The Sun. — London, England, 1869-11-11 00:00:00

- •It-. • 6212,1 T OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times congratulates the King of Italy on his re covery from his dangerous Mmes. To promote self govern ment and lay the basis of constitutional freedom under the circumstances in which the Ting was placed—with the Austria of Francis Joseph on one side, and the France of Louis Napoleon on the other, with the Pope for a neigh bour, and the Pope's friends in the heart of his country and his household—was an enterprise before which the stoutest heart might well have quailed. Unable to fight the Austrians, his subjects turned against the priests ; they demolished ecclesiastical tribunals, sup pressed monks, taxed canons, and laid violent hands on prelates of the highest rank. The King had to withstand the strongest domestic attacks, and to bear the direst domestic calamities; not without great violence to his private convictions, not without misgivings about a policy which Heaven seemed to visit upon him with un mitigated severity. With what heroism he went through the orcleal no man will ever fully know. Were a King responsible only for his public life, Victor Emmanuel would be entitled to unqualified praise. Unfortunately, there was in the Sovereign's private conduct much which would not bear scrutiny ; and it cannot be denied that his popularity waned as his star rose. Public opinion, even in Southern countries, cannot be defied altogether with impunity, and Victor Emmanuel's virtues as a King were lost sight of in consideration of his failings as a man. When the Sovereign " amuses himself," it is the people who must pay the costs ; and those who would have cared little for the King's sins grumbled as they perceived that it was for them to bear the penalty. En the worst days of national distress Victor Emmanuel had again and again to ask for an increase of the Civil List ; his debts had again and again to be wiped lff by a parliamentary vote, and it was from sheer lavishness to unworthy minions that the King had to draw so deeply on the public purse. It is time that the King of Italy should think of raising his throne and that of his heir from the discredit into which it has undoubtedly been suffered to fall. There have been many circumstances combining to discredit the cause of Royalty in Europe. It would be too deplorable if that cause were to lose ground even in Italy—in that country in which the King's cause identified itself with that of the nation, in which people and Sovereign had common aims, in which they ran the same risks and achieved the same triumphs. The Standard says that Mr. Gladstone, in that which the chief organ of his party justly terms his " wailing and lugubrious" speech at the Lord Mayor's table, claims for bearance and encouragement from his countiymen on the score of his Irish embarrassments—forbearance for his failures, encouragement for his policy. We grant that both are largely due to any Minister who is responsible for the fate of that unfortunate country and that unaccountable people. We grant, too, that co Minister ever had mere need of either than Mr. iladstone. No Minister ever yet failed so signally, ter ibly, and speedily; or failed after such ostentatious pro fessions of competence and such lofty anticipations of success. After nearly a year of rule, during which all the thoughts of the Cabinet, all the time of Parliament, have )een occupied with Ireland, he finds himself more openly sad violently at issue with the popular party in that country than any of his predecessors; finds disaffec tion more general and more audacious, sedition noisier wad more rampant than ever ; finds that his con.. sessions have only provoked new demands, which it is alike dangerous to refuse and disgraceful to allow; that the Protestants have been alienated without conciliat ;mg the Catholics, and property rendered insecure laid depreciated in value without rendering the ?oor one whit less discontented, or more confident in English justice. Great, indeed, is his need of for bearance ; greater still, perhaps, his need of encourage ment ; and we need not wonder that he should feel them keenly. The Daily News, in referring to the vacant head mastership of Rugby, observes that it was no light task to succeed to such a master as Dr. Arnold; yet the difficulty of the trustees was in selecting, not in finding his successor, and they selected a master who, if he could not replace his illustrious predecessor, followed in his footsters with the modest and manly confidence of a true and loving disciple. It will soon be seen whether the choice of Dr. Temple was only a happy accident. His mastership of Rugby might be described in a single word borrowed from the Indian mythology, as a new Avatar of krnold. In the one and in the other we note the same force of personal character, the same practical enthusiasm for the work of tuition, the same noble simplicity and severity of life, the same loveable and loving energy of example, the same large-hearted sympathy with boyish ambition and aspirations, the same broad grasp of the increasing purpose of the age in which we live. Will the trustees of Rugby succeed in maintaining this great tradition of their school ? Nothing can be easier than to find a superior tutor, a sufficient scholar, an exemplary clergyman of moderate or neutral principles, and perhaps a business-like administrator into the bargain. But we venture to think that in a successor to an Arnold 1r a Temple something more than all these qualifications is required, if the reputation of Rugby is to be sustained. We have heard it asked, Why should the head-master of public school be a clergyman ? and we must con 'ess it is difficult to find a satisfactory answer to this very simple question. Neither at Etoa nor at Rugby to the statutes offer any objection to the choice of a fayraan. The Middle-class School Commi=sion have rec. m :nended lay head-masters for their schools. Other quali fications being equal or superior to those of any clerical mndidate, Rugby would be setting an ex ample z o other schools by the election of a layman, as is has done already )y the choice of such clerical head-masters as an Arnold and a Temple. The Telegraph says that it was well thought of to giv Sieorge Peabody the rifes of Christian burial in that an :dent fane which is so rich with dust of the royal and illus trious men and women of Britain. The ceremony will !lave a solemn and beautiful effect far beyond the pre -Allots of the old minster. America will note with pride Ind pleasure the deep respect which -has been thus paid to her dead. It is well understood, however, that the body of the good American is not destined Finally to repose among us. Let not England send i coffin like this over the seas as though it were a common one, hallowed by nothing except the solemn sentiments which make all the dead sacred! She pronounced the words of Christian farewell and consecra tion over it in the presence of the tombs of kings and the famous worthies of her history. Like one of these— rendered regal by his munificence, and proved worthy of all homage as a lover of his kind and a friend of both nations—let her convey his ashes to the land which claims them. The corpse of George Peabody, say the people of England, ought not to go back to America as though we had done with our love and reverence when " ashes" have been given to ashes," and " dust to dust." - • It ought to go back as royal and renowned corpses are carried—on board a gallant ship of war, with the national ensign lowered at the peak, and the flag of the dead man's native land flying at the main. It ought to go back aboard of one of the Queen's ships, with the thunderous honours of artillery and the observances customary in the case of the death of the very greatest; and we do but report the feeling of the English people when we say that they hope the Queen will herself, and of her own gracious initiative, ordain that her friend and the benefactor of the poor of her City of London shall be thus borne back over the Atlantic. The Post remarks that there is a story of a person who was advised to " dress in black, and hold his tongue." If Mr. Ayrton had only held his tongue, all might have been well. Unfortunately, this was more than his self-com mand was equal to. Prudence advised silence, but his in clination to talk was ungovernable, and he not only con firmed the