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No. I 10. Voi„ I V. | LONDON, JANUARY 17, 187:;. Pitff;i; 0 ;.i. I'j.

I>: .l» ATI i ON MOI.KRN SIM I.’ ITU A UIS.M,IMwm-n Mr liioiil.Ai.-iiil mill Mil. IIi iinh , at. the New Hull of Heisnee,

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nltxnlion Id th e hiet th a t I have rejiciit.edly d c llp ed th e w ords I use ; Mint. Ii» repea ted ly 11 p«v> H id mime woril s, an il in an on Mr*-1 y ilill'i-nnl. s c ire , wil I mill gi ving I In- s lig h te s t i \ p ineal inn. II o u r frii-inl’M alii lily Id ju d g e of a " beau tifu l ]>liilonopllioal a d d r e s s ” m ay l>n ex tim ated Iro m l-lm m an n er in w hich word*. have been tlirnw ii alionl, in lln i d iscussion , I am a fra id we fan In in lly a<-ni-|>l. Iiih ilnn trinn Hull. b eau tifu l p h ilo so p h ica l address* x a re d e liv e red liy th e sp ir i ts . N o r (Id I IdIIdw h im in h is illustra l 101 n f I In* A y lesbury hoy, S u p p o se if Id hn I run Mint, th n Ayles- hnry hoy oopi-*fI l xurlly 'J 'u rnn r, hoiv does that, p ro v e I hat. m an hint tw o natures, anil flin t duo of l.linin 11 min(li-rii(i from l.ho o th e r al. d e a th , am i Miat Dll.- a fte rw ard s >-xinih ? Vim m ig h t an wall any, In cause a c a r tlo a d of i*ahlmi" H costs (ill., .’> rw t. o f l.iirnipn w ill coil, ‘Js. .'il,d . I nx.-iuro von, thorn in just ns m uch c o n n ec tio n hnl.wni-ri ono |»ropr>mil.ion a n d tin t other _ ( B h iss)- anil th e pe rso n w ho liissns s im p ly show s l.lmt hn m ay liavn •pirita , hu t has no t b ra in s . I’t-rrnil. inn to say th a t o u r Irin n d is so u tte rly forgetful Ilf e v e ry th in g th a t lins passed in th is duhal.n, th a t lu* took Ilin pains, in a ro u n d a b o u t way, to fi ll you how y o n co u ld d is t in - giiinli an indiviilual, wlu-n th a t was ono o f tlm very lin t th in g s I d id in tlin course of my speech in d e f in in g l.lin w ay in wiiioli y o u d is t in g u ish o ih -n io d '-o f i* ■ mlniicn from anol.lm r. I look g re a t p a in s yon m ay re- iri<ti)il»-r (In: illu s tra lio n s I used , o f h o rse , m ail, g lass, f ree hi-eanse I km w how far if w ould b ear upo n th is di-haln. O u r fr ien d e n tire ly forgets il, lu-eanso, if he rem em h ered if, lie o u g h t In have sh o w n w h ere Ii.. ohj'-clod ; and in ro u n d ab o u t, w o rds, w ith o u t, t ro u b lin g to say w h a t lie means, lie talks o f ha lo , o f s p ir i t , a n d sp irit* pin-res, m id a lo t o f word* which m ig h t as well ho m iim h o ju m b o , fo r a ll s o r ls o f p u rp o se s ol a rgum ent o r logic conveyed in th em . S u p p o se il. to hn p e rfe c tly t r u e Mini upon his a rm , o r up o n som e p iece o f p a p e r , so m e th in g w as w r it te n , In* did no t know how , o r up o n a s la te , in e .p in llv m y s te r io u s fa sh io n , heir, in any sorl of sense, has he co n n ec te d th a t w ith h is p ro p o s itio n that man lias two n a tu re s , a n d t h a t al. d e a th o n e o f I hem is su n d e re d Irom lie* o ilie r? There. Inis n o t been even llm se m b lan ce n f an a t te m p t ; and I flu uuinplnin I li.'d. a f te r a duhal.n has lusted th re e h o u rs , we sh o u ld In* jin.l. m |.|ie same p iis ifinn a s wo w ere w hen we s ta r te d . Do nut. fo r gel. our Irieiul lias not, yc.l, fo ld you to wind, d i e s o f a n im a ls lie lim il < Ib is; w hether il. is lim ite d to m en, to som o races o f m en , o r lo o th e r anim als, lie bus ca re fu lly av o id ed ev ery p o in t I pul. in llm b e g in n in g , ,l,id In Id I me al last, I lu ll th e q u e s tio n n f w h e th e r th e r e in o n ly one existence o r w h e th e r th e re a re tw o , w h e th e r th e r e is wlml. y o u unit spin! and w h a t y o u call m a i le r , o r w h e th e r th e r e is o n ly o n e • uh sta iice , is not a lu s tie r I l la t iv e need in q u ire in fo in Ib is d e b a te , is c e r ta in ly about a . rid icu lo u s a s ta tem en t, a s il, w o u ld he p n ■ sib le lo m ak e in >11 ini ■■ in f 8 p ir ilu n lism , because, if llm lo g ic o f th e b e g in n in g sh u ts on! lie pa,, lib ilily o f s p i r i t , if is no uso d isc u ss in g il. a f te rw a rd s on a n y SDi l.nl m ere iiieDiiseipienl.ial i llu s tra l inn . W e ll , th e n , o u r fr ien d say *, and I iv,ini, d I can , fu deal w ith if w ith o u t, p u t t in g m v o w n view lo o forcibly, Im says il. in ju s t th e sam e, ta k in g h is ow n i l lu s t r a t io n , ns telegraphy , one of th e m ean s o f eo m iiiu n in il.iiiii. S u p p o s in g you iv• 111 iiiln a te leg rap h ollice, a n d you saw l.ho n e ed le m o v in g ab o u t ; w ell, y o u would not i iiid n rita n d l.lnil, no if y o u k new n o th in g a b o u t it. you would n o t ; an d if y o u knew n o th in g a b o u t it, a n d th e o p e ra to r to ld V'ci if u a s a p i r i t b ro u g h t l.lm m essage, y o u w o u ld lie a s lik e ly to believe him in you w ould th e o p e ra t in ' w lm look a n latn in to a eu lunef. I-'11 I t ik e excep tion lo y o u r doo l.rino that, tlin e le d r ic lelegi-npli Ii.is m ii i* brought, m orn im p o r ta n t m essag es th a n s p i r i t - te le g ra p h y . II ii|iinl li'leg rnphy w ill b r in g th e p r ic e o f c o rn , if s p i r i t lo le g rn p h y w ill forHi*lI a sfoi’in Mud. is c o m in g , if s p i r i t - te le g r a p h y m ay he u til is e d fo r any ul Ilin o rd in a ry p u rp o se s o f life , th e n I can im d e rs la iid th e a rg il m ini H ut I m u st co iiless a n d h e re I h av e i i i io lh e r p ro o f ol m yfriends houesfy , a lth o u g h n o t o f h is d is c re t io n I m u s t conh-ss I

a d m ire Ins notion of the way a 'li lsilc ought to he conn slid. It •.ns, “ We. uni deiiu , lie* old ipi' .ln,,, ,,| ajurit and inalfcr,' hn‘ i,i fells you wliiil. the soicnl isi s vi'-ivs ol mailer are they do not. hupp. ■ lo lie any I have ever heard bclore, and I have studied a lifll'* abo mailer and force, and so on, from lluchner, Vogt, I'riestley, Mohschoi*, and ofln rs, faking .Spinoza as my inavler they <lo not happen I/, in'.hided in liny of those. And then lie says, ivhal ? “ Oh, th»*re a wonderful harmony, showing all one mind." Oh, hot you in hav l/iken some Iron hie lo prove that, il if wa*. any good to your erne. Where is the harmony ir. an avalanche? VV Imre the harmony in a shipwreck? Where the harmony in mi curth'piake? Where (lie harmony in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius? I object lo words lining pitched out willioul. the slightest thought as to what they mean. /( that is the sort of thing yon gel. in your heautilul pliilosophical addrcs.1.4 at. the spiritual seances, I do not wonder al. your being pleased with them, nor al. l.lm results us limy manifest themselves here, hut I would HUgge-it. it. is possible l.o improve upon them. Well, then, our friend asked “ What is genius?” Well, in a country where Shakespeare has lived, and near where Voltaire wrote, it. would he poe-ohl • to give you illus­trations that might serve you; hut with a man like Winslovr, or Maildsley, to guide you, he will tell you that all that you call genius must result from an organisation, and a development of that organisa­tion ; an education of il. built up, little by little, and little by little ; and when you tell me that any ol your spirits will pul. into man, arid out, of man, that which has never come within the range of his per­cept ion, I fell you, yon imply utter words that have no sort of weight. And what on earth has clairvoyance or animal magnetism lo do with your po 11 ion, or electro-biology, or somnambulism ? lo any medical hospital they will give you very many instances of clairvoyance in connection with somnambulism, which very often occur lo female patients in particular singes of their life. It. is one of the commonest class of extraordinary phenomena that we have lo deal with ; hut what, sort of conned ion has that with your proposition I,hat rnim ha two nature i on earth, arid Mini, one ol l.hos • it sundered from the other ? and even in your Iasi, speech you did not tell iib which il. was that was got rid of. You have carefully refrain'd from giving us the slightest opinion Mini, can enable us to undcrslund what, you yourself meant — supposing, by a stretch of fancy, that you yourself know what you mean in dialing with if. Well, now, if you please, let us test this matter,I )iii* friend lin t talked of invisible things, spirit being invisible. Last night In* told ns steam was invisible, and I heard a great number of his friends applaud if. (“So if is.") Home gentleman says, " So it is." Well, probably we do not mean thn mine. |!y team I mean Mi'* elastic fluid which ii created by the continuous application of bent lo water,

I and I say flint, the steam is seen in tlin form of vapour, and that vapour is not one thing, and steam another (applause) and I say that if the gentleman who interrupts me would not get his own steam up, lie would do holler, because when the slcum is got Up without the mfety- viilves, Mien there is an explosion. I say that there was never a more ridiculous point pul. I hail l.o sny Mini, vapour is seen , mid steam is not. (A voice; “ Steam is invisible.’’) If you tell me so, all right; il won’t make my opinion different. We clearly do not mean the same by “ hlcum.” (The voice: “ Steam is invisible.”)

The O i i .m iim a n : I must draw the alfoiition of the meeting lo one ol l.lie rules, and that is, that the right of addressing the meeting is con­fined In flic debaters, and myself on a point of orde-.

Mr. IhiAni.Ai'iiii : Whether steam lie visible or not, patience clearly is not amongst some of my opponents, hut l.ho man who lolls you »s an illustration of invisibility 11 ml. steam is invisible, I sny, with any ordinary ohemisl,'h dollnil.ion l.o guide mo, fells you that which is not. accurate; because I say Mini, vapour, as our IViend expresses it, is but the stale of the water when the steam is created, and that steam and vapour are not two distinct things which can he spoken of. Steam is the vaporisation of tlin water. ("No.") And if you say “ N o" fifty times il, may sat.isly you, because wo lind that lines do satisfy some people; hut I beg you llrst, if you please, to go homo, put the kettle upon lie* Urn, and experiment, instead of experimenting in making a

*Jl5 'I'llK M K P1UM AND DAVlUiKAK . .1 ANUAItY 1 7 , 187:$.

m>vlin;>, (liMnitorlv. Now tin- li.'Xl |n«in: t lm( | want I,, draw lit I i-nl ion t» is. tti lt our inomt suiil ill liis x|»vi>li Inst uiglit, t lu t n in ltrr was tho ii-'U .t ot Uu'tV. tin (tut not .-ax ivluit lio nnvinl lix finvi', nor tint In' sn\ llcil \u- nu .iiit l>\ in i>* i' nni tliinir .liiVnvnl from wlmt 1 linvo sniti ^ooiin.; taut nmUor vi.is Ilio rrsult ot loi'iv, t ivnnt to know iv lirtlirr ho inrun- l'\ t in t , tin t lo ivr j i r r m ln l lilt' I'lisIrnOC ot m n tlrr , nml, if so, ors'uonni ito r • onin t'xjil.mntion ol t ii, conception of tlio precedent.»t*t« of fwvw More mutter yet exited. t will not wearj you with any sort ot U 'lutnmriin; of tlu t point us tli > m ntlrr stuntin' now, uml 'l t’on!»-.s t in t t led in tlir ililtn'ulty, tin ' unlr--t our snnpli tu rns tlio inn1.trrs tlu t lu v r h rm put t'» von into n ilrr jin'iilnI'it\, tlir rr i-‘ notliiu:: w lu lriv 'r tu.il rrum ins tor t in tlorussion lirrr. Ilrruuso I do not want to I’ ' reduced to I Ur posit ion ot 1 n v ii e1 to nd in it or drn \ w lu 'tlirr sotur tUmo l.ip p ru rd in St, I do 's \.-\lnm ovrr tlir wav. or not, I inn >' "itru t lor ' i i ' purp.isr. without dispuliiij{ tlir o rru rrrn rrs of tlir tliiuio*.

1 t.ovo th u u lor our trirm l s ai'quiiicnt, and I usk him to show mr tin' ronurrlion between Ilnur and th r propositions In' lias put In von. i n ivl.itr to ion tliui somr b.n dal sonietliini; sonirw hrrr is no inorr than rrlatiiij^ i in t llo iahn or t ’rotrssor Viidri'soll dul somrthinr* MUiirwhrrr t tsr, and i - not (o havr thrill ro nu rrtrd with th r position wliirli our trirm l is bound to p rio r, I hr onus ill' s not lir upon mr to account ns to hi'ii some s n tr mis w ritten upon, or how somr man tied or niitird him self; the onus lies upon our trirm l lo show that that is the result of " nut h r rails sp iritu a l inthi -nre, and to make it clear to you in dealing w ith it.

