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

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 (ahnut 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
Muncbausen, 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, Piotists, Shakers, Mormons, Spi.
ritualists, Pauline SJcialists, Bible Commu-
nists, Bundling Perfectionists, Muckers, Ebe-
lians, 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 ! " 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 Apoatle 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 SIT !" Yea—dycieel.ia Zcri-co. Holier lips,
however, than those of Paul have 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 show signs and
wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the
elect." Whether here at Oneida Creek or
there at Konigsberg—hic 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 followers and associates. In quot-
ing S. Paul 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 bath said Coalum et terra transi-
bunt : verba autem mea non trausibunt—" 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 ! But—not honour, say we, far rather 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 Manicl.wans 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. Dixou's
luminous survey of their antecedents, their present
candition, 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 TUSSAUD'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 hovelling boat. The Mahtoree was run into bY
a full-rigged Prussian ship and instantly sank off Dunge"
ness. rhe,night was very dark, and the men had great
difficulty in climbing up the sides of the Prussian ship, ne
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 cur"
ditions were that the competitors were to sing, seated on
the back of the ass, before the audience. Probably as maul
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 amuse-
ment was afforded to the juvenile population by the inte-
resting spectacle of the " cuddy" being led along the prin-
cipal streets, with "Hungry Jamie," a wretched vagrant
about the town, seated on its back, and bedizened W
handbills of the entertainment. Jamie seemed to enjel
his ride immensely, and to regard the shouts and hurrah4
of the crowds of boys that followed and pressed about 110
cud the " ctuldy" much iu the light of a triumphal ovation.
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