The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-06 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMI3ER 6, 18-11.

No 15,287

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MESMERISM IN AMERICA.

there ?' Ans.--' I see some black letters.' Ques•--
' Will you read one of the lines ?' Ans.—' I cannot—
it is dark—yes, there is one; the light shines upon it—it
is 22.' Ques.—' What are those places used for ?'
Ans.—' I don't know'—(then)—' they put people there.'
Ques.—' What else do you see ?' Ans.--' Some fresh
earth.' Ques.—' What is that for ?' Ans.--' I don't
know ; I don't like to stay here; it is a lonesome place !'
We then tried to make her enter one of the tombs, but
she became much excited and convulsed, and 1)r.
Collyer, seeing her condition, insisted that the experi-
ment must be discontinued.
" We then informed the audience where we had taken
the lad:. Dr. Lewis also stated that this was in accord-
ance with his suggestion, and he considered the results
both accurate and wonderful. There are a great number
of trees in that burying-ground, much shrubbery, several
large monuments, one of which has a vine upon it, and
what is more remarkable,' said 1)r. Lewis, ' the light
from the street lamps would naturally strike upon my
own family tomb, which is numbered 22 !"rhe audience
were thrilled by this announcement, as by an electric
shock, so fearfully true were the results."
We have not space to extract all the instances
of a similar nature which (recurred in the course
of these exhibitions, as we find them reported in
the same paper, and in the Boston Mil, and the
Boston Morning Post, of various dates, front the
Ist down to the 19th of July. The following,
however, related in the leading article of the
Mail is very curious, and equals the cases re-
ported by the French commission of 1826. The
subject in this case, it will be seen, is a buy.
" Dr. Joseph Dixon, of Taunton, a gentleman who
has been for some years a believer in animal magne-
! tism, was next put in communication with the boy, and
carried him to his house in Taunton. The boy described
the size and appearance of the house accurately ; told
the number of steps, the colour of the door, and of the
paper in the front entry; described the appearance of the
"Actor's study; and, on- being taken into another apart-
ment, said he saw two ladies; that one of them was lying
on a bed, and was sick. Nov,' sail he, they are gi r-
ing her something to drink.!' Question by Dr. Dixon—
' What is the matter with her ?' Ans.—' Oh, she has
something in her side.' Ques.—' What is it ?'
Oh, it looks bad.' Ques.—' How does it look ?' Ans.
It looks bad, and white—she is going to die !'
" These results were of such a fearful character that
Dr. Dixon became very much excited, and was unable to
proceed with the investigation. Theboy, acting in concert
with his mind, sighed deeply, and soon fell into violent
convulsions, from which it was difficult to relieve him.
" Mr. Dixon then informed the audience .that the
boy's descriptions of his house were correct in the must
essential particulars. He said he had a daughter, about
eighteen years of age, who was sick, and the disease. it
was supposed, was an affection of the liver! This was
the most convincing experiment in ettir-voyance we hare
ever witnessed." _ _

" With respect to the degree of credit to be
attached to those statements, we really have no-
thing to say, but that they are placed before us
on as sound a basis as it is possible for human
evidence to rest upon. . . Expe-
rience has proved that the influences which may
be exercised over the nervous powers of man are.
altogether unlimited in their extent and in their
nature. Hence it is always unwise, and even
irrational, fur any one to say, on a subject so
mysterious, that this fact is impossible, and that
that fact could never have taken place."—
Monthly Review, London, Oct., 1833.
The pleasant pseudo-paradox, " It may be
impossible, but I know it is true," will often be the
only answer which can be offered to the per-
versely incredulous, by a person who is placed,
with respect to animal magnetism, in the same
circumstances as some of the American editors,
whose papers are now before us. These gentle-
men:—all writers of great ability and high attain•
tents—all known personally to their fellow-
citizens by the daily publication of their names,
with the titles of their several journals—solemnly
testify to the " fearful reality of the mys-
terious influence called animal magnetism,"
in some cases from their personal obser-
vation, in others from their personal expe-
rience. But their assertion, of " True," is si ill
met with the cry of " Impossible," by numbers
around them, who, like a large mass of our own
neighbours, will neither observe nor inquire.
From the candid and elaborate reports, which
we find in the Boston newspapers of last month,
it appears that the public investigton of mes-
meric phenomena is proceeding re;Few Eng-
land with as much energy, both of favour and
opposition, as in Europe; but with far greater
fairness and good feeling, and consequently with
f'ar greater chance of a searching and satisfactory
scrutiny than the subject has yet undergone in
London.