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Mr. It. u \s t 1 have abstained from Irving to convince my trirm l Mr. Ih’iuilamdi. about steam and vapour, and other m atters, because I think h r has qu .tr as rood a right to have 11is own opinion about these things as 1 have I am one of th r freest ol Freethinkers, and 1 do not rare a couple of straws how much Spiritualism Mr. liradlaugh, or any friend before me. believes in ; it will not alter inv position a bit in regard to th r matte.'. I do not know whether there is anything significant, about it or not, bn; t on very sjrrv to see th r varied tactics of mv friend Mr.

it is well lo i h(*ok flic experience of one person with flint of imottu-r- the more senses you ran bring lo hear upon liny plii iitimi'initi, it (|ll(>a not m atter wind it is, the greater certainly there i s n s to t h r nature of Ilia! phenomenon, < hie men iug we were silling lit a I r. Fverel I . , .No. “i; I'i'iilon S tric t, Islington. Now, Mr. Kvcrctl is not a “ Wi/.nrd of t|„J North,'' hr not an \ndeison ; he in simply a trmlesiiian, who is desir, oils ol eainiiie know ledge, mid is hospitable enough to open hr. d.mr4 now and again lor Irieiida to eoine in, and in addilion lo giving lliria instruction, lie sonielimi s gives them a little supper, mid m that is nil lie gets out of the transm'tion. We sat there one night lor the purpose of making experiments, nml there was a voice talking to us, couvcrsiu« away with m< just the same as wo would converse with cn.'li oilier answering onr ip r- teu r and diseussing w ith us, and telling us ail about himself, and in every way comporting him,-ell like a limiian being, g, a little while one of the elilirvoyanls said, “ See! there i,. soniel liing up at the ceding." Another said, “ Yes, there is an arm ." Another en0 sivs, “ O h! there is s.nnelhing standing on the table. Another >ayS) “ (111! it is writing on the eeiling." 'they all t[ireo corroborated I lelj other spolitancoiislv; thcrccould lu* no chance ol the idea ol one inin.l being affected b\ t he art ion of tin* Other. \ \ e struck a light ; we lookn], and we found tbe name “ .lolin W att written upon the ceiling in u large hand, without any human being present, having written it, as we all sal closely together In such a wav that it would have been inipoj. sible for such a tiling to have been done. There lire a number of people present, in this ball who have seen that manifestation. Then, again, 1 have to speak a word or two about the nmlerialisation of spirits,1 spoke of that last night. It is supposed to tie a great mi mole to see such things for a sp irit to communicate, and for those manifestations lo take place, that seem to lie so prodigious in the estimation of inv friend, tlut there is no miracle about them at all ; they are all a necessity of human existence, and they are all in nceordnneo with tlir usual modes of human existence. For, indeed, you see a materialised spirit, before you now. 1 am a human beii g, and I have got a solid, material body. W hat is this solid, material (tody composed of? It is capable of being resolved into the elements that may exist, in this

lira {laugh, and also his great acquaintance with mad-dootors. I have atmosphere, with the exception of certain minerals, which also can be not been able to get so deeply into the secrets of that malicious set of | volatilised. Hence, you can reduce the human body into an impalpable beings, who are perhaps the greatest scourges of the country ; and I ! ether. What, is it th a t has brought this human body together? What hope, if Mr. liradlaugh gets nearer to the reins of Government, he will i fortuitous circumstance lms brought those atoms together, nml what is cause a great revision of thcssM atutes atTeeting lunacy, because there are continually bringing them together? We talk about death : but we hundreds of people with psychological faculties in a state of abnormal are dying every moment of our lives. W hat is death, but simply tho action, and they are locked up in lunatic asylums, whereas, if they were man throwing oil certain elements, that is all. and he keeps continuing properly trained and developed, they would turn out to he very useful 1 taking others on : but when once the power of attraction is overcome members of society. 1 w ish to direct your attention for a few minutes 1 by the power of repulsion, repulsion lak-s place quicker than attraction,to the proot that these influences come from spirits. For instance, we talk w ith spirits tace to tare, and we see spirits fare to face. Lot me give you an illustration. W e sit together in the seance, jolly , talking, enjoying ourselves; immediately we hoar live or six other people taking part in the conversation, and we lind that these other people have been in different places during the day from wlmt we have been. One can tell us what was taking place perhaps in New York, another perhaps in some \xu*t ot Fngland or Scotland, or up and down the country in that

till at last the equilibrium is lost, nml then the connection w ith the body is severed, llovv is the sp irit m aterialised? I told you of the jierrujiirit around the intelligent principle which constitutes the essen­tial o fa man. This yor.'p/W / is the thing tha t connects my intelligence with the external world, through the medium of inv body. My body is the instrum ent ; and speaking of the person with the injured brain, our friend says, "O il, if the man bad a smashed brain, what would be the consequence?'’ 1 say, “ Ob, if you bad a mote in your eye. what

way . Now, if a thing can speak, it ought to be able to tell wlmt if is, would be the consequence? ” You could not see out of it till you luul and who it is, and where it came from ; and these spirits are not things the mote removed; of course you could not, blit the man was there all that allow its to judge about them, but they tell us exactly vvliat they the time, only lie bad not the opportunity of manifesting in (hat par- are and who they are. and they give us their credentials in such a wav ■ ticular way. The body is simply the instrum ent of the man. and if you that every person who has investigated the subject thoroughly has come derange the notion of the instrument, of course it is of no use to the to the conclusion, ay, and are coming to the conclusion in hundreds man. This materialisation of spirits, then, is carried on in the same and thousands every week, that these manifestations are the work of way ns the materialisation which we see in everyday life. The spirit is spirits. It is not a m atter of logic at a ll; it is simply a m atter of fact, the positive principle : the spirit is the magnetic element. As J said, it How much logic would it take to prove the existence of l ’othnal Green, requires two elements in nature to cause form. Wo want the force, o r even the existence of Mr. Hums or Atr. liradlaugh ? The only ivnv All force is spiritual, and the effect of all torco is material. That is that yon can prove the existence of those spots on the face of the earth just the difference between them. No person ever saw force. Theis to become practically acquainted with them. 1 wish to say a word two more about direct writing, to show you that that writing dors come from a mentality, from an individuality ; and in giving the character­istics of individuality our friend Mr. Jh-adlaugh entirely left out the characteristics of the individual man, the highest individual that we are acquainted with. He spoke about tbe liorse, and so o n ; he might also have spoken about the man, but it was in such a categorical wav that we cannot put our linger upon his definition of individuality as it applies to the power of the human mind. 1 have some cards before me, which

forocs of the magnet cannot be seen. M atter is simply an indication of force simply an indication of action; and the more you think of and discuss the matter, you will see that that is genuine philosophy, given upon that slate without any excogitation or quotation whatever. The spirit is the magnetic principle, the positive element, the constructor, and the will of tlmt spirit is such that when it comes into an atmosphere where the proper elements exist, it can absorb into its periphery those material elements that are there limiting, and it can individualise itself materially in the very same way as wo individualise ourselves materi-

aro photographs of other cards, and those other cards were written upon \ ally, and from the very same elements. The medium, in whose presence by a human being, who did not possess a body of the same kind as you this manifestation is capable of occurring, gives off tbe protoplasm— and 1 poserss, and they were written under test conditions as follows, something nearer to protoplasm than Professor lluxlev lias discovered; Four o r live gentlemen tried tills experiment. The investigatin' is the protoplasm of protoplasm the nerve ether, that, goes to make that desired to proceed th u s : Here is a card : pinch a bit out of the corner protoplasm that Huxley talks of. The spirit can gather that out of theof it and put it into your purse. You do so. Put the card down ; and ns atmosphere, and out of the body of the medium, more particularly if darkness is the condition, you turn out the gas. In two minutes after that medium is in a deep comatose condition at the time, and somo- vou have turned out the gas, you turn it on again ; you lind the card , times the experiment robs that person of so much power that lie is not lying w ritten with an inscription in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin, lint able to control liis nervous system afterwards, because of the drain vou sav, “ Is this the same card ? Is it not a card that has been brought made upon it. I leave out of the question the prudence of doing into the place surreptitiously somehow ?" Put you take out the little those experiments, but there is many a thing done in surgery and in crum b from your purse, ana you lit it in --fo r you tore it off in a peeu- science that it would not do for people to engage in every day of their

i same card. This kind life. Surgeons get- cut with poisoned knives, and that kind ot thing.liar w ay ; you tit it in, and you Ibid it is really the ; of manifestation has been tried time after tim e ; amt if you can imagine n number of people sitting together who know nothing but indifferent Kuglisli ami Scotch ; if you lind a number of people so constituted sitting together, and getting a writing in those three languages, and, at a sub­sequent sitting, one in German as-well: why, then, if you can suppose that such comes from anything but a human mind, 1 do not know what

poisonciWo cannot, bo nil anatomist#, wo cannot be all dissectors; bonce, wo need'not be nil mediums: but we may protit by tbe saeriiiees of those who put themselves into such positions for our information.

Mu. 13uAi>i..uv.n’s Conci.i’uixu Sckkoii.Mr. JhtAm.AVun : 1 have arrived now at my Inst speech. Our friend

the characteristics of individuality are. There is every characteristic of , has not told us all through the debate whether Spiritualism applies to individuality apparent. I f you got a letter by post, who would you I any other animals than man, or whether it is limited to am races ot suppose wrote u ? And if that letter was written in a certain fan- men, ami I complain that it is most unlair to leave me in that position, guttge, would you not suppose that it was written bv some person because I challenged it most clearly at the beginning. 1 a>k bow can who know the language? And if the persons present, when that : you expect him to be able to relate to you the proceedings at a spiritual w riting took place, did not know tbe language, would you not seance uoeurately, when he could not remember my speech ot last night, confess that there was an intelligent being at work that need t and hae net unllv told you I luul not .defined man, or said but very little that language? There does not seem to be any other mentality about him, dealt .with other things instead, when 1 devoted a long portion than human intelligence that we have been able to discover in our of my speech to the definition of man, his vitality, and his intellectual acquaintance with nature. As to this w riting, I will give you a combined vitality. If our friend simply has not a memory for it, then how are

‘ ‘ * •' ’ wc to judge of his memory even for relating spiritual seances to you ?illustration. One evening 1 sat for experiments where there wore three clairvoyants present, because wo have heard a good deal about the senses being beguiled, and one clairvoyant might be under a hallucination, and

> judge of his memory oven for relating spiritua 1 will not suggest that he wished to misrepresent me in any way ; 1 do not think ho did, but see how painful it is to me w hen I have endeavoured

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28 THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK,

YOU the circumstance?, vrhicli arc just the same as the other oirenin- stances I hare related. You will observe that there is nothing particularly new except the test which our friend has brought, forward, and he is very anxious I should refer to the things that he touches upon. To show you the delicacy of this matter : the rays of magnetism coining from the eyes of the person now addressing you caused that materialised form to melt away, while it was being looked at by several pairs of eyes. This instance itself shows you how difficult the matter is lor investigation, and our careful we ought to be in going into the question ot test. As to Klliotson, and all those gentlemen that have been named, we are quite w ell aware of their experiments; we do all the experiments that they wrote of in their voluminous books, week in and week out continually. As to the utility, the cui I no of Spiritualism, why. this is the subject of a debate in itselt ; I have not lmd time to touch upon that. 1 have employed the time in laying the necessary foundation tor considering that question ; and as to tlie history of Spiritualism, and the use it has been to society from the early records ot history, there is also a great deal to be said upon that. Of course i: n tc t j 6MQT tor < nr friend ICr, Br dl i i; is the juvenilityof humanity : but when I look at the -‘ children*’ who are Spiri­tualists, and the big people who are not Spiritualists, 1 do not see such an overaweing condition of mind in the one compared with the other: and 1 ask you, who has cited the greatest number of facts, and introduced the greatest number of scientific con­siderations. and has brought forward the greatest number of new truths in this debate ? Ami again, 1 wish to call attention to the fact that I hare established my three propositions, and therefore I have put out of court the prop siti-.ms and the pleadings of my friend who opened the debate. 1 showed you last evening that man had two sets of faculties, and that there were clearly two conditions of matter entering into man’s organic circumstances. Then this evening I have shown you that those intelligences, tin>e individualities, those identities that lived with us as men and w :uen. and have been separated from us by death, are capable of coming back amongst us in a great number of ways, and proving to ns that they do exist, and establishing their individuality in every way possible. We can handle them, they can touch us, we can see t hem, we cun hear them, they can lift things about; we can see them in the organic state, we can see them in the psychical state, we can identify them from descriptions of people who do not know them, and have no idea of their individuality, and we can know them by long acquaintance with them. We have every proof of the existence ot spirits that we have of the existence of human beings, and that proof I have adduced to you during this debate. As to the matter of Spinoza, Ccc., it is a notorious fact that Spinoza proves every one of my positions in his ** Ethics.'** He proves immortality, he proves the existence of the spiritual essence which is claimed by some Spiritualists. I am not much of a reader myself. Laughter.) As I told you, I am a hard- work: ng n : 1 have re ugh to know that Spinoza is entirelywith me as regards the spiritual philosophy. He is not with me as regards apparitions: he did not believe in psychological phenomena, as they manifestly were not invented, as the Yankee said, in his day, at least they were not then understood, but Spinoza was entirely of my philosophy. Ar.d now a word to conclude. Our friend Mr. Bradlaugh is. I suppose, a Secularist, and I am a Spiritualist: and yet, barring the difference that I admit a certain number of facts in nature that he rejects, we are both alike in almost every other detail. I hold before me here the “ Principles, Objects, and Buies *‘ of the National Secular Society, and to the whole or these I am ready to subscribe in every iota. And I would say further, that there is no possible col-

~ During this det-ite I av< Hc<: parading my merits in any way, that the cause of truth might t .u .c - ie signally triumph unaided by adventitious circumstances. Mem : I h . c 1 . oi mj reading r en li on, whicb I am free to say are

