The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 186§,

nothing, except that Senator DoourrLE is pre-
paring the report of the Minority of the Mili-
tary Committee, sustaining Mr. JOHNSON in the
suspension of STANTON. Minorities have little
chance of being heard as American politics are at
present constituted, and Mr. MILL must try his
eloquence in the New World if he wishes to sea his
favourite theory universally accepted.

A lecture upon "Abyssinia and the Abyssinians,"
by so good an authority as Dr. BEKE, has just added
considerably to the popular information on this in-
teresting subject. The war may be, as Lord STAN-
LEY styled it, " a little one," still the lives and for-
tunes of so many of our countrymen are engaged,
and the story of the captives is so painful, that very
great anxiety and interest are felt concerning King
Theodore and his dominions. The lecture which
Dr. BEKE delivered on Tuesday eveningjtook a hope-
ful view of the people and their capacities. It was
difficult, he said, to place a limit upon the capabili-
ties of Abyssinia under a more favourable state of
things, the first grand step towards which is to
induce the feeling of fresh wants in the minds of its
inhabitants. Dr. BEKE very justly observed that
whatever the duration of the campaign one result
is certain : the presence of so many Europeans in
Abyssinia will show that the difficulty of pene-
trating the country is purely imaginary, and that
when reached it is deserving of the serious conside-
ration of the British merchant and manufacturer
not less than of the Christian philanthropist. Iron
and coal are known to exist there in considerable
quantities. Copper has been recently discovered,
and sulphur-and salt are extensively worked along
the eastern edge of the table land. As Dr. BEKE
observed, in enumerating these natural advantages,
the possession of iron and coal alone are sufficient
to form the basis of national prosperity. But the
natural wealth of Abyssinia is not confined to mi-
nerals. Cereals of all kinds are cultivated by the
natives, who are skilful agriculturists ; and Dr.
BEKE boldly asserts his belief that Abyssinia is not
only capable of supporting a large population, but
might become the granary of less favoured regions.
At present much is wasted from want of knowledge
and for lack of markets. The varied character of
the country enables it to produce on its hills and in
valleys everything that is the growth of tropical or
temperate climates. Like India, the hilly regions
are so different in temperature from the plains or
valleys that productions of a varied character can
be grown. The climate, as we are all now aware,
has been unjustly decried, and Dr. BEKE cites, as
evidence in its favour, an argument which
has already occurred to many, The Euro-
pean captives have, in spite of all their
trials and anxieties, preserved their health during
four years of captivity, a sufficient proof that the
climate is not unfavourable to Europeans. In fact,
the greatest obstacle to the civilisation of the coun-
try is THEODORE himself, notwithstanding his early
efforts as a national reformer. Under his savage
and inconsistent dominion no people could
flourish ; and very certainly the Europeans
whom he is so anxious to secure are not
likely to settle there. The Abyssinians themselves
are more Asiatic than African, both in their ap-
pearance and in their degree of civilisation which
they have attained—a fact which renders the future
progress of their country, when the barriers
that now enclose it are removed, more

hopeful and more certain. The lecturer
gave an interesting and valuable account of

the chief races, the hereditary rulers, the
antecedents of the KING himself, formerly the mili-
tary adventurer KASSA, and the laws and religions
of the people. Those who were not fortunate
enough to hear the address of Dr. BEKE will do
well to read it attentively, and they will form a
goo I general idea of the country, its people, and its
rulers.

We may reasonalily hope that the misfortunes of
Consul CAME aoN and his companions may lead even-
tually to a favourable change. There is every proba-
bility that Sir R. NAPIER may seize an opportunity
to push on to Magdala, scure the captives, and
achieve the work in hand without delay ; but when
the war is over we may easily believe that its
effects will not cease. Abyssinia will no longer be
to us an unknown world, and the glimpse which
its people will have bad of civilized life will open
to their view new worlds of thought and action
of which they have never hitherto had any per-
ception.