doubts which had been suggested of his competency for the office of First Commissioner of Works, but amplified them into details. By an exhaustive process he showed plainly enough that he was utterly incompetent for the post to which he had been pro moted. He said that he was neither an architect, nor a surveyor, nor a sculptor, nor a painter, nor a gardener of the ornamental, floricultural, or kitchen species ; and, what is more, that he did not understand any of these callings. Indeed, he pushed them all aside as having nothing whatever to do with the office he 11 , cl undertaken, and rested his qualification boldly on the fact, that as Secretary of the Treasury he has learnt the lesson of keep ing down expenses. As there is a time to be sad and a time to be joyful, so is there a time when it is well to draw the purse-s , rings tight, and a time to relax their grip. Mr. Ayrton enters upon his duties as Firsr Commissioner with a public avowal that he is utterly incompetent to dis tinguish between these times. He even seems to pride himself upon not belonging to " a certain sor t o f peop l e in this country who have been educated at our public schools and universities, and who," according to him, " instead of looking at matters as they stand in the pre sent day, begin by looking back to see what was done two or three thousand years ago in Greece or Rome." It may have been agreeable to the electors of the Tower Hamlets to find that their representative was as guiltless of a liberal education as themselves; but it is another thing whethez a subaltern in Mr. Gladstone's Ministry should sneer at the "sort of people " from whom the ranks of o r greatest statesmen are recruited. From the same source wo obtain the most eminent mcnibers of the Church, the Bar, and the Legislature. . - - The IT thinks to^ t nothing could be morn rrracefu7 n the litCe speech delivered at Edinburgh , n!r by Provost Paradol. His kindly ,-,:press the sympathies of French men of .nevitl, and the cordialU:y with which h e was folt to ey.tond beyond tho occasion on which " envy no other thing for my country," he .'id. speaking of the enthusiasm which had been displayed by the F. , ,nesta at the dinner on the receipt of a telegraip al-lout the Queen's progress through the City, " than the political state in which you can show such feeling, and be so united, and live in order and prosperity, and with the honest pride of being freemen under the Queen." Liberty anal loyalty are indeed more c'osely connected than by the mere possession of a common initial ; and the speaker went to the root of the groat evil under which his country labours when he thus pointed out the one element of English life which he coveted the most that happy submi sion to the throne which we unite witl our sturdy independence. When he plunges tack one: rn , rc into the party strife from which he describes him calf as so gladly emerging for a moment to enjoy the clrdial welcome of hi 3 friend I in Edinburgh, we may fee care that in one of the loading minds of France, at least the lessons of that happy e, - anproruise will not be throws away. 1~: ;;,i Ira s seem to C , l itri snoke. THE CHARGES OP FRAUD AGAINST SIR CULLING .EARDLEY, BARONET. At the Gmlatal, on 17edzesday, before Alderman Chal lice, Sir Culling Eardley Gideon Eel dley, Bart., was brought up on remand, charged with committing a series of frauds on various tradesmen. Mr. Beard prosecuted, and Mr. Weatherhead defended. It will be recol lected that the prisoner was charged with com mitting the offences in question by issuing cheques on various banks, on presenting which it was found there were no effects. He had been remanded from time to time in consequence, it was stated, of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Lawrence, one of the prosecutors. On Wednesday there was again no prosecutor present, and Mr. Weatherhead opposing any further remand,the prisoner was discharged. YOUTHFUL HEROISM. _.., The Royal Humane Society has just conferred its medal on two boys, aged respectively 16 and 14, for saving life under circumstances of more than ordinary courage. The first of these was named Richard Batty, residing at Sheffield, and the occasion which elicited his gallantry was the following :—A few days ago two children named Prince, aged 5 and 11 years respectively, were playing together near to the Norfolk Bridge, Tinsley-road, Sheffield, when the elder one accidentally fell into the stream, which is eight feet deep, and the younger one, without hesitation, leaped in after him. Their cries for assistance alarmed the neigh bourhood. No rescue, however, was attempted until the boy Batty came up, everybody appearing paralysed. Without a moment's hesitation, the lad hastily stripped himself and plunged into the water, which is very foul at the point where the accident happened. Both children had by this time disappeared. After considerable trouble young Batty succeeded in reaching them, and brought them to the surface. They were locked in each other's arms, and quite insensible, and their preserver was too much ex hausted to carry them to the side of the embankment, and he contrived to keep them above water until a ladder was obtained, difficulty the three were pulled out amid the ol— .f those assembled. The other case was that of a boy 11 years of age, named Charles Brown, who rescued a companion named Dewar from drowning. Seve ral boys were bathing together at Ferry Pier, Kincardine, N. 8., when Dewar got out of his depth and sank. Brown, seeing his danger, dived, and, notwithstanding he was much impeded is his efforts by the frantic struggles of the drowning bey, brought him safely ashore, both of them being much exhausted. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST SC ARL ATIS A Mr. John Simon, of the Medical Department of the Privy Council Office, states that Wherever scarlatina pre vails, everything practicable should be done to ensure freshness of atmosphere and dryness of soil, and entire absence of dirt throughout the district. When death occurs, the body of the patient should be buried as upon as pos sible, as it continues to be a centre of infection. Every person who sickens with the disease should at once be removed from among the healthy; and, if his circumstances do not permit of this being done in his own home, he )ught to be treated in hospital. The room to be used as a sick-room should he divested of every unnecessary thing to which dust and fluff are likely to attach. The room should be thoroughly well ventilated (as by windows and lhimney) directly from and into tie open air. Persons in attendance en the sick should be persons who already !lave had the disease. Between the sick-room and the rest of the house there should be no unnecessary intercourse. In the room and on the person of the patient every practicable disinfection should be effected without lelay. Some strong disinfectant fluid should always be in use in the room for the various occasions which arise. Handkerchiefs and other like articles, as soon as used by the patient, should be well scalded with boiling water, or immersed in disinfectant fluid ; and bed ling, and other like articles which cannot be treated thus extemporaneously, should be removed, suitably sacked, to a place where they can be otherwise disinfected. .t is te:ieved that the dispersion of contagious dust from the patient's skin is impeded by keeping his entire •;ody (including limbs and . head and face) constantly anointed with oil or other grease; and some practitioners also believe this treatment to be of advantage to the satient himself. When the patient's convalescence is lomplete, the final disinfection of his surface should be affected by warm baths, with abundant soap, taken on three or four successive days till no trace of roughness of the skin remains. After thi; process, and with clean dothes, he may be deemed again safe for association; nit, previously to this, however slight may have been his attack ho ought always to be regarded as dangerous to sersons susceptible of scarlatina. This caution is of parti ;War importance with regard to schools ; and the neglect )f it when children return to school, after they have had Might scarlatina, is often a principal source of epidemic in 'ection in districts. Intercourse from houses in which there is scarlatina with other houses should not be more dean necessary ; especially children from infected houses who often may themselves be breeding the disease) should not be allowed to frequent schools and other assem )lages of young people. LAW AIVD POLICE. SEWING Ms.c - Krges.