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dl thU time making violent movements 



obfened. «•« , ,; - if he we re suffering pain, 



^V ««" - d that he would select all the aces 

 M M ,^ lack It was suggested by a gentleman present 

 fr °° t. £ds should be shuffled, but this was not done, 

 th ? iir P icked out all the aces with the greatest ease, 

 f d A ' then announced that he would play a game of 

 !* TwHh any person present. A gentleman stepped 

 feorle wrti a "J £ . £ d with him Bn d won. Another 



*"*" t" P S and' another, Alexis always select- 



^his cards appropriately, and, whether winning or 



?*■ Xing properly. Another gentleman was 



° Sin . g i .ntrr a game; and Mr. Jerdan, who wore spcc- 

 mTitedtotry 8q ^ ^ ^^ A , ej[is remar k mg , as 



udeS ', I;. «-at " ATous <u'<»« chacun la double vue.' 

 ^^l three games were played with this gentleman 

 T "u Z «me perfection as before. The next expen- 

 "•*, « M a book. A large folio volume was 

 r 0t ht and placed before him-a page was opened-a 

 v re i M rhief spread over it -and Alexis, whose eyes 

 bin <tU bandaged, with much difficulty and hesitation, 

 ""/ T\f lain fully discovering syllable by syllable, read 

 " y correctly. The volume was then placed behind 

 !"° V.l and M. Marcillet, informing the company that 

 tt p. M could read it in that position, the book was 



ii..;.c.Mh(>i«nn(l see somethinsr. but 



i »•./» yourself. Alexis mea again, anu saiu uc 



^l^loSng like an engraving," Bravo » said M 



S1rai;rdVe r nand gh brh?nd the cha^Tt^ 



!i i J .nn„ns holding the book, and said he could see 

 f .X?ton" like columns. " Well done,- said M. 

 Marcillet " KO on." Alexis then could see something 

 white. ♦' Right," said the operator, "he sees the win- 



dowi " and thus, gradually, with a word of encourage- 

 ment when right, and of dissent and disapproval, and 

 a new magnetic pass over him when he was wrong, 

 Alexis got so far, in about a quarter of an hour or 

 20 minutes, as to say he saw a door. It having been 

 remarked that the heat of the room was very great, 

 Alexis tore the bandages off his eyes, apparently to 

 cool himself, and turned half round towards the book 

 behind his chair, and the back of the engraving 

 being presented to him he looked at it very attentively. 

 The paper was very thick, and an ordinary observer 

 could not have detected any traces through it of the im- 

 pression on the other side. Ultimately, however, his 

 eyes being still unbandaged, he pronounced the engrav- 

 ing to be the view of a chapel. The book was then exhi- 

 bited to the company, and the view was that of a 

 cathedral— we believe that of Notre Dame at Paris. 

 Another page was afterwards opened, also a coloured 

 engraving, which Alexis, after a like process, pronounced 

 to be another ecclesiastical edifice. On being exhibited 

 to the company, it was found to be a drawing of an 

 antique cheftbnier, with two vases upon it. Colonel 

 Garwood, who was among the company present, and 

 who it appears had been previously in communication 

 with Alexis in Paris, then took a letter from his pocket, 

 which he folded once or twice or more, and after a long 

 examination of the outside, Alexis said it was written by 

 an officer in the army, whose name began with a B. 

