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•Llst night these conferences were beo,ught tcr af 61 'Kt i.q+L.r.bl
by a social meeting at the Teetotal Fbkiio3oo
Westminster. The proceedings were certaltileif c
a charac'er as were never witnessed in a i'cok`prenrr S
before. The attendance was not very numerods; but It
comprised all the leading members of the conference.
When we entered the assemblage was engaged in sing-
ing, in a loud 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 got to Zion (Utah). It seemed
to bo rather a painful elfin t to Brother Bernard, anent
was decidedly fei to these of the audience who harpenf d
not to be M,rii orig. •

Brother SIIATECR, one of the-elders, next obliged the
coinpany with " a little harmony." It was something
about "I never knew what j aas
Till I became a Mormon," Ste.
In this song the audience was favoured with an swam-
pan moot by an ass in an j ;ming stable. The wall,
vlis so thin as inialtr everything atulib's ; atd the
wan st waroings of the MorinGn ap shtles were' mixed
up with tee braying of the ass, and the urgent ontreatics,
of his keeper hat he wOULI " come over."

The party who nt x" o ea" was a young man who
reported the pr,coodings of Sunday, and who occupied
a prominent position up,in tho platform. At the begin-
ning of the cervice this young man was called upon to
engage in prayer—the first time -we ever saw a reports
drop his pencil for such a purpose in pullio.
E der SNOW an•t two others united in a d ileful strain:
The melody was " Ethiopian," and the poetry was of
about the same calibre as the songs of that class usually
are.

Eder HYDE, of the Reading district, administered, in
a brief speech, a large quantity of delicate flattery to his
.ecclesiastical superiors around him, being particularly
attentive to the two apostles, Pratt and Benson, who
sat near him. He scornfully alluded to the attempts now
being made to put the Mormon imposture down, anti
took the liberty of saying that all such efforts- would
be unavailing. Ile said, if people wanted to know the
true character of Joseph Smith, ' they ought to go to
the Mormonites to make the inquiry, and s'ot to their
enemies. " Brother Hyde" was frequently interrupted
by the youngsters, two or three of whom were, last
evening, so lively, that they had to be removed from the
apartment.
Then another of the reverend gentlemen, or very re-
verend elders, or right reverend apostles, or whatever
their ecclesiastical titles may be, favoured the company
with a song. He was followed by Elder Snow, who
recited a story about " the Gambler's Wife," with a de-
gree of ability which does not entitle him to any com-
mendation. The blessing of God was frequently asked
upon these extraordinary proceedings, and asked with a
flippancy and irreverence very sheckMg to a well-regu-
lated mind. Another of the elders sang a song, styled
"Sectarian Nonsense," one ver.e of which ridiculed the
absurdity of a man when he is ill going to a doctor as
the gentiles (i. e., all who are not Mormons) do, instead
of going to an elder of the church to be healed.
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 he calculated be was always
"to hand" when anybody was wanted to move the
fixins, to hunt up the lost sheep, or to drive the oxen.
When anything of this kind was to be done, he was
always to hand, to do the best he could ; but he wasn't
much of a hand at discoursing. He drew a pitiable pic-
ture of the heathenism of this country, and gave a glow-
ing description of the enlightenment and happiness of
the saints in Utah. He said he had "been persecuted
with the saints all his life ; and just as he was settling
down in peace at Utah, the servant of the Lord sent him
forth to England to warn this wicked generation, and ha
obeyed, although it was a great trial to him.
A Mr. HARRISON, who was one of the very few Eng-
lishmen amongst these Mormon prophets, next addressed
the meeting, but the donkey again interrupted, and the
animal's exertions were ably seconded by some of the
youngsters, some of whom were eventually obliged to be
removed. Mr. Harrison said that Mormonism and its
ps ofessora were not to be judged by existing standards ; for
they were far above and beyond theme. It had been sail
that Mormonism was unnecessary because there was no-
thing new in it that was true, and nothing true in itthat
was new. This was not the case. It supplemented the
revelations of the Bible and completed them. They bad
been accused of saying nothing yesterday of polygamy.
The polygamy they advocated was not the lustful poly.
gamy of the orientals ; for his part, he said, -- alt
such polygamy. (Laughter, and groans► of " Amen !")
The polygamy of the Mormons was a system which con-
trolled the lusts and passions of mankind, and reduced
the marital duties to some kind of system. Mormonism
did not 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 God would have them
act. This was the difference between the Mormonite
polygamy and the Oriental system. The Scriptures
themselves were written by polygamists, and he had
been taught to study the writings of those polygamists
in his youth, and to pray over them ; he had done so
and he found that set of polygamists so good that he
thought he would try the other lot (the Mormons.)
(This coarse jest was received with laughter by the
" Saints.")
The congregation then indulged in some doggrel
verses, which they sung to the popular air of " Minnie,"
of the words of which song their " psalm" was a
wretched parody.
Elder GZORGE READ then recited a pieceabont "The
Bishops' Banquet," describing the good living of the
right rev. prelates—a recitation which was singularly
mad apropos and in very bad taste, seeing that it was
immediately followed by the Mormonite "refraehments,"
apples and pears on damp and dirty "waiters," with
little cakes and biscuits, which were stale and unsavoury.
These were washed down by copious draughts of pump-
watts from large jugs.