—Messrs. Wheeler and Wilson, sewing machine manufacturers, of the Sate of Con lecticut, have filed a bill in Chancery to restrain a vrmer agent of theirs from selling machines not of their manufacture as "Wheeler and Wilson's" machines. the case was heard in Vice-Chancellor James's, court. The defendant, whose name is Shakspear las a depot for the sale of sewing machines at Birming lam, and denied that he was the plaintiffs' agent. He :ontended that "Wheeler and Wilson" had become a ;echnical name in the trade. The Vice-Chancellor held that no trade mark could be claimed in the name which had come to signify every article made according to ti particular plan. He thought, however, that the defen lant was guilty of a fraud in his advcrtisement, and there nust be an injunction according to the prayer. The def en 'ant must pay the costs of the suit. THE MERSEY Docx COMPANY.—This was a special case to ry the right of the Mersey Dock Board to remove and destroy sunken vessels in the Mersey. The plaintiff, whose name was Vivian, was the owner of a steamer called the iwansea, which in 1867 came into collision with another iessel in the Mersey, and was sunk. The Swansea vas oaded with copper ore, and the Dock Commissioners insisted )n recovering and taking possession of the cargo, and then - emoving the sunken vessel, claiming the cargo for the Ixpenses. The court reserved its judgment. A SUIT FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.—An action has been 'nought in the Court of Exchequer, to recover the sum of C5l for advertisements inserted in the Morning Post news leper. The defendant had formerly been acting manager A the Christy Minstrels, of St. George's Hall. He denied As liability. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff 'or £23. The Whitby Conservatives held a meeting on Tues lay, and positively determined to persevere with the can lidature of Major W. C. Worsley. The major has issued As address. He declines to dilate upon politics, as the people know him and his principles well. He promises, if vturned, that he will serve his constituents faithfully. THE JEWS AND THE AUTHORISED VERSION.— When I read an advertisement in the Jewish Record in these words, " A new edition of the Bible in English, arranged 'or the use of Jewish families and Jewish schools," I thought ' After all the Jews have got their own translation ;" and ming anxious to see wherein that differed from our own, I )rocured a copy. Judge of my surprise when I found that ;his " new edition of the Bible in English, arranged for the use of Jewish families and Jewish schools," is no other than the authorised version verbatim. The only difference s, that the Jewish Bible has no title-page, no headings, ind is without the New Testament, and is sold for 3s. Gd., .vhilst the same is sold by the Bible Society for 10d.— /elvish Intelligencer. RISE IN COLLIERS' WAGES.—On Wednesday a neeting of the coal-masters and pig-iron makers in the thin coal, or "Wolverhampton district" of South Stafford shire, took place to discuss the question of the wages of olliers, arising out of the advance in the price of finished ron and the advance in ironworkers' wages. The meeting lecided to give the colliers and furnacemen (operative pig ron makers) a fortnight's notice on Saturday next for an tdvance of 3d. per day, which is eqniva' , -- P - • 10 per cent., the advance to come into operation en tth inst. This s virtually so much loss to the master.; .sey made their 4a:es of pigs and coal last quarter-day at tie old sale of vices, and disposed pretty generally of the whole of their ivarter's make. SuociaNG ACCIDENT TO ScnooLnoys. —On ruesday afternoon a number of boys were playing in a pit 'rom which sand had been excavated, at Richmond, York shire. One side of the pit, which was of some depth, gave way, and covered seven of the number, two escaping, who -an for assistance. Help being obtained almost imme liately, five of the lads were rescued unharmed, but two Alien were only released after the lapse of some time. one of them, named Brewer, whose leg was broken, was a a fearfully exhausted state. His life, however, was ;avec'. His elder brother, about 14 years of age, who was the last to be got out, was found to be quite dead. All ;he lads belonged to the Richmond Grammar School, a school of a high class, the scholars all being well con iected. Much consternation and excitement prevailed in ;le town at the sad event. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. matte weair. sv hat uhanoeuor of the Exchequir could bear such a pressure ? What Premier would not release captives L—all the prisoners in the kingdom— under such circumstances? METROPOLITAN DANQTTETS. The grand city of great feasts has had a most for tunate week. Seldom have such important events followed one another so closely in the City of London. And though there has been some talk—in the way of boasts—of the occasions passing without "banquets," we can assure our readers that the claims of the City to great continence are not well founded. True the Lord Mayor and his aldermen did not have a public dinner on . Saturday last; but the only difference made was that neither great men nor reporters were invited; and the City made up for that deficiency by having two "spreads" on Tuesday night. Of course the chief one was at the Guildhall ; where Mr. Gladstone, after leading his hearers to suppose, in their impatient curiosity, that he was going to divulge his land scheme, did nothing of the kind; where Mr. Lowe was not unpleasantly sarcastic, but only pleasantly funny ; and where the Lord Chan cellor, Messrs. Cardwell, Childers, and Bruce, and Lord de Grey and Ripon made " very appropriate speeches." Mr. Disraeli, whose hope'-was expressed last year that lie should be Prime Minister on this occasion, and again reply to the toast of "Her Majesty's Ministers," was not present. Meanwhile, at the Fishmongers' Hall some of the lesser stars were shining resplendently. The Belgian Minister, Sir John Bowling, a nobleman or two, and some well known City celebrities made speeches. THE PROGRESS OF AMERICAN OPINION TOWARDS GREAT BRITAIN. Mr. Gladstone on Tuesday, in his speech at Guild hall, expressed himself very hopefully as to the rela tions of this country to America. If the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian is to be believed, he did not do so without good ground. According to our contemporary's opinion, the " Sumneritish " party—the section in the United States which howls so against England —is losing its power and influence speedily. The drift of public opinion seems to be setting somewhat towards the Conservative or Democratic party ; and moderate members of the Republicans (Mr. Seward, Mr. Adams, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Bigelow) are leaninc , in the same direction. The violence of Mr. Sumner and of President Grant has disgusted them. They want less bluster, and more work. Nor is this all. The President himself is anxious to make himself a name for making his country stable and secure in prosperity. He has had enough of war, and wishes to shew his power in establishing satisfactory relations with other countries. He is even now negotiating a commercial treaty with Canada. Would he do so if he had any intention of going to war with that State ? THE SUN, LONDON', THtTESDAV EVENING, X MEMBER 11, 1869. Mr. G. 11. Moore -was ridiculous ; but, unhappily, duelling in France is no joke. A fatal fight with - swords has - lately taken place, and death is a not 'lnfrequent result of these encounters. The Govern ment does not interfere effectively ; but surely the mania for fighting has gone too far. When it was carried to 'similar extravagance in the reign of Louis XIII., Richelieu speedily stopped it by cutting off a head or two. Another sovereign effectively cured his "honour" loving subjects by hanging one of them. It is hardly necessary to go this length now. The Telegraph points out that in the State of New York the sending of a challenge is punishable by a long term of imprisonment with hard labour. This remedy would very likely succeed in France. The treadmill is decidedly antagonistic to fencing, and " shiny " would no doubt prove an antidote to fire-eatino. MR. LAYARD ON PUBLIC