The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-10 00:00:00

RIOT AT DERBY.

ESCAPE OF THE PRISONERS FROM GAOL.—ONE
MAN SHOT BY THE POLICE
EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM DERRY, DATED YESTERDAY
(SUNDAY) MORNING.
" I was interrupted in writing to you last night by the most
dreadful yells, followed by considerable uproar, and on going to
the end of the street, found an immense concourse of people
collected in front of the house of Mr. Mozley (formerly occu-
pied by Mrs. Henley) ; he is an extensive printer, and though his
name is Henry, the mob identified him as the Anti-Reform cor-
respondent of Londonderry. After an hour's tremendous
shouting, every pane of glass in the windows was broken, of
which I was a witness till ten o'clock. The news arrived in
Derby of the rejection of the Bill by six o'clock, by an express
from The Sun newspaper in a chaise and four. The mob have
demolished the front of Mr. Hope's house (the Mayor,) as well
as of the Anti-Reformer printer, (Bemrose in the Market-place),
and have so much injured Mr. Lakin, the Town Clerk, as to
put his life in danger. The mob afterwards went to Mr. Mun-
day's, at Mark Eaton, and I hear have not only destroyed the
glass, but injured his property materially. They afterwards
went to Chaddesden, and committed the same injury to the pro-
perty of the family of Sir Robert Wilmot. The disturbances
are still going on. The town gaol has been broken open, and
a complete escape of the prisoners taken place, and the mob are
now attacking the county gaol, which a small party of police
are defending. They have fired from the roof, and have killed
one man and wounded several others. I have not time write
more."

Intelligence was received this morning at the Home-office,
confirming the above lamentable account of the proceedings
at Derby—the attack on the gaol, escape of the prisoners, and
the loss of three lives by the musketry of the police. In addi-
tion to the property above stated to have been attacked, the
house of the clergyman of the town has also been materially
damaged.
A double guard of the first regiment of the Household
Cavalry are placed at the Horse Guards; and a horse patrol is
parading St. James's Park. A party of eighty of the same re-
giment is lying at the gun-house, near the long gun in St.
James's Park.
An extra guard, under the command of Capt. Clayton, is or.
dered to the magazine in Hyde Park this morning.
Orders were also sent to Woolwich to have the artillery in
readiness, should occasion require their presence in the metro.
polis.

The troops in Hounslow Barracks arc also in a state for im-
mediate service.
Large quantities of ammunition were delivered out to the
troops this morning at their respective barracks and quarters,
and even the recruits at the Recruit-house are under arms.
A meeting will take place at the Rotunda, this evening, to
address the King. 11. Hunt, Esq. M.P. in the Chair.
A meeting of the inhabitants of St. Martin-in-the-fields will
take place to-morrow morning at ten o'clock. Mr. Smith, the
senior churchwarden,will preside.
The whole of the police force stationed in the environs this
morning marched into the metropolis, and are lying, some in
the barracks at the King's-mews, and others in Palace-yard.
A double guard of the Scotch Fusileers or 3d Regiment 01
Foot Guards, consisting of 100 men, under the command 01
Captain Bowden and Lieutenant Rowley, are stationed in the
guard-room at the Horse Guards.
Large placards were widely disseminated this morning to the
following effect :—" Englishmen Be firm, but peaceable—you
will carry your measure at last.''

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.

In consequence of the contrary state of the wind our arrivals
of Grain this week are short and of Flour limited. This morning
the quantity of Corn fresh up is inconsiderable. The conversation
concerning the Reform Bill has impeded business to-day, so
that very few purchases have been made. A few sam.
pies of fine Wheat obtained rather more money than
last week, but very little was done in other qualities at last
week's prices. Barley, Beans, and Pease are unaltered from
this day se'nnight. Oats of good quality remain firm at last
week's quotations, but light samples are nearly unsaleable.
The Flour trade remains in the same unsettled state as last re-
ported.

PRIM ON BOARD OF SHIP'.

Wheat, Red (old) 625. 745.
White (old) 665. 808.
-.Red 46s. 545.
Fine s6s. 60s.
Superfiee 638. 666.
White ( les 1) 4Bs. sfis.
---- Fine 5BB. Ms.
Superfine 66s. 70s.
----Foreign free 48s. 725.
Rye
Barley 26s. 305.
----- Fine 32s. 365.
--. Superfine New 386. 426.
Malt 6os. 665.
-fine New 7os. 725.
Pease, Grey New 38s. 40s.
- Maple New 4os. 435.
White
---- Boilers

Beans, Small (new) —s. —s.
(o 14) ~..—s. —B.
Tick (new)....345, 365.
• (old) 425.
--- Harrow (new) 375. 38s.
(old).. 425. 44:
Brank 425. 455.
Oats, Fced 01s. 235.
New "Os. 225.
Poland 2Bg.
New Mi. 255.
Potatoe —s.
New 275. 295.
Scotch 30s. 31s.
Irish 20s. 238 275.
Flour Town (per sack) fiOs —l.
Seconds 525.
North Country 50s. 545.
Bran

IMPORTANT TO COACH PROPRIETORS.