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NOTICE is hereby given, that RICHARD
GEE. of Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester,
Tailor and Draper, bath by Indenture of Assignment bearing
date the Ist day of September. in the year of our Lord 1841,
and made between the said RICHARD GEE, of the first
part; MICHAEL LONGSTAFFE, of No. 14, St. Paul's
Church-yard, in the city of London, Woollen-Warehouseman,
and WILLIAM HANFORD, of Cheltenham aforesaid, Hair-
dresser, of the second part; and the several other persons
whose names and seals are thereunto subscribed and set,
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conveyed and assigned all his Personal Estate and Effects to
the said Michael Longstaffe and William Hanford, in trust, for
the equal benefit of such of the Creditors of the said Richard
Gee as shall assent to and execute the said Indenture of Assign-
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Gee, Michael Longstaffe, and William Hanford, on the said
first day of September instant, in the presence of, and attes'ed
...by, James Boodle, of Cheltenham aforesaid, Attorney-at-Law.
Dated this 2d day of September, 1841.

THE THIMBLE-RIG.-EXTENSIVE

VICTIMIZING.

At the Audit-House on Friday (yesterday), five fel-
lows, belonging to a gang of thimble-riggers, were placed
at the bar, charged with obtaining money and securities
to the amount of 1701. from a gentleman named Ed-
wards, residing at Mil'brook. They gave their names
John Purcell, of Dudley, Worcestershire, glass cutter;
Frances Varyer, of Burford, Oxfordshire, cook ; Ben-
jamin Parrott, of Sheffield, file grinder ; Joseph Kemp
and James Curran, labourers.—Mr. Saunders attended
on behalf of Mr. Edwards, and stated the particulars of
the case, which will be gathered from the following state-
ment made by the complainant.—Thomas Spencer Ed-
wards deposed—On Tuesday last about one o'clock I
went to the Southampton race-course. A little beyond
the grand stand I saw some persons collected round a
table, on which a man was playing with three thimbles
and a pea. The prisoners Purcell, Parrott, and Varyer,
were standing round. The man with the table offered
to bet to any amount, from a sovereign and upwards, that
the pea was not found. I saw several sovereigns won and
lost. The three prisoners were looking on. One of them
advised me to try my luck. I took out my purse,—in
whiCh were one sovereign and a 501. note,—and put the
sovereign down, which I immediately lost, by taking up
a thimble which the pea was not under. Parrott said,
" try your luck again." I replied that I had nothing but
a 50/. note, and I would not change that. The panics
round the table went on playing for larger stakes, 10,
20, or 30 sovereigns. A man standing behind the
man who played the thimbles, whenever the thimbles
were moved, took up that which Covered the pea and
said, " now's your time to bet, you're sure to win."
At these times, the thimble-player turned his head
away. The mad put down 50 sovereigns, which he said
he would stake. 1 put down my note, and immediately
lust it. Before I did this, I saw several persons
win large sums. I walked away. Parrott followed me,
and said he was sorry I lost,—that I was too much agi-
tated, or I should not have lost. He invited me to go
and take a glass of sherry with him, but I declined. He
said we had better go back and look on ; two or three
eyes were better than one. We went back to the table,
which had been moved a little distance. Parrott touched
me, and asked which thimble I thought the pea was un-
der. I pointed once or twice, and he coincided. Varyer,
who, with Purcell, were still standing by, said, " Try
your luck again." I said I had no money. Parrott said
he had no money, but his friend would lend me some.
Varyer then took a handful of sovereigns out of his
pocket, which he almost forced on me., I was induced by him
to take it and bet, and I immediately lost it: This was
done two or three times, until Varyer told me I had had
701. Parrott then said, " Come away, you have had
bad luck ; you are too timid." We went away to the
back of the booths, Varyer following.—(Mr. Edwards
went on to describe that the party got him to give his ac;
ceptance for 701., payable in two days ; that Parrott,
under pretence of friendship, remained in his company,
and managed again to fall in with the; table, where Pur-
cell And Parrott indUced him to play again, and give his
gold watclt as security for 50/., which Purcell lent him,
and which ,"as of course immediately lost ; and that he
then became a,7ake to the trick practised on him. He
left the course, am;, an appointment having; been made
for the Purpose of redeLl"ull; the watch and acceptance,
Mr. Edwards took with him inspector Enright and two
police officers, who took the melt into custody. The
other two were taken at their lodgings iit'SLlTug's Head
Tap. Inspector Enright and Serjeant Terry deposed
to knowing the whole of the party, and to having often
seen them on the race course. They Were remanded until
Wednesday next.—Hampshire Independent.

In Boston, Taunton, and all throughout Mas-
sachusetts, the subject has attracted the greatest
attention, and is examined with the most in-
tense, yet, as far as we can judge, with the most
sober interest. Clergymen, physicians, and
even barristers of the highest repute, not only
attend the public exhibitions, but test the cor-
rectness of the impressions which they receive
there by private experiments in their respective
social circles, under circumstances into which
fraud or delusion could not enter; and the tes-
timony which they render is at once startling
and conclusive.
Although from the open and severely-scruti-
nized character of the exhibitions, it may be of
little moment to inquire who is the exhibitor ?
yet it will, perhaps, be satisfactory to state all
that we know of him. His name is Dr. Henry Ro-
bert Collyer. He is a native of Jersey, and stu-

