The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-05 00:00:00

The Post considers that what the Government have to aim at in framing their Irish Land Bill is so to balance .the rights of landlord and tenant as to make it the inte rest of both to pull together and labour for their mutual advantage. This principle is I artly in operation already, though not under legal LbFgation. Wherever there are goo'l landlords there are good tenants, and the rela tions that exist between them cannot be a bad basis for the legal settlement of the land question. But, so long as it is in the power of landlords to turn scores of families out of their holdings, we mast not expect to see peace and contentment in Ireland. Unfor tunately, the leaders of the Irish people have committed them to a principle that ought not to be sanctioned. They have pushed them to an extreme to which the Govern ment cannot consent, and which, we believe, if it were to receive the sanction of Parliament, would be almost as in jurious to the interests of the Irish people as the law a;airst which they now protest. But, short cf fixity of t3nure, there is tin . : - .le room for legislation which will u.iite landlord and teraot in a common interest, by limit ing the arbitrary powers of the former without unduly en, lir c ling the privileges of the latter. The Peel Garet e declares that of the many minor roforms that ought to be secured by the passing of the Raform Bill of 1867, none is more clearly connected with the general principles upon which the Lill proceeded, and law have greater claims upon Liberals in general, than a moasure for ri moving disabilities under which clergy m:in lie who have practically given up their profession, and who„ in virtue of the monstrous axiom of th indclih fly of orders, are excluded from va rious walks of life, and amongst: , the rest, from Parliament, by thebare fact that they have been ordained. The real difficulty, and the only real d:fficulty, of the sub ject arises out of the spread cf the voluntary system and the prospect of the d:sestablishment of the Church of England. How ought we to deal with the ministers of an - entirely free Church ? Would it be possible, or if possi ble, desirable and just, to exclude from Parliament the mombers of a particular profession merely because it might appear to us that the duties of that profession were not eltogether consistent with the duties of a member of Parliament? What is required is merely to set right an obvious and, indeed, an a lmitted injustice, by permitting clorg3men who far any reason are desirous of leaving their p...are, ion to do se, and to re: lune the character of laymen if 'de , y think proper. This of course would apply to every ole to win m the ex:eing restiLtion applies. If the ques tion should ever asiso whether, on public grounds, it was des . ra,l h that Roman CatlnTe priests should be excluded from P.u•liament, speeileal:y there would be no difficulty in dealing with it according to circumstances. A Parliament of Miners Las met at last, says the Tele graph, and a more useful assemb7y there could not be. Tae place of meeting was the Public Hall at Wigan ; and there were firty delegt.t s, or, as we should say, members present. It i 4 stated tLa each delegate represented three hu sdred const:tre ste, so that here wo have at once a con- sAtnent body of 12,000 mincr prol ably heads of families and among the mDst inte:li;ont and stirt:w.; of their c'a-.;. The seLeme is yet in its infancy. We Ia c Cr) most flu( u a'Jle a t eip:tiins of IvLat may re- slit from the ni , .!eting of ti e:e C..usclii:t Fathers 0: Underground E:igland. They 'Lay be sure of ncoiving any amount of public sympathy iv, grievances, and aniitar.c) cf the most efficient, kind from the best heads in England, if they continue as they h we begun. They complain, first, of the frghtful number and nature of accidents in collieries, and they seem to be of opinion that Government interference can help them. We cannot say off-hand how the help is too be given. We have a Government insection of collieries. Are the twelve inspectors ineffici3nt men, or negligent of their important duties ; or are there not enough of them? Have the delegates comideied whether the working miners are not themselves responsible for some portion of the mischief ? One has certainly heard of care -le3sness, which seemed little short of insanity, on the part of the miners themselves while engaged in their peri lous vocation. The delegates suggest a police in mines; that is, we presume, the employment of special men, whose sole duty it shall be to see that the most careless or desperate of the workre3ple do not imperil their own lives and those of their fellow-workmen. The delegates, in the second place, ask to be paid by weight, and not by measure. They are most earnest in their demani t'aat compulsory education should be given to their children under 12 years of age. They ask that, until their children have attained the ages of 14 or sixteen, they should not be allowed to work more than eight hours a day. Thoy want to reduce the hours of labour, to assist men unjustly treated by masters—how about masters unjustly treated by men ?—to help districts driven to strike, and t) organise a system of permanent relief for miners permanently injured while in the mine. What they ask, in a word, is a " Mines' Regulation Bill," which shall embrace all these subjects, and some others of less moment. Surely these poor, hard-working men have a right to our most earnest and patient attention. But for England underground, where would England above ground be ? Are the Government quite aware, asks the Daily News, that they are settling, by a kind of side wind, a great ecclesiastical question which Parliament has hitherto declined to face ? The demand for more bishops is one which has been heard from various quarters for the last fifteen years, but is one which Parliament has never seen its way to grant, and just now would be less likely to grant than ever before. Yet when Parliament meets it will find that during the recess the whole question has been settled, quite apart from its authority, and that the increase of the episcopate has already begun. The now curate bishops are, it seems, to be bishops in everything but a parliamentary title to their position. They are even to bear a territorial title, and are, it is said, to be practically the acting bishops of dioceses, or sub-dioceses of their own. It is announced that the suffragan of the Bishop of Lincoln is to be called Bishop of Nottingham : and there are rumours of Croydon or Maid stone as places from which the suffragan of Canterbury is to take his style and title. It is impossible not to sus pect that this actual creation of new sees is an extension and development of the original intention of the Government in p erm it t i ng the appointment of "suffra gans." There could be no possible objection to permit ting the bishop to have episcopal helpers, especially as t.seir duties in bulling liberal ecclesiastical legislation are likely to absorb more and more of their attention ; but new sees and new titles have a little alpeaeance of forestallin g the action and superseding t to powers of Parli ament. Of course the new bishops w ill be bishops of their diocese only in name ; a-il we presume that all their official acts will be done in the name of the bishops for whom they act; but even tien Parliament may well complain that the Government hss denied it the opportunity of deciding whether more bishops were wanted or not, and has anticipated its deci sion as to the new sees to be created, and the new titles t, he given. The public will look with s ,me curiosity and interest for the explanations which will be given on this question. The Standard thinics it is a touchinz evi.!ence of the 1 trge-heartedness and catholicity of Liberalism that, at t,e time when the pros ; ,:ects of the Government scorn so omy aml despon , ling, its newspaper organs are magnanirnon3 enough to concern thorn s ,7ves witit t'le f.:rtutriel of tho Consetvative rarty. aithou;ht may seem ungracio , ls coid watcr u;x.n these emotional ebul we are bouni to say Ciat they are entirely superfluous. There nithing in the pus tion of the Consertalive pl oy to call for Liberal t?ars or Liberal sympathy, more ~ , : pccial!y whoa the pli !. .flit of the Ministry make such heavy demands upon hoth. We are overwhelmed with condolences on " the very serion3 midertune that tho Conservative pry begins the year without a loader." The statement i 4 not strictly accurate. Wo are ly ;" lined t> think that the plight of .413 all the sympathy which 1,11 bestow. It will be the Le;islatrtre a month hence They have been lar,:ely trusted, ,fldence reposed in them. They nity, and have turned it to no worse. It seems to us that Mr. )ed of all the comfort which the ; ,e to hostoxv, and that in the ' wished upon the Conservative