I . . n’.y m:-.-:: Si-:r.ora’s “ Liie, L r . a n d Ethics**‘for afe-a- hv-urs ^ne evening, when a friend left- it, yet the principles of that great thhri . - .h re.->ed my i ;; ible me to make nse of the exprea-afams in the Tex*. I base n : the work 21s. . from whichtime an 1 prv-.t n: me from quoting fully.* Ethics, Part I. "O f God,” is au

- m eatt O L is the f irs t Chnseabsolutely” (Prop. 16, Coroll. 3};that ‘•besides G«>1 no substance can exist, or be conceived to exist'’ (Prop. 14); “ that arm * 1 ate is that which the understanding apprehends as the essence of suly '* (Prop. 9, ; “ that the extended thing and the thinking Thing—thought and extension—are either attributes > f God or are modes or affections of the attribute of God ” (Prop. 14, Coroll. 2): “ that the Absolutely Infinite Entity or

- the Being consisting of an infinity of attri­butes, each uf which expresses a certain eternal and infinite essence" (Prop. 10, Scholium; : “ that everything which by its nature may exist in numbers, must necessarily have a c ruse for its existence external to i ts e lf (Prop. 8, Schol. 2). In the skme Scholium, Spinoza observes: “ I do not doubt but that they who a Bgs oafustdbj, and a n I t a things by their

i n i m u s, will find b me difficulty in traders ing the dem nstrali n of our seventh pr position. The difficulty' here arises from the distinction between TAidi/trat-.'.us of substances and tvlyanccs themselves being overlooked, aud from ignorance of the way in which things are produced.” In the Scholium to Pr p. 15 1: is a: gued that “ all who have ever thought of the Divine nature in any proper way deny that God is corporeal.” In the reas. ini lived in these quota'-iens, my assumption that Spinoza is of my philosophy is abundantly

stantiated, in# a “ mode of sulI re eyes through the active agency of an "incwTiwtal substance’ is an

.......... 1 Spin* za’s philosophy. In Ethics, Part V., “ Ofthe F o u r of the Understanding,” is reasoning to show that man is immortal. “ Pr-. p. M$. Ti e human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body; something of it remains which is eternal. Dem n trait i: There ia

or idea which exprcoaco the essence o f the human h:dy, and this therefore is necessarily something that pertains to the < <vetice cf the hum m mind. Put we ascribe no duration to mind that can he defined by time, save only and in so far the actual existence of the bo iv. which is ex­plain • b, and may finwi by time ia expressed—that is, we d

- ?ribe duration to the mind, except in connection with the body. As, how­ever, there k necessarily a something whicii, by a certain eternal necessity, is conceived by the very e^.-nue of God, this somethin;;. pertaining to the essence

-rnal.” In the Scholium appear the following i t ■ r •:—"O ur mind. nmqcfa as It involves the casco ce of the body

. form or asp-.' unity, is eternal, and this it? existence cannot be defined by time or explained by duration.” But mind as wbsl mo t exist apart from its attributes, and that which is most real has tlie greatest number

- rthermore, it has been shown that the human mind and Divine min i are identical in nature-, and in the idea of them............ . | pot nti L . . .:. *, this pot nti il - ng th - or a t i

me idti' o f t he value to be attached to‘Mr. Bra.lUugli's boiUud know.I .. : • ' !- :: - ■■ ■ ' ‘X '■

giveni me the He direct in respect thereto bv hfa grimaces on the platform.

January 17, 1873.

1 ision between those facts of psychology and the principles Secularism. Tbcre can bo no possible collision. Why, Hie great.;,, number of my friends, up and down the country, have once been SeoulwiaU. 1 bare Afr. Shepherd, of Liverpool, taking the chair f.,P me when I go to Liverpool; 1 have another gentleman, who is a Spiri- tualist, and is also proprietor of a .Secular Hall in a pari of A urk-'.irr-. and I have the editor of the Sjdriluai Muyo.ine, wlio used to stand upon the Secular platform ; and I say, How is it possible that the lacts of nature can ho rejected by any sound—I will not say creed—but sound principles of any kind? If tlie principles of Secularism arc. sound, they ought to give unlimited liberty to the mind. fJ I, * priuci- pies of Secularism ought not even to-----

Mr. Huadlaim i: 1 am sorry to rise to order. I thought we were discussing modern Spiritualism. I am quite ready to discuss S< cilia, ism at some other time. I think if our friend would only have told us which of those forms of life died, and which did not, it would have been better.

Mr. B urns: 1 am very glad to give my friend every opportunity. 1 have found no fault with him whatever, except for giving a slight indi- cation of slander against a medium. My friends, if any man will sfar.d up on a public platform and repeat anything that is libellous or n!,. paraging against a woman without giving the name, I do not knew where hie manhood is. (Applause.) She may only he a epirit-r.ed.nr.'i. but she is somebody's wife, and she is perhaps somebody's mother, ar.d her character is as dear to her as your character, English men ai d women, is dear to you, and I would not for a moment see a man stand up and try to stab a person in the dark without resenting tha* moral assassination. I have the pleasure of knowing—it is quite a recent ease—that it is an infamous lie. I say to you in parting, Spiritualism i? a matter in which you do not need to depend upon medium? at all. You can go home, every one of you, and seitle it a' your own fireside.It is not a professional matter, it is a universal truth, inherent in the nature of man, and it is capable of elucidation by all those who take the trouble to observe the conditions. (Applause.)

Air. B radlaugh : I beg to move a vote of thanks to the Chairman tor presiding over us for these two evenings.

Air. B urns: It is my place to second that proposition. Id o so vkh great pleasure. I t is through the instrumentality of the Chairman -.Lit I liaTe had the pleasure of debating this subject before you.

The resolution wa3 agreed to.Air. Bp.adlaugii : I beg, before the Chairman returns thank?,

with reference to what has just fallen from our friend, that if the gen­tleman who gave me the information does no: authorise me to deal with it within a week, I shall print his letter in the Rcjiyr.ner. I may say I have no right to deal with it now. Air. Burns had a speech before, ia which he might have challenged me to do i t ; but he left it till his last speech, so I will exercise my own discretion : and I tell you frankly, the only reason I do so is, the gentleman told me if I could manage no: to make his name known to-night, he might be able to delect further matters.

The Chairman-: I have had very great pleasure in presiding on these tw o evenings: and it is an additional pleasure to find that there is some indication—at any rate, on the part of one debater—of pursuing this subject a little further. I hope that that mind will continue; because there are so many matters which have been opened, that lam sure it will be a desirable thing if these gentlemen—who have acted throughout with so much courtesy—and have been listened to with so much attention, should have another opportunity of trying their mettle.

The proceedings then closed, but as the parties were leaving the plat­form Air. Bradlaugh handed a letter to Air. Burns, which is supposed to haTe been the letter containing charges against a medium, as men­tioned during the debate. Air. Burns deliberately tore up the letter, and threw the pieces in the direction in which the letter emanated, with the hope that all imputations of malice or ignorance against unoffending conscience might meet with a similar fate. The uproar from Air. Brad- laugh's friends was so great that no words could be heard, and the meeting terminated in great confusion.

In introducing the report,theAafionr'/Ifcd'rnieralludestothisir.eident as follows: “ After the termination of the debate on the second evening there was considerable excitement, caused by an unusual display of temper on the part of the champion of Spiritualism towards a gentleman who had written a letter alleging trickery on the part of some mediums re­ferred to by Air. Burns.” This quotation is incorrect in two important particulars. First, the mediums were not referred to by Air. Burns, but by Air. Bradlaugh, who introduced the slander into the debate. Secondly, the “ display of tem per” was on the part of Air. Bradlaugh's friends, and not on that of Air. Burns. To place at his disposal that which he had characterised as “ an infamous lie,” was simply to give him the power to deal with it as any man of moral sense would. To Air. Bradlaugh and his friends such a matter seems to be a morsel of exquisite sweetness. The offer made to Air. Burns was an insult which he very properly treated in the summary way reported above.

D r. D onovan, th e well-known phrenologist, died recently. He had not been in practice for some time.

P reston.—A correspondent, in writing for information, observes :— “ \Ye are starting a private circle, and we have great hopes of its success.”

A country correspondent re m a rk s :—“ The M edium , indeed, has a wide circulation, for this morning I received an application for a Alis- sionary Spiritualist in Sait Lake City.

AIr. T homas R obinson iBec-ston) says the cause is progressing hope- fullv in that village. A developing circle is held at his house every Thursday evening, Airs. J. Alurdoek, medium. Two healing-mediums are expected to be developed.

The Pope—poor old fool I—has, to his entire satisfaction, proved Jesus to have been of aristocratic descent, and that aristocracy is the gift of God, and, with the priests, the supporters of thrones. It is rather unfortunate for this view of matters that the aristocratic Jesus most hc-artily execrated priests, renounced all connection with thrones, asked his aristocratic followers to divide with the poor, and was, m tact, a missionary and lecturer to the people—to mankind—irrespective oi their social position or moral status. His kingdom was it'd of this

l world. The kingdom of his popish followers is exclusively of this world.

TIL K A I K l i I U M A N D D A Y K I t E A K . 'A'.)January 17, 1873.

WARN UICI’ON I'! ASSOCIATION.On Monday lust, the Marylebone Assooml ion of 1 t i c | u i n t o Spiri­

tualise) ludd then- quarterly imel ing al. Urn Spiriluiil I iih! il ul.ion, 15,Southampton Row, ut ivhioh there was a.goodly nllendnnoo considering tlir ii nee rtiii illy of i lie weal her. Tho business of I lie evening common ceil |jy voting Mr. While to tho chair, when I lie following circular and rides were adopted for the guidance of the Association : —

OriKioNs o f E minhmt M ich on S i>iiu t o a u h m .14 Hhiritiiullsiii is a fuel and a life ; in method il. is phenomena! and philosophical,

corresponding to the induct ivc and deductin' methoda of reason in;;." 10 ' M./V, W/ .v." tint c\cii in the most cloudier s skies ol scepticism 1 see a ruin dond, il il he

no h itf/c r than a man's hand it is Modern Spirit nalisni." Ijinl llnaujliam... pe.itI, destroys not, in any sense, either tho life nr the identity ot man."

/);!i limn.•• I h ■ world at large ridicules that, which it does not iinderslaiid. . . That

,Spiritual pheiinnetnu exist, any man posse r.i-d of coninniu sense can provi lor jnmsclt In e\p ■rinieiil." I'rumncll /•'. I'ui/ri/.

" I am perl el i \ coin ineed that. 1 Inn e hot It seen and heard, in a manner which should make mihcliel impossihle, things called Spiritual, w hich cannot he taken j hv a rational hoiilg to he eapihle of esplanalioii hy imposture, coincidence, or ] mistake. / V. y r /•).: Morgan.

" How pure ill heart and sound in head.With what divine alteetimis hold.Should lie Hie mail whose thoughts would hold An hour’s eon ilium ion with I lie dear I.” Tmni/son.

o H would startle s,,nie people lo diseover in how many royal palaees in fairope it (Spiritualism) is llrmly sealed, and with what vigour il is dillusing il-ell through all ranks and profes ions of men, who do not eare to make much noise about it m en and women of literary, religious, and seieiililie fame.” William Hviatt.

“ I have tried lo And out how they (phenomena) are done, tint the morn J •tudied them the more satisfied was I that they could not be explained by mere nieeliaiiieal trick. 1 have laid the fullest opportunity for investigation."—l.nnl[jnttnuj.

o And this filet of Spiritualism will yet tie grasped as with a death-lied dutch of the delivering hum I that readies doivn to lilt us into new life.”—Gerald Mas.ni/.

R u les and R eg u la tio n s .

Ri le 1.—That, this Society be called tho Marylebone Association of Inquirers into Spiritualism.

R ule 2.- -That the objects of tho Association are to offer facilities to investigators, by holding seances and meetings, tho circulation of pro­gressive literature, and by every possible menus to induce inquiry into Spiritualism.

R ule 5.—That the officers of tho Association shall consist of a pre­sident, vice-president, a committee of seven mombers—five males and two females (three of whom shall form a quorum), a secretary, treasurer, and librarian. The officers shall retire from office annually, but shall bo eligible for re-election.

R il e 4.—That the election of tho executive cominitteo take place at the last quarterly meeting of the Association in each year, special notice of such election to bo forwarded to each member at least a week before the election shall take place.

R ule 5.—That any respectable person, male or female, may become a member on payment of an entrance-fee of Is., and a quarterly subscrip­tion of the same amount.

R ule fi.—That any member being in arroar of his or her subscrip­tion for one month after the termination of a second quarter, be con­sidered to have withdrawn from the Association.

R ule 7.—That a card of membership be issued to each member of the Association, the same to bo returned to tho secretary on his or her resignation.

R ule 8 .— That once a month there shall bo a social gathering, at tho residence of any member who may have convenience for holding the same, for the purpose of members stating their experience, or discussing anything of interest that may bo read or suggested bearing on the subject.

R ule !).—That once in three months there shall be a general meeting of the members, to hear a report from the secretary as to the financial and general aspect, of1 the Association. To Buch meetings each member may introduce a friend.

R ule 10.—That no alteration of tho rules take place except at a general meeting of the Association.

The next business was to appoint officers for the ensuing year, when Mr. Covvpcr was re-elected president; Mr. Hunt, vice-president; Mr. White (re-elected), secretary; Mr. Runter, treasurer; Mr. Maynard (re-elected), librarian ; and a committee of live males and two females; when the company separated for the refreshment room.

Alter voting Mr. Cowpcr to the chair, an address of condolence was read, which it is intended to present to Mrs. Maltby, who lias recently lost her husband, who was a member of the association. Tito address was artistically written and beautifully illuminated by Mr. Griffiths, and will be signed on behalf of the members by tho president.