Another ELinit then indulged in a "little harmony"
about " Sleepy Parsons," the chorus to which was—
" Heigho ! you sleepy parsons !
Ha! ha ha I ha! what a lark !
Alter all your college learning
You will find you're in the dark."
The very reverend elder gave this song with much
vigour to the air of a well-known nigger melody,
" Oh, Susannah I don't you cry for me," and he added
to the effect by vigorous slaps of his hands upon his stal-
wart thighs, after the most approved fashion of the
Ethiopian Serenaders. The effort was very much re-
lished by the audience, who loudly applauded.
Sister PEARCE and several other sisters subsequently
sang.
An ELDER, with a strong Yankee brogue, advised the
sisters to sell off their ornaments, which took them so
long every day to dust, and to put the money into the
emigration fund, to enable them to " gather out of
Babylon," r e., to leave this country for Utah.
The Apostle ORsoN PRATT then gave the " Sisters"
some advice on the eubj,ct of marriage. He said that
marriage, if celebrated by the Mormon Church, which
alone had full authority, ex:ended not only till death, hut
throughout eternity. He urged them not to marry men
not Mormons, or else when they awoke in the Day of
Judgment they would find themselves without husbands,
and be obliged to remain single throughout eternity.
This he described to be a horrible eventuality, and pro-
pounded the doctrine that a propagation of spirits
would go on in a future world, just as the propagation
of our species goes on in this.
ESRA BENSON, another Apostle from the Salt Lake
Valley, addressed the audience in his shirt sleeves. His
speech was full of Yankee humour, rather coarse, but it
told well with the saints. He said he felt " fast rate."
Ho referred to the subject of marriage, and to his own
wives and children whom he had left in Utah, and said
lie believed that all his wives would nut apostatise, and
that,iry
therefore,
of em
aining he would not he likely to undergo the
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single in heaven. He described
ser
Brigham Young as the best and holiest man in the
world, and said he did not wonder at the sisters falling
in love with him. Every good man, he said, ought to
have more than one wife. He said he would advise the
editors who abused them to consult their works, and
they would find everything "as right as taturs." Uo
indulged in a variety of jokes of the same class.
The proceedings terminated shortly after 10 o'clock.

SIIIP MARTHA AND JANE.—TIIE CONDEMNED CON-
VICTs AT LIVERPOOL.—An appeal has been made to
the Marine Department of the Board of Trade in behalf
of Captain Rogers and his mates, who are awaiting exe-
cution at the Kirkdale Gaol for the murder of the seaman
on board the Martha and Jane. This communicatiou has
been forwarded to the Home-office, and Sir G. Grey,
Secretary of State, has directed some inquiry to be made,
with the view of ascertaining whether there are any
grounds which wool.] justify a mitigation of the sentence
in either of the c,ses of the convicts. The log-book of
the Martha and Jane is also under examination. The
Liverpool Albion of yesterday states that there is a gene-
ral impression that the lives of the two mate/ will be
spared, and their sentence commuted to transportation
for life ; but that with Captain Rogers the law will take
its course.

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