power. At t, t th no tiny SPIRIT OP TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS. ; The Times observes that for the success of any scheme of emigration we must look first to the enterprise mid thriftiness of the intending emigrants themselves, then to the efforts of the colonies which will benefit by their labours, and, lastly, to the benevolence of the public at home. We do not hesitate to say that it would be unfair to tax the list too =el. Emigration ought to be made self-supporting, and it is not difficult to devise arrange ments by which even the poorest labourer could be made to pay the cost of his passage by work done after his arrival in the colony. To convey him a s quickly and as cheaply as possible to a place where his labour may be remunerative must be the chief object of every emigration society; but to accomplish this there must be a more complete organisa tion than exists at present. Where the emigrant is to be sent out at the expense, wholly or in part, of others, it is but • just that the payinacteri should have the right of selection and dircAion. To accomplish this it would be advisable to have trustworthy agents on both sides of, the w.tter—at home to examine those who offer, and to choose only these who are likely to do well ; ;broad to take pozsassion of the emigrant immediately on his landing to prevent him frcm spending his money or his time in a crowded city, or falling into the hands of the wretches who would prey on his ignorance and simplicity. This hits been the course of the New York authorities, and it i 3 to the excellent organization of the service by which the emigrant is protected and sent on his way westward that the favour which New York enjoys as 'a place of debarcation is in a large measure due. Similar provision might be made at the chief ports of the British colonies. The new settler writing home to his friends would be able to tell them that he had been neither overcharged nor swindled, and the report which he would make of the faci lities of the transit would encourage others to I Alov in his steps. 0 - niousfy incimea ti :ie Government deman , Liberal press ca. ainful kt to meet nfession of failure. falsified the confi nd opnortun I P,imething ittan(l in no( ' be able thy lac ate of ARBITRATION IN THE NORTH 01? ENGLAND IRON TRADE. A meeting of the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration of the north of England manufactured iron trade was held on Monday at Darlington. The board was formed in the spring of last year, to arrange wages and other disputes arising between masters and men. Mr. Rupert Kettle was fhen called in as arbitrator on a wages question, and he arranged it by awarding the men 5 per cent. in addition to their wages. The men now ask an additional 10 per cent. The masters have offered 5 per cent., which the men refuse to accept. Several meetings of the Standing Committee of the board have been held, but as it has been unable to adjust the difference, a meeting of the full board, consisting of one master and one man from each works, has been called. The meeting was held at Darlington on Monday, when the whole matter Was discussed for some hours by both masters and men. The masters agreed to give five per cent., and to refer to arbitration the question whether the men are entitled to more. If the men bind themselves throughout the present year, masters offer an advance for t!le whole year of i per cent. The board advised the men tJ go to work on Tuesday morning in the ordinary way, and to consider the offer before the next meeting of the board on Thursday. REFUGES FOR DESTITUTE cna;:nm. The refuges for homeless and destitute children form one of the most interesting, and not the least important, of metropolitan benevolent institutions. The organi sation, which has for its object the rescuing of boys and girls from misery and ruin, in order to save them from becoming absorbed in the criminal and dangerous classes, and to prepare them for useful service, commenced its operations in 1852, and between that date and the end of the year 1868 the several committees who undertake the practical management, under the patronage of the Earl of Shaftesbury, succeeded in providing for no fewer than 1,808 boys and 816 girls. To this number must now be added the 360 boys and 53 girls who, during the last year were gathered from the streets and placed in the refuges: At present there are two of these refuges for girls one in Broad-street, Bloomsbury, the other at Ealing, each of them affording accommodation for sixty girls; and there is a refs. .;e for boys in Great Queen-street, whose inmates number 130. The children, who are brought from all parts of London and the pro vinces—while a considerable proportion come from abroadare educated, fed, lodged, clothed and trained for domestic service and other useful occupations. Shoemaking, tailoring, carpentering, and wood-chopping are the trades especially chosen by the committees as being those most likely to be of most advantage to the boys in after life, especially to those who may emigrate to the colonies ; and at the same time it is found that these are the occupations which produce the best pecuniary result. Besides their industrial work, the boys keep the premises clean, make their own beds, mend and make their own clothes and boots. They also cook and prepare their meals, under the direction and superintendence of the matron. A Boys' Counting house and Refuge Farm School, in connection with which there are 100 acres of land, has recently been opened at Bisley, in Hampshire, where 110 lads are being prepared for agricultural pursuits. Very general atten tion has from time to time been attracted to the work which is being carried out, as a part of this movement en board the training fillip Chichester; and it is gratifying to learn that nearly 200 boys are new being prepared for the Mercantile Marine and the royal navy. Since the establishment of the first refuges, 1,447 boys have been sent into tilese services and the army, and to situations abroad and in the colonies, and 650 girls have also been supplied with situations. A circumstance which reflects very great credit on those who have the management of this under taking and proves their earnestness in the cause, as is disclosed by the arrangements which are made by the committees for careful examination into the claims of applicants for admission, end the generous liberality with which the affairs is administered are shewn by the statement that no really destitute child is ever rejected. Upwards of WO boys are at this time under the care of the institution, It is in contemplation to open two new homes for an additional hunched girls, but for this purpose, and fur the support of the emigration scheme, and the entire operations of the committees, funds are urgently needed. When the value of this work, both to the children them selves and to the nation at large, is considered, it is not easy to believe that there will be any difficulty in readily procuring the assistance required. On Tuesday the annual New Year's dinner to the whole of the children in the refuges and the training ship took place at the Great Queen-street establishment. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor had promised to preside, but was unable to attend in consequence of the press of business at the Mansion House, and some disappointment was also experienced from the absence of Lord Shaftesbury. A very substantial repast was served to the children, who looked healthy and hapi y, as only those carefully' tended can look. 'The sailor Leys from the Chichester, in their pretty nautical uniform, were much admired by the ladies and gentlemen who assembled on the occasion. Mr. John M'Cregor (so well known as "Rob Roy," of the exploring canoe) was called to the chair after dinner, and distributed a number of prizes to the elder boys and girls who had held situations over twelve months. Mr. Wm. Wieerems, the Secretary, made a statement of the position of the institution. He traced its great success from the date of the supper given to the homeless boys of London some years ago. Speaking of the dispro portion between the number of boys and the girls (440 to 120),he remarked that it was somewhat singular that all the ladies' subscriptions were given to the boys—(laughter)— but he hoped some one would be touched by the, if possible, still more pitiable position of the girls. During this year they had added 350 members to their family. They had sent from the Chichester 140 boys to the merchant service and Royal Navy; and but for the depression of trade this number would have reached 200. From the farm, 40 boys had been sent to Canada and the United States ; and the warmth of their reception and their success shewed how wide a field of emigration was open to them. Altogether 200 boys and 38 girls had during the year been placed in a position to support themselves. The Secretary read a clearly written letter from one of the boys lately sent to Kansas, and its persual, while it greatly delighted the scholars, created much amusement amongst the visitors. In conclusion Mr. Williams stated that the chief hope of the committee was that they might be able during this spring to send out 100 boys to the colonies and the United States at a cost of about £lO each, and they appealed to the public for this amount. The proceedings, which were of a very interesting character, soon afterwards terminated. The exclusion of the Mormons and all polygamists from the privileges of citizenship in the United States or Territories is proposed in a bill which has just been in troduced into the House of Representativesby Mr. Cullom. THE TURF WINNERS or 1800.