to perfection." I need not say, that the text was handled in the most marvelous manner, in so much so, that it was pure inspiration, for no one knew till the service commenced what would be the chapter read, or that Dr. Mouck would be at Ladbroke Hall. The Hall most fortunately was full, though these last few Sunday evenings they have been very thin audiences.

When the Dr. had ended his discourse, F. O. Matthews followed with Clairvoyance tests, when some twenty were given to strangers, all of which were acknowledged to be correct. The grand and good influence exercised made each, one and all, Spiritualists and non-Spiritualists, to acknowledge that it was good to be there. When Mr. Matthews asked the audience to show by acclamation their pleasure in seeing the Dr. in their midst that night, the house came down with long and hearty applause.

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On Sunday, August 7th, at 7 p.m., Mr. W. H. Harrison will deliver an address, subject: "Notes on a visit to Paris." On Monday, at 8.30, the Comprehensionists will meet. On Wednesday, at 8.30, a seance; Mrs. Treadwell medium. On Thursday, at 8.30, a physical seance; Mrs. Cannon attends as Medium.

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The usual seance on Saturday, at 8, Mrs. Treadwell medium. Mr. Hancock attends half an hour previous to speak with strangers-a charge of 6d. is made.

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This Article is a valuable testimony to Spiritualism. The eminent Author of it declares the good which Spiritualism has been to him his knowledge of the continued existence of the One who has gone to the Spiritual State; how they became Spiritualists and studied the subject with William Howitt and other persons of eminence; his disregard for mourning at funerals, together with words of great comfort and consolation to the bereaved.

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SPIRITUAL PHENOMENA IN

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Last week we gave the first portion of the Report of a Lecture by the Hon. J. L. O'Sullivan, (formerly American Minister to Portugal) delivered at the Spiitual Institution, 15, Southampton Row, London, on Sunday Evening, July 31, the collection being for the benefit of that Institution. We now place before our Readers the remainder of our greatly condensed report of that interesting Lecture.

CONCLUDING REMARKS ON COUNT DE BULLET'S

SEANCES.

It would have been easy to spend the whole evening over the phenomena obtained at Paris under the auspices of the Count de Bullet, as illustrated by this marvellous collection of spirit photographs; but Mr. O'Sullivan had reluctantly to leave the subject, to give some attention to what he had recently observed in America.

In this brief summary report, much has been necessarily omitted. We will add two points, before crossing the ocean to America, namely

(1) That "John King" two or three times urged the sitters to fire a pistol ball into his breast, (as had once been done to a spirit with a rifle at St. Lonis, in the United States) assuring them that it would not injure him, when he had notice of it beforehand, and adding that a cannon ball would be equally harmless. Mr. O'Sullivan had faith enough to be in favour of accepting the pistol ball invitation, but the Count refused.

(2) On one occasion they saw not less than four spirit forms, and the medium at the same time. The curtains of the cabinet were drawn aside, and there was the medium seated in the middle, in a deep trance sleep, and on one side of him-all standing-the beautiful forms of "Nathalie" and "Alexandrine," and on the other that of Mr. O'Sullivan's mother and that of "John King," who paraded his light along the line of the five, close to their faces, so that each was clearly recognisable. Such a sight has probably never before

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THE PHENOMENA IN ENGLAND AND IN AMERICA. Carrying the minds of his hearers with him beyond the Atlantic, Mr. O'Sullivan remarked on the contrast between the wealth of manifestations in the United States, so splendid and so varied, and the present state of public mediumship in this country. Wishing to relate only what he had himself witnessed, he divided the phenomena into these several classes: Psychography, Materialisation, Possession, and Clairvoyance. By" possession," he meant the cases in which the medium was taken possession of by a spirit, and made to act and speak in the character of the "control,' often with a scope of knowledge and power of intellectuality far beyond himself, or in languages entirely unknown to him; of this Mr. O'Sullivan said he had witnessed much, and wonderful things.

PSYCHOGRAPHY.-MRS. HAMAN'S MEDIUMSHIP. He first spoke of Psychography, or writing or drawing on closed slates or paper inaccessible to mortal hand. His first experience of this in America (he had not then seen Slade) was in San Francisco, with a Mrs. Haman as the medium, who had then been recently developed in this phase. They held a slate together under the table, the slate all but touching the under side of the table top, and held by each at one corner, and sometimes resting on the palm of the medium's hand while the back of her hand rested on the palm of his. Both of the other hands rested on the table. In such modes trickery was impossible. The scratching sound of writing was not heard as in the case of Dr. Slade's mediumship, but a rapid ticking, as of a stream of electricity, accompanied the writing, terminating with three emphatic sounds when the writing was finished.

Through this channel he had held lengthy intercourse with spirits, and received interesting information.

As an instance, he mentioned that on one occasion two spirits controlled,-who in the flesh had occupied the antipodes of thought in respect to miracles-and yet expressed themselves as in agreement on one interesting point. These spirits were the Roman Catholic "Archbishop Hughes," late of New York, and "Theodore Parker." Both of these spirits writing