On Saturday last (Easter Eve), a curious outbreak of what
we suppose we must call fanaticism, took place in St. Paul's Cathedral, a man of the name of George Campion, who had, according to his own account, lost a good business through the prejudices which be had excited against himself by denouncing the Ritualists, interrupting the evening service by springing on the Communion table and knocking down the large cross, the candlesticks and candles, and other ornaments, all of which had been there for the last twelve years, and all the Easter floral decorations, before he was secured. Canon Gregory appears to have taken the lead in securing him, Campion charging the militant Canon with an attempt to suffocate him by thrusting a handkerchief into his mouth, an act not very inappropriate, when Campion was crying "Protestants to the rescue !" in the middle of evening prayer.
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