The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-26 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR or THE SUN.

SIB, —The only investment which has not taken a rise
in consequence of the improved general and monetary
aspect of affairs, is the Ottoman Bank, with limited
liability. This arises from the directors studiously
keeping secret the enormously large and productive
business which the batik is doing. It is their duty, as
they did before, at the suggestion of the Times news-
paper, when their stock was similarly depressed, to
publish to their shareholders the true and, I believe,
flourishing condition of their affairs.
Your obedient servant, A. W.
London, 21st December, 1857.

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION—A frightful accident
occurred at Thorne-rnoor Ends, near Thorne, Yorkshire,
on Saturday afternoon last, with a steam thrashing-
machine, owing, it is to be feared, to the ignorance and
incompetency of the proprietor of it, a person named
Thomas Johnson, residing at Thorne, who obtained a
livelihood by travelling about the rural districts with a
portable thrashing-machine and other agricultural imple•
ments, which he let out on hire, and generally superin•
tended the operations himself. On Saturday morning
his thrashing-engine was employed on the farm premises
of Mr. Ridgill, was immediately afterwards taken to the
stackyard of Mr. Z. Maud, where it was being got ready
for work in the presence of several labouring men and
boys, when the boiler suddenly burst with a tremendous
noise, scattering death and destruction around. The
rupture took place just above the near side of the
fire-box, and the engine was rent into numberless pieces,
the lower part of the framework being twisted corn-
pletely round. Johnson who just before the accident
was observed standing in front of the fire-box oiling the
engine, and having one hand on the safety-valve, was
found a short distance from the machine quite dead
his skull being fractured, the brain protreding, and
blood flawing copiously. A son of Mr. Maud, a boy
about seven years of age, was also killed on the spot ; a
son of Mr. Ridgill, a youth fourteen years old, had one
of his legs broken in two places and his left cheek laid
open, and died soon after the accident. Another son of
• Mr. Ridgill, aged sixteen, was blown completely out of
( the stack-yard into a ditch about fifteen yards off, and
was so seriously scalded that he is not likely to re•
cover. A. third son of Mr. Ridgill, aged twelve years,
was blown into a neighbouring field about ten yards off,
and also sustained serious injuries in the face and neck
from scalding. A haystack was blown completely over,
and some men near it had a narrow escape from being
smothered. Portions of the engine were found in all
directions ; the fly-wheel was broken to atoms, and the
"man-hole" door, a piece of iron about 24 stones in
weight, was projected a distance of 154 yards from the
engine.
BRIGHAM YOUNG AND IGNATIUS LOYOLA.—A
CURIOUS PARALLEL.—Brigham Young is the Ignatius
Loyo'a of Mormonism.
The points of resemblance be-
tweet' Young and Loyola as developed in their respec-
tive systems are here shown. Each adopted a secret
form for the guidance and control of his followers, as has
been adopted by different political and religious bodies,
but never has this form been so prostituted as with the
Jesuit and the Mormon. The " Mysteries of Mormon.
ism," through which the novice was conducted were
then revealed. They consist of ceremonies at once
awful and absurd. The neephyto is conducted into a
room, and stripped naked, and a name is whispered in
his ear, which he is to remember at the peril of his sal-
vation. In another room he is clothed with a robe
which makes him look half like a Brahmin, and half like
a Jewish priest. In an adjoining room a dramatic blas
phemy goes on. God is personated. The incidents of Ge-
nesis—the creation, the garden of Eden, the appearance
of Satan, &c., are represeate,t. The ioiliat,d then per-
forms the circuit of four other rooms, covenanting and
vowing as he goes. In one be swears to chastity—in
another polygarey is accorded wic,h the sanction of Brig-
ham Young—in the third a terrible adjuration to secrecy
is administered—the awful preparation for the fourth,
where, amidst horrible suireuedings, the initiate is
sworn to eternal enmity to the Unite I States of North
America! This is the " Mormon endowment," threugh
which 50,000 of our fellow-creatures have passed. All
that I hold most dear on earth still cling to this most
horriblo system. My wife and child reintein at Salt Lak
My wife has been forced, by her devotion to these th.;s;
to forego even her heart's own yearnings, 801"
of
prayers which shape themselves into curseeh!
Some
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tify an idle curiosity, Ido not come here toepadeis.—
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a prurient taste, but to teach you what Mormonism
-Lecture by CG Converted Mormon Mae' •