplex forms of ornithological existence.
1, Act 3. Le Livre des 11:eueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own
beeket Rook, with puck himself within it. Typifying the
.4ening's entertainment in the production of the very volt:-
441.n0us from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude
ekt of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears
eerets existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and
ingr
in
to g for
be founth un
d expected wonders from the most unlikely
114
-tae fo.
Act 4, Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition with:oat Tron-
jle- In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed-
g Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Tranefor-
til'gtion—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article
the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
evi_Act 5. L'Ecrin do Verre; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into
wich, th4ough made entirely of glass perfectly transparent,
nail suspended so as to be risible to the eyes of all present,
e Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport
14elf, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed,
°eked, and the key in the possession of the audience.
aYAct 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; er, the Transparency
Opacity.
Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine
dad Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible
"attle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in-
lisaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the
v.
I.°r(l of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk,
'Asore salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky,
Yeau, or any other wino or spirit required; and finally
re'ring to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry,
▪ d occupying the whole space when tightly packed.
ki Act 8. Half au Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of
,Dirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and
'eettio of the invisibles.
the Wizard's
9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor-
iZ4eses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become
s reformed into the flags of victory—the hawsers of Ent
Franco, Turkey, and Sardinia.
4Ct. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who
jab: himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to
tr audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi-
ell as peculiar as perplexing.
Act. U. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the
eeieus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the
keel.
'lence will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part
the evening, the chest suspended (like Vabornmed's coffin)
tnid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which
'1 Rill be produced.
j. Act. '2. The Hoa:ological Evaporation : or, the Slice test,
;gnte to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
;`,,dding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
t▪
he newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west-
to the eastern hemisphere.
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l'office, or at the principal libraries; stalls, 4s. ; dress
; upper Meer... Is.. gallery, Bd. The
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ke Chatter ton, jail- en. fae
athionable Morning
opPer-
44Qance on Saturday, December 22, 2 o'clock. Doors en
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