NEW SOUTH WALES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 593, 14 July 1858, Page 5

NEW SOUTH WALES.

| LEPKOSYiONiTHE Tubon.-—We learn from a I\ correspondent, the .existence of a most serious I nuisance,,arisingi from the /Chinese; population lon the Lower .Turpn.'. 'It appears that a large | camp of Celestialshave,'located theriiselves oh t the banks of the river, at Willis's' stores, and I three of: their huriiber are now suffering from | p leprosy. No doubt would seem1 to exist upon I the subject,-and/great/fears, are entertained:by | the inhabitants, lest this most hateful and very I infectious .disease, should, make further inroads i arrioiigst tbem:;;" Tlie' Chinamen 'are constantly' I using the few waterholes in the neighbourhood, | aud much disgust is naturally experienced by % those diggers : who live: oh the -banks-of the | stream lower -down;/and who are" necessarily \ subjected to the annoyance' 'arising from their \ situation. . t'so'raehpreventiy^ f should ,be immediately .taken* to preclude the I farther progress pf a disease whose extension | has "been made the'subject of inhibitory laws, I both human and divine.— -Sydney Paper. I MbBMONiSM jin TLLAWAKEAi-i-Ih the case of, I Gregory v; Izzard, some/facts arb; disclosed- | which must excite disgust and alarm hi the I minds of all Vmbral and, sensible'i persons. In " addition to the; facts alluded to, by enquiry we I have elicited others, \yhich prove the existence jin our very midst of a 'debasing; immoral, and i dangerous influence.'. Some/time back, izzard,: I a poor i but industrious leasehold farmer, hired ; a man to do some fencing for him on: his -farm. Shortly after >Izzard. had. occasion to leave his home for a shorttime. > f Oh/returning he fotnd that his wife had been induced by tbe man/ : whom he bad hired '.to' forsake the religion she had previously professed arid to turn Mormon ; worse, if possible, than this—-the apostate of this degrading delusion, hadsupplanted the husband in the affections of bis wife, and had taken

bis place in his absence at her side. The first fact he became acquainted,with from tbe wife herself, and the other from the,, lips of,their only cbild,^ aged:6 'years'.: Acbbrdin'g to- tbe iiusband's, Statement; when he -returned, Mb wife5 could ribVbe'kept at home,; but was continually/goifig : after this 'Mormon-'^missionary/to the bouses of ■ 6thera whom he was endeavoiuirig to-b'egiiile from thei paths'okyirtife and'i the faithiof their:: fathers. The consequence of this was/that the--husband ; and* wife-:had-<frequent quarrels, and eventually*ith'ey;iagreed(i to separate, the wife going to her parents,,(whodiad^previOUslybeen'; converted to the /faith r taking with, her the child. .The husband flies to the rum bottle for relief*, H^ goes to the liouse of his father-in-law,.demands' his"child, and according to bis'bwn^accbuntj-is refused[;ahd struck over ; the,head;by ; the former/a fact^which; was"! borne| .out .^y > his,;appearance. V! The .originator of- all tliis misery is of .course sent,about liis/ business. ',by Izzard, and goes,to.^Sydney^from.; iwbehce lie writes 'repeatedly'for tlie 'wife, of,' his former: employer to follow dii'm;, .Izzard seems ' cojnpletely disheartened, afc this/state^ 'ot affairs and disconsolate'for the loss;pf,hisycnild.;;' ; :,His little, property .is : about,' to I be/sbld.' 'He Vwill be ; wifeless, ; ,child|ess, homeless,, penhiiess,',arid '.spiritless,..and/ Jail' this" .'i'sVthe;,,e;ffect ; lof.;the, infamous...conduct-jb.f.a/heartless; vilain,..com,-, mitted .under./tne;'.;gbise.Tof/ religion. /, Thefather 'andmbtner-ih- law.''and'.the.'y^ijfe', aife/'ig-'----norant, weak-minded, and' credulous, people. They ,haye,. been; worked .upon,, by., the .lustful,'.' icrafty,"arid unscrupulous disciple.; pf Mpi'rnon, {to abjure thi^r former ..faith, aud id .fbrget'.tKe ;very decencies'.-'of,life. , £Jbr is this all."' This ivile missionary bf J a' viler faith has not confined Ihis efforts :tb the housed of the persons alluded. |to. He has made attbmpts't'ogaih'm'any others over to his creed.' 'In tlie majority of cases he j has been spurned with indignation from the ;dboiH' ''In'bthersiiwesgrieve-:tb say; he has been ; successful; •;' There:, are? severalf believers' in,.this. i -worse:than, degradingiaud- disgusting delusion,: .resident now in.-this;district, .-andy/we doubt ! not, theyijare/.all iequally,zealous in obtaining ;conye,rts,to J theii-..hollow: faith. We make these facts" known, so that; ministers, of, the „gospelmay be on their guard, and keep a. watchful eye on the \vayward arid weak of their flocks.' The insidipusness and .the industry, of-the preachers of this abominable fallacy in gaining prOselyteis cahhdfc' bd- ? tbo- clearly-' guarded- againsfcl by all. They pickout the^' weak-minded and credulous, of the 'weaker; sex,]the;-ignorant,; superstitious,and lustfufof. : tke ;J stro.nger,,forithe/r.prey.^/.lt; is a thousand pities that the civil law-pf-this ■country, has jiot T a claw which could .lay, hold, of thes'b'mihis.teV^'of evil^ who-!go abdht; as in ■ the c'asb alluded to,: wrecking-the libpes'and1 homes'' of/poor,' wekkj':and^ighorarit people, in the.name: ofy.ve\\^\on:;4^lllawarra.Mercury, May 24-.ii! f-i