The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-22 00:00:00

ARGYLL ROOMS.-LATTRENT'S CASINO
14OW OPEN for the winter sesson. Principal Cornet
4 Pistem, M. Bouleourt.—Doors open at 8. Admission One Shilling.
Lament's new Varsoviana every night.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
CHRIST ,t AS HOLID ITS —On MONDAY, 24th Dez•ember,
I. Cheap Excursion Train will leave Paddington at 6.30 p m., for
Bristol and Bath, returning on Wednesday, 2ith December, from
Bristol, at 7 a.m., and Bath at 7.30 a.m. Fares there and
Bristol, 10s. and 65., and Bath, go. and Os. No luggage beyond a
carpet bag allowed. Tickets net transferable.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY'S. Return Tickets issued on
Saturday, Dec. 22d. and three following days, will be available up to
Wednesday, the 26th, inclusive. On the Bristol and Exeter and
South Devon Lines Return Tickets aro not available on Sundays.
The Trains on Christmas Day will ran as on rundays, with the
addition of the down day mail from Paddington to Bri to, at 10 a
and the up day Mail from Bristol to Pa 'dingten at 10 a.m., which
Will run as on week days. with the exception of the branch trains
between Maidenhead and Wycombe, lie ,ding and Ra•ingstoke,
Chippenham, Froms, and Warminster, Gloucester and Ilerjord, and
over the South Wales Line.

.LAST NIGHT.
ROY AL LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS
EVENING, and every evening during the
week, the GRAND BLEUSINIAN 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, peg-
seaming distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of
amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them-
Pelves perform their parts with tho 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 corn.
Pany ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex-
pected ienoilementli ; 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 boon enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con-
tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art
line at any time er in any place been honoured with au
amount of eßecess so extensive, so decided, and so unusual.
lie would attribute that success to three causes; first, that'.
in his present entertainment ho has placed before his visitors
the results of a life sedulously devoted to tho 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
it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor-
tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring wher-
ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by
resorting to the conjurer'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
'heatre 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 which
ttend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri-
t nalists." 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-
POMO 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, be would least have expected to have
leen 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 hi.
multitudinous correspondents. _ lie regrets that the
names of the great and learned of the land should
have been made to figure in the documents emanatine
from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem-
ber2o, 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 met 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 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 ho 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 medium, could
he 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
editarial article of an established journal, the editor of whom
might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
in spirit-stepping—does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse
went to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
to be negotiated I 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 hook on the subject, he considers it t s be time for
him to state that whioh he knovOs of the mechanism by which
it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
iforning 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 he and Lord Brougham had 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-
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 meet 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 hold 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 ss 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 iu so
short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even.
ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand
fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, December 22, at
2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ;
Part 1. —Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinic&
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
he 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 Ramon' Choisies : or, Pack's Own
Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the
evening's entertainment in the production of the very valet-
miuous 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.
Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verre; 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 easket, 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 net 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,
noyeau, or any other wino or spirit required ; and finally
proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry,
and occupying the whole space when tightly packed.
Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spir.it.s ; or,. an Expose of
ilpirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and
twain of the invisibles.
Act. 2. 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 Etg
land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia.
Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which ho who
eats 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. i 2. The Horeological Evaporation ; or, the Shc.test
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, 1/. Ils. 6d. and li, ls., to be obtained at the
principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress
Box-office, or at the
circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. The
Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction
of Mr. Chattorton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
formance on Raturday, December BS, atl,2 o'clock. Doors open
at half-Past 1.

No, 19,7:_6,3

PROSPECTUS OF THE.
COMPAGNIE GENERALE des OMNIBUS
de LONDRES (GENERAL LONDON
OMNIBUS COMPANY.)

Established in Paris, under Acts of the 4th and 17th Decem-
ber, 1855, as a " Societe en commandite," by which the
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liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount sub-
scribed.

Capital--Twenty-five Millions of Francs—One Million Sterling,
. _ .....

