The Press.
London, England, 1857-09-12 00:00:00

Cott anb tagion.

The Royal Family have passed the week in
the full enjoyment of the Highlands. Daily
rides and drives for her Majesty and the Prin-
cesses, and deer-stalking for the Prince Consort,
have absorbed the week. Count Lavradio, Portu-
guese Minister, has arrived on a visit to her Majesty.
The Prince of Wales, it is stated, will shortly make
a tour through Switzerland, remaining some time at
Geneva, and after visiting all the most interesting
portions of the Alpine districts, as well as the princi-
pal lakes, will return to England.

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are still
entertaining a select circle at their princely residence
at Gordon Castle.
The Earl and Countess of March have returned
from Cawdor Castle, where they had been on a visit
to Viscount and Viscountess Emyln. Emily, Duchess
of Beaufort, and the Ladies Somerset., and the Duke
and Duchess of Manchester are expected at the
castle in a few days.
His Excellency Baron Bentinck has left town for
Scotland on a tour of visits.

The Duke of Devonshire on leaving Bolton Abbey,
last week, went to Hardwickelall, his princely man-
sion near Chesterfield.

The Duke of Rutland has been entertaining a
select party at Longshawe Lodge, Derbyshire. Lord
and Lady Forester and Lord George and Lady
AdPliza Manners have been staying with the noble
duke.

the Marquis of Lansdowne gave a grand fete at
]3owood, a few days since, to his tenantry and the
inhabitants of Caine. More than 4,000 persons par-
ticipated in the hospitality liberally provided by the
noble marquis.

Rittropolitan.

THE MORMONS IN LONDON.

Mosmosisx is, unhappily, one of the great facts of
the day. A meeting of this sect was held on Mon-
day, at the " Teetotal-hall, Broadway, Westminster,"
and it professed to be a " Mormon CONFERENCE.',
An account of the proceedings is given in the Globe
of Tuesday, but we wish that the writer had con-
fined himself exclusively to the tone of a reporter, as
an air of mockery runs through the record, and
some might suspect that the narrative was drawn up
in a vein of waggery. We do not surmise that such
was the case. On the contrary, we believe that the
narrative is substantially correct. The Globe very
properly " omits to record some of the more improper
sayings and doings of the evening :"

The proceedings were certainly of such a character as
were never witnessed in a " Conference" before. The
attendance was not very numerous, but it comprised all
the leading members of the Conference. At the outset
the assemblage engaged in singing, in a load strain, one
of their favourite hymns, led on by Elder Bernard, to the
tune of " The Low•backed Car." The purport of this
song was the long•looked for day when they would all get
to Zion (Utah). It seemed to be rather a painful effort
to Brother Bernard, and it was decidedly so to those of
the audience who happened not to be Mormons.
Brother SILVER, one of the elders, neat obliged the com-
pany with " a little harmony." It was something about

I never knew what joy was
Till I became a Mormon, &c.

Several songs and recitations were given.
One of the elders sang a song styled " Sectarian Non-
sense," one verse of winch ridiculed the absurdity of a
man when he is ill going to a doctor u the Gentiles I i.e.,
all who are not Mormons) do, instead of going to an elder
of the church to be headed.

One of the Yankee elders, fresh from the Salt Lake
Valley, said he " felt lust rate." He could fetch in firing,
if they wanted it; and be calculated he was always "to
hand" when anybody was wanted to move the Stills, to
hunt up the lost sheep, or to drive the oxen. When any.
thing of this kind was to be done, he wes always to hand,
to do the best be could ; but he wasn't much of a hand at
discoursing. He drew a pitiable picture of the heathenism
of this country, and gave a glowing description of the en-
lightenment and happiness of the saints in Utah.

. .
A Mr. HARRISON. who was one of the very few English-
men amongst these Mormon prophets, next addressed the
meeting. He said that Mormonism and its professors
were not to be judged by existing standards ; for they
were far above and beyond them. It had been Paid that
Mormonism was unnecessary because there was nothing
new in it that was true, and nothing true in it that was
new. This was not the case. It supplemented the revels-
tions of the Bible and completed them. They had been
accused of saying nothing yesterday of polygamy. The
polygamy they advocated was not the lustful polygamy of
the Orientals. The polygamy of the Mormons was a
system which controlled the lusts and passions of mankind,
and reduced the marital duties to some kind of system.
Mormonism did nut allow men and women to rush into
matrimony as dictated by their passions, and without any
guiding principle. Mormonism came to them with
principles adapted to every condition of a man's life; it
entered into the privacy of the chamber, and controlled
every action. It taught men to act as kiod would hare them