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

MEETING IN HYDE-P..4RA.

For many many days past large placards have beenepseonsttedhionb.
the hoardings about London deploring
price of bread, setting
remedies for the evil, and calling n
on the working men of
forth eossioie catuhseesp_ra.nd certaing
ensuandcabya,ngaet
atrhkeirOnSdoayn, for
the metropolis to meet in "Our
tro
the purpose of giving expressioorn .
.about feelings the
in so sad a state of affairs.
subject, and taking measuresAf
ccbonrdnignignlgy
about 2 o'clock, great numbers of persons were found to
way towards the park, where already
not of the best order of society,
bheadwaesnsdeitnngbletdhemirany
and of those itinerant gentry who ply their various call-
ings on such occasions. Until three o'clock nothing of
an unusual character. occurred, but shortly after the .
hour 'named a movement towards the centre of the park
gave indication 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 roust have been assembled
together, the majority of them being of respectable
appearance. All the available men of the police force,
and those who otherwise would have been off duty for
the day, were disposed about the park, in case their
services should be required, but not the slightest inter.
ference in the subsequent proceeding took place. Pre-
sently two immense rings were formed, and a man
of serious aspect, with a profusion of hair about his
face, made his way to one of the spaces thus made, and
addressed the people. He said he was a bard-working
man ; that it was no vain desire for popularity that had
induced him to leave his large family on the Sabbath for
the purpose of meeting his fellows in Hyde-park ; it
was because he believed he had it in his power to help
his fellow-countrymen to a right understanding of the
purpose for which they had assembled together. After
two of the most plenteous harvests that ever blessed the
earth bread was at famine prices. The war was set forth
-I:
as the cause of this. It was no such thing.
plenty of corn in Turkey, which could be imported edat 203,
a quarter, and Russian corn at 734. perOua was per-
mitted to be brought over. The speaker,
to be an eloquent carpenter, had proceeded in this strain
for upwards of an hourNwhen a counter-agitation seemed
to be rising within 20 yards of the crowd which had
gathered around him. .A. baker by trade was endeavour-
ing to defend the oornfactors and landed proprietors,
against whom his oppositionist had been inveighing ; but
the mob was in no humour to listen to the " other
side,"a cry of " Out with him" having been raised,
the pushed,. and dragged, and carried off in the
kenrd, was
Erection of the 1110,r14 Arch. Two or three gentlemen
interfered to defend the unfortunate man from the usage
to which his boldness ho.ri subjected him, but he did not
escape even then, and he would undoubtedly have re-
c-i veil some e,-.ugh tre: fitment had not a body of police
appeared to the re•cue. The inireetor on duty at that
spot evidently
FaAr a. i admirable chance of giving a
turn to the events of the day. Eight officers, surround-
ing the baker, trotte I off with him at a smart pace, fol-
lowed by an immens e number of persons, among whom
were those who app fared to be most bent on mischief;
they ran on, following the baker and his guard,
I thinned,
APsley-gate and o Itside the park. 8.-i-tur:in
carpente-r whose ant l ence bail been con,ideraconY
continued to
he was found to be s till holding forth;
he
that be"
speak and to declaim ~ against " the powers.o_ ix).
-turning to the
un-
til dusk, when he bro Pght his harangue t avw