F. L. S.-Let your friend beware of a narrow escape from drowning in three months time, and avoid the society of a tail, dark female, who will plunge him into peenniary difficulties.

M. G. H. [Bath].-You did wrong to risk it, for you will never gain much by speculation, but in this instance there seems a certainty of your obtaining a small sum, though not what you anticipated.

UN AMI.-The authority for the statement will be found in the "Philosophical Transactions," but only fragments reached the earth. A portion is in the British Museum, and weighs 1.400 lbs. Several papers communicated to the Royal Society give similar instances. Horary questions are generally rectified by a judgment on the nativity in cases of great doubt. If you will communicate the hour of birth, your's shall have immediate attention. C. UPON M.-We have bestowed every attention on your question, and, after careful deliberation have come to the conclusion that business will ever prove unprosperous to you. Accept a situation-which you will soon gain— in a similar line, and you will succeed. Some benefits will be derived through the medium of a relative.

P. V. The death of a near relation-the marriage of one you have loved to another-the cherished hope of the last twelvemonth frustrated, and a pecuniary increase this summer are all foreshadowed in your horoscope.

R. G. L.-On mature consideration we are of opinion that the transit of Mercury will produce a beneficial change to her health, which will appear The native is, however, about the beginning of this forthcoming month.

evidently of a sickly disposition, but Jove is too well posited to create immediate apprehension.

AMICUS From an inspection of the figure, we learn that it is very probable you will soon have to go abroad, in what capacity is not indicated, but it will proceed through a channel evidently little thought of at this time. Such a step will tend most unquestionably to your advantage.

"A DAUGHTER" [Salop].-The recovery of the property will be sure, but the process will be much protracted, and it will be then paid by instalments. Another party has obtained possession of it, and he will not surrender it this year, at least. without some trouble. It will not be got "COALBROOK DALE."-The illusion is one which, though simple, is, neverThe rings handed round for examination are theless, exceedingly effective. complete and genuine, but the four which are retained have secret internal springs which catch or release the others at pleasure. Much ingenuity and practice is required in its performance.

KEN. What you have communicated is, indeed, extraordinary, and its realisa tion must have created considerable surprise and wonder. We have some startling authorities in favour of omens, and are ourselves, from experience, by no means inclined to disregard them. The extracts from the journal would be read with attention.

T. WALL. With acknowledgments for the tone adopted in his letter, we beg to state that the "Calendar" is calculated for the counties where no local canses tend to interfere with meteorological phenomena, and thousands can thus bear testimony to its accuracy. See answer to a correspondent in our third number. We are taking some pains to work out the nativity enclosed, and must, therefore, request our querist to look to our next number for a solution.

S. JACKSON.-Some very unjust and nefarious misrepresentations have been made to deprive your husband of some property which is, by law and equity, his own. The triumph will be of but short duration, for on or before the 15th of July next some restoration will be made.

NETJA ADELA.-We have calculated the event referred to in our fair querist's letter will take place on or about the 3rd day of August next, and a rapid recovery may be safely predicted. All affairs about which you are so naturally anxious will be pleasantly terminated by that time.

A BROTHER ASTROLOGER.-We have every disposition to oblige, but in this case circumstances compel us to defer the answer, a severe loss by fire, through the carelessness of our servant, having, some time back, been the means of destroying a complete set of White's" Ephemeris," amongst which was one for the year inquired for. In our succeeding numbers he shall, however, have the required information, and any other of the planets' places

wanted.

MARIA. You are gallantly struggling with a virtuously-estimable, but we fear hopeless, attachment. He has manifested for you a truly Spartan devotion, We know how diffiand still, as he believes, fervently and fondly loves you. cult it is to crush the first affections, and tear the heart away from the object of our adoration, but do not encourage dreams that may not be realised. Await the advent of the 15th of June; write again, and be governed by the events that occur in the interim.