—The past year has been a prosperous one, in one sense at least—for sport. The various leading owners have netted good sums. Sir Joseph Hawley stands first, with a total of £16,607, to which sum Pero Gomez alone contributed no less than £9,720, Blue Gown being credited with £1,667. Mr. Johnstone throws in for £14,722, Pre tender winning him upwards of £ll,OOO of that sum. Thanks to Sunshine, Mr. Merry picks up £9210, making it patent that the possession of one good animal is a fortune to any man. Kingcraft won Lord Falmouth no less than £3,765, but his lordship's winnings amount to £7,820. With Brigantine Sir Frederick Johnstone netted £6,060, but the actual gains of the Scottish baronet were £7,307. Lord Calthorpe is the next highest winner, being credited with £7,180. Mr. Pryor, Mr. Graham, and Mr. Brayley each throw in for upwards of £6,000, while Sir Charles Legard, Mr. Lyndon, and Mr. Savile each take over £5,000. Baron Rothschild, Lord Westmoreland, Mr. Payne, and Mr. J. Dawson are credited with more than £4,000 each ; and though the Duke of Beaufort only kept Scottish Queen in training, he secures in stakes alone £3,750. POLITICS IN THE PULPIT.—The Rev. Henry Oliver, an enthusiastic Welsh Liberal, the minister having the spiritual oversight of Victoria-road Congregational Chapel, Newport, made a powerfUl appeal to his congre gation on Sunday last, prior to the commencement of his discourse, for subscriptions towards the fund now being raised throughout the Principality for the relief of what he was pleased to designate " the evicted farmers of Wales." In the evening the rev. gentleman said as follows: —" This morning I took the liberty of bringing before you a case worthy cf our sympathy, as it seems to me. Througliyut the Principality this day collections arc being made in behalf of the sufferers from the late evictions. Now, I dou't bring this matter before you on political grounds at all, but simply as a case of sore distress. There are some scores of families who a few months ado were in comfort and respectabi;ity, who have since been ejected from house and home. Tho loss they have sustained is something peat, and their case, as you arc aware, has evoked univerial sympathy throughout the Principality, and the object of those subscriptions will be to recoup them, as far as can be, for any loss. Of course the incessant anxiety and the torture of mind suffered by them is more than we can imagine. TLe sufferings which many poor farmers have passed through during the past two months have been greatly beyond description. I not only make a collection, but from all cf you who feel for those poor sufferers (those who have suffered fcr conscience sake) and who are anxious to render assistance, I shall be happy to receive contributions during the coming week, and will take care they shall be forwarded to the proper quarter." rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, A FATAL DOMESTIC) QUAIiREL, At an inquest held in Salford, on Monday, on a man who had m et with his death at the hands of his wife, the jury ' returned a verdict which the Manchester Courier in terprets as " served him right." Tho deceased and his wife quarrelled about three weeks ago, and he thrashed her to such an extent that her recovery was doubtful. She obtained a " recommend" for the Dispensary, but did not use it for fear they should ascertain the truth and lock her husband up. On Christmas-eve they quarrelled again. He, though sober, knocked her down twice, and was only pre vented from kicking her with his clogs when she was down by the interference of a lodger. While she was upon her knees, the deceased was making an attempt to strike her again when she threw a chair at him. The corner of the chair hit him on the eye. The blow frac tured his skull and caused congestion and effusion, from which he died. The phrase employed by the jury to ex press their verdict was " Excusable homicide." FOREIGN NOTES. TILE AMERICAN REVENUE. The Special Commissioner cf the Revenue for the United States, the Hon. David Wells, has presented his annual report to Congress. Mr. Wells says that the country is msking rapid progress, the revenue during the past year being nearly fifty million dollars in excess of the expenditure. In September, 1805, the debt was at its maximum, but since that time it has been reduced 5304,129,836, while taxation to the amount of 2)0 million dollars per annum has been taken off. The astual cost of the war to the North he estimates at a little over 54,000,000,000, but adding the cost to the South, the destruction of property, &c., it will amount to 0,000 millions. This lost ground appears likely, however, to bo kseedily regained, since the South is recovering its pro sperity, and has exported a surplus of food valued at 3)0 millions in currency, while the present increase of population throughout the country is at the minimum r..te of 1,100,0)0. Five ihtnsand miles of railway and ssven thousand miles of telegraph wires have been con structed in the past year. The present aggregate valuation of property in the United States is estimated at 23,4)0,000,000 doll.. an increase of 65.8 per cent. since 1800. The Commissioner is of opinion that the accumulation of new capital in the States is much slower than it should be, the country having transferred abrcad a large quantity of State, railway, and other shares, and. 1,000 million dollars of the national debt. Eighty millions are annually sent away to pay the interest on these. This export of securities has merely deferred a payment that must at some day be made by exporting produce. National pro duction has not of late years increased at the same rate as national consumption—a fact for the Protectionists, who are not likely to be very well satisfied with several parts of Mr. Wells's Report. After discussing the cotton manufacture, the currency and taxation system, and other topics of purely American interest, the Commissioner comes to the tariff duties. He quotes a significant fact. Its 1808 the United States' export of goods to Great Britain exceeded the impost of goods from Great Britain in the ratio' of more than two to one. Though the bulk' of -American imports represent raw materials purchased from other countries than Great Britain, the Americans do not pay for such materials with their own products, but allow Great Britain to sub stitute herself, because she can sell cheaper. This is the fact which Mr. Wells places prominently before Congress. Prices must be reduced to make foreign nations buy, and to do this there must be contraction of the 700 millions of irredeemable paper carreney. Rd, rms in the tariff on imports can only, ho thinks, be made gradually as experience points out ; but t'se maintenance of an average duty of 47 per cent. upon all dutiable imports is excessive, unnecessary, and opposed to the best interests of the States. Under no circumstances should any increase of rate bo permitted. There are 2,000 articles on the list of such imports, one-third of which might, with advantage, be put on the free list. The Commissioner recommends that all leather, except Morocco and patent, be hereafter free of duty. The duty on im ported iron is also excessive. The ironmasters claim that protection is necessary to. keep American labour em p!oyed, but the high price cf iron affects other trades, and keeps many men out of work. Imported salt is a sother of the overtaxed articles, and coal, wool, c Atop, and timber are all included in the list. Some articles might bear an increase of taxation, such as wines, gloves, and other articles of luxnry. Respecting the da`ies en steel there has been great dispute, as our Sheffeld friends know. Mr. Wells recommends that they should be wholly specific. The report has excited very vent and general interest, but it is too much to hope that Congress will accept its conclusions. THE EWELL MURDER. The inquiry as to the death of George Spooner, who died on Friday from injuries received at the explosion at Ewell, was held before Mr. Carter, the coroner for Surrey, on Tuesday. Parts of the evidence of Mis. Richardson, taken at the previous inquests, were read. The coroner observed that it would be the duty of the jury to say whether there was any animosity on the part of any person, and if one person was intended to be killed and another was slain in mistake, it was wilful murder in law.