Mr Hunt then gave a very impressive address, showing a need for ̂greater spirituality, and a necessity for us to live so that our light may 1 shine and give radiance to all.

“ Historicus” pointed out that tho Church opposed a verification of (ho : miracles upon which ils fiiillt is supposed to be founded. Spiritualism j rescued such important testimony of spiritual existence from a danger of rational rejection, reducing immortality to natural law, and thus was ; Speedily supplanting tho Church, which, as a consequence, was in a state ; of rapid decay. Tho opposition of scientific limn proceeded from the fact that they were ignorant of that which they affected to denounce. The speaker proposed a vote of thanks from the association to Mr. \ Burns for tho aid afforded by the Spiritual Institution. This was ; seconded by Mr. Claxton, and carried.

Mr. Ihiriis in reply said 11is thanks were rather due to the Marylebone friends, who, by adopt ing the spirit in which the Progressive Library hud been founded, had done much to support it and make it useful, and at tho same time had quietly made themselves the, most powerful society in i the nii'lropolis; hy such a system of co-operation, the Institution would soon become self-supporting and much more useful, l ie concluded by observing that as tho movement would finish its first, quarter ol a century of existence on March .’l l , tho event should bo commemorated by suitable proceedings, in which that association might lake uselul act ion.11 > also poke of the great necessity of a general and also local choirs inLondon. i

Mr. ( I ri Hi lbs si at ed his willingness to a o I al. any lime in gull ing up a eouoerl, and would lie pleasetl to join others, believing it possible to have some kind of successl ill demons! ration.

The seerelary then addressed I lie meeting lor a Itriel period, that the association now numbered fitly members, showing an increa o; eleven on I lie quarter and a healthy stale ol progp Aon.

The evening was enlivened by vocal and insl.rumenlal music in which the following friends took part: -Miss Claxton am 1 Messrs, ilaek'T and (Iridil.liB.

( 'u in 1.1. Warn:, JI on. Nee., 10, Lurid, Strut.I’.S. Herewith is our quarterly subscript ion of25 s. to t.lie Spiritual

Institution, and 5s. Ibr the use of the room, friends wishing to inquire or join will bo welcomed amongst uh.

RALSTON ASSOCIATION OK INQUIRERS INTO SPIRITUALISM.

On Monday evening last, I.Tt li insl.., this assoe.iulioii held il* fifth half- yearly general meeting. The president, Mr. Thomas Wilks, occupied the chair, and I he business oTthe i-vcni.ig was opened by lie: minutes ol I lie. ball-yearly general meeting of -I illy ::, and special general ne < ting of Seplember I H, IH72, ami I lie ad verti .emeuI cmveiling I lie mei i ing, being read and confirmed. Tho president then called upon the secretary to rend the report of I In; council and buliiiiee sheel. for the. half-year ended December .'ll, 1872, from which it was shown that the a.sucialion lias made steady and satisfactory pi ogn- ;, the number of members being thirty-five as compared with twenty-eight on June .‘50 ltv-t. T he accounts and balance-sheet, as certified by the auditors, Messrs. Tapp and Sulman, showed an increase in Lite receipts, as comjjarod with the preceding half- year, of £'7 10s. I0d., and tho increase in tho expenditure of LI IT-. Id.; while a credit cash balance of £(> Os. 7d., and capital stock balance of £l> 1 Is. Id., are carried forward to the current half-year.

The council purpose investing tho receipts accruing from donations for life membership and subscriptions for honorary membership in purchases for the library, and in reference to which a number of the leading and most valuable literary works on Spiritualism are about to be added, consequent on tho receipt of two most liberal donations received during the past half-year. The first, donation was from Robert Hannah, Esq., F.G.S., of £1 Is., and the second from Miss Florence E. Cook of £5.

The report most carefully analysed the results of the twenty-six seances hold on consecutive Thursday evenings, tho average attendance of members working out at fourteen ; and stated that the truth of Spirit­ualism had been satisfactorily demonstrated. The special seances held during the half-year have been well supported, and great interest taken in all tho meetings. A reference was made to the impartiality of the editor of Ih a Hackney and Kin (/stand Gazette and. Shoreditch Telegraph in publishing eleven communications upon Spiritualism during the half- year ending December fi I, 1872, at tho close of which correspondence the editor recommended his numerous correspondents to read and investigate for themselves.

The report and balance-sheet were then formally proposed for adoption by the members by Mr. (1. It. Tapp, seconded by Mr. It. Pomeroy Tredwen, and carried unanimously. The following officers were then re-elected for the current half-y c../, viz:—President, Mr. Thos. Wilks; Council, Mrs. A. Corner, Mr. Geo. Dlyton, Mr. Alfred E. Lovell, Mr. Jos. Stephens, and Mr. E. J. Wilson ; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. Thos. lilyton. After some further formal business, the proceedings were brought to a close by a most cordial vote of thanks to the officers for their services during the past half-year, which was replied to by Messrs. Wilks and Geo. lilyton.

AN ACQUISITION TO T IIE SPIRIT-CIRCLE.To the Editor.—Sir,—W ill you be good enough to allow me a comer

in your useful little paper to call the attention of its readers to a mode of facilitating spirit-telegraphy or phenomena at the circle, which is likely to be very useful in the present imperfect state [of the science? At a recent weekly session at my house, my wife and myself sitting alone on that occasion, wo were told by the alphabet to “ place a magnet on the table.” Tho result was astonishing; the power increased threefold, or equal to four or five additional sillers. Since that session I have tried tho experiment by placing several magnets in dill’crent positions on the table, so as to equalise tho force, and tho result has shown me that a magnet is more than equal to an ordinary sitter. Some circles might not possibly have so successful a result as 1 have had, for I am told that it is only where the force ol tho magnet assimilates itself with that of the medium or sitter that the experiment proves useful. This is a matter worthy of trial, and may develop into something more than it at present appears, and therefore I hasten to

j share my experience with others, who, like myself, are anxious to in­vestigate and facilitate investigation. I t is quite new to me, and perhaps it may prove so to some of your readers. 1 am, yours truly,

R o b e r t W o o d .21), Cable Street, Liverpool.I’.S. -We received this advice from a friend of ours named Lydia

Fairelough, wo have therefore called it “ Lydia’s System.”[Some time ago wo published a letter from Mr. Whiting, showing

that the use of tho electro-magnetic machine intensified tho power of the sitters, and restored them from fatigue if used after tho seance. Wo shall be glad to hear of other experiments.—El). M. |

Mu. W. Picnics, .'!('), New Street, Dudley, sends us particulars of a concert to bo given for tho benefit of Mr. Downs, at the Assembly Rooms, -12, Aston Road, Birmingham, on Monday evening, the 20tfi instant, at 7.TO. Mr. Downs is a medium, and has been out of work for three months, and this benefit is got up by his friends to relievo his present circumstances. Wo hope our readers in tho district will attend.

T ribunals of C ommerce.—-This movement., under tho indefatigable promotion of Mr. John Robert Taylor, is making steady headway. Mr. Taylor’s recent pamphlet on tho subject Inis elicited much attention. I t may bo obtained in exchange for twelve penny stamps remitted to Mr. J . R. Taylor, Weavers’ Hall, 22, JJasinghull Street, London, E.C.

T H E M E D IU M AND D A Y B R E A K3<) J anuary 17, 1873.

THE CIRCULATION OF THE MEDIUM. AND TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

T he I’uMi her i- in'-’tit.uting tlie groati-A facilities for circulating this paper, and submits the following Scale of Subscriptions:—

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All such orders, and communications for the Editor, should be addressed to Jam s- B urns, OJfue o f t Hs; Medium, 15, Southampton Row, Rloomsbury Square, H M orn, Luadon, H'.C.

Whole-ale Agents—F. Pitman, 30, Paternoster Row, London, E. C.; Curtice and Co., 13, Catherine Street, Strand, London, W. C.; John Hey wood, M anchester; James M'Geaehy, 89, Union Street, Glasgow.

The Publi her i de irou.-s of establishing agencies and depots for the sale of other Pr«givs-ive periodical-, tracts, and standard works, and will be glad to receive communications from such as feel disposed to enter thi« field of usefulness.

CONTENTS OK LAST No. OE “ THE MEDIUM.”The Tim and Spiritual!'on -T h e Press v. Spiritualisin—lfow to I

Investigate the Phanonem*—Next Sunday in London—Dr. Sexton’s Appointments— ipe s'ions Answered—Therapeutic Medium-hip—A New Form of Co-operation—A Lady's Thoughts on the Times Article—Spirit- , Photography—Nottingham, &c., Ac.

SEANCES AND MEETINGS DCJUNG TIIE WEEK, AT TITE SPIRITUAL 1 I NS1 IT I.’ J ION, If,, .SOUTHAMPTON ROW, HOLBOKN.

F riday, J a m aiii’ 17. Private Social Meeting of Mediums, at 7.30 S i m ,ay, J amaicy 19, Service at Cavendish Hoorns, at 7 o’clock. Address by i

Mr. Cotter.I i r - u iY , jA 'criuY 21, .Madame Loui-e's Seance for Clairvoyance aud Medical i

Diagn - i a t s o’clock. Admission, 2s. fid.Who.Ni.-tUY, J anuaby 22, Developing Circle by Mr. Cogman, at 8. Tickets

for a Coarse of Four Sittings, 8s.Thursday, J am ary 23, Seance by Mrs. Olive, Trance-Medium, at 8 o’clock

Admi--ion, 2s. 6d.*.* Other Stances in London arid the Provinces may be found on page 36.

O U R R E A D E R S w ho rece iv e th e “ M E D IU M ” d ire c t fro m th e office p e r p o s t w ill v e ry m u ch ob lige u s i f th e y w ill r e m it th e ir S u b sc rip tio n s w ith o u t an a p p li­ca tio n fo r th e sam e p e r post. T h e p rice s m ay b e seen a b o v e ; an d i f th is is k in d ly a t te n d e d to , i t w ill save u s sev e ra l p o u n d s in la b o u r a n d postage. T h e R e a d e rs o f th e “ M E D IU M ” n e e d n o t b e to ld th a t o u r w o rk is c a rr ie d on a t a g re a t sacrifice, to lessen w h ic h is an a c t o f p u re c h a rity .

THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAKF R ID A Y , J A N U A R Y 17, 1873.

TIIE ENLARGEMENT OF THE “ M EDIU M ’—THE NEW MACHINE.

In response to the short statement made two weeks ago for aid to enable us to huy a perfecting machine, to print the enlarged M ed iu m at one operation, we have received from Air. Foster, I ’reston, the offer of to, with the hope that forty-nine others may he induced to follow the example. This money is not offered, nor is it accepted, its a gift, hut as a loan. As such it is as good as a gift to a certain extent, for the use of the machine would save a considerable sum of money in the course of the year, and enable the .Med iu m to be published by mid-da}' on Thursday, in time for circulation all over the country by that day’s despatches. This would be a great benefit, and it is one which we hope our good friends will accord to us, and to the cause. The number printed last week was so great that it took a considerable portion of three days to get them printed, very much increasing the expense. In future the need of long numbers will increase, and we have in course of preparation a series of special numbers which will at once require the use of enlarged printing facilities. Our helpers, then, have an excellent opportunity of aiding us without im­poverishing themselves. Our proposal is that our friends send us in sums of to , £10, or £20, as may ho convenient, which will he placed to their account against what they may require from the Institution in the way of periodicals, &c.

On making inquiry, wo much fear that we have underestimated the cost at, which a suitable machino can he obtained, and that it may burden our friends and ourselves too much to collect the amount in small sums, wo therefore further suggest that some wealthy render may have cash to invest, so that a considerable proportion of the amount might he obtained as an ordinary loan, for which the machino would lie ample material security. Ready money is of great importance in transactions of this kind, and that, with Ihe advantages arising from the immediate use of Ihe machine, would enable us to meet the requirements under which such accommodation could he obtained. Seeing that we labour with progressive success against difliculties which none of our follow-Spirituaiisfs have been able to surmount, we hope our friends will come forward promptly and heartily, and aid and encourage us in sustaining the gnawing demands of this great

work.

NEXT SUNDAY IN LONDON.■Sunday Services for Spiritualists, at Cavendish Rooms. M

walla Street, Oxford Street, at 7. Mr. Cotter, on “ Mattel Spirit, and their Relations to Human Existence, ’

Charles Voy-' v. at St. G-urge’s Hail, Lungham Place, Reger.' Sl­at 11.

Sunday Evenings for the People, St. George's Hall, at 7. W. JJ. ( Nation, Esq., on “ Charles Dickens: The Morals Pointed by His Pe followed by Mendelssohn’s “ Hymn of Praise.”

Sunday Lecture Society, St. George’s Hull, at 4. Miss AIirr r Reedy, ALA., Graduate of Antioch College, U.S., “ On the Joint K-iv-* tion of Young Men and Women in the American Schools and Coil-.—.

“ An Unlettered Pulpit,” South Place Chapel, Finsbury, at 11.;-, M. I). Conway, on “ Pre-Darwinite and Post-Darwinite Worlds.

MR. G. MASSEY’S APPOINTMENTS.Middlesborougli-on-Teee, Monday, January 20, for the Clove:.-

Philosophical Society. Subject—“ Concerning a Spirit-World Rev. to the Natural World from the Earliest Times by Means of O. Jy — Manifestations; with an Identification of the Tree of KnowC ..; Good and Evil.”

Newcastle-on-Tyne, Tuesday, January 21. Subject—“ Spiri'uail.., of the Past: Concerning a Spirit-World Revealed to ihe X:.- World from the Earliest Times by Means of Objective M .. , tions ; with an Identification of the Tree of Knowledge of Good a- ] Evil.”

Thursday, January 23—“ Spiritualism of the Present: Facts of if,- Own Personal Experience Narrated and Discussed, together Various Theories of the Alleged Phenomena.”