On Saturday 111r.AnoLrar us &jape tred at Queen-square
police-office, before Mr. 'MARRIOTT. 01 behalf of RICHARD
Lock, the driver of a Pelham omnibus, belonging to Mr.
BLANCH, the coach proprietor of Walham-green (to whom
every coach owner in the country is indebted for having,
regardless of expence and trouble, resisted the assumed
:rower of a Magistrate to refuse the right of appeal from
his conviction, under the 3d Geo. IV.), who W-43 charged
last week by JornisoN with furiously driving at Knights-
bridge, on the 16th of September last, and with racing
with another omnibus belonging to Mr. CoocAN, of Ful-
'ram. It is a curious fret that Mr. MArtatoTr convicted
Lock and discharged COGGAN, though the transaction
was the same and the witnesses the same ; and Lock
was locked up, though he gave notice of his intention to
appeal. On Saturday Mr. Anutraus argued the right
of appeal, and, finally, the same was allowed ; and Lock.,
,m finding a surety to prosecute his appeal, was discharged.
His imprisonment by the Magistrate was, beyond all
doubt, an illegal act.

We received the lamentable intelligence a
little before ten o'clock this morning, by an express ,'e-
.,patched by the public-spirited Proprietor of The Sian
Evening Paper, which appeared in mourning for the
fatal event which it recorded. So extraordinary was the
expedition used at The Sun Office, that the Piper actually
gave twelve columns of the debate, which did not termi-
nate till twenty minutes past six this morning, and was in
Reading before ten o'clock ! We beg to return not only our
own, hut the thanks of the whole town to the Proprietor
of The Sun, and we hope the public will give his Pver
the preference it deserves. The fatal news arrived ju►t at
the time the market was at its height and every person
deeply engaged—in an instant all was confuson and dia.
nay, and every thing like business at an end. We do not
think au edrthquake would have caused half the alarm the
rejection of the Ili:1 orcamioned throughout every town and
village.—Reading Mercury.

A BOOK FOR THE LADIES.—Mrs. JA ME-
SON'S forthcoming " Memoirs of Female Sovereigns' can-
ot fail, we should think, to be a great favourite with fair
readers, whose sex the work will so decidedly tend to
-levate and glorify. Women of all ranks will be glad to
see how individuals of their own sex have wielded the des-
tinies of the world, using the self-st.leil " Lords of ti,
Creation," merely as the humble agents of their proud will.
If the prorogation should take place almost
i,omediately an immense number of Biils (some of them
)eing- of a very useful character, and which have nc•
casioned a good deal of debate and labour), which ar-,
Saw very near their last stages, will fall to the ground,
Ind, like the English Reform Bill, will have to be re-
~uuied de n•R7O.

When the LORD CHANCELLOR left the
Council on Saturday evening the crowd assembled out-
side received him with loud cheers, and, taking the horses
from his carriage, drew hint themselves to his house
in lierkeley-square. It was rumoured that his Lordship
lroceeded to Windsor immediately after the decision of
the House of I,rds on Saturday morning ; but we have
no official account of it.

Some rumour having got spread abroad that
his MAJESTY was going down to the House of Lords, on
Saturday, to prorogue the Parliament, immense crowds of
persona collected around both Houses to cheer the patriot
Ktwc ; and they remained even after the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR quitted the House. It is now stared, about the
House, that Tuesday has been named for this proceeding.
',OPENING OF ICING'S COLLEGE.—The
oublic opening of this College took place on Saturday,
and was honoured by the attendance of the Archbishop of
CANTERBURY, the Bishop of LONDON, Lord HENLEY,
LOrti BEXLEY, Sir 11. HALFORD, several Clergymen of
ligh reputation, and a numerous assemblage of ladies anti
gentlemen. The Medical Classes open this day.
About eleven o'clock in the forenoon of Satur-
day last the embankment of a lodge of water, belonging to
Mr. JOHN HARRISON, of Woodseats, near Mortrarn-in-
Longdendale, gave way, soil nearly the whole of a small
cotton factory was washed down, together with the ma-
chinery and three of the person-4 employed in the building
—viz. a young man, 13 years of age, and two girls, one of
them 1h and the other 13 years old. The bodies have since,
been restored to their friends, but in a very mangled statte„
one of them having been carriaJ several miles down the
river, as far as Compstart-bridge.......Stockport Advertiser..
FIGHTING RN' MEASURE.—The usual plaee
of resort for Dul-din duellists is called The Fifteen At-rem.
An attorney of that city, in penning a challenge, thought
most likely he was drawing a I.4se, and invited his anta-
gonist to meet him at " place called Fifteen Acres, be
the same more or less.'--31irror.

