The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-06 00:00:00

half the way towards carrying on the work. The
poet has said—
" The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight;
But they while their companions slept,
Were toiling upwards in the night."

This may prove as true in the lower walks of
life as in the higher, and the more the great
principle is recognised that ability and educae
tion make the distinction in society the greater
will be the efforts made to rise in the social
scale. It is a moral reflection for a man to dwell
upon, that the history of his country is the record
of the bravery and services of hie ancestors, bat it
is equally honourable for an isolated individual to
know that he has risen by his own ertions, and
carved himself a place alike conspicuous and ad-
mired. It is also most praiseworthy if, without
attaining any particular distinction, or achieving
any remarkable object, the working man of this
country can be of note among his immediate circle,
and by industry, temperance, and honest pride in
his own efforts, render himself a credit to the com-
munity and an honour to his order, and thus pur-
sue his labours in the state to which he has been
called in the favour of GOD and of man.

The Wizard of the North at St. James's

Hall.

The best public entertainer—Professor Ander-
son, the Great Wizard of the North—after a pro•
longed absence of more than seven years, reappeared
last night at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, and met
with the most enthusiastic reception. That an
overflowing audience would assemble on the occa-
sion could tot be for one moment doubted, for who
could question the attracting power of those elabo-
rate and enormous posters issued by the Wizard,
and which have illustrated the leading thorough-
fares of London for the last few weeks. The professor

in his inaugural address enters at length-into the

'matters that have occupied his attention during the
period of his absence, all of which have been for the

improvement of this entertainment. He says—
" Seven years of study, observation, and travel,
have been spent with these ends in view. That

which the fertile and inventive genius of the French
could suggest in Paris—the industrious research of
the German contribute on the land of the Teuton—

the far-famed skilfulness displayed by the Hindoo
in British India—the mystic powers of the Arab
beneath the shadow of the Pyramids, the
magical resources of the Marabouts of Algeria—the
secrets known to the aborigines of Australia, Tas-
mania, and New Zealand—the religious cabalistic
rites of the inhabit; nts of the Society and Sandwich
Islands—and lastly, the mechanical talent of the
heterogeneous population of Americans, English,
Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, and Polynesians,
assembled in California, have all been enlisted, so
as to render VA amusement one of the mcst cosmo.

politan eltraordinary, and complete of any in
modern. or past times," The present entertainment
is ehiitled the " World of Magic," and on the open-
ir.ig of the curtain the stage, or, as the Wizard calls
it, the " psychomantheum," is discovered most

gorgeously fitted with an endless number of magical
apparatus, all of polished silver ; the back ground
is formed by a crimson velvet curtain s'nowered with
golden stars, and the whole .s illuminated in
t:-.e most brilliant and fantastic manner.
Having acknowledged the flatteriug recep-
tion in a few but 'telling sentences, the Pro-
fessor at once proceeds with his magical operations,
which excite alternately wonder and surprise. Al-
though some of the tricks have been befcra per-
formed by the Wizard in London, yet, in most in-
stances, various additions to them have been made,
which almost make them novelties. The wonderful
trick with the .witches' cauldron was capitally exe
cuted, and the conversion of three or four pails of
water into innumerable pigeons, guinea pigs, &c.,
created the utmost delight. Then, again, into what
glee did those of the audience who had not lent their
hats witness. the Wizard make a Christmas plum
pludding in that of him who had been good enough
to oblige the Wizard with the loan of his. As
plums, sugar, currant, spice, and lemon peel were
successively thrown in the laughter was immense,
but when the eggs and water were added the
merriment became uproarious. The delicious com-
pound, however, was speedily produced smoking
hot from the aforesaid chapeau, which, after
being carefully brushed, was handed back to its
owner perfectly uninjured by the operation. Then
we had the -Wizard's scrap-book, a portfolio about
six inches. in thickness, from which emerges the
Profewn's youngest diughter, a pretty cage of
canrzies, a live goose, two rabbits, and last, though
not least, a travelling trunk thrice the size of the
portfolio itself. These astonishing tricks were
quickly followed by others, and then came the
expose of table rapping. The Wizard's table did

everything he desired, and after a terrific onslaught
on the believers in spiritualism the Professor, to
show his disbelief in the monstrous deception, said
he would pay down a thousand pounds to any
" medium" who could produce a single rap on his
table. Of course the challenge was not accepted ;
it still remains open to all who wish to try for the
golden prize, This part of the entertainment pro-
duced the greatest relight, and nothing could ex-
ceed the ent'nusiosm of the audience as the table
rapped out" good night" and marched off rapping
time to th.e celebrated chorus in 11= Figlia del Reggi-
menti,” An interval of five minutes having elapsed
the principal portion of the second part of the
entertainment was a display of the extraordinary
powers of Miss Anderson, who seems to be endowed
with the gift of seeing through deal boards and
stone walls. A variety of small articles, twenty-
seven in number, collected from amongst the
audience, having been securely fastened in an
opaqie envelope, and piaced at the extreme end of
the hall, the Professor led forward his daaghter, a
young lady of the most agreeable manners, and
placed her in a chair on the stage. A bandage
having been placed over the young lady's eyes, she
then, without the slightest difficulty, and without a
single question being put to her, gave a perfectly
accurate description of the whole of the miscellane-
ous items contained in the packet. Theca was
no hesitation and no mistake, as each person
who had lent an article at once claimed
it from the lady's description. To us this and
the succeeding feat seemed the most astonishing.
By way of testing the young lady's memory a
variety of words suggested by the audience, such,
for instance, as syllable, gregarious, idiosyncrasy,
idiomatic, and Constantinople, were at once spelled
forwards and then backwards with the greatest
rapidity, and without the slightest mental labour.
The applause was something extraordinary, and
certainly the young lady really deserved all that
she received. The entertainment of the Wizard of
the North is as unique as ever, and we doubt not
he will have that waich he is entitled to—e long
and prosperous season.

'ME SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER, 6, 1864.