ANXIETY-Advertise thy business on Tuesday, May 7, and we guarantee snecess will attend thee. On that day it is also probable some unexpected good

fortune will arrive.

(You have some benefits in store).-LOUISE JAMES (Your future partner through life will be introduced in a month, and your circumstances will then improve).-MRS. J. D. (Your present undertaking will not succeed).—" SUBSCRIBER" (By perseverance you will get this year a considerable increase of business).-JOHN WILSON (An advertisement on an auspicious day would further your views).-GEORGE HENRY (You will meet with success in your present employment, and doubt not the affections of her thou lovest).-A. A. B. (You will gain considerably by going to the North.)-J. S. W. (In the latter end of July you will obtain a comfortable situation in or near London).LALLAH ROOKH (You will not wed him you would now choose, but a better offer will be made).-S. E. AND EMMA GREEN (The planetary aspects are favourable for you both, and moderate longevity is indicated. Marriage will appear in the 25th year of the latter).-S. W. (See answer to "T. S." in number 13).-A. B. C. (You will thrive much better where you now are).— CHARLOTTE JACOBINS (Your troubles will soon cease, and a distant relative will be the cause, but do not expect to re-visit your birth-place).RODGER (You have a good prospect before you).-F. C. (You will first return to your situation).-O. N. E. (You will have to cross the sea this summer, and it will be prosperous for you).-A. T. (You will both be married and fortunate).-H. E. (It is a dangerous acquaintance; beware).-A. B. Y. (Affairs will considerably improve this summer).—-A YOUTH (Follow that of your richest relative).-B. MARTHA (Your friend must write herself, and a private communication would be necessary for the other).-VIRGO HENRY (Your destiny will cause you to travel much, but it will be altogether a fortunate one, particularly in your 27th year).-L. BRENNER (You must state your question more explicitly).-CHARLES VERRENDER (You should not adopt a deceptive signature; but an attachinent does exist-see that you are not unworthy of it).-L. DY (You will soon hear from him, and amendment is promised).-EMMA [hensington] (We cannot clearly perceive what question our young querist would wish answered, as we could find none in her note. Write again).-S. K. (You will remain in town for some time, and ultimately establish yourself there in a small way of business).-J. A. X. (Yes, if carried on with zeal and industry).-A. M. F. (Answered in a former number).-ANN S. E. (You have seen him you are to marry, but you will leave soon).-S. L. W. (No, circumstances will forbid it).-JOHN JONES (Yon will have occasion to leave this year).-MARITANA (A family with whom you will become acquainted in August next will gratify your wishes). -LOUISA KING (Auswered before).-MARIAN CLIFFORD (Dark and about four years older).-AMY BALFOUR (It is, but he will remove soon to another part)-Others in our next.

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rally happens very speedily. On one occasion last winter I imagined I was in church, in the front seat of the side gallery, and, while engaged in prayer, I say some persons carry in a pl i coffin into the lower are. The silence that ensued was breathless; and I was saying to myself, as I supposed each one was doing. "Is this for me?" when the coffin-bearers looked at me, and said solemnly, and in tears," It is for,' naming me. I awoke immediately. I was then in perfect health; but only the second day thereafter I was most unexpectedly and dangerously taken ill, and for three months was frequently very near death; so that I never before had such a close view of an eternal world. It was not till I had nearly quite recovered that my dream was recalled to my remem. brance, by being told that a certain neighbour-none other than the chief coffin-bearer-had wept abundantly while my life was considered in danger.

Earlier in life, I once dreamt I was bathing, and was dragged beyond my depth, near to drowning, by a particular friend, and was only rescued by my husband wading in with. his clothes on, and scizing me as I was sinking. Within a week I was brought into an affecting dilemma by that same friend, and only relieved by the instrumentality of the same Irotecting hand.