died medicine and surgery at the London Uni-
versity, under Dr. Elliotson and Mr. Samuel
Cooper, the celebrated author of the Dictionary
of Practical Surgery. The latter, in writing of
Dr. Collyer, sayS :—" I am convinced that he
will manifest, not only great profeSsional skill,
but the strictest honour and integrity in whatever
situation he may be placed." It seems that in
consequence of the excitement produced in Bos-
ton, by reports of his private practice in Mes-
merism, he was either invited or challenged by
members of the Massachusetts Medical Associa-
tion, of which he is a licentiate, to repeat his
experiments in public, and to operate not only on
his own patients, whose susceptibility was ascer-
tained, but upon all who might choose to submit
to the operation. Accordingly, in the beginning
of July last, the public exhibitions commenced
in a theatre of the Temple in that city, and were
repeated nightafter night with wonderful results
before crowded audiences of the most respectable
citizens, including all the distinguished members
of: the learned professions, whose names are
given in these reports. The ordinary phenomena,
which we have repeatedly reported in The Sun,
as we witnessed them in the experiments at the
North London Hospital, the Hanover-square
' Rooms, and at private meetings in the house of
Dr. Elliotson, were again and again exhibited.
By ordinqry phenomena, we mean the mesmeric
sleep, accompanied with preternatural insensi-
bility, somnambulism, magnetically produced,
and in many respects different from that which
sometimes naturally occurs, and an occasional
manifestation of physical and intellectual powers
not possessed by the patient in the natural state.
It happened sometimes (as we learn from the re-
ports, though we suppose it must in such re-
peated experiments with so many subjects of
various temperaments, have happened often)
that an evening's exhibition passed off with-
out producing any other result than the
fatigue and disappointment of the audience.
This would not have been made a ground for the
accusation of " imposture and humbug" by any
reasonable sceptic, who fairly conceded the pos-
tulate, which is premised before a solution of the
mesmeric problem can be attempted—that " all
persons are not susceptible, and that the same
persons are not susceptible at all times." Occa-
sional failures, therefore, partial or total, should re-
move from any mind, justly reasoning, all suspicion
of trickery or collusion. It' the exhibitor were a
charlatan, he should never fail, as the charlatan
commands his own results, and can always effect
the same deception by the same means. The
non-universality of mesmeric susceptibility is an
acknowledged principle, and where the magnet-
iser never fails collusion may justly be suspected.
No number of subsequent failures could disprove
an effect once manifestly obtained; but there
were not wanting in the Boston Temple, more
than at the Queen's Rooms, those who could dis-
believe the facts which they had previously wit-
nessed, because they did not appear again under
apparently the same circumstances. These
persons, reasoning by the logic of the
Irishman, who could not believe himself guilty
of the act which a dozen had seen him commit,
because lie could produce a dozen others who.
did not see him do it, created
:unseemly inter-
ruptions of the exhibition ; and, consequently,
the frequenters of the theatre came to a resolu,
tion, that at each meeting the company should
elect from amongst themselves a committee to
superintend the proceedings, and act as a medium
of communication between the professor and
those who wished. to put questions, or to propose
particular tests of the experiments. From that
time matters went on with regularity, which was
interrupted only on one occasion by an eminent
engineer, who failed in producing the failure
which he pertinaciously attempted. He retired
amidst the laughter of his fellow-citizens, and a
Boston paper thus reports him :
" Mr. Adams during the whole affitir mani-
fested a degree of impudence, stupidity, and
bigoted self-conceit altogether insufferable. He
was made the butt of ridicule to the end of the
exhibition."
The license of the British press would not al-
low us to characterise in such terms, however
appropriate, the conduct of certain gentlemen
who have similarly disturbed the London exhi-

