Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-12 00:00:00

anything that the High Priest may command, 1
from murder to petty theft. Mr. HILL knew
one " Danite" who had shot six persons, and Mr.
HILL himself witnessed the death of one of these.
If any person do anything contrary to the
will of the Mormon autocrat, he is immediately a
marked man: the << Danites" have their eye upon
him, and the next morning he is a dead man.
It is then rumoured that the Indians have been
down upon them ; and if any one should express
sympathy with the sufferers, or dare to doubt the
propriety of such proceedings, he shares the
same fate. During the first eight months after
landing at the Salt Lake, Mr. HILL and his wife
never saw flour or tasted bread. Tea was five
dollars per pound, and coffee one dollar unroasted ;
calico, sixty cents, or about }half-a-crown per
yard. He had seen many die of starvation, and
had known others kneel at the feet of BRIGHAM
YOUNG, begging a little fuel to make a fire. He
had seen some cut off the sleeves of their coat to
cover their feet, as a protection against being
frost-bitten ; many had suffered the loss of toes
through want of sufficient covering ; young
women are married to decrepid old men, at the
command of the autocrat, and refusal is starva-
tion. Mr. HILL knew two girls of fourteen and
fifteen years of age Married to old men of seventy.
The first convert to Mormonism in Preston is
now married to his own daughter, in the city of
the Salt Lake; and another has for his four wives
a mother and her three daughters. These are
some of the startling facts, vouched for by. an
eye -witness. They are almost too flagatious for
belief, were they not well attested. Let them be
pondered over by our young men and maidens,
who may be dreaming of a L ind of Canaan in
the West. They may else find too late that
instead of a company of prophets, they have only
a herd of voluptuous elders ; and for a city of the
saints only a city of the sinners, who, besides the
sins of ordinary mortals, are pre-eminent in
lying hypocrisy and sensuality.

PUBLIC MONlES.—Yesterday morning was issued the re-
port from the select committee of the House of Commons on
public monies,together with the preceedings of the commit-
tee, and appendix. The committee are of opinion that the
cons didation of the pay departments has been attended
with public benefit, but they consider that the. paymaster-
general should cease to be a political officsr, discharging
his duties by deputy, and that he should become the active
and efficient head of the pay-office, pe:forming his duties
in person. They recommend that the payments of
revenue should, as far as practicable, be paid directinto
the Exchequer, and that those payments made into
the Pay-office should be transferred to the Exchequer
account with as little delay as may be consistent
with the public service. They further recommend
that monies in deposit in the Pay-offlce should be
carried to a separate account at the Bank, as they neither
form part of the public revenue, nor are voted by parliament
as ways and means. The payments may still be made
through the general drawing account. A statement of the
receipts and payments included in this deposit account
ought annually to be laid before parliament. The com-
mittee make certain recommendations regardiTg deficiency
PIT 4(;BlVOrlstia[ggVhf htchnonsee re
cases threw
which holders
can demand payment of their bills in money, or pay them
in for taxes tinder existing regulations, and that the in-
terest be payable also out of the Consolidated Fund. tad.
That the government be empowered, as at present, to issue
new bills in lieu of th.se which may be paid off in money;
the proceeds of such bills, however, to be placed to the
credit of the Consolidated Fund. 3rd. That the annual
renewal of Exchequer Bills be discontinued, the bills
running on from year to year, with the consent of the
holders,. until called is for renewal; that the rate of
interest be advertised annually; and that the bills be
issued with coup ms for the annual interest." The
pub'ic accounts, the committee think, should be kept on
an efficient, and, as far as practicable, uniform system,
and periodically checked by the inspeotor of the Audit
Office, as is now throe in respect of the naval and military.
expenditure. The committee advise that the inspector
should make reports of his check, not through the
Treasury, but direct to Parliament, and that these
ausli ed accounts from every department should be an-
nually submitted to the revisioa of a committee of the
House cf Cemnaone, to be nominated by the Speaker.
The Committee recommend that the annual accounts of
income and expenditure should be founded on actual
payments and receipts, as they are satiefi:d an account of
Etch:quer credits cannot represent a true accent-it of
expenditure. Fieally, for the proper repletion of the
Treasury Chest Fend the committee are of upinion that
the objects to which legislation should be directed are
as follows :—" Ist. To limit the ern ,ant of the balance to
be retained at the credit of the fund, and to provide
,that if it shall at any time exceed the limit fixed
by law,' the surplus shall be paid to the Coesolidated
Fund. 2nd. To provide that no final expenditure
shall be charged upon the fund. 3rd. To provide that the
fund shall only be erneleyed far the legitimate banking
operations of the Treasury chests, and for advances for
public and colonial services, repayable out of votes of
parliament, or other funds applicable thereto. 4th.- To
provide that acuen's shall he laid before parliament,
every year, showing the cash opera ions of the fund at
home and abroad during the financial year, and the assets
and liabilities of the fund at the close of such year." The
committee, in coneinsion, say, they "are aware that the
important and extensive changes which they have sug-
gested, cannot all be immediately carried into effect; but,
they believe, that the continued attention of parliament,
and of the execative government to the subject will avenue
at no distant date, all the objects embraced in their recent-
mendations."

INDIAN CORRZSPONDENCE.—We read in the D 603 :-
"France and Englacd differ not merely in their
mode of waging war, each his her distinct manner
of reliting it. With u., the cacial reports are in
general full of interest, and vividly reprasent the military
acts which form the subjects of reports to the higher
anCror.ity. Oa the other hind, the letters addressed to (Par
journals by their corre3pendents are singlarly detective, .a
as for private letters, the smill number of those that are
pub:ished does not often. lead us to. regret oar ignorance of
the remainder. In a word, at war as on all other occasions,
we are tolerably fond of entrusting one to be the spokesman
for all. On the c)ntrary, the reports of the Beglieh generals
are incompirably arid. Tuese officers are usually satisfied
with narrating in them, that too with imperturbable sang-
frail, the movements of the several corps, adorned with
their respective numbers, and they briefly state in them the
result of their action. The most terrible engagements are
described in teem as if they were reviews, and it is possible
that we depict our reviews even with more animation and
eloquence. But it is not in such quarters that the English
look for the history of their wars. Taey seek after and
find it in the free and animated descriptions II torrespan.