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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 92, 20 April 1871, Page 4

Spiritualism. — There are some facts recorded by the Spiritualist which make the hair staud on end. Here is one. A short time since the steamship Robert Lowe, Mr. J. Blackloek, commander, returned to the Thames from Newfoundland. One of the engineers, Mr. W. H. Pearce, was attacked with typhus fever on the voyage. He was attended during his illness by a stoker, Mr. D. Brown, a strong healthy man, not likely to be led astray by imagination. The latter on the day before the sick man died, was at his bedside, when he saw his wife, two children, and mother, all of whom he knew very well. " They appeared ," he says in a written statement, " to be very sorrdwful, but in other respects were the samefcs ordinary human beings. I could not see through them. The mother eaid to me in a clearly audible voice — He will be buried on Thursday, at 12 o'clock, in about 1400 fathoms of water." Mr. Brown appears to have been dreadfully frightened. He went, looking pale, to tjie cabin and told the captain he would not attend the sick man auy more — "^not for a thousand pounds ; " and in spite of a glass of brandy did not recover his equanimity for a long time. Mr. A. Dunbar, of Old Hill near Port William, Wigtownshire, and a number of ''other officers have affixed their names and address to a statement regarding the facts published in the Spiritualist, and it seems very certain that they at least believe in the truth of the story. Of course it will be asked what happened to Mrs. Pearce at the time in question. The question is answered. She is staying with her mother-in-law in Camden Town. In the middle of the night she heard three loud knocks which she thought were given at the street door, but on looking out she found there was nobody there. A deep dread came over her — she had an impression. that slieyould hear some bad news and afterwards she dreamt she was a widow. The Spiritualist adds that " the appearance of persons still living is not at all an uncommon circumstance, and is one of the most perplexing facts connected with spiritualism. " If' such is the kiud of information which the cheap literature of the future is to supply, a very powerful antidote will be required to : check the gross folly and superstition it will foster.