The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-28 00:00:00

it due to their wisdom and self-importance, to find
wormwood in that which is grateful to every
palate except their own. One of this class is
our friend of The Chronicle. Ile as naturally
condemns what others approve, us he would
run 'out of a house 'that 'was on fire." We are
dainty dogs, indeed, to find fault with The
Courier's articles, which tire modestly intimat-
ed to be " grateful to every palate," except our
own. But The Courier loves a simile, so he shall
have one after his own fashion. Like some ter-
magant landlady, whose 'guest hints-a fault and
'hesitateti dislike to a slice of 'a cow's hide,impe-
nettable to any tooth save that of the glutton
Time, our Contemporary rates us for not relish-
ing his tucithrations. cc Marry come up! more
nice than wise, I warrant ye. This, let me tell
you, is meatfor your masters. To turn up your
nose,. my,saucy companion, at such a food as this,
why it is a feast for an Emperor, and let me tell
you the of the Courier is.farned all the world
overfor its cookery; and, though I says it as should
net say it, every body, far, and near praises
my dishes ; but tell you a bit of my mind—
,there are some, persons whom it is impossible to
please, because they consider it clue to their self-
importance to find fault •with what is grateful to
every palate except their own—and that's what it.
is." The huge offence we have given to ourworthy
contemporary consists in our having taken excep-
tion to his describing a people eternally Conipli:
merited on their freedom as eastern iliees grate-
ful for the' benefits they are receiving---as grate.;
ful' to their rtilerS not, in fact, for any benefit
which they receive, bat fOr the benefit of not
disbursing for the benefit of those very rulers.
ft, certainly seemed to us that we are not
called. • upon to be so exuberantly thankful
Merely because we are uot enmity fleeced,
and we commented on the distinction he-
tween receiving favours and enjoying rights.
On this our ContemOOrary asks—" Has it never
occurred to the writer 'that there is a wide dif-
ference between positive and conventional rights ;
• bet Ween those which a man'may 'be' said to Claim
by nature, and those which he enjoys by corn-
pact ?" As for those' rights' which a man may
bo said to claim by nature, the less the Courier
:says -'about them the better, as Tom Paine
has anticipated him, and as it is very delicate
ground for one of his vocation ; but, we presume,
,that if he acknowledges, that there are such
things as natural rights, he will not argue this,
the enjoyment of ,what is ours, by the laWs of na-
ture, should be regarded as the subject of grati-
tude to Ministers. 'We -have diet) only to deal
with those rights which are conventional, or en-
joyed by compact, on the strewing of our Contem-
porary, and who ever heard of 'gratitude for that
-
which is a matter of compact, excepting, indeed,
a profitable contract with Government? Are we
grateful, 'at our journey's end, to. the proprietors
• of a mail-coach, who enter into a compact, for a
certain sum, to convey us to a particular spot? Do
we express gratitude,' and invoke blessings on.
the head of the Captain, who has piloted us from
Dover to Calais ? Is The Courier hiniself grateful
to his butcher and baker, his tailor and, other
tradesmen, With whom he bargains, for the fair,
dlicharge of their contracts ? And last of all, as
there ,must be two parties to a
,comimet, and as
each is presumed to derive some advantage from
it, ought not Ministers to be as grateful to the
People for their salaries, as the People to the
Ministers for their services ? •

I .E, L A ist D.„

SCANDALOUS AND. PREMEDITATED INTERRUPTION
TO A. MEETING ON THE CHURCH MISSIONARY
SOCIETY--TIIE MOB DISPERSED BY VIE CIVIL

POWER.