 The next letter of his name he said was A. This being 

 denied he said it was O ; the next N, the next F, the 

 next E. This being denied, he said it was F, the next 

 L, and the whole name was Bonfill. Colonel Gur- 

 wood then unfolded the letter, and the signature was 

 found to be Bonfille. Alexis then described the 

 writer to be an Officer residing somewhere in the 

 South of France, Bayonne he thought, with a bald 

 head and a scar over his eye, and that he was at 

 that moment engaged in writing. Colonel Gurwood 

 •aid he had never seen his correspondent, and 

 could therefore not state whether the description of his 

 person was accurate or not, but that he was an officer in 

 the army. Dissatisfaction having been expressed by 

 •everal persons at the result of these experiments, and 

 of the promptings which had been found requisite by 

 M. Marcillet when his pupil had not mads a correct 

 description, it was proposed by one gentleman that he 

 should be allowed to write a word upon a piece of paper, 

 hold it in his hand, the writing concealed from the view 

 of all around, behind the head or chair of Alexis, and 

 that if Alexis could read it the experiment would be con- 

 considered conclusive proof of the powers claimed. This 

 was promised. In the meantime, however, many persons 

 had congregated round Alexis, and put various questions 

 to him as lo the time by watches, some of which were 

 ttght, and some put purposely wrong, to test him ; and 

 when the paper alluded to with one word upon it was 

 produced, Alexis was said to be too much fatigued to 

 try it, and it was not tried. After his refusal, some other 

 Persons who had expressed great faith in the reality of 

 «e phenomena were allowed to put questions to Alexis, 

 who still, it was alleged, remained in the clairvoyant 

 state. Lpon this, the same gentleman who had ex- 

 pressed incredulity, pointed out that if these questions 

 and experiments did not fatigue Alexis, the trial of the 

 piece of paper, so simple and so conclusive, would not 

 *T lgue h,ni » and again requested that an opportunity 

 j^ght be given to see whether Alexis could read it. The 

 f rf Best was »gain denied upon the same ground as be- 

 ar ti, • C have now narra ted the principal occurrences 

 He 8lttln 5 a » fairly and simply as we could, leaving 

 prom- feader to draw his own inferences. We have been 

 of th another opportunity of witnessing the powers 

 fc e y° un g man, and shall certainly attend ; and in the 



and \f if ' havin 5 8een much or * the part both of Alexis 

 ■*■ Marcillet that does not satisfy us, we state, with- 



out reserve, that we have seen Herr Dobler, with lrss 

 pretence, perform feats infinitely more extraordinary than 

 anything we saw done by Alexis. — Morning Chronicle. 

 The Power of Youth. — The following passage, on the 

 power of youth to achieve great things, is from a new 

 novel by Mr. B. D'Israeli, entitled " Coningsby, or the 

 New Generation": — "'I perceive,' said Coningsby, 

 pursuing a train of thought which the other had indicated, 

 1 that you have great confidence in the influence of indi- 

 vidual character. I have also some confused persuasions 

 of that kind. But it is not the spirit of the age.' ' The 

 age does not believe in great men, because it does not 

 possess any,' replied the stranger. * The spirit of the 

 age is the very thing that a great man changes.' • But 

 does he not rather avail himself of it?' inquired 

 Coningsby. ' Parvenus do,' rejoined his companion ; 

 but not prophets, great legislators, great conquerors. 

 They destroy, and they create.' ' But are these times 

 for great legislators and great conquerors?' urged 

 Coningsby. * When were they more wanted?' asked 

 the stranger. * From the throne to the hovel all call for 

 a guide. You give monarchs constitutions to teach them 

 sovereignty, and nations sunday-schools to inspire them 

 with faith.' * But what is an individual,' exclaimed 

 Coningsby, ' against a vast public opinion ?' * Divine/ 

 said the stranger. ' God made man in his own image ; 

 but the public is made by newspapers, Members 

 of Parliament, Excise - officers, Poor-law guardians. 