Mr. Massey’s address is—Ward's Hurst, ITemel Hempstead, Her

DR. SEXTON’S APPOINTMENTS.Mechanics’ Hall, Darlington, Sunday, January 20th :—Afternoon.— “ The Philosophy of Trance—Natural, Mesmeric, and

Spiritual.”Evening.—“ Theories Invented to Account for and Explain Spit:: ::

Phenomena.”Tuesday, 28.—“ Vaccination Useless and Injurious.”Wednesday, 29.—“ The Physiology of Digestion.”Thursday, 30.—“ The Vital Stream; a Sketch of the Circulatic:: ..

the Blood.”Gymnasium Hall. Huddersfield, Sunday, February 2nd :—Afternoon.—“ Personal Experience, and Reasons for Embracing Spiri­

tualism.”Evening.-—“ Theories Invented to Account for and Explain Spiritual

Phenomena.”Arrangements are in progress for Dr. Sexton to lecture at Barley,

. Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and other places.! All communications to be addressed to Dr. Sexton, 17, Trafalgar Road,

Old Kent Road, London, S.E.—

M rs. B assett will give a seance at Mr. Cogman’s, 15, St. Peter's . Boad, Mile Eifd, on Tuesday evening, the. 21st instant ; admission Is.

This will be the first of a series of seances to be given by the same lady medium on Tuesday evenings at Air. Cogman’s Institution.

T he great demand on Air. and Airs. Holmes’s seances compel them to hold two light seances each week for the spirit-faces, viz., Alonday and

j Thursday evenings. We want more good mediums, as the present \ ones are literally worked to death. Air. and Airs. Holmes are giving ■ great satisfaction by their mediumship., M esses. H erne and W illiams have returned from Hull, where they

had a very successful sojourn. They will remain at their rooms, 01, i Lamb’s Conduit Street, till the 27th instant, when their engagements in the North will again take them away from town. The Saturday evening seance is for Spiritualists only.

Human Nature for January, post free, price 7d., contains a valuable lithographic fac-simile of direct spirit-writing from Air. Burns's spirit- friend known by the name of “ The Old Alan.” This spirit has been seen in the material form five times. The message is a very charac­teristic one, and, as a fact for investigators, has great weight. The number is selling rapidly.

AIr. D. D. H ome has again returned to Paris after a few weeks’ sojourn in this country for the benefit of his health, which is far from good. Air. Home suffers acutely, but he talks of his condition in a cheerful and happy spirit, even anticipating the worst in a manner which exhibits the value ofhis principles in the most desperate trials. His mediumistic power is as groat as ever, and its exercise does not at all impair his strength.

I t will bo seen from another column the great repute in which Airs. Butterfield is held where her talents are best known. AVe hope our

i Darlington friends may be able to spare her to visit London, and think the time should be fixed after the present month’s arrangements of the various societies havo been accomplished, that each society may have tho pleasure of hearing her one evening. Application for Airs. Butter­field’s services should be made immediately to Air. Burns, 15, South­ampton Row, W.C.

AIadame L ouise held a seance, as announced, at the Spiritual Institu­tion, on Tuesday evening. Airs. Berry presided. One of the party present, who was quite unknown to the medium, had her past life most accurately described, and it was rather an unusual one, for she had buried her first husband before sho was twenty-one; she had married a second, and lie died of consumption, and she has married a

| third, who is now living. Iiis business was described as being| “ amongst, something to e a t i t appears lie is a bread and biscuit j baker. Her mother came, gavo the name of Alary Agnes, told her the : caueo of her death, which was dropsy in tlie heart. Sho was filty-five I years of age when she left this sphere. Wo arc sorry that so few attended j the seance, as Madame Louise’s talent as a olairvoyante should be wit­

nessed, and wo hope to see a fuller room next Tuesday.

January 17, 1873 T H E M E D I U M A N D D A Y B K E A K . 3 1

A VALUABLE SPIRITUAL INVENTION.To the Editor.—Dear Sir,—It has occurred to me that if there aro

n few genuine Spiritualists possessed ol some menus, a very valuable invention and discovery may bo at once placed in their hands, and abundant, funds may be secured from I ho profits for carrying out any future invention or discovery that may be communicated to us by our spirit-friends. The numerous experiments that have been carried out with this invention have demonstrated beyond all doubt that it is of immense importance to the world at large, and I feel confident, as an engineer, that if this discovery (which is of strictly spiritual origin) can be secured and carried out by Spiritualists alone, there will bo no further necessity for making subscriptions to accomplish all that can be desired for forwarding the great cause of Spiritualism. 1 may inform you that the machine is so far advanced that a very moderate amount’ of capital will put it into full operation, ns the expensive process of experimentalising has been successfully accomplished. I will therefore tlmlik any of our Spiritualist friends to communicate witli you on the subject if they wish to investigate or take an interest in this discovery. I lmvo no doubt whatever but that this communication, if faithfully carried out, will accomplish more for the practical results of Spiritualism than anything that has occurred up to the present time. I may inform your friends (hat there is no risk in the matter, as the invention has passed through the fiery ordeal of practical and ocular de­monstration. I am most anxious to complete this machinery immediately, and if a few of our friends will take up some portion of the patent, the invention may be placed before the public on its true merits ; and if wo are honest to ourselves and the cause of Spiritualism, the profits to bo derived will bo ample to pay every shareholder, and extricate Spirit­ualism from any financial difficulty’that may now present itself.- I am, Sir. yours faithfully, D utton',

[We hope our readers with a few pounds at their disposal will look into the subject of this letter, they may thereby do themselves and the world substantial service. If they do not', others will, sooner or later. Ei>. If.]

L ast wkkk 's M ed iu m was sent to every newspaper in the British Islands. Will our readers look out for notices, and send them up marked to save our time in looking for them ?

T he author o f ‘‘The Book of God,” “ Enoch,” &c., thus speaks of the recent debate :—“ You had far the best of the argument in the dis­cussion with Bradlaugb. Your honesty contrasted favourably with his art.”

L ast N umber of th e M edium is yet in print. I t has had a much larger sale than any previous number. Tlioso who desire to retain the use of such a potential weapon should secure copies before they are all sold.

Our n ex t N umber will contain a further discussion of the attitude of the Press towards Spiritualism; and the following number will contain Mr. Grant's able and exhaustive paper on “ A Scientific View of Modern Spiritualism.” I t will be a special number for investigators, and for that purpose will present features of unusual value.

T h e follow ing advertisement, copied from the Echo o f Dunedin, New Zealand, shows how our brethren announce themselves at the Antipodes:—

“ S o ciety for I n v estig a tin g S p ir it u a l is m .“ T h e usual Fortnightly Meeting of the above Society will be held in

the Lower Athenamm Hall, at 8 o'clock, on Wednesday Evening, October 2nd, when members will give their experiences.

“ Admission:—Members, free; non-members, (id.“ R. W il s o n , Secretary.”

L iv erpo o l .—Mr. Johnson, of Hyde, will speak under spirit influence on Sunday afternoon, at 3, and evening at 7, at the Islington Assembly Rooms. The Albion gives a good report of Mr. Kitson’s trance- address on Sunday last. Though served up with sneers by the reporter, it was well worth recording. The Liverpool friends sell fifty copies of the M ed iu m at each meeting, and they never have enough to meet the demand. Mr. Chapman observes:—“ You would be astonished to hear the expressions of regret from most people when the M ediums are all sold, which they have been of late. However many are ordered, they all go. There never was half the interest manifested in Liverpool about Spiritualism as at present. I t is, I think, with holding public Sunday services, and having public mediums to speak. Scores could not get in last Sunday night, and went away.”

P ractical Ciikistianitv.—The Era informs us that Mrs. Cook, “ a poor old soul, nearly eighty years of age,” who lived at Lutterworth, was sent to prison for a week by three clergymen for picking up a stick on the road, valued at one penny. “ Wending her way home one even­ing, this deaf old woman, with far more than one log in the grave, happened to pick a stick out of a hedge. I t is not even proved if the stick was in the hedge. Probably it was lying on the ground. Mrs. Cook had by chance some dreamy remembrances of pleasant Christ­mases long ago. She might have recalled the roaring fires in the olden time, and the lordly hospitality of the Squire at the Hall. So she tucked a stick under her shawl, and thought she would ‘ make believe ’ to be warm and jolly. But a policeman came by that way with other views. lie was of opinion that the octogenarian had damaged the fence to the extent of ono penny, so he took her before the clerical Lutterworth magistrates. They knew that both the old dame and her husband were in receipt of parish relief, and must have been aware that for Mrs. Cook to pay 13s. (id. costs and fines was ns impossible as for her judges to liquidate the National Debt. So, in default, they sent the poor soul to prison for a week, there to break her heart and die. There really ought, to be a pillory for the unpaid magistracy. I f this story be unexaggerated, we don’t envy the feelings of the three clergymen at Christmas time.” Surely, the old religion is worn out, and a new edition is urgently demanded. When its salaried professors behave so. ivliat can we expect of rowdies? Modern Christianity says that ono ol God’s children may have acres, and halls, and slaves, and sensual indul­gences, but that a sister shall not pick up a rotten stick on the road to warm her shrivelled body at this festive season. She was sent to prison, and there died!

CAN SPIRITS COMMUNICATE THEIR OWN IDEAS?To the Editor o f the Medium and Daybreak.

D ear S ir, - As you invito the readers of llio M edium to give, t heir experience on this subject, I mu convinced they (the spirits) can give their own ideas, independent of man or woman living on this earth ; and .1 will now give my reasons for having tliis belief, but iri order to be, brief ] will only give two, although 1 could give manv. In the year 1854 my wife became a medium, and at, that lime] bad made up my mind to leave New York for London, and not knowing if f should come by a steamer or sailing-vessel, she was influenced, and staled wo should come by a sailing-vessel called tho Patrick Henry (not, knowing that, such a ship was in existence), and that avis should have a very quick voyage, viz. fourteen tiny s, to a place called I bo Needles, when we should bo in much danger of being lost; but after a time the went her would clear up, and we should arrive safe in London. Now, 1 did not, know tbo name of the ship till after I had taken my passage, and we nrriv d at, tho place named in fourteen days, and for two days everyone on boa I expected we should go to the bottom, but at. the lime named we arrived safe in London. 1 am convinced no man living knew this would take place at the time she stated it would. ] will now give another circum­stance. In the early part of 18li0, I and my wife, in company with Mrs. and Mr. Elisha, watchmaker, formerly of Bond Street, London, wi n taking supper in Henry Street, Brooklyn, New York, and as soon » supper was over my wife was influenced, and represented in a most remarkable manner, a person suffering from inflammation of the lungs, and appeared to spit up the lung, and after this she dropped down mi the floor and lay for some time apparently dead, and when she reco­vered Mr. Elisha asked her who that was to represent. Tbo answer was, “ Your wife.” He then asked when it would take place. The answer was, “ In five weeks.” Mrs. Elisha was at that t ime apparentlv in good health, and that day five weeks she died from inflammation of tho lung, and spat up I he lung just as represented. From this and many other circumstances I urn fully convinced that some of the spirits are much better acquainted wit h natural laws t han the inhabitants oi this earth. W . T . W ilso n .

103, Caledonian Road, King's Cross,August 31, 1872.

W e stated a few weeks ago that the Banner o f Liyht office had been entirely consumed, and that all avus lost in the late conflagration in Boston. Our contemporary, avo are happy to say, has, like the fabled bird, risen from the ashes fresh and youthful. In appearance it is improved, and its matter is more interesting than ever. The sympathy shown and contributions offered in response to the Banner appeal speak well for Spiritualism as a fact, in more ways than the evolution of phenomena.

“ A lph a ” writes in caustic phrase of the ignoble trueulency of the press on the matter of Spiritualism, taking as his text the conduct of tlie Echo. I t is easy for any penman with little knowledge and less sense of honour, not to speak of truthfulness, to abuse a trance-medium, o characterise his address as “ assumption ” and as “ inconsequential,” and to poke vulgar fun at men whose mental occupations are out of his mind’s readh; just as easy, indeed, as it is for the savage to propitiate the rainbow, worship thunder, or it may have been for the grand­mothers of these flippant writers to get into hysterics over an approach­ing eclipse. I t is unfortunate for the public that press-writers are oblivious to one fact—their incapacity to enter into argument.

M r. A. D. W ilson has a complaint against our contemporary the National Reformer, which space will not permit us to insert in full. “ E. C.,” in the National Reformer, asked a number of questions apparently to call out answers from Spiritualists. Mr. Wilson made replies, which were not inserted, on the plea, expressed in the column “ To Correspondents,” that such communications must contain some­thing not said by Mr. Burns in the debate. Mr. Wilson considers this a “ paltry excuse,” as Secularistic writers play a monotone, harping on the same string almost continually. “ Besides,’’ he urges, “ the question raised by ‘ E. CV was the use or bearing of the facts, not the facts themselves,as in the case of the debate.”

T he Liverpool Albion of Monday contains a very sensible letter m Spiritualism. The same paper of Tuesday had a long leader on the discussion in the Times; also a very fair report of the social Tea- meeting and Soiree of the Liverpool Psychological Society, and the services of Mr. Clements, nuisical-iuedium, and Mr. Morse, trance- medium. The Daily Post gave a similar account, reporting that Mr. Lamont fiom the chair remarked that in regard to Spiritualism one section of the community cried “ Pooh, pooh 1 there is nothing in it the other half cried “ Booh, booh!” frightening them with the very theory. The Courier was convinced that “ tho Spiritualists are engaged in the pursuit of a science which must set people a-thinking and doubt­ing.” This is good ; for if people did not doubt the [Profundity of lhe:r own egotism, they would never condescend to think.