—Mrs. Richardson now, said that when the deceased man, Huggett, tore her clothes off her back in August last he did not threatenSpooner.—Edwin Grantham said that immediately after the explosion there was so much smoke that he could not say if Spooner was present or not.— Dr. Barnet said that on the 22d ult. he saw Spooner, who was suffering from a severe shock to the system. He was shivering, and there were burns over the entirety of the lower limbs. The face was also burnt. Witnesff had him under his care, but sympathetic fever set in. He gradually sank, and died on Friday evetting.—James Hills lived in the same house with the deceased, and heard the explo sion on the 22,1 ult. He soon after saw Spooner in great agony and with his clothes on fire.—The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Huggett. A HORRID STORY FROM GERMANY. The Cologne Gazette relates a horrid story as enacted at Schrimm, in the Government of Posen. A country girl living not far from that place, had received her inheritance of 300 thalers from the authorities there. On her return :aome she spent the night in a village ; having no acquaintance there, she took refuge at the house of the village justice, to whom, in virtue of his position, she gave her whole configlenc4 and informed him of the object of her journey. He was ready to take her in, and advised her to go to bed with his wife. When all lay in a deep sleep, the covetous host got up, went into the garden and dug a hole there. He then took a s'sarp knife, went up to the bed where the two were asleep, and with a steady hand cut the throat of the person lying furthest from the wall, took up his victim and busied her in the garden. When he came back he found the bed empty. He had murdered his own wife instead of the stranger. The wife lay close to the wall during the evening, but had afterwards moved to the outer side of the bed. The girl had got out of bed after the ',larder, and hastened away with her money. TIIE ADDUCTION OF_ COLONEL MCKIE'S CHILD. On Tuesday morning, Elizabeth Barry was indicted at the Breading Quarter Sessions for baying on the Bth of October last unlawfully and by force taken away Marie Victoria Hickie, a little girl 17 months old, the daughter of Colonel Hickie. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. The circumstances of the case cleated a great sensation at the time, and are briefly as follows :—The prisoner was servant to Colonel Hickie, who resides at Kidwell's park, Maidenhead. There was some disagreement as to the performance of the domestic duties of the prisoner, and she was under notice from Mrs. Hickie to leave. On the day in question, she (the prisoner) loft the house about four o'clock in the afternoon, taking the child with her. Nothing more was heard of her until about a fort night afterwards, when she was discovered at Liverpool with the child in her possession, and was brought back in custody. Barry, in her defence, protested earnestly that she did not intend to steal the child. She had not been guilty of cruelty towards it, and when arrested she was intending to return it to its parents. The jury deliberated for a short time, and then returned a verdict of guilty. A sentence was passed on the prisoner of 15 months' hard labour. THE DISMISSED lEISII MAGISTRATE. Mr. Itobert Staples, a deputy-lieutenant of the Queen's County, has written a letter of sympathy with the dis missed magistrate, Mr. Madden, in which he says :—"I am only surprised that so many gentlemen of pcsition are still found willing to accept the office of sheriff under a Government which never ceases using " language of studied insult" towards :he resident gentry and land lords' of Ireland—the only class from which sheriffs can be selected, and which also of necessity constitutes the great majority of the magistracy. Mr. Madden deserves the thanks of all for being the first to lead the way in a public expression of the deep resentment and indig nation which this language, and the unscrupulous calumnies of the Ministelial press, has at length aroused. The treatment Mr. Madden has experienced, as well as the dismissal of a High-Sheriff lately for refusing to punish a subordinate for an unproved accusation, mani fest a disposition to suppress and overawe the indepen &nee of the Irish magistracy, by reducing4hem to the de pendent position of what are called resident magistrates." As to the state of the country, Mr. Staples remarks : " I have only to add my humble testimony that during my experience of twenty years as a magistrate, and a con stant residence in Ireland, I have never known it to be in so unsafe and unsettled a state, almost on the verge of social disorganisation, and also that I believe this has been brought about entirely by Mr. Gladstrnr: s n)h government." AN ABSCONDING BANKRUPT. A grocer named Kennedy, who has for some time been in business in Aston New Town, Birmingham, and had obtained the confidence of the wholesale grocers and tea dealers with whom he traded, by his regular payments, obtained within the last week or two about £2,000 worth of goods. His shop was open for business on Christmas Day, and everything seemed going on as usual. On Monday morning the shop was closed, and though there was nothing remarkable in this, as many shops were closed on that day for the Christmas holiday, it was thought rather singular when a messenger who had been sent to Kennedy on business reported on his return that he had, by peeping through the chinks of the shuttirs, discovered that the shop was empty. Inquiries *ere made of the neighbours, and it was found that fourteen loads of goods had been removed from Kennedy's shop to the "bop of his brother, in Sutton-street, Holloway Head. Kennedy's creditors, under legal advice, filed a petition in bankruptcy, and obtained an adjudication, the act of bank ruptcy being the ceasing to trade and absconding. Mr. Commissioner Sanders, on an affidavit setting forth the facts, also granted a search - warrant to search the brother's premises for the missing property. The brother stated that he had bought the goods of the bankrupt for £3OO ; but the creditors, on account of some circumstances CIA came to their knowledge relating to the brother's positron, disbelieved the statement, and had the search warrant executed. The result was that within a few hconis of the adjudication, the creditors were in possession of property worth £l,OOO. After this, fifty-two chests of tea belonging to the bankrupt, and worth about £2OO, were seized in au empty house near the Pershore-road. A summons was then served on the brother, to examine him as to his dealings with the bankrupt, but when the day came for the examination, the witness failed to appear. A warrant has been issued for his apprehension. The creditors will not, it is stated, lose much, the property they have secured being nearly sufficient to pay them 20e. In the pound. The smack Eliza, of Plymouth, Brown master, which left Bideford on Thursday, laden with gravel for the works now in progress on the Holmes, in the Bristol Channel, is reported to have foundered with all hands. The report, which is g,ncral in Bideford, is credited there. as the vessel was very old and the weather stormy„ ST. SAVIOUR'S Cli CR CH', BA TTE RSE A PAR E. The foundation-stone of the above church was laid on Tuesday, the 4th inst., by H. S. Thornton, - Esq. The service was road by the Rev. J. Ince, incumbent of Christ Church, nattersca, assisted by•the Rev. J. M'Carthy, the incumbent designate of St. Saviour's Church, now in the course of orectfon. The Venerable the Archdeacon of Surrey delivered the address. He was followed by other speaker 3, among wbom was the Vicar of Rsttersea-. The church is situated in a very poor district, comprising no less than 8,000 souls, for whom the present mission-house is the only provision. The el:lunit is designed in the early French Gothic style by Mr. E. C. Robins, of Southampton street, Strand, and comprises a nave and clerestory chancel, north and south aisles, an organ chamber, and vestry, with a small :gallery over the entrance lobbierult the west end of the:na. a , and it afford! accommodation far 700 people. T;IE AYE::ICAN NATIONAL DEBT. The debate in the American House of Representatives on the repudiat:on of the American National Debt was an o'citing one. It was opened by Mr. Mungen, of Ohio, a Democrat, who advocated repudiation, hut who was not, as the result proved, the representative of his party. Several Democratic members rose and contradicted his assertions, and Mr. Brooks of New York, - en behalf of tho Democrats cf that city, utterly disclaimed repudiation, de claring the debt, under a better system of taxation, could be as easily paid as the debt of 1812. Mr. Randall, Democrat, of Philadelphia, on behalf of his con stituents, repudiated any scheme of legislation that would place bis country in a dishonest attitude before the world. After several similar speeches had been made, Mr. Wood wnrd, of Pennsylvania, said he had been Judge of the Supreme Court of that State when the city of Pittsburg and the county of Alleghany repudiated an honest debt. He Lad written the first judicial opinion against them. Other opinions followed, and the authorities were impri soned for a 3ear. A Republican Congress, in February 18 . 