The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-17 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, Auousr 17.

material preoperity has long been regarded as omit-
pletely established. The controversy about Mor-
monism has for some time been political in Amnia..

though it may remain religious in Europe. But'{
a sadden and prodigious change has Rene over the
whole prospect.
The first exuninen of the T ground °ula>
. ltsisom-
ething. They reported on the salt lakes of the region,'
and were duly disgusted with the slimy shores and
shoals; but they did not apply • microscope to the
slime. They saw trenches cut where the Indians
bad been, with Warn of fire along the bottom; but
they probably did not inquire what had been cooked
therein. If there had been a naturalist among
those pioneers. be might perhaps have preserved the
existence of a peculiar people, and changed
the character and destinies of the American
Union. That slime, several feet thick, and
extending over scores of acres, is composed of the
lame of insects ; and those trenches are the resource
of the natives for food, when the insects leave no
chance of gams, and the locusts have eaten every
green thing. The locusts, swept into these trenches,
have their wings and legs burnt off, and are cooked
for food, as in the other valley of the Jordan. The
Mormons must this year live thus on locusts or
on nothing, for the locusts have left neither crops nor
stock. On the former occasion, when they boiled
their cabin roofs, the people were relieved by what
appeared to them a miraculous intervention. A mul-
titude of birds of a strange sort alighted on the
islets in the lake, and fed on the locusts, and
cleared the land of them. It is now too sate for
that, and nothing but famine can be looked for.
The peculiarity of the cases, that the misfortune
seems to compel the breaking up of the entire settle-
ment. Not only is it impossible to import food at
short notice where there is no navigation, and no
highway but of impracticable length and difficulty:!
the mischief is inherent in the soil. The enormous

TIM Americans are lees likely than most other
people to have at their tongue's end the fine apho-
rism, " L'homse propose, Dien dispose ;" not because
they are lees religions than others (the contrary being
the fact), but because their strong will and self-
reliance ena►le them, above most other men, to carry
their points and rule their own fortunes. But they
sow and then encounter unlooked-for events, which
cane them to quote the aphorism referred to, and
they do it with the devoutness belonging to a reli-
gious people—a people proud to acknowledge as their
chief distinction and beet element their descent from
the Pilgrims. Such an incident is occurring at m-
eant, and the whole nation is turning from the state,
of parties aad the state of the markets, the abundance
of the crops, and the power of the heat, and the rain,
to contemplate the condition and the fate of the
Mormons.

It is not only that the social existenoe of a whole
section of the people, is trembling in the balance, and
that famine is a new and fearful spectacle in a country
so extensive end fertile as theirs; the Americans
have reasons which lie even defter to their hearts for
anxiety as to the fate of the inhabitants of Deseret
and Ut.h.

cicalas come out of the ground; and the odious
locusts, nearly three inch,. long, are declared to be
indigenous. The Mormon., we are told, must go:
and the interesting question is whither—sod how long
it will be before they are again knocking at the door
of the American Senate.

