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

NITOCRIS.
Pvineipal characters by Miss Glynn, Miss Cleveland, Miss
Anderton, Mrs. Selby ; Messrs. Barry Sullivan, Stuart,
Edgar, G. Wild, &c., introducing an Egyptian Dance,
F i.
n
which Misses Rosina Wright, Charles, Brown, and the ladies
of the'Corps de Ballet will appear.
On Saturday, after the Comedy, Married for Money, Sheri-
Rehearsal, in
dan's dramatic piece, The Critic, or a Tragedy
which Mr. Charles Mathews will sustain tho characters of
Sir Fretful Plagiary and Puff; supported by Messrs.
Vincent, R. Roxby, A. Youngs, G. Wild, Swan, Templeton,
Worrell ; Mrs. Frank Islattliews, Miss Wadham, &c.
To 'conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, in which
Miss Rosins. Wright and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet
Will appear.
Wroosais;—Mr. E. Smith, anxious to make the spectacle
instructive as well as amusing to the patrons of this Theatre,
has o 'hiained, at considerable trouble, the Description of the
Grand, Egyptian Coronation Procession, arranged and adapted
to this stage by " Dylswynkyn," from the works of Clemens,
Herodotus, Strabo, Plutarch, Diodorns Siculus, Jablonski,
Lepsius, Denon, Champolion, Rosellini, Savary, Wilkinson,
and other authorities in the British Museum, the publishing
of which may prove interesting to the numerous patrons wit-
nessing the spectacle, and can be' had in the Theatre for one
penny. Military Entree—Egyptian Soldiery in fell costume,
marching three deep, with Baud. of Trumpets and Tympanum,
er Rend Drum. The Agathodwmon, or " Good Genius"
(Winged Globe), under whose protection the persons
of Kings and Temples of Gods were placed, is
borne first, and ix succession the other Symbolic, Royal, and
War Standards. The Lybian Forces, Allies of the Egyptians,
with Band and Symbolic Standards rsspectively. The Ethio-
pian Guard, with Characteristic Symbols, Standards, &c.
Idolatrous Procession. Note—Every City, Month, Day, and
Hour had its presiding Genius. Singer, with the Book of
" Hermes." Horns Copus with Palm Branch and Hour
Glass. " The Hierogra.mmat," or Sacred Scribe (in his hand
the Book, Ruler, Papyrus, and Palette). Two Functionaries
with Emblems of " Power" and " Stability." No. 1. The
Ark, or " Shrine of Knouinis," calledalso "Knoum," "Neph,"
or " Num," i.e. " Water."--The primary form of " Amnon,"
and styled " The Leader of Gods"--" Tho Creating Intelli-
gence"—" The Spirit of God"—" The Spirit of the (Vernal)
Deity"—" The Soul of the Sun," and by the Greeks "Jupiter
Chnumis." Worshipped by the inhabitants of Thcbais (Plu-
tarch). The asp was sacred to this god. The Ark, bearing his
hieroglyph, with that of the beetle, or " Creative Power," is
also decorated with this emblem. Symbolic standard of "Athor"
(Venus), the oracle of Night or Darkness (? chaos), whence
arose all created things (Egyptian belief ). Symbolic
standard of ditto. Tho Sybil, bearing the emblematic rush
wand, with " "(ekes" " The Frog," the son of " Num," and
type of the first state of man. No. 2 "Ma," " Meii," or
" Thmei ;" or " Truth," " the Blind Goddess, represented
with her eyes closed or blinded. The priests bearing this god-
dess have libation buckets and simpula. " Thmei," or Truth, or
Justice. This deity has also a twofold character as the God-
dess of Truth and Justice. The small image of this god was
worn by the Chief Judge while engaged in listening to cases
brought before him. A. similar emblem was worn by the High
Priests of the Jews, and it is remarkable that the word
" Thiimmin " is not only translated " Truth," but, being a
plural or dual word, corresponds to the Egyptian word of
"Two Truths"—i. e. "Light and Truth "—breastplates hav-
ing the figures of the two gods, " Re" (Light) and " Thmei
(Truth) represented upon them have been discovered. Priests
with Scarabzei. The Searabreus may be considered as an em-
blem of " The Sun"—of " The Creative Power," and of the
God " Phthah" (Vulcan). Incense Bearer, waving his incense
patera before the god. he incense was in he shape of a
small globe or pill ; and ,upon modern analysits, is found to
consist of aromatic .substances with gum, and gave out co-
loured light or flame when thrown into the burning cup. No.
3. " Apis ;" His titles were " The Sacred Bull of Memphis.
