The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

THE OAKS, 1847.
'Tis hard to stop ambitious men,
Tho' oft in trouble it has brought folks,
Yet I in ink will dip my pen,
To write what wins the Epsom great Oaks.
l\iy yarn it will indeed be short,
There are but two I can discover
That will add to the exciting sport,
Unless foul SLANDER turn them over,
And when again I scan the field,
JERSEY'S a gem of the first water,
But the proud aristocrat must yield
To the humble FARMER'S DAIGIITEE.
Bicester, May 15, 1847. ESAU.

OOD RIOTS AT EXETER.
(From the Western Times.)
FRIDAY NooN.—Whilst preparing for the press, a
row and clamour in the street below drew us out to see
what it was ; we found an elderly man pale, confused
and anxious, mobbed by women, rushing put our oftlee
door. His pale face and anxious visage were trulf
pitiable to behold. He was not apprehensive without
reason, for the wild cries and savage manners were far
more fearful than would have been the noisier macifee•
tations of men. Lascelles the policeman endeavoured
to protect him, but they brushed him off instantly,
and the old man was spun round and his cc'el
half off in a trice. He hurried onward en'
escaped, fur they fastened upon Mr. Buckland the
baker, who happened to be standing at his door, and
commenced mobbing him. The first one was a potato
dealer. He had been detected in St. Thomas's watehinq
the country people coming into town, intercepting ark;
purchasing their stocks of potatoes. The women in-
formed;:
us that it was old Whitfield of the Island, who:
was charging half-a-crown a score for his 't,atoes,
with foul reproaches they loaded his forestalling name.
He had to thank his lucky stars that neighbour BUM.
land appeared in sight, for he, though enjoying the re-
putation of a cheap baker, has been advancing with the
market, and was supposed to have a great stock in Mina.
Mr. Buckland stood at his door, and the mob, working
itself up into a pitch of fury, assailed him first it
groans, then with stones broke his windows, and when
he repelled the assailants they beat him violently till be
was drawn into the shop; all this was passing in view of
our own window.
The poor people are terribly famished no doubt, en
a
the women are maddening with rage at being unable to
find food enough for their little ones. But the legging
assailants of Mr. Buckland were the idle and disorderlir
who seize any opening for a row. The majority of the.
mob were, however, middle-aged women, who would no
have been found in the streets clamouring against pro'
vision mongers had there nut been dreadful want "
home.
Mr. Buckland is a kindhearted man, and has alirsls
kept down the price of bread; and it is worthy of
mark that the mob was headed by three women, W'.
ing arm in arm, to their attack on his house.
THE CORN MARKET.
As soon as Mr. Buckland's shop was closed, the mob
proceeded to the corn market, where they made a sal;
and clamorous attack upon the farmers. They Pass
in at the upper door with a roar and a yell, and maul
agriculturists escaped out of the lower door. The
women began the riot in each case, and the men fol"
lowed. One farmer had his head cut with a stick, an-
other was felled by a blow in front. The farmers re-
treated rapidly, but the dealers kept to their stalls; but
they were soon compelled to retreat. We saw
dealer's hat in the hands of the mob with the crown out,
and tossed about with savage imprecations.
Getting into the thick of it, we endeavoured to Pets
suede a young woman, with a child of about eighteen
months old in her arms, to go home. "Go home!" she
exclaimed, with fierce invective_, go home to w
starved! Better bide here to be killed at once, tilting
home to starve!" There was something terrific in tui;
wild frenzy of the women. If a farmer gets a punch
the head from a civilian of the town, he knows howiti'ci
corn
return it, but a woman's fist wringing in his face, aut.
her shrill tongue ringing in his ear, baffles him 0,.,.
right. Mr. Stone defended many of the farmers '1"
great courage—his shop was sate enough—he sell
drugs and physics, and laboured under no apprehensf:
as to an attack at home; all the doctors shops are '`
the
The butchers quickly packed up their meat, and
into
several dealers cleared their stalls. We overhea
butcher swearing that "the women had taken it Int" -
their heads all together."
The mob having cleared the corn market, tenoning di;
persed, breaking upon stray farmers, and s
one
itself with a hunt of this description. We 5-ba bad
venerable man, whose appearance showed that
teful
not made much wealth in growing food for an tinge fa.
people, coming down Fore-street-hill at
a ptsecrerible
beyond his' years, fleeing in vain from thet,
ree where