CH ARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AT
DRAYTON P.ARSLOW.
On the 25th ult., an inquest was held at Drayton
Parslow, Bucks, before J. W. Cowley, Esq., and eighteen
respectable Jurymen, on view of the boy of Solomon
Loveridge, a gypsey, aged twenty-three, whose death
was occasioned under the following circumstances :
The Jury having been sworn, the Coroner observed
that as the result of their inquiry might possibly involve
two individuals, named Jolla and Joseph Smith, then in
custody on an alleged charge of slaying the deceased, he
should give them an opportunity of being present during
the inquiry. They were accordingly called in, and
upon beM; asked whether they wished to be present, re-
plied in .the affirmative.
Kitty Millburn, kept a public-house in Drayton Pars-
low. The two Smiths and deceased came to her house
on the previous Thursday night about a quarter before
ten. Deceased called for a quart of beer, which all three
sat down and drank. They remained about twenty mi-
nutes, and appeared on the best terms. Deceased paid
for the beer. In a few minutes afterwards she heard a
quarrelling up the road ; supposed it to be among the
parties who had just left. They were rather l'resh in
liquor when they quitted the house.
Ann Chappel resided in a cottage near Mr. Fountain's
rick-yard. About ten o'clock on Thursday night she
heard some men quarrelling on the road. Heard some
one say, " come and go in the rick-yard, for this is the
highway, and you will be run over." Somebody answered
"I wont go, I will lie here and die first." She also heard
one say immediately afterwards, " Don't squash my guts
out."
Hannah Viccars examined.—On the previous Thursday
night, about half-past ten, she went towards Mr. Ram-
tain's.rick-yard. There saw the tv o•prisoners and the
deceased; they were dragging the latter along the road
toward the rick-yard. Joseph Smith put his fist in her
face, and said he had hit the —on the jaw. Deceased
did not speak.
James Webb examined.—Was present when the two
Smiths dragged the deceased into the rick-yard. They
laid him uner a rick and then left him. They ran
towards the church. Saw John Smith go into the rick,
yard the next morning between loin- and five. Did not
see bins conic out.
Other witnesses were called, who' fully corroborated
the fact of Joseph Smith having struck the deceased on
the head, of his subsequent bruta treatment, and that on
Friday morning .the deceased was found lying under the
rick quite dead. •
John 'Thomas Wynter, surgeon, was of opinion the
congestion and effusion of blood were produced from the
bumps on the head, and they were undoubtedly inflicted
by some blunt instrument ; a blow from the fist or falling
to the ground was calculated to produce such an injury.
Was of opinion that deceased's- death was caused by the
injuries descriled. Should say death ensued shortly
after the injuries on the head were inflicted.
The prisoners were apprehended on the Friday morn-
ing, about eight miles from Drayton.
The CORONER then addressed the prisoners, and told
them they were not bOund to say anything while there,
and it was entirely at their option to do so or not ; and
it was his duty to tell them that whatever they said
would be taken down in writing, and produced in Court,
and might criminate themselves. •• .
Joseph Smith expressed a desire to say a few words ;
he then stated as follows :—" We quarrelled on the
road ; deceased struck me first, and then I struck him."
The CORONER then. summed up, explaining to the
Jury the difference between murder and manslaughter,
andjo what extent the present case bore reference
to each.
After a short consultation the Jury returned a verdict
of manslaughter against John and Joseph Smith, and
the Coroner accordingly issued his warrant for their
commitment to Aylesbury gaol, to take their trial at the
next Bucks assizes.—Leansington Spa Chronicle.
A S, •

bitions.
At length Dr. Collyer was induced, by the de-
mand of his visitors, to produce, from a distant
place, a young lady, whose powers of clairvoy-
ance had been much talked of; and the reported
results of those public experiments in her case
are such as we should at once reject with disbe-
lief and contempt, it' we had not already seen
enough to make us hesitate before we pronounce
anything impossible which comes supported by
similar evidence. The reporter (and, it seems,
editor) of the Boston Paper, the Yankee
Notion gives the following account of his own
experiments upon her :—[We must premise that
by taking her to a place it is meant that, being
in what is called " magnetic communication"
with her, whilst she was In the mesmeric sleep,
and in ascertained insensibility to everything
around her, he proceeds in imagination to the
particular place, when the clairvegante, though
never in that place before, is expected to describe
it, without any sign or intimation from him.]
" Dr. Lewis requested us, in a whisper, to take the
lady to the new burying-ground,, on ' the Neck,' so
called, near the Roxbury line ; a place we had never
visited, and had. only seen from the street as we have
passed occasionally on foot, or in a carriage. Being put
magnetic communication with the lady, we took her,
in imagination, to the corner of Winter-street, down
Winter-street to Washingtanitreet, up Washington-:
street to the Lafayette Hotel. We thee uevntelly looked
at the Boylston-market, and asked her what she saw,
She replied, A high building.' We then took her, in
thought, directly from the Boylston-marl:a to the gate
of the new burying-ground, without passing along the
street, and asked her what she saw. She reilivd, see
a large open place.' Dr. Lewis sat very near the lady,
and heard her answers distinctly. We then asked what
she saw in the open place. She answered, I see a
great many trees.' Question—' What else?' Answer—
' Some shrubbery there.' Ques.---4 What else?' Ans.—
' Some litivp things built up there, not very.. high.'
.Ques.—' How many do. PIT see ?' A great
many.' Ques.---'• What . else . do you .see ?' Ans.—
' Something growing on one of them.' Ques.—' What
do you see upon the sides of those things built up

Spanish poet carries the poetry of Hea-
ven to its highest sublimity- when he calls a star "
burning doubloon of the celestial bank."
London, No. 31, Manchester-street, Manches-
ter.aquare.—The Countess of Clifford presents her compliments to
Mr. a Solomon!, and is much gratified in being able to say that his
" Patent Spectacles," adapted to her sight nearly six years ago,
have continued undiminished in the perfect ease and pleasure she
was so delighted to have experienced from their use immediately lie
so skilfully applied them, enabling her to read or engage her sight
for the most minute employment, and for any length of time, by day
or candle•light, without the slightest fatigue. This is the more re.
markable and gratutatory to the Countess's feelings, considering the
total failure in the above respects, and consequent mortifying dirap.
*pointtnents, attending (he various other spectacles she hitherto at-
' tempted to wear. Indeed, it is with the greatest pleasure the Conn_
tess testifies to Mr. E. Solomons' perfectly successful treatment of
her sight, and submits her own peculiar case in conthmation of the
strong and deserved recoiaiMendatiOns his Spectacles bade received;
and of. Mr. E. Solomons' high professional standing.—To Mr. K
Solomon', optician, 36, Old llond.street, and 1, Old Jewry, City.