WORKS. Mr. Layard's opinion of the duties properly be longing to the office which he is about to leave differs materially from the opinion of the gentleman who is about to succeed him. Mr. Ayrton thinks that a Chief Commissioner of Works need not know anything about architecture, sculpture, or, indeed, about any subject except the art of saving the public money. Whilst giving a lecture on Pompeii in Mr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle, Mr. Layard took the opportunity of protesting against this doctrine. After bestowing the usual admiration on ancient things in general, and Pompeii in particular, the member for Southwark deplored the fact that the capital of the greatest empire in the world was comparatively without monuments worthy of it. Ile believed the day would come when the country would see that great public buildings and improvements were calculated to exalt the mind and refine the taste of a people, and prove a real benefit to the nation. lie looked to the magnificent Thames Embankment —that highway with which no city in Europe had anything to be compared—and thought it was pos sible that it could be covered with public buildings which would be an ornament to the country, and that London would be redeemed from the reproach of being the u:4-liest capital in the civilised world. It will not, it seems, be Mr. Ayrton's fault if these ambitious hopes are realised. The London correspon dent of the Manchester Guardian says that Mr. Layard treats his appointment as anything but a cause for congratulation. THE BEAUTIFYING OF THE METROPOLIS. The cry raised some time since that some inter fering nobodies were about to spoil the metropolis, has been answered by the report of the parliamentary committee appointed to inquire into the question. They point out that London, being the national capital, ought, in respect of its works, to be some what under the control of the State. It is therefore suggested that all works, railway bridges, viaducts, &c., be first submitted for the approval of Par liament ; and that both the First Commissioner of Works and a select committee report upon con templated alterations. The adoption of these recom mendations would place Mr. Ayrton in the very place for which he is anxious to disclaim qualification— that of tedile of London. BOTJTIIIVAUK. Considering that three months at least must elapse before the election for Southwark can take place, the South Lend )n men are displaying excessive anxiety about Mr. Lavard's successor. The Liberal electors met a little while ago and decided that Mr. Milner Gibson was the most eligible politician to select, and that next to him Sir Sydney Waterlow would make an excellent Southwarkian member. A. deputation, accordingly, - was appointed to • wait, first upon the former, and then upon the latter gentleman. Mr. Milner Gibson refused, but Sir Sydney Waterlow will be most happy to come forward provided that the ranks of the Liberal party be kept as united as possible. The deputation came away highly impressed with the "noble, straightfor ward, and manly " style in which Sir Sydney answered all interrogations. The result of this hunt for a candidate was communicated on Tuesday to a meeting of the Liberals, and it was resolved that Sir Sydney should be invited to stand. But the party is still apprehensive of division, for it has appointed another meeting to consider the proper course for securing the Liberal representation of the borough. Mr. Milner Gibson, it seems, will not stand because he is pledged to re present the Liberals of Ashton. He has no doubt that as soon as a vacancy occurs lie will be returned. This decision must be highly gratifying to the gentle man who now represents Ashton. lIERWICKSBIRE. Lord Dunglass has held a meeting at Dunse, and appears to have met with an unfavourable reception. Strong opposition was manifested, and a resolution was carried declaring that his lordship's candidature was inexpedient under the circumstances. It appears that Lord Dunglass expressed a disbelief in the pro spect of Mr. Robertson receiving a peerage. Why, then, any electioneering whatever ? MR. M ' LAGAN'S SPECIFIC. M'Lagan, representative for Linlithgow, is one of the M.P. s who have been scouring Ireland in search of enlightenment. Unlike many .of his brethren, he has returned with an opinion on the land question. The substance of his scheme is this :—Where a tenant had made per manent improvements, Mr. APLagan would make it the presumption of law that there was a thirty-one years' lease ; and if the tenant wished to leave, he should be entitled to five years' rental, as compensa tion for unexhausted improvements, or such other sum as might be settled by a court of arbitration. LORD PINGALL'S OPINION. Strangest of all the declarations on the land ques tion is that of Lord Fingall. This nobleman informs the Evening Post of Dublin that he is an Irish land lord, or he is nothing. He would regard his position as valueless without the good will of those amongst whom his lot is cast. He will therefore be prepared to support " what ever measure of tenant right may be brought before Parliament by the present or any other Liberal Administration." ye will allow no consi derations of personal or class interest to stand between him and a satisfactory settlement of the land question. This is disinterested ; but Lord Fingall must beware of pledging himself too unreservedly. He might be confronted by a scheme, the effect of which would be to terminate his career as an Irish landlord. In that case he can, of course, be nothing. GREAT PROGRESS OF THE AMNESTY AGITATION. The amnesty agitators, unable to obtain the release of the Fenian prisoners, and equally unable to remain quiet, are filling up their time by quarrelling with each other. There are two amnesty parties. The Central Committee confines its endeavours to petitioning, and similar ineffective and drivelling measures. An opposition party holds that processions and other tangible demonstrations are likely to prove more impressive. Accordingly, when the Central Committee held a meeting on Tues day night, the demonstrationists organised an attack to punish the supineness of their patriotic brethren. The committee-room was entered, the gas was put out, the tables and chairs were broken up, a minute-book and papers burned, awl finally the committee themselves had flour thrown in their faces. After this performance, the effect of which in promoting tho release of the Fenians must, of course, be inc3lculable, the demonstration party retired. Here we have another illustration of the . effects of giving certain persons plenty of rope. The Amnesty Association are about to inflict a most destructive blow upon the Government, the force of which can hardly fail to produce its effect on Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Lowe's budget is to be destroyed. But how ? All the members of the Association, and everyone who favours the release of the Fenian prisoners, are to pledge themselves to do without taxed goods. Tobacco is especially to be eschewed. Thus the, revenue will be reduced, Mr. Lowe's economy made of,none effect, and the strong point Qf the Ministry THE FENIANS AND TIM AMERICAN PRESS. The death of its late moderate and logical editor seems to have been an irreparable loss to the New York Times. Otherwise that once most temperate of American papers would not have taken to denouncing the refusal of the English Govern ment to release the Fenians. The New York Times declares that the imprisoned patriots have done no worse than protest against the bad laws of Parliament, and in that respect they are as little to blame as Mr. Gladstone himself. "He has declaimed against Ireland's wrongs," it says, " and given a pledge to redress them, and 4 heal the sorrows of afflicted countries,' to use Mr. Disraeli's language. What difference is there on this point between Mr. Gladstone and Jim Doolan, the poor Fenian ? Your complaint is just,' says the Premier to Jim, ' and I will fee the cause of it removed—but, at the same time, you shall be kept in prison for daring to make the complaint.' " Unfortunately for this theory Jim has not been sent to prison for doing anything of the kihd. It was not for complaining, but for taking up arms against the Government that the Fenians were put into gaol, and kept there. The Americans themselves entertain objections to the division of their territory. A NEW