T he Rock reviews the Times article, and, though overcome by the devil and evil-spirit, mania, is sound on the essential points. The editor of the Rock is a Spiritualist of a kind. He says, “ Folly surely can no further go than to suppose that ‘ inner consciousness’ can make a table talk or spin, or ‘unconscious cerebration’ sustain Mr. Home in his aerial flights! Better poo-pooh the subject at once than seek to smother its facts beneath a cloud of such unmeaning verbiage.” lie argues that Mr. Dircks raises a false issue in saying the manifestations are evolved in secret by some unpromulgated trick or deception. “ To suppose that any mere ‘ trick,’ with its thousands of practitioners and its millions of dupes, should have escaped detection for thirty tears, is an idea too preposterous to be seriously entertained. But, apart from jugglery, only two possible modes of accounting for the phenomena have been proposed: they must either be duo to some undiscovered force in nature, or be produced by the direct agency of spirits. The former hypothesis, could it but he made good, would exactly meet the case of those who, though like the Sadducees of old they refuse :o believo in angel or spirit, nevertheless find themselves confronted liy something that they cannot explain : so let science, say these, make liaste and take tho matter up.” Tho Rock concludes the matter witli u homily on “ unclean spirits” and “ Satanic agency.” I t would appear that “ God is not in the thoughts” of such writers.

T H E M E D I U M AND D A Y B R E A K . .January 17, I8?a.

MR. AND AIRS. IIOLAIKS AT THE EAST END INSTITUTION.Mr.*. Holme? held a seance at Mr. Column's, 1 o. St. l’otor’s Rood.

Milo End, on Frida.v evening. ilanuary IO:h; about thirty persons present, so thal the space allotted to the medium was somewhat limited. Alter a few preliminary remarks by Mrs. Holmes, explanatory of the character of her own peculiar mediumship from its origin to the present time, toe huh proceeded to arrange the sitters in two rows lengthways of the room, and four rows deep at one end of the room, in the third of which was inv position, and was quite cut off from the part of the room where the medium was sitting not even a child could have passed to or from my position without disturbing the sitters in front. The medium now took her seat, in an isolated position, on a common cane chair, facing the two rows sitting lengthways. 1 was then requested to tie the medium's hands, and the two ends of the tape were fastened t<» the hick of an empty chair standing in front of the medium, and tied in such a manner that 1 feel assured it could not have been loosened by myself without great dillieulty and lapse of time. All the sitters were now- instructed to join hands, Mr. Holmes being placed al the junction of two rows of sitters. All was now ready. The light had scarcely Hashed into darkness before the bells, tambourine, and other instru­ments were heard floating above us. and playing the weird music of an unseen revelry, inexplicably wild and wondrous. And here 1 would remark that this to me was the strongest test of the evening. I am con­vinced that no human being in that room could in that brief instant of time have produced the phenomena described. That little moment of time flashed from its tiny pinions a revelation that centuries of dog­matism could never unfold. From this point the seance was continued in darkness for the space of an hour, with a few brief intervals of light merely for the examination of the position of the medium and the sitters, and I feel that I am as justified in believing that Airs. Holmes was tied and sitting in the same position as when the seance commenced as I am in believing in my own individual identity. During Ibis time, nearly if not all in the room received evidences that they were not forgotten by the invisible messengers of this strange but beautiful philosophy. I, who was sitting in the hindmost seat, received tappings on the head with what seemed to sound like a tambourine, stroking of my head with fingers, tappings on my face, hands, and knees. My neigh­bours, in the same row, I believe, were touched by invisible hands. Airs. Holmes, unless she could ,have been at liberty and could have suddenly transformed herself into a very small bird or a butterfly, could not have favoured us with those kindly touches of recognition. Then remains the question, Whence did they come? The tape witli which I had tied Airs. Holmes now fell into a lady’s lap next to me ; every knot was loosened, and the material uninjured. 1 had no doubt but that it was the identical tape I had used. The ring-test was called for, and given with the usual unaccountable result. The light was now restored, the sitters re-arranged, and Air. Holmes entered the cabinet. Shortly afterwards faces appeared at one of the apertures; the first was that of a female, apparently from twenty to twenty-five years of ago; the next was a venerable countenance of the patriarchal type; the next was the features of a little girl, and was followed by that of an infantile countenance. In reply to interrogations, all these forms gave forward movements of the head, implying affirmative answers. I did not observe a negative or shaking motion of the head at all, neither could I recognise any signs of natural life or motion in the eyes or the lips.I requested permission for someone to enter the cabinet with Air. Holmes, but this was not allowed. Of course it would have been more satisfactory to our sceptical minds if we had been permitted to do so, but as we are so entirely ignorant of the laws by which these pheno­mena are wrought, we have no claim to dictate to Nature the conditions under which she shall conduct her operations.

The seance now terminated, Airs. Holmes expressed her appreciation of the harmonious feeling that had pervaded the meeting, and the kindly reception accorded to her at this her first seance of a series to be given at the same place. S. Goss.

THE SPIRIT-GUIDE OF A WIFE IN AAIERICA REPORTS UPON FAAIILY AIATTERS TO THE HUSBAND IN ENGLAND.

(Airs. Olive's seance, Dec. 20th.—Spirit-Guide, Marie Stuart.)The first control announced itself as that of 11 Dr. Starve,” the spirit-

guide of the wife of an American gentleman present. The spirit at once advanced to this gentleman, shook hands with him, and entered iuto conversation about family matters. The American stated that bis wife, now in America, was a writing-medium, and that though lie had seen Airs. Olive privately, ho had never mentioned to her the fact of his wife having a spirit-guide, still less had he mentioned his name; he was therefore quite unprepared for its announcement now. “ Hambo ” after­wards resolved the mystery. At the private interview the gentleman bad had with Ins medium, “ Hambo” had undertaken to visit the family i:i America and report. On this visit he had become acquainted with the spirit-guide, and brought him over the Atlantic to speak with tlio husband. “ Sunshine” afterwards gave a number of tests, and showed such an intimate acquaintance with the intentions of one gentleman that lie returned again to the seance of Jan. 2nd to inquire of her whether she had not read it all out of his head as out of a book.

THE BODY OF A MAN FOUND BY THE AID OF SPIRITUALISM.

Alft. E oitok,—Oil the 29th of October last, Air. Aloor, a gentleman farmer and friend of mine, who resided at Raegill House, which stands on an elevated plain of land, about two miles oust of Hawes, Yorkshire, of! the Leyburn Road, went to the Hawes market, us was his usual custom, and stayed rather late in the evening. On leaving the hotel with some companions, ho went to the stable for his liorse, and said, in the York­shire dialect, “ Gan on, and I ’ll o’get ye before ye get to the town foot,” a distance of some 300 or 400 yards. His companions walked on, and passed the town foot, but Air. Moor never arrived. They went home, thinking Air. Moor had been delayed through some business or other, but seven weeks passed away, and Mr. Aloor had never been hoard tell ot, although every search had been made to find him. The brooks and rivers were all carefully dragged, and it was said not a foot of water was

passed over without examination. Thousands of people turned om || search the lands, the woods, and the streams, but to no ell'ivl, mul q,

papers said " 11ml had an earl liquake opened I Ini bowels of the cni'lli :lll,| swallowed him up, Mr. Aloor could not Imvn more c»rlniu|.. disappeared from l lie sight of men." Seven long weeks his wile mh| family waited with painful and intense anxiety to know of the Imsbuml and lather's tale, hoping againsl hope, till despair had gathered urmaii] the family group, as light from every sourer seemed exlinel. Tuli|„ rapping was resorted to, and a low circles were formed in the neighbourhood ; comnumications wore received through the Ialilous |0 llui whereabouts of I ho body, and though true, no one believed the information thus received. However, three or four gentlemen itsuIyi-i) to sit at a table at, llurtersett, about a mile from where the lost Alr Moor had disappeared and was last seen. It was at the house, I believe

■of Air. Pratts, in the above village, the place where I was horn. Tl,., couiniuniealing inlluoueo told the sitters that Iho body «aH in the rim,- Pro, about a yard or Iwo from aplaoo which was named. The siLter, did not give much heed to this intelligence, but next morning related il ii> a young lad of the name of Metcalf, who, putting more faith in wing had been communicated, went straightway to the spot, and found the body of Mr. Moor just at tlio very identical place where the spirit, through I ho table, had said it was, and the poor boy got. tlio rewurd which tho family had ollerod and advertised. Yours sincerely,

J ohn Chapman.10, Dinikrld Street, Liverpool.[Our readers and tho public generally may put the fullest confidence

in the truthfulness of this extraordinary report, which answers the demands of tho Illustrated London News as to the power of the spirit to reveal things hidden. In ordinary matters such experiences occur frequently in the families of Spiritualists. The newspaper write™ question the usefulness of Spiritualism simply because they are ignorant of the subject.—E d. AL]

THE SPIRIT-FACES AT AIRS. HOLMES'S.D ear E ditor,—I have boon at several seances, both for physical

manifestations and spirit-faces, the latter, as you know, are given in the light,. On previous occasions when faces appeared, many were recog­nised by tho friends who came to these circles, and last Monday night week Airs. Alakdougull Gregory, Air. Noyes, and I went to Mrs Holmes's, and amongst the many spirit-friends who came to show themselves was a lady whom no one recognised. Many present identified their departed friends who had thus coma to visit earth once more, to cheer the hearts of those who mourned thoir lovod and lost as dead. Although I had been at Airs. Holmes's on various occasions no one ever came to me I could recognise, and on last Thursday evening I accompanied Airs. Makdougall Gregory to another seance for spirit-faces. A much smaller party was assembled, among whom were a number of anti-Spiritualists who came to investigate the phenomenon. That sumo went away satisfied there is every reason to believe, while others wont away pondering these things in their minds.

Many beautiful faces appeared, all of which were recognised except one; and then a lady’s face came to tho aperture and bent her eyes seareli- ingly round the group, waiting and watching for some well-known face to appear. Three times tho spirit came and looked all round, gazing steadily upon Mrs. Makdougall Gregory, who asked if the beautiful face was that of her aunt, Lady Makdougall Brisbane, and the spirit tried to speak; all saw her lips move, but, failing to enunciate, she bowed her assent in such a manner as to put all doubt of bor identity at an end. On the night previous Airs. Makdougall Gregory, though she knew (lie face, forebore to give an opinion until she was quite sure. Then a little boy came called “ Willie,” also recognised by his mother. The child came several times and showed his hand quite distinctly to everyone. Presently another lady appeared at the aperture desirous of being recognised; very plainly and distinctly the spirit came. We were all on the tiptoe of expectation to sec who she came for, when Airs. Holmes and several others exclaimed simultaneously, “ What a striking resemblance she bears to 3tou, Mrs. Jackson.” I never had a sister or friend who had passed away, and after some consideration I asked the medium to inquire if the spirit was that of my mother, and I saw the spirit bow her assent and move a little closer to the aperture to show herself more plainly. All were struck with the marked likeness 1 bore to the face before us. Now, in tho case of my mother, I beg to say to all whom it may concern, there was never any portrait taken of Her but one, and that one met with an accident which completely destroy d it, a misfortune I often deeply regretted.

Before the seance terminated my husband came, and was recognised hr several others besides Airs. Makdougall Gregory and myself. This could he no case of mistaken identity, because others who were expecting to seo their own friends saw him—people whose imaginations were not likely to interfere with their perceptions. I had hoped to see my husband, which was perfectly natural, hut to see 1113' mother as she appeared last on earth I never dreamt of. She had escaped from my thoughts, nor could I for tho moment recall the features of my long- since departed parent to remembrance until the members of the circle remarked the mutual resemblance of her face to mine.—I am, sincerely yours, E. B. J ackson.

[On a recent Wednesday evening a dozen spirit-faces were seen at a party held at the Spiritual Institution. Mr. and Airs. Holmes and Mis; Cook being mediums. Several were recognised. Faces are obtained and many of them recognised every Sunday evening at Air. Slater's, and twice a week tlieso faces are obtained in public at Mr. and Airs. Holmes’s seances.—Eu. AL]

MRS. BUTTERFIELD AT DARLINGTON.D ear Ain. B urns,—I have a little news for you if you have not

already received it. Wo have beon so well pleased with Airs. Butter­field's mediumship that wo have secured her services permanently, and are going to extend her sphere of usefulness as a working public medium. We have found a permanent situation for Mr. Butterfield, and they are both coming to roside among us. We understand their Alorloy friends are in great distress about it, but it will perhaps bring good results t,, them in the end, throwing them on their own resources to develop other mediums. As it is, there is a much wider field for work here already

January 17, 1873 THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK 33

in operation, as you will see by the enclosed paragraph, which your echoing contem porary of the past, lias been gracious enough to give a place in his columns for us :—

“ SriiiilTAUM' Sm ivicus.--A scries ot social and religious meetings have been held In the Sp iritualists of D arlington, commencing on New Year's Day with a tea, and public m eeting on the following day, when addresses were given by Mrs. -I. A. -Butterfield, inspiratioual-niediuni, under spirit inllaence. On Sunday evening the first of intended per­manent Sunday evening services was held in the Oo-operalivo Auction Room C’oiiunereial Street, which has been selected as a regular place of meeting bv the Spiritualist Association which has been lately formed in the town.' After singing, reading 1’aid 's account of the gift of the sp irit, and a prayer offered up. an address was given, th rough M rs. Butterfield, on Spiritualism past and present, essaying to prove that the marvellous spiritual phenomena of the present day was of the same nature, regu­lated bv the same laws, and proceeding from the same source as tha t recorded in both the New and O ld Testam ents. T here was a good attendance."— Aorthern Echo.

Our second Sunday Service was held last evening, and we are cheered with its results. There is manifestly a growing interest, in the under­taking ; the room in which the meeting was held was full, and we were glad to see such an array of interesting intelligent-looking faces before us. The attention of the audience was riveted, and after a clear and logical address questions were put by inquirers who were evidently struggling under a heavy load of traditional rheology, which is so foreign to the simple teachings of Jesus. One Wesleyan local preacher said ho had ever been trying to follow Jesus. The controlling spirit, interrupted bv asking him w hat he meant by following Jesus. He replied by saying tint be endeavoured to help those who were oil a lower plane than him­self, and doing good to all. “ Very good, my friend,” was the reply, “ but that is not all you need to do, if you would completely follow Jesus. Do up the mountain side and hold communion with spirits, and they will instruct you as to what you are to do, as they did Him whom you w ant to follow. Many follow Jesus, but it is frequently, like Peter, a long way off.” Many questions were put, bearing more upon the blighting theological questions of the day than upon true religion, which were as aptly answered : and we are of opinion that a grand work lias been begun for the emancipation of man’s fettered religious aspirations, which will bear fruit in due season. God speed the Truth.—Tours fraternally, G. R. H in d e .