Coax, SEPT. ft.—Yesterday, pursuant to a
notite given 'to that effect,. a Neethig of the
Church Missionary St ciety Was held at
.the
loon in Patrick-street. The paramount and
noble
,objects of this' Institution it is ulieeessaiy.
for us to explain : they speak for thetriselves in
a glorious volume of consequences, such as the
genuine Christian, whatever be hit peculiar profes-:
sion of creed, should rejoice in with joy in heart
and acclamation* on :his lips ; while, by human
instrumentality, he 'sees 'the mighty availing
scheme of the Christian Gospel spreading itself
in every region of the Globe, and: fedeem
ing ham darkness and the shadow ' of deaill,
myriads of human souls. If there be any pur7
pOse which' may hope .to unite in its promo-
Lion the ardent wish and faithful zeal of all
descriptions of Christians—this, which is the
special Object Of this Society, May, fairly hope
be pursued, at least without molestation, embar-
rassment, or obstruction.. But even this, great
and aboie 'all price, as it is, cannot propitiate the
rage of fanaticism, or the enmity of prejudice;
or soften to a decent -endurance, the rancorous.
jealousy pt liqrkyitid
,faction, embittered by re
ligious antipathy. The Society met, as we have
stated—with:. the sanctioniriff pre-sence, of the
Deen of Cork--7-t 'than honoured
,by every friend
to letterti and to religionib and admired by all
descriptions 'Of perSonS,,ftven: by those who pro-
fess Jo .hlllOll3, ibilnsOves.to nothing but the
supremacy of ip!ellect,--tarpnis of u high order—
and „
virtue.sah as hecomet wapp and, faith-
ful Minist4.4. ot Chris charity, .and„
Quarry,,.. the >LH.
Singer, the Rev. Dr. -Austell, thd Rev. Richard
Pope, the Metsri..Cummins,,Pittp
objects of and others—
generill respect and. veneration—were
also present r and'upow,the. motion ,of the Rev.
Quarry, Our Venerable 'Deqn,
.Wasrequesteds
to. take the. Chair of Meeting. gome prefatory.
remarks; quite'apprOpriOtei.and itited to the oc-
,caSion, Were `made by, ',IN: Q trey, respecting
.the nature and Objects for which the Meeting.
had' assembled ; iii
_the course of which, with the
acCorate.sense of propriety Which'helimgs to him,
he communicated to his hearers, that the disCus-
,sion which flirty be eipeCted to follow was to be
confined to the Members of the, Aisociation, and
that it was hoped the respectable auditory, then
in 'view, would he plcused to abstain from any
avowed :,significations .of whateVer approbation
they may think due to the occasion in 'any re-
spect,CalmnesSatid the sobriety of a religious
feeling being the most _becoming, were, of course,
naturally expected. --Upon the. motion of this