" The Bull of Abundance," " Adored_ by the People,"
Sacred Bull of Pthah," " Guardian of the Solar Year,"
"Apis renowned over the world," " The Symbol of Inunda-
tion." Richly draped and on a car led by Priests bearing the
emblems of " Serapis" or " Sari Api," " The Pillar of Mensu-
ration,." Column of Measurement," or " Nilometer" of wood
divided into cubits. Attendant priests also fan the id
honour ol and
offer homage as it passes forward. The festivals in
of Apis lasted 7 days, on which occasion a large concourse of
people assembled at Memphis—the priests led the Sacred
(living) Bull in solemn procession, every one coming forward
from their houses to welcome him. Pliny and Solinus affirm
that children who smelt his breath were thought thereby
gifted with the power of predicting future events. The tokens
which distinguished this Sacred Bull at its birth were a white
spot resembling a crescent on its right side, and
thme b a lup under
its tongue in the form of a beetle, as pretended y priests.
The people believed him to be the cause of the swelling and
inundation of the Nile, which produced fertility and abund-
ance, and celebrated his festival at about the period of this
annual occurrence with every demonstration of rejoicing and
literal abandonment to the intoxication of joy all over the
kingdom., Many temples were erected• and dedicated to
" Apis," and also to " Serapis," the divinity of the Column
of Measurement—the Nilometer I N. 134 The decorations of
the drapery upon the bull and carriage are principally cons- I
posed of the first flowers that spring from the earth after the
recession of the flood—i.e., the Lotus and Meliolotus. Priests
with the pretended God " Canopus," or Water Offering to
the God of the Nile. "It is said that the Chaldeans, trans-
porting the fire, which was their God, into all the provinces,
offered to let him combat with those of other nations,
on condition that if he remained the conqueror they should
adore him. The priests of Canopus accepted the challenge and
devised this stratagem. They fabricate in Egypt pitchers ofan
extremely porous earth, through which the water filtratesand
is purified. The Arch-priest took ono of them, stopped the
pores with wax, and painting it of various colours filled it with
water, and made it his god. He covered it with the head of
an ancient statue, said to be that of the pilot of Menelaus.
The Chaldeans presented themselves ; the contest began ;
they lighted their fires around the vase ; the wax melts, the
water runs through the vase and extinguishes the fire. The
fraud of the priest gave the victory to Canopus over the
Chaldean. deity. From that moment his imago has been re-
presented with very short feet, a narrow back, and the belly
and back rounded like a pitcher It is under this form that
he is worshipped as the vanquisher of all the gods."—Ruffin
Histoire do I'Eglise, livre second. No. 4. The Goddess
" Pash-t," " The Memphian Lioness," " The Beloved of
Pthah," " The Goddess of Fire," " Bubastes" (the Diana of
the Greeks) preceded by sacred dancers. The !dol carried by
priests in their leopard-skin dresses, with red incense flaming
before her, and surrounded by " Symbolic Divinities,"
" Winged Geniuses," &c. One or the principal festivities
held in Egypt was at Bubastis in. honour of the Pash-t-
-700,000 persons of both sexes being presenS., A great num-
ber of TiCiliraSS • were sacrificed, wino was profusely drunk,
dancing of the wildest character went 'forward, men played
flutes, women sang and shrieked as loud as possible,
struck the " Crotola" (cymbals) or clippers of wood and
metal, &c. Lotus Dancers (Females). Incense Bearers. No. 5.
The god " Osiris," as " Osiris Pethempimentes" (the Pluto of
the Greeks). ‘i He who is resident in the Hades," " Presi-
dent of the Amenti," " Receiver and Giver," " The Sun."
" The Eye of the World," " The Source of the Nile," " He I
who has many Eyes," a form of Ammon, wearing the " Ati,"
and having the Crook and Flagellum; regarded as the author
of Time, from the word, " Osch-Iri," " the maker of Time."
The principle office of this deity was to judge the dead, and
to rule over that kingdom where the souls of good men
'wore admitted to eternal felicity. This deity was very
famous— his temples and priests were to be found in al-
most every part of Egypt; the sacred rites of Osiris were a
profound mystery, never revealed. His name was even
avoided, as of too august a nature to be mentioned. The "Ivy,"
with which the Priests decorated themselves, was sacred to
him, and also the " Meliolotus." No. 6. The Sacred Boat of
the Amenti, or Lower Regions, with the four genii, or demi-
gods (bearing emblems of life and power) and their vases of
" Amenti," or that subterraneous region where they (the
Egyptians) imagined the souls of the dead to go after their
decease. The first genius is " Amset," " Judge of the
Amenti" (human-headed). The second is " Hepi," " Con-
cealed Number" (baboon-headed). The thirdis " Tuautmutf,"
" Adorer of his Mother" (jackall-headed), The fourth is
" Kabh-senuf," " Refresher of his Brethren" (hawk-headed).
