by the Mormons. Three days after landing they
began preaching at Preston, and met with such remarkable success that,
within the next eight months, at the expiration of which time, Kimball
and Hyde returned to America, they had converted and baptised about 2,000
people. But the sect was uncommon, as we may see from the following
extract from the _Leeds Times_, copied into the _Times_ of 31 Oct.:

"A NEW SECT.--One of the most recent developments of fanaticism is
the appearance of a new sect, in different parts of England, entitled
_Latter Day Saints_. We believe that it made its first appearance in
Hertfordshire and Leicestershire, from which counties great numbers
of its members have lately emigrated to the United States. The sect
has extended to Lancashire and Yorkshire; and, by the labours of its
preachers, is now travelling northward into Durham and
Northumberland. The _Latter Day Saints_ assume to do many
extraordinary things. Among other accomplishments peculiar to those
who believe in the new doctrines, they are declared to possess the
power of casting out devils, or curing the sick by laying hands on
them, of resisting the operation of the deadliest poisons, of
speaking with new tongues, and of working miracles of various kinds.
They state that no ministers, now on earth, preach the Gospel, but
themselves, and that, only to them have the supernatural gifts of the
Church been vouchsafed. The Kingdom of God, they say, is only open
to those who have been baptised by immersion. In addition to the
Bible, they state they are in possession of another work, of equal
authority, entitled _The Book of Mormon_, the original of which was
found engraved on brass plates, in the central land of America.
Finally, they consider this is the last generation of mankind, and
that they have been sent into the world, expressly to prepare the way
for the Son of Man!"

Has my reader forgotten THE BOY JONES? He turns up again in this
chronicle, for, on Wednesday, the 2nd of December, the inmates of
Buckingham Palace were, shortly after midnight, aroused by an alarm being
given that a stranger had been discovered under the sofa in Her Majesty's
dressing-room, and the officers of the household were quickly on the
alert. It was soon ascertained that the alarm was not without
foundation, and the daring intruder was immediately secured, and saf