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NITYJOINT- STOCK MUTUAL BANKING
AS,OCIATION.
Principal Offices—Unity-buildings, 8 and 10, Cannon-street, City.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIYEN, that no further applications for
Shares in this bank will be received after Friday, the 30th of
November. By order.
HENRY LAKE, Secretary.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. - THIS
EVENING, and every evening during the
week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
wizard
MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great
'Yizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety
of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary
effects.
Magic' and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of
amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them-
selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of
theta on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition,
for 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 som-
PanY ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex-
Pected denouements; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of
the public Avery night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex-
travagania, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond
the bounds of probability.
Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged awl
fashionable audiences which have 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
leas 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
thee results of a life aetalratT 4p:s4ated to the attatiiment of
triTeete'dsialPin- strcrto perfeet which e
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
I.?sertiag 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
any 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 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, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on
Spirit-rapping are 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 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 followings ex-
tracted from 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 nonpinased. Both of these noted men brought
the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the
solution of the phenomena; but the presenee 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 betoo much of a ques-
tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Henne, 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 splendidhumbug, offered him 2.000
dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New
York. Barnum then took it for granted that inediums could
be,. bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was
reinsed: 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-
l'nen, 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.
lie inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the
greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
one 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
nright be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
spirit-rapping— does spirit-rapping gain or lcise 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 neotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe
tit, Whgen 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
Lt. is effected, 'and the mischief to which it tends. In the
I,4"rnlng Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
-,Javid 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
Prposes. 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 bad their
seance-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-
eceslion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and
then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's
light 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 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 be held in St. Martin's-hall,
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 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,' on Saturday, December 1, at
2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ;
Part 1. —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
She air,
Act 2. The Aqua-Axial 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 Reenails Choisies : or, Puck's Own
Pocket Book, 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
in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
place for to be found.
Act 4, Magic.al Lecotnotion ; 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 pf every Article
in the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verne; 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.
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-milk,
Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky,
laoyeau, or any other wine or spirit required ; and finally
Preying to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry,
Lid 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 spell, and app ear to
the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi-
tion as peculiar as perplexing.
Act. LI. 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 be 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.
Private boxes, 11. lls.fid. and 1/. la., to be obtained at the
Box-office, or at the principal libraries.; stalls, 4s. ; dress
circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, Is. ; gallery, 6d: The
Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction
of Mr, Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
formance onlitaturclay, December 1, at 2 o'clock, Doers open
atthalf-pat

