The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-27 00:00:00

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CONTI Aeffg
FOR CLOTHING FOR PRISOKERS OF WAR.
Office,
of the Directors of Transport Service and rrlsOnerS of
9 Fla, War, Admiralty, Som-rse•-house, 23d Oct., 185,.
'-' A Commissioners for E.tecuting the Office of
th d Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
1r • Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on THURSDA treat with
the Bth
A veraber next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to
Arndt Persons as may be willing to contract for supplying and de-
11Vering Into her Majesty's War Prison at Milibay, Pymouth,
the undermentioned articles, viz.,
150 GREAT C0AT5...... When to be delivered.
4500 Pairs of TROWSERS .. With'n one month from the day of the
1,200 SHIRTS ... . ... ... date hereof, or earlier, if preferred
1.50 b Pairs of STOCKINIiS. by the parties tendering.
Patterns of the articles and the conditions of the contract may be
teen at the said office,.and at the Prison at Millbay. No tender will
be received after one o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed
unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, and
which may be obtained on application at the said office.
Every tender must be addressedto the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Clothing for
Prisoners of War," and must also be delivered at Somerset-House.

ARGYLL ROOMS.—LA.IIRENT'S CASINO
NOW OPEN for the winter season. The following
Music will be 'performed by his celebrated Band during
the week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lily
of the Valley (D Albert), Zephir Lulls (GungT), Fenella (Tinney),
Ethel Newcome (Laurent), La Sultane (Bosisfo), Quadrilles—Le
Rol du Pastel (Lamotte), Les llngenots (Laurent), Palermo (D'Al-
bert), Bride of 'Lammermoor (Tinney), Il Trovati:re (Tutton).
Polkas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italie ((4aviolo), The L;11lan (D'Al-
bert), Des Coucous (Bousquet), The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops—
The Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Hecla (Streatber). ottische
—La Guirlande de Pleura (Bosquet), La Varsoviana (Laurent). pion
dpal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at S. Admix
Ono Shilling.

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.
Magie and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of
ement. It is not a monologue, for the audience th em-
,,selvets perform their parts with the principal actor, some of
'net n on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition,
for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the
eye a of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any
one thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the com-
par ly ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex-
Pe( med denouements •, a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of
the • public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex-
tre in which .all that seems to be is entirely beyond
th a bounds of probability.
Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and
1: eshionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum
r theatre to oveiow, )and by means of whose generous aid he
has been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con-
4thenens repefillon:-"` He believes- tliat no professbr of his art-
has at any time or in any 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
the 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
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.
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
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 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
easily susceptible. of being controverted and disproved. Every
evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on
spirit-rapping tere 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 o nly mode of replying at full length to his
Multitudinous. correspondents. He regrets that the
!lames of t'ae 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 frolic,. the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem-
ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri-
tual 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 marl, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now
in Italy, is a remasekable medium for all the manifestations
without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout
the Anglo-Saxon we ;rid as a splendid humbug, offered him 20000
dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New
York. Barnum t hen 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 rer (larked, that the money would have been very
acceptable to an for he was poor, young (under 20), an or-
phan, and in v try' 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.
Re inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the
(greatest bur ebugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer-
tainly surp wing to find such a paragraph as this in the
editorial ar sidle of an established journal, the editor of whom
might be s .apposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
ti:Pirit- rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
acceF sign to its adherents and, with Barnum's endorse-
ment to 'it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
tute negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ;
, wh en he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
flglan 1 have thelemerity to subscribe their names to so gross
a Min' Be, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
Rev. 'NT. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
write; a book on the subject, he considers it t be time for
brml,;o state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
David
Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
-uavid Brewster, relative to that Which he saw at Cox's Hotel,
in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that
which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that
Spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
Purposes. 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
stance 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 I,9th 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 been advertised to bo held in St. Martin's-ball,
Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
be received by the people of England as genuine honest at-
tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual
jugglers.
In the Bourse 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
short a pariod. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even-
ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand
f ashionalele Day Performance, or Saturday, October 27, 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 illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
the air,
Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and
the 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
Pocket Rook, 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
fin bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
limo for to be found.
Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou-
ble. In which will be comprisede-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'Ecrin de Verve; 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 visiters
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-nenk,
Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky,
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 Expose of
Spirit-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 he who
seats himself will be under the magic spoil, 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 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.
Privateboxes, 11, lls. 6d. and 1/. ,to be obtained at the
Box-office, or at tho principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress
circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 25. ; pit, ; 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. October 27, at 2 o clock, Doors open
at halfpait 1.