The Sepulchral Vases have heads in shape of the four genii of
the dead, and each was employed for holding a portion of the
viscera of the deceased, embalmed separately and deposited in
them. On the " Amset" Vaso is inscribed the speech of
" Isis" to the dead ; on that of " Hepi" is a similar speech from
"-Nepthys ;" on that of "Tnautmutf, one from "Neith;" and
on that of " Kabh-senuf," one from " Selk ;" the purport of
each being an assurance of protection, and of being "near thee,"
" beside thee," or " I come to be beside thee," The Sacred
Boat is followed by the symbolic " Eyes of Osiris," or of
"The Sun," emblems of the all-seeing presence of the Di-
vinity.. Note.—Besides the Four Amenti, here wore 42 As-
sessors or judge's of the 42 Crimes, from which a good man
should be free ;_ and these also differ from the 36 Demons
mentioned by Origen that presided over the human body, and
were invoked to cure the infirmities of the peculiar member
immediately under their protection. the peculiar member
immediately under their protection. No
" Isis," or " The Seat." The hieroglyphic 7.
thTihe Goddessh
head, and followed by the priestesses and vßiregts on her
head,
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ree,fdieein,ccia(a
set dedicated dh tectorf
her worship. Isis was styled also "The
sister, " Nepthys,' was " The End"), and es,. Queen of
EgYP"The Goddess of the Moon,"
" Ceres" of the Greeksv.
her Brother," Ste. (The
prayers
a
The
festival," says Herodotus, " which they celebrate at Buso-
ris in honour of Isis is magnificent. After
aye
bull is sacrificed, which the priests cut up and afterwards
burn, pouring oil on the fire while the victim is con-
ling and striking themselves in honour of
suming. s
Osiris,' they afterwards eat wThhaet
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Tamarisk and Dancers. No.
Horus, the Apollo of the Grboe”ks(o, f
the
Su
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Warmth of the Sun," " The Pat
port," a " Defender of his Father," izctheSonolfocOksiorifsuaanidr
Isis. He is represented with the single mystic
of bildhood slaying his evil geniuses, undere
Tt the
hf oor,mTsy opfh tote,
lion, the kazelle, scorpions, vipers, ~
Seth, or Baal, "The Evil Spirit,"
He is attended by his
'his- feet in the shape of a crocodile.is escaping from beneath I
sacred emblems and standards. The Hawk was dedoincaeteefdthtoe
him, the Tamarisk Tree, the Testudo (Lyre), &c•
principal duties of " Horns," was that of introducing t hthey
e
souls of the dead into the presence of " Osiris," after
bad passed the ordeal of final judgment. He also assisted
• "Amset" in weighing and ascertaining their good conduct
during .life, previous to their admission into the august
presence of his Father in the blessed regions of
the. Amenti, Incense Bearers. No. 9. The Goddess " Nep-
thys " (" Proserpina" of the Greeks), called also "The End,"
c, The Sister Goddess," " The Saviour Sister Goddess," " The
Barrels," " Rectrix of the Lower Regions." On her head the
hicrogl'yphic emblem of her name
a bowl and basket, called
el Nob, ' placed upon a house, answering to " Ei" or " Tei,"
Neb-tei" or ec Neb_thy,,, The Lady of the Abode." The
Sistrum, having the face of Isis on one side, and Nepthys on
the other, hieroglyphically represents `the beginning and the
end, or • generation and corruption.' " Plutarch. No. 10.
Tho Goddess " Neith " (the " Minerva " of the Greeks,) en-
throned with sceptre, and wearing the " Teshr,9 preceded by
Musicians, Male and Female Bearers of Incense with green
same, and surroundedlie symbolic"Neith" was

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.
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 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 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 au ex-
travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond
the bounds of probability.
Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and
'ashionable 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. Ho 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.
Ho 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 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 (lay ; 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 whoso-
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-
t crest 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 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 ou
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. II e 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-
traeted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septom-
"herb; 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 tile
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 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 he 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 ;
but, 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 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 Alarming 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
séance 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 au 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 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-
Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
ists of America, as given by him nightly ail the Lyceum, will
be received by the people of England as genuine honest at-
tempts to provide au 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, November 10, 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 I
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 Icing, the
Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfer-
ls into white, and the Discovery of every Article
in the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
Act 5. L,Ecri
mnatle e Verso; or, the Casket of Creesus. Into
which, though
e
tentirely of glass perfectly transparent,
and suspended so as 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
ss
Act 6.3" ai voyauce Extraordinaryposs
eion
;o fort,hteheTl.anspareney
audience.
of Opacity.
Act. 7. A New Bottle of Beechu
and Spirit Store. An improvement upon ; or,
the
‘ the Novel Wine
bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle
lewillh‘oit onlynexh beaustib.le
exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at Lu-
c
word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk,
Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, ,whisky,
any other wine or spirit
wyeao, or 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-ranPing'• 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
laud,. Franee Turkey, and Sardinia.
Act, 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comm, in which he who