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iects !" and Mr.. Slade and his manager,
Mr.. Simmons, were also summoned on a
second charge /" for conspiring aud com
bining together - to deceive the same per-
sons, and to defraud them of their money.
The summons was issued on the demand
Of Mr.. Ray Lancaster and DR.. Donkin.
The whole day was occupied in hearing
Professor Lankester's evidence, bis cross
examination by the defendants solicitor,
Mr.. Munton, being only just commeoced,
attec which the hearing was ad iourned to
next Tuesday. Professor LaoIaster's evil
deuce was given with great precision,
acd was to the effect that having de-
tected MIR. Slade, as he believed, in
writing secretly the messages which it is
asserted that " the spirits" write with o
crumb Of slate-pencil, and then leading his
visitor to suppose that they are written
while he 1.-THE %visitor) himself hole s the
slate close to the table,-which he effects
By SO making the sound Of writing that it
appears to come from the slate, whereas
ia reality it comes from a4other quarter
he took his friend Or. Douain TO witness
the exposure Of the trick, and actually
succeeded in snatching away from " tho
medium a slate, then asserted to be clean
which really had a secretly-written mes
sage upon it. So far as the cross-examiu8-
ton had gone on Monday, it did not ap.
pear to have in the least shaken the evil
deuco given by Professor Lancaster.
The first election in the new State OF
Colorado was held on Tuesday Oct, j.
and has resulted in n complete victory
for the Repub lean party. They have re-
turned their candidate forthe Governorship,
the single Member of Congress allotted
to the State, and also a majority Of both
Houses Of the State Legislature. The
importance of this victory does not lie SO
niue in the fact that at the last Terrific
rial election the Democrats were success
full, though the change, taken in cOnnec
ton with the Republican victories in New
England, would seem to show that the
Democratic reaction 10 the North and West
has spent itself. The real significance Of
the election is that the Legislature which
has lust been returned has to choose the
two Senators who are to represent the
new State in the United States Senate,
aud also has to select the three PresideD-
tial electors who will represent the State
ID the Electoral College. AS the majority
Of the Legislature is Republican, that party
will return its candidate in both cases.
But unless the Presidential vote is very
close indeed, the Presidential electors will
make little practical difference to the re-
sult. In the Senate, however, Colorado
counts for as much as New York, and the
acquisition of two seats is really an impor-
tant gain.
The Indian Government has published a
long Resolution on the Silver question,
which appears to be for the most part an
answer to the proposals of the Bengal
Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber
had recommended that, carrying further
what has already been done in France or
Belgium, the law authorizing the coinage
of silver on private account should be re-
pealed. To this the resolution replies that
it would aggravate matters, by giving the
rupee a fictitious value. That is true, no
doubt, but the Chamber evidently made
its proposal only as a first step to the
adoption of the gold standard. The Gov
~ -o;ok a1nA Ioo1nron