A private letter from Paris, dated 7th inst.,
contains the following passage :—." Our friend —.. has
just returned from Brussels. 1 an sorry to learn from
him that King LEoeotn appears to have wo broken 'Sown
in health and spirits since his sccelsion to the throne et'
Belgium, as to appear 20 years older than he did when we
saw him in London nine months since,"
Extract of a letter from Ostend, dated Oc-
tober 7, seven o'clock, p.m, :--" Lord RUSSELL is just
arrived here from &tassels in post haste. There is a re-
port that the Dutch, after 01 that has been said, will not
consent to a prolangAtion of the armistice, and that his
Lordship's object in going to London is to try and avert

SINGULAR AEROSTATION.—The water
wherein silkworms' cocoons are placed to prepare them for
reeling, quickly acquires from them so much of the
resinous matter as to be snore viscid than the strongest
soap lather. CHM' found that be could inflate this
water iota bubbles or small balloons, which were far more
permanent than any formed of soap and 'water, and which,
equally with these exhibited the prismatic colours. The
texture of these bladders was so tenacious as to render them
impervious to the most subtle gas. CHAPPE filled several
of tl.eni, whose diameter did not exceed three inches,
with hydrogen gas, and the littleair-balloons remained un-
broken and floating in his apartment for considerably more
than twenty-four bourn. —Dr. Lartheer's Cabinet Cydo.
p,edia.

DANDO THE GLUTToN.—This notor;ous
glutton, whose voracious appetite has so frequently 'brought
him into trouble, was charged at Union-Hall with one of
his usual otYemses. The complainant on this, occasion was
a wotnaz who keeps an oyster-shop in Bermondsey. She
stated that DANDO cattle to her shop that morning and de-
sired her open to a few oysters for haul, saying he had made
a poor breakfast, and thought a law natives would do him
no harm. She commenced opening, and at the end of the
fifth d..zen, there being several persona in the shop waiting,
asked DANDO if he had had enough. The reply was, "go
on, go or. ;if you are tired lam not." She continued till
inur dozen snore were dispatched, when DANDO,
leg that she did not open fast enough, called in a
girl who served in the shop to assist. The (ant,complain-
who had been fisr soma sime wondering what sort of
man her new customer coukl be, at this moment recol-
lected having heard of knurl. who JlevOured largely at
oyster-shops nod eating-houses, and then had INS money to
pay, anct fearing he might be the same, demanded pay-
talent for the nine dozen he bad swallowed before she
°feud more. Finding she could mot be prevailed on to
open even one dosen more, he told her with a smile, that
he had no money about him, but would certainly call
and pay her the next time he passed that way. This not
being satisfactory, he was given into custod,y. When
asked by, the Magistrate what he had to say to the charge,
be replied, with perfect sang froid, that he only came out
of the Hesse of Correction the day before—he had no
money and what was he to do ahvays found there was
more stamina in oysters than butcher's meat, and therefore
gave them a preference. The Magistrate committer him
to Guildford gaol for three months, under the Vawaut Act.
cUaAAN.—Four times was the intrepid
spirit of CURRAN dared to the field in a duel : but even
there he could not refrain from indulging his wowed
humour. On one of theso ezcasions, when he fought
Mr. ST. LEGEr.,—the oAkir demanding which was to fire
first, CURRAN answered, ‘‘ that he came as a guest
merely;. wai for Sr. LEGER himself to open the ball,
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presented ;
the word of command to fire, which the other uttered,
without any mischief of course; when CURRAN, "die..
charging ttis pistol in the air, the affair ended. Another
duel which he had with the Lord Chancellor CLARE was
equally Anproductive of incident. For (as he used to tell
the story himself) " though both the combatants dis-
charged two very long cases of pistols at each other,
neither of them were killed, wounded, satisfied, or recon-
ciled; nor did either of them express the least wish to
prolong the engagement." In his last physi-
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