The Peoples' Charter had its stronghold here, and all radical reforms are sure to find sympathy and support among the People of Nottingham.

I should think no equal population in the kingdom would sing "Britons never, never will be slaves," with more spirit, or, perhaps, with more understanding.

Their plucky, English natures became terribly stirred up in the exciting time of the Reform Bill, and they burned down the magnificent palace-castle of the old Duke of Newcastle, crowning the mountainous rock which terminates on the west the elevated ridge on which the town is built.

When the Bill was carried, and the People had cooled down to their normal condition of mind, they were obliged to pay for this evening's illumination of their wrath pretty dearly.

The Duke mulcted the town and county to the tune of 21,000 pounds, or full $100,000.