Elbe bpettator, lutp etb, 1853 THERE has been a split,
in the Mormon population inhabiting the Great
Salt Lake City. Some of the saints are asking for " proofs." Governor Brigham Young addressed the true saints in the tabernacle on the 27th March, in a wild and ferocious style of eloquence. He bade the sceptics to be off to California; and made an appeal to his hearers to drive out the recusants by force of bowie-knife; a work for which he invoked Divine aid. The appeal was heartily responded to; but whether executed we know not.
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IT appears that in a review at Woolwich, last week, one of the Horse Artillery was woqnded: in the eager emulation of " efficiency," the piece was fired before the man withdrew the ramrod; and his arm has since been amputated. The King of Hanover was present: on the' accident being mentioned, he rode to the spot, and expressed himself with much feeling. " It is all my fault," he said; " it would not have happened but for me; if I had not come down it would not have taken place." He directed the commanding-officer on the ground to report to him daily how the man 'got on. The King has granted the man a pension of 201. a year, and one of the Hanoverian officers has given him 301. The soldier is also entitled to a retiring pension of 6d. a day, with one of equal amount on account of his wound.
Tits Society of Arts offered a premium of 101. for the invention of a secure lock—the result of the famous lock-picking crusade of Mr. Hobbs in 1851. A man named Saxley of Sheerness recently sent in one, and to him the prize was awarded by a committee; Mr. Chubb in the chair. But here the indefatigable Hobbs again appears; discovers that the new lock is constructed on an old principle; and actually picks it on the spot in three minutes THE election proceedings at Sligo commenced on Tuesday; when Mr. Patrick Somers, Mr. John Sadleir, Mr. John Hanly, and several other candidates were nominated. Mr. Sadleir obtained the show of hands, but a poll was demanded on behalf of. Mr. Somers and Mr. Hanly. The last-named gentleman called the Reverend Mr. O'Connor a liar, and struck him; a series of combats followed, terminated by a charge from the police, who used the butt-ends of their guns.
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