The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 185.

AN insuperable collision has occurred be-
tween the United States Federal officers and
the Mormons, and the Federal Government has
to deal with a new case of difficulty. It
cannot be considered one of danger to the Unios,ll
unless by possibly serving as a rallying point few
discontents of other kinds. This is not probable,
however; and the world will presently see that the
WOOS is altogether an individual one, and that
any Was It may give at Washington has nothing
ohalever to do with the increase in the number at
goobers of the Confederation.
We need not relate the history of the Mormon&
By this time, most people know it ; and all wo have
to do with here is their aspect in their Federal •
lotion. They were at first citizens of old States-.
Ohio, Missouri, and Indiana. Eleven years age.
after Jos Surto was dead, they passed the Using
States frontier, under the leadership of their ggies•
autocrat, BRIGHAM Yorwo. While thewoo aas
tually encamped beyond the boundary, Figineal
Government served on them a requisition far alb ma
to serve in the war with Mexico. The demandooset•
plied with, readily and without reolostramse.lhae.
it overthrew for the year their plan et teoigeaffgaegai
caused great lose of life and properirOnneg
people, who were regarded as i by eb.
Indians. Ten yews ago the wales's& •ea lA*
was effected, and in another year dr sissei sattbs
ment, on the Weber river, was organise& In 1849,
the material condition and prospects to the peopte
being considered secure, they provide& ales
with a system of civil government, haviag been
hitherto under the ecclesiastical rule of their Elders.
A Convention, composed of all citizens who chose to
come from the part of Upper California which lies
east of the Sierra Nevada, adopted a Constitution
which was to remain in force till the Government at
Washington should provide, as usual, a Territorial
Administration. This provisional "Dtate of Deseret"
followed the ordinary pattern i its scheme of
Government ; and all its officiale bound
by oath to support the Constitution of the
United States. A Delegate was sent to Con-
gress, with a memorial presenting the claims of
Dement to admission as a State; the population
being already sufficiently large to carry it
over the ordinary preparatory stage of constitution
as a Territory. This part of the claim was disallowed,
and the settlement was admitted under the title of
Utah Territory. It was not concealed that this in-
stitution of civil government wee at precautionary
measure, adoped only because " Geniks were ex-
pected to Sock in to share the material prosperity
of the Saints. The teligious leaders were at ones
and always chosen to Ml all the civil offices ;
sal
the republicanism of the Mormons was a 11110
matter of prudence, and not at all of principle se
patriotic feeling. It must be remembered, too, that
there is in the heart of all the original Mormons, at
least, a bitter rancour against the Federal GOVOTIM
meta for having failed to protect them in past dams
of great strew The healing measure gnegensis
under these circumstances, was the appohttalast 1111
BRIGHAM YOUNG as the first Governor of the Ter-
ritory, and the PRESIDENT appointed him sego&
For a few years matters looked well on the while.
Strangers were hospitably received at the cur. awl
some of the best qualified reporters—Engineer
Offiers, sent by Government to make surveys, Law
Offioen, sent to institute and administer the Coerto
ate.--testified to the honest and peaceable Sharaetw
of the citizens, and the able administration of Omar-
nor YOUNG. By 1833, however, it was observed that
some fatality betel every party of "Gentiles" wild*
showed any strength, or remained any time. Kau
des by the score were attributed by the Mormons to
the Indians. The late Judge of the Supreme Court
now asserts them to be the work of BRIGHAM YOUNG
and his coadjutors. Time will show whether the
tremendous allegations of this Judge are worthy of
ar,y degree of credit. Meanwhile, BRIGHAM YOUNG
has sufficiently proved that, if he is to decide the
matter, Utah shall not be a member of the American
Union. He decrees that no attention is to be paid
to any law of Congress which is not sanctioned by
the Church in his person ; and he has countenanced,
if net instigated, the destruction of all the Records
and Papers of the Supreme Court. He countenances
all insults offered to Federal officers, and pardons, as
Governor, all Mormon offenders convicted before the
Courts. Several murderers, being Mormons, have
been thus pardoned by him ; and he has, there-
fore, no right to c.irnplain if he is charged
with complicity in the murders by which
the "Gentiles" have for some time peat been
rapidly weeded out from among the saints. Judge
litiu:ateosio, who has given expression to these
charges, has of course resigned his office of Judge of
the Territory of Utah. In the District Court (also •
Federal Court) the bench was oecupit d by a seeding
laormon--Judge STILES ; and only two znimabsrs
the bar were " Gentiles." By sheer violenee—i•
prisonment and threats of instant death—the
Judge was compelled to break up the court and dis-
miss the jury; the two " Gentile " lawyers were
struck off the roll of their profession, sad the
United States Court was closed-certainly never to
he opened again under the existing roigime. This
bappoied at the end of March ; and Binomial

