The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-18 00:00:00

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Bishop fer his dividend, but was handed a sack of
sugar; another, it great disgust, has tendered big
resignation as a member cf the Mormon Church,
evidently confuring his religion with the groceries
of the conc,3rn. The Co-operative Association and
tho Utah Magazin? are the active agents in disrup-
tion, but Brigham is confiscating the Magazine through
the Post Offices just as it he was the Czar of All the
Missies. But no Czar, or even any Monarch of the Middle
Ages, had a more atrocious story circulated to his
disal-
vantage than that now rumoured of Brigham. He appears
to have kept a murderer ! who executed his sentences as
would a "bravo" of Venice. William Hickman became
dangerously ill when at a horse-race in Nevada, and sent
for a "Saint" to baptize him, who, however, refused,
asserting that Hickman had shed too much innocent
blood to hope for salvation. "Not ou my own account,"
replied tho bravo, "for all was done at the instigation of
Brigham." " How many?" asked the Josephite. "Per-
haps about 400," was Hickman's rough calculation. That
he had murdered many persons is notorious, but it
not known to what extent, if any, Brigham is imply-
, cated. There was a rumour that the Mormons bad
assumed a hostile attitude, and that orders had been re-
ceived at different btitious for movements of troops,
which led to the supposition that they were to be directed
to Utah. This, we are confident, will prove untrue ; while
Brigham is too wise to allow schism to become strong is
his own hold. lie directed public attention from hone
grievances to a great Mormon propagandism, sending out
as missionaries those suspected of sympathy with the move-
ment. lie has power to dispatch any member of the
Church on a mission, whatever his position, and as they
got no pay but have to pick up their own crumbs on the
way, there is no necessity for murdering his enemies, as
he can despatch them to China, Africa, or India. None
refuse, leaving their farms, offices, harems, to raise among
the most ungenial climes and races, the banner of Mor-
monism. The case is told of a yoUng " Saint" in love with
a woman Brigham did not wish him to marry ; so ho or-
dered him to India, and the missionary had to sever the
strongest of human ties, gird up his loins and go. _

The income-tax is giving rise to more discussion
in the United States than any other single tax, perhaps,
indeed, for the moment, to all other taxes combined. The
reason is two-fold ; first, from its unpopularity, as not
only. direct but inquisitorial ; and, again, because it expires
by limitation next year. The question is whether this
unpopular tax shall be renewed. If the enactment were
not limited the question would not assume its present pro-
minence; but if, during this session of Congress, the time
be not extended the collection of the income-tax must
cease. Hence the discussion cannot be avoided, and as it is
a tax liked by Secretary Boutwell, and supported by
those who believe in the advantage of direct imposts, the
parties for and against it are not unevenly divided. The
tax levies 5 per cent. on incomes over $l,OOO, with very
large exemptions for various expenses, .especially house
rent, without reference to the amount,. It is calculated
that about a third of the tax is evaded, yet the amount de-
rived last year was about thirty-five millions of dollars,
being ono-fourth of the whole internal revenue. idr.
Wells would roduce,the rate while maintaining the tax, as-
serting that 3 per cent., more honestly and skilfully col-
lected, would yield a larger return than the present 5 per
cent. New York City pays more income tax than a
third of the States, showing how unevenly the assess-
ment works. Horace Greeley writes bitterly on the
fact ho cites, that ho has paid over 1,000 dollars
per annum since the tax was imposed, while he sees
men around him with six times his moans who do not pal
a penny. Quoting the World, whose editor asserts that
ho owns the entire concern, Mr. Greeley says though he
owns but a tenth of the Tribune he pays thus largely, while
the other editor, who professes to have a more extended cir-
culation, dacs not ray anything; nor, adds Mr. Greeley,does
any other editor of a Democratic journal issued in New
York. "Yet the whole of them make the welkin ring
with the inequality and injustice of Tariff imposts and
the beauty and equality of free trade and direct taxes!"
On Monday, November 19, the first detachment
of 20 boys arrived at New York, in the steamer Bellows,
in charge of a Farm Superintendent, from the Earl of
Shaftesbury's "Farm School," near Woking, en -route for
Wakefield, Kansas. With a view to form an English co-
lony iu connection with the institutions in and about Lon-
don for destitute boys and girls 33,000 acres of land have
been purchased from tho National Land Company, along
the line of the Kansas and Pacific Railroad in Kansas, and
there are already located upon it about 100 families of
English farmers. The boys were given a dinner at Astor
House before leaving New York, at which were present Mr.
Reuben Cox, general superintendent of the Kansas Feral,
and Mr. Charles Parker, superintendent in charge of the
boys. The following is a list of the boys: —Wm. Turner,
age 16; Hy. Dillon, ace 17 ; Walter Garrett, age 16; J. Bag-
gott, age 16 ; Richard Evans, age 17 ; Thomas Stratt, age
16 ; Richard Daley, age 17 ; Alfred Malcotuber, ago 16
Michael Sullivan, age 16 ; Benjamin Brabgun, ago 16 ;
John Cunuingtou, age 17 ; Frederick Scotcher, ago 18 ;
Joseph Holliday„ age 18 ; Peter Donoghue, age 17 ; Ge°'
Redfern, age 16 ; Benjamin Miles, age 18 ; Robert Clark,
age 17 ; Charles Porter, ago 16 ; Albert Kemp, age 18 ;
James Burley, age 17. At the close of the dinner, Colonel
Loomis, President of the Land Company, addressed the
boys in a speech expressive of friendliness to both EnOana
and America, and pointing out the advantages now .3".
tended to them. The boys were to start at once for
Wake!ield, Kansas, via St. Louis.

However excellent the Tribune may be, however
full and accurate its intelligence, as a general rule, it has 6
singular facility in arriving at a wrong total when it 0(16
up little schoolboy's sums. We never could make out
who did the addition business in the Tribune office, butt
is evidently a great swellperhaps Horace Greelay himself
—who is far above paltry figures. Hero is a correc ion
which it seldom deigns to make, but why it should de-
scend into such minntire, considering its unfortunate habit,
we cannot understand:—

By the accidental dropping of a figure yesterday itt
showing the reduction of the public debt, wild work We"
made with some of the amounts, although the main ones
were accurately given. A more exact calculation (omit'
ting minute fractions) shows the following result for the
first nine months of General Grant's administration:—
Reduction from March 1 571,903,525 00
Reduction per month
Reduction per week 1,843,680 00
Reduction per day
Reduction per hour
Reduction per minute
Reduction per second
But occasionally wrong figures may do much harm. ircrr,
instance, the Tribune says—" Reports to the Agriculture'
Bureau indicate that the Southern cotton crop will he
nearly 3,000,000 bales." A telegram was sent to O.
Commissioner at Washington to ascertain if this was cor-
rect, and the reply was that the highest estimate made 11
the Department is 2,750,000 bales. A matter of a quartet
of a million is nothing to the Tribune, but it means sonic"
thing to the cotton market, which has a little weight in the
commercial affairs of the world. The Tribune's despatch,
appeared in the Associated Press matter, though no attc't
estimate was made by the department, nor, it is said, ec_th
by the Associated Press. The Commissioner of Agricw°
ture is now stated to receive monthly, accurate returue
from every cotton-growing county of the United States'
lie was within 20,000 bales of the crop of last year ; and as
this system for obtaining information is much better nor,
the Commissioner says that dealers may rely upon his
figures, the estimate being 2,750,000 bales, or a trifle lose'