The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-24 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF 6017THWAIL

THE lamented death of your late Representa-
tive, Sir William Molesworth, has again caused a vacancy in
the representation of Southwark. At the late election I abstained
from going to the poll, the time for preparation having been so
short.

I have again been solicited to allow myself to become a candidate,
Which I cheerfully accede to, and announce my intention of this time
going to the poll, feeling satisfied that the electors of the large and
important borough of Southwark, to whom my sentiments are so
Well known, will this time do me the honour of electing me as their
representative.

I object to a personal canvass, thinking that every elector should
exercise his right of voting unswayed and unbiassed, and the only
expenses I will be put to will be those necessary to the poll. I
shall, however, have pleasure in attending any distr et meetings
Where my presence may be required ; and, it the electors approve of
lay sentiments, they will send me to Parliament ; if not, they will
choose a better man. This is the way, in my opinion, elections
-Should be conducted, especially in the metropolis.

I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient humble servant,
CHARLES NAPIER.

Ifirchistonn, Hants, Oct. 22, 1855,

FRIEND of the CLERGY CORPORATION,
for allowing pensions not exceeding 401. per annum to the
Widows and Orphan unmarried Daughters of Clergymen of the
Established Church, and for affording temporary assistance to neces-
Bitous 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, Eeq., in the Chair;
When four ladles wi'l be placed on the funds.
The Rev. JOSEPH BROWN, M.A. Hon.
The Rev. JOHN EDMUND COX, 5f.A., 5 Secs.
HENRY BRAMALL, Secretary.
The Report, List of Subscribers, &c., may be had at the Offices 01
the Corporation, 4, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square.

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 bn 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 ;sa 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-
iinuons repetition. He believes that no professor of his art
bas at any time or in any place been honoured with an
amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual.
Ire would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that
in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors
'he 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
snared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on
the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment
•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-
tunity s'aould 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
eredtzlous.
The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro-
fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the
theatre np 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
r'tend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spin-
esidua." Judging simply by the correspondence which has asaisi!lted, Professor Anderson's exposé of spirit-rapping and
s illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro-
rueceeed a sensatasn unequalled by any previous attempt to ex-
a misch:Levous and impudent juggle. It is impossible
er Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the
se.?4nsuunicat'sons which reach him on the subject. He regrets
w‘l:.ot many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
frosn their position in society and their well-known in-
eileeasas attainments, he would least have expected to have
sseeen converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so
sa,sirilisst.;:pcpeipntgible of being controverted and disproved. Every
"ening. from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on
are expressed, and every evening, within the
Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited
and alucidated. It is respectfully requested that this
I?nblic exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
-11_ nderson's only mode of replying at full length to his
,illosultitndinous correspondents. 11 e regrets that the
ernes of the great and learned of the land should
eve been made to figure in the documents emanating,
Surol:n the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem-
r 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri-
ual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American
ePirit-rapper Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster
frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has
Witueseed, 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 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 Seotchman by birth, and now
44 Italy, is 'A remarkable medium for all the manifestations
Without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout
tdh, Anglo- Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2.000
per annum if he would perform at his museum in New
be Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could
tbe aght. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was
d"ecl. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply
ahonestly remarked, that the money would have been very
.scse_ePtable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or-
07r, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid
si "jog his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose
118 ijle• The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
greatest
into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the
humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
tslnl f the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is car-
enrPri sing to find such a paragraph ins this in the
aright article of en established journal, the editor of whom
is b 0 supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
taiesPri c-rapping—does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
kee•?:ession to its adherents? and, with Barnum's endorse-
to b 6 ..0 it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
bute Negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ;
when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
'Mend have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
3• Ivi ndle, when be finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
ap„4.• N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
ioa book on the subject, he considers it ts be time for
1, to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
Vs effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
Da°.7-4.04 frig Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
in Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel,
ssit?t°4lpany with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that
sw ea the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that
Di:it-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
her Poses. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day,
sp,Wever, tere is an anwer to Sr avid's letter from on
411.0 was present when he ands Lord Brougham had their
14,41203 with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the
sseie (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most
.-'traordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac-
trion was conveyed by au invisible agency to my hand and
s; ell to. Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's
"ght baud apart from any person, it played an air through-
eta -
h.' With such a statement, printed for the edification of
tsTs People of the 19th century, with the facts before us that
to meet talented men of the day are permitting themselves
gss e° deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the
la3t novelist of the age is now eged in making it the
t of a new work, and that app` spiritual conye,uthionn"
baneactually been advertised to be held in St. Martin. s: a ,
ef•
essor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
cs of America, as given bas him nightly at the Lyceum, will
t: received by the people of England as genuine honest at-
4414gpitesrst.In o provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual
hathe course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have
ted the Lyeenm Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed,
saae has ever before been assembled within its walls in so
„'Sert a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even.
rt, the programme being continually changed. Grand
:;B°ionable Day Performance, on Saturday, October 27, at 2
;tock ; the programme being thus arranged
,;
Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch': or, the Clinical
I;4Pabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
slY's.baagic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
sCe and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
e•ketAqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
Producing animated nature from fire and water only, and
Possibility of elioiting from the simplest elements the most
-eesplex forms of ornithological existence.
Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own
socket Book, with Puck himself withiu it. Typifying the
evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu-
teinous 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
44 bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
Place for to be found.
Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou.
lie. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed-
ding Ring, the Peregrinations of 'a Basile Note, the Transfer-
raation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article
hi the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
Act 5. L'Ecrin do Verse; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into
)17 b
arent ,
leb, though made entirely of glass perfectly transp
1::M suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all
present,
;',ee Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport
irelf, and rain into
.the casket, though its lid be closed,
cked, and the key in the possession of the and
ssAct 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency
Onaeity.
Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the . Novel Wine
. .
e Spirit Store. An improvement upon
will `not
inexhaustible
'otle," in uch as the Wizard's bottle will. not. only be in-
,veAssistible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at
the
ilk,
1;41 of command, producing soda-water,
IZl'soin salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin,. rum, whisky,
hlreau, or any other wine or spirit required; afenedtlyfindarlyly,
Lroving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs. perfectly
occupying the whole space when tightly packed.
i,,!tet 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of
tPtrit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and
essin'of the invisibles.
Oct. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
tr Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange motamor-
tss°,"s, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become
14:(Seformed into the flags of victory--the banners of Eng-
Prance, Turkey, and Sardinia.
TAct. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who
iatB himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to
e audience, nuder circumstances least expected, in a posi-
°ll as peculiar as perplexing.
Oct. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the
Oclens of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the
,Iticlience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part
1-4 the 'evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's aoffin)
kielid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which
`will produced.
11, Act, 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest
‘lciociii.te to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
Of
'ti„int; ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
e newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west-
`4l • to the eastern hemisphere. g
Issueors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8.
10 lvate boxes, 1/. lls. 6d. and it. ls., to be obtained at the
eie;°kee, or at the principal libraries; stalls, 4s. ; dress
Isee'e, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. The
es t office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction
foz,'l% Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
o ceaneo on Saturday. October 27, at 2 oclock. Doors open
W•raat