Dr. Manning, the general editor of the Religious Tract Society,
has been travelling in Utah, and he reports that the Mormons, weary of their quarrels with the United States' authorities, are preparing for a new departure. He is under the impression that they will select the valley of the Jordan for their new settle- ment, having met Mormon pilgrims of high rank in Palestine, where they were universally believed to intend a settlement in the Holy Land. The pilgrims included Mr. G. A. Smith, Brigham Young's nephew and First Counsellor; Mr. F. Little, his Super- intendent of Public Works ; Mr. Snow, his Treasurer, and Mr. Jennings, Superintendent of Emigration. The Pasha himself was friendly to the project, and the Mohammedans of Syria considered the Mormons Christian sectaries, who had approxi- mated towards themselves. Brigham Young is rich enough to buy any concessions at Constantinople, and may calculate that the Holy Land, when once more irrigated, would attract emi- grants; but it is difficult to believe that, with so many islands open to conquest in the South Seas, he will again place himself and his people under any organised State. He may, however, be himself attracted by the Holy Land.
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