The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-09 00:00:00

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styled " The Mother Goddess" or " Mother of Gods," " The
Deified personification of Air."—(Diodorus.) She presided over
the Upper Hemisphere, and was particularly worshii ed at Sais.
Musical instruments stringed (the Buoni or harp of 17 strings,
especially) were dedicated to her. " Neith," or " Neth," is
the supposed origin of the Greek name, " Thena," or
"Athena." The belief of the Egyptians in " the Existence
of a Supreme Being " is proved by the inscription over the
Temple of Minerva (Neith), in hieroglyphic characters, viz. :
—" lam that which is, which was, and shall be. No Mortal
has lifted up my veil—the offspring of my power is the Sun."
And the "Immortality of the Soul," by the prayer recited
at the time of death, byan Egyptian, expressing his desire to
be received into the presence of the deities. Symbols of Mall
and Tefnu, and lEgis or Athor. No. 11. " Mersekar," the
Snake Goddess, called also " Melsigor," or " Mersokar"—
" Ruler of the Lower Regions." No. 12. The Great God
" Ammon," or " Hamman," " Amen," " Amen-ra,"
" Amoun," "The King of Gods," " The Concealed," " The Hid-
den," " The Intellectual Sun," wearing on his right head the
" Teshr," surmounted by the Disc and Plumes. In his right hand
the "Tau," or emblem of life, and in his left the " Gum," or
sceptre of power. A large Altar of Burninr, Incense is car-
ried before him ; on either side are his symbols' of " creative
power," the Sacred Ureus, or Serpent of Ammon, Priests
with crooks and fans, in their habits and insignia of the high-
est; order, with the 2Egis of the God— " The Intellectual Sun"
- - containing the symbolic " All-seeing Eyes," " The Divine
Searabus," and the Ram-headed God, " Chrouniis," the
vernal creative intelligence or divinity. The King and Queen
Crowr ed. The King bears in his hand the sceptre of " Truth,
Justice, and Mercy." The Queen that of the Sovereignty of
the Nile. They are preceded by Dancers and Musicians, La-
dies and Officers of the Court and Household ; the God
" Eilethyia," or Sacred Vulture, " The Protectress of Kings" •
—" The Pure," borne immediately in front of the Royal per-
sonages. The State Flabella, behind and over their heads,
together with the banners of Nitocris and Egypt, flanked by
the Royal oaks of " Re" (the Sun) ; sacred symbols, with
various insignia, royal and military standards, Sze.

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 tho North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety
of incidents, continuous surprises, novel arid extraordinary
effects.

Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of
•urusement. It is not a monologue, for tho audience them-
selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of

them on the stage and others in front; it is not an exhibition,
.'or 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 startling positions and unex-
pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of
the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex-
ravaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond

the bounds of probability.
Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and
ashionablo audiences which havo nightly filled the Lyceum
Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he

has been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con-
tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art

Las at any time or in ally place been honoured with an

amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual.
He would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that
in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors

he results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of

perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which ho
has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has
spared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on
tl,e stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment
of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly,
~hat, 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.

The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro-
cessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the
theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in-
'crest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst

many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which
attend a belief in the superstitions nonsense of the " Spiri-
tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has

resulted, Professor Anderson's expose of spirit-rapping and
his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro-
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duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt

pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible
for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the
communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets
that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
who, from their position in society and their well-known in-
tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have
been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so
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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 bo made to rap is exhibited
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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
names 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, Septem-
ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri-
Nca 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
olution of the phonomeaa ; 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 mom, proved to be too much of a ques-
,ion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Humo, 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 now
in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations
without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout
the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2,000
dollars per annum if he 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
anclthonestly remarked, that the money would have beetrvery
acceptable to him, for ho was poor, young (under 20), an or-
phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid
of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
He inquired into the subject; and now Basinum, one of the
greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cm.-
' tainly surprising to and such a paragraph as this in the
editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom
might be supposed to be sane. Ryon if Barnum does believe
in spirit-rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose by

this accessionto its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse-
ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ;
hut, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
a swindle, when ho Ends that the Incumbent of Wortley (the
Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
writes a book on the subject, ho considers it tl be time for
him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
it is effected, and tie mischief to which it tends. In the
Oforning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel,

in company with lord Brougham. He distinctly states that
which the Wizard ;f the North proclaims every night--that
spirit-rapping is ncthing more than conjuring applied to bad
purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day,
however, there is in answer to Sir David's letter from one
who was present when he and Lord Brougham had their
séance with the siirits, in which the writer says, that " the
tank (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
extraordinary meaner, and, among other things, a large ac-
cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and
then to Lord Broughasa's, in which, held by his lordship's
right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through-
out." With suck 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 new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
' has actually bees advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall,
Professor Andorton trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
bo received by the people of England as genuine honest at-
tempts to provito an 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 Wore been assembled within its walls in so
short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even.
ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand
fashionable Day Performance, on Saturday, November 10, at
2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ;
Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
ism, and illustlate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
the air.

Act 2. The &qua-Avial Paradox; exemplifying the power
of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and
the possibility ,i• eliciting from the simplest elements the most •
complex forms of ornithological existence.
Aet 3. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own
Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the
evening's entertainment in the production gif 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.
ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed-
ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor-
mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article
in the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
Act 5. L'Eerin de Verre ; or the Casket of Crcesus. Into
which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent,
and suspended so as to bo 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
An
theim I.:i,i•roivein,esnt 1 the inexhaustible
,t •
and Spirit Store.
bottle willi nnfionti
tonly beat
ebottle,'
in-
exhaustible,inabuuttiadll:chan e its contents
progducing soda-water, buutmterk,
word of conimaonrt,
Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky,
Epsom salts, P
noyeau, 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 Expos 6 of
Spirit-rapping. introducing the spirit-rapping table and
tocsin of the invisibles. insowmheiehthe property of
Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam,
strange metamor-
phoses, Wizard's patrons will undergottheir
_handkerchiefs become
and, amongst others, . lie
transformed into the flags of victory the banners of Eng.
land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. . _ ,_, , ,__ _,...
. Act, 10. The Enchanted Chair_o9Mus, Rn wll,l9a_ ay lrug
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