YOENG has since expelled all the Federal officers in
the territory ; thus making his defiance of the
Government complete, and settling the question
which troubled anxious minds—whether American
citizens of the ordinary sort were to sit side by side
with polygamists and idolaters in Congress?
The question which is not yet settled is, What is
to become of the Mormons? The PRERIDENT and
his Administration have good reason to believe that,
amides the " Gentiles" settled in Utah, and not yet
elves out, there are multitudes of nominal Mor-
ales who will be thankful for rescue from the
tyranny they are living under; and opportunity
will be afforded for their declaring themselves. A
"Gentile" Governor, supported by a complete staff
of Federal officers, and backed by 'sufficient military
force wider the command of General HARNEY, will
call on all the residents to speak their minds freely
—erhether to adhere to BRIGHAM YOUNG, Ur to
place themselves under the protection of the laws Of
the United States. The vast preponderance et
women in the Mormon community imparts a ro•
markable aspect to the affair. It is anticipated that
tens of thousands of them will accept release from a
lot which must truly be an insufferable one to
women of European birth and rearing. Whether
the Mormons will fight for their position, or migrate
once more, will soon appear. They spontaneously
gave the American Government • right to deter-
mine the destiny of their Territory by applying for
adraimion to the Union ; and they must now decide
between obedience to the Government and quitting
the territory of the United States. Meantime, the
theoretical difficulty about the admission of such an
odd fish into the shoal is at an end; and it only iv-
mains for the l'anstnelts. and his coadjutors to re-
store order and obedience by the strong hand.

WHIN a coquette of a certain age, forswearing
flirtations, assumes airs of prudery and devotion,
the world is seldom disposed to entertain • very
exalted notion of the motives which have brought
about so remarkable a change. In like manner, we
have serious misgivings as to the cause and perms,
nence of the new epidemic of morality which is
breaking out in Paris. The speculating public—and
the phrase is sufficiently comprehensive, for it
includes all classes, from the minister to the market
woman—seems awakening to the fact that gambling
is a great social evil. The haunters of the Baum
have had their saturnalia of speculation, and they taw
begin to talk of the error of their ways sad maim
prudent resolutions to "forswear sack owl am
cleanly" henceforward. The Government
against Bonne gambling, dramatists gilles=
culators on the stage, grave men write begs Ws
lie
national demoralised= it produces, and, ferny, ear
didates introduce it in their election manifestoes as
one of the abuses to be put down. The new morality
is becoming a fashion, and will probably last as loth
as most fashions do. We are not disposed to rank if
as anything higher, for the simple reason that, whim
temptation is removed and obstacles are enaslyd, tie
abstinence from any favourite vice is no prod eff
diminution in the taste for it.
For a time, it is clear that the days of premium
manufacture are at an end, and that " concessions"
are somewhat of a drug in the market. The office et
an agent de change has ceased to be saleable fee
80,0004., awl folks begin to sneer at the Bourse-made
millionaires who can no longer carry a cringing crowd
with them on the road to fortune. Even the Credit
Mobilier itself has lost some of its prestige" and the
retirement of M. MIRES from financial life is attrL
bated to the scandal of the Roman railways afar,
and to a conviction that no more premiums are to be 11
extracted on a grand scale from the pockets of the,
multitude. The first blow at this colossal evil of
speculation was struck by the Governs cwt,
wifi
was horrified at finding that the Protabrir
stein it had created had thriven alarm-
ingly, and was growing unmanageable. So a Mew
was promulgated forbidding the formation of pay
new Joint Stock Companies. Then came another,
regulating the management of limited liability
societies ; and the legislation was by no means un-
called for. The rascalities of the Napoleon Duck
and other companies were public talk, though they
had not yet been aired in a court of justice ; and
happy were those Societe+ en Cornmandite whom
accounts would bear close investigation. The Drama
came to the assistance of the Legislature, and the
plays of " La Bourse " and " L'Honneur et l'Argent,"
were soon followed by the " Question d'Argent," by
A. DMUS the younger. The most serious on-
slaughts on the promoters of speculation were,
however, the law fixing a tax for entrance
into the Bourse, and the recent decisions
of the Courts of law, to the effect that
--.stion entered into by men who had