CARLISLE AND CANOBIE RAILWAY.
(Incorporation of Company for making a
Railway from the Port Carlisle Railway to Canobie, with
Branches to the Caledonian Railway, and to. Canobie Coal
Pits—Arrangements with the. Port Carlisle Pock and Rail-
way Company, and with the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
and Dock Company.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is in-
tended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session
for leave to bring in a Bill for the purposes following,
or some of them—that is- to ray, to authorise the con-
struction and maintenance of the following Railway
and Branch Railways, with all proper works and con-
veniences therewith connected, :—First, a Railway
commencing by a junction wija the Port Carlisle Rail-
way at or near to the Ki7le Andrews station of that Railway,
in the parish of Kirk Andrews-upon-Eden and county of Cum-
berland, passing from, through, or into the parishes, town-
ships, or extra parochial places of Kirk Andrew,-upon-Eden,
Beaumont, Grinsdale, Stanwix, Cargo, Rockliffe, Churchtown,
Castletown, Kirklinton, West Linton, Kirklinton Middle,
Arthuret, Lynes;dea Longtown, Kirk Andrews-on-Esk, Kirk
Andrews Middle, and Kirk Andrews Nether, and Moat, all
iu the county of Cumberland, and the parish of Canobie in
the county of Dumfries, or some or other of them, and
terminating at Or near to the church of Canobie, in
the said par:sh of Canobie and county of Dumfries.
Second, a Railway or branch Railway commencing by a
junction with the first named proposed Railway at or near
to the village of Todhills, in the parish of Rockliffe
and township of Castleto een, and passing from, through, or
into the parishes, townships, or extra parochial places
of Rockliffe, Cast'etown, and Churchtown, and 'terminating
by a junction with the Caledonian Rahway, at or near a point
about three furlongs south of Blackrig, in the parish of Rook-
liffe,- and township of Chnrchtown, the whole of the said
branch Railway being in the panty of Cumberland. Third, a
Railway or branch Railway commencing by a junction with
the first-named proposed Railway, at or near to the Church
of Canobie, and terminating at or near to the Canobie coal-
pits, the whole of the said branch Railway being in the
parish of Canobie, and County of Dumfries.
And it is intended by the said Bill to incorporate a Com-
pany for the purposes aforesaid, with power to raise a capital,
and borrow a sum of money therefor, and to take powers to
stop up, alter or divert, either temporarily or 'Permanently,
all works, highways and roads, streams, rivers, canals, and
other workirsituate within the parishes, townships,_ extra-
-I_24.tocujoAl.wroibeki-iiivtli-raltyvertteiestiry
14644,tfitii-"Or divert, for-the pinliTses•of, or during the
construction of, the said proposed Railway and branch Rail-
ways ; and, also powers for the compulsory purchase of
lands, houses, and other heritages, and for the levying of
tolls, rates, and duties, on and for the use of the said intended
Railway, and branch Railways, and the works and conve-
niences to be connected therewith.
And Notice is further given, That it is intended by such
bill to empower the Company (thereby to be incorporated) to
enter into an agreement with the Port Carlisle Dock and
Railway Company, and the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Rail-
way and Dock Company, or either of them, for working
the traffic upon the said intended Railway and branch Rail-
ways, and works, and for the management, repair, and
maintenance thereof, and for the use of any stations
belonging to the said Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Com-
pany, or the said Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and
Dock Company, and that on such terms and conditions, and
for such consideration, as may have been, or may be, agreed
upon between the said Companies, or either of them, and the
Company so intended to be incorporated ; and also to autho-
rise and empower the wild Port Carlisle Dock and Railway
Comnany, and the said Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and
Dock Company, or either of them, to enter into such agree-
ment ; and, so far as may be necessary for the purposes afore-
said, to amend the previsions of the several Acts of Parlia-
ment relating to the Port Carlisle Dock and Railway ; that
is to say, " The Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Act, 1853 ;"
and relating to the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock
Company ; that is to say, local and personal Act 18 and 19
Victoria, Cap. 153.
And Notice is further given, That it is intended by the
said Bill to vary or extinguish all such rights and privileges
as may in any manner interfere with other objects aforesaid,
or any of them, and to confer pther rights and privileges.
And Notice is further given, That a published map, on a
scale of not less than half an inch to the mile, with the lines
of Railway and branch Railways delineated thereon, so as to
show their general course and direction, and duplicate plans
mid sections describing the lines, situations, and levels of the
said intended Railway and branch Railways, and the lands,
houses, and other property in the line of the said Railway
and branch Railways and works, or within the limits of de-
viation as defined on said plans, or which may be taken for
the purposes of such Railway and branch Railways, and of
the' works to be connected therewith ; together with
books of reference to such plans, containing the names of
the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees,
and occupiers of such lands respectively, and a copy of this
rotice, as published in the London Gazette and Edinburgh
Gazette, will be deposited for public inspection on or before
the-thirtieth day of November, one thousand eight, hundred
and fifty-five, with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of
Cumberland, at his office in the city of Carlisle, and in the
office of the principal sheriff-clerk in the town of Dum-
fries for the county of Dumfries ; and that a copy of so
much of the said plans, sections; and book of reference as
relates to the several Parishes, Townships, or Extra Paro-
chial places in and through which the said proposed
Railway and branch railways are intended to pass, toge-
ther with a like copy of this notice published as afore-
said, will also be deposited on or before the said 30th day
of November with the parish clerks of such of the said
parishes as are situated in England, at the respective resi-
dences of such parish clerks, and, in the case of any extra
parochial place, with the parish clerk of some parish adjoin-
ing thereto, at his place of abode ; and with the schoolmaster,
if any, and if there be no schoolmaster, with the session-
clerk of the said parish of Canobie, at the usual place of abode
of such schoolmaster or session-clerk.

And Notice is hereby given, That a printed copy of the said
proposed Bill annexed to the petition therefor, together with
other printed copies of the said proposed Bill, will be depo-
sited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons on
or before tho thirty-first day of December next.
MOUNSEY & Mc A.LPIN, Carlisle,
DALMAHOY & WOOD, Ediniurgh,
Solicitors.
10th November, 1855.

HER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER-
GENERAL will receive TENDERS for the SUPPLY of
UN t FORM CLOTHINi 1 for the Letter Carriers, Mail Guards, Acce-
lerator Drivers, and Riders of this department, and for the Letter
Carriers of the Liverpool, Manchester, Bira,ingham. and Bristol Post
Offices.
The tenders must be enclosed in sealed covers, addressed to " Her
Majesty's Postmaster-General," and superscribed, "Tender for
Letter Carriers', Guards', &e., Clothing ;" and they must be deli-
vered at this office at or before coon on SATURDAY, the 15th
December, 1855.
They miist show the prices at which the several articles will be
supplied for a period of one year and three years respectively.
Specimens of the Clothing to be supplied may be seen on appli-
cation at the Circulation-office of this department.
The pales whose tender is accepted will be required to enter
into a contract, and to give bond, with two sureties, in the sum
of 1001., for its due performance.
General Post-office, November, 1855.

HER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER-
-1
GENERAL will re •eive TENDERS far the SUPPLY of
UNIFORM BATS for the Letter Carriers, Mail Guards, Accelera-
tor Drivers, and Riders of this department, and for the Letter
Carriers of the Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and Bristol
Post-offices.
The Tenders must be enclosed in sealed covers, addressed to " Her
Majesty's Postmaster-General," and superscribed " Tender for Letter
Carriers', Guards', &c., Hats ;" and they must be delivered at this
office at or before noon on SATURDAY, the 15th December, 1855.
They must show the prices at which the Hats will be supplied for
a period of one year and three years respectively.
Specimens of the Hats to be supplied may be seen on application
at the Circulation-office of this department
The parties whose Tender is accepted will be required to enter
into a contract, and to give bond, with two sureties, in the sum of
501., fir the due terformance of the contract.
General Post-office, November, 1855.