The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-12 00:00:00

THE WHEEZY PREBB.

Tho Press feels it to be its duty most earnestly to
impress upon the conservative body throughout the country
at large that the question about the New Reform Bill Is by
no means at an end, and that it would be a political error of
pure magnitude to fall into the trap that the measure is ad-
journed. Masten are too deeply committed by their
pledges on this subject to weeps from It easily, even if they
desired ado so ; and there ts a motion of these mat eager to
have the measure mottled. Only a small number of the
ministry &notarially ocannectsd with the actual management
of Indian alkalis; and recollecting the immense amount of
work that an be performed by parliament, it would be a
most rah and precipitate condone to appose that
parliament was unable to deal simultaneously with
the lode question and with the New Reform Bill.
Until the subject of a new Reform Bill be decisively settled
ono way or another—until it Is either positively abandoned
or frankly undertaken—it will be utterly impeasible for the
combinative party to feel any genre of security ; their poll •
Real power and their social influence will be marred;
and the coneervatives, now forewarned, should be fore-
armed, and should not make the same error in domatio po-
Mk,. which certain dada ',inane', after full notice, have
committed on Indian affairs. Enormous delusions prevail
about some portions of the abject of parliamentary reform,
end it te in the highest degree necessity that the public mind
of the country, and that the adherents of the conservatives,
should be thoroughly &miliaria& with the knowledge ap-
pertaining to this ever-recurrent question of " Reform."

The Loader thus disposes of the originator of

Narammism :—" Born at the very head-quarters of Yank/e-
-land, Joe Smith luta all the ingenuity and energy of •
northern man; lie did not, as soma are still doing, go into
any branch of ordinary commerce; be did not set up an
Ohio Trust Company, or • kubbb railway company; but
be struck out another joint-stock enterprise, which ham
proved to be quite sea sumesekti, and mock more enduring,
than many other achemea in New York. There woe no
great originality in his plan of action. lie saw visions'
he heard • voice call him into a wood; a great light mme upon
him; and he had the honour of an interview with two persons,
one sitting on the right hand at the other, who
gave him direct and specific instructions as to his mode
of action. lie bond a cyst, or box, mutant:dug metal plater,
inscribed with hieroglyphical characters; he (ivied or bar-
'regard these in some more voluminous form en paper or
parchment ; end an original of the book of Mormon was ex-
hibited to • learned gentleman. It proved to eensist chow
ancient characters more or lees cloeily copied, with Remain
characters laid down on their becks or sides, as may be men

rnetiznea in bad painting, with other fanciful marls. The

characters were ranged like those of some Oriental Isagusgee,
in lines from top to bottom. Subsequently Smith produced
his own translation' of this mystic book, whereof a few
braces' or paper leaves only have been seen by others.
In the meanwhile he had procured whammed' of
these various stages persons who attested to the
accuracy of his statements on oath. This is cer-
tainly stronger evidence than some religions can
boast. Many a prophet has neglected to procure
fur us an affidavit duly attested before competent ma-
gistrates by respectable people. Besides the brazen leaves,
visions, and other waifs and stray& Joe Smith seem, to have
found an unknown fiction, by a Mr. Solomon Spaulding, •
person who ones lived in an °Locum, part of the State of
New York, had alternated commerce and literature, and bad
amused the leisure momenta of what seems to have been
an unsuccessful life in composing rather a dull romance
which represented the origin of the indigenous inhabitants
et the United States. This book so have not seen ; it ap-
pears in some degree to resemble the original machinery
which introduces the ' Peravian Tales.' It was, however,
only the basis upon which Smith constructed his volume—
only the roam canvas upon which his embroidery was I
worked ; for the sacred volume bean the most manifest
traces of Smith's own writing, in ludicrous faults of
grammar." The Leader goes on to observe that "certain
leaders of the Mormons, headed by the well-known Orson
Pratt, are over in this country collecting converts—sheep to
stuck the farm on which Brigham Young and his partners
are making hay while the sun shines; and they are succeed-
ing. Emigration to Deseret scrim the republic continues on
an immense wale, and emigrants curry with them large
stores of money end goods. The success of the Mormon
propagandism remains a mystery only until we refine to loot
at eulliciently obvious causes. In the first place, there are
immense numbers of the people uneducated; net only uuoble
to tend or write—many can do that who are un-
edurated—but unacquainted with facts, or with a
striflcient number to draw peaches' conelartions. Some
judge only too practically from limited facts." The &earthly
Aryl, ft, in an article oath* same subject declares Mormonism
to be polities' treason. People often wonder at the success
of Mormonism. An incident of the past week affords, we
think, the beat explanation of this. The Mormons held, and
not for the first time, "an Annual Conference" in London;
bat it was eertsialy the tint time that they announced this
oonfivenee by plaohnling oar streets with a preliminary an-
nouncement of their Sacred Synod. This shown what the
English people so much admire—pluck. At the very moment