 Would Philip have succeeded, if Epaminondas had not 

 been slain ? And if Philip had not succeeded ? Would 

 Prussia have existed had Frederick not been born ? And 

 if Frederick had not been born ? What would have been 

 the fate of the Stuarts if Prince Henry had not died, 

 and Charles I., as was intended, had been Archbi-hop of 

 Canterbury ? ' * But when men are young, they want 

 experience/ said Coningsby; * and when they have 

 gained experience, they want energy.' 'Great men 

 never want experience,' said the stranger. « But every- 

 body says that experience—' ' Is the best thing in the 

 world— a treasure for you, for me, for millions. But 

 for a creative mind, less than nothing. Almost every- 

 thing that is great has been done by youth.' * It is at 

 least a creed flattering to our years,' said Coningsby w»th 

 a smile. « Nay/ said the stranger ; ' for life in general 

 there is but one decree. Youth is a blunder ; manhood 

 a struggle ; old age a regret. Do not suppose/ he added 

 smiling, » that I hold that youth is genius; all that I say 

 is, that genius, when young, is divine. Why, the 

 greatest Captains of ancient and modern times both 

 conquered Italy at five-and-twenty «. Youth, extreme 

 youth, overthrew the Persian Empire. Don John 

 of Austria won Lepanto at twenty-five— the greatest 

 battle of modern time; had it not been for the 

 jealousy of Philip, the next year he would have been Em- 

 peror of Mauritania. Gaston de Foix was only twenty- 

 two when he stood a victor on the plain of Ravenna. 

 Every-one remembers Conde, and Rocroy at the same 

 age. Gustavus Adolphus died at thirty-eight. Look at 

 his captains : that wonderful Duke of Weimar, only 

 thirty-six when he died. Banier himself, after all his 

 miracles, died at forty-five. Cortes was little more than 

 thirty when he gazed upon the golden cupolas of Mexico. 

 When Maurice of Saxony died at thirty-two, all »« urope 

 acknowledged the loss of the greatest captain and the pro- 

 foundest statesman of the age. Then there is Nelson 

 Clive— but these are warriors, and perhaps you may think 

 there are greater things than war. I do not ; I worship 

 the Lord of Hosts. But take the most illustrious achieve- 

 ments of civil prudence. Innocent III., the greatest of 

 the Popes, was the despot of Christendom at thirty-seven; 

 John de Medici was a Cardinal at fifteen, and Guicci- 

 ardini tells us baffled with his State craft Ferdinand of 

 Arragon himself. He was Pope, as Leo X., at thirty- 

 seven, Luther robbed even him of his richest province at 

 thirty-five. Take Ignatius Loyola and John Wesley, 

 they worked with young brains. Ignatius was only 

 thirty when he made his pilgrimage, and wrote the 

 » Spiritual Exercises." Pascal wrote a great work at 

 sixteen, the greatest of Frenchmen, and died at thirty 

 seven ! Ah I that fatal thirty-seven, which reminds me 

 of Byron, greater even as a man than • writer. Vv as it 

 experience that guided the pencil of Raphael when he 

 painted the palaces of Rome ? He died, too, at thirty- 

 seven. Richelieu was Secretary of State at thirty-one. 

 Well then, there are Eolingbroke and Pitt, both Minis- 

 ters before other men leave off cricket. Grotius was in 

 great practice at seventeen, and Attorney- General at 

 twenty-four. And Acquaviva— Acquaviva was General 

 of the Jesuits, ruled every Cabinet in Europe, and [colo- 

 nised America before he was thirty-seven. " hat . a 

 career ! ' exclaimed the stranger, rising from his chair, 

 and walking up and down the room, * the secret sway or 

 Europe ! That was indeed a position ! But it is need- 

 less to multiply instances. The history of heroes is the 

 history of youth/' _^ 



ounals, aud uie counsel lor the claimant therefore suggesed an 

 adjournment, which accordingly took place.— The case w* re- 

 sumed yesterday, when copies of the Decree of the Counci of 

 Trent, and other works expounding the Roman law of marriage, 

 were put in. The Vicar- Apostolic for Wales was examined, 

 and a letter was put in from the Secretary of State to 

 Lord Grenville. by which it was proposed to allow Lady 

 Augusta Murray an annuity, provided she would not use 

 the Royal Arms. A clerk from Coutts and Co.'s proved 

 the payment of an annuity of 1800L a year to Lady Augusta 

 Murray. This closed the case for the claimant, and Mr. 

