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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
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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
them ou 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 ho 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-
travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond
the bounds of probability.
Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and
fashionable audiences which, bamulghgy fißod.tlusikuenre
Theatre to overflow, and by.means of whose generous aid ho
has been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con-
tinuous repetition. Ho believes that no professor of his art
as at any time or in any place been honoured with an
s mount 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 he
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 1
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 thorn 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 Alllerson'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 aro 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 bo 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-
rer2o, 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 strengths 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 ho is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 645:
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 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 inquiried 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
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-
Mont to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ;
but, when lie 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 t> 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 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 ho and Lord Brougham had their
s4ance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the
table (a largo 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
tight 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 Vero 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.
fists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
to 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 boon 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, OD Saturday, November 24, 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
Y 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 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. 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.
Aot 5. L'Ecrin de Verre ; or, the Casket of Croesus. Into
vhich,lhough made entirely of glass perfectly transparent,
and &wended 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,
Xoyeau, 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 S. 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, Franee, Turkey, and Sardinia.
Acf. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comas, in which he who
seats himself will be under the magic spell, 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 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 tho eastern hemisphere.

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Omer Pacha had advanced about six days' very
easy march from Soukoum-Kaleh, when he encoun-
tered the hostile force whom he routed at the Ligon'',
and that his pursuit of these troops would bring him
with his army to the Phasis, on which celebrated
river stands the town of Kutais. What means of
defence that place possesses will soon appear. It is
to the Russian province of Georgia what Kars is
to the Turkish province of Armenia ; and although
there is still a formidable mountain pass, more than
a mile above the level of the sea, between Omer
Pacha and any advance upon Tiflis, it is not at all
likely that General Mouravielf— or rather his
successor, under the melancholy circumstances
which we this day announce---will now linger so
far away as he has hitherto been from the direct
line of the Turkish General's threatened invasion.
Even the season will yield him a very slight gua-
rantee against operations in a quarter where the
nature of the climate modifies, if it does not re-
verse, many of the calculations applicable to the
Crimea. But even were further enterprise to bo
adjourned till the spring, a most satisfactory be-
ginning has been made; and, in the last and only
remaining field where the armies of the Czar s

maintained the attitude of assailants, that vain and
futile semblance has been torn from them—they
have been suddenly and roughly thrown back upon
the defensive, as everywhere else, and are com-
pelled to make their own safety and existence their
grand future consideration.

The immediate spot where Omer Pacha is now
operating was anciently viewed as the border-land
• between Asia and Europe, the Phasis being the
frontier line. It is, indeed, one of the most primi-
tive of all the scenes within the records—or, rather,
within the traditions—of the human race ; for it
far transcends in its supposed antiquity, as an in-
habited region, the earliest profane chronicles of
men. Here was old Colchis—old even when the
Argonauts are represented to have made thither
the first of voyages, nearly two thousand years be-
fore Christianity. Here Pompey in a great
battle defeated the Iberians as the allies of
Mithridates, after having driven them out of
Gouria, the modern Georgia. The descendants,
or more correctly, the successors of those
Iberians now form the militia of a modern and
far more powerful Mithridates, and are mus-
tered to check an equally able assailant, who comes
against their master's dominions from the opposite
direction.
This movement completes the rout and flinging
back of Russia from the third and last of the three
avenues by which she menaced Turkey and Southern
Europe. The Danube and Bulgaria were the first
attempted, and they were the first closed against
her. The maritime approach was forbidden by the
presence of the Allied fleets, and rendered impossible
by the destruction of the Czar's. And now the third
and last road, involving every hope of rQaching the
long-coveted prey, will be destroyed when the Rus
sian power is so annihilated in Asia Minor and
Georgia as to make evident the futility of the aggres-
sor's Trans-Caucasian dreams.