The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-03 00:00:00

1851.

General Clark; marched by the order of Governor Boggs
to plunder their property and drive them out once more.
The Legislature was u? sealed to in vain, for instead of
heeding the cry or 15,000 suffering, uuoffanding, and
deeply injured citizens, it sanctioned the act, and voted
200,000 dollars to defray the expenses attending the
attempted extermination and accomplished banishment
of the saints. " The Church" arrived in Hancock county
early in 1838. Six yews from that date the city of
Nauvoo was erected, and her temple was regarded as the
masterpiece of architecture in the United States. In
1844, se rapidly had the church progressed that there
were 30,000 inhabitants of Nauvoo, and the city militia,
commanded and organiz,d by the United States law,
numbered 200 young men, but scarcely had they settled
down in quiet industry to cultivate the soil and itiepense
a knowledge of the blessings they enj .yed, when the
Missourians and Illonians recornm.:nced their persecu-
tions, and again drove them from Nauvoo, while the
crops of their planting were pillaged, ravaged, and de-
stroyed. But why expatiate on their sufferings, when
there were those present who were among the many
that had to leave Native;? In the year 1847, 140 left the
Bluffs as pioneers, having arrived there from Nauvoo;
they were led by God to the Valley of the Great Salt
Lake, and the main body of the saints entered it in the
same year—and there they would remain at rest, like
the ocean rock, amidst the rush and raging of the watery
billows around. The speaker then adverted to the progress
of " the Church" in England, observing that in 1837, one
year before the saints reach, d Nauvoo, Elders K.,C.
Kimball and Orson Hyde, together with several others,
I landed at Liverpool friendless and destitute. They se-
parated ,and went forth preachieg into the towns on
either side. Preston fiat Lewd and obeyed the princi-
ples of truth. In eight months seven hundred
members met in conference in that town, rejoicing in
the power and privilege of the Gospel. In a very short
time several counties, among which were Yorkshire,
Cheshire, Lancashire, Stafford, Gloucester, Worcester
and Hereford had heard and received the servants of
God. Thus the church increased; so that in 1840:
after three years labour, the general conference reported
3,626 members. atid 383 in the priesthood, making in all
4,019 saints. Bat such triumphant success was not con•
fined to Eeglend; Scotland el jeyed a portion, and Ire-
land was also made to rejoice, and Wales testified by her
thousands bow the church had progressed in that pro-
vince. In Scotland the blood-cemented pyramid of
bigotry and superstition had been triumphantly
attacked, although sustained by the proverbial
wariness of the Scotch. The conference established
in Edinburgh, notwithstanding that hundreds hied re-
moved and hundreds more emigrated, still represented
more than 1 500 members. Glasgow wits also pro-
claimed, and over 2,063 members were now revelling
in the enjoyment of the quit cif truth. In 1851 more
than 3 530 bad obeyed the mandates of Heaven, and
thousands had besides emigrated to the gathering place
of the saints. As to Ireland, it was nut until 1850 that
Dublin had heard the principles of truth ; he was,
however, glad to say tl'at a small branch had been es-
tablished in that city. In Wales their success was still
more great and glorious. In 1851 the number of saints
in the principality was 4,848, including officers. The sta-
tistics of January last shows .t there were, altogether,
in the United Kingdom, 42 conferences, 602 branches,
22 seventies, 12 high priests, 1.761 elders, 1,590 priests,
1,226 teachers, 682 deacons, and 25,454 members,
making a total of 30,747 saints. During the last 14
years more than 50.000 had been baptiz ,d in England,
of which nearly 17,000 had emigrated from her shores
to Zion. He next gave a brief sketch of the progress of
the work in London. In February, 1841, the London con-
ference was organized, consisting of three
_branches—
London. Woolwich, and Bedford, and composed of about
80 members, The number of' members io 1842 had in-
creased to 400 or 500. and the number of bra .ches had
more than trebled. During the last five years 2,981
persons had yielded in obedience to the Gospel. In the
present year the conference fell to the presidential charge
of the present chairman, Elder Eli B. Kelsey, whose
knowledge had been tested, and. whose actions spoke
well for his wisdom and discretion. After an earnest
appeal that he might be enabled to guide them bright
in the blessed path before them, he concluded by ex-
pressing a hope that Ibis might be a new era in
the conference, and that the epoah to come might
be one of success, happiness, knowledge, and light.
The assembly then joined in a song written f,r the
occasion, entitled " The Mountain Dell."
One of the young ladies, dressed in white—perhaps
the most handsome and ladylike of the number—then
took her place on the platform, and delivered, in a clear
and well modulated voice, an address on behalf' of the
young ladies. relative to the important part sustained by
their sex in assisting to elevate the motels and improve
the spirituel condition of the human family by the spread
of the Gospel, and the uphuildiug of the kingdom of
God, &c.
Mies LouisA JCHNSTONE, of Birmingham, a young
vocalist of considerable merit, who presided at the piano
throughout the day, next favoured the oomp.sny with the
following song writ-tin by the same author, and also de-
signed for this f.stival:—
I'M A SAINT, I'M A SAINT!
I'm a saint, I'm a saint, on the rough world wide,
The earth is my home, and my God is my guide!
Up, up with the truth, let its power bend the kuee,
I am sent, I am sent. and salvation is free.
I fear not old prieeteraft, its dogmas can's awe,
I've a chart for to steer by, that tells me the law,
And ne'er as a coward to falsehood I'll kneel
While Mormon tells truth, or God's prophets reveal!
Up, up with the truth, let its power heed the knee;
I am sent ! I am sent ! dying Ban'lon to thee,
I em sent ! I sin sent ! take this wanting and flee.
The arm of the tyrant tell terror may spread,
Yet, tho' they oppose us, their strongholds we'll tread,
What to us is the scorn of the selfish and vain,
We have borne it hetore, aid we'll bear it again.
The fire gleaming bolts of oppression may fall,
And kill off the body; death can't us appal!
With heaven above us, and all hell mad below !
Thro' the wide fields of error, right onward we'll go.
Come o n, my brave comrades, now's the time you should
speak,
The storm-fiend is roused from his long dreamy sleep.
Our watchword for safety in Zion shall be,
I am sent ! I am sent ! dying Bablon to thee,
I am tent! I am sent ! take this warning and flee.