Great pains are being taken in Paris to prove
that there is no warlike meaning in the Government,
and it is confidently believed that a manifesto will
shortly appear, setting forth that the EMPEROR'S
views on this question are of a pacific tendency.
This report deserves the greater credence on account
of an offici,ll statement having been already distri-
buted to the members of the Senate on the subject
of the bill for the Reorganisation of the Army. In
this it is affirmed that the "real cause" for this
measure was not the fear of war, but rather the
experience that hal been derived from the cam-
paigns of the Crimea and Italy. As for the recent
war in Germany having to do with its preparation
that furnished the desire more than the cause for it.
Had it not been for some such striking warning as
that appended the public might not readily have
agreed to the passing of the bill. Those who are
responsible for the honour and security of the coun-
try are, it is added, the most fully impressed with
the importance of the step and the most impressed
with its necessity. At any rate we may conclude
that, from one indication and another, there is no
present possibility of war on the Continent ; but
the peculiar state of things that exists just now cer-
tainly justifies the EMPEROR and his Government
for taking such decided steps in the work of reor-
ganizing the army, for who can tell how soon they
may be called upon to put their utmost strength
and to direct all their resources.

Mr. LowE, being dissatisfied with the turn which
political affairs have taken, is devoting himself with
more and more interest to a topic out of reach of
party controversy. Even with regard to education,
however, Mr. LOWE must take a peculiar and ex-
ceptional view of this question. He is never happy
while thinking as other men think, or talking as
other men talk, and, not content as ordinary mortala
are with advocating education, he would have the
form and manner of that education uudergo a com-
plete change. lie complains, not without rea-
son, that while the middle class have had the
greater share of political power during the last
generation they have done nothing for themselves
in the way of education. It had allowed the en-
dowments intended for its benefit to pass into the
hands of another class, and it has, according to
Mr. LowE's belief, allowed political power to pass
from it iu a similar way. About this latter pro-
position less bitter anti-Refottners may entertain
considerable doubt, but most persons will agree that
the middle class being above the primary schools
assisted by the State, is not prepared to send their
children to the universities or great public
schools is in a dilemma respecting education.
Mr. LOWE, indeed, holds University education no
loss, and affirms that the study of Latin and Greek
is nothing more than a " mere mechanical exercise
for the memory." Almost in the same breath,

however, he recommends the study of the great
English writers, and advises the student to learn
German thoroughly for the sake of the literature.
How is it, then, that he does not think a familiarity
with the ancient tongues desirable on the same
ground? Are not HOMER and 2Estalv',us, VIRGIL
and HORACE, worth reading, in a literary point
of view, as well as CHAUCER and SPENSER,
GOETIIE and SCHILLER ? English composition is
no doubt an admirable study, but if history and
the classics, logic and algebra, are to be eliminated
from the schoolboy's programme, we apprehend,
when he puts his knowledge into practice his com-
position will be somewhat poor ! Mr. LOWE is
himself a brilliant example of theory and practice
contradicting each other, and the classical education
he so much despises will stand his eloquence in good
stead all the days of his life.

LATEST INTELL LGEN CE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

OVERLAND MAILS.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA (HEAVY) MAILS,

MALTA, Jan. 23.

The Bangalore leaves at 5 a.m. to-day. She
may be expected at Southampton about the Ist

February.

OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL

The Delta, from Southampton on the 12th inst.,
arrived at 8 p.m yesterday, and left at 2 a.m. to-day
for Alexandria.

The Ripon, from Marseilles on the 20th inst.,
arrived to-day at 5 a.m., and leaves at 11 a.m. for
Alexandria.

EGYPT.
(Dy Malta and Alexandria Telegraph.)

ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 22.

It is asserted on reliable authority that the Vice-
roy intends to withdraw the greater part of the
Egyptian troops from Abyssinia, leaving only a few
men at Massowah.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY, Jan. 23.

Another Imperial interview is on the Lapis. On dit that
she Emperor will shortly meet King William of Prussia in
)ne of the towns on the banks of the Rhine.