estimable Gentleman, Dean Burrows was ap-1
pointed to the Chair---and, in a few words, he
was pleased to address the Meeting—more re.
specting the routine of the business, than the
principle upon Which it hail beer convened. The
Rev. Henry Irwin then commenced the proceed,
ings with laying befere the Society the Report 9P
the state of the Foreign Missions, and the valu,
able results which rere• daily disclosing them-
selves ; and Mr. John Swete, Vice-President of
the Seciety=a Gentleman who needs no eulogy
of ours to obtain for him a respect which he so
universally -enjoys—read the statements of the
funds. The Report was of some length, and
abounded in serious and gratifying interest. The
business of the Society was proceeding with scarcely
any interruption, when a person presented him-
self, who was not a Member of the Society--
whose name we learned was Dwyer,--and whose
avocation we understood to be that of Editor of
the Cork illereqa(fle -Cbropiele. In proper adhe-
rence to the communication made by the Rev.
Doctor Quarry, the Gentleman was• mildly in-
formed, that he was uot oNember of the Society,
and could .not be heard-,and,. surely if there
Was any person, who may have submitted with
temperance to the, exercise of a power which all
societies must actually possess, it' was the, con-
ductor of a public Jonrnal, .who, had at his own
command, the convenient opportunity. of giving
!ars unlimited indulgence to his own opinions and
sentiments., whatever. they may be, upon any re-
port he may have thought,proper to give of the
transaction of which he was a personal witness.
This Gentleman, however, insisted upon his pre-
tensions, to be heard—and, in the most of
and intresive manner, said he would. insist on it,
to the exclusion of any other Speaker in the
iSleetittg,for that nothing would deter him but force
which should be resorted to, to. remove him before
he would give up. In vain did the Very Reverend
Chairman mildly assert the right of the Society,
as well as its resolve to entertain only the ad-
dresses made to the Chair by its own Members.
Upon this, a scene ensued, one of the most scan-
claimss:and, abominable that ever presumed to set
deeency and. common policy at defiance. It was
observed early in 'the day, that the usual places
of accornmoilation at the Saloon were crowded
with,persons of.the verrhumblest condition—and
these, at a concerted, period in the course of .the
proceedings, commenced shouting in a manner
of which' it is impossihle to convey any. descrip.
tinn. Sounds more deafening never were raised
—the benches were throwndoWn—artificial noise
of every kind were made without any clemency
for the female visitors, and others who at-
tended, and whose beseeching and alarmed coun-
tenances weuld, have disarmed any others but
the Cossacks and ,llelans of an intolerant and
ferocious faction. IVe cannot command our
indignanion at this part of the proceedings—
and we turn from the description abruptly, lest,
in venting our own. feelings, we should outstep
those of others, whose charity and humility we
can, on such an exasperating event, but ill pre-
tend to imitate, The most abominable.denuncia,
tions were heard from all quarters—a recruitment
to the mob that was inside broke in from the
streets, and the 'uproar, that instantly followed
ihjengdgiaesr,....s dreasicurtii.ptig tison. The
of
made to relieve. .some from their terrors, and
several—the
obustle
the
others from their sufferings,-the curses, and exe-
crations, and menaces shouted by the mob—the
mild but idle exhortation of those of a better
descriptiOn-Lthe
.vociferations raised against the
Chair-against, a:, Dean of the Established
Church 1.,--against • such, a man too I.—as " pul(
him ouel"—" out !"—the sound,"
bloWs-7and. the Citirnour of wicked and barbarous
voices—all together,:presented, to the astonished
senses sucli,a lla,bel,ef confusion—s.uch a chaos of
noise and action—as never was premeditatedly
designed before, to interrupt the business of any
assembly—be it what it may---for many a century
pasG The unmanly and indecent miscreants who
were the actors in this infamous performance, were
invoked by every description of address that could
be expected to stay their fury.'r hey were entreated
as Christians=-they were beiought as men-rthey
were appealed ,to by, the. rousing and manly ap-
pellative of Irisbnctu all would not do—they
would be neither Christians—men—nor Irish-
men, above, all !—and, then every man, not be-
longing, to this atrocious gang---and the elegant
and interesting female sufferers present—escaped
as well•as
some were. iii danger ;° -"
.anNdPwhlaiftemigwalsit lost—but
have fal-
lowed
On the fanatical;phrenzy of the assailant
party,, God'only. kOnws,, had. net Sheriffs Lowe
,and Crofts, attended by. .a strong posse of Con-
stables, arrived
,mostopportunely=and dispersed
`the mob. •We abstam, front :many particolars of
the personal .conlllet,. for obvious reasons. Our
readers will rernernher, that this proceeding, this
nefarions fanaticism, was. in .opposition to IL'S°,
ciety, which meditates no more, than, the preach-
ing of the Goipel, where its celestiel sounds were
never heard before7-they :will remember, also,
that open, hostilitY•has been proclaimed at a late
meeting, in,this ,city,,to the Circulation of the Holy
Scriptures7-they, will recollect also, thjtt Protes-
tanti not espousing the Itoipan", Claims
have been denounced, by the iseail. of a faction,
as olions,and enemies,as creatures,. „ex communi-
cateil from,the benefits of, common., social life—
they will, we, hope,.also recoil :to theirmemories
.w4at, the .Con.rtitulion has, told them, from time to
time, and they will judge accordingly. Le,t them
be
;Protestants, liberal,. faithful,,manly,
'4o4d above all things-r-and.we,a,sk no more,-
our task is done.—(Cork Paper.)

StuctnE.—The. wife •of a blacksmith named
Wood, residing Greek street, Rathbone-place,
put au end to her existence pn Friday night by
drinking sixpenny-worth of laudanum. The un-
fortunate WOMIIII, it appears, was much addicted
to intoxication, and having, in one of her drunken
fits, met with a severe reproof from her husband,
she terminated her existence.

The duty. on. foreign .wool was reduced to 3d.
on Saturday last, and in December it will be.re-
duced to 'ld,
JOIINSON, the celebrated smuggler, was among
the loungers in BOudgatreet, last .week.