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the- Winchester.

A letter is published in the same papers
from a clergyman, said to be of high cha-
racter, named Dod, who states that he
found. similar phenomena in a young lady of
his acquaintance, mesmarised by himself, in the
presence of her family, to whom he refers. A
curious letter is also publishedfrom a gentleman,
named Nymon, who appeals to his fellow citi-
zens whether he has not been known to them as an
avowed disbeliever in the immortality of the soul,
and declares that what he had seen at those ex hi-
bitions has convinced him, after the most anxious
and scrupulous examination of all the facts,
which he believed at first to be solely produced
by imposture and collusion, that the " soul has
a separate existence from the body."
A Committee of twenty-four—eight clergy-
men, eight lawyers, and eight physicians of
eminence in Boston, and most of them sceptics
—was appointed to make the
.experiments in
private, and make a public report to their fel-
low-citizens. They published a detailed account
of their proceedings from day to day, and con-
cluded with an unanimous resolution.
"That, while this Committee refrain from ex-
pressing any decisive opinion as to the science or
principle of animal magnetism, they freely
confess, that, in the experiments of Dr. Collyer,
certain appearances have been presented, which
cannot be explained on the supposition of collu-
sion, or by a reference to any physiological
principle known to them."
It cannot be denied that the resolution is suffi-
ciently cautions, especially when we find in the
authenticated report of the investigations made
by the Committee, the following account amongst
several of a similar character :
Dr. C. had said to some members that Frederick was
now in an unusually fine state for ibirveyance, when
John C. Park, Esq., whom Dr. C. had declared to have
the requisite continuity of thought, was put in eommu-
nication with the lad. Mr. Park, without giving any
intimation of his intended course, and avoiding all lead-
ing questions, asked the boy as to what he saw. The
first two or three answers not being satisfactory to Mr.
P., he willed him back again, he said, to where we were
sitting, and then proceeded again. Each succeeding an-
swer, as Mr. P. declares, was correctly descriptive of
the same things, in the same order, and at the same times
that Mr. P. had the ideas of them in his mind directing
attention to them. Mr. Park's question-1. What do
you see ? Frederick's answer—Something high. Mr.
Park's statement made on each answer after the conclu-
sion of the whole experiments.—The building west side
of Bowdoin-square. Mr. P.-2. What colour is it ? Ans.
—Black or white—not very black. Mr. P.'s statement
—lt is of granite. Mr. P.-3. What is there about it?
are there any streets ? Ans. One on each side. Mr.
P.'s statement—Such is the fact. Mr. P.-4. What do
you see now ? A door, Mr. P.'s statement—l viewed
in imagination the door of the jail in Leveret-street.
Mr. P.-5. Any thing about it ? Ans.—Only the steps
there. Mr. P.'s statement—There are steps to it..
Mr. P.-6. Now pass into that door with me through
an entry, and what do you see ?—Ans.—Oh, a great
many doors. Mr. P.'s statement—l was in imagination
at this time, and during the two following questions was
in ahall of the jail, having in it nine: doors all in view.—
Mr. P.-7. How many ? count them.—Ans.-1, 2, 3 ;
I can't count them. Mr, P.-8. Yes you can; I can and
so can you. Try again.—Ans.--1, 2,3, 4,5, 6, ; oh,
there's more than that ; I can't count them. It's a cold
place ; I don't want to stay here.. Mr. P.—Well, then,
we'll leave this place and go to another. What do you
see ?—Ans.—A door. Mr. P.'s statement—l content-
plated the door of Williamson's cell. Mr. P.-10. Well.
well go into that door. Ans.—Oh, we can't, it's all
barred up. We can't, go in.- Mr. P.'s statement
—lt's kept bolted, of course. , Mr. P.-11. Why
not ? yes, we can. We will go in. Are we in ?
—Ans.—Yes. Mr. P.-12. What do you see there ?
Ans.--A man. Mr. I'. 13.—Any body else there ?
Ans.—No, one man, and no more. Mr. P.'s statement
—Williamson alone is kept there. Mr. P.-14. What
is he doing?—Ans.—Sitting there. Mr. P. 15.—What
does he sit on 7—Ans.—Something dirty. Mr. P.'s
statement—The beds are dirty. Mr. P.-16. 1)o
you see any thing else ? —Ans.—Only the black
thing over there. Mr. P.'s statement—l knew not what
the boy meant at the time, but went directly to the. gaol
and Williamson had a black article up against
the wall to lean against as he sat. Mr. P.-
17. Now we'll turn round, and • what do you
see ? Ans.—A small white thing, round. • Mr. P.'s
statement- A tub, for necessary purposes, which is
round. Mr. P.-18. What is it for ? Ans.—lt's nasty
I don't want to tell.—(Exhibiting great disgust.) Mr.
P.'s statement—Correctly described thus. Mr. P. 19.
Well, you've told enough about that. What do you see
now ? Ans.—A window. Mr. P.'s statement—l was
directing attention to the window. Mr. P.-20. Look
ont at that window. Ans.--I can't. Slr. 1'.—,21. Why?
Ans.—lt'sdirty. Mr. P.'s statement.-4 was wishing to
have him speak of the iron gates to it, but I do not cum•
prebend his answer. Mr. P. then said—Now we'll go
another part. What do you see ? But the answers
this and another question not being satisfactory, Mr. P.
said—Well, I don't know where you are. You are where
I'm not, and proceeded no further. The following is
Mr. Park's certificate of the above :—" I hereby certify
that the expressions above attributed to me, are in sub-
stance correct. " JOHN C. PARK."
This article has already carried us so far that
we must conclude by expressing a concurrence
with the sentiment expressed in the paragraph
from the Monthly Review, which we have placed
above. There can be little doubt that the recent
work of Mrs. Romer will cause mesmerism to
be snore extensively thought of and discussed in
this country, than all the writings of Mr.
Colquhoun, or the experiments of Elliotson and
Lafontaine. It is at this moment, therefore, the
more desirable that the subject should be fully
investigated, and the question determined whe-
ther it is one of imposture or reality. For this
end, we could suggest no better means than
those adopted by the intelligent citizens of Bos-
ton—the election of a Committee at every exhi-
bition to communicate between the company
and the magnetiser, so as to prevent
disorderly interruption, which have no more
satisfactory results than to expose the ill manners
and presumption of some well dressed persons.
A general meeting of the learned professions and
others interested in physiological research
might be held here as in Boston, -for the purpose
of appointing a Committee to conduct in private
4 sPl'}Pi of eNperinients, which we have no doubt
would very won enable them to give tile public
a conclusive and Fiatisfactory report.

