Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Mesmerism, Animal Magnetism, Government, Railways, Commerce

    Responds to news that the statesman Henry P Brougham (1st Baron Brougham and Vaux) reported a decision of the railway committee of the Board of Trade hours before it had been made. Believes Brougham may have obtained his information by 'clairvoyance' and suggests that he should provide returns 'of all the mesmeric passes made to and fro upon the Stock Exchange'.