15 SEPTEMBER 1877, Page 3

Brigham Young has not founded a dynasty. His son, John

W. Young, has not been appointed his successor and President of the community ; contrary to expectation and the Prophet's wishes, that 'office has been given, at a secret conclave of the Twelve Apostles, to their senior, John Taylor, and John W. Young has been appointed one of his assistants. Perhaps this does not much matter ; the latest accounts from Salt Lake all speak of the com- munity, so far as it is a political or religious entity, as in a fair way to dissolution. Young Utah has rather a bad character, and John Taylor—who is old, and has no prophetical pretensions— has a hard task before him. The fact that the Elders have dis- regarded Brigham Young's own wishes as to his successor shows that the old spell is broken.