The Prusso-Danish negotiations have again come to the
surface. The State archives of Schleswig, lost during the
war, have just been discovered. Prussia has demanded
that they should be restored to the duchy. Hitherto
Denmark has refused compliance. With regard to the
whole question between the two Cabinets, the France states
that Denmark insists on having the line of demarcation
south of the town of Flensburg, and she persists further in
refusing Prussia any guarantee which would enable her
to interfere in the internal affairs of the people north of
that line. It seems to be thought that a settlement of
this question will soon be obtained, and that Denmark
will have her way.
In financial circles the Hungarian Loan attracts atten-

tion. People now admit that, reconciled to Austria, the
kingdom is more powerful and her progress more assured
than they could have been with a separate nationality.
The resources of Hungary are enormous, and the only
second thought with regard to the new loan was, that her
financial stability might be rendered precarious by the
military enterprises of the empire. Reflection, however,
will show that-Hungary is new a sort of guarantee that
Austria will enter into no rash wars. The contract
between the two parts of the empire expressly
stipulates that every demand for men' and for
money for the common army must be separately
discussed and agreed to by the representatives of Austria
and of Hungary. Austria, 'without Hungary, would be
powerless in a military point of view, and, except to resist
an invasion of Russia or to hold the Czar in check in the
East, Hungary has no interest in any military adventures.
The dream of avenging Sadowa has never entered the mind
of the Hungarian statesmen. They know that peace is
essential to their national existence, and that a war with
the North German Confederation would be a*.l attempt at
suicide. For 1868 the share of Hunr.ly in the common
expenses of the empire will be 62,000,000 f. ; her own ad-
ministration will cost a hundred millions more, and tne
ilitr"firColtare;penditute is, therefore, estimated at
238,000,000 f. ; in 1865 the revenue was 246,636,000 f. Veiy
few new countries begin to borrow under more hopeful
circumstances.

International postal reform is likely to make progress
soon. Prussia is about to open negotiations with Norway,
Switz,rlankt, Belgium, Italy, and France for the reduction
of the rates between these countries and Germany.
The Due des Cars has hen followed by another devot
adherent of the House of tourbon. The Prince de Caf.ni,
one time ambassador of the ex-King of Naples at London
and Berlin, hast just died in Paris.
The Emperor, Empress, and Prince Imperial attended
on Tu,2sd.ly the commemoration masses celebrated at the
Tuileries for the repose of the soul of Louis the XVI.
Jan. 21 is the anniversary of the unhappy monarch's
execution. The execution of the Queen took place on the
10th October ; but the two events are united in one cele-
bration.

The Archbishop of Valladolid is mentioned among the
prelates likely to be made a cardinal at the approaching
ceremony at Rome.

A. correspondent, writing from Rome, gives the following
as the names of those who will be honoured with the
cardinal's hat :—Erince Lucien Bonaparte, Boromeo
Arese, the Apostolic Nuncios at Madrid and Lisbon,
Monaco, the secretary of the Saint Office ; the Archbishop
Gonella, of -Viterbo, and the Archbishop of Valladolid, of
the Capuchin preacher of the Sacri Patazzi.
The aldrcss to the Holy Father which is being signed
in Spain has received already, it is said, two million signa-
tures.

M. Berryer delivered a telling address in defence of tho

Union, one of the prosecuted journals. He maintained
that there was no law to compel the newspapers to publish
the official report of the debates, and that without doing
so they were fully entitled to summarise them for the pur-
pose of discussion. The prosecution was the result of
political caprice. Jules Favre will assist Emile Thaler in
the defence of the Siecle.