EPIDEMIC. There is too much reason to apprehend that this country is likely to become the prey of a new and in sidious disease—" Relapsing Fever." This malady has hitherto been very rare and little known, even amongst medical practitioners. During thirteen years hardly one case was met with. Of thirty thousand patients at the London Fever Hospital not one was afflicted with this disease. But in the summer of last year a strongly-pronounced case was found in Whitechapel, and since that time the epidemic has crept gradually onwards, until in September it began to gain a great footing. Before the close of the _month A many as forty cases had been received into the metropolitan hospitals, and upwards of sixty admissions followed in the first half of October. Last Saturday there were 120 cases in the London Fever Hospital alone, so rapidly is the disease now diffusing itself. Yet not one of the persons attached has died ; so that, as far as the mortality returns are concerned, no trace of the existence of this subtle disease is to be found. It is not, in fact, dangerous in itself. The Times remarks : "It is very rarely fatal, and corresponds in its prin cipal characteristics rather with the 'low fever' of our medical nomenclature than with any of the more violent forms of the malady. It is dangerous from its extreme communicability and its distress ing consequences. It is easily caught ; and is easily carried from place to place ; it is very difficult to deal with ; and it leaves the unhappy victim predis posed by weakness and exhaustion to the attacks of more acute complaints. Relapsing Fever,' in fact, is the ally and provider of .typhus." Good ventilation and the use of disinfectants are effective precau tionary measures; but these are just the preventives which are wanting in the case of the poor. A FRENCH JOURNALIST UPON HIS OWN COUNTRY. Ono of the most respected and eminent of French journalists—M. Prevost Paradol, the editor of the Paris Dgats—has been endeavouring to enlighten the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh upon the political state of his own country. His account of the condition of France might be summarised in the word " unsteady ;" it was, he said, like the sea, perpetually moving, never still—or the weather, about which no one could foretell. " Who knows (he asked) if, in the very moment when I de scribe a quiet and regular state of things, a tempest will not break forth and give the Ee to my words ?" Revolution was so familiar as not to be dreaded very much by even the most conservative. And yet the present Government had stood very long ; how was that ? Tie attributed it to three causes :—(1). That the Imp3rial Constitution was open to modifications in dicated by the popular will; (2). That the people were becoming aware of the power of universal suffrage, and knew the effect of a significant vote; (3). That a great, an exaggerated fear of Socialism was felt by the upper and middle classes. M. 'Paradol attacked personal government; pleaded for parliamentary power and Ministerial responsibility • urged the folly ' of centralisation • spoke in favour of focal self-govern ment ; declared that the judicial system of France — the immense power given under it to the Execu tive—wanted reforming; and protested against the power of the Pope, the separation of Church and State being a check to it. THE SCOTTISH CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE. This society has joined the strong muster of simi lar bodies who have protested against the Game Laws. The Scottish Chamber of Agriculture met on Tues day, and denounced the statutes on the subject of game, but was rather doubtful as to the best mode of dealing with them. The majority seemed in favour of treating all game agreements between landlord and tenant as void. TAE LADIES EDUCATION MOVEMENT. The movement for the higher education of women makes steady, though by no means noisy, progress. The ' Ladies Educational Association is taking its way modestly along, both in Scotland —especially in Edinburgh—and in England. The second course of lectures to women was opened in London on Tuesday. Mr. Seeley, the Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, Mr. Morley, the Professor of English Literature at Lon don University, Professors Cassal, Foster, and Wil liamson support the cause, and are announced to deliver a course of lectur es . At th e same time similar courses will be conducted at South Kensing ton. Professors Huxley, Guthrie, and Oliver are the teachers. THE TRANSIT OF ANIMALS. Miss Burdett Ooutts' kind experiment has proved a great success. On Saturday, under her directions, one of Reid's improved trucks for the conveyance of cattle was sent from Edinburgh to London with a load of five animals. This species of truck is fitted up with all the needful contrivances in which the ordinary conveyances are so lamentably deficient. It has troughs for food and water, buffers to mitigate the shocks, and battens to steady the animals' feet. The journey from the North to the metropolis lasted thirty-four hours, during which time the cattle consumed sixty-one gallons of water, nearly ten stones of hay, and three stones of oatmeal. The result was satisfactory. The fine appearance of the beasts was the subject of general comment in the market," tedcompetition among the experiment, however, and the general adoption y ad ßa o el p .ot t wu lo se n eedn of tah s is l sp ic i h ri a system, there is unfortu nately a great gulf. CORRECT TIAIE. It is not a little singular that three letters, describ ing the recent meteor, appeared in the Times, awl that each writer gave a different minute for the appear ance of the phenomenon. One said 6.30, another 3.45, and the, third 6'50. What is the reason for this difference ? A correspondent, who asks the question, replies that it is impossible in the country, or in small towns, to tell the time. There are no means of regu lating. clocks and watches. He therefore pleads, on behalf of scientific accuracy, that the Post-Office, when it takes the telegraphs under control, should send a signal daily to every office. OUR OLD FRIENDS. The Poor Law Board has taken another step towards settling the difficulties caused by the St.' Pancras Guardians. A. new infirmary is being built in the parish, the guardians and ratepayers protest against the imposition of such a burd en , and pray to be relieved from it. The Poor-law Board is thoroughly convinced that better provision is needed for the s i c k poor, and therefore will not allow the completion of the infirmary to be interfered with. The Board, however, makes a com promise. It has come to the conclusion that the best mode of combini ng th e th r ee objects to be arrived at —viz., the relief of the ratepayers from some portion Df the burden, the immediate provision of 500 beds for the sick poo r , an d the termination of disputes which for more th an s i x months have operated very injuriously on th e i ntere sts of the parish--will be to annex the p ar i s h t o the adjoining Central London Sick A s yl um District, and to use the new infirmary as a s i c k asylum for the district. A.n order to carry out thi s arrangement will shortly be made. It is to be hoped that the scandalous scenes which have become so common in this metro politan parish will now terminate. Such a hope, however, can in no wise partake of the nature of con fidence, for it was only on Tuesday that "another scene " took place, on which occasion the lie direct was pas!ed from one guardian to anether with the usual impartiality. sin lIENItY ILICII. The death is announced, in his 66th year, of Sir Henry Rich, formerlyl.P. for Richmond , and p re- M viously for Knaresborong,h. The deceased baronet, then kr. Rich, occupied the post of Lord of the Treasury from 1840 to 185 , but retired from public life eight years ago. The occasion was that of the leath of Lord Campbell, then Lord Chancellor. Mr. Bethell, the Attorney-General, was raised to the woolsack with the title of Lord Westbury, and was succeeded by - Sir 'William Atherton. The Government were anxious to make Sir Roundel' Palmer Solicitor-General, but be was then out of Parliament. Mr. Rich, however, o pportunely resigned his seat for Rich mon d ; Sir bounden "walked over," Ind was appointed Solicitor-General ; and Lord Pal merston rewarded Mr. Rich's party service by the bestowal of a baronetcy. • CURE FOR DUELLING. Thw little affait" between