In 2-'O,OOO Shares of 100 francs, or 4/. each.
In Two Series.—The First, 200,000 Shares (800,0001.)
The Second, 50,000 Shares (200,000.1)
The First Series only will be issued at present.

GERANTS OF VIE COAIPLNT —Ma CIIAMAFtk, Carteret, Willing,

and Co

MANAGERS IN LONDON.
Itisssrs„ John Wilson, I Messrs, Richard Hartley,
„ John Barber, „ John TreTett.
MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF SURVEILLANCE.

Robert Keating, Esq., M.P., Director of the London and
County Bank, London.
Le Comte Do Lantivy, Paris,
Vacossin, Administratcur de la Compagnie d'Assurance I'Ur.

baine, Paris.
Frederic Tocbe, Banquier, Paris.

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Edwin Chadwick, Esq., C., 8., London.
Augustin Dubois, Administrateur des Forges do MoKtataire,

Paris.
Marziou, Directour-Gerant de PlTnion Maritime, Paris,
Th. Harrisson, Esq., London.

BANKBas.
In Paris ..... ...Messrs. Greene and Co.
The London and County Bank.
In Loudon... i Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co.
SOLICITORS.
In Paris Mr. Petit Bergonz, Avoue au Tribunal de Pre-
miere Instance.
In London Messrs. Wilkinson, Guruey,.and Co.
The undoubted advantages produced by the amalgamation
of the omnibuses of Paris have originated the plan of concen-
trating iu one great enterprise the several associations now
working the omnibuses of London.
If in Paris this amalgamation has made the capital con-
nected with it the most productive of any employed in loco-
motion, it is destined to produce iu London effects of still
greater importance.
Not only will large savings be effected in the present cost
of working the omnibuses of Landon, by a system which,
being well organised in all its details, and at the same time
amply supplying the wants of the public, will enable the Com-
pany to withdraw duplicate and in some eases triplicate ve-
hicles running over the same ground at the same time, but
important improvemen,s, alike advantageous to the public
and profitable to the Company, will be introduced.
As regards the public : A complete regularity in the ser-
vice, which will confer all the advantages that iu this respect
Paris possesses over London, combined with speed ; the
adoption of a low scale of charges, and the certainty that
there will be no frequent and sudden changes in their
amount : the departures and arrivals taken place at precise
times, and in accordance with a time bill, which will be pub-
lished monthly, on the plan of the railway time tables
As regards the Shareholders : The receipts of the London
omnibuses average 21. 7s. a day each, and the expenses, in-
cluding wear and tear, about 21. is. 6d. ; this gives in the
present state a net profit of about 100'. a year per omnibus,
Under the improved system of working, this profit would be-
yond doubt be considerably increased. The average receipts
of each of the Paris omnibuses before the amalgamation were
about 2/. Ss. a day ; since the amalgamation their daily aver-
age is 21. 17s. 6d.
In England, horse keep—the most expensive item con-
nected with omnibuses —costs less than in Paris.

The Paris Omnibus Company is liable, whenever the profits
reach a certain percentage on the capital, to have the annual
tax, to which it is subjected, increased by order of the Go-
vernment. No such power exists either with the English
Government or with the municipality of London.
The purchase of a London omnibus comprises, as in Paris, the
omnibus, its appurtenances, as well as the good-will or
" times" of the omnibus.
In Paris the Government compel the running of the omni-
buses to be nearly the same at all seasons. In London, on
the contrary, the omnibus proprietors can proportion the
number of ♦ehicles to the season of the year and the hour
of the day, according to the wants of the public only. Hence
an advantage in London denied to the Omnibus Company in
Paris, which is compelled to run as many vehicles late at
night and early in the morning as in the most busy periods
of the day, in the winter as well as in summer.

