, 1891-08-08

POA"II|4uS at ~ ttI cent, ItS leu lut EI dliGIB
to make extra preparation to handle the ir crops
with facility, and to his end they have ordered
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth Of new
machinery through err from the local foundries.
There are SO many Disconnected arts and
crafts among us just at present that we might
well have been spared the agitation with which
the professors Of one Of the oldest Of crafts and
blacklist Of arts appear to be threatening us.
We hear with concern Of a movement among
as~trologers. 1t does not yet amount TO strike
which would be a serious matter, and pro-
ductive Of much Inconvenience to the public
but matters have alrcady reached the stage Of
an indignation meeting, aud, Of course, if their
just grievances are disrcgarded, the stareazers
may " come ont. At the gathering in cues.
ton, at which mesmerists. spiritua}ists. and
other professors Of the occult science, were
represented, a resolution was moved to petition
Parliament for the repeal of &" certain statutes
under which mediums and astrologers have
been convicted.' The titles Of these statutes
were not mentioned, but it seems probable, if
tn Q suggestion may be made without indelica-
cy, that the resolution had reference to sundry
obsolete and barblrous enactmants directed
against "ro9ues and yaoabonds". Mr.. A. F.
Tiudall, the secretary of the Spiritualist Fede-
ration, who seconded the motion, observed that
"the law might mpddlo and muddle. but it
could not put down these things.' Judges and
magistrates had ruled them to be wrong
because contraryto the laws of nature, with
which, added Mr.. Tindall, with scathing irony,
-" Judges and magistrates were, of course, per-
fectly acquainted Unfortunately. however,
it appeared as the discussion proceeded that
the opinions entertained on the subject Of these
laws among those present at the meeting fell
somewhat short of complete unanimity. In
one clause of the petition it was prayed that no
restrictions should be placed upon the practice
Of hypnotiSm whoreat certain mesmerists rose
and protested that hypnotism was a wicked
practise which should be put down, while
mesmerism, on the contrary, which the vulgar
imagined to be the same thing, was a |virtuous
and benefcent science. Upon this the spiritu-
alists present were moved to repudiate astro-
lOgy, mesmerists expressed the strongest
objection to being COMPOUNDED with mediums,
and finally a Mr.. Campbell, who announced
himself as a practical astrologer,' proceeded.
amid Interruptions, to denounce mediums,
mesmerists, and "charlatan astrologers.p The
chairman called him to order. but Mr..
Campbell replied with spirit that he had come
all the way from Hackney. and was not to be
put down. 1t Is evidently no light matter to
bring q practical astroloGer so far from his
home as Totteaham-c court read is from the
suburb in question. In this he is at a disad-
vantage as compared with the spiritualistic
medium, who is able, as Mrs. Guppy showed
on a famous occasion, to annihilate the space
which divides Finchley from Theobald's-r
Mr.. Campbell, however, was apparently not
put down, and, it being found impossible to
carry the resolution. the Chairman, Mr.. F. ".
Read, announced that tbs petition would be