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

TUESDAY

JUNE 8,, 1851.

GREAT FESTIVAL OF THE "LAT-
TER-DAY SAINTS,":

•
General Clark, marched by the order of Governor Bove
to plender their property and drive them out once more.
The regi-lature was appealed ro in_yain, for instead_ of
heeding the cerdrls,o,oo-siifferlyg, unoffending, and
deeply iniureil-reftizons, it sanctioned the act, and voted
200.000. aAluis to defray the expenses attending the
attemPted exterraineeien and accomplished banishment
of the saints, " The Church" arrived in Hancock county
early in 1838. Six years from that date the city of
Nauvoo was erected, and her temple was regarded as the
masterpiece of architecture in the Uoited States. In
1844, so rapidly had the church progressed that there
were 30,000 inhabitants of Nauvoo, and the city militia,
commanded and organized by the United States Law,
numbered 200 young men,' but scarcely had they settled
down in quiet industry to cultivate the soil and dispense
a knowledge of the blessings they enjoyed, when the
Missourians and Illoniens recommi need their persecu-
tions, and agaiu drove them from Nauvoo, while the
crops of their planting were pillaged, ravaged, and de-
stroyed. But why expatiate on their sufferings, when
there wore those present who were among the many
chat had to leave Native.? In the year 1847, 140 left the
Bluffs .as pioneers, having arrived there from Nauvoo;
they ware led by God to the Valley of the-Oleg Salt
Lake, and the main body of the saints entered it in the
same year—and there they would remelt). 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 reached Nauvoo, Elders K. C.
Kimball and Orson Hyde, together with several others,
landed at Liverpool friendless and destitute. They se-
parated ,and went forth preaching into the towns on
either side. Preston first heard 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
end 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, arid 383 in the priesthood, making in all
4.019 saints. But such triumphant success was not con-
fined to England; Scotland er joyed a portion, and Ire-
land was also made to rejoice, and Wales testified by her
thousands how the church bad 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 had re-
moved and hundreds more emigrated, still represented
more than 1,300 members. Glasgow was also pro-
claimed, and over 2,063 members were now revelling
in the enjoyment of the spirit of 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 not until 1850 that
Dublin had heard the principles of truth ; he was,
however, glad to say that 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 showed 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
she 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 in 1842 bad in-
creased to 400 or 500, and the number of bra, ches h,d
more than trebled. During the last five years 2,981
persons had yielded in obedience to the Gospel. In the
present year the conference tell 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 aright
in the blessed path before them, he concluded by ex-
pressing a hope that this might be a new era in
the conference, and that the epoch to come might
be one of success, happiness, knowledge, and light.
The assembly then joined in a song written for the
occasion, entitled " The Mountain Dell."
One of the ycung 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 morals and improve
the spiritual condition of the human family by the spread
of the Gospel, and the upbuilding of the kingdom of
God, &c.
Miss Louise. JOHNSTONE, of Birmingham, a young
vocalist of considerable merit, who presided at the piano
throughout the day, next favoured the company with the
following song. written by the same author, and also de-
signed for this festival:—
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 knee,
I am sent, I am sent, and salvation is free.
I fear not old priestcraft, its dogmas can't awe,
I've a chart for to steer by, that tells me the law,
And ne'er as a coward to falsehood ril kneel
While Mormon tells truth, or God's prophets reveal!
Up, up with the truth, let its power bend the knee;
I am sent ! I am sent! dying Bab'lon to thee,
I am sent ! I am sent! take this warning and flee.
The arm of the tyrant fell 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 before, and 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,
lam sent I I am sent dying Bab'lon to thee,
I am sent ! 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
London " the twelve," the presidents of the conferences
and visitors generally.
Elder FRANKLIN D. RICHARDS, president of the
church in the British Isles, replied.
Elder 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 and prosperity, in
happiness and misery, with all his hopes, errors, joys,
propensities, and passions, and he confessed he never
saw a people for whom he had such ardent love, affec-
tion, and regard, as the saints of the Moat High.
Though they had been persecuted and driven from one
spot to another in America until at last people began to
say that Mormonism was destroyed, broken up, and
scattered to the Luc winds of heaven, and had uttered
its last dying groan, yet they had now had the territory
of Deserate, had a legislature and governor of their own,
and were going on prosperously, and 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
taught them correct principles, and then allowed
them to govern themselves. A great deal had
been said about the prophet Joseph Smith. Now, he
had known hint in public and private, frequently tra-
velled with him, and was even present at his death,when
he was ruthlessly murdered in the gaol of Carthage;
and all who said ho was not an intelligent, virtuous, and
good man, either did not tell or know the truth. After
some further observations on the purity of their religion,
and its superiority over that of any other sect in the
world, combining as it did all that was good in each,
while it discarded all that was bad, he closed his address
by an exhortation that blessings might be showered on
the whole assembly.
Hyms, and songs, and addresses from Lorenzo Snow,
President of the Italian Mission, and Erastus Snow, of
the Danish Mission, followed, and the meeting did not
separate until a rather late hour. The utmost cordiality

and good feeling prevailed among the large assembly
until it was dismissed by the chaplain.

PICTURES OF 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
transept, and the western nave, the latter including the
throne, and the Court pageantry surrounding on the day of
inauguration. In colouring, the three pictures are really
exquisite, and will afford 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 b
a °ye Men
from the sketches
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of gratifi
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to find tat
verc facsimile engravings
lished by the Messrs. Dickinson. y shortly be pub-
THE JEWELS, &C., AT THE CRYSTAL PALACB.--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 SD 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 knowledge that
any one portion of this coquettish head gear could be ob-
tained at Vyse's, on Ludgate-hill.
CAPTAIN MILMAN'S NEW NOVEL, " ARTHUR
CONWAY; or, Scenes in the Tropics," in 3 vols., is pub-
lished this day by Messrs. Colburn and Co., and may be rat
all the libraries. Also just published :2. The Hon. Mrs.
Norton's new novel, " Stuart of Dunleath." 3. Ralph
Rutherford, a Nautical Romance, by the author of " The
Petrel." 4. Caleb Field, a Tale of the Puritans, by the
author of " Margaret Maitland," 1 vol. The following new
works are just ready: 1. The English in America, by the
author of "Sam,S ick," 2 vols. 2. Scenes from Scripture,
by the Rev. G. Croly, LL D., I vol. 3. Clare Abbey, by the
author of " The Discipline of Life. 4. The Lady and the
Priest, by Mrs. Maberley.
Brown,
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took out
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West India mails,
50 passengers, specie to the moult of 3,0001. a and a full
miscellaneous cargo.