PRuPOSED AMPHITHEATRE AT LEEDS.—
We understand that a project has been set on foot under
the auspices of a Joint-Stock Company, to erect a sub-
stantial and commodious building, to be so constructed
RS to admit of being converted, without additional ex-
pense, into a spacious room forketurp, public meetings,
&c., and capable of accommodating from 1,200 to 1,500
persons. The building is estimated to cost 4,gog, qt 4
the amount •is..to be raised in shares of iii. each. Up-
wards of one hundred are already subscribed fun—Leeds
Macury.

PRICE 5d

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTII, SEPT. 4.—Vice-Admiral Sir Charles
Adam, re-hoisted his flag on Tuesday, of board
the Pique, 3G, Captain Yates, which arrived on Sunday
from the Eastward, and sailed yesterday to assume the

command of the North America and West India station.

Sir Charles is accompanied by Lady Adam and family,
Lord Sydenham, the Governor-General of Canada, and

Conunollore Douglas will return to England in the

Pique.assoon aiihe Admiral has transferred his flag to

The Impregnable, 104, Captain Forrest, C. 8., with
the flag oft Rear-Adm;rel Sir Francis Mason, sailed yes-
terday for Malta. The Electra, 18, CoMmander Gooding,
sailed on Thursday for the West Indies. The Scout,
16, Commander Larcom, sailed on Tuesday for Malta,
touching at Plymouth. The Siren, 16, Commander \V,
Smith, is ordered to the Coast of Africa. The Hazard,
IS, Commander (Captain) Elliot, is ordered home from
the 'Mediterranean to be • paid off. The Southampton,
Olio, Partridge, Camelion, Linnet, and Spider, were at
Rio Janeiro on the 22d June. The latter was to sail on
the fdlowing, day for the Rio de la Plata, with the mai'.
The Rose was at Bahia, the Pearl at Buenos Ayres, and
the Grecian cruising there.
The Belvidere, 36, has this week been commissioned
by Captain the Hon. George Grey ; the North Star, 26,
by Captain Sir J. E. Home, Bart. ; the Driver, steam-
frigate, by Commodore Harmer ; and the Pantaloon, 10,
all at this port. The Volage, 26, has been commissioned
at Chatham, by Captain Sir W. Dickson, Bart. ; and the
Heroine, 10, by ',tent. T. D. Stewart. The Viper, 6,
lies been commissioned for a packet in .South America,
by Lieut. Boyce.
The Alban steamer arrived on Thursday, with a part
of the 33th Regiment on board, en route for Hull, and
sailed yesterday.
The Vixen, steam frigate, has this week been commis-
sioned at Woolwich, by Commander Henry Boyes.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
PRostonoNs.---Coirtnanders,e,,F.rancis Moira Crozier
(1837), of the Terror ; Mons Joseph Denman (1835), of
the Wanderer; Granville G. Loch (1837), of the Vesu-
%:as ; and John C. Fitzgerald (1829), of the Racehorse;
George St. Vincent King and John Pengeily Parkin, to
the rank of Captain.
Lieutenants-Edward Joseph Bird (1827), of the Ere-
bus ; Benjamin. Fox (1838), of the Nimrod ; Henry
George Shute (1638), of the Modeste ; Peter Fisher
(1838), of the Herald ; Sir Frederick Wm. Nicholson,
Bart. (1837), of the Blonde ; Edward Norwich Trou-
bridge (183 S), of the Southampton ; Arthur Lowe (1837),
Gunnery Lieutenant-of the Hastings ; and Richard
Pritchard (1807), of the Avon, steam vessel ; Edward
iiixon,W. N. Russell, W. L. Skeringham, W. Loring,
and E. G. Fanshawe, to the rank of Commander.
Mates-Alexander John Smith (1835) of the Erebus;
John Palmer (1832), of -the Southampton ; K J. B.
Clarke (1834), of the. Mastiff; Peter Cracoft (1835), of
the Southampton; R. B. lEneas M'Leod (1837), of the
Thunderer; David Robertson (1837), of the Howe; Wm.
Mottley (1837), of the Wasp; R. Moorman (1831), of the
Calcutta; A. J. Burton (1838), of :the Winchester; and
H. W. Hire (1836), of the Plot; G. P. Mends, D. H.
Stenhouse, A. G. Edye, P. M. Godfrey, Henry Bernard,
and F. W. L. Thomas, to the rark of Lieutenant.
Assistant Surgeons-Charles W. White (1829), of the
Ceylon; William Graham (1831, Ordinary D. pot at
Plymouth; R. T. C. Scott (183377 of the Britannia; J.
C. Bowman (1834), of the Illustrious, to the rank of
Surgeon.
Second Masters-R. 0. Stuart (of the Royal George),
11. Peel (of the -Athell), and R. Godden (of the Apollo);
J. H. Ashton, •of the Lightning steamer ; and John
Jarvis, of the Dasher, steamer, to the rank of Master.
APPOINTMENTS.-Captains-David Hope, to Thalia ;
John Parker, to the Vestal ; T. W. Carter, to the Win-
