Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

and higher than he :

Her 'prentice ban' she fried on n•an, &c.
She is not so physically strong as man, but
neither is he so strong as an elephant. Dignity
of nature is not measured by physical strength.
Woman being, therefore, the paragon of nature,
the head and mother of the human race, is most
righteously entitled to have a number of the
lower male creatures at her service. This is the
true revelation—plurality of husbands, and
down with Mormonism ! Quod erat demon-
strandum.

Next to our surprise at finding women going
to Utah, is our marvel at finding Scotsmen
there—natives of prudent, cautious, " cannie,"
educated, religious, Calvinistical, and Sabba-
tarian Scotland. We are afraid Sandie
is degenerating in this iron age, and is
no better than was Tam, who " tint " (.Inglice
lost) " his reason a'thegither." Seriously, it is
disgraceful to this country that a single prose-
lyte should set out for the Salt Lake. We
observe that the annual meeting of the Mon-
monites was held in London on Sunday, Sep-
tember 6. Six hundred persons were said to
have been present in the morning, and a thousand
in the evening. As we have said already, we
would not prevent the meetings of these people,
or put them down by force, but we would pub-

lish the facts of the case—such fact? as were
narrated at the Bury meeting, the other day, by
Mr. HILL. Here is another trifling fact which
we will state, resting on the authority of the
Times correspondent. Twenty-six fugitives from
Mormon persecution arrived a short time since in
the city of San Francisco, and they corroborate
the strongest and most revolting allegations of
the American Judge DRUMMOND. It is easy to
deny, but unsupported denial is not proof.
Facts are stronger than assertion. Let Mor-
monism be well pelted with these hard facts.
Let uur countrymen and women be acquainted
with the actual state of things in that land of
Zion which has BRIGHAM YOUNG for its high
priest, and we greatly miscalculate the sagacity
of our countrymen, if the number of recruits to
the Valley of the Salt Lake does not ere long
`• grow small by degrees, and beau'ifully less."

THERE is an old but trite adage that persons
" who live in glass houses should not throw
stones." Our readers will recollect that, a few
days ago, we deemed it necessary to animadvert
upon certain remarks which the city editor of
the limes had made respecting the commercial
morality of Liverpool.. The writer in question
stated that such is the system pursued in this
town, that whenever a mrchant was found to
be in difficulties great efforts were made to screen
the extent and character of the insolvent's lia-
bilities, and that this was effected for a variety
of purposes, some of these far from bordering
upon honesty. To persue the remarks of the
Times' city article, the reader would suppose
that the writer never aimed at cloaking a failure
that came under his notice, and that his com-
mercial morality was like Caesar's wife—above
suspicion. Knowing the history of the Times'
city article for a series of years, we felt that 'his
assumed perfection in matters of ._the kind was
far from being able to stand the test he desired
to apply to Liverpool. We had not long to
wait until we were in a position to refute his
calumny upon the mercantile community of
Liverpool.
Not only is London, in its dealings, more open
to a charge of commercial dishonesty, bat the
gigantic schemes of fraud which are perpetrated
show that it is the metropolis of rascality.
Various reasons and undeniable testimony in
support of this allegation might be quoted.
The cargo of swindling convicts, Sir JOHN PAUL,
SI'RAHAN, BATES, REDPATiI, &c., which
dropped down the Thames the other day, to a
distant land of exile and slavery, were a sample
of London swindlers. Hardly were these
notorious characters sailed from their native
land, when out comes another case of huge dis-
honesty and fraud. Mr. DEAN, the London
solicitor, who has contrived by forgeries and
other dishonest actions to fleece a number of his
dupes and clients to a pretty large amount. Mr.
DEAN'S case is but another of the many instances
of gross fraud perpetrated in London, and which
is steadily and surely undermining that high
tone of commercial morality on which, as a nation,
we have so long and so justly prided ourselves.
True it is that in Liverpool we have occasional
failures—eases of bankruptcy and insolvency
they are, however, of such a character as might
be expected in an extensive trading community
like Liverpool. In very few instances can
positive dishonesty be traced to the parties con-
cerned. If we turn our eyes to London what do
we find ? We see the canker of studied decep_
tion and dishonesty spreading itself with rapid
strides among all classes—the banker, the piety
monger, the merchant, and . the. tradesman.
Board of Directors, too, have contributed their
full quota to the want of honest principles, and
laxity of commercial morality. Bat the picture
wa not complete, nor the list of characters in
the gallery of modern rogues filled up, until the
legal profession had its representative. Accord-
ingly Mr. DEAN, of King's Bench Walk, has
taken his place. But notwithstanding the readi-
ness of the writer of the Times' city article to
trumpet for the failures or commercial faux pas
of Liverpool merchants, he has been perfectly
mute about Mr. DEAN'S delinquencies. Is sach
conduct creditable to the boasted morality of
the leading journal, and its city editor in. par-
not. It contrasts ticular ? We should say