Jan. 13.Dear Editor,—I take this opportunity of informing you of the

progress made at our circle. Having completed our first year on the ninth of the present month, and that day being our first anniversary, we bad something extra. Our circle—at present consisting of Mr., Mrs., and Miss Wilson, Mr. Wright, and myself—having taken seats around a small table, we commenced by singing “ Home, Sweet Home,” the table beating time ; an invocation was then offered by Mr. Wright, who exhibits signs of mediumship. This done, the table began to oscillate freely; and in answer to questions put by Air. Wilson, it stood upon its respective legs, turned round several times, was taken all over the room, and made a good attempt to get on to the sofa. It ultimately turned itself upside down, and then resumed its original position. Signals being made for music, we sang and played several hymns and tunes, time being beaten by the table with good force. We then raised our hands a little from the table and it continued to oscillate, Airs. Wilson at the same time being controlled alternately by the spirits of two little Indian girls named Yitzand Generetta. I t was the first time the latter had controlled our medium, and her prattling entertained us very much. Just before we finished the seance wo tried what weight the table could suspend while it was resting on two legs, the other two being a few inches from the floor. Aliss Wilson, who is about sixteen years of age, placed her whole weight, upon the side thus raised, and it suspended her for a short time, demonstrating to us the power of the invisible. I may say we had no physical manifestations of any kind previous to Air. Wallace's last visit to Darlington, although we had sat for nine months; but great things are promised us if we do our part and conditions be favourable. But having laboured under unfavourable conditions for some time, progress was not so satisfactory as at present. I may further say, Air. Wilson was not controlled on this occasion, as usual. There is great stir in the town now that Airs. Butterfield has come amongst u s; many inquiries are made, and much information is gathered from the Spiritualists. But tracts and cheap literature are wanted to distribute among the people.—Yours respectfully,

Farrer Street, Hopetoum, Darlington, R . F orster.January 13, 1873.

A HELPING HAND FROAI HUDDERSFIELD.To the Editor.—Sir,—A few well wishers to the success of the M edium

and D ai break met on Saturday night last at tliehouse of Air. Heppleston, Huddersfield, to talk over the permanent success and present aid to that paper. A subscription list was opened, and very handsome donations promised. It was suggested that it would be well to have a large number of slips printed and sent to the various agents advertising the Medium, stating its character and aims, the agent to put a slip into the various publications he sells, Ac. Another suggestion was to throw the responsibility upon and into a Limited Company, so that the editor and publisher might spend their time in improving the paper and making it a paying concern. Whatever amount of money may be required make as many pound shares, which it is thought might be got at once. I t was also suggested that all parties writing to the editor for information, and wishing a direct answer, should send at least two stamps for a reply; and that it would bo well to have a column of the paper used for answers to questions, as most other papers have. All agreed it was not right the editor should have all the work and but little pay, and that we could not yet spare the paper. The money will be sent you as it is paid into the treasurer. Wishing you a happy and prosperous New Year,—I remain, very truly yours, U ellivisiieu.

Huddersfield, January G, 1873.| All;. H eppleston has forwarded the following s u m s A Friend,

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ANNIVERSARY AT LIVERPOOL.To the E ditor. Sir, It. is w ith feelings of great, pleasure that the

Liverpool Spiritualists record ano ther successful visit i'roui Mr. Alorse, and a most, enjoyable annual soirie.

On Sunday, ilia fitli instant, M r, Morse lectured in tbe trance to crowded audiences at the Islington Assembly Rooms. Tbe subject in

: the evening was “ Scepticism and Spiritualism as related to R elig ion .’Tbe lecturer proved, in bis usual masterly style, that scepticism is tbe

' universal fo rerunner of knowledge, w heflierin m atters o f a purely f e-n- tillo o r of a religious nature . Viewed stric tly as a literary effort, 1 the philosopher's ” addresses are heartily appreciated in Liverpool.

On tiie following evening the room was u/aiii crowded by In- .ds desirous of celebrating in a soeial m anner tbe anniversary o f t he society.

; 'The proceedings were of a m ost interesting character. A t' r i a. a short speech was delivered by tbe chairm an (Air. John I/'u ion l i. sre-

! needed by a few- rem arks from M r. M orse in tbe"norm al condition. Air. Shepherd , in the course of a sho rt address, prom ised that at a future tim e ho would publicly explain his conversion to Spiritualism from a secular standpoint,, th e chairm an prom ising to review the subject upon a theological basis. T he fulfilm ent o f these prom ises w ill be oa_ r!y an tic ipated by all im partia l inquirers. In the course o f the evening there were two contro ls, th e stro lling p layer reciting a poem in tru ly

| d ram atic style. T he m eeting was much en tertained by songs and reci- j tations from M essrs. M ered ith , Clements, R udd , and B arton. Air. j C lem ents played under sp ir it influence, and gave such evidence of.musical

ab ility th a t a unanim ous wish was expressed th a t he would m ore fre­quently favour the society w ith his presence. T he audience included many of the m ost p rom inen t suppo rters of the Progressive Aloveinent in L iv e rp o o l; amongst, others, Air. Fegan, Air. Chapm an, Ac., Ac.

A vote of thanks to th e chair.nan and th e o ther friends concluded a very h appy and instructive evening.

On Tuesday a seanco with Air. Morse was held in the society’s room in Stafford Street.

If we judge by the events of the past few weeks, a prosperous and successful new year is before Spiritualism in Liverpool. The local press appears to consider the subject well worthy of attention, the criticisms on the soiree being on the whole fair and unbiassed—indeed, in many respects, favourable. Every week adds to the number of earnest investi­gators. Let us hope that by impartially using tbe facilities afforded by the society they will ultimately find Truth.—Tour obedient servant,

T iie C orresponding S ecretary .

SPIRITUALISAI IN BIRMINGHAAI.To the Editor o f the Medium and Daybreak.

D ear S ir ,— I venture to assert that Spiritualism is neither dead noi languishing in Birmingham and its neighbourhood, as was most assuredly evinced by a meeting oi‘ a very harmonious nature which took place last night at. the Priory School Room, Birmingham. It had been pre­viously announced that a tea-party and soiree would be held at the above-named room, on January S. bv the sympathisers with Spiritualism. Accordingly, at, about half-past five o'clock, visitors from tbe surround­ing districts began to make their appearance, and at about six o'clock sixty persons sat down to a well-provided tea. very nicely arranged and

' prepared by Alessrs. Harper and Jones and their lady friends. Alter tea our numbers began to swell very rapidly, and it became evident tlaat

j we were about to have an unusual gathering. Chairs and forms were crammed into every available spot, until the room was at length quite full, and I should imagine that we numbered very little short of 200. Before the business of the evening commenced I took a cursory glance

I round the room, and was agreeably surprised to find that we were sur- j rounded with friends from various places, including Brotusgrove,

Wolverhampton, Walsall, Smethwick, West Bromwich. Ac., which pro- duced in the aggregate the best, meeting of the kind I have ever wit­nessed in Birmingham, and I may say the most intellectual and appre­ciative audience.

Mr. Harper, who was in the chair, rose, and addressing the meeting, said he hoped it would be an entertainment for each other's mutual

; benefit., and as he expected several friends to address them in the course i of the evening, he would not trespass upon their time, but at once pro- ; eeed to flic business of the meeting. The following was the programme,\ which I believe was not finally arranged until a short time belore the j commencement of the entertainment:—Aliss Harper, piano solo; Airs.! Hartley, song; Air. Harper, recitation from Edgar Allen Poe; Air. j Hawkes, address; Airs, and Aliss Baker, duet, accompanied by Air.

Simkiss, of Wolverhampton; Air. J. Collier, reading: “ The A ulnar Boy Air. Harper, address : Air. Baker, song ; Air. G ray, recitation : Air.

j Franklin, address; Aliss Baker, song; Air. Harper, recitation from Edgar Allen Poe; Air. Jabez Lones, address; Airs. Hartley, song.

; The singing rendered by the two professionals, Airs, and Aliss Baker, was ' really good, Airs. Baker upon one occasion being oli iged to come for­

ward the second time through the continued applause of the meeting. The singing and music rendered by Air. Harper’s daughters, Airs. 1 tartley and Aliss Harper, was also very good; and I must say that everyone in connection with the meeting must have felt highly gratified and honoured by the kind manner in which Air. Simkiss, of Wolverhampton, consented to preside at the piano. The speeches were hith interesting and instructing, although perhaps some of Air. Harper’s American ex­periences would seem rather queer to some of our outside li-ionds who visited us. Air. Franklin and Air. Hawkes were warmly received by the

i meeting, and evinced by their remarks a very earnest interest in the teachings of Spiritunlism. The last, speech of the evening was made by

j our warm-hearted friend Air. Jabez Lones, of Smethwick, who, by his sharp and pithy remarks, and the ardent manifestation of his love and

I zeal for Spiritualism, together with his glowing anticipations of what it i would achieve for future generations, produced upon tiie minds of

all present a feeling which will not soon be forgotten.-—Yours faithfully,I P u n y .

4 THE MEDIUM AND DAYHRKAK

J a n u a r y 1 7 , 1 8 7 3 . THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK. 3.5

Tiik Hull Morning yews speaks sensibly:—“ Utterly discrediting what is called ' Spiritualism,’ we, for that very reason, think the time is come when it should be disproved. The fact that it is tnoro or less believed in by twenty millions of persons is a reason why the matter should be thoroughly investigated, and, if possible, exposed. This is not likelv to be done so long as the subject is treated only with derision. Scientist's have too long adopted that tone with regard to this particular phenomenon, and too often with regard to other phenomena. They have forgotten that their proper duty is to treat all statements which are made upon anything like substantial testimony, with scepticism (in the true etvmological sense of the word), not unbelief. Unbelief, no less than belief, ought to be the result only of unbiassed inquiry, and that inquiry they have not, as a rule, yet been induced to make. In fact, so far as men of science have investigated ‘ Spiritualism ’ at all, they have come to the conclusion that there is something there for which they cannot account. It may be that the whole thing is a juggle and a swindle, and undoubtedly jugglers’ tricks have been performed quite as clever as any of the ients performed by mediums. Hut that does not j row there is jugglery. If there is any suspicion ol ii, bring the cheat to the test.’’ Yes, go at it. “ Disprove” it—show where the ‘‘cheat" is. All the Spiritualist demands is investigation, not any more “ Daniels.-’

The Liverpool Mercury isquite enthusiastic over Spiritualism. In along string of untrue statements, ignorance, and superstitious folly, the Mircury observes: “ Spiritualism is making converts the world over, not merely among the lowly, but among men and women of wealth and position—men and women who have influence over the rest of mankind. They do believe in it, by hundreds of thousands—by millions, the Spiritualists themselves say. There are hundreds of quiet homes scattered up and down this country where the medium is the most honoured visitor, and where some one or more members of the family are believed to be themselves mediums.-’ And no wonder, when the thing has got such miserable antagonists as the M e r c u r y He quotes the “ exposure of the imposition of the Davenport Brothers,” a thing which never took place. He thinks it beneath the dignity of spirits to ! elongate the living bodies of mediums, and yet is he not aware that men j who are supposed to be at the top of the intellectual tree—viz. anato- j mists—spend a lifetime in the disgusting occupation of picking to pieces dead bodies.

T he editor of the Everton Advertiser heralds the onward triumphs of Spiritualism, and grumbles that “ a spirit may talk and spout treason, blaspheme,’- Ac., and then skulk away into its shady abode again. He thinks they should adopt human manners on their furtive visits to earth. The Spiritual company which we keep are not addicted to any of the horrid faults so familiar to our obsessed contemporary: but from the silly, unprincipled style of his gabble, we should not wonder but the spirits he complains of have been taking his advice, and have become depraved by following his miserable example. We would kindly urge j our advertising'friend to occupy his scrimp space/with business announce­ments, even though he forego payment, and let those things alone which he has no talent to grapple with.

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D at.stox—Thomas W il k s , Circulating Library, Dalston Lane. K ilb u rn —S aunders . Chichester Boad, Kilburn Park.M il e E nd B oad, 212—J. F. H a in es , Bookseller and Printer. P addington—T. W h itt in g h a m , 60, Church Street, Edgware Boad. P im lico—W. R ichards, Newsagent, 7, Taehbrook Street. W h it e c h a p e l Boad (219)—Mr. E adks, Newsagent.

; LOUGHBOROUGH—J . Ben t , 80, Pinfold Gate.I MANCHESTER—J ohn Ueywood, 143, Deansgate.

MARYLEBOXE—T. W h itt in g h a m , 27, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square. MIDDLESBOBO'—N icholas P atterson, Bookseller, Ac., 1, Cannon Street. MOBLEY—T. W ilk in so n , Bookseller and Newsagent, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE—E. J . B lake, Grainger Street.NORTHAMPTON—J ohn Bates, Newsagent, Ac., 16, Drapery.

,, J . Ward, 9, St. Edm und's Terrace.NOTTINGHAM—J . H itchcock, 64, Marplc Street.

J . S w eet . Bookseller, Stouey Street, i OLDITAM—T. Boyle, Newsagent, Victoria Market.

