The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

MEETING IN HYDE-PARA..

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For many days pact large placards have been posted on
the boardings about London deploring the present high
price of bread, setting forth possible causes and certain
remedies for the evil, and calling on the working men of
the metropolis to meet in " Our 'Park" on Sunday, kr
the purpose of giving expression to their feelings on the
subject, and taking measures for bringing about a change
in so sad a state of affairs. Accordingly on Sunday, at
about 2 o'clock, great numbers of persons were found to
be wending their way towards the park. where already
had assembled many not of the best order of society,
and of those itinerant gentry who ply their various call-
ings on such occasione. Until three o'clock nothing of
an unusual character occurred, but shortly after the
hour tamed a movement towards the centre of the park
gave incieatlon of something exciting, and a rush from
all parts to the point of attraction brought together, of
a sudden, a crowd that continually increased, until at
last as many as 5,000 persons must have been assembled
together, the majority of them being of respectable
appearance. All the available men of the police force,
Lind those who otherwise would have been off duty for
aspect,eay 13 e.
He said the day, were disposed about the park, in case their
services should be required, but not the slightest
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ference in the subsequent proceedings took place. Pre-
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a man
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man ; that it was no vain desire for popularity that had
induced him to leave his large family on the Sabbath for
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meeting his fellows. in Hyde-park ; it
the purpose of
assembledg together. After
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his fellow-countrymen to e
purpose for which they had
two of the most plenteous barveestsTthhaetweavrerwabglessesetdfotrhthe
earth bread was at famine p
as the cause of this. It was no such thing. There was
plenty of corn in Turkey,
at '36' per quarter was per-
a quarter, and Russian corr. who was said
mitted to be brought over. The speaker,de
which could be imported at 20s.
to be an eloquent carpenter, had proceeded in this strain
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for upwards of an hour, when a counter-agitationhiscehembeadd
to be rising within 20 yards of the crowd w
gathered around him. A baker by trade was endea
ing to defend the cornfactors and landed proprietors,
against whom his oppositionist had been inveighing
; but
the mob was in no humour to listen to the "other
side," Red, a cry of "Out with him" having been raised,
the baker was pushed, and dragged, and carried off in the
direction of the Marble Arch. Two or three gentlemen
interfered to defend the unfortunate man from the usage
to which his boldness had subjected him, but ho did not
escape even then, and he would undoubtedly have re-
ceived some rough treatment had not a body of police
appeared to the rescue. The inspector on duty at that
spot evidently saw an admirable chance of giving a
turn to the events of the day. Eight officers, surround-
ing the baker, trotted off with him at a smart pace, fol.
lowed by an immense number of persons, among whom
were those who appeared to be most bent on mischief ;
they ran ofres, following the baker and his guard, towards
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and outside the park. Returning to the
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carpenter, whose audience bad been considerably thinned,
he was feud to be still holding forth ; he continued to
speak and to declaim against " the powers that be" un-
til duals- when ha bright
harangue to a ebbe.