In Paris the outside fare is only half the inside fare. In
London they aro the same, and the outside of the omnibus is
as much used as the inside.
The indicator, as used in the Paris omnibuses, is unknown
in London : its adoption cannot fail to Add largely to the
receipts of this Company.
As soon as the present omnibuses are unfit for use, they
will be replaced by others, affording more comfort and bet-
ter accommodation to passengers.
To obtain the foregoing advantages both for the public and
the shareholders of this Company, the services of the most
experienced and intelligent omnibus proprietors have been
secured, under whose management the business of the Com-
pany will be conducted.
Contracts have been entered into for the purchase of the
greater number of the 810 omnibuses now working in Lon-
don, and it is expected that arrangements for the remaining
portion will be completed at a very early date.
The First Series of 200,000 shares only (800,0001.) will be

issued in the first instance. The capital so raised will pay for
the 810 omnibuses, the leases of stables, yards, and other
property required for the working the omnibuses, as well as
for a working and reserve fund. The latter, amounting to
about 200,030/., will give strength and security to the Com-
pany.
The Second Series of 50,000 shares can only be issued with
the sanction of a General Meeting of the Shareholders of the
Company, and will be used to increase the business of the
Company whenever circumstances shall render it necessary.
Each shareholder will have the right to this Second Series
of shares, at the rate of one for each four of the First Series
of which he is the possessor.
The duration of the Company is for 60 years.
With the present imperfect system of working, each of the
London omnibuses gives an average profit estimated at 1001.
per annum, representing upon 810 omnibuses an annual pro-
fit of 31,0001., which alone would be sufficient to secure a di-
vidend of 10 per cent, upon the 800,0001. first subscribed.
Assuming, in London, with the new system, au increase of
ss. per day (instead of Bs., as has been the result of the amal-
gamation in Paris) to each omnibus, the result would be, on
the traffic of 810 omnibuses, an annual profit of more than
150,0001., and upon the capital of 800,0001. would insure a
dividend of nearly 20 per cont.
The Paris Omnibus Company is now paying at the rate of
15 per cent. per annum.
It is the intention of the Company to publish every week
the traffic returns.
OSI- per cent. of the dividend of the Company is ill belong
to the Shareholders-1 only being appropriated to the ma-
nagement.
Out of the capital subscribed a limited number of shares
have been reserved for distribution in England, and may now
be applied for.
The applications for shares should be made in the sub-
joined form, and must be accompanied with a deposit of 1/.
per share with the bankers of the Company, on the number
of shares applied for. The remaining V. per share must be
paid upon allotment, on the number of shares allotted.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Gerants of La Compagnio Generale des Omnibus do
Londres (the General London Omnibus Company).
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares
of 41. each in the above Company, and I engage to take the
same, or any less number that may be alloted to me. I have
paid the deposit of 11. per share, required by the prospectus,
to the bankers of the Company, and I engage to pay the re-
maining 3/. upon allotment, on the number of shares allotted
to me.

Name................................................
Profession .........................................
Residence
Date................................................
The above application must be forwarded to the London
and County Bank, with tho deposit of if. per share on the
number of shares applied for, against which the bankers will
furnish a receipt.

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N.B.—Forms of applications for shares may be had at the
Company's Temporary Offices, 47, Old Broad-street, London.

STAR PACKETS from the TERRACE PIER,
GRAVESEND, 9, 2.
,sit e•••INICK WHARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the
fol'owing Trains from Fenchurch-street. 104, 34, weather permit-
Mtg.
en., Packets will call at the Rosherville, Greenhitho, Purileet
and North Woolwich Piers.
To or f. NET,•.•, uondon•• .• •• •. 10d. .. Is. 2d
„ .ravesend aid Blackwell or Woolivid- 84. .. Os. 104
vrith and L0nd0n..... Bd. .. Os. 104
F.rith ,n 1 Blackwall or W001wich...... 64. .. N. 84
bet e, ',eves—id and Intermediate Piers.. 64. .. Os. 8,1
October 23,1855.