The Liberty explains by a joke the nomination of M.
Dumas, a chemist, to the functions of reporter on the army
organisation law in the Senate. Why give such an appoint-
ment to a chemist ? Because the law on the army is an
amalgam very difficult to analyse. _ _

A very curious exposition is projected for August 1868.
There is in Paris a Sociad d'lnsectologie Agricole. Its
learned members study insects from an agricultural point
of view, the means of propagating those that are useful,
and of destroying those that are injurious. To excite an
interest in their labours, they propose to hold an exhibi-
tion in the Palace of Industry, Champs Elys6es, of useful
insects, such as the silkworm, the bee, the cochineal,

together with their products, and of destructive insects,
with examples of their devastations.
A daring robbery is reported from Spain. A rich landed
proprietor, named Don Marcos Martin, resides near a vil-
lage called Fuentelsaz. About midnight on Sunday week
a hand of twenty armed men attacked his house. A slight
resistance Ni;as offered, the result of which was that a son-
in-law of Martin's was killed. Otherwise the robbers
were enabled to sack the house, and to depart with their
booty in peace. The neighbours rendered no assistance,

alleging that the authorities took away their arms in the
late " state of siege," and had not yet returned them.
Eleven men have since been arrested on a charge of parti•
pating in this outrage.

A Viennese journal states that Austria, in informing her
agents abroad of the inauguration of parliamentary
government, has pronouuced emphatically in favour of
peace and the observance of a strict neutrality upon
European questions.

Some extracts from the letter of a Prussian clergyman,
sent to the Times by the Rev. W. L. Blackley, North
Waltham Rectory, give an appalling picture of the famine
in East Prussia. The want is so great that even large
landholders, instead of having corn to export, find their
own supply only sufficient for their wants till February.
" The smaller ones," says this correspondent, " myself
among the number, have harvested but five bushels of
potatoes from land which ordinarily yields eighty; and as
to other crops, we have actually and literally obtained
nothing whatever." The extreme cold also adds to the
misery of the people. In rooms crusted all over with ice,
without fuel or warm clothing, they lie shivering in bed,
vainly trying to sleep away their hunger. The want of
fucl hinders some from cooking the few handfuls of flour
they have been able to beg. Mr. Blackley offers to for-
ward subscriptions to his correspondent, who is the pastor
of Schiinau.

Dr. Beke has been lecturing at Richmond, on Abyssinia
and the Abyssinians. He spoke for nearly two haws,
illustrating his lecture by pictures and maps. He de-
scribed the geographical features of the country, and com-
bated the assertions made with regard to the difficulty of
travelling among the mountains. There are three passes
into Central Abyssinia—the lower, the middle, and the
upper roads ; the latter is by far the preferable pass, and
has been taken by our troops. With regard to climate,
although in the neighbourhood of Massowah the tempera-
ture is high, the doctor assured his hearers that the
maximum at Shoa was only 69 deg. Fahrenheit, and the
average was only 551 deg. His opinion was, that the
climate of Abyssinia was more congenial and healthy than
that of many other countries. Dr. Beke stated that the
cause of the internal wars now raging was that Theodore
had attempted to substitute a military organisation for the
existing system. He also touched upon the religion and
latter history of the country, and expressed his pleasure at
finding that the difficulty of piercing into Abyssinia had
been shewn to be purely imaginary.

- - -
According to the Manchester Guardian, Sir John Rolt
has actually resigned the high office of Lord Justice of
Appeal in Chancery. The Lord Chancellor and Lord
Cairns have reiterated their entreaties that he would hold
on, if it were only for a few weeks longer. The physicians
in attendance on the learned judge are, however,
peremptory, and declare that his only chance of pro-
longed life lies in relief from all sense of responsibility, actual
or contingent. The difficulty is great in filling up this
high and important post. In 18G6 Sir Fitzroy Kelly had
his choice of the Lord Justiceship of Appeal or the Chief
Barony of the Exchequer. He,preferred the latter, which
is higher in rank, and is £l,OOO a year more in pay,
although much more arduous in point of work.
Sir Fitzroy now declines to forego that preference, being
still active and vigorous in the exercise of his powers. He
is now in the 72nd year of his age. Mr. Solicitor-General
Selwyn is a rich man by inheritance, and not altogether
unambitious, so that a vice-chancellorship would be be
neath his acceptance even if Lord Derby cared to promote
either of the three learned knights now sitting in Lincolu':.
Inn. As the Lords Justices of Appeal have to sit upon
appeils from the Vice Chancellors and the Master of the
Rolls, many eminent lawyers declare that Sir Charles
Selwyn is not yet sufficiently strong for a seat on the
supreme bench in equity.
Education is for the time the question of the day. The
Speaker of the House of Commons, at an address at East
Retford, was very earnest in contending that the subject
ought to receive immediate attention. The day for useless
controver3y had passed, and the period for action had
arrived. He recommended that " there should be a sus-
pension of hostilities, and that all parties should confer
together for the purpose of ascertaining whether they could
not arrive at a better understanding on such an important
question—an understanding which would lead to very ad-
vantageous results for all,"

LITERATURE.

