The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-02

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| the Protestant Faith,
Love Of excitement, with good prospects Of
liquor and plunder, had drawn together most
| part OF them, and they set about gratifying
these respective passions In regular order; Ihey
amused themselves for several hours with pull-
ing number Of old men out of their eaIriasges, st
nustnng them roughly, and tearing theh Nv NV
sleeves If they we're bishops, or their coass ana
cravats If they were laymen. From % lnsuIe tsnney
mad almost gone to bloodshed; tor u seems tnss
| Lord Boston, at all events, narrowly escaped
! with his life, and that only by the ingenious
device of getting up discussion among one or
two Of the most ianatlcal oi the ,ri1ngleaders as
to whether the Pope was Anuchrist, during the
heat of which he slppeo away. The Bishop of
Rochester took refuge in private house, and
escaped over the leads in woman's clothes. The
Duke of Northumberland happened to be driving
down to the House with gentleman in black
by his side. The mob at once declared that this
must certainly be a Jesuit so they forthwith
robbed the Duke OF his purse and gold watch,
On leaving Westminster Hall the mob divided
into parties, evidently bent on further mischief.
But at hrst they were, as we have said, COM
paratively moderate. They did no more than
burn down one Roman Catholic chapel in Duke
street, Lincoln's Inn, belonging to the Sandman
ambassador, and another in Warwick street,
belonging to the Bavarian Ambassador. They
then, partly owing TO the appearance of the
military, went home. II was thought after
wards that these attacks upon places OF worship
were intended as a blind 10 divert mems minds
IRON any apprehension of the wider scheme of
pluBder and devastation which followed.
On Saturday the mob did little; but what
little they did was quite unhindered by the law.
They trifled with q few Popish chapels and
dwelling houses, but, apparently in expectation
that the magistrates must do something soon,
refrained from any larger enterprises. Dscov-
ering at last, however, that they we're really
masters of the town, they proceeded TO exercise
their power on more extended scale. On Sun
day they burned the chapel in Moor Fields On
Monday they destroyed the house of Sir George
Saville; and on the following Tuesday and
| Wednesday all that havoc was committed
| which has made the Gordon riots historical.
| But all this is now an old story. The burn
| ing Of Lords Mansfeds house in Blooms
bury Square, with his valuable library
| Kings Bench, the Fleet, and other prisons,
! whose inmates fastened to swell the tide of
! ruffianism which everywhere flooded the me-
| tropohs; the destruction of Mr.. Langdale's dis
tillery in Holborn, and the spectacle of misera-
| BILE half-burned wretches guping down spirits
| out OF pals, or even sucking 1t up out of the
cutters; the attack on the bank, which was re-
| PEELED by no less parsonage than John Wilkes;
| the prominent figure of the mob-leader mounted
| on huge oray-horse, who has been turned to
| such good account by Mr.. Dickens and finally,
| '1ast scene of all" the heavy sullen roar OF
sustained musketry which announced that the
troops had at last begun to act; all these things
| have been described too often by more skilful
pens than ours, to warrant our dwelling on
them now.
The Government seemed parayzed; but the
| truth is that Ministers remembered what had
occurred in l76S when Lord Darlington had
encouragement he had given to the military;
and the Secretary of State was actually in such
a frenzy of alarm that he caused his servants to
wear blue cockades.
1t was not until the Wednesday night that.
| finding all other means fail, the King at length
| took the law into his own hands; and, after
| consulting the Attorney y-General, caused 1t to
| be notified to the troops that, sin obedience to
4 an order from the King in council, the military
| were to act without waiting for directions from
the civil magistrate" This decisive step put a
| was tranquil, and on Friday Lord George
| Gordon was arrested. For nearly one entire
| week the mob had been in possession of London.
THE KING MoBBED.
An attempt was made in 1895 to resuscitate
| the reign OF mob-law, which half century
| sooner might have been attended with serious
| consequences. The Corresponding Society,""
| Copenhagen Fields, where one n hundred and
| fifty thousand persons assembled and an address
to the King was voted, praying for reform in
Parliament, the dismissal OF ministers, and peace
with France. A few days after this meeting the
King went in state to open Parliament. His
| carriage was surrounded by mob and one of
| the windows was broken by small bullet. On
| his return he was still followed by the crowd,
| who threatened to pull him out of his carriage,
| which, it is thought, they would have done but
for the timely arrival of the Guards. But still
| the moral effect of this mob was absolutely
| nothing, except in so far as it stimulated the
friends of order. Out of sympathy with the
| nation at large, and unsupported by any aristo-
| cratic party of any weight in the country, the
mob was powerless. The only result of their
behavior was that two bills, called the Treason
| bill" and the "Sedition bill," were passed
through Parliament by overwhelming MAORI
| ties.
RELIGIOUS RIOT IN BIRMINGHAM IN 179l
Before we quit the eighteenth century we
must notice the famous Birmingham riots,
| where the mob as If to show their imparuality
towards sectarles of all denominations, pro-
ceeded to cap the doings OF the Gordon rioters
| by like display of rancor towards the Dis
senters. The origin of the disturbance was
sermon preached by DR.. Priestly, Unitarian,
in which he upheld what had then come to be
called French principles While the people
were still in state of much irritation at this
discourse, notice was given that the Unitarian
Society intended to celebrate the anniversary
of the destruction of the Bastlle by a public
festival and dinner, to be held at enc Of the
chief hotels. Popular feeling rose so high at
this announcement that the more prudent of
| the propagandists declined to attend the
celebration. About eighty, however, did assem-
Bile on the l4th of July, l791; but were soon sur
rounded by an immense mob who shouted
Church and King" with much terocity of de-
meanor till the company separated. They then
proceeded TO reward themselves for their own
loyalty by demolishing DR.. PTiestly's house,
which contained a valuable laboratory and
library. From this they went on to other acts
| OF violence OF the like kind, and even made
raids into the country, where they burned or
ransacked several gentlemens houses They
had their own way entirely from Thursday Ia
Sunday, and committed damage for which the
sufferers recovered about thirty thousand pounds
from their respective hundreds. 1t was said
| that they were encouraged by the clergy and
| at least Winlrad a nv the Tlnt 4his