The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-17 00:00:00

LECTURE 11.-FRIDAV.

Dr. Collyer commenced this evening his analysis of
mesmerism by remarking that the conditions most im-
pressionable were found in those temperaments which are
called sanguine and nervous, and their combination the
servo-sanguine. He described the vital powers as elec-
tricity vitalised by assimilation in the lungs—a term we
conceive to be ambiguously expressing lifein other terms.
Dr. C. mentioned Bedard as authorizing by his fame
in medical science the notion of an imponderable fluid in
the nerves.

Infancy requires to learn the habitual control of them-
selves by the will, and to economise the superfluous will.
Several interesting remarks on this subject were intro-
duced, which we cannot detail.
The facts of the electrical lady reported in Professor
Silliman's journal, and that of a niece of the American
Charge d'Affaires, who was magnetised by electrical ma-
chine, were interesting to a general audience.
Fakers mesmerised by means of narcotic fumes.
Shaking Quaker's ecstacy and consequent exhaustion
minifested by lying down collapsed and faint. An in-
stance of mesmerism produced through a giddy and exci-
ting dance, which developes a cataleptic trance sometimes
for two or three days.
Three modes of producing mesmeric condition :
I.—Narcotising.
2.—Muscular exertion.
3.—Transfer of will.
Fevers charmed by mesmerism. Like La Fontaine,
he holds that if the operator is fatigued, little or no effect
is produced. After excitement in battle mesmeric col-
lapse, likewise in drunkenness wounds not felt, because
nervous force is taken away by mental excitement.
Suttee—Hindoo widow, when burnt on the funeral pile
of her husband, does not feel, because excited—explains
Scoevola's case of arm thrust into the fire under stimulus
of mind. Some explanations followed, wherein cayenne
pepper and aloes were mistaken for sweet things by pa-
tients. Allusion to excitement in a crowd being conta-
gious. One patient conscious, and not having the mes-
meric sleep developed, could no see his foot at all, be-
cause it was cut off as it were by a few passes of Dr. C's
hand.

LisCTURE 111.
Last evening, at the Music-hall, Bold-street, there was
a much larger audience. The subject of Love, Sympathy,
and Antipathy, was handled by the lecturer; and many
moral propositions dogmatically asserted, which we can-
not report for want of space, followed by experiments
similar to previous ones, but on fresh and untried subjects.
Nirz left the doctor about to organise a committee of
medical and other gentlemen to investigate his subject.

Viscount Sandon has presented, throngh the Dean!of
the Faculty, the liberal donation of £25 towards the
building fund of the Queen's College.
ANDERSON THE CONVICT.—The paragraph in our paper
of Friday se'nnizht, respecting Anderson offering one of
his keepers £4OO was wrong. The person to whom he
offered the bribe has just called on us, and states that
Anderson's first offer was £6OO to the contractor and £lOO
to the keeper, £7OO in all. This took place at Birming-
ham. After he saw that there was no hope he offered the
same party £250, and £7OO to the contractor; and et last
he wished a sum to be named, as hundreds were of no
consequence to him. There was a party in the train revly
to give the money as soon as any bargain was made. The
person states that he has no doubt but £5OOO or £6OOO
would hare been given for Anderson's liberation.—
Mercury.

SPLIT AMONG' TH E LIVERPOOL CH AI,TISTS.—Last
night week, Bernard M'Cartney, one of the chartist ora-
tors of Liverpool, held a "palaver" with some of his un-
washed friends at the Tabernacle, in Great Charlotte-at.
In the course of his lengthy haranzue he bitterly com-
plained of the slanderous attecks.which had been made
upon his unblemished character by the majority of the
Liverpool chartist council. • From the speaker's denunci-
ation of, his opponents, it appeared that that body hail
accused him of making rather too free with the funds of
the association—a charge which he, of course. iodignantly
repudiated. • Ile also stated that-he would not be led by-
the nose by Feargus O'Connor-Gr any other chartist, end
he would criticise the conduct of that person. the same as
if he did not belong to their body. His character of the
chartist council of Liverpool was anything but flattering,
and as be no doubt is a pretty !mod judge of their con-
duct, it is very prehable that he spoke the truth on the
occasion. The audience in a great measure seemed to
think so too, as they frequently cried out " Hear, hear,"
and warmly applauded the speaker, in his denunciation of
their leaders.