Mr. Hepworth Dixon's New Work.

,)iritual Wives. By William Hepworth Dixon.

Two Vols. Hurst and Blackett.
This extraordinary book would have had an

Ipecial attraction for our dear old friend, Mr.

ustin Caxton, and, upon coming into his hands,

could doubtless have suggested to him more

Ilan one new section of remarkable interest

)r his great work on "The History of Human
rror." Supposing it to have been carried by
dm into his favourite chimney-corner in the

louse-room at the Tower, on the opening of the
,ondon book-box just arrived—we can imagine

;ven the gentle Blanche giving an indignant toss
)f her pretty head upon catching a glimpse of
qr. Dixon's title-page—we can fancy the equable

Mrs. Caxton herself aroused for a moment iuto

'sympathetic indignation out of her accus.=
tomed equanimity—we can picture to our-

selves Mr. Sid Els the apothecary, and
Uncle Roland, and Pisistratus the Anachronism,

exchanging amused glances with one another over
the indignant looks of the elder and the younger
matron, in contrast to the eager and delighted ab-

sorption of the senses of that large-minded and all-
assimilating philosopher. And, beyond all doubt,
s'lr. Dixon's work is worthy of Mr. Caxton's exa -

mination.

It is the last and not the least re

markable contribution that has ever yet been
made towards that magnum opus "The

History of Hanna Error." it is the

production, especially and essentially of the

author of "New America,"—not of the biographer

of William Penn, or of Francis Bacon, or of the
A.dmiral and General Blake, or of Howard tho
Philanthropist, but peculiarly and distinctively of

the celebrant of the Mormons and of the other

Religionists, or, as we should far rather prefer
co call them, the other Irreligionists, here and
vutcrctrf-ara.. • , c
in writing the book now submitted to our conside-
eation is, of course, of the noblest character. We
,ay of course---addressing ourselves to those with
whom the literary labours of Mr. Dixon have long
since been familiar. He has never yet, to our
knowledge, written with other than with high, and
,nore than once with lofty, aspirations. His themes
here, however, as in his preceding work—as
in those two volumes about " New America,"
of which these two about " Spiritual
Wives" may be regarded as the sequel—are
suggestive, to ourselves at least, of the pro-
foundest melancholy. They are, morally Aud in-
tellectually, so many studies in morbid anatomy.
they are like adventures into the Land of Unreason.
they are like a record of the Experiences and Ob-
servations of a clear-eye 1, calm-spirited, perfectly
dispassionate Commissioner de Lunatico In-

quirendo. The depressing influence, however, to
which we cannot but acknowledge to hive sue-

eumbed during our examination of the pages o:
this extraordinary work of Mr. Hepworth Dixo ,'s

a work so extraordinary of its kind that, if "New
America," has already run into its Sixth or Sarenth
Edition, this one will not impossibly before long

have run into its Sixteenth or Seventeenth—arises
from the fact that the psychological hallucinations,
as we may call them, which our author has herein
delineated with wonderful minuteness, spring
directly out of what we cannot possibly designate
by any other words than those in which we
must here speak of them as so many
hideously revolting and blasphemous carica-
tures of Christianity. Th 3 Insanity here-
in delineated is that of Religion Run Mad.
The intensely sane intellect of Mr. Dixon
regards the phenomena he has here undertaken
to describe so dispassionately, that he has evidenced
nowhere one particle of pity for the astounding
phantasies that have here and there met his observa-