PORTSMOUTH—F. Fooun, Bookseller, 16, Charlotte Street.PRESTON—Wai;i>, Bookseller, Ae., 146, Friargate.ROTHERHAM—Carr, Bookseller, th e B rahe.STOKE-ON-TRENT—T. G usman, Brassfouudcr, South Street, Mount Pleasant. SWANSEA—J oseph H. Cokin', Bookseller, 7, Cattle 11 Street.WALSALL—T. Bu n k h oRX, Medieal Botanist, 16, George Street.WEST HARTLEPOOL—Thos. H u l l , Auctioneer. 11. Adelaide Street. WOLVERHAMPTON—15. N o rto n , Bookseller. D aldington Street. WORCESTER—M r. G. M organ , Newsagent, Little Angel Street.

3fi T H E M E D IU M AND D A Y B R E A K . J anuary 17, 1873.

EOBERT HARPER is prepared to LECTURE exterapo- I, ranoouslv on the following Subjects, adapted to popul ar audiences :—

1. Spiritualism as (lie Universal Science.I’. Spii'itunli^m as the Science of the Soul.

Spiritualisra the Scientific Religion.4. Inspiration—What is it ?fi. The Locality and Substantiality of the Spirit-World.0. Materialism to Spiritualism ; or, How I learnt that Men do not Dio

For Terms, apply to R. IIartor, Soho llill, llirmingham.

PADDINGTON HALL OF PROGRESS, 00, Ou> O h t o c i t S tr e e t , E dow are Road, W.—Next Sunday, Mr. CURTIS.

Subject—•• T h e Pr'liable Origin of the Idea of God.” Freo Discussion. Open at 6.30. Admission, Id. and lid.

THE “ S H E F F IE L D R A D IC A L ," a Weekly Newspaper devoted to the interests of the Working- Classes. Single copy, by

pi-u. 111.—Publishing Office, OS, Orchard, Sheffield.

m H E ■■ INTERNATIONAL HERALD.” The People’s Paper,X advocating “ liberty in Right—Equality in I.aw—Fraternity in Interest." Weekly, One Penny.—London: 7, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. F..C.

SEANCES IN LONDON DURING THE WEEK.F r id a y , J ax vary 17. South London Association of Progressive Spiritualists, 21,

Lower Stamford Street, Blaektriars, at 7 pan. Visitors to write to F. M . Taylor, cave of Mr. Weeks, as above.

Saturday, J a n u a r y IS, Seance by Messrs. Herne and Williams, at 61, Lamb’s Conduit Street, at 3 o'clock," for Spiritualists only, 5s.

S unday , J a n uary 19, at Mr. Cogman's, 15, St. Peter's Road, Milo End Road, at 7 o’clock.

Monday. J a n u a r y SO, Developing Circle, at Mr. Cogman’s, 15, St. Peter’s Road, Mile End Road, at 3 o'clock.Ball s Pond Association of Inquirers into Spiritualism, 103, Ball's Pond Road, Islington. Admission Free. Commence at 8 o’clock.B r ix t o n , at Mr. Rouse's, 48, Bramah Road, Mostyn Road, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8.Seance by Messrs. Herne and Williams, at 61, Lamb's Conduit Street, at 3 o'clock] Admission 2s. 6d.

T u e s d a y , J a n u a r y 21, Seance at Mrs. M a in 's, 321, Bethnal Green Road, at 9. Admission Free.

T h u r s d a y , J anuary- 23, Dalston Association of Inquirers into Spiritualism. Seance at their rooms, 74, Navarino Road, Dalston, E .,a t 8 p.m. P ar­ticulars as to admission of visitors on application to the Secretary.S:. John's Association of Spiritualists, 7, Corporation Row, Clerkenwell. Seance; Miss Keeves, Medium. To commence at 3.30 p.m. Free. Seance by Messrs. Herne and Williams, at 61, Lamb's Conduit Street, at 3 o'clock." Admission 2s. 6d.

SEANCES IN THE PROVINCES DURING THE WEEK.

M G N E T I N K.

DA [{LOW’S NEWLY IMPROVED PATEN T M A G N E T I C S If E U A S M A A I’ P L I A N C E S ,

For Spinal and Liver Complaints, Nervous, Bronchial, and Rheumatic Affections, and the Prevention of Sea-Sickness, Small pox, Cholera, and Fever.

DARLOW AND CO., INVENTORS AND PATENTEES,63, N o rth W oolw ich R o a d , London, E.

Temporary City Depot—2!), Farringdon Street, K.C. Illustrated Pamphlets post-free.

M i l . C O G MAN, E l e c t r o - M a g n e t i c I I h a t .h r , w ill sei.PATIENTS, from Ten 1 ill Two o’clock daily, a t his resilience,

15, St. Peter’s Road, Mile End Road. Persons vi.4t.od a t their uw: residences. Sunday Evening SEANCES a t Seven o’clock; contribution voluntary. DEVELOPING CIRCLE on Monday Evenings, at Eight o’clock; 4s. per month, paid in advance. Lessons given in Psychological Scieneo, One Guinea.

SENIER’S ASTHMA REMEDY NEVER FAILS.

SOLD w holesale by N ew bery and Sons, 37, N ew gate Street, L ondon; and Raimes, Blanshards, and Co., Leith Walk, Edinburgh.

General Agent for G reat Britain, M. J. Sutherland, Burnley, Lancashire, who on receipt of 2s. 9d. will send a box prepaid. Sole proprietor, Alfred Senier, Pharm acist, Mazomanie, Wis., United States.

Ps y c h o p a t h i c i n s t i t u t i o n , for the" Cure ot DLea*^254, Marylebone R oad. JOSEPH ASHMAN, Principal.

MESSRS. H ERN E and WILLIAM S, S p i b i t -M e d iu m s , beg to inform investigators th a t they are a t home daily to give

PRIVATE SEANCES from 12 o'clock noon till 5 p.m. They are also open to receive engagem ents for Private Seances in the Evening, either a t home or a t the residence of investigators. —Address, 61, Lamb’s Conduit S treet, Foundling, W.C.

MRS. JEN N IE HOLMES’S (late of New Orleans, La., U.S.A.jSEANCES, for Musical, Physical, Trance, Inspirational, and

Materialisation Manifestations, will be held every Monday, T uesday, Wednesday, and T hursday Evenings, a t her reception rooms, No. 10, Old Quebec S treet (two doors from Oxford Street), Marble Arch, IV., at E ight o’clock; donation,5s. Private S ittings,for Business and Medical Con sultations, from One to Four o’clock p.m. same d a y s ; fee, One Guinea. Strangers, investigators, and non-believers especially, are invited to a ttend , to “ Prove all things and hold fast to th a t which is good." —Her powers as a Medium have been the subject of wonder and comm ent throughout the U nited States, Canada, and Central America. Her endorsem ents are from some of the m ost p rom inent gentlemen of the States.

Sunday, J anuary 19, K e ig h le y , 10.30 a.m . and 5.30 p.m . Messrs. Shackleton and W right, Trance-Mediums. Children’s Progressive Lyceum at 6 a.m . and 2 p.m.Sowesby B ridge, at Mr. W. Robinson’s, Causeway Head, Children’s Lyceum, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Public Meeting, 6.30 p.m . Trance-Medium, M r. Wood.B re as le y , Public Meetings, 10.30 a.m., 2.30 and 6.30 p.m . Trance Medium, Mr. Illingworth.B ow ling, Spiritualists’ Meeting Room, 2.30 and 6 p.m. H all Lane, 2 and 6 p.m.B ow ling, in Hartley's Yard, near Railway Station, Wakefield Road, at2.30 and 6 o'clock.M an ch este r , Union Chambers, 15, Dickenson St., Mount St., a t 2.30. Cowais, at George Holdroyd’s, at 6 p.m.H agg’s Lane End. 9 a.m. and 6 p.m . Trance-Mediums, Mrs. N . W ilde and Mrs. R. Hudson.G aw th o rp e , Spiritualists’ Meeting Room, 2.30 and 6 p.m . Mrs. S. A. Swift and J . Kitson, Mediums.M o rle y , Mr. G. Butterfield’s, New Scarboro’,H alifax, at the Stannary, 2.30 and 6.30. Mr. Blackburn and M r. Wood, Trance-Medi ums.N o ttin g h am , a t Mr. Giipin's Rooms, Long Row. Children’s Lyceum at 9.45 a.m . and 2 p.m. Public m eeting at 6.30 p.m.Os s e t t Common, W akefield , at Mr. John Crane's, at 2 and 6, p .m . Healing and Trance-speaking Medium, Mr. John Crane.Bishop Auckland, at Mr. Fawcett's, Waldron Street, at 6 o'clock. Notice is required from strangers.N 'v astlf-ox-Tyn::, at Freemasons’ Old Hall, Bell’s Court, Newgate Street, at S p.m.Glasgow Association of Spiritualists. Public Meeting a t 6.30 p.m.. a t 164, Trongate.Birmingham , at Mr. Down’s, 42, Aston Road. Trance and Test at

dock. Also on Tuesday and Thursday Evenings, at * o'clock. L iverpool. Public Meetings at the Islington Assembly Rooms, at 2.30

7 p.m. Trance-mediums from all parts of Eugl.ni i , xc.Monday. J anuabt 2 ■, H u l l , 42, New King Street, a t 7.30.Tueedat, J anuabt 21, Ke ig h ley , at 7.30 p .m ., at the Lyceum. Trance-

Mediums, Mrs. Lucas and Messrs. W right and Shackleton.Gaw thorpe, at Mr. J . Mercer's, a t 7.30 p.m . M edium, Miss A. Mercer. Sowerry Brid ge , a t M r. W. Robinson's, Causeway Head, 8 p.m .

W ednesday. J .nuaey or, Bowling , Spiritualists’ Meeting Room, 8 p.m .H agg's Lane End. a t 7.30 p.m . Trance-Mediums, Mrs. N . W ilde and Mrs. R. Hudson.M obley. Mr. G. Butterfield’s, New Scarboro', at 7.30.055BYT Common, a: M r. John Crane's, a: 7-30. Healing and Trance- m edium , Mr. John Crane.GlaSG .w Association of Spiritualists. W eekly Conferee :<•, at 3 p .m ., at 764, Trongate. Circle-room open to members and inquirers, a t j p.m. on o ther evenings.

T h i t . 3D ay, J a n u a r y 2 , B o w lin g , Hall Lane, 7.30 p.m .Gaw thorpe, Spiritualists’ Meeting Ream, a Developing Circle, at 7.30. W est H a r t le p o o l , Seance at M r. Hull's, Adelaide Street.BziHOP Auckland, at Mr. Fawcett’s, W aldron Street, at 3 o'clock. Notice is required from strangers.H ew castle -o x -T tn .-:. Old Freemasons’ Hall, Bell's Court, Newgate Street. Seance a t 7.7-'.

F k id a t , J anuary . . . L ..b p o o l. W eekly Con::. a t Mrs. Bolin’s, Cale- do:__: a.-: 1 Ten.'-vrai.ee ai t , S t-2 .rd Street, at ' p.m .

MRS. JU L IA B. DICKIXSOX (from th e United States), Clairvoyant P hysician and Magnetic H ealer, invites all who

are Sick to tes t her m arvellous powers of Diagnosis and Curing Disease. All forms of human ailm ent undertaken, and everything curable cured. Psychom etric Delineations of Character given, and the spirit-friends of visitors seen and described. Term s reasonable. Con­sultations free. Business hours, 9 till 6.—Address, 2, Vernon Place, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C.

LA LIOXXE, L.D., T r a n c e , P h y s i c a l , &c., M e d iu m , holds Bi-weekly SEANCES a t 1C, Mount Street, New Road, E. Sunday,

a t 6.30 p .m .; W ednesday, a t 8 p.m. Admission, Is. Circles attended by appointm ent.

MISS HUDSON, X o r m a l , C l a i r v o y a n t , a n d P r o p h e t i c Medium , RECEIVES Visitors daily (Sundays excepted), from

Twelve till Six o’clock, at her residence, 17, Ca3tle Street, Wells Street, Oxford Street. Terms, Five Shillings each Visitor. Questions answered by Letter; terms, One Guinea.

MRS. OLIVE, T ra n c e Medium for Test Communications from Spirit Relatives and Friends; also for the Cure of vari at

Diseases by Spirit-Magnetism and Prescriptions.—49, Belmont Street. Chalk Farm Road, London, N.W.

"YT ADAME LOUISE (from Xew York), M ed ica l, Claib- i'-L v o y a n t, and H e a lin g Medium (holds a Diploma from ti. • N - York Medical College and Women’s Hospital), ATTENDS PATIENTS and GIVES SEANCES at the Residences of Patients, or her Re lion Rooms, 33, Percy Street, Tottenham Court Road.

MIS S G O D F R E Y , C u r a t iv e M e s m e r is t a n d R u d d e r .Clairvoyant Examination and complete Diagno-i-, 21=.; M---

meriting an 1. Rubbing, One Guinea per Week and Travelling Exp —Miss G o d frey mav be seen by appointment onlv, at 161, I! •Road, N.W.

MRS. AYRES, Q u a l if ie d M i d w i f e , H e a l in g an d M a - nktisino Medium , 16, Mount Street , New Road. E.

R S . M A R S H A L L , P rophetical and Clairvoyant M edium , RECEIVES at her residence, 29, Shirland it-, L:, M . i '.

Hill, W.—Private Seances, 10s. and 5.=. each.

i iRIXTON.—Persons w is h in g to IN Q U IR E into Spirit tali ) can be instructed in its principl - nd ime of its literat

of Mr. J o h n R o o k , 4s, Bramah Read, JU.nvn R , id , Brixvo I - • ductory S-ar.ces held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday .• j.\ o'clock. Admission, Is.

TAM ES Y. M ANSFIELD, Test-Medium, Answers S • f. »J Letters, at 361, Sixth Avenue, New York, L'.S.A. '1 • ij;Guinea. Letters may be left with J. B u r n s , 15, Southampton’ ft," with 6d. for postage.

LONDON : Printed and Published by JAMES BURNS, 15, Southampton Row, Hoibom, W.C.