chester ; Sir J. E. Home,'Bart., to the North Star ; Sir
W. Dickson. Bart., to the Volage ; John C. Fitzgerald
to the Magnificent ; Edward Boxer, C. 8., to be Comma-
dore at Jamaica, vice Douglas ; W. W. Henderson,
C. 8., to Victory ; Hon. George Grey, to Belvidera.
Commanders-Samuel Harmer, to the Driver steam-
vessel ; E. B. Tinling, from the Magnificent, to the
Racehorse ; Edward Norwich Troubridge, to the Wan-
derer, vice Denman, promoted ; Henry Boyles, to Vixen
steam-frigate.
Lieutenants-W. P. Crozier, of the Wasp, to command
the Pantaloon; William Mottley, to the Wasp, vice Cro-
zier ; William N. Boyce, crom the Poictiers, to the
Vixen ; T. D. Stewart, to command the Heroine ; E.
S. Sotheby, to the Madagascar ; W. Maclean, to be
Flag Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Mason ; F. W. T.
Bouverie, to be Flag Lieutenant to the Hon. Rear-
Admiral Bouverie ; Edward Simmons to be Direc-
tor of Police, Chatham Dockyard ; H. W. Hire, to
the Racehorse ; A. J. Burton, to be Flag Lieutenant
to Acting Commander-in-Chief in West Indies,. Com-
modore Douglas ; E. K Rogge, to the Belvidera ; J.
Sanderson (b), to Malabar ; C. H. Caldwell, to Aigle ;
T. 11. Downes, to Driver ; .T. Day. to Victory, for ser-
vice of the Cuckoo ; J. Thurburn, to Queen ; J.-Carter,
to Viper ; C. A. Fetch, to Victory, for service of the
Wildfire ; C. R. Johnson, additional, to Powerful ; Ed-
ward Tatham, to' Belvidera ; Charles Jenkins, to Avon
steamer, vice Pritchard, promoted ; David Buchanan, to
Vixen ; Thomas Sibbald, to Siren.
Masters-J. N. King. to Cambrian ;H. J. Loudon. to
Spartan ; J. C. Hutchinson, to Belvidera ; J. Jarvis, to
Driver.
Secretaries-henry Price, to be Secretary to Rear-
Admiral Sir Francis Mason ; R. A. Cummings. to be
Secretary to the Acting Commander-in-Chief in West
Indies.
Pursers-Thomas Hookey, to North Star ; D. J.
Simpson, to Belvidera ; R. T. Crispin, to Driver.
Surgeons-Harr) Goldney, to Spartan; John Smith,
(c), to Cambrian; 1)r. A. Allen, to Belvidera; Dr. King,
to Pique, vice Folds, sick; J. M. Brown, to North Star ;
W. Houghton, to Driver; J. Drummond, to Queen.
Assistant Surgeons-7N. L. Dolling to Cambrian
(acting) ; William M`Mahon (acting), to Spartan ; 1)r.
W. Dickson (acting), to Queen, for Haslar Hospital ;
A. M'Donald (acting), to Belvidera.
Mates-F. P. Porteus, to Malabar ; J. P. Palmer,
to Royal George ; L. G. Pigott, to Cambrian.
Midshipmen-R. Beale,, to Queen ;G.A. E. Ridge,
to Scout. •
Clerks-J. Cleeve, to Pique ;J. M. Hobbs, to Queen ;
Geo. Singer, additional, to Belvidera. .
Volunteers Ist Class-F. Herbert, to Vestal; A. King-
ston, to Calcutta ; J. Trevenew and \V. Davy, to Bell ,-
dera ; T. Bates, to Howe ;• C. B. Hope, to Warspite ;
J. Burgess, to Pique ; J. Rowley, to Magnificent ; P.
Lakin, to Formidable.
Royal Marines-Captain Layton, Lieutenants Leheux
and Goold, to . the Formidable ; Captain Nepean, to
Warspite ; Lieuts. Spalding and Forbes, to Madagas-
car ; Lieut. Sayer, to Excellent.
Mr. Stephen Francis Douglas (of the Excellent),
passed for seamanship on Wednesday last.
Mr, J. W. C. Williams is appointed to the Excellent
as a Marine Cadet.
The London papers are in error in appointing Cap-
tain J. W. Deans Dundas to the Impregnable. It is not
likely the gallant officer will again go to sea except as a
flag-officer.
PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, SEPT. 2.-Sailed on Thurs-
day last (after post) the Champion, 18, Commander B.
Byron, for South America ; and the Bittern, 16, Com-
mander Hon. B. C. F. P. Cary, for the Cape of Good•
Hope ; also the Carron steamer, to have her boilers and
machinery examined.-The Malabar, 72, was commis-
sioned on Friday, by Lieut. C. M. Mathison, for Captain
Sir G. R. Sartorins.-The Dublin, 50, Captain J. J.
Tucker, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Thomas, sailed
on Saturday for South America - Lieutenants Yule and
Ellis, with a party of marines, embarked on board the
Cambrian on Tuesday. The Spartan, 26, was taken
into dock on Tuesday to be coppered, and she was com-
missioned on Wednesday. The Nightingale, 6, Lieut.
Southey, arrived from Bristol on Wednesday. The
Scout, 18, Commander J. P. D. Larcom, arrived from
Portsmouth on Wednesday.
In Harbour-Caledonia, San Josef, Malabar, Cam-
brian, Spartan, and Meteor.
In the Sound-Nightingale, Scout.
to