women. Another was hunted into
he stood at bay, his tormentors clamouring and -
ing at him, as if he had stored corn all his days.
de-
was a cool and imperturbable man. He steadily
clared that he came into the town neither to sell nor to
buy. As his quiet, calm manner gave no salient point
girig-st— screech..
for their savage fancies, they left him.
After leaving the corn market and hunting the.
farmers, a general cry arose to proceed to the stores of
Messrs- Sercombe, the corn-merchants on the quay. A
shOwer of stones soon broke the windows, and the count-
wieogm.heonusweerwe the
quicklyindowschwieefreacors.
Tshme asltter ha declaringed. Boys and
wildly that they had children at home crying for bread.
The tales of these poor women were too true—they car-
ried conviction to the mind of the spectator. They were
impatient of remonstrance, and rebuke would have been
as imprudent as useless. But amongst them, were, 01-
course, the usual proportion of dissolute and perma-
nently degraded, who had neither the excuse nor the
energy to take up the active part of the work though
they clamoured loudly they had no children--
no domestic ties. Having finished in the place of busi-
ness, they next proceeded to Colleton-crescent, where
they attacked the residence of Mr. J. C. Sercombe, and
smashed his windows.
They then proceeded to Mr. Kenwood, the baker's
South-street, he threw out his loaves, and they smashed
his windows.
In the mean time his Worship the Mayor had ar-
rived by the express train. The magistrates had pre-
viously sworn in special constables, and his Worship at
once proceeded at the head of a party of police, accorn•
efountdhethewpinedoopws. H
people rioting"
Worship apprehended two of the ringleaders with his
aptanTiehdebaytre the- t
r town-clerk.eand breakingll
own hands. Proceeding down Fore-street, he found a
Theatre-street,
mob before Mr. Jones's house, and the panic-struck
and apprehended others of the
diipersed the mob,
baker, pitching out loaves of bread. The Mayor here
rioters.
Mr. Shore, the miller, of Exwick, was exceedingly ill-
used by the mob in the corn market. He is reported to
be very much injured, we regret to say.
Mr. Beedell, baker, West-street, bad his windows
smashed.
Mr. Salter, baker, Butcher-row, emptied his shop
bread, and saved his windows. The women carried 0
the bread in their aprons. Mr. J. lA. Kingdon was es
ceedingly active in his endeavours to appease the mob.
All the windows in the houses of Mr. Strong, miller
and his brother, in the Bonhay, have been broken.
THREE O'CLoCY.—The town is becoming quiet. Special constables and police are out ; the magistracy
are in attendance at the Guildhall.
We hope that the people will reflect that, however
much they suffer, breaking 'windows will not multiPli
a t the
a Treopssahsaem mbblainrgrack at the
the
Cavalry_
bread, nor will riotous conduct feed their hungry children.
FOUR o'CLocß.—The Yeomanry Cavalry will muster
this
The evening Pensioners
racks, and are to be placed under the authority of Cavalry-bar-
racks,
Thest six,
m aojno
rtihtye
os state of o
respectableft he town.
magistrates.
A public meeting will be held this evening, at half-
past
sworn in as special constables. inhabitants have bees
The following circular has just been issued by the
authorities to the several parishes :
" Guildhall, May 14th, 1847.
foSir—l am directed by the magistrates of this city to
request you will call an immediate meeting of your
parishioners this afternoon, in vestry, to take immediate
steps for the preservation of the peace of this city, ill
connexion with the magistrates.
" JOHN HARRIS, Deputy Mayor."
The excited state of the town shows that precautions
must not be abandoned.

THE DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE IN THII
CITY. —On Saturday some information was circulated by
the police as to the foreigner who. on Thursday. cut his
thrust In Princes-street, in the City, and has since been lying
in St. Bartholomew's Hospital in a dangerous state. It had
been ascertained that his name is Halentine Legg, a nativeof
Germany. and that he had been only a few days in London.
His place of abode was not certainly known, but was believed
to be in the neighbourhood of Holborn. He is described as
about 45 years of age, five feet eight inches in height, with
light brown hair, and wore a long blue jacket.

VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON SASSEMBLY.—ViscoIIt
vßiasoccoruonftt, the
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and Viscountess Palmerston entertained his Excellency Mr.
Vilssacboeul
nl at e
ss
mFitzgibbon,ahon
Lord Howard de Walden, Lord and Lady Ashley, the
Right Hon. Sir Robert Adair, Sir Augustus and Lady
Clifford and Miss Clifford, &c., at dinner on Saturