Show SHIPS r from the millennial Mil lenial star some sol me time previous to his d departure arture from these shores elder samuel T W richards reee received ived a communication from john ocon nell esq M P chairman of a select committee bell it t ee of t the he house of commons on E emigrant 1 ships requesting his hia attendance or appearance before said committee to answer such inquiries as might be made upon ulion the subject or of emigration ac accordingly brother samuel repaired to the house of C commons 0 um ons a and A underwent the contemplated I 1 examination the committee oon consisted isted of john oconnell chairman ander adder I 1 davidson fagan fortescue Por tescue hamilton I 1 hankey herbert higgins Liddell Meagher milnes peel and smith the result of br brother other samuels s examination appears from the annexed paragraph from the I 1 morning advertiser Adver tizer of june 2 to have I 1 left ef c a favorable influence upon the minds of the members of the committee ou on tuesday says the london correspondent of the cambridge independent press es I 1 heard a rather remarkable examination u a t 0 wo before reg a committee of the house of commons the witness was no other than the supreme authority in england of the thai nitea and the subject upon which he be I 1 was kas giving information or mation was waa the mod in which chic h the emijo emigration aaion to utah great salt lake ake is conducted this thin qulious curious person peon age is is nama named d richards he is an american I 1 1 by birth is a dark rather good looking man an I 1 should judge of f fair air education and certainly of azre more than ihan average avedge intelligence he gave himself no airs but was vago so rit tf fal ill in in his demo demeanor anor and ready in in his 11 answer s efa that at the te close of his examination I 1 he h e I 1 received the thanks of the committee ill in rather a marked mainer according to hiis statements about 2600 emigrants leave liverpool dpra dur I 1 ing the first three months of 1 6 every erv year they P Y have e ships of their own and are under t the e care je of a president the average cost of the journey jurney to utah s 30 bhatia to steerage passenger gera s on arri arriving at new orleans Oi leans they arie are received by another president who returns to mr richards an account of the state which he found the ship iq in ac they have then miles milea to go an and d after lealiu leaving the mississippi 1000 mi miles lles a are re traversed traveis e d ia land 1 in wagons questions from mr air F peel elicited I 1 momy many interesting facts relating to the sect but I 1 will only stop to notice nolice generally that according to mr Rie bards the great hope of filie he cormons mormons is to f boim orm a nation by the gr great eat salt lake at any rate there is is one thing wh which ch in the 0 opinion pinion of the emigration committee of the house of Conn commons tous they cin can do viz teach christian ship owners how to send poor people decently cheaply a and healthfully across the atlantic 11 I 1 the foregoing we consider too gooc to pass into the oblivion of for get falness and as brother bro ther samuel modestly declined noticing jit it we feel to enter it on record in the coumes collumes co lumes of the star as being no less leis worthy from alia good spirit and feeling 11 manifested by the committee several of whom propounded pany many vide aide questions of a very interesting nature ton touching ching the doctrines placing it at his option whether to answer or not than the ap good will wl with h which hi lc h several of the P press sw have ave been pami passing ng the fact around to then readers since ile the chambers of the north have opened to a degree of oe dav favor or and the westminister West minister review has welcomed us to the arena of christendom we have a right to expect a diminution of those tin vindictive feelings and strictures which have so often aop appeared eared concerning the latter day saints not that they are indeed any more worthy of af favor than hereto heretofore foie but being ref reformers they rejoice in in the adjustment of the public perception of their virtues bues tues for it is no less strange than true that their most virulent deel aimers have hee n those who made the greatest pretensions to I 1 godliness br or who vrho from position have successfully suei I 1 cessa cess ully fully arrogated 6 to themselves qualities par excelle excellence nee virtue virtud I 1 and nd truth must fi X 11 1 I 1 triumph I 1 |