What led me at first to put down these remarks was, that the night, or rather morning, before last, I had a very distressing dream of one of my little girls, four years old, being killed by | the falling of a peat-stalk upon her; and last evening I was sitting alone, reading the article on dreams, when I was startled by the most extraordinary rumbling noise and screams. On running to see what was the matter, I found the little girl alluded to had tumbled down the whole stair, with a straw basket full of peats, which she had succeeded, with the love of enterprise so common in children, in dragging up stairs to take to the nursery fire. The dear child, and the peats together, rumbling down a long wooden stair, were sufficiently alarming; but, happily, she was only frightened. The straw basket had preserved her at the foot uninjured, and I could soon laugh heartily at the incident, which I hope will stand for the fulfilment of my dream.

With respect to presentiment, my experience has not been great; but has any person besides myself ever felt, in particular societies, or circumstances, or scenery, as if the scene were not new to him, but only the exact repetition of circumstances, convers tion, and other particulars which he had been present at on some former occasion, though, undoubtedly, he actually never had? Often have I felt this, and it always appears as if I were remembering what had taken place in a dream.'

Our fair correspondent may rest assured that she is not sin. gular in the latter class of experiences. They are very general amongst persons of a nervous organisation. One theory about them, more interesting than convincing, is that they are the reminiscences of an earlier state of existence."

[This theory, which our utilitarian annotator gets rid of as being "more interesting than convincing." was, it will be remembered, duly examined and described in the fourth number of this work, and has been since repeatedly urged in these pages.]

He goes on to say-" The following anecdote is from a gentleman residing in the Isle of Man :- My brother, was in the Bush Hotel, in Bristol, one day in 183, when the Welsh mail arrived, and a gentleman named J., with whom he was acquainted, walked into the coffee-room. As they sat in conversation, the melancholy news arrived of the loss of the Frolic steamer upon the Naas, will all on board. Hereupon Mr. J. assumed a look of unusual seriousness, and seemed deeply affected. My brother inquiring the reason, he said he felt as if he had been just rescued from a violent death. He had designed two mornings before to leave Haverfordwest by that steamer, but was prevented by the entreaty of his wife, who had awoke during the night from a terrible dream, in which she had seen the loss of a vessel during a heavy gale. Merely to calm her mind, he had put off his journey for a day, and travelled by the mail instead, by which means his life un

Most of the writers,' he says, 'on the subject of dreams, deal with those which have reference to past events. To this extent I could readily accede to their reasoning. It is easy to conceive that impressions may and do remain on the mind. and that control being suspended by sleep, these impressions may present themselves in a confused and undefined mass. We frequently find remote events curiously blended with those of recent occurrence. We find places we may have visited strangely associated with those we have read about, or heard described. We meet with relatives long since dead, and have the full conviction that we are engaged with them as in former days; or it may be that we believe them to be dead, and yet we feel no surprise that we are conversing with them. We are sometimes breathlessly ascending a steep, and at other times suffocating in water. We are conscious of fear, joy, pain, &c. All these, and a thousand other vagaries, though sufficiently mysterious, we are ready to account for on the ground that they all have some reference to, or connexion with, what the mind has already been engaged in, and that, composed of these remnant impressions, the most vivid of them present themselves when uncontrolled by the senses. I would even go a little further with this theory. Suppose a person labouring under great anxiety for the recovery of a sick relative, or for the favourable issue of some undertaking in which he is deeply interested, it often happens that, in a dream, the death of the former, and the failure of the latter, take place by anticipation. It would not be held that there was any preternatural communication of these events, because they were actually realised. Anxiety implies a dread of these results, and it is not to be wondered at that that impression should assume the appearance of an occurrence actually realised. This theory is, however, greatly unhinged and dissipated when we come to deal with cases-unquestionable and well-authenticated cases-where events are distinctly and minutely portrayed. of which it is utterly impossible the mind could have any anticipation, and which, even after awaking from the dream, there is no reasonable ground for supposing likely to be realised. Moreover, when even dates are condescended on, and the realisation comes exactly to correspond with the dates and representation in the dream, then the difficulty, not yet overcome, presents itself. It is not easy, in such cases, to assent to the abandonment of the mind to its own uncontrolled vagaries, as if it were a mere wheel of a vast machine left to go at random, while all the rest is still. Its random effusions are conceivable until we come to this point-events anticipated or foretold, if I may use the expression. It is said that these are the exceptions, not the rule-that striking dreams of future events do happen, and by chance may turn out to be realised, but that there can be no connection between the dream and the event, and that in ninety cases out of a hundred events may be dreamt of which never do take place. I shall not venture to grapple with the question, but shall briefly state what has occurred in my own experience.

