The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-08 00:00:00

FINAL NOTICE.

tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor 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 ono 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 hich
attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the "Tipiri-
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-
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, froin the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on
spirit-rapping aro expressed, and every evening, within the
Lyceum, how tables can be niade 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
multitudinous corresponeents. lie 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 24, 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
frackly 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
fib whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the
'ilution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial,
tct-aal hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits
who this 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 man, who is a Scotehman 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 splendidhumbug, offered him 2,000
dollars per annum if ho 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
and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very
acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or-
phan, and in very had 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 Barnum, one of the
greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
ono of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer-
tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the
editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom
might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
in spirit-rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
this accession to 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 he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
Rev, N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
writes a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for
him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
Morning 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 of the North proclaims every night—that
spirit-rapping is notb(ng 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 ho and Lord Brougham had their
sdanco with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the
table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about iu the most
, extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac-
-1 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 19th century, with the facts before us that
the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves
to bo 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 be hold in St. Martin's-hall,
Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
ists of America, as given by him nightly at tho Lyceum, will
bo received by the people of England as genuine honest at-
tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of tho 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 before 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, or Saturday, November 10, at
2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ;
Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Conch : 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 Aqna-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 Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the
evening'st. entertainment in the production qr the very volu-
onuntioor from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude
_or
it minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears
Act 4. Magical
s existence, in
illidd.iscovering odd things in odd places, and
he bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most Unlikely
place for to be fol.
In which will be
; or, Transition without Trou-
ble,
Wed-
ding Ring, tho p be comprised—the Adventures of a
raation—black itZgrihnations of a Bank Note, the Transfor-
mation—black the Discovery a every Article
in tho position whieTiv
Act 5. L'Ecrin do Vet
tiled seem the most inappropriate.
and suspended so as to be vyisoitlglass
which, though made entirely
or, 'the Casket of Crcesus. Into
casket, though perfectly transparent,
the Wizard will cause the money visible
the eyes of all present,
hvisitors to transport
itself, and rain into theetsauldidienbeee.closed,
locked, and the key in the possession ofg thi
Act 6.0': ii voyance 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-milk,
Epsom salts, Port,. Sherry, brandy, gin,
rum, whisky,
other wino or spirit required ; and finally
with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry,
and occupying the
proving
whole space when tightly packed.
noyean, or any
to be filled
Introducing the spirit-rapping table and
Spirit-rapping lutrod
Act 8. Half an Hour wi.th. the Spirits ; or, an Expose oe
tocsin of the invisibles.
undergo some strange metamor-
Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
the Wizard's patrons will
handkerchiefs become
c et --the banners of En g•
transformed into the flags. of vi t 7
phoses, and, amongst others, their
land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia.
in which ha why
Act, 10. The Enchanted Chair of CO MO,

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