The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-17 00:00:00

A LUNATIC ASYLUM ON FIRE.

The Licking County Infirmary, Ohio, took firo on the
30th of October, and ten of the inmates perished. They
were locked in their cells, and the fire progressed so
rapidly that no assistance could be rendered them. No
ladders could be procured, and very fow buckets. There
were not more than twenty-five or thirty persons on the
ground at any one time, and these were compelled to
witness the literal roasting alive of the ten inmates in the
stone building, who could not be reached. The fire origi-
sated from the furnace used in heating the building.

Mr. W. J. Stillman, late United States Consul
at Crete, has written to the Pall Mall Gazette to correct a
remark on his latter to the Neologos of Constantinople, about
the Greeks. Mr. Stillman says —" Instead of saying that
a growing distrust of Russia is not uncommon amongst
the Greeks, I should say (and few foreigners have had such
an opportunity to judge in this matter as 1) that there aro
almost no intelligent Greeks who have not long hold a
strong distrust of Russia, and that to-day the prevalent
sentiment is that there can be no possible pact or compro-
mise with her. The only hold that Russia has on
Greece now is through the lower clergy, whose influence
is now diminishing, and the King, who is controlled by
Russia to an extent that makes him little less than a
governor acting for that Power."

It is announced that two-thirds of the Presby-
teries have ratified the reunion of the Presbyterian churches
by the required majority. The General Assemblies will
meet at Pittsburg on November 10, to count the votes and
announce the result. The movement in favour of Church
amalgamation gains strength in America. There aro cur-
rents of schism and currents of union, and the current of
union is now flowing strongly. As a sign of it, however
ridiculous, we may mention that Brigham Young has in-
vited Mr. Henry Ward Beecher and other great orators of
the Church to occupy his pulpit. At the same time, we
have to report a schism among the Mormons at Salt Lake,
resulting in the suspension of Mr. Stenhouse and the other
editors of the Utah Magazine. Stenhouse is one of the
fathers-in-law of Brigham Young's eldest son, Joseph.
Godbe, Harrison, Tullidgo, Dunbar, and Neslen, all lead-
ing men had to answer to the church authorities for contu-
macious conduct, and were excommunicated, as their de-
fence failed. Their offence was trading on their indivi-
dual account. Some of the " Saints" distil illicit whisky,
and do all they can to evade payment to the assessor of
he Internal Revenue, whom they hate, as he looks sharply
after them. This split is regarded as foreshadowing the
break down of Mormonism, and is one of the effects of
Vice-President's Colfax's late speech.
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