In the autumn of 1835 I dreamt that a near relative of my own, who died two years before, came to my bedside. I felt fully conscious of being in my own bed, and of raising myself on my elbow when my friend approached. I was also fully sensible that he was dead; and, though in his morning gown, his countenance bore the impress of death. He mentioned my name, and presented to me a coffin-plate bearing the name, age, and date of the death of a lady-the latter was 25th December, 1835. I said, "Where have you got that? Mrs. is still in life; and, besides, the date there has not yet arrived." He answered, "Take it, and keep it for her; she will require it." This lady was no relative of mine; I was only slightly acquainted with her. She was married, and had gone to a distance a considerable time before, and I had never seen nor heard of her since. When at breakfast, I in a casual way mentioned my dream, when some one jocosely remarked

that I must have been thinking of her, and that to dream of deaths was always a marriage, and that my dream must have reference to her marriage. We thought no more of the matter, nor did it particularly attract the attention of any of us, until, in the course of the day, a lady happened to call, and in course of conversation asked if we had heard of the distressing illness of Mrs. We all declared we had not; when the lady stated that she passed through a neighbouring town yesterday on her way to her father's house, from the north, and that she was so ill that she was obliged to remain some time at a friend's house before she could proceed. This was so far an association with the dream that it struck all of us as a remarkable coincidence. The more extraordinary part remains to be told. On December 31st, 1835, I attended her funeral, and the coffin-plate, with age and date as distinctly delineated in the dream, presented themselves to my gaze. It is needless to observe that the impression on my mind was of a very peculiar kind, and equally so on the minds of those who some months before had heard the narrative of the dream.

Another striking though less interesting case occurred of a more recent date. I dreamt that, on going into my office in the morning, I found seated at his usual desk a clerk who had left me a twelvemonth or more previously, and had since been in Edinburgh, where I had little or no communication with him. I said, “Mr. D., how do you happen to be here where in the world do you come from?" I had the most distinct answer, that he had come to the country for a few days, and, with my leave, would wish for a day to enjoy the reminiscence of his former feelings at that desk. I replied, "Certainly; 1 am glad to see you. Write that deed, and then take your dinner with me." Such was the dream; and though apparently of no importance, I happened to observe at the breakfast-table that I had dreamt my old clerk D. had returned to my office. After having walked out half an hour I directed my steps to the office, and my surprise was not a little excited when I found Mr.D. seated exactly as had been represented in the dream. It might be supposed that, following out the dream, I put the question which it had suggested: but I am sure it was on the spur of the moment, and without reference to the dream, that I put that question, and my astonishment was doubly aroused when his answer corresponded almost verbatim with what I have stated. I immediately returned and stated the circumstance to my friends, who would only be satisfied of the fact by my calling Mr. D. into their presence.

I shall just notice one further instance, out of many equally striking, in my experience. My wife and I, with our only child-a girl of about a year old-were at a friend's house some miles from home. The child was then in perfect health. I dreamt that, on going to my room, I found my wife walking about with the child in her arms, closely wrapped in a shawl. I had the impression that she was in health. I opened the shawl to take the child in my arms, and what was my horror to see only a withered branch in place of my blooming child. It was but a dream; but so painful was the impression, that I could not help saying to a friend in the morning that I dreaded we were to lose our child, I had had so unpleasant a presentiment from my dream. He ridiculed the idea; but within one short mouth the darling branch gradually withered, and was consigned to an early tomb. This is one of those cases which is not wrapped in so much mystery, as it may be conceived that a parent's anxiety, even about a healthy child, might present itself in a dream in some distorted form. Still it is an illustration of the mystery attending the mind when the senses are prostrated.