tion. He simply describes. What he sees, what he
hears, what he deduces —he sets forth in a narrative
perfectly clear, plain, and unvarnished. He be-
gins with a distinct recognition of the fact, as he
here puts it, that " Three of the most singular move-
ments in the churches of our generation seem to
have been connected, more or less closely, with the
state of mind produced by Revivals; one in Ger-
many, one in England, and one in the United
States ; movements which resulted, among other
things, in the establishment of three singular
societies—the congregation of Pietists, vulgarly
called the Mucker, at Konigsberg, the brother-
hood of Princeites at Spaxtou, and the Bible Com-
munists at Oneida Creek." He then goes on to
remark that " these movements, which," as he says
with reason enough, " have a great deal in common,
began without concert in distant parts of the world
under separate church rules, and in widely different
social circumstances. The first movement was in
Ost Preussen; the second in England; the third
and most important in Massachusetts and New

York. They had these chief things in common :
they began in colleges, they affected the form of
family life, and they were carried on by clergymen ;
each movement in a place of learning and of theo-
logical study ; that in Germany at the Luther-
larch of Konigsberg, that in England at St. David's
College, that in the United States at Yale College.
These movements began to attract public notice
much about the same time ; for Archdeacon Ebel,
the chief founderof Muckerism, announced the year
1836 as the opening year of the personal reign of
Christ; in that year the Rev. Henry James PrinCe
became a student of divinity, founded the order of
Lampeter Brethren, and received his pretended gift
of the Holy Ghost ; and Father Noyes published
the famous paper known as the ' Battle Axe Let-
ter.' These three divines—one Lutheran, one An-
glican, one Congregational—began their work in
perfect ignorance of each other. Ebel is now dead,
but I have reason to believe that when he proposed
his theory in the Luther church in his native city,
he had never heard the name of either Brother
Prince or of Father Noyes. I can answer for the
other two : until a few months ago Noyes never
heard of Ebel, and Prince hAd never heard of
goyes." It is of these astounding people, and of
their congeners, as we may say, that Mr. Dixon
writes with rare ability, often eloquently, always
enthrallingly, in these two volumes about " Spiritual
Wives" and Carnal Paracletes. Here is one of the
latter—Mr.Prince of the Agapemone—as he has been
photographed by his bright-eyed observer—" The
gentleman," quoth he, " who is called by his fol-
lowers Beloved in the sensuous idiom of the Song
of Songs—is fifty-six years old, spare in person, of
middle height, with a pallid cheek, and the traces
of much pain and weariness on his wan cheek. His
lace is very sweet, his manner very smooth. He
has about him something of a woman's grace and
Alarm. His smile is very soft, and the key of his
voice is low. He has the look of one who bad
ever yet been vexed into rage and strife. In his
yes, which are apt to close, you see, as it were, a
ight from some other sphere. He sat in the centre
f this group of men and women, rapt in his own
lreams, into which he fell the moment we sat down
)efore his warm and cheery fire. When the sound
,f voices roused him, he crossed his hands upon his
lack frock, put his shiny shoes on the rug, and bore
luxurious part in my first long and singular con-
ersation with the saints." The sanctuary of this
.ugust being is elsewhere described jest as vividly
—Mr. Dixon apparently finding some difficulty
(and no wonder) in realising to himself, when he
n it, that be is really and truly in the church
these strange Religionists, for he exclaims :
" Yes, in the church; lounging on a red sofa, near a bright
ire, in the coloured light of high lancet windows, filled
with rich stained glass; soft cushions beneath my feet; a
aliard table on my right hand ; church furniture in oak
ud brass about me; and above my head the sacra 1 sytn-
)el of the Lamb and Dove, flanked and supported by a
ack of billiard cues.
"'This room, I know, was that in which the Great
Aauifestation had taken place ; that mystic rite through
which living flesh is said to have been reconciled to God.
Lovely to the eye, calming to the heart, this chamber was
md is. The stained glass windows shut it in completely
'roar the world, allowing • nothing less ethereal than the
gitt of dAy to penetrate those walls. A rich red Persian
trpa covered the floor, iu contrast with the dark brown
.ik,n roof. Red curtains draped the windows, the glass
a which was painted with a mystical device : a lamb, a
ion, and a dove - the lion standing on a bed of roses, with
a banner on which these words are inscribed—
' Oh, Hail, Holy Love."