 Erie summed up on his hehalf. At the close of his address, the 

 following question was submitted to the common-law Judges 

 by the Lord Chancellor for their opinion : —Evidence being 

 offered of a marriage solemnised at Rome, in the year 1793, 

 by an English priest, according to the rites of the Church of 

 England, between A B, a son of his Majesty king George 

 the Third, and C D. a British subject, without the previous 

 consent of bis said Majesty, assuming such evidence to have 

 been sufficient to establish a valid marriage beiweeo A B and 

 C D, independently of the provisions of the statute of the 1 2th 

 George 111., chap. 11, would it be sufficient, having regard to 

 that statute, to establish a valid marriage in a »uit in which the 

 elder son of A B claims an estate in En B land as son of A B 

 by virtue of such marriage ?»- The Committee was then 



aiijourncd sine die. ^ Aa 



Court op Quun'b Btxcn.-Trial at Bar. -The Baron de 



Bode v. the Queen.-Thi* case, which has been J "» <req«cD 'f 

 beiore the public, came on on Thursday, the 20th for what 

 was, mi fact, a rehearing of the evidence £«■*"*•£: 

 quisition in 1842. The inquiry was then made under a com mis- 

 sum issued by the Vice Chancellor of England, upon a pet n 

 of right, and the commissioners and jury upon that occasion 

 made a return, which consisted of a sort of ■J^ 1 .^^" 

 favour of the Baron de Bode, and in which the eclared that 

 he had been deprived of property which, with the Intel , was 

 now above the value ofMe.eM!. This return, upon coming nto 

 the Court of Equity, was traversed by the Crown. Upon that 

 traverse issue was joined, and this new issue which. In fart, 

 was only the former one in a slightly different form, now came 

 on to be tried. Mr. M. D. Hill, Mr. set Manning-. Mr. 



Young Mr. Mellor, and Mr. Anstey, appeared lor the plaintiff j 

 andSfe Solicitor-General. Mr. Erie, and Mr. * ^rfand* 



Crown. The trial lasted Ur lour days, before aspec.al jury , and 

 after numerous witnessc . U reign as well a* English, had I been 

 examined, Lord Benman summed up. giving a summary of the 

 case as he proceeded. He said that it became the duty of the 

 court to state the particular facts of tins case, and to d reel t he 

 lurors as to the best mode of discharging their duty with 

 rl erence to this unaccustomed mode of proceeding. The case 

 deoended on a vast number of facts, spreading over a series of 

 years and involving various matters of law. There had been 

 repeaed inquiries and discussions with respec to it in courts 

 am \Vn Parliament, and it now came before the **£«£< ■ 

 proceeding winch was very rarely adopted in courts of justice, 

 ami f under eircum-tances of a particular nature. Two years 

 ago the Baron de Bode had preferred a petition to the Own. 

 after all the other numerous inquiries had taken place That 

 ue "ion was now befoie the jurors, and was called a petition of 

 KS. In Uiat petition the baron assumed that a large sum of 

 money belonging o him was now in the ha. of the Queen. 

 under ^clrcums anccs which rendered the Crown liable to restore 

 S tohim On the receiptof this petition, the Crown ordered right 

 o be lone acceding to law, and the Lord Chancellor .hereon 

 directed a writ to certain commissioners to hold an »"!">£ 

 f. to the truth of the facts, as alleged in the pe it.on The 



Ss3s sas wttSSS ESS 



iacts louiiu u altogether: he first traversed the facts, 



sift— ssssrsffi 



the .acts of the cas£ rt was to o Qf ^ ^ 



stance, that there 8eemea ."V. °; h " c n liritor-General admitted 



W ° U,d ,t e law ffSnl *Hl?« be t^dut, 'o. tJAges «o 

 upon the law of J&ngiana « w " n f the iurv to accept me law 

 state that law to the jury, ^anri Lthat- of thej*r> to v ^ 



which had been so stated by the i Court. H«e 



foreign law ^.^^J^^^S^^n the result of 

 business of the jury to awaru >»u. 



the evidence whi h had b « n S' V |^^^ 



every other part of the case. The Solicitor *>«» Austrian 



that -he treaty of Westphalia may gi^ the Houe ^ 



right of war against the i crown > of France o ^ ^ 



feudal law in the territory o Akac >>™ 1 sove re.guty of 



uld not at all ° CTO S* 1 * '7™ ' j t would be, however, for 

 *„r P within her own dominions, it v»« fnrpi „ n i.wvera. 