SHIP VING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL—The Ganges, Liverpool to
Swan River, July 17, lat. 10, N., lon. 22, W.; Living-
stone, Liverpool to Sydney, New South Wales, July 29,
let. 10, lon. 24; Re;'..onte, Genoa to Monte Video, July
21, lat. 11, lon. 25; Barchiy, of Westport, North Ame-
rica, 9th ult., let. 36, lon. 40, by the Huddersfield, ar-
rived at Liverpool. London, Liverpool to Mauritius, July
22, lat. 10, N., lon. 23, by the Charlotte, arrived at Li-
verpool. Emily, Bristol to Demerara, 14th ult., by the
Star, arrived at Plymouth. Oberon, Liverpool to Lima,
May 26, lat. 19, N.,10n. 34; Two Friends, from Cadiz
July 12, lat.. 2, S., on. 38, by the Linnet Packet., arrived
at Falmouth. Merlin Clyde to Calcutta, June 1, let 30„
S., lon. 22, W., by the Panope, arrived at the Cape of
Good Hope.

Mrs. Trollope's " Charles Chesterfield, or,
The Youth of Genius" is now published, complete in
three volumes, doubtless to the great delight of all no-
vel-readers. The Naval and Military Gazette observes
that " Mrs. Trollope (even bearing in mind Widow
Barnaby herself) has never chosen a better subject for
the display of her great and varied powers than in these
" Adventures of a Youth of Genius.' We have perused
her pages with great admiration. At the variety, the
vigour, the individuality, and the truth of the portraits
here placed before us, the invention and the dramatic
tact displayed in the incidents and the situations, the
forcible humour and cutting satire of many of the
scenes. (especially those connected with the literary co-
teries), and the remarkable originality displayed through-
out in the whole conception and execution or the work,
the whole has a strength and stamina about it which
bespeak for it a permanent place among the prose fic-
tions of the day. The comic embellishments by Phiz
are numerous and excellent, and will greatly add to the
attraction of the work.
Esq., at Sharpham,
The estate of John Bastard.
near Totnes, with its admired mansion, perk, and de-
mesne, was sold on Thursday last, for 68,500 guineas.
The estate numbers 1,300 acres of land, and the rental,
independently of the menstan, is 4,0; Cl. a year. The
purchaser ls 1111 .01 tilent merchant, named Durant, who
was fbrmerly connected with this city. Independent of
. the purchase money, he has to pay for all the timber on
the property. It is thought the entire purchase will
amount to more than 75,0001.—Exeter Times.