I shall just mention one case which was told to me by an advocate. He had arranged to accompany a friend to Newhaven to bathe, and they were to set out at six o'clock in the morning. Immediately before getting out of bed, he dreamt that he was struggling in the water to save a young man from drowning. Within little more than hour of the dream, he was in reality engaged in saving the life of a boy. He had just reached the sea-side, when he saw the boy beyond his depth, and without fully undressing, he rushed in and saved him.

I could not have the slightest hesitation in giving you the names of every one to whom I have referred in these observa

tions, though I should neither like their names for my own to be made public.""

If the editor of the Journal from which we borrow these records of dream revelations, will undertake to explain the principles on which they occur, and state the exact laws of his steam-engine" natural philosophy" by which they are governed, volume of our work, and believe in "the nothing-out-of-the we will undertake to present him gratuitously with the first common creed " ever after. Until this is done we must be allowed to entertain our own opinion on the matter, and what that is our readers already know.

A highly-gifted and intelligent correspondent, on whose veracity we can rely, and whose skill in the science may be depended upon, has kindly furnished us with some particulars, which, as calculated to materially alleviate the sufferings of many, we have much pleasure in communicating to our readers. He observes, and with equal truth and justice

"Mesmerism is a subject which cannot be too much studied, and too widely circulated. A power which all possess it is important all should become acquainted with. When we consider the prejudice which many people have against a new doctrine that is likely to overturn their darling notions, and the ignorance of many more, we cannot wonder that Mesmerism is so little known. Is it not imperative on those who have the opportunity and talent of inquiring into the claims of a power which they know does exist, and which will benefit the human frame when judiciously used. to make that power publicly known as much as possible? As a friend to truth, Sir, you will agree with me that it is.

The more I inquire into Mesmerism, the more I am convinced of its power as a curative to many of the diseases incidental to the human body. When we see obstinate complaints, which have baffled the vaunted efficacy of many medicines, quickly give way to the soothing influence of the mysterious agent, Mesmerism, should we, like the priests of old, keep this knowledge to ourselves? Surely not.

We see one person suffering, either from gout, rheumatism, nervous headache, indigestion, toothache, earache, sore throat, which are, perhaps, dangerous in themselves, but exceedingly deafness, weakness of sight, or some other complaint, none of painful and annoying. These we have seen quickly, as it were by magic, vanish when Mesmerism is applied, provided the patient is susceptible to the influence.

It is not always necessary that the sleep be produced, as many suppose, in order to remove those local pains; it is enough to breathe upon, and at the same time gently pass the fingers, over the affected part; and then, when the pain is removed, blow on it and make a few transverse passes, as the following cases will show :

A little girl, who had been suffering for the last twelve hours from earache, a gum-boil, and inflammation of the eye, was in three or four minutes eased, merely by my breathing on the parts and then gently passing my fingers over them.

In the second case I produced the Mesmeric sleep. A lad complained to me that his head ached very much, and that he felt very sick. In three minutes he was in a sound sleep. I let him sleep half an hour, and then awoke him; all pain and

sickness were gone.

The next case I consider still more wonderful. It was that of a little boy who was blind of one eye, and who assured me that he never had been able, as well as he could recollect, to see anything but "darkness," as he expressed it. I breathed fingers on them. Great was my surprise when, on opening his upon his eyes, and made a few passes, now and then placing my tinued the treatment a few minutes longer, which greatly imblind eye, he said, "I see you, but not very well." I conproved his vision. He now sees as well with one as the other. A few trials will soon establish the existence of this power, and surely this mode is so simple that any one may reduce it to the satisfactory proof of personal experience."