The people having regaled themselves with refresh-
ments, were again called to order, whereupon
The PRESIDENT. in a brief address. welcomed to
Loudon " the twelve," the presidents of the conferences
and visitors generally.
Elder FRANKLIN D. RICHARDS, president of the
church in the British Isles, replied.
Eder JOHN TAYLOR, of the French mission, next ad-
dressed the meeting. He had travelled over the greater
portion of the world, and had contemplated man in all
his different positions, in adversity aid prosperity, iu
happiness and misery, with all his hopes, errors, joys,
propensities, and pessi els, and ho coef-Assed be never
saw a people for wheat he bad such ardent love, aff,e-
tion, and regard, as the saints of the Most High.
Though they bad ben persecuted and driven from one
spot to another in America until at last people began to
;ay that Mormonism was destroyed, broken up, and
scattered to the fere winds of heaven, awl had uttered
its last dying green, yet they had now had the territory
of Deserate, bad a legislature and governor of their own,
and were going on prosperously, arid what was more,
they had been recognized as an independent state by
the Congress of the United States. The reason that their
people were so orderly and united was that they first
aught them correct principles, and then allowed
teem to govern themselves. A great d- ai had
been said about the prophet Joseph Smith. Now, i‘e
had known him in public and private, frequently tra-
velled wit: him, and was even present at his death,vvhen
he was ruthls.isly murdered in this gaol of Carthage;
...od „ill who said he was not an intelligent, virtuous. and
good min. either (.0 not tell or know the truth. Afer
sem-, turther ol.)ervatif.os on the purity of their
its superiority over !hut of any olio. sect in the
world, coiniiining as it did 10 that was good in each,
while it discarded all that wits hat; he closed his address
by an exhortation that blessiegs might be showered on
the whole assembly.
Hymns. and songs, and addresses front Lorenzo Snow,
President of the Italian Mission, and Erasito Snew, of
the Danish Missioi,, followed, and the meeting did not
separate until a r late hour. The utmost cordiality
and good feeling prevaM among the large assiaably
until it was dismissed by thy' eh3olaiu.

PICTURES Or THE CRYSTAL PALACE.---Yesterday
we inspected some very interesting drawings of this great
edifice at No. 114, New Bond-street, the establishment of
the Messrs. Dickinson. They are no other than the sketches
produced by that artist in obedience to the command of her
Majesty, and represent respectively the eastern nave, the
trarvept, and the western nave, the latter including the
throne, and the Court pageantry surrounding i‘n the day of
inauguration. In colouring, the three pictures are really
exquisite, and will affird any one who has not already
visited the Exhibition an idea of the excellence of the theory
suggested by Mr. Owen Jones, the blue and yellow colour-
ing of the edifice itself being lit up by the scarlet hangings
of the different compartments; 'the azure of the skies visible
through the glass, and the green of the beautiful elm trees in
the interior. From the circumstance of only half of the
structure being portrayed at once. a rather faint notion is
afforded of the extraordinary perspective of the building, a
perspective that would task the powers of the most practised
artist to give it anything like an adequate representation.
By the kind permission of the Queen these drawings, which
are the personal property of her Majesty, will remain
on
view a few days longer at the establishment above men-
tioned, and we are gratified to find that facsimile engravings
from the sketches of Mr. Nash, will very shortly be
by the Messrs. Dickinson.

THE JEWELS, &C., AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.--It
is in some degree painful to watch the eager, not to say
covetous, gaze of the most beautiful women upon the dia-
monds at the Exhibition, and no less a., to know that we
cannot scramble these glittering baubles amongst them. We
have nowhere witnessed this infatuation to a greater extent,
and the police, under whose charge the caskets are placed,
must form a strange notion of the mania, thus strongly ex-
hibited. In no other department of the vast treasures does
this feeling manifest itself, excepting, perhaps, in that devoted
to the bonnets and head-dresses. Here, however it assumes
a more healthy tone. Admiration is allowed utterance and
free vent. In the former, desire was mute and hopeless! in
the latter a valve had been provided by: the knowledgpto?!
any one portion of this coquettish head gear could be ou
tamed at Vyse's, on Ludgate hill.
CAPTAIN MILMAN'S NSW NC.IVET/ is pub ,A It Tatra
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on.Rlllrpst.t.
Norton's new novel, " Stuart of Dunat
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