only in view the payment of differences—vino, in
fact, bAted on the rise or fall of prices—was punish-
able by a heavy fine. The game has become too
dangerous, so the speculative world, the multitude
who dreamed of large fortunes based on no capital,
has turned moral, denounces its former doings as
highly objectionable, and dares to praise and patro.
nise the literary men who find great speculators
profitable subjects to be held up to ridicule and con-

tempt.
The latest achievement of this character is by
0. DE VALLEE, Advocate-Oeneral of the Imperial
Court at Paris, and it is entitled " LesManieurs d'Ar-
gent"—the handlers of money. The object of the book
is stated by the author to be "to exhibit the wound
which is destroying society, and which hourly becomes
deeper and more dangerous." "We contemplate" (he
says) " daily, a debasing spectacle of gambling,
speculation, and usury." On this text he preaches
at considerable length, comparing the speculative
mania of the present time to that of LAW, and
prognosticating a like result. It is somewhat
amusing to read the querulous defences and &polo-
-1 gics for speculation put forward by the so-called
"industrial journals," d propos of M. DE VALLEE'S
book, and their complaints of the bard measure they
receive at his hands. They clearly feel that their
combs are cat. Their occupation has been foe months
and years to prophesy and to create a perpetual rise
in prices, and, after one set of speculators has
been exhausted, to inveigle in a fresh set
of dupes by professions of being able to
point out to a certainty under which thimble
the pea lies. But their eloquence has lest
its charm ' the whole tribe of courtiers 'war-
rens, and eoulissiers, are in consternation at the
evident risk they run in carrying on illegal transac-
tions. The smaller fry are figuring at police-courts
, for fraud, and the reputation of the fraternity is
1 being blown upon. And now one of the organs of
" industrial enterprise" laments that the author of
the " Handlers of Money" should have been "carried
away by the unrellecting reaction which for some
time past has been manifested in certain social circles
against the industrial movement."
If we are to believe these gentlemen, the Bourse is
the very min of France, the giver of life and wealth,
and they its high-priests and public benefactors. The
Journal des CAessaiws de Per even went farther—
it denounced the Legislature u a public enemy
for checking speculation, and received a " warning"
in ocieseqeence; but the "Avocet Central" is handled
as gently by the organs of the Bourse gentlemen as

though he were a hedgehog. The truth is that they
no longer feel themselves the great financial powers
they were, or that others believed them to be. The
public has lost its money pretty freely, and the
gilded mansions and princely establishments of the
Boursiers leave no room fur doubt as to whither it
has gone. A new excitement moreover, that of the
elections, is supplying the place of the fluctuations of
prices, and share business is getting into a more
legitimate channel. The Bank of Franco seems
to be in no hurry to re-open the gates of
Paradise for these men who made the rise
and fall by announcing its intention to lend
liberally on stock and shares. The various
manoeuvres by which concessionaires and promoters
grow rich have been rather too liberally displayed
in courts of justice; and the public nibbles very cau-
tiously at any new scheme, though highly Winded
by the " industrial journals," and advertised in the
very largest of type. The names of Cridit Mobilier,
directors and yfrants of railway journals, are no
longer potent spells to conjure withal, and the needy
crew who haunt the Court of the Tuileries must find
some other resource than concessions of railways to
supply the means of continuing their extravagance.
Even against them the popular cry of reform is being
loudly raised, and the candidates for the suffrages of
the Liberal voters advocate retrenchment of the
monstrous expenditure of the State, and a check to
the stimulus of mere speculation. How long this fit
of reason may last we cannot tell, but we are fully
convinced that nothing could more effectually
benefit the financial condition of the country than
an active prosecution of this new crusade against
those who have so long fattened on the gambling
tendencies of the Parisian population.

THE EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE.
(THIS RAE)

