The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-13 00:00:00

Mr. Hepworth Dixon in Ameria.

Among a number of unusually intelligent English-
men who have been visiting America this year is
Mr. W. Hepworth Dixon, who is distinguished in
literature for his expositions of the lives and cha-
racters of Lord Bacon and William Penn, for
volumes of Travels in the East, for Critical Essays,
and for journalistic experiences as the editor of the
London Athenmum. His four months in America
have been mainly spent in close studies of such
social and religious anomalies in our national life
and growth as the Mormons, the Shakers, the
Communists, and the Spiritualists present. He
lived, for this purpose, for some days with the
Shakers at Lebanon, also with the Oneida Com-
munists, and made the long and dangerous journey
across the plains and over the Rocky Mountains to
Utah, where he passed several weeks in more in-
timate relations with the Mormon leaders and their
families than perhaps were ever held by any other
person outside their fold. These things will there-
fore form the staple, certainly the more valuable,
portion of the book in which he will soon deseribe
his American experiences and observations. As
the judgment of a man of genius and wide and
deep study, who has paid this class of subjects
here and elsewhere unusual attention, and inspected
their present development in this country more
closely than any one among us has done,what he has
to say, both of description and of conclusion, will
be awaited with interest and deserve serious respect.
The Mormon problem is not at all a simple one to
solve ; and what a man of the quality and experi-
ence of Mr. Dixon has to offer upon it must be of
importance both to our social and political doctors.
Coming back from Utah, Mr. Dixon joined in a
portion of the recent official excursion to the iron
and coal regions of Pennsylvania, and then was en-
tertained in a munificent manner at Philadelphia by
a few of its leading citizens of the professions and
in literature, as a tribute to the manner in which
he had exposed the noble life of the founder of their
city and state, and vindicated his name from the
aspersions of Macaulay. Since, at New York and
Boston, he has seen somewhat more of our most ad-
vanced civilisation, and shared our most polite hos-
pitality, as, in his explorations in the IVest, he had
previously witnessed our earliest and roughest move-
ment on the barbaric wilderness, shrank from the
wild Indian, and made terms with hunger over
stewed prairie dog and fried buffalo hump.—Spring-
field Republican.

THE ACCIDENT TO PROFESSOR SELWYN.—
CAMBRIGDr., Monday Evening. —The professor passed a
good night last night, and the bulletin this morning was
consequently favourable. The inquiries after the profos-
sor'shealth have during the day been earnest and incessant.
At 5 o'clock this evening there was hope that the case is
progressing favourably.
THE QUEBEC FIRE.—Mr. John M. Grant, the
honorary secretary to the fund, received yesterday a tele-
gram from Manchester, stating that the committee of that
city have resolved to send out immediately 1,000 pairs of
blankets for the use of the sufferers by the fire. These
blankets, &c, will go forward by tho next steamer, Messrs.
Allan Brothers and Co. having undertaken to forward them
with the utmost despatch, and free from all charges. These
blankets will be a most valuable help in relieving the bitter
distress now existing in Quebec, and the committee hope
to receive further similar contributions. The subscriptions
up to last evening, including the donation of £lOO from
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, amount to about
£13,400. This sum is exclusive of the subscriptions now
being raised or to be raised iu Manchester, Liverpool, and
Glasgow, meetings having been convened in the two last-
named cities for this day.

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