, 1890-10-29

of suffering prosecutions for their peculiar
institution" and the President of the Church
has formally announced that the Saints have
abandoned the practice, and propose on that
subject "to submit themselves to the laws Of
the United States They will probably for
a time substitute some system OF concubi~
mage, but society will soon work itself clear
of that, nothing short of a religious sanction
ever suspending the tendency of the white
81. races towards monogamy. 1t will be inter-
estlng to observe if the emigration to Utah
suffers in consequence of the change. We
should say it would not, the real attraction
of the Mormon community being that it is q
community,-a successful attempt, that is,
to organise industry on q grand scale. Poly
gamy does not attract much, or all Asia
would by this time be Mahommedan. 1t
destroys domestic life too completely, and
establishes too wide a distinction between
the rich and the poor.
The rather s~enseless irritation of the Por-
tuguese against the British will be conside-
rably increased by the extraordinary tele-
grams about incidents in Goa. An election
is going on in that decayed city, and there
has been a riot, terminating in a fight be-
tween the people and the Sepoys, who, &C
cording to q telegram in the Daily Chronicle,
are acting with savage brutality, and have
killed cor wounded three hundred persons.
The people, therefore, are clanouring for
British rule, and the Governor justi6es his
sever ity by declaring himself face to face
with revolution. 1t is certain that many
Goane8e natives contrast their own wretched
position with that of the natives in Bombay,
and desire annexation; and quite. probable
that irritated by the Governors violence,
they have said 50; and the popuiace of Lisbon,
wh.ch thinks of the fallen city as If it were
still Important, is sure to attribute tbs 6msWte
to British indictments. AS a matter Of fact
nobody in India, except an occasional stud
ent Of geography, even recollects Goa; while
@BomGay would be by no means delighted with
the revival which would immediately follow
on British annexation. Moody wants Goa,
if it will keep quiet; but of curse Lord Hgrrls
will not permit a European Government to be
overthrow by force.
q great change is about to pass over the
government of Spain. The next elections,
which take place almost immediately, are to
be held under the law of universal suffrage, and
the alarm of the authorities is great. They
are not so much afraid Of an uprising Of
Radical OplnlOn, as OF the loss OF UnaC power
of manipulating. the elections which has
hitherto belonged TO every Government in
Spain, and has made the Royal authority a
kind OF refuge from the tyranny Of The poll
ticians. Great efforts are being made by the
Premier, Senior Canovas, to suppress NUM-
CAPABILITIES as centres Of electoral agitation
but they will probably fail. We cannot ap-
prove universal suffrage, which is the eleva'
ton of the extremely ignorant to autocratic
pow but it must be said in fairness that it
does not yield readily to manipulation. Alike
in France and in Germany, though the voters,
when so inclined, obey readily a hint from
the Centre, when disinclined they are as
stubborn as mules. The whole strength of
the French Government, the strongest in
Europe, was stretched to obtain q Chamber
favourable to Marshal MacMahon, and it
failed. Spanish universal suffrage. if Radi'
cal at all, is not unlikely to shew itself Fede-
ralist in bias.
A terrible story is reported from America
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