33, pasted a resolu ion declaring that greenbacks, then worth sixty cents cn the dollar, should be a legal tender in payment of debts, in utter repudiation of one whir I (f the a hole indebtedness of the country. Another Democrat maintained that the Republican party WAS a party of repudiation, for that during the late - war, when greAlb::cks were worth fifty cents on the dollar, every State under Republican jurisdiction repudiated the payment of the interest of its State debt in gold. Both parties at present seem equally eager to disavow the prin ciple of repudiation, and General Garfield's resolution was curied with a single dissentient vote, the malcontent only objecting that the time for the resolution was unsuitable. The terms of the resolution were as follow :—" Resolved— That the proposition, direct or indirect, to repudiate any portion of the debt of the United States is unworthy the honour and good name of the nation ; and that the House, without distinction of party, hereby sets its seal of con demnation on any and all such propositions.' SAN DOMINGO. The S.!. Thomas Times says that the mission of the Albany to San Domingo has not resulted in the annexa tion of the Republic, but the United States have concluded a treaty by whi:th they have leased the Bay of Samana for fifty years. The contract must be submitted to Congress, though its consent has been taken for granted, as tho first year's lease has been already paid. The St. Thomas Times compares the exhausting dilatoriness that has characterised the settlement of their stipulations with the surprising alacrity displayed in this of San Domingo, where the money has been so readily paid down in advance. It says that, with the exception of St. Thomas and the other Danish islands, the natives of all the West Indies are averse from the idea of annexation to the United States. For St. Thomas, however, " even annexation would bo preferable to a chronic state of revolution, and might reasonably be chosen as the lesser of two evils? THE NERBIIDDI RIVER. The limes of India calls attention to the fact that the Nerbudda river is navigable, and that European vessels can proceed nearly to the ancient port of Barygaza, the modern Broach. A settled assumption to the contrary has hitherto prevented the public from profiting by this facility. These new opinions of the Nerbudda's capabilities have been acquired in making the arrangements for the navigation of the Gogo Ferry. The practical navigator, Captain Murray, took lists of soundings from Broach to the open sea, and was convinced that the bar of the Nerbudda was little better than a myth. It may be a few years before sufficient money can be granted to develope the new-found capacities of the Nerbudda, unless the Commissioner of the province exhibits unusual de cision. Captain Murray and the local engineer have furnished sufficient evidence to induce the Govern ment to investigate the capabilities of the river, and to ascertrin the best means of turning them to account. The Government of India has directed that all available infor mation on the subject may be collected. The re-opening of the Nerbudda to European commerce would bo pro ductive of great advantages, and the Bombay merchants would be dismayed at the prospect of Guzorat cotton be ing shipped from Broach instead of Bombay. The prospect of obtaining another large port for foreign commerce in Western India will induce the hesitating financiers to abolish the export duties, and reduce the import tariff to the simplest form and the lowest rates that can be expected. THE DALIUTI.LN INSURRECTION. The pacification of Dalmatia is progressing but slowly. The northern tribes, who are the most obstinate, have agreed to surrender, but they have proposed terms, among which is doubtless the right to retain their arms. The Im perial Government has not accepted these terms, and the negotiations are at a standstill. The Emperor has taken a wise step in according a complete amnesty to those insur gents of Zuppa and other places who have surrendered themselves. Yet another outrage in Ireland. A telegi am states tint a shopkeeper min) d Wahl), residing inlShrule, in the County of lla . yo, tern mill e from Town, was shot last Satur dly night - on going home from the market. It is supposed ha was nail& n for another person. lle lips in a precarious s'ate. At Stone, in Staff,,rdbhite, a trifler has been Iliad £lO fur having adulterated flour, and .£.5 for liming alum in his possess'on. Tl:e p dice found in the defendant's nil!) 1101 l) of alum ",ready prepared for purposes of adulteration." The flour seized was adulterated to the extent of }oz. of alum to 141 b of flour. The Lolidays have not been without the usual gun accident. At a farm-house near Stourbridge on Saturday, a boy, who was at home fur the holidays, presented a gun at a girl of six years, the daughter of a neighbour, intending, by snapping a cap, to frighten her. Unfortunately, the gun was loaded, and the girl's head was literally shattered to pieces. - . JANUARY 5, 1870. EMIGRATION CENTRES. COUNTRY AROUND KANSAS CITY.—(CONTINUED.) (From the Anglo-American Tim2s.) The town of Manhattan contains 1,500 inhabitants, and is rapidly growing.' The dwellings are close together, few homesteads being seen, waking the general aspect unbroken, desolate prairie covered with grass. The rivers are lined with. narrow forests. Mr. Hepworth Dixon' writes of the plains 200 miles westward of the Missouri as green with trees, most so along the Kansas River and its creeks and inlets. " The land is alive with shrubs and flowers, among which flourish wild marigolds, sham rock, water lily (in the pools), rosin -weed, stink weed, and sunflowers. Not the tawny gauds of our • cottage g:rdens ; big and brazen bachelors flourish ing on a single stalk ; but little golden flowers clustering in - bunches, and, like our buttercups, numberless as the stars of heaven. The air is warm and sweet, thesky is intensely blue, with none of that haze which frets the eye in our own southern landscape. A white frame house peeps out here and there, having its green blinds, its bit of garden, 'its sheepfold. Herds of horses can be seen on the rolling plateau, here you have a drove of cattle, - there a long waggon train." Trees grow with astonishing rapidity, the orchards being surrounded by a thick belt of forest trees, an osage hedge in closing all. What the nature of the fruit will be cannot yet 1:)z fully determined, as all have not had time to develope. This, however, is a fact that in • Philadelphia at thelast yearly meeting of the Ameri can Pomological Society the gold medal was awarded to Kansas fruits. The country is too new for neat snug farming, forroads, and close chatty neighbours, but the cars awl hotels along the Kansas Pacific Eailroad are filled with young men seeking land. Livery stables do a good business, coaches drive in all directions over the prairies with these land seekers on the top, and the whole has that air of life which the most rapidly filling portion of the United States might be expected to possess. There was a time when the great curse of the district was drought, but a singular fact appears to be de veloped with the occupation of the country. Formerly the soil was stamped down by buffalo in herds of countless thousands, and whatever rain fell ran rapidly off the surface, and was carried away in the rivers without penetrating into the soil. Thus a heavy downfall' produced an inundation ; creeks rising suddenly into roaring torrents ; but with cultivation the land retains the moisture which generates dew clouds and rain. Another curious fact is being proved in the United States by rail ways. The iron acts as a conductor, disseminating the superabundant electricity gathered in places which otherwise would burst into thunderstorms. The English emigrant would be in error who supposed tint Europeans only are settling up this Valley of the Kansas and its tributaries. From Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, as well as the Eastau States, thousands of Americans seek this new country as well as families from England, of whom 200 families are settled on the Saline, which is not far from Manhattan. But they must not either be deluded into the idea that in settling on fine rich soil, the freehold of which they obtain for a trifl that they are shaking off all the ills of life. Settlement is accompanied with sure discoas fort and often with sickness ; for new and un drained soils are apt to be unhealthy when first broken up. They meet, too, with a class of men almost as strange to the Americans cf the refined Eastern Status as they are to the Eng lish. These border-men call all " Yanks." Dixon describes the Western Boy dressed in Isis high boots " his slouch hat, his belt, his buffalo skin, his bowie-knife, and his six-shooter, as feeling fur the unarmed, sober, unadventurous dweller on the other bank of the Missouri, the sort, of proud contempt which an Arab beyond Jordan cherishes for the settlers in Galilee, spiced with the tierce hatred which a Spanish hidalgo dwelling east. of the Duero feels for the Portuguese peddlers crawling on the western bank." About Junction City therough men of the border cotne firstin contact with the traveller, and there all have a short, quick way, freely using provincialisms and hating a peculiar selection of words. Two men meeting, for instance, the greeting is " How ?"