The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-21 00:00:00

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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 °lithe 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 pecuiiar_ phases of
amusement. It is not a monologue, for. the audience them-
selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of
them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition,
for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the
eyes st the visitors no one can be positive that he 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 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-
e Vinous repetition. Ho believes that no professor of his art
has at any time or in any place been honoured with an
a-nount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual.
Tie would attribute that success to three causes; first, that
rn 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 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
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,
designing have succeeded in making dupes of the
Credulous.
e The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro-
fessor Anderson has received, from the time a opening the
theatre np to the present date, bear witness to the great in-
terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst
rsantey of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which
atnd a belief in the superstitions nonsense of the " Spiri-
tualists," Judging simply by the correspondence which has
tegulted, Professor Attlerson'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
l'uo, 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
tLyceum, how
Pirit-rapping are xpressed, and every ev genin, within the
table es can be made to rap is exhibited
and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that thi.
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
111 abaes of the great and learned of the land should
_ ave been made to figure in the documents emanating
from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
eted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septcm-
c4er 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri-
ipirlJatitTdegraph. It purports to emanate from an American
-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
handsonofth e phenomena; but the presence of substantial,
and the demonstrative strength of the spirits
Who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate-
..,l objects about the room, proved to he 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
I'4, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648:
This young man, who is a Scotchinan 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, offeredhim 2.000
Vllars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New
ork. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could
be bought. Ho was somewhat astonished when his offer was
refused. flume, 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-
?Pf:niaons,nlag hndiins very had health : but he would have been afraid
power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
ge inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, ono 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 such a paragraph as this iu the
editorial article of nestblished journal, the editor of whom.l
might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
u spirit-rapping— does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
this accession to its adherents l and, with Barnum's endorse-
ment
to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
.to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe
out, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
Rev. N.
when he finds that the Incumbent of Wortley (the
''ev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
writes a book on the subject, he considers it ti be time for
t
ftini to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
'Lis 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,
acempany with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that
Which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that
tPirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
•Prposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day,
uowever there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
who was present when he and Lord Brougham had their
._tn:e with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the
.'4°l (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
extraordinaryo manner, and, among other things, a large ac-
e„l' then
was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and
n to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's
r,g ,i,thand apart from any person, it played an air through-
v. • With such a statement, printed for the edification of
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
abject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
has actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall,
rrofessor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
;3B!B of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
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 Lest 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 iu so
a period. Magic st
and Myer js rep ryeated eve even-
lug, the proeramme being continually changed. Grand
fashionable Day' Performance, on Saturday, November 24, 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
I)
by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
'au; 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 Reenetls Opoisies : 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
hi the position which would seem th• most inappropriate.
Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verne; or, the Casket of Creesus. 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, ru
n°Yeau, or any other wine or spirit required and•m'whisky,
finally
Proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly
se of
dry,
and occupying the whole space when tightly packne
Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, a Expoand
Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping
tocsin of the invisibles. table
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 Comets, in which be 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. 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 the eastern hemisphere.

Veers open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8.
Private boxes, 1/. Ils. 6d. and 1/. ls., to be obtained at the
130 x-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. Chattcrton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
formance on Saturday, November 24, at 2 o'clock. Doors open
at half-past 1.