The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-18 00:00:00

ASSAULT ON MR. O'CONNELL.

Yesterday evening,• between but. and five o'clock, Mr. O'Con-
nell, who was walking toWarcis his residence in Merrion-square,
was suddenly accosted tiv,r the door of Morrison's Tavern, in
Dawson-street, by i‘k. Renimy Sheehan, brother to one of the
proprietors of tl•',c Evening Mail. This person said to Mr.
O'Connell, .!‘"you abused me," and then struck the learned gen-
tleman will an umbrella which he carried. The instant he
struck the blow he ran off, and disappeared through a side door
hole hall of the Tavern. Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by Mr.
O'Dwyer, who was walking with him at the time of the occur-
rence; *lmmediately proceeded to College-street Police-office, and
not finding Sir Garrett Neville there, went to the residence of
,that magistrate in Marlborough-street. Mr. O'Connell lodged
the informations for the assault, and required an immediate war-
rant for the arrest of the offender, which was instantly issued.—
Mr. O'Connell in addition to requiring a warrant to make his
assailant abide his trial for the assault, demanded that he should
be bound in a recognizance to keep the peace, lest any of Mr.
O'Connell's friends, knowing his expressed determination not to
fight a duel, should be inclined to embroil themselves in a guar-
rei on his account.—Dublin Morning Register.

PORTRAIT OF A MODERN HUNTINGDON.

The following description, which unites the playful
humour of Sheridan with the eloquenlancy of Canning;
is extracted from Mr. Sheill's late speech at the Catholic
A.ssociation

Mr. M'Clintock, in my humble judgment, affords an
unfortunate verification of the extravagancy of united con-
conceit and godliness. It is not only with the Gospel,
but the asylum of St. Luke, that the gentleman ought to
be conversant.—(Hear, bear.)—Of his religious tenets I
should not speak, even with ridicule, unless he threw him-
, self into, tli field of controversy. If he did not assail my
creed r should leave his opinion to himself. Provided a
man-does not interfere with my religious tenets, and ab-
!tains.from flinging contumely upon my faith, I shall not
Inquire- by what course he may think it proper to seek his
way to - heaven. Let him, if he deems it meet, throw
transubstantiation overboard, but retain the Trinity. In
flinging away, with some consistency, the incarnation of
' the Godhead, let him ascend to the philosophical heights
of Socinianism. I care not, provided he does me the
kindness not to molest me on account of my opinions.—
(Cheers).—But the moment he accuses 'me of folly and
superstition, and vents his, by no means, " splendid bile,"
upon the doctrine which I am accustomed to reverence, I
naturally turn round and ask, " Who is this man, and
what are his pretensions to revile my creed ? What is
his title to inspiration ?" This was the question which I
asked when I found that Mr. M'Clintock was pestering the
good people of Louth about the absurdities of transub-
stantiation; and, if I may use the expression, dirtying their
catechisms with his own drivelling. When I found him
spitting upon the mass book, I thought it as well to ana-
lyse his envenomed slaver. I therefore set about discover-
ing what manner of man he was. I was told that he had
6,000/. a year, and a beautiful mansion at Dromcar, and
that the Spencean system of Christianity, which requires
a division of goods for true spiritual perfection, was by
no means to his fancy. I then inquired what his re-
ligious tenets were, and I found that nobody knew
them, in such a way as to define them with precision. But
the following incident, which is a good deal current about
Dundalk, was narrated to me ; and as it affords some in-
sight into his general fitness to write " Epistles to the Ro-
mans," after the old apostolic precedent, it may not be
inappropriate to record it. With a straw you may know
hoW the wind blows.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) One
night, in a fine summer, Mr. M'Clintock had a special
visit from the Holy Spirit. In what shape it descended I
cannot tell ; but it was in all likelihood in the form of a
ray of moonlight that the Divine influence came upon him.
—(Loud laughter.) Such were the transports that he
derived from this celestial communication, that every night
after retiring to his chamber, he threw the windows of his
splendid apartment open, and withdrawing the silken cur-
tains of his bed, lay in a state of high spiritual anticipa-
tion,and. gazing upon the stars, until a visionary slumber
fell upon him.—(Cheers, and loud laughter.) The stars
that give us suchbrilliant intimations of eternity, were
shining through infinite space ; the blue depths of 'Heaven
were around him i and when his eyes had closed, the moon
threw her inauspicious splendour on his pillow, while he
reclined, like another Endymion, in her enamoured lustre,
—(Great laughter.) You will observe that lam far from
intending to treat this predilection for nocturnal commun-
ings of the 'spirit with any kind of disrespect.—(A laugh.)
There is Scripture for it. "In a dream (says Job), in a
vision of the night, when deep sleep failed' upon men, in
slumbering upon the bed : then he openeth the ears of
men, and sealeth their instruction." While the summer
continued, these midnight migrations to the third Heaven
did not produce any very sensible effect upon the mere ter-
restrial and physical part of Mr. M'Clintock's being; but
when the weather began to cool, the spirit, which- generally
confines its operations to the head
of the elect, attacked
Mr: M'Clintock's lungs; and exhibited itself in some un-
pleasant pulmonary results.—(Laughter.) With a good
deal. to do, this pious gentleman was persuaded to send for
a Physician, whoodter hearing the details of his spiritual
intercourse, advised him to confine his communications
with Heaven to "the dog-days, but for the rest of the year,
ordered him to close his doors' and windows against the
Holy Ghost.—(Loud laughter).

During the seNferV-- •
family
throsin into the greatest: alarm by' the
Pt'',
faat,Drayton Green, were
which broke through the roof of ibe, tot' a stack of chimneys,
'row*, destroying the whole' of the furniture,Qute' into the drawing-
greater part of the floor to give way. F. and causing the
not left the dining-room ; had the accident y the family had
occurred half-an-hour
later, it would have been attended with fatal.eene,
more extraordinary
or at
EXTRAORDINARY BULLOCK.----Th
least such of them as take 'any interest in the m
productions of nature, have at present a fine opportunity of
tifying their propensity for the wonderful and curious by- stepping
the length of the George Tim Yard. There, they will see
most extraordinary' home-bred Bullock that ever certainly was tex-
hibited here. His pedigree we leave to " another time," but-
there earc.be no harm in stating that he was bred by the Honour-
able Montgomery Stewart, and fed by our friend Mr. Arbuckle
of Baldoon. • From the point of the shoulder to the insertion of
the tail, his length is six feet odds, and his girth nine feet six
inches. Sech,an animal was never, we suspect, seen in the south
pf Scotland."-Dumfries Courier.