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RIOT AT DUNDEE.

(From the Second Edition of the New North Briton, of
Wednesday, dated Half-past Four.)
We have just heard that there has been a very serious
riot in Dundee. Two or three persons had been appre-
hended and lodged in the Police-office for some petty
offence (according to the judgment of the mob at least),
on Monday evening, when there was an illumination ;
and, as we understood the story, a tumult took place yes-
terday, when the rioters broke into the Police-office,
rescued the prisoners, and committed other outrages, the
p trticulars of which have not reached us ; hut it is said
the mob has completely maste:ed the authorities, and is
domineering over the town. to what effect or for what ob-
jects we know not. The Procurator-Fiscal has come here
to-day to communicate with .the Sheriff of the county.
(FARTHER PARTICULARS. )
We have just seen a gentleman direct from Dundee,
who has favoured us with the following particulars :
The police interfered with a party of the inhabitants who
were dragging an old boat, which they had got from a
ship-master, to the cross, and which they intended to form
part of a bonfire on Monday i veiling. A general mob and
riot immediately took place, and from 20 to 30 of the
rioters were taken to the 13,,1ice office, where thi y re-
mained during the night, and till the evening of yesterday.
During the day groups of persons were assembling in the
neighbourhood of the Police-office, and early in the even •
ing they beset the office, and demanded the release of the
prisoners. The Deacon of the Conveners, finding the
mob increasing, and fearing their threats to set the Police-
office on file, thought it expedient to comply with their
demand. He procured a smith, who broke open the door,
by his authority, and liberated their companions. This
was no sooner done than the mob took possession of the
Police-office. They set fire to the books and papers, and
entirely burned the interior of the building. At seven
o'clock this morning every thing was quiet. No lives were
lost, and no farther injury sustained.
It is impossible to condemn, in terms sufficiently se-
vere, outrages of this description ; and when we see such
things as took place at our own door on Monday evening,
We are more and more convinced of the necessity of our
authorities calling out and organising an extensive and
efficient constibulary force of the respectable citizens,
who, we are convinced, only need to be invited in order
to form such a body. The police establishment is only
adapted to every-day peace and quietness, and the high
constables are too few in number, and too much scat-
tered, to be of any use on an emergency. In every ward
of police there should be persons sworn in, sufficiently
numerous to convene, in a few minutes, in any and every
quarter of the city, to check any tendency to riot in its
commencement. Our worthy Sheriff, we are told, un-
attended by even a single peace-officer of any description,
witnessed the devastations by the rascal rabble on Monday
evening, without being able, by any understood arrange-
ment, to call forth the support of the numbers of re-
spectable persons in the s'reets, who, if required by any
person in authority, would in five minutes have repressed
the turmoil, apprehended every one of the blackguards,
and prevented all the mischief which has been done. We
are assured that a gentleman of the highest respectability
offered on Monday to the Magistrates to co-operate .with
them either as a justice of the peace pr a constable, and
to get others to join him in preserving the public peace ;
but. this was politely declined. The impotency of the
conservators of the peace on Monday evening is the most
significant comment on such an occurrence. And, how-
ever unwilling to make reflections on public functional ies
acting to the best of their judgment, we must say that
ours have not, on this occasion, done their duty, and that
they have incurred serious responsibility.