The various sections of the above conference (five
in number) met at noon this day, at the Thatched Home
Tavern, and were well attended.
In section A the chairman was the Bishop of Oxford, and
the secretary the Rev. F. Watkins, ono of her Majesty's
inspectors of schools. The object of this section is to iinjuiro
into the fact of the alleged early removal of children from
school in the agricultural, manufacturing, and mining &ni-
tride of England, Scotland, end Wale.; and into the
causes of such early removal and its remelts.
Amongst papers set apart for this section me
the following —The Rev. Moses Mitchell, one of Ler Ms-
jesty's inspector. of schools—" On the evidence afforded by
the reports of her Majesty's inspectors as to the early
ago at which children are taken from school.- Mr.
Flint, Into ssslttant dime= inspector in Derbyshire,
and organising master of the National Society—" On the
same subject, with reference to schools not under government
inspection." Mr. Herbert Mickwortb, inspector of wins.—
" On the age at which the mining population Login work."
Mr. W. H. Hyett—" On the results of the educational
census." Mr. W. Goodman, chairman of the Birmingham
Educational Association—" On the result of return. from
Birmingham, showing the degree in which labour
and idleneas respectively interfere with education."
Section B. was presided over by the Right Hon. W. Cowper,
M.P., in the absence of Lord Lyttelton. The Rev. J. D.
(Bennie, jun., was 'secretary. The p apers to be read in this
section treat of similar inquiries in respect to the education
of foreign countries. On the list are Mr. Joseph K ay—
"On the ago at which children leave the elemen-
tary schools in various countries of the continent
of Europe." The Rev. F. C. Cook, M.A., prebend.
cry of St. Paul's Cathedral—" On the schools of Germany."
M. Eugene Render, minister de l'lnstruction Publique et
des Cakes, L'Ecole Primaire et le Travail Profes
sional." Captain Ibbothm, F.R.S.—"' fhe Eduestional
System in Germany and its Advantages.'Rev. Dr. Maker,
Strasbourg, formerly Inspector of Schools under Louis
Philippe—" The Schools of France."
The chairman in section C wee.ir J. Kay Shuttleworth,
Bart., and the secretary, the R Nash Stepheneon,
This section considers the expedient. which have been pro-
posed for keeping the children of the working-elamm
longer at school; under the heads of certificate schemes
end peirs scheme.. The Rev. Ns& Stephenson reads •
paper—" On the resultof prize schema." Mr. Seymour Tre-
matherre—" On the result of prise and certificste schema."
Rev. W. J. Kennedy, her Majesty's inspector of schools—
"On the principles to be observed in promoting
school attendance." Thomas Hare, Esq., cheeky
commissioner—" On endowments crested for the appren-
dement of children, and on the application of such fund.
by way of premiums and rewords, se an encouragement in
the education of the poor, and for promoting their longer
continuance st school; and on the employment of other
charities founded for undefined purpose. In sad of the isms
objects." Rev. J. P. Norris, her Majesty's beneeMr at
whoola—" On the working of the Stalloaddes alms
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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

SUCCESS OF REPUBLICAN

CANDIDATES.

CAVAIONAC, CARNOT, AND OOUDCHAUX
RETURNED FOR PARIS.
cram ovu OWN CORRISPONDENT.)

PARIS, MONDAY MOLT.

The following estimates of the results of the
Paris elections hare been made up in lubte, and
may probably be modified by the official declaration
of the ballot :

FIRST CißclntsCltirriox.
10,070
ttlalain
„
Laboulaye
1,682
Iteynaud

Majority for the government candidate.. 6,394
SECOND CIItCUMSCRIPTION.
I)cvinck
liethmont

Majority for the government candidate 1,402
THIRD CIRO. DISCRIPTION.
General Cavaignac
Thibaut

Majority for the republican candidate 237
lUt R7ll CIRCUMSCRIPTION.
Varin . .
E. 01livier
Gamier Pages

Majority for the government candidate 2,891
PIPTII CIRCUMSCRIPTION.
Carnot
Monin-Japy

Majority for the republican candidate 3,608
KRIM CIRCUMSCRIPTION.
Goudchaux
Ferret
10,464

Majority for the republican candidate .. 2,378
SEVENTH CIRCUMSCRIPTION.
Lanquetin
Darlinon
1 Budd° 3,647

I.lajority for the goTernment candidate 3,783
mount CIRCUMSCRIPTION.
Lepelietier
Vsxin
Jules Simon ...... ..
1

Majority for the government candidate ... 3;787
NINTH CIRCUMSCRIPTION.
Kdnipwater
F. Lasteyric

11,507
6,966

Majority for the government candidate... 4,541
TENTH CIRCUMSCRIPTION.
Dr. Verou
Eugene Pelletan

Majority for the government candidate .. 8,197
In the first, the fourth, and the seventh circum-
scriptions the elections will commence again on
Sunday, there not being an absolute majority for
one candidate over both the others put together.
The third circumscription, which has elected
General Cavaignac, consists of the quarter of the
Palais Royal and that of the Boulevard Bonne Neu-
velle,with the faubourgs Montmartre and St. Denis.
The fifth circumscription, for which M. Carnet is
returned, comprises the quarters of the Ports St.
Martin, the Temple, St. Martin des Champs, and
a portion of Belleville.