RIOTS AT DERRY AND NOTTINGLIA3L—We regret to state, though we
feel no surprise at their occurrence, that the rejection of the Bill has been the signal for very serious disturbances at both of these towns. The intel- ligence of the division of the Lords arrived at Derby about seven o'clock on Saturday evening; and, considerable as was the disappointment and anger which the intelligence occasioned, it is summated that there would have been no riot, had it net been for a loot of Anti-Reline-Imre, whom nothing would serve on time o: . :onion butt a noisy display of what they considered to he the triumph of their principles. This inopportune de- monstration was the spark to the powder. The mob irnmediately com- menced an attack on the lenie of Mr. Hemrose, time printer, where the Anti-Reform petition had lain for signatures, where they broke the whole of the windows ; after wbielt, they proceeded to demolish the windows and premises of mans- other persons who had shown themselves most decidedly inimical to Reform. Arncmg tl:e houses that have suf- fered the most were those of the Rev. C. S. Hope, the late Mayor ; Mr. Eaton, surgeon ; Mr. H. Mozley. printer, whose son was the person that sent information to Lord I on londerry, tending to cast obloquy on the petitioners for Reform in the borough ; Mr. Lekin, Market-place; Mr. Bainbridge, surgeon ; Mr. John Harrison, Mr. Thomas Cox, and several others. Markeaton-hall and Chitedesden-liall shared the same fate. On Sunday, the numb broke open the borough gaol, where several of the rioters of the previous night were coetined, and set at liberty all the prisoners. They proceeded from the borough to the county gaol ; but there the Police were in force, and the zeNtihmts were beaten off, with the loss, it is said, of one man killed and several wounded. In the evening, a party of military arrived in the town ; but the mobbing and rioting were nevertheless continued. In the course of the night, in a rencontre with the rioters, Mr. II siiry Haddon, a respectable gentle- man, was struck with a stone on the chest, and died in an hour after- wards ; it has been since stated, however, that Mr. Hadden's death was not caused by the blow. On Monday, the disturbances had increased rather than diminished; and the soldiers, after long forbearance, were compelled to charge the people; in doing which, one man of the latter was killed and a number were hurt. The energetic conduct of the autho- rities, aided by the military, at length succeeded, after much property had been destroyed, and not a few lives lost, in restoring comparative calm to the town. Monday night passed without disturbance ; and though on Tuesday there was considerable restlessness apparent, and
numerous assemblages in the street, the scenes of violence which had disgraced the town for three days before were not renewed. On Tues- day, the shops were again, for the most part, open, and business had been resumed.
At Nottingham, the conduct of the mob was marked by even more vio- lence and determination than at Derby. After the meeting in the market- place, on Monday, notwitl 'standing every exhortation to peace, the multi- tude went away with lowering brows. The windows of many persons in various parts of the town were broken, and a wind-mill on the forest nearly demolished. Towards dusk an immense mob went through Snenton. At Notintone Place, they tore down a range of iron palisades ;
and armed with these, they marched to Colwick Hall, the seat of John Zlusters, Esq. ; where they demolished all the windows, broke and tore
to pieces the furniture, and set fire to the house in two places ; the fire was afterwards extinguished without much injury. The speed with which a mob separated, met again in a fixed place, committed the out- rages, and again dispersed, showed that some cool heads had the com- mand. They returned at night-fall into Nottingham, many hundreds armed with immense pieces of wood from Colwick, and not a few with
concealed fire-arms. About seven o'clock in the evening, an attack was
made on the House of Correction, which contained a vast number of prisoners ; the outer-door was forced ; but on the arrival of the 15th Hussars and the civil force, the mob instantly dispersed by the numerous streets which there unite. In half an hour afterwards, the Castle of Nottingham, the property of the Duke of Newcastle, was discovered to be on fire ; and before aid could arrive, all attempts to save it were in vain. It blazed till near eleven o'clock, when the flames began to abate, but they continued to flare throughout the night. The castle, which was not occupied, is situate on a rock of forty-five perpendicular yards' height, and more than a hundred yards from any other building. The magnificent staircases and floorings of black oak and cedar, and the tapestry hangings of Queen Anne, with every thing it contained,
are consumed. On Monday and Tuesday-, a great many persons were sworn in as special constables ; and the military force, under the direc- tion of the authorities, was posted so as to repress any act of violence where it might be attempted. It is, however, remarked of the numb, that, with great dexterity, they avoided every thing like an encounter with the military ; that whenever the latter appeared, they instantly d I s.
persed, but only, as appeared, to reassemble on some other spot. A mill at Buster was set fire to on Tuesday, and numberless lesser outrages were committed in the course of Monday night and Tuesday. On Tues-
day night, the mob seem to have been satiated or scared into quiet. The military were still on duty, but no further disturbance was anticipated. There have been some slight disturbances at Loughborough, but they ended in the breaking of a few windows only.
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