A soft-spoken Parselete in a black frock-coat—

whose sanctuary is a billiard room—whose name is
Mr. Prince--whose attendant is a grinning flunkey

—and who believes all the rest of the human race
doomed to perdition outside the holy circle of him-
self and his immediate followers (about sixty alto-
gether), and who has a notion that he and they
even in the flesh, will never taste death, is certainly
a phenomenon sufficiently incongruous and astound-
ing. Yet is this but one among many others of a
similar kind herein depicted—some of them still
more outrageously extravagant than anything that
has here been even hinted at. Mr. Dixon has
simply journeyed to the Continent, to America, to
one or two of our own provincial districts, here in
England—yet he has returned with particulars
more astounding than any ever gathered together
by Lemuel Gulliver, by Peter Wilkins, by Baron
Munchausen, or by Captain Poppanilla. He has
told us all that any reasonable mortal could, at this
stage of the Earth's History, want to know, about
—Revivalists, Pietiste, Shakers, Mormons, Spi.,
ritualists, Pauline Socialists, Bible Commu-
nists, Bundling Perfectionists, Muckers, Ebe-
hans, 0 wenites, Swedenborgians, Priuceites,
Fourrierists about sSpiritual Affinities, Sera-
phim Kisses, Free Love, and we know not
what all, of other " fantastic tricks before high
heaven," enough to make men no less than angels
weep I " There are some that trouble you and
would pervert the Gospel of Christ." The word
are worth calling to remembrance, and are such
as we would gladly have seen adopted by Mr.
Dixon as a warning motto for his title page.
" But though we or an Angel from Heaven
[to say nothing of some poor frail mortal or, worse
still, some emissary from the Nether Deep] preach a
gospel to you besides that which we have preached
to you, let him be anathema." The Great Apostle of
the Gentiles, adding with all the emphasis of itera-
tion, " If any one preach to you a gospel besides
that which you have received let him be anathema,"
"ANATHEMA ST" I" Yea—livcieepta Zo-rw.`. Holier ling.
nowever, than
those of raul nave already uttered
the prophetic warning —" And then if anyone shall
say to you, Lo, here is Christ ; 10, he is here : do
not believe. For there will arise up false Christs
and false prophets, and they shall shew signs and
wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the
elect." Whether here at Oneida Creek or

'ere at Konigsbergihic at Spaxton, or illic at

the Salt Lake city ! Whether the signs or wonders
be mystical phenomena—in themselves not worth a
rap—or physical phenomena, such as those trace-
able to industry and agricultural skill, yet which
nevertheless appear to have so greatly impressed
Mr. Dixon himself, who comments with admiration
upon the. marvel of " the wilderness blossoming like
the rose" under the rule, here of Noyes and his com-
munistic disciples, here of Brigham Young, and his
simply polygamous follow ers and associates. In quot-
ing S. Paid as an authority on the side of those dis-

countenancing celibacy, it does certainly appear to us
that Mr. Dixon has forgotten, for the moment, S.
Paul's own emphatic precept, and his still more
emphatic declaration of his own example in this
very particular. " But I say to the unmarried and
to the widows : It is good for them if they so con-
tinue, even as I." Again, later on, "Therefore
both he that giveth his virgin in marriage doth
well, and he that giveth her not doth better.'
Whatever any Pseudo christs such as Sweden-
borg, as Ebel, as Noyes, as this one, that one,
and the other, through the whole fantastic

catalogue of names and creeds, may argue or aver
One hath spoken in words of sufficient distinctness
One who hath said Ccelum et terra transi-
bunt : verba autem• mea non transibunt—,, And