alien it is announced that President Bueluinan means to take
the field in earned sgainst Brigham Young (though he post-
pones his cruade till next year), and while newspapers
snd railway novelists find the Polygamists of null useful
farther respective purposes, the Mormons advertise them-
selves sad their doctrines in the streets. This is what
tells. It looks like the calm conlidenee of strength, as we
should Bell it if we were friends of Mormonism- or sheer

burefiwed impudtnee, as we must stigmatize it, not believing
is the Book of tho Golden flutes. But either way it COW,
to much the some thing. Shamelessness occasionally ac-

quires heroic dimension,. If prejudice, or even conviction,
is rudely assaulted, it so often succumbs to the rude IMO-
lance as to the skill of the attack; but knavery, to succeed

thoroughly, must bictlargoty. Had not Moe:monism been

the moat insolent of fniutla, it would never have had a
chance. It ie not, on the whole, worth while for man-
►ind to interfere with a Salt Lake Utopia, ao long as it
another itself to ita own borders; but s soon so the waters
of the New Jerusalem enter into the stream of settled society,
them can be no longer muted tolerance. An onti-social confe-
deracy is only safe in the wildernem. Lot it once touch •
community of Lite. governed men, and ono of the two moat
perieb. It is nut, therefor., as a matter of religious
liberty—the very narrowest view of the subject—
that the "Mormon fanaticism" is to be regarded.
Society has always in self-dere= risen against all mad era
volutions of this sort. John of Leyden and the Anabaptists

were impressible in Europe—Mormonism is an equal impos•
sibility in the United States. Either one or the other mot
go; and, judging from all historical precedents, Mormonism
e ill be put down, not ti a religious system, however deterit-
al.le both in theory and practice, but as en organised treason
against human twisty.
The ECOPIOItIat pronounces the harvest to have
bean brought to a pretty general conclusion throughout
England, and proceed. to consider its results, and its proba-
ble influence upon future prima both here and in the other
large grain-producing countriee of the world. The wheat
crop is remarkably good, of unimuolly fine quality, and the
weight of the samples is fully up to 64lbs. per bushel. Not-
witlettanding these important fact., there are no signs of
diaceumgeinent on the part of the growers in reference to
price. They freely admit that their prospects are good, and
and a very low sago of value cannot be anticipated. Al-
though we have advice. from Spain, Portugal, tho Medi-
terranean, Turkey, and the Bassi= pinta in the Black
See, to the etted that wheat is gradually falling in price,
there fa no immediate prospect of unusually large
snivels from those quarters; but the present high
as of exchange at New York, and a gradual decline in the
value of wheat sad flour there, may induce extensive ship.
mental toner& the close of the year. Nevertheless, taking
into account the high state of proeperity in this kingdom,
the ABUT of the growers to hold back a portion of their
usual supplies, and the great powers of consumption, it seems
probable that those who an looking forward to a rapid fall
fa the value of wheat sill be dnsppointed. Prices may, it
ie true, rule somewhat lower than at present, in the event of
massy continuing high in the discount market, and of the
importers being compelled to pees smiles but not more so
than the oddities.' yield would appear to justify; for certain
it is that we have grews the beat and most valuable crop of
whir& on record; and, therefore, taking quantity into m-
ama; we havens dank that farmers will obtain for it a