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TO THE ELECTORS OF SOUTHWARK. ,
THE lamented death of rola late Represennetan
e, Sir WMiam Moleswerthshas again caused a vacaY i
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the representation outhwark. At tpreparation hanhe late electio I abstained
from going to thef So
pelf, the time forving been so
abort.
I have again been solicited to allow inyself to become candidate.
which I cheerfully accede to, and announce my intention of thistime
going to the poll, feeling satiOled that the electors of the large and
important borough of Southwark, te whom
honour myof sentiments are so
well known. will this time do at e the CJectin as their
representative. „
I object to ; personal canvass, Oinking that every e'...nt°r sh°nld
exercise his right of voting unsvray ed and unbiassed, an: we only
expenses I will be put to will be those necessary to the p:4l. I
shall, however, have pleasure in attending electorsdistr:et meetil::"
where my presence may be required ; and, if the approve of
my sentiments, they will send me to Parliament ; If not, they will
choose 's better man. This is the way, in my' opiaion, elections
should be conducted, especially in the metropolis.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient humble
RLservant,
CHAES NAPIER.

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RIEND of the CLERGY CORPORATION,
for allowing pensions not exceeding 401. per annum to the
Widows and Orphan unmarried Daughters of Clergymen of the
Established Chnniii, and for affording temporary assistance to neces-
sitous Clergymen and their families, throughout England, Wales, and
Ireland.
The next Election of Pensioners will be held at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street„ on TUESDAY, November the 27th ;
ROBERT BAXTER, ,in the Chair;
wken four ladles will be placed on the funds.
The Rev. JOSEPH BROWN, M.A. Hon.
The Rev. J 0111.7 EDMUND COX, M.A., F.' .A. j Secs.
• HENRY BRAMALL, Secretary.
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R
THEATRE. THIS
EVENING, and every evening during the
week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGI()
and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great
Wizard of !..he North, in 12
es, acts, with
vel ever-cand hanging
extraordinary variety
of incidents,, continuous surpris no
effects.
Magic and.. Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
sessing dittinctive 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
thein 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 positionirmid 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 ISlagic and Mystery for con-
tinuous repetition. He 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.
He would attribute that success to three causes ;h first,
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
ment on
the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employ
t•f 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-
timity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where-
ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by
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resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, I
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
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 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
ifor Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the
essmniunica.tions which reach him on the subject. He regrets
:that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
'Oho, 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
the
on
spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within
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
trames of the great and learned of the land should
have been made to figura in the documents emanating
from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, 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 nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought
the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the
volution 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-
sial 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
ha Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations
without apparatus. Barnum, who-is well-known throughout
the Anglo-Sszon world as a splendid humbug, offered hini 2,000
dollars per annum if he would, perform at his museum in blew
York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums conic'
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-2o), an or-
phan, and in very bad health : but ho 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
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-
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, be 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 au 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 most talented men of the day ale 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. Martha'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 tho 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.
ling, the programme being continually changed. Grand
fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, October 27, at 2
o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ;
Part I.—Act L The Mesmeric Couch ; nr, the Clinical
Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard Will do
• by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
ises., 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
romplpx 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.
Act 5. LEcrin de Verse ; ee, 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,
baked, 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 improvementpupon the" inexhaustible
bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard sbottle will not only be in-
exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the
word of command, producing soda-water, butter-rank,
Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin,. rum,. _whisky,
uoyeau, 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 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of
itpirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and
tocsin of the invisibles.
Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
mammon
the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange
phoseg, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become
transformed into
the flags of victory—the banners of Eng-
land, France,Turkey, and Sardini
Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus 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. it 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 Mahommecl's ooffin)
in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which
all will produced.
Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest
Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
ridding ounelves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west-
' ern to the eastern hemisphere.
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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-
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