the ()Toney:hue _and THE .REGISTI?ATIO.N OF DISEASE. A deputation waited upon Mr. Goschen, M.P., Presides', of the Poor Law Board, on Wednesday, to lay before him a comprehensive plan for the registration of disease throughout England and Wales. The deputation was a conjoint committee of the St. Andrew's Medical Graduate Association, the Medical Society of London, the Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of Health, and the Poor Law Medical Officers' Association. It was shown that the mortality returns afforded no reliable indication of the relative frequency of disease, in consequence of the varying mortality of different epidemics, and of the very different mortality of different diseases, and that a registration of disease as distinguished from a registration of deaths could alone furnish, when supplemented by the meteorological and geological records at present in the possession of the authorities, a sufficient basis for the adoption of measures for the prevention of disease. Most diseases, it was urged, especially diseases depending on preventable causes, struck hardest the poorer classes of the community, and a record of the diseases attacking them would be a very sufficient guage of the proportionate frequency and of the actual character of the diseases affecting the entire population. Such a record now existed, but at present it was not utilised for this great national purpose. The returns furnished to the boards of guardians of the poor contained all the informa tion required, and a proposal for a modification of the schedule at pi esent, in use, whoray the guardians could retain such part as they needed for local purposes, and could transmit the other part to a central office in Lon don for classification and periodical publication, was described. The number of stations from which returns would thus be obtained was between three and four thousand, and would include annually not less than three millions of cases of disease. It wa3 stated that the know ledge thus obtained would abundantly illustrate the course, ceuses, and character of disease generally, and the most effective means for diminishing its amount, to the great and lasting good of the community. Mr. GoseHEN said that, in spirit, he was heartily with the deputation, and pointed out the necessity there was that, in putting such a scheme into action, care should be taken not to impose additional dutie n Poor-law officers, and that the nomenclature of disease ,liculd be uniform. He inspired of the deputation whether, in the event of the plan being adopted, it would bo better that the classi fication and publication cf the returns should be under taken by the Poor-law Board, or by some office dealing with like matters, such as the Registrar-General's Depart ment. The feeling of the deputation was in favour of the latter plan, in order to leave open the ultimate extension of registration of disease to other classes of the commu nity.—Mr. Goschcn was, on the whole, of the same opinion, and without pledging himself strictly to details, approved generally of the suggestion which had been brought before him. A VALIANT CJIAMPION.—A - woman's rights con vention has been held in Hartford, U.S., at which a Mr. Burton was the principal spokesman. Ho declared his intention of advocating their cause, and concluded as fol lows : "If, when my time comes to die, women do not yet vote, I won't die." A Hindoo lady has brought a suit in the Calcutta courts for damages by having an idol stolen froni her. She explains the troubles which the loss of the image have brought upon her thus : "I have no children. I want my bones back. lam starving, and by crying have become thin." DANGEROUS SONGS.—lrish correspondents com plain that ballads of a dangerous nature, recommending, in fact, the murder of landlords, are being sung at the fairs and rural gatherings. Here is a specimen : " Those landlords all— Both great and small— We'll shoot them down by dozens; We'll hould our lands, And pay no rints, And carve out those bloody ruffins." It is alleged that singers of similar songs have been arrested and brought before a magistrate at Clonmel, but imme diately discharged. The policeman who took them into custody, it is further stated, were hooted until they took refuge in their barracks. ANNIHILATION or DISTANCE.—III this small island, notwitstanding the celerity afforded by railways, a hundred miles still seems a pretty respectable distance. When we say, " I would not live within a hundred miles of him," we mean to place a wide interval between ourselves and the obnoxious person. But the Americans, accustomed to the stretch of a giant continent, look at distances through diminishing glasses. Ladies travel through from New York to New Orleans as coolly as we go from London to Liverpool, and the trip from the Eastern States to California is regarded much as we view the journey from London to the north of Scotland. Recently I asked an American gentleman if he had ever visited the settlement of the Bible Communists at Oneida Creek. "No," he answered, "though I have lived only a hundred miles off, I have never cared to go there." Evidently he considered a hundred miles as nearly next door. In a late book of American travel I read of a lawyer who arrived at Saint Louis from Cincinnati on a Saturday. He would have to return on Monday evening, yet he spent the intervening Sunday in going one hundred and fifty miles out from Saint Louis and back again for the sake of hear ing a favourite preacher! No wonder the Americans deal in exaggerative arithmetic. I met a New Englander lately on the South-Eastern, who complained that in England you were no sooner out of one city than you were in another—a couple of houses are called a city in the States ; and he added gravely, that the smallest New England' State was bigger than the United Kingdom, and that a train in America often went two or three thousand miles without stopping ! Colonel Samuel Adams has arrived at Washing ton with the papers relating to his expedition from Breck enridge, Territory of Colorado down through the Green and into the Colorado River, a journey of extraordinary danger, as the descent in the first hundred miles was 5,000 feet. He noted as he passed vast forests, and saw wild wheat, rye, oats, and barley, growing to the height of six feet. He also discovered ruins of cities, built of stone, fortifications, canals, abandoned mines, several hundred years old, and he gives it as his belief that the cities, the ruins of which he described, were inhabited centuries before San Augus tine, Florida, which is believed to have been the first set tlement embraced in the territory of the United States. The party likewise found oil wells, tar wells, and salt and coal in abundance. He describes portions of 'Arizona and New Mexico as the richest country he had ever seen, and he discovered there mines of enormous mineral wealth. The citizens of Washington, before whose eyes the West keeps dancing the hateful banner with the un palatable device, " Change the National Capital," have been reassured by an interview with General Sherman. Several deeply interested in Washington waited on him, and extracted the opinion that it would take a hundred years to get such a bill through the Representatives ; another century to pass it for the Senate, and a hundred and one years would then be required to discuss the most eligible spot in the Mississippi Valley. We believe the Commander-in• Chief to be almost right, for if the ques tion really became serious, the West would split into sections over the new site, and is would perhaps end in building another "City of Magnificent Distances" in the wilderness, which, instead of being an improvement, would possess all the bad points of Washington, and a few more. quotation of gold at Paris is about at par. and t'te short exchange on London is 2M. 15c. per £1 sterling Oncomparing these rates with the English Mint price of era. 104 d. per ounce tor stand:v.ol ”0,1. .t t t gold at the above price is slightly dearer in Paris than in London ADVERTISEMENT. j —Consumption, and all nervous bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every sta,e aro only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfe tly curable by DU BARRY'S health-resOring Revalenta Arable's. Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had b- en considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumption, h bitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric de"angements, hremorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, n usea and sickness even In pregnancy or at sea, sink ing tits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti htness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c We quote a few: -The Pope's health restored by Du Harry's Food. Cure No. 68,413 "Porno, July 21, 1866. The health of the !holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has contliied himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta A rablea Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal, It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his 1 folireis cannot praise this excel" ttl food too highly,"—From the Gazette du :Midi, July 2i. Cure No 46,:70. Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. - Cure N 0.1,77 . Lord Stuart de Dccies, lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,83 "Fifty years' indescrib able agony front dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, co, istipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. At aria Jolly" Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority Baron Liebi,g's name is most audaciously attached. la tins, at Is lid; Ilb 2s 9cl; 2;hs 6d. ibe 1 i it; 11 the 22s ; 2 , lbs 40s. • Also Du BARRy'S REvALENTA. Au !.BIEA CHOCOLATE , POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at s, for suye at 6cl, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 34PR, fur 57R cups at 05s —being about one penny per c u p. Th e 30 s an d 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England o n rece ipt o f P o st-Officeo , ler IlAn Y BARRY and Co., NO. 77 Regent street, London; and all Grocers and Chemists MORMONISM AND UTAH. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Union Pacific Railway is doing its work in Utah quicker than predicted, and there is a move ment, the end of which may be foreseen, though the events which may lead to that end cannot be fore told. A mass meeting was held on the 6th Oct. at Salt Lake City to ask for the admission of Utah as a State into the Union on the ground that the Territory contains 150,000 inhabitants, who regard it as a hardship to be kept from a right extended to less populous, less wealthy, and more newly settled tracts, such as Nevada. This is but one of the movements which will speedily bring Mormonism up as a question for settlement, and in anticipation of that Church soon becoming a bone of fierce con tention, we desire to refresh the memory of our readers by detailing the more prominent facts of its history. Joseph Smith, jute, the prophet and founder, was born at Sharon, Vermont, Dec. 23, 1805. His parents, Jose] h and Lucy Smith, were in humble circumstances, pious, but superstitious, more especially the mother. They saw visions and dreamt dreams which they curiously interpreted, and it was in such au atmosphere that young Joseph and his brothers were reared. Three of the children were the seniors of the future prophet, and there were others younger ; he was one of a crowd with out a distinguishing mark. When fourteen years old his parents removed to Manchester, New York, where the first revelation was received. lie was but fifteen when this occurred, and he minutely describes the circumstance. He had been attentively reading the Bible, and was struck with James, chap 1, 5 verse : " If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him." Determined to ask with all the ardour and pertinacity inspired by Puritanism, he retired into the woods, where he was seized on by a great Power, enveloped in thick dark ness, his tongue hound, but while anticipating im mediate destruction, a pillar of light burst from t he heavens and fell on him, and he was at once de livered from the enemy which held him. Looking up he saw two persons of exceeding glory standing over him in the air, of whom one, addressing him by name, pointed to the other and said, " This is my beloved Son, hear him." Tile first question was that, which so occupied the minds of all his neigh bours, the struggling sects, and he asked which one was right. To his surprise the answer was that all were not only wrong, but even an abomination. On awaking he was on his back looking into heaven. This occurred in 1820, but it was not till 1823 that the second vision was vouchsafed in the shape of the angel Nephi, who revealed himself in the room, and informed Joseph Smith where the plates would b.! found contailling the ancient American records. Four times was this vision repeated, and this infor mation given ; but Smith was not permitted to take possession of the plates till 1827. He was then directed to dig them out of the hill side, which he did at a place called Cumorab, four- miles from Palmyra, New York. The golden plates, Beetle inches by eight, were buried in a stone box near the surface, and consisted of a volume, being joined at one end by three rings running through all. The characters were ancient Egyptian, but part of the book was sealed. A curious instrument was dis covered with them, consisting of the arc of a bow with two transparent stones, clear as crystal, set in the two rims. These plates were translated by Joseph, dictating from behind a curtain to his secre tary a farmer named Harris, who was his first convert and most valuable dupe. He married in 1827 Emma Hale, and he had a revelation to show how she was to make herself useful, which she did, acting also as his secretary, as likewise did a schoolmaster, named Cowdery, who then joined the infant sect. With the aid of these three the translation pro gressed, and in 1830 the work was published. Smith alleges that persecution drove him from New York to Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, but he had the good fortune there to meet the farmer, Martin Harris, about whom it was revealed that be was to sell his lands that funds might be procured to publish the book. Notwithstanding the violent opposition of Harris's wife, who brought an action for swindling against Joseph, he prevailed with the farmer, who disposed of his property, and laid the proceeds at the prophet's feet. 1830 was the great year of Mormonism, as the work then appeared, entitled The Book of MO7 - 172011, an Account Written by th, hand of Mormon upon Plates from the Plates of .Nephi. On the 6th April, 1830, the first sermon was preached, and the church took its form with this book as its guide, but it was not till 1834 that, at a conference held at Kirtland, the sect was named " The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints." Two facts have been placed on re cord, the one at the trial of Joseph Smith on the charge brought by Mrs. Harris for cheating her husband, that Joseph Smith had himself acknow ledged that the scheme was an imposture, and that he had been surprised at the gullibility of his father and mother, his brethren and neighbours ; but he was acquitted of the charge. The other re lates to the book. It puzzled those around him to know how an ignorant young man could have in vented a book even of the merit of that of Mormon, but when it was read in Ohio many there instantly recognised it as the work of Solomon Spaulding, garbled and disguised. That gentleman in 1812 con ceived and executed the design of writing an ima ginary history of the old mounds near his home at New Salem, Ohio, vestiges of American anti quity which have deeply impressed others besides Solomon Spaulding. His work was entitled " The Manuscript Found," and while writing it he often read portions to his frietn's. lie died in 1816 be fore the task on which he was engaged had been so far completed as to assume a published book form, and the manuscript which had been deposited with the printer disappeared from among his papers. Parts of it, however, remained, and no allusion to them was found in " The Book of Mormon," which extends almost to the length of the Old Testa ment, a dreary prosaic dead level of sentiment, without anything good or bad in it. -But the pro phet must have personally possessed a magnetic in fluence, for his Church increased rapidly, and drew on itself a series of persecutions, At Kirtland, Joseph, and one of his chief proselytes, Sidney Rig don, established a bank, which, being based on a revelation, speedily " bu'st," and Joseph and the other prophet levauted. He had founded a thriv ing settlement at Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, which he called Zion, but a newspaper there published, wrote against Slavery, and brought the dire vengeance of Missouri on the Mormon community. The settlement was fiercely attacked, and the Mormons were broken up and driven out On the 21st of July, 1833. Scattered in other counties, they gathered in a place called Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, where again another district began to thrive under their industrious hands, and thither Smith proceeded. In the meantime the Church throve abroad, the first mission having landed at Liverpool in 1837, where it met with a success which has made Britain the chief source of Mormon strength, though it numbers its adherents in most of the civilized countries of the world. Mis souri did not prove to them a genial soil, for Caldwell was attacked in 1838, and after massacres and murders the Mormons had to surrender, delivering up their leaders, leaving the State and abandon ing their property. They crossed the river into Illinois, where they founded Nauvoo, but Joseph, his brother Hyrun, Sidney Rigdon, and others were left in gaol, narrowly escaping death, having been sentenced to be shot, by a Court Martial. The General commanding the Missouri Militia did not execute the bloodthirsty orders of the Governor ; hence the prisoners were banded over to the civil powers, al,d while being removed from gaol to gat 1 they escaped from a drunken guard. In Illinois, where the " Saints" gathertd„the contending p: r_ ties were nearly equally balanced, and, es the Mo . mon vote was of value, Nauvoo was enabled to dic tate its own terms. The Legislature actuaLy p e] milted a code to be brought into force for tl Mormons, only stipulating that it should not he re pugnant to the State Constitution, and in this in dependent. County, Mormonism flourished. Jos , ph b ecame General of his Militia numbering 3,000 men, and the head of his Government, till he was again brought to grief by a newspaper. He was too vain and presuming for prosperity, indeed, he aspired to no less a post than the Presidener of the United States, and addressed the citizens, offering himself as a candidate. Whether he did what Dr. Foster and Mr. Law attempted to pre° in the Expositor, the journal they founded. at Nauvoo, we know not, but many women through it testified that he and other elders had attempted to corrupt their virtue. The elders met and die rested the suppression of the office, which was pulled down, and the type scattered in the street. Th e proprietors procured a warrant for Smith's arrest, but he fled, as great excitement prevailed in the State. His friends urgently advised his return, and , acting upon this, not only did he go back to Nauvoo, but surrendered to the State authorities on th e solemn promise of Governor Ford to protect his life. He was lodged in gaol at Carthage with his brother Ilyrun and .others. On the 27th Jun e, 1$ bile the Governor was advancing at the head 01 a body of troops on Nauvoo, the gaol was attacked by a party with blackened faces, who forced an entrance, and commenced firing at the prison er 6 through the door. Hyruu was killed on the spot 3 Joseph wounded sprang from the window, 'w l :.-` 312 he was assassinated outside by some men of the . band, and but one of the four - was left uninju red to tell the tale, and thas the prophet was turned into a martyr, sealing with his blood the success of the religion he bad founded.• In 1830 he began with six followers; in 1844, when he was killed, he was et the head of 250,000. This foul act in no degree mid" gated the persecution to which the Mormons wer e subjected, and Nauvoo became the scene of ma l l barbarities and of much danger. It was necessary to replace the leader, the choice lying between th e two prominent men, Sidney Rigdon and Brigham Young, and the latter was elected, the former being defeated and cast out a prey to eaten. Brighsin' who on the 7th Oct., 1844, d on ned Jo s eph's man tle ' was born in 1801, being four years older than the founder. The circumstances wherein he was pla cc A were as trying as with Mos es , an d, mor e favours " than that great leach r, he not only surmounted there , but lived himself to enjoy the inheritance in the pre mised land. He was compelled to enter i n to s treaty to evacuate Nauvoo, but so cruel was the im patience of the citizens around that even the time allotted, and it was the depth s o f w i n ter, was 13°t given, for he had to cross the frozen MississieP i n Ati o February, 1846, with his pio neer b au d of 1, 6 v, emigrants. Those who rema i ne d were attack e d ' by a force under a reve ren d gen tl e man, a nd driven out in the following September after hay," ing finished with elaborate ca re th e great temp le they knew they could ne ver occu py. Meanwh n Brigham was on that wond er f u l marc h which 1330 thrown such an atmosphere of r o man ce over t" , 5 Mormon Faith. The numbers be led were about 10,000, the distance 1,400 m il es . H e arr ived w ith his pioneer band at Salt Lake on the 24th J nl9 ' 1847, a day still kept as an anniversary by g: e moudow. Im m edi ate ly h e re t urne d f or those P. O had left on the banks of the Missouri, and the 0131 body came up in 1848. Th e r i se o f S a lt Lake citv :A is known to our re a d ers , an d f urn i s h es a w onder" — d, instance of what a well-organised and contronee, band can effect. I n d ee d, M ormon hi s t or y is cord of the ease and certain success attending vi directed emigration. To the marvellous preg re r ' e of these ind u st r i ous p eo pl e th e Vi ce -P res ident 13 ` ) 6, witness iu his speech in Salt Lake city on O el :„ e to which we allude lin our la s t i ssue . After ele; so, Mr. Colfax attack e d poly gam y, fi r st observing that every man had a right in that land of and religious liberty to select hi s cr eed, but 11° t o break the laws. He had visited th e ir taberna'A te r : and had listened attentively, respectfully, and c 0 r" teously in their places of worship and elsewhe re n d their defence of their doctrines an d practices the he expected from them a like patient hearing. ns Congressional law of 1862, against which Me rni° complain, is obeyed throughout the Union e °o j e in Utah, and they must ad m it th a t if persecu ted e 3es the early years of their Church, that in late t i they had met with a toler a ti o n no other civ il i s ed nation would have extended. He did not conce de that polygamy was a que s tio n o f r eligion, but to to_ those who claim it as such he made the apt tation from the Book of Mormon which we publisp ed last week to prove that it was denounced even e , their own law. Admitting that a subsevent r a 5 lation had annulled the old law, later revelat ion might enable others, if onc e suc h b e a d mi tted , ' l3 introduce practices which th e b o d y o f the Chtl r bo would not tolerate, and every community ha s t ee , right to protect itself o r th rea t ene d v ictims. The 1.1 ; dooclaitns:it as a duty to burn widows with the corpse of their husbands, but in no part of America he be permitted to exercise such an alleged ri g ht a l Nor can Mormons argue that the law is not justifie d n placing restraints o n perso n al fr e edom, for o h means such restraints, and it is exercised as I n oll' in Utah as elsewhere. After boldly attacking re , gamy in the stronghold of the " Saints," whic h . . 18 t h e e tik e part in America as an act of great temerity o's' part of the Vice-President, he proceeded to s how e j inj try likely to result from recent protection extends,i.d to Mormons, against the Gentiles, in trade. e the expected to see the New Jerusalem becoinired great city of the interior, but if they disconLebst, instead of encouraging competition in trade, 1 0 :, ments from abroad would be repelled instead ', rho their opening of the railroad had done away w ith eit ion isolation, bringing them into close juxta - p ers isted with the civilization of the continent. if P e he 0 09 in they might maintain their system ; but t" o w, result will be to dwarf and impair their pro s P 0)+0 raising rivals founded on a truer policy. i r, s s v . e o c t of later the mass meeting was held on the e l V a btlesS the admission of Utah as a State, and oelf what Mr. Colfax said will be treasured in the n o the Jerusalem, and may ring for many a del ears of numerous Mormons. 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