Magical Illusions.
Liii exntOiiLoln un(uer tne anoove imposing iLue iiaS iJSt opUneu at Spring-gardens. Bv the way, th8se same gardens sceem to be a fa. Iourite haunt wirh gentlemen who exhibit in she coniurins line. Not a magician, juggler, or other ingenious itinerant of any note, .who from timie to time visits the metropolis. who does not make Spring-gardens the scene of his wonderful feats. flere legerdemain and ma-ic seem to have e*tablished their head-quarters. But,these are not the onl, sources of amusemnent to which the public have had invitationsin Spring-gardens. Some of the most ex-raordinary productions of nature. :nd the moss ingenious specimens of art, have there been exhibited, and levied, in their turns. no slight con- tributions ucon the purses of the carious. Amongst these. Tobv. the Sapient ig i the Automaton Chess-player; Alich Brian, the Iris,h Giant Nellv jenks, tle Leicestershire Fairy; and Bruno, the Dzg of Knowledge, have bcen much celebrated in their day, End contributed in no sliglht deiFree so the already grent fame of rht Gardenrs But to return to the " IMagical Illusions." We visited them last night, and thiink them not aslo.etlherunwortbyof that name. Signor Cucchiani,the exhibiter, is trom Rome; and we thougght, on seeing his prospectus, that, like so-;ne others fromii the same quarter, he was cisposed to draw somewhat largely upon the credulity of John Ball; ftr who, we usk, (born out of Irelanrd), would not have been staggCred at being promeired a sighl of the Invisible Jeweller ? This was not all; tlherc wcre besides, the *- Inseparable Bolls," - the Incosaprehensi- ble Dance," and - the Irresistible Calculation." All these did Signor Cucchiani Dromiiise, aind to do him justice ha kept Ili9 word. We did actually scC the invisible ieweller-were nmade acquainted with the "sinicomprelhensible dtance"-and got the beuer of the " irresistible calculation." But Signor Cuc- chiani's feats did not rest here. Bv means of his " invisible lew- eller," he changed some shillings hitto golden sovereigns. 'hls hoivever, though a very useful, was by no imetans the mnost iigeni- oumly performed trick of -he evening. Sonme of the na2st anmusinF and apparently inagical performances, were withi cards, antd with a black and red ball, wkicli he caused to change colour, and to appear and disappear without the assigtauce of any visible agency-thus approaching, as nearly as matv be, to the physical imp;3ssibilitv of Casitg " a thing to be and not be at the sane rime." Ts)eeexhi bitions are given on two evenings in the week-liotidays and Tlhurs4avy. That ot last night, notwithstanding the urnfav=ab state of the weather, swvs respectably attended. MA(ICAL ILLU7SIONS.