Jesus said to them : The children of this world
marry, and are given in marriage : But they that
shall be accounted worthy of that world and
of the resurrection from the dead shall
neither be married nor take wives." Enough,
however, in regard to these 'Spiritual Wives
about whom Mr. Dixon has been discoursing,
if we here add, that they mostly result in
a baby, generally in two or three. Towards the
close of his extraordinary record, Mr. Dixon
pronounces an impassioned panegyric upon the pre-
dominant glories, power, and influence appertain-
ing to the Teutonic race. And certainly, for inas-
much as that great section of the Human Family
have, especially of late years, enhanced the material
well-being of mankind at large through their
development of the material sources of mo-
dern civilization, through their wonderfully

ingenious- application to this end of the
manifold resources of the physical sciences, of
chemistry and mechanics, of chemical agriculture,
and so forth—as evidenced, far and wide, by steam
navigation and the railway system, by locomotive
and stationary engines, by electric telegraphs, by
submarine cables, by all the other marvels of modern
invention— all honour, say we also, to the Tuetonic
race 1 But—xot honour, say we, far lather shame
and dishonour, grief and lamentation, ashes
and sackcloth, for inasmuch as out of that
same Teutonic race have arisen, these later carica-
tures of the.. Manichwans of old, these pseudo
prophets, with their Spiritual Wives (being, for
the most part, their very Carnal Concubines), these
men and women who—to apply rather differently
the phrase in which the lovers in Southey's Poetry
are described by Lord Macaulay in one of his famous
essays—aspiring to " love like Seraphim," have
ended almost all of them by " loving like cattle"—
these Ebeliaus, and Muckers, and Princeites, and
Noyesians, and Mormons, and Bible Communists,
and Pauline Socialists, and Bundling Perfectionists.
Upon whom and upon whose doings a broad flood
of light has here been cast by means of Mr. Dixon's
luminous survey of their antecedents, their present
condition, and their probable future, not in the other
world but in this. Several remarkable illustrative
documents are interspersed through the body of the
text, and an extraordinary appendix has been added
to the whole, in the original German—that daring
paper by Professor Sachs, which contains within it
the gist or gravamen of the charges of immo-
rality brought against Archdeacon Ebel, upon the
occasion of the great trial in regard to Muckerism
and Spiritual Polygamy. As the frontispiece
to the first volume, the readers of Mr. Dixon will
be glad to find, and henceforth to possess, a very
fine and life-like portraiture of himself—a head be-
fitting, we will not say the author of " Spiritual
Wives," but the biographer of Lord Verulam,

MADAME TUSSAUP'S EXHIBITION. —A portrait-
model of Mr. Charles Kean, in the character of Macbeth,
taken from sittings given by the late eminent tragedian/
has some time since been added to this exhibition, and
which will. be viewed with much interest by his many
friends and admirers.

COLLISION OFF DUNGENESS.—At 10 yesterday
morning the captain and crew of the bark Mahtoree, from
Hartlepool for Bordeaux, were brought into Dover har-
bour by a bevelling boat. The Mahtoree was run into by
a full-rigged Prussian ship and instantly sank off Dunge-
ness. the night was very dark, and the men had great
difficulty in climbing up the sides of the Prussian ship, no
assistance being rendered to them by the crew of that
vessel. One man was overboard for some time. When
the crew of the bark arrived at Sailors' Home they were
utterly destitute, and only half-clad. They were unable
to save any of their effects.
NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT.—Mr. Leno, a clown
performing at Paisley, took his benefit on Wednesday
night, when a prize was awarded for the best amateur
comic singer. The prize was a live donkey, and the con-
ditions were that the competitors were to sing, seated on
the back of the ass, before the audience. Probably as ivany
of the large'assemblage were attracted to the entertainment
by the novelty of this exhibition as by any of the other
features of the programme. During the day great atnuse-
ment was afforded to the juvenile population by the inte-
resting spectacle of the "cuddy" being led along the pria-
cipal streets, with " Hungry Jamie," a wretched vagrant
about the town, seated on its back, and bedizened with
handbills of the entertainment. Jamie seemed to enjoy
his ride immensely, and to regard the shouts and hurrahS
of the crowds of boys that followed and pressed about him
and the " cuddy" much iu the light of a triumphal ovation.
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