PRINCESS THEATRE.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2602, 20 June 1871, Page 2

PRINCESS THEATRE.

We have received the following letter in reference to Dr Carr’s Saturday night’s-lec-ture “ There are inoie tilings in heaven ai d earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your pink* sophy. ” —Shakespeare. • S IR) _It is within my recollection that Dr K1 Hobson, one of the most eminent of tbi College of Physicians, lost his patients, was tabooed by soci- ty, and vilified as a charlatan for practising the art or science of Mesmerism—or, as it .was then m - re commonly termed, “Animal Magnetism.” At the present time few would have the hardihood to pooh-pooh the matter ; and of those few, if any were at the theatre on tho nights of Friday or Saturday last, the most sceptical must have wavered in his ancient faith that “there’s nothing in it.” Our present diffi eulty is to find out where science drops and the charlatan takes up the thread. In the mesmeric sleep, and coiiscijnent bending of the will of the patient to the more potent will of the operator, we are forced to he Here ; but putting aside spiiitism— at least the spiritism of your IT mes and your Hardinges—as unmitigated humbug—what are wo to say of clairvoyance and its attendant mysteries ? . As a rule, at mesmeric stances the Faculty ami the Clergy are conspicuous by their absence. Why is this '! Surely, as a science, the subject should he investigated on behalf of suffering humanity, if Mesmerism is to be eiedited with one-hundredth part of the wonderful cures said (upon undeniable testimony) to have been ellecteA by that agency. c< w> Dunedin, June I'J.