It is aquestion of growing importance every year,
what is to be done with the Mormon State when it must
be permitted to take its place in Congress. Except the
question of slavery, probably none so difficult—cer-
tainly none so strange—has offered 'twit in the his-
tory of the Republic thus far. If the idea could never
be for a moment tolerated that represeetatives with
dark complexions should sit in Congress—though
prosperous examples of such a mingling of com-
plexions are before the world in the West
Indian legislatures—what can be said and done
about admitting members to represent a com-
munity of polygamists, who propose to use their
political powers for theocratic purposes, and under
a pretence of harmonising their society with
a faith subsequent and superior to Christianity? The
difficulty is, that there is already so much variety in
the relations of the State constitutions to religion and
the Bible, that it is not very easy to assign a fair
ground for the exclusion of the Mormons ; still every-
body recoils from admitting them. The southern
constituencies plead " patriarchal " authority for
their '• peculiar institutions." The State of Connec-
ticut boasts a constitution extracted bodily from the
Jewish law by their forefathers, and merely modified
by later legislators. There are portions of the
Union which bear strong traces of the prevalence of
Romanian; and the strength of the democratic ek-
slant everywhere has been reinforced by the
spreading Catholicism of which we bur so
much from dissolving and new-born parties.
Amidst these varieties, which constitute the interest,
as they make the bout, of American politics, how
could the Mormons be excluded from the full privi-
leges of the Union, pleading, as they do, Scripture
warrant or Christian example for every one of their
peculiarities, from their polygamy to their 0011C0111-
us t ion of spiritual and temporal power in their Pope?
Apart from prejudice against their peculiarities, the
strongest objection made to the reception of the Mor-
mons into the Union is on the ground of this very
amalgamation of the spiritual and temporal power—
or rather, the issue of the temporal from the spiritual,
in as far as it is indispensable, and no further. The
fear of the wild work that would be made by the
admission of this odd caricature of the old popery
of Europe into the company of puritanic and
progressive constitutions has been spreading
and deepening for some years past. If the
good Christians of the United States shrink
from admitting a representative of a Jewish
or a Mohammedan people into Congress, what
must they have been feeling at the prospect of ad-
mitting into their Union • State which curiously
unites the characteristics and pretensions of both
Jews and Mohammedans ? Before there was any
question of such admission, and only a dim and dis-
tant perception that such a question might arise,
certain of the Americans drove out the Mormons
from among them, and hoped to have got rid of
them in the wilderness. That was precisely the
worst thing that could have been done. As always
happens in all faiths, the blood of martyrs was the
seed of the church. The people thus driven out were
seen on their passage over prairie a•d mountain
ridge, waiting on the brink of torrents, and hunger-
ing in parched deserts; and when it appeared that
their faith and patience sustained them, that they
helped one another as they journeyed, and stopped
to sow and plant for those who were to follow,
they were as venerable as other confessors and mar-
tyrs ; and perhaps the tradition of their journey may
be as sacred hereafter u that of the voyage of the
Mayflower is now to the sons of the Pilgrims ; and
the banks of Utah Lake may be holy ground to aflame
generation, as fairly as Plymouth Rock is now to the
men of New England. Into the wilderness the Mor-
mons were, however, driven ; and a very safe sort of
wilderness in the eyes of those who did not desire to
see or hear of them more. There was no seashore
where they were, nor any navigable river, nor na-
tural highway of any kind. This was true : yet
beck they came, in the form of deputations, no longer
seeking connivance to live, but recognition as a terri-
tory, preparatory to admission as a state. Within
ten years the numbers included in their regular
organisation exceeded one hundred thousand, and
accretions of thousands and tens of thousands
were taking place, is addition to the most rapid
natural increase possible. Triers was no doubt of
the substantial quality of their strength and pos.
perity. They furnished a battalion to the Mexican
war; and they were growing rich, in steady pro-
freesias, after surmountiog desperate hardships.
They had settled in a territory which could not show
a tree, and where the loose soil absorbed the streams
from the snowy peaks of their mountains before they
could reach the valleys. One clear and sulkiest
stream they named Jordan, and sat down beside it.
Their valley of the Jordan was as unlike the Poles-
tine one as could well be imagined—treeless, parched,
and desolate. They cut channels, however, and irri-
gated the low grounds, and so planned their city as
to leave space for avenues of trees and miles of gar-
dens. Before they Gould benefit by their labour and
skill, there came a fearful season, during which they
wen compelled to strip off the hides with which they
roofed their cabins, and boil them foe food.
S ace that year all has gone well with
them till now. Their industry ja "vita.
tarsi an pastoral ; and their skill and labour
have so supplied the natural deficiencies of their •
erri-
tory, and made the most of its powers. that their

11 If we were Americans, we should rather regret
i(for other reasons than compassion for the immediate
calamity) the postponement of the experiment. The
steady adherence to the federal principle, which
would have been shown by the admission of the
Mormons, would have been a floe spectacle of itself;
or, on the other hand, the precise spot of weakness
would have been disclosed by their rejection. No
reasonable man could fear any extension or long
duration of Mormonite methods of government or
customs of living. These are too thoroughly vicious
to stand any comparison or competition with others
when brought into united action with them. The
desire of Mormonism to join a confederacy lank:tidal.
But, to judge by present appearances, it mot wait.
It has yet another migration to make. One interest
to na distant observers is, that possibly some deluded
and disappointed countrymen—and yet more country.
women—may get free, and come home again. There
is to everybody • stews speculative interest in
watching for the next phase in the existence of the
most remarkable social enterprise of our time.

Cpt court.

OSBORNE. AUGUST 16.

The Qaeon and Prince, attended by the Countess
of Desert and the Hon. Beatrice Bing, drove out yesterday.
Lord Panniers and Sir Benjamin Hall arrived from Lon-
don on a visit.

Mr. Prosily, of the Board of Inland It , had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Eachequer yesterday
, at his official resident* in Downing-street.

Despatches were sent yesterday to the Govemor of
Gibraltar from the Coloniel•ofee. Despatches were re-

laired host the °ovum= of the West India Islands.

