Show 11 FROM THE SCOTCH CAPITAL an interesting letter from our regular correspondent EDINBURGH june 9 1888 editor deseret news the e condition of the mother country islee is becoming coming worse instead of better the daily papers are teeming with ACCOUNTS OF WARS internal and external this weeks intelligence inform us s that she is actively engaged in subduing the seditious spirits in zululand Zu luland balmah barmah and thabet the zulus under Diniz dinizulu alu 2000 strong are determined to oppose the restoration ot of the soldiers have had bad several skirmishes already but had to retreat tor for reinforcement the papers state that several were killed and wounded the have raised an army of 2300 and are opposing the english in thabet has been one or two engagements in which several hundred have been killed and wounded they have bave built a strong fort near the calep pass within a few yards ot of the road and large larga numbers vf f soldiers are constantly coming in trouble of a serious nature to is anticipated and the english are preparing in burnish burmah the spirit of war is also extant mr boyell an english officer has been murdered and several of the local magistrates have met with the same fate the shaws from upper appe r Chin dwin have taken and destroyed several vilis villages aud and engaged the soldiers and police in a hand band to hand figot fight in which the shaws lost 49 men and wounded the english loss baing afcin eight killed and 15 wounded TITHE disturbances such is the condition of these countries under england En glands I 1 s dominion and her domestic affairs are no bertei there has been a little war in wales over the tithe question A few days back the agents of the ecclesiastical commission left for Llan llansannan Llansa sannan naan accompanied by eberg eucy ency men police and ana a ox the ath lancers Lao cers to enforce the collection of tithes A large crowd collected but no hostile demonstrations were evinced T the he cottage occupied by the constable that acted as the agents guide was wrecked A tithe distraint took place at high laver grange near essex the other day A farmer by the name of dunning was owing to the rev R M rodwell rod well 60 for tithes and which dunning refused to pay unless he got a reduction of 10 per cent ithica hla his reverence rev erenee would not accede to mr rodwell then dis die trained a stack of wheat and beans an all indignation meeting was held at which resolutions were proposed protesting against the unjust working 11 01 01 the tithe commutation act IRELAND SNUBBED london for the present is havin having a gay time of it three different ex exhibitions I 1 are open the italian anglo angl 0 danish and the irish the pap papers er speak hiehle of them all the irish receiving special encomiums there was one very remarkable circumstance that happened at the opening of these exhibitions that has elicited some crit the royal family figured very prominently at the opening OL of the exhibition and the interest they took in it excited the comment of visitors but the opening of the irish exhibition was treated with contempt sot not one member of ef the royalty putting in I 1 n an appearance thu Is causing comment and the conclusion is that the roya royal family have an inherited contempt for lr ireland eland since 1849 the queen has not visited ireland but spent her time in england and on the continent no wonder then the people of ireland are snubbed on every hand b belied at every quarter and their true s spirit P irit and purpose hidden under a bu bushel sh el QUANDARY the general assembly of the established church of scotland has come to a close one of the topics discussed at the session was how to ret get the poorer classes to attend church many reasons were given why the masses did not come to the sirk kirk such as drink poverty and overwork but the more vital causes in my opinion are the people cannot dress well to attend church nor can they rent pews and those who can rent them object to any others using them but themselves ves ted the rich will not worship with the poor nowadays now a days the ministers the to co come amongst them and to tell them I 1 to i sell me I 1 all they have and give it it to the poor then will oe be seen been a general response to the invitation to come and alb buy ua wine and milk without money a and n without price let the collection be done away with and the pew rents and the tat fat salaries of the ministers and a different order ot of things will exist I A here will not be 25 per cent of the people living in one roomed houses neither would there be so 90 much spiritual apathy another question quentio A was raised in regard to opening inythe the churches during the week for private pra prayer er like the roman reman catho private lic c but nothing definite was decided TENDENCY the world is fast becoming noh nob religious and atheism theism is finding an entrance into many hearts the people p today ire are commencing com to reason as the the e epicureans Epicure ans aus and academics did in i christs day the former maintained that ithe the world arose from frem chance that the was mortal that pleasure I 1 was the ultimate end of man and that virtue was neither worthy of esteem or choice the latter asserted the impossibility of arriving at truth and herd held it uncertain juat so HO today the world is distracted about religion not for the lack of it ft bat at its amoun tand are concluding it is no use trying lor for everything thing is uncertain the bible can everything everl not be depended upon the ministers are all at variance as to its meaning and god must either have ceased to exist or he never exis we never bear anything from him pleasure is all that is thought of and in fact it is all they have got left to help to sweeten lifs lifes rugged path these people are LOOKING VOR FOR A CHANGE and soon may it come the poor man will be on a leyel level with hl hi it and a different economy be established on the earth when darkness as a cloud cload will be lifted off the world and the light of truth brath shine from the earths entre centre to it circumference JOCK 13 |