Weekly national intelligencer., 1857-10-10
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LONDON. SEpTEMBER %. 1857

! LONDON, SEPTEMBER %, 1857
Lord BRoUGHAM has been making an exceen
speech at Manchester upon his fayorite subject
!" the diffusion of useful knowledge" His lordshil
is still the Henry Brougham of old Long connex
ion has SO identified him with the working and th
progress of "self-educating institutions" to Civ.
special interest to every thing he says about them
His speech at Manchester possesses in marked
degree the characteristics of the speeches delivered
| by him upon similar occasions in years gone by
Familiar and almost conversational in tone it was
full OF excellent advice as to the management Of
self-educating societies" and the self-culture Of
the members
If England can justly boast of her educational
progress she must also admit great facts to quail
fy that boasting. Mormonssna in England is a
"great fac" We take the following from pro-
vincial weekly paper:
"In spite of the absurdity, and fasehood and not
little depravty by which it is overlad in spite of every
thing that faith reason, and sentiment say against
It, Mormonism is making more way at present. winning
proseyes than any sect in existence Opposition
to it appears only to add to its strange power Routed
and driven from spot of the earth. and apparently
overthrown, it reappears with multiplied at
another. The prospect of persecution to draw to
it votaries. Notwithstanding the known determi-
nation of the United States Government break up its
stronghold at the Great Salt Lake. steady tide of em-
gratlon sets towards the doomed city, Un Sunday and
Monday evenings last week meetings held in Lon
don, at which the Mormon doctrines were elucidated
with illustrations senseless, ludcrous, and disgusting
that they had not been addressed to the very lowest
class of intelgences the proceedings would have been
enough to give deathblow to Mormonism But not the
fanes expression of dissent raised and should
not feel surprised to hear that many made
on the spot at both meetings melancholy conclusion
is deducble from these successes of Mormonsm: it is
that immense numbers of population are so little
able to take of themselves that they wander
certain destruction, spiritual and empora destruction
OF mind body, and goods in the doomed city of Utah.
The British Association" which may be Justly
regarded as the British Parliament of Science, has
just closed its annual session. which was this year
held at Dublin This institution is entitled to great
respect; there may be a little trifing here and
there, and occasionally little vanity exhibited, but
much real substantial good has been done by these
meetings
Professor ARCHER, In his report on the imports
OF Liverpool presented to the British Institution at
Its late meeting proves that natural science has al
ready been too much neglected at Liverpool He
states that natural substances of the greatest in
trlnslc mercantile value are almost daily brought
into Liverpool, cast aside, and lost to science and
to industry. They are placed in the hands of bro
kers, who, if they without special information
as to their commercial value having none of their
own, reject these articles useless and in all pro-
liability they are never heard of again" This fact
alone thus established is sufficient proof that the
British Institution does not labor in vain These
are days when no nation, especially England, can
afford to lose the rich treasures which commerce
brings from foreign lands. Had gmta-peroka been
thus thrown aside, how could the submarine cleo.
trio telegraph have been constructed Manchester
cries aloud for more cotton is cotton the only tex
tile material to be gathered from the vegetable
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many new ones have been introduced from the
tropics, but they have been found too valuable 10
make paper of, and have gone TO supply the insa-
table requirements of the loom. Mr. G. EMMKR-
SON expressed a wish before the association that
some most important remarks made BY Dr. Lam
KEsTER on the annual loss Occasioned to the coun-
try through ignorance, should be put into the form
of letter and circulated in the United States as
well as in England, as he was sure that great an
nual loss was the result Of want of knowledge of
the elements of natural science A very curious
paper was read by Professor LOOMS on the cleo
trical phenomena of the United States, especially
that portion of it in which he referred to the start
ling phenomena produced in the houses of New
York in the winter season. when they are heated by
stoves to such degree that the wood becomes ex-
cessisey dry all therfurnitute eshrinks and cracks,
and the electricity is SO abundant that YOU have
only to shuttle across the floor of a room covered
with tolerably thick woollen carpet to convert
your body into an electrophorus or electrical ma
chine, so that you cannot touch piece of metal
without experiencing sharp shock of electricity
But we must turn from the fair fields of nature
and science to that which, fear, at present en-
crossing the attention of great majority of man.
kind-the fields of political strife and deadly war
fare. And first we would observe that if there be
one quarter Of Europe which more than another is
liable to at this time it is the great Baltic ter
ritory, which is divided into two independent but
secondary kingdoms and Denmark. These
separately States of inferior rank not very cor
dial in their feelings towards each other and both
disturbed by the claims of Russia For consider
able time the Scandinavian populations have been
fostering idea which, if successfully developed
would open the vast waterway of the Baltic to COM
merce and shut out the Russians from the avenues
OF the German Ocean; we mean the consolidation |
of Sweden, Norway and Denmark under one Gov |
ernment They are inhabited by races of one blood
and generally of one faith-the Puritans of the |
continent. This union would create Lutheran |
nation of six millions of souls, with an army of
1850 men and navy numbering 10 sail of the |
line, IA frgates, and 420 smaller armed vessels
liberal State, identified in feelings and interests
and to certain extent in race, with Great Britain,
a counterpose to Germany and Russia, and CEN
tire of action for all the aspiring natonaties of the
continent. Public opinion in this country will, we
believe, warmly approve of the project when it has
been sufficiently explained since it would greatly |
extend the northern trade of England, secure this
country from the naval advances of Russia and lay
open the Finnish frontier to industrial activity.
There is special reason at present for referring
this magnificent plan of national organization, and
that is the failure in health of the reigning King
Sweden. His physicians speak against all chance
of his recovery and the probability is that, accord
ing to the provision Of the Swedish Constitution,
the Crown Prince of Sweden, at present Viceroy of
Norway will be before long raised to the position
of Regent of Sweden. This prince is highly popu-
lar in Sweden, and deeply and warmly interested
in the union of the Scandinavian States and friend
ly to reform and progress. He is held to possess
an active and vigorous mind, and to be well quail
fed to combat the intrigues of the German Powers,
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