Destruction Of The Sheffield Medical School

[RichardB]

1835

The London papers of Thursday contain an account of the "destruction of the Sheffield Medical School", and all its furniture on Monday last by an assemblage of persons whose feelings had been excited by some cause against the establishment.

The particulars are derived from the Sheffield Iris, but they are most imperfect and unsatisfactory, and we refrain, therefore, from transferring them to our columns.

The report states that the riot began in drunkenness, was fanned by the diffusion of "foolish accounts of what the first persons saw who broke into the school", was momentarily checked by the police, revived next day, extended to the complete destruction of the building by fire, rendered the aid of a party of soldiers necessary in the town, and was not finally subdued until an attack bad also been made on a house in Surrey street called the "Medical Hall".

The disturbance appears to have been a very wrathful and serions one.

An explicit account and explanation of the exciting cause of the riot will doubtless be made public in a day or two.

London Lancer

[Bayleaf]

1835

The London papers of Thursday contain an account of the "destruction of the Sheffield Medical School", and all its furniture on Monday last by an assemblage of persons whose feelings had been excited by some cause against the establishment.

The particulars are derived from the Sheffield Iris, but they are most imperfect and unsatisfactory, and we refrain, therefore, from transferring them to our columns.

The report states that the riot began in drunkenness, was fanned by the diffusion of "foolish accounts of what the first persons saw who broke into the school", was momentarily checked by the police, revived next day, extended to the complete destruction of the building by fire, rendered the aid of a party of soldiers necessary in the town, and was not finally subdued until an attack bad also been made on a house in Surrey street called the "Medical Hall".

The disturbance appears to have been a very wrathful and serions one.

An explicit account and explanation of the exciting cause of the riot will doubtless be made public in a day or two.

London Lancer

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