Co 





F.ance within her own oon„u.u.-^ f lawyers> 



the jury to decide ^^^tSr-Gener^thouthcorr^ 

 how far the observation. of the *fg gtances f the present 



%m 



'■a 



House of Loans.-THB Sussk* PKKRA0 *rme consTdera- 

 for Privileges assembled on Tuesday to 'csume the con suwr 



tion of this claim. The Earl of *™'*"^£n^nt. 

 Few of the judges attended but a » ^J^^Jadlle^D'Este 



Admiral 



bi 



Catholic oisuup, wi.u «i»«'"v>. • „:„„„ hetween i 



great length, and showed that the marn *£ e n D aCCO rdmg to the 

 testantaat Rome, by a Protestant clergyman acco^^g ^ 



Protestant ritual, would be considered a vahd a ^ 



that the decree of the Council of Trent is £eld ^ 



testants. At the close of Dr. ^ l^would expect the best 

 Chancellor intimated that the lord , wouw p ,_ 



evidence of the Roman law and the practice 



na l^aay v ir S m» »uwa;^,.v. vIZL»„« were examinea ; 

 dmiral Sir R. Stopford. and Dr. Lus^n^we ^^ 

 at the most important witness was Dr. W.sema., ^ 



atholic bishop, who explained the R^.^^een two P- o- 



. . ^w i .^ nn . nr i »ki>f th» marriage uci.™*-*- 



w tar the oosei "»*,.'" "V" tne c j rcu mstances 

 „ the main, was quel fied by the c* ^ ^^ as Qne of ^ 



case. It ^w "°' f d V erm anv held the lordship of Soultz, as a 

 ancient nobility of Ger^nv c ^ Q%jl aild lhat he 



pure male feud, under the a a iJ n gwith his son. upon the 



was regularly M**** VSlu Soubise Such was the state of 

 fa „„ f e of the house >« h f°^ 1 ° a f Assembly abolished feudal 



affairs in \^>*™ n which had been so often adverted to. It was 

 rights, by the decree wn h t the uecree shou i u haV e 



ao :'^S^f^^el^ ^ ode of inheritance and sue 

 had n h n which h« 1 previously existed, as there we.e many 

 cession whicn n*u v ,../.: ch were contrary to natural 



fcu dal ««^ * n . n yiXS ^ may be destroyed without at all 

 r !fX« *t he manne^of Succeeding to estates. The preceding 

 obse anions were Intended to apply to the event of the jury 

 heinT of opinion that the estate of Soultz sous Foiet was 

 feidfl at the time of the « cession" by «^^ to ^e^. 

 but ,f they thought that the estate had [bee on.e i*$«gl*J 

 effect of the decree of the National Assembly ofj^y. upQB 

 the occurrence in question would ha\e to o . % had 



a different footing. With regard to the fact ^ Hon||ne „ > 

 been fully detailed by the aged v.itness. » lau e to ais 



and the question was, what ^^ * h 'i^„y of i he foreign 

 evidence of the fact combined with the ^ st * m i, tetl m ,m sach 

 law> ei s as to the legal consequences JT ni " i(1e ~ nce of HummeU. 

 an operation. His Lord.hip then read the ^ ioed as to the 

 and that of the gentlemen who had h een ejisted in , A sace 

 effect of the cession according to jhelaw w ^ t<) have 



at the time. With regard to the fact i 1|lin had been 



been disputed by the Crown; and a= . n duccd on the part 01 

 given contrary to that which had beer ^ witDnola their assent 

 the claimant, the Jury would prooao 



