Sold Wholesale and Retail, in bottles, labelled with Dr. de Jongh's Stamp and Signature, by ANSAR, HARFORD, & CO., 77. Strand, Sole Consignees and Agents for the United Kingdom and British Possessions; and by all respectable Chemists and Venders of Medicine in Town and Country, at the following prices:--Imperial Measure, Half-pints, 2s. 6d.; Pints, 4s. 9d. * * * * * {511} _LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1854._ * * * * * Notes. ST. AUGUSTINE ON CLAIRVOYANCE. Dr. Maitland, in his valuable _Illustrations of Mesmerism_, has not, I think, noticed an important passage in St. Augustine's treatise, _De Genesi ad litteram_, l. XII. c. 17. §§ 34. _seq._, in which, after saying that demons _can read men's thoughts_, and know what is passing at a distance, he proceeds to give a detailed account of two cases of _clairvoyance_. The whole is written with his usual graphic power, and will well reward the perusal. I must content myself with a brief outline of the facts. 1. A patient, suffering from a fever, was supposed to be possessed by an unclean spirit. Twelve miles off lived a presbyter, with whom, in mesmerist phraseology, he was _en rapport_. He would receive no food from any other hands; with him, except when a fit was upon him, he was calm and submissive. When the presbyter left his home the patient would indicate his position at each stage of his journey, and mark his nearer and nearer approach. "He is entering the farm--the house--he is at the door;" and his visitor stood before him. Once he foretold the death of a neighbour, not as though he were predicting a future event, but as if recollecting a past. For when she was mentioned in his hearing, he exclaimed, "She is dead, I saw her funeral; that way they carried out her corpse." In a few days she fell sick and died, and was carried out along that very road which he had named. 2. A boy was labouring under a painful disorder, which the physicians had vainly endeavoured to relieve. In the exhaustion which followed on his convulsive struggles, he would pass into a trance, keeping his eyes open, but insensible to what was going on around him, and passively submitting to pinches from the bystanders (_ad nullam se vellicationem movens_). After awhile he awoke and told what he had seen. Generally an old man and a youth appeared to him; at the beginning of Lent they promised him ease during the forty days, and gave him _directions by which he might be relieved and finally cured_. He followed their counsel, with the promised success.