--which. being filled up, means How do you cb to-day ?'' but the steady stream of emigrants swamp this and gradually assimilate, all. assuming the American type. Missouri is a case in point, for some years ago no State was more wedded to slavery and Southern feeling. Now this has changed, and with it changes rapidly the appearane_! of the farms and towns. Immigration fi:ls up the vacant land. The. New Englander introduces a more tidy homestead, a neater cultivation--in a word, civilization ; and what formerly had worn a desolate air of dirt and neglect brightens into neatness by cleanliness and labour. At Junction City the Reputlican River and the Smoky Hill unite and form the Kansas, awl there stands Junction City three miles to the west of Fort, Riley. This town is perhal s destined to a brilliant future, though it is impossible to predict A hick will be the great ci . y of Kansas. We select this slot because the two rivers there join, because it is the head of the valley of the Kansas, and because being but 18 miles from the head of the Neosho, the finest wheat growing valley of the United States with which it wid shortly be con nected by a railroad terminating at Galveston, the great port of Texas, it bids fair to be the best placed of all the cities of Kansas. Fort Riley was formerly the ultinut thule of American civilization. Beyond began the Great American Desert, incapable, it was supposed, of producing food. Proceeding westward the traveller launched into an unknown waste, barren, treeless, waterless, yet roamed over by ferocious tribes of Red men who lived on the game, which in countless thousands grazed over the coun try called the Buffalo Range. In itself this would have given the lie to the Great Desert theory, for game cannot inhabit a country without water and vegetation. It was found on penetrating along the smoky Hill that the country for many miles to the westward was of the same character as to the east, that other junctions were made such as that of the Solomon, which is a gentle stream less than 100 feet wide, fringed with a few scattered trees on banks like those of a canal, the water flowing through a vast meadow of prairie grass, it is difficult to imagine is not a well settled and thrifty valley. At the mouth has grown another town, and our readers will observe as we travel up the Kansas Valley that we pass stream after stream, all flowing south-east, and all joining the Kansas on its left bank. Thus they get an idea of the dip of the land southward down to the Gulf of Mexico. Not far from this portion of the Smoky Hill, really a con tinuation of the Kansas, is the Arkansas river, the bend of both westward of Solomon City, being to wards each other. All the drainage to the right of the Kansas flows down the incline into the Arkan sas through the-Indian reservations, lands of un equalled fertility. Junction City is less than three years old, and the Louses are for the most part built of cotton wood, though fine limestone quar ries are in the neighbourhood, the stone coining out soft, so as to be easily cut, and getting hard by exposure. Some twenty years ago only buffalo grass grew to the west, the short curly grass, vhich alone can survive the tramping down of the herds. As they retire prairie grass takes its place, and the climate becomes more moist, the rainfall being greater. Now the valleys of the Smoky Hill and of all the streams flowing into it are covered with the prairie grass, but really little as yet beyond the way in course of construction for the Kansas Pacific Railroad—that is the old mail track over which Hepworth Dixon passed to Denver-- is known of the country. A very, valuable book entitled "New Tracks in America," by Dr. Bell, gives the infor mation acquired by the explcriog party sent by the Kansas Pacific Company through Arizoga and Isie.w Mexico. Still their route, with digressions, was along the road to Santa Fe, and on to Fort Mohav somewhere below the bead of the ,navigation of the Colorado. At Junction City, and twenty five miles further up — at Adelene —the'Texas herdsmen are met in numbers, riding on swift ponies, adorned with straps, buckles, and appara tus, the riders with long spurs, which touch the ground as they walk. Waggons come up from Santa Fe in lines, miles long, the drivers cracking their whips with a report like that of a gun. Brave and enterprising these men undoubtedly are, still but little qualified to describe the country they traverse. Hence the land, till Dr. Bell's book appeared, may be almost said to have been unknown, further than the brief accounts given by United States officers, of the districts around their lonely forts. Travellers, as a rule, burry over this ground, for there is little in the way of comfort to attract, but much to repel. Few fancy h,iving th e i r h a i r " raised," yet no one crossing the Buffalo Range can consider himself wholly safe from such a contingency. 'Thus it happens that only the t h ree routes ac. .ross had been described, until the Kansas Pacific Railway Company sent out explorer., who have discovered beds of coal and valleys heavily titnbere , l, in districts hitherto supposed to be without fuel. Kansas is divided into two part.?, bol.h prairie, and each about . 200 miles square. That to the west is dry, that to the east moist; the former is supposed to be poor in soil, though a geological analysis, it is believed, will show the ravers° to be the case ; the latter is known to be rich, and in no ordinary cleureeots valleys, of which there are many, being of exceeding fertility, and the uplands being all of fine grass country. Of all the buffalo regions Kansas appears to be the chief ; therefore it may be argued that if naturally adapted to buffalo, antelope, elk, and such animals,it must be equallyqualified fordomestic flocks and herds. The opening of the Kansas Pacific line to Sheridan ba4ziven a great spur to stock-rearing. It naturally attracts all the goods of Santa Fe, and large stores of Mexican wool find their way to the terminus. At Santa Fe .sheep farming is conducted on an extensive scale, some flocks numbering 50,000 head; and a vast influx of these sheep now takes place to the settlements along the line, but oxen will for many years to come constitute the chief wealth of Kansas. It is expected that for the" next 50 years the cheap beef of America will be pro duced on the buffalo range, and 70,000 head of cattle will this year, it is believed, be carried west by the company from the single station of Ellsworth. A three-year-old Texas steer sells for about $3O, and the estimated cost of raising them in Kansas is from $5 to $lO. While railways are in course of construction, which must constantly be the case in new fertile districts rapidly being peopled, there is plenty of work, but not of the class which honest labourers woul.l like, at least at the head works of the line as it proceeds. Sheridan is now what Cheyenne on the other Pacific Road was a year ago —a nest of iniquity. It consists of two rows of houses, each facing the track, which runs between. Some of them are stores 150 feet long, containing immense masses of goods awaiting transport. There are a few hotels and buildings of all sorts belonging to the railroad, but the rest, some .50, are saloons and gambling establishments. Fiddles and accordions, billiards and roulette, songs, the jingle of glasses,• and now and then the report of a pistol, are the most familiar sounds. A Vigilance Committee has been organised, and many ruffians summarily hanged. Its members wait at. midnight on the criminal, who awakes with armed and: masked men around his bed ; he has to get up and dress, noise or resistance meetingimmediately with a bullet through the brain. When a retired spot. is reached, some