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OP THE EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS. 315endured. It was an impressive scene, and an occasion of deep interest.There are many such in the lifeof a spirit medium.1582. In a few weeks I leave England for the Continent, in companywitli n)y friend, Mr. llymer. We intend to reach Rome in November,where wo purpose to spend a few months, if his holiness will let us. Youshall hear from mc again.Yours truly,D. H. Hume.The following isJournalthe article referred to as having appeared in the LondonLord Brougham loith the Spirits.1583. '' A circumstance which has excited the most extraordinary sensationamong the privileged few who have been admitted within the sphereof its operations, has taken place at Ealing, a village on the Uxbridgeroad. A young gentleman, named Hume, a native of Scotland, but whohas resided for many years in America, is now on a visit at the house ofMr. Rymer, a highly respectable solicitor. Mr. Hume is what the Americansterm a ^medium,' and through hisinstrumentality some extraordinaryand, iftrue, miraculous, occurrences have taken place.1584. *^ The spirits of deceased persons have been heard and felt inMr. Rymer's house, and a variety of circumstances have taken place,which the persons who were present affirm could not have beenproducedexcept by supernatural agency. One of the spirits is supposed to be thatof a son of Mr. Rymer, a little boy about eleven or twelve years of age,who has been induced to write to his parents under the cover of the table,and the writing is, to all appearances, precisely similar to that of the childwhen alive. Mr. Rymer, who is thoroughly convinced of the hond fidesof the aifair, has invited several persons to witness the manifestations,and among them the Rev. Mr. Lambert, the incumbent, who has becomea devout believer in the existence of these communicative spirits.1585. " Some rumours of the spirit manifestations having reached LordBrougham, the medium had an interview with the noble and learnedlordin the presence of Sir David Brewster, when several unaccountable revelationswere made, and even Lord Brougham has confessed himself amazedand sorely bothered to comprehend the descriptionof agency by which anaccordeon is forced into his hands and made to play, or his watch takenout of his pocket and found in the hands of some other persons in theroom ; for such are among the vagaries performed by the Ealing spirits.The house of Mr. Rymer is, of course, besieged by persons anxious towitness the manifestations, and scarcely a night passes that some scofferis not converted into a true believer in the mystery of spiritual manifestations.'^