Show the chair instructed the committee to retire 1 and prepare their reports report this done the honorable secretary A AW W babbitt delivered a short and appropriate speech after which the following memorial of the legislature of utah to congress upon the construction st of the railroad was read by mr bullock ithe Aug austrian irlan government has just been guilty of a most illiberal set an imperial ordinance has renewed the social disabilities of the jews in austria as they existed previous to january 1848 the effect of which is that no jew can hold landed or house property in n his own name and y yet lt ople with th this act of ida injustice ustice towards this 1 people ringing in in their ears the we are tor told have haie negotiated a loan of f for or the imperial treasury the outbreak of a war it is said will conditionally put an end to the transaction 5 lloyce lloyds s weekly it is horrible to think that they cut cat off Mant Mantel cabos toos even to the infant at tha breast but they seem hostile only to them but it is ii still more horrible to think that the mant choos in two of the many provinces cut off as many in the name of justice within the year we know of 2000 in six weeks and this his in the name of justice the former is is the exception I 1 the latter is the rule it may prove the lest sanguinary practice in the e nd end like severity at dro aheda it has struck terror into bato their opponents the Mant choos are chapfallen and almost afraid to approach them they say that six of them would beat any twenty imperialists peria peri lists aliste they talk of their astren strength tb when we know a multitude of them are tut but boys and of their red eyes ac thousands of the insurgents visited the hermes and some few very few spoke a littlie ittle broken english and said they had been een at school in hongtong Hong kong one said there here were those among them who could translate the english scriptures one said on going down among our men that he was a protestant several said they were of the same religion as them others again said that they were of the ten commandment religion the same as the schools at hongtong Hong kong and one said he was wag of the same religion refI gion as king victoria when I 1 went into the city to see the chiefs we were guided by a very nice boy of about 16 who it appeared had run away from his father he spoke good mandarine and gave us tolerable information on some points the earnestness with which he enjoined the avoidance of certain vices and the adherence to the ten commandments was amusing stating that they knew they would not win the empire unless they kept them and interlarding inter larding this with petitions for a double sword on our re passing chin kiang foo they fired on us and in consequence of our returning in it the general came down with a letter 0 of a apology and sent it off A Ma Mao uLsee one of the aborigines that have never been conquered and who lived in the mountainous district of buangsi Qua ngsi came off for the answer this man stated that his people had had the scriptures for years and on questioning him through the interpreter stated that these scriptures had come down from heaven about 2000 years before and were the same as those the remainder of the insurgents had that they had been taken to pekin about 1000 years ago and that it was athance his people got a copy which they had multiplied they were most hostile to the Mant Hant choos for their continuous persecute perse persecutions cut ons the quiet self possession and confidence of the leaders we came in contact with was quite un chinese when it was told them a second time that we should in f future attire return their fire they seemed to think that we wished to frighten them and said well do as you yon please we are not afraid another time they said if you are come to assist us we shall be glad but bat do as yu you please we are independent of your assistance only if you are going to join the Mant Mante choos hoos be good enough to let us know and when told if they come come to shanghai and attacked any of our people there th they y would be treated as the Mant choos were in in 42 they said but why should we fire upon you we are brethren and worship the same god their policy is only to be known by first knowing their religion and this because of imperfectly understanding their language we are not clear about on the interpreters first visit he endeavored to explain to one of the princes the power and resources of england he said we dont want to know that we want to know your religion 11 I 1 |