The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-13 00:00:00

By order:

- W. S. TROTTER, Secretary.
Ns. I, GreatW.
Winchestar.etreet, October, 1855.
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COITVEYANCE OF HER MAJESTY'S MAILS BETWEEN
ENGLAND AND THE CAPE OF G )0D HOPE.
Office of the Directors of Transport Service and Prisoners cf
rirWar, Admiralty, Somerset-house, 10th October, 1855
Em Commissioners for Executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britgin
!bd Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on TUESDAY, tilt: 201 h
November, 1855, at Or.e o'clock, they will be ready to treat at the
above Office for the MONTHLY CONVEYANCE each war, by
xiliary Serew Steam-Vess As, of her Majes:y's MAILS between
OLAND and the CAPE of GOOD HOPE.
Alt Tenders to be made upon the Printed Form provided for the
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ase
4,,rPose, 'which may be obtained upon application at :he said Mee.
-Li—. to be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, at Somerset
nat. • -
veTender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty.
e staterY T tthe address of the party tendering.

ItOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE: = THIS
EVENING, and every evening during the
'week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
wizard
MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great
ofieard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety
of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary
eteeets.
Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of
aniusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them-
ns perform their parts with the principal actor, some of
eblieln 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
Pane'
°IV thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the'corn-
; a melodrama replete with startly positions and unex-
thPeeted denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of
e P.ublic every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex-
the hounds of probabilityTwaganza, in which all .
that seems to be is entirely beyond
"
Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and
fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum
Notre to overflow, and by, means of whose generous aid he
I'm been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for eon-
tinexus repetition. He believes that no professor of-leie art
as at any time or any place been honoured with au
.r.areount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unasual.
ihj-le,would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that
the Present entertainment he bas placed before his visitors
vue results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of
Perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he
#''zt Jelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has
Zneed no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on
''oe stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment
of the first mechanicians and artists of the day; and thirdly,
thhat, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those
it ue
Is honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that
possible to afford information also, and that the
whoppor-
•'
unity should not be neglected of exposing cmejuring here-
has it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by
eresorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner,
crude
lons signing have succeeded in making dupes of the
f sThe 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro-
teii o-r Anderson has received, from the time of opening the
terest
theatre tip to the present date, bear witness to the great in-
taken
inn on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst
ie,s,r of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which
i"lnd belief in the superstitions nonsense of the " Spiri-
-adstes."a
Judging simply by the correspondence which has
7sesulted, Professor Anderson's exposé of spirit-rapping and
illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro-
,.._nesd a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex-
mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible
'431- Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the
communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets
eact, many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
;:neZs! from their position in society and their well-known in-
etttal attainments, he would least have expected to have
Bally'es converts to a belief so -preposterous in itself, and so
"4 susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evenkg, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on
?irit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the
Yeenre, 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
Ilstultitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the
lean:ft of the great and learned of the land should
e been made to figure in the documents emanating
eloni the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
Ltraeted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem-
ber -20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri-
",a2 Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American
81)11.4-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume : " Sir David Brewster
frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has
eVitnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be
the
eho
drwhole force of their keen discernment to bear upon th
solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial,e 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:
in This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now
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 Pe: annum if he would peiform at his museum in New
:rk. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could
tofese °fiought. He was somewhat astonished when his nffer was
d. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply
td honestly remarked, that the money would have been very
''''''eptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or-
and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid
33,tsle,!ing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
life, The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
tee inquired into the subject ; and now Barnum, one of the
oneet humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
taiof the firmest believers in spiritualism" It is cer-
editonlY surPrising to find such a paragraph as this in the
rialarticle of an established journal, the editor of whom
imight be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
e, 81)1ra-rapping—does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
'eene•aceession to its adherents and, with Barn or
endorsee
.10 went to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
be negotiated ? Professor Anderson wenld believe not :
England
When he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
4,ngland have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
Revndle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
e;eibes a book on the subject, he considers it t be time for
itmto state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
s effected, and the miselelef to which it tends. In the
acl*ning Advertiser of Oeetober 3 appears a letter from Sir
vidßrewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel.
eyee,eiPauy with Lore., Brougham. He distinctly states that
spVt- / the Wizard eeithe North proclaims every night--that
I)4osr:PPing is ezetbing more than conjuring applied to bad
Whoever'hew eever, • thin the Morning Advertiser of the following day,
e is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
eeet,,e, "as -present when he and Lord Brougham had their
table '",.%vith the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the
eat
(a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
e„ i ,'4•°rdiriaa7 manner, and, among other things, a large ac-
th---"e °n was conveyed by au invisible agency to my hand and
.otzte Lord Brougham's,in which, held by his lordship's
,a,t,hand, apart from any person, it played an air through-
' With such a statement, printed for the edification of
thitle sPeople of the 19th century, with the facts before us that
t: Most talented men of the day are permitting themselves
he deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the
''"`ea, test novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the
Ziniect of a new work, and that a " spiritual' convention"
1,51 aCtUally been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall,
I;_ofessor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
beAm, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
t received by the people of England as genuine honest at-
i tnPts to. provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual
engglers.
sheln the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have
d the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed,
Zrthas ever before been assembled within its walls in so
a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even.
zr1,...e5,!. the programme being continually changed; Grand
,ulonable Day Performance), or Saturday, October 13, at 2
clock ; the
programme loelng thus arranged ;
CaPart 1. Tie Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
Pabilities of the e`tni.
bi• osphere : in which the Wizard will do
1,133 and that Welch some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
the inns:rate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
air.A „.
pr" 2. The Aqua.Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
vliroeneing animated nature from fire and water only, and
Cplibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most
ex forms of ornithological existence.
reoiact 3. Le Livro des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own
Zen:iAd Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the
ng's entertainment in the production of the very voila-
g, ',nous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude
for6f minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears
or its
existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and
La bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
ice for to be found.
411eAet 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Tron-
•ln which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed-
!natieg Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Tmnsfor-
on—black into white,
and the Discovery of every Article
an 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.
Oct 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency
HPacity.
Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine
'4, tla Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible
innifintait,um,Whiatskthye,
nettle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be he
of but will change its contents, ad
I.,"erd of command, producing soda-water, butter-mek,
tsons 0 salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin,
Yeau, or any other wine or spirit required finally
e—giving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly ee,_
end occupying the whole space when tightly packed. "
Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of
2irit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and
tense of the invisibles.
theit• 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
th Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor-
e,„_'esez, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become
;:74sforrned into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng-
ul3l, Prance, Turkey, and Sardinia.
4Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who
1.4t8 hinaself will be under the, magic spell, and appear to
toeziandience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi-
A _43 Peculiar as perplexing.
aszt:;t 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the
;0,2! us of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the
.oi,2euce the
have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part
in til,e evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin)
*ll aid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which
Zell produced.
letee?t• 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest
()citto the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
ing ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
see u 0 newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west.
lot.? the eastern hemisphere..
Pri,2,irs open each evening at half-past 7; commence at 8.
eto;.4Le boxes, it. lls. 6d. and 1/, ls., to be obtained at the
creel ee, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ;dress
o;ce' 3e. ' upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. The
.„%riee open daily, from 11 till 5, miner the 'direction
fere7 • Chattertou, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
t pee Saturday, October 13, at 2 o'clock, Do open
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