The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-24 00:00:00

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circumetam of the um. otdable delay in the escrutOn of their
orders tor MAYALL'S NEW CARTER of the PRINt E and
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demand much exceeding the limited means of prinUng them.
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their they would sug-
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LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 24.

THE riot at Stalybeidge is in every point of
view a lamentable event. It breaks that uni-
formity of patient good behaviour in which Lan-
cashire, and all England on behalf of the suffer-
ing county, took, so just a pride. Its obvious
effect must be to diminish in some degree the
sympathy which has been so widely manifested in
favour of men who bore great privations uncom-
plainingly, as well as to sow the seeds of possible
distrust between the administrators and the reci-

pients of relief in other districts. Nor is this out-
burst of biwleasness one for which it is possible to
find the faintest shadow of excuse. When men, hope-
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leanly ground down by famine see their children
starving before their eyes for want of the bread
which on every side luxury consumes in wasteful
profusion, but refuses to distribute to their
necessities, it is hard to blame them if they make
one wild, frantic appeal to what they think the
tribunal of natural right, and take what no one

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will give them. But the present is not a cue of
thin kind. It is not alleged that there was any-

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thing like starvation in Stalybridge, s town
where the average rate of income, including earn-
ings and relief, was no leas than 2s. 7d. per head.
The story of the riot is not one of famished
women forcing their way into the bread shops,
but of an idle mob, too strong for local control,
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displaying its partialities in smashing windows and
stoning the police. It cannot be too clearly un-
derstood that this is not so much a riot of Lanca-
shire operatives, undertaken for the sake of im-
posing an unreasonable popular will upon a Relief
Committee, as an Irish row upon Lancashire
ground. It was Donnybrook Fair, with its as
faction fight, held in the market-place
of Stalybridge. Even so, the disgrace of the large
class of English workpeople who, forbearing at
once to range themselves upon the side of order,
suffered this bitter shame to be inflicted upon their
town, is hardly the leas. While for those who
urge the ignorant passions of the people to excesses
which they are themselves far too prudent to share
—who are skilled in the use of insinuation, and
suppression; and invective, upon platform and in
print, but when brickbats are flying are too cow-
ardly to strike a blow either against or in behalf
of public safety—no words of scorn and contempt
can be too severe.
The very demands made by the rioters are a

sufficient proof that they had no substantial griev.
vices of which to complain. The Relief Committee
desired to introduce three changes into their
method of administration ; first, to reduce the pay-
ment to the men in the adult school from 3s. 4d.
to 3s. weekly ; secondly, to keep a day's wages
per week in their own hands ; and thirdly, to pay
the men for the future by ticket instead of in
cash. In the absence of further information the
object of the second measure is not very apparent ;
the third, which is said to be justified by the
amount of drunkenness observed in the town
whenever the payments are made to the schools,
is in any cue • change fairly within the discretion
of the committee. The main point is the first.
Urged by local circumstances over which they had
no control, the Stalybridge Committee fixed the rate
of remunerationfor attendance in the adult school at
a sum beyond the average, and now see, in prospect
of failing resources, the necessity of lowering it.
The proposed diminution still left the men in
receipt of a larger than the average amount o: the
distressed district. Whether the adult scholar were
a single man, or a member of a family receiving
relief, there could be no question of his starving
on 3s. a week. Part of the mischief has doubtless
arisen from an injudicious use of the word " wages"
in relation to the adult schools ; as if the sum
paid could be raised or lowered by the conjoint
action of the recipients, who had acquired a moral,
if not a legal, right to a certain scale of payment.
It is possible enough that other causes of vexation,
which have notbeen reported, may have inflamed the
passions of the rioters; the best intentioned adminis-
tration of charity sometimes makes mistakes ;
wholesale benevolence, if it is to get through its
work, must neglect individual feelings, and may
inflict individual hardship. Still the Stalybridge
riots are a strike against charity, and that of the
worst kind. It is an ill omen that disturbances of
the public peace should have begun in a town
where relief has been most liberally administered,
and privation, in consequence, most lightly felt.
As a matter of course these outbreaks will be
promptly and rigorously repressed. In these cases
quick severity is the truest mercy : better far that
a fefh reckless boys and girls should pay the penalty
of imprisonment for their brief hour of tri-
umphant mischief, than that by-and-bye fiercer
passions should be aroused, and the public peace be
preserved only by the sacrifice of life. For the
sake of all parties—of the manly and law-abiding
workmen who are accepting the bounty of their
countrymen in silent thankfulness—of those who
are executing with great devotion, and on the