The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-10-07
9(ational Arpublitan.


Rev Mr.. Lync, better known as Father
Irraliu., was mobbed in London IN the '''n
iaaant. Tho Time, says:
Father Ignatius' has been delivering uut
a., several successive Friday morning. 20
Ia, - sern,ons at the Church Of - Nlch"i,
a. orL s. Edmund .le.k King, Lombard
.t,.,, "nc Of the largest churches IN the Guy
rtI,n On the Ith inst. Mr. Lyme preached
a,o,an 4, which he spoke somewhat dis'
nora,ipyiy of Loabarl street and us trairrs,
rcmarkipg that 1t was far worse imam JeI'env'
from whose blinl mans history ne LOOK MS
,o1f On tho follow. Friday some hun
Dire /. fmcn from the banking mouse M mer
,nsni. ofi,es Of the neIeh6OrhoOd de.
lermined to give the Rev. Father practical
ysbuke and at the close Of the service yelled
An booted at him when he left the church
and proceeded homewards in a cab,
What additional sin Father lsaat Jus
had t. atone for Is not very clear, but yest or
I,v afternoon there were thousands Of men
instead of hun lreds-very few ill'dressed men
Or "roughs" being among the NUMBER. IL
was clear that well concerted plan Ior ATTACK,
iug Father Ignatius had been agreed upon ana
tnat tiose who had agreed upon II were deter
miLed upon carrying 1t out service com.
II enced at | o clock, and by that time the
,hurcb was densey packed Towards the
close Of the sermon there wsr" eyi lent syiup
toms Of di.nCrctble proceedings outside, and
the ladies who were pgcsCut hai u private
irlma,l, conveyed to them that It would 10
well for them not to leave their seats until
they received further dire,tionL
!. mater VI pTecaution 1t was ordered
tia. the church doors should bo at once shut,
three lourths Of the congregation being uLccF-
enoniuus;y locked in Father lgnatiuI, hSv.
ibg au Engagement elsewhere, and hiG'eH
being one of the prisoners, EXPRESSED himself
anxious to leave. Tho police remonstrttcl,
bat the Father was stern, and n tour.vheel
cab was called. One or two persons who had
remained in the church came out fret and
were assailcd with shower of small apples,
TIE assailants having chosen these as their
!Lyorite ins TuTents Of attack
When the cab drove up the sisHal was
given for an attack. From every one oil the
numerous lanes which lie about the church
hundreds OF men rushed out and when the
Father" reached the cab tho police percup'
tyriy ordered him back into the church. An
attempt was made TO oyortIrn the cab and al.
though Father Ignatius declared that be was
willing to face any body Of Englishmen, the
police did not rTpear willing to encounter
laite 20 grave a responsibility, and the cab
man was discharged.
Daring the next half hour the crowd amused
themselves by throwing aTprs at the ladies
and other persons who ventured, two or three
at a time, to come out Of the church, clergy
men being specially selected for the more SC.
we're attacks but al last Superintendent tos-
ter, who had taken the matter under his di
rectlon, ordered twenty or thirty extra police.
men to be sent for, and they werc soon on the
spot They cleared the ground Us vol as taey
could and by a skiiful mauuurrc, nlter bali
an hours active eXertion, they got = hanson
cab to the church door and haviDs bundled
Father Ignatius into it he was rapidly driven
of