inquiry into the facts is gene rally made, sentence pronounced, and instantly and sternly executed. Sometimes the criminal is permitted to leave the place on giving information about his companions and their objects. Some dis tance beyond Sheridan, the main road to Denver, now in process of formation, branches through New Mexico- to Santa Fe, and this is the line to the Pacific. Denver is the chief city of Colorado, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, where they rise like a wall to the north and to the south, and the Pacific Railroad from that spot turns from its westward track, almost due north, till it intersects the Union Pacific Railroad, at Cheyenne, where it, enters the mountains. There we come again i n t o the line of emigration, whose proper centre is Omaha, and we get into a country in every way inferior. A Tribune correspondent thus writes of Salina, a town a short distance west of Solomon. " Salina is a town of 1,500 inhabitants, 184 miles west of the Missouri River. A Fair of the County Agricultural Society was just commenced, and I took great pleasure in attending it, for I had not the least idea that in such a remote place so much progress would be manifest. The show of vegetables was fully as good as in any part of the East, and I never saw larger turnips or sweet potatoes. Water melons were uncommonly large, and I was told that a lot of 100 sold in town the average was . 38 pounds. Wheat and corn were unexcelled, and. a sample of Surprise oats weighed 41 pounds to the bushel. In animals the display was good, and in short, the whole exhibition would have honoured any county in New York or Ohio. Let me speak of the wheat crop grswn near Salina. They as sured me that the average was 25 bushels to the acre, while whole fields averaged over 40 bushels. Judge Hamilton drove me through the valley, and I saw immense stacks of wheat taken from wha' seemed small pieces of ground. Thra , hers get 8 cents a bushel for thrashing, and tniilers 30 cents a bushel for grinding. It was clear that good merchant mills are needed. Spring wheat was sell ing at about 80 cents, and Winter wheat for $1 25 to $1 50 a bushel ; flour, $5 per cwt. Sweet po'a toes, $1 a bushel; Irish, 60 cents; butter, 30 cents : eggs the same. Very few hogs in the csunty, and sheep are rare. Beef mostly is eaten, and the best quality sells at 12 cents a pound." THE MORMON CHURCH. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Lord Amberley may be followed as an impartial guide in discussing the tenets of the " Latter-Day Saints," and his account in the Fortnightly Review to which we lately alluded, is full of interest. Very little is known of the new revelations claimed I for Mormonism, as the world in general throw them aside as an impudent imposture, as unworthy of seri ous notice as are the Jumpers, or the dwellers.in the Agapemone. A consideration of what the followers of Joseph Smith have achieved disabuses us of such an error, and Mormonism is thus rendered of inte rest, while politically for some time it has furnished an important subject for discussion in the United States. Professedly the Government is Republican. ble in reality the-ie polity is a theocratic despo: Brigham Young, like the other high otlicia!s, goes through the form of being re-elected twice a year— hut who dare oppose men inspired by Heaven ? Much interest must be felt in the writings left by the founder of the sect and the Commentators and Fathers of the Church. Lord Amberley says : " Ihe Book of Mormon is a small volume in its ex ternal ivpcct, resembling a cheap edition of the Bible, containing 563 clos e ly trinted pages, and did.ded into fourteen books. It contains the his tory of threw distinct emigrations from Palestine to America. The work begins with that of Lehi, whi, left Jerusalem in the reign of Zedekiah, King of Judah, with his four sons." One of these became the ancestor of the Nephites, another of the Lama nites ; two great nations, whose wars, as related in the Book of Mormon, occupy a large portion of the narrative. The Laniantes are the American Indians, who are, therefore, of Jewish origin. Such was the gravity of the sins and offences committed by Nephi's brethren that, "as they were ex ceeding fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my (Nephi's) people, the Lord did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them." Hence, ever after this, the Lamauites were distinguished by their colour. Another colony was discovered at some period between B.C. 200 and 100, and it was found that its inhabitants also were Jews, who had emigrated to America when Zede kiah was taken captive to Babylon, some years after the Nephites. The great object to which the ex hortations of all the Nephite prophets, who were very numerous, were directed, is the future coming of Christ. This is the culminating event of the Book of Mormon, and it is predicted in the most unmistakeable terms, the name and parentage of Jesus being expressly mentioned. Had the lan guage of the Hebrew prophets been equally dis tinct, it would have saved all controversy about Mesdanic prophecies. Christ appeared to the Ne phites after the Crucifixion, and his pre:whiff , con sisted of a repetition in a great measure of h is dis courses in Palestine, a few special injunctions being added. But the oldest emigration of all remained unknown until Moroni, a Nephite prophet (about A.D. 400), discovered 24 plates, giving an account of a nation who had emigrated to America soon after the confusion of tongues. Their journey across the ocean occupied 344 days. After living for many generations in what is called the North country, probably North America, they were destroyed by God on account of their wickedness. A similar fate awaited the Nephites. Their iniquity became so great that God was obliged to get rid of them, and they were exterminated by the Lamanites in the battle of Cumorah. Mormon, who li ve d i n the fourth century after Christ, made an abridgment of the original plates of the Nephites, from the time that Lehi left Jerusalem to his own day, and continued the record by adding a narrative of the things which he himself had witnessed. Just before the battl e o f Cumorah, foreseeing that this would be th e last struggle of his people, he. hid the plates i n th e hill i n or d er to save them from falling into the hands of the Lamanites, but he gave a few pl a t es to hi s son, M oron i , w h o finished the record of his father. Moroni, the son of Mormo n , was th e l ast surv i v i ng N ep hit e, an d it is he who describes the battle at Cumorah. After a wretched life, wandering from place to place to escape the Lamanites, he finally buried the plates in the hill (A.D. 421) and sealed them up, where they remained until their removal by ,the prophet Joseph in the year 1827. The interest centres in the matters relating to this history, but, as a whole, the Book of Mormon is dry to a painful degree. There is a book of doctrine and covenants embody ing the plans and resolutions of each month and year. Another, called " The Pearl of Great Price," purports to relate legends from an ancient scroll written by Moses in Egypt about himself and Abraham. In the Pearl there appears this curious prophecy revealed to Smith on the Christmas-day of 1832, while the book was published by himself in 1851— ta that "Verily, thus saith the Lol:dicolineerininzt be rd Wars will shortly come to p 155, bgirn,r tt the rebellion nof South Carolina, which will eventually ternt'uate in the death and misery of many souls. The day win come that w..r will be poured out upon all nations, b .giutiing at that place ; for h, hold the CuS horn Stabs sl.alt be divided aping the Northern States, and the Southern States will call on other nations, even OA) nation of Great Britain, as it is called, and they shall also call on other nations in order to defend themselves against eller nations, and thus war shall be ny poured out upon all nations. An d it shall come to pass after ma days slaves shall r ise up against their mastf:rs, who shalt be marshalled and disciplined for war." Adallision to this Church is by imposition of hands and by baptism (initnersion), to which great im portance is attached. The dead can derive the benefit through the baptism of the living relative or friend, a practice jn-titied by 1 Cor. xv. 29. rile Bible is considered the standard and test of truth, coustrued'in its most literal meaning. It is on pas sages of the Scriptures that the Mormons ground their belief in miracles, inAhe anointing and healing of the sick ly the elders„ in prophecy, in speaking in tongues, in gifts from, the Spirit, &c. They hold that Christ was the Stan of God, that he came to e leetn the world, yet, they believe in a plurality of gods, conceiving the Father, the Son, and the H)l7 Ghost to be distitact personages. 