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OP KENT'S
BIZTEDAY.—This day being the anniversary of the birth of
her Royal Highness the Dachas of Kent, a peal of bells was
rung front every chunk in the metropolis. The Royal
standard was baited at the churches of St. Mary's Abbott's,
Remington, St. Margaret'o, Westminster, and St. Martin's.
in-the-Fields. The various steamers were decorated with
Sags and colours of all nations. In the evening the trades-
man of her Royal Highness will dine together, and their
boacs will be illuminated. Her Royal Highness is 69 years 11
of age.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
entertained the Dacha's of Wellington and a select yam to
dinner last evening, at Cambridge Commas, Kew. The
&whams, soccompaaied by the Hereditary Grand Dachas of
Ysokleabargh•Btnlitz and the Priaceos Mary, leave early
It the ananiag week, on a tour.

The Earl and Countess of Warwick are expected
home early to the autumn, from s protracted abeam on
the Continent.

The Earl and Countess of Malatesbary have left
lowa fee %Gilead.

Bad Grey has returned to Howick Hall, near
WarrLek, tejoin the eennteer. A select family circle will
siteetly congregate Mere.

His E:aelisacy the Marquis d'Azeglio has left
town for the German Spas, as wage, for a month.
Vimennt and Visooentess Palmerston entertained
Lard and Laiy Stanley of Alderley, Lady William Russell,
the Right Hon. Wm. Cowper, the Right Has. 0. W. Hay.
tar, the Hoe. Mrs. Norton, Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford,
and Mies Clifford, Mr. Fleming, Mr. A. Craven, Mr. Wm.
Rase, sad a select party, at dinner, last evening, at their,
residents in Piccadilly.
Lord Redeedale and the Hon. Miss Mitford have
leg town for the noble lord's seat in Oxfordshire.

The Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart, M.P.,
sad Lady Graham sad family, have gone to Netherby Hall,
Onarberland, having delayed their departure for the conti-
nent until the Mom of the ensuing month.

Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing Park, died suddenly on
Tuesday hat. This lady, so well known to fashionable
circles, was, up to the neaten, of her death, apparently In
lezeslient health.

Sir C. Wood, the Hos. M. F. F. Berkeley, M.P.,
. . . . _ _. . . _ _

Beer-Admiral Peter Richards, C.B , Captain Sir Baldish;
W. Walker, R.N., H.C.8., &a., Colonel Green, Royal
Baptisers, &e., paid as Aida visit to Sheerness yesterday.
Yesterday, the Grenadier Guards, in oonsequenes
of the intelligence of the sacerssfal attack on the fortress of
Swesberg, were, by the eoianiand of the colonel, granted a
genera holiday, and the drills and training entirely sm.
vended for the day.

On Wedneed4 the Emperor and the Empress of
the Frensh held a reception at the Palma of the Tuileries.
The Emperor, attar the official receptions, was pleased to
allow a number of fenignen of distinction to be presented
to him by the Papal Nuncio, the English Ambassador, the
&Iglu, Neapolitan, Prussian, Austrian, Saxon, Portu-
guese, Sardinian, Angriest', Ditch, and Spanish Ministers,
and by that Chamois d'Affaires of Tuscany end Orme. The
Emperor afterwards rossived Mr. M. Fillmori, ex-President
of the United States, and also Baron de Gritty, and Major
Chevalier Bowes. de Daewoo', Constaheionm and Deputy-
Comaissiemes at the Exhibition for the Argentine Cu.federation.

Another new jointetoek bank is in course of forma-
tion, celled the Western Bak of Loodoa. The object of
this beak is to afford basking aosoramodatios, more cape•
sally to the nobility and gentry, sad is order to gin greater
facilities to parties raiding at the west red of the meta-
-1 polio, it is prepaid to bare two boards of direction—ate to
Masai to Met departaseat, and the ethos to regalia the
City balsas. This proposed 'apical is 600,0004 in abuse
of 1001. gab.

Mr. Park, the eminent sculptor, died yesterday at
Warriagtoo, Ia his 48th year. The dimmed, who woe a
native of Olmgew, !nada leader Therwsithea, at Rome,
sad was a matseeporary &rapt with Oilers. Rh buts of
the Simperer Napalms 111., the Duke of Cambridge, Mr.
Loped, M.P., Biz Harry Smith, the late Bit Charles Napier,
lewd Lord Dmidesaid, are well Immo.

THE EXPRESS. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1855.