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

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The only investment which has not taken a ripe
in consequence of the improved general and monetary
aspect of affair-3, is the Ottoman Bank, with limited
liability. This arises from the directors studiously
keeping
secret the enormously large and productive
business which the bank is doing. It is their duty, as
they di I before, at the suggestion of the Times news-
paper, when their stock was similarly depressed, to
publish to their shareholiers the true and, I believe,
flourishing conditiln of their affairs.
Your obedient servant, Z. W.
London, 21st D3cernber, 1857.

FATAL Bonita EXPLOSION.—A frightful accident
occurred at Thorne-moor Ends, near Thorne, Yorkshire,
on Saturday afternoon last, with a steam thraehing-
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 dis'ricts with a
portable thrashing-machine and other agricultural imple-
ments, which he let out on hire, and generally superin-
tended the operations himself. Ou Saturday morning
his thrashing•engine was employed on the farm premises
of Mr. Ridgill, was immediately afterwards taken to the
etackyard 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 wart rent into numberle,s pieces,
the lower part of the framework being twisted com-
pletely round. Jobneon who just before the accident
via, 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 protruding, and
blood flowing copiously. A son of Mr. Maud, a boy
about seven years of age, was also killed on the spot ;
son of Mr. Ridgill, a youth fourteen years oil, 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. Rrdgill, aged sixteen, was bl >yen completely out of
the stack-yard into a ditch about fifteen yards off, and
was so Eeriously 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 2f 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
Loyola of Mormonism. The points of resemblance be-
tween Young and Loyola as developed iu 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 religi ,us 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 neophyte 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 rootu he is clo,hed with a robe
which makes him look half like a Brahmin, and half like
a Jewish prieit, lu an adjoining room a dramatic bias
pherny goes on. God is perponated. The incidents of Ge-
nesis—the creation, the garden of Eden, the appearance
of Satan, &c , are ropresected. Tie initiat d then per-
forms the circuit of four other toonis, cove/reefing and
vowing as he goes. In one be s wears to chastity—in
another polygamy is accorded with the sanction of Brig-
ham Young—in the third a terrible adjuration to secrecy
is administered—the awful preparation for the fourth,
where, amidst horrihls mu reundinos, the initiate is
sworn to eternal enmity to the Unite t Scat-s of North
America! This is the " Mormon endowment," through
which 50,000 of our fellow-oreatvres have passed. All
that I hold most dear on earth still cling to OA, m ,st
horrible system. My wife and child reinnio at Salt Lak
i.
My wife has been forced, by her devotion to these th ries ;
I
to forego even her heart's own yearnings, and_( tte
prayers which shape themselves into curse;
ere S
h t'omgr of
o
you (continued the speaker) may have some
tify an idle curiosity, Ido not come here to pander to
a prurient taste, but to teach you what Mormonism la.—
Lecture by e& Converted Af °mon ,Elder.