1113 Mormoul catechism asks:—" Are there more Gods than one? A. Many. Must we worship more than one God ? A. No. To us there is but one God, the Father of mankind, and the Creator of the earth ?" By a literal interpretation of the Bible they infer that God has a body, parts, and passions, not himself omni present, yet everywhere by his Holy Spirit. " IVe cease to feel any surprise at a deity so limited in power when we learn that this Father and God of the human family is Adam. This startling fact was announced in the Millennial Star in 1853. The human race is Adam's fanaily, and he therefore is the god who governs the inhabitants of this planet, and to whom their prayers are to be addressed. livery saint will reign as a god over his own family in the future state." " Our God and Father in heaven is a being ,of tabernacle" (tabernacle is the cant word for body). "His Son, Jesus Christ, has become a personage of tabernacle," but the Holy Ghost is not "a person of tabernacle. These three are one in character and attributes, but not in sub stance." Christ differs from his Father in nothing but age and authority, the latter, being older, has the right to preside over him. " Each has an orga nized, individual tabernacle:" The Holy Ghost being unencumbered with a tabernacle, enjoys the privilege . of being everywhere present,governing and control ling all other substances, producing all the pheno mena of nature—instinct in animals, reason in man, vision in prophets, the grand moving cause of all intelligences. " Every part of the universe is body, and that which is not body is no part of the universe." They hold with .Hobbes, who says—" By the name of spirit - we understand a body natural, but of such subtilty that it worketh not upon the senses, but that filleth up the 'place which the image of a visible body might fill up-'' The elements of the universe are eternal and un created, possessing intelligence adapted to their spheres. The emotions or affections of spirit are but actions or motions of these elements, and the powers of thought and feeling which any orga nism possesses must have belonged equally to all the particles of that organism in their independent state. The creative power, by which this eternal and intelligent matter was organized into worlds tit for the habitation of living beings, was " a ge neral assembly, quorum, or grand council of the gods, with the President at their head," the world being formed to provide a habitation for the pro existing spirits of men ; gods, angels, and men are all of one species; men will hereafter rise to the condition of gods, and gods have formerly passed through that of men. Man first dwelt with the Father in the eternal mansions. Those spirits who keep this estate are permitted to descend to the second, here with a tabernacle of flesh, though entirely unconscious of the past. Having kept the second, man enters a probationary sphere, called the world of spirits. Those who have heard and obeyed the Gospel, either in former times or in this age, will rise from the spirit-world and reign on the earth during a thousand years, while those who have re jected it will remain in the spirit-world till the last trump. There are three general resurrections, in which spirits are reunited to their bodies, one past an 1 two future. The first was in connection with he Resurrection of Christ, and included all who died in him before his advent. The second, at the -ommencement of the Millennium, will be in a few years, and will include the Former-day and Latter day Saints. The third will be more than one thou sand years later, that is, after the conclusion of the Hillennium, and will include all men. Those who were raised with Christ were conveyed to some other sphere; while those who aro to rise in the approaching Millennium will inhabit the earth, re-formed and rendered more glorious ; its moun tains levelled, its valleys exalted, while the human body raised from the dead will be able to launch forth into the boundless expanse, ascending and descending at will, and visiting other planets. After a thousand years are past there will be a new heaven and a new earth, on which the saints will reign as kings and priests throughout eternity. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. BUFFALO AND LAKE HURON. The half-yearly general meeting of this Company was held at Liverpool on Friday, Mr. Maxwell ia the chair. The report was taken as read. The CHAIIMAN, in moving its adoption, said that they ha I not received any pigment from the Grand Trunk Company since the last general meeting. In October last, out of the funds in hand, £12,500 was paid by the directors to the trustees of the bond boliers. The chief subject in the report was the new arrangement which the Board had nego tiated with the directors of the Grand Truuk Com pany, but the formal agreement was not yet ready for the consideration of the propri,tors, as the em bodiment of the terms in legal form had not yetbeen completed. The late Board had negotiated an agreement with the Grand Trunk Company which it was thought by several shareholders was not such as they ought to accept, among whom were the majority of the present board. He believed that the late board had sincerely atleart the welfare of the company ; but those who acted with him found it needful to bring matters to the vote, and the result was a majority against the late board, and the election of four of the present direc tors. The new board at once endeavoured to bring about some improved agreement with the Grand Trunk Company, and the result had been the pre sent arrangement. The terms were the best the directors had been able to secure, and the board recommended the shareholders to accept them as a compromise under the special circumstances of the case, being a considerable improvement on what the proprietors previously rejected. In bygone times a very unpleasant feeling existed between the two boards, but now, he thought, they might say that the board of the Grand Trunk Company and the board of the Buffalo Company were in amicable relations with each other, and he believed there was a desire to carry out in good faith the terms of the agreement, the heads of which were given in the report of the directors. Mr. HEALEY seconded the motion for the adop ion of the report. Mr. PENNY considered that the shareholders had great reason to be satisfied with the negotiations which the directors had so ably conducted. He understood from the report that the ordinary Buffalo shareholder was to receive one-half the amount of his shares in Grank T .•übk ordinary shares, and one-half in Grand Trunk fourth preference, and therefore his interest was to be entirely fused in that of the Grand Trunk Company. A further part of the arrangement was the payment of an annual sum of money, commencing with £42,000 for the year ending the Ist of July, 1869, and gradually increasing to £70,000 at the end of ten years. The annual payment was to be available for the bondholders and preference shareholders. He hoped that no feeling of hostility would be raised at their meetings, and that the arrangement would be carried into effect. A long discussion ensued, in the course of which resolutions were passed adopting the report-; re electing the retiring directors; appointing Mr. Penny, Mr. St. George, and Mr. Bigham to confer with the directors as to the claims of the preference shareholders and bondholders; voting thanks to the chairman and directors for the energy and ability with which they had conducted the affairs of the company ; and adjourning the special meet ing for the consideration and confirmation of the agreement between the Grand Trunk and Buffalo Companies to the 18th of January instant, at the Law Rooms, Liverpool. _o. I . BIRTHS. at Kensington, the wife of John Aut,BlYeriNdngonLtcre4sttehrjSatn:Aubyn, Esq, of son. N-- On the lst Jan., at Horsham Park, the wife of GoeLA S. Godman, of a daughter. Percy 3f:lßn/1 GES. COOKE—GonDox—On the 27th Nov., at the Cathedral, Calcutta, Edward Samuels Cooke, Lieutenant Bengal 81 , ff Corps, to Margaret, youngest daughter of the 1.4. V. George Gordon,_ LL.D., o f 13iruie, Elgin, N.B. 3/AcwitIItTEIt—KELSALL -Oa the 29th Nov., at the Old Mission Church, Calcutta. Lestock C. 11. Mac whirter, 62.1 Regiment, to Elizabeth Harriette, of daughter of the late Thomas Seddon Kelsall, Esq., of Aldridge" road, Bayswater. DEATHS. GnE viLLE—On the 31st Doc., at her resid e n ce , in Ett s cm' place, L a d y L ou i sa Greville, sister of the l a t e and aunt of the present Earl of Warwick. LOWDEN—On the 316 t Dec., at 149, Cheapside, London, Mr. James Lowden, aged 74. LDndon : Printed and Published I,y WILLIAM ANDREWS• of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, 1% 0. 112, Strand. in tho Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex. — • Wednesday, January S, 1870. z=:l the A And bold sble 7orT Con cele' Wh also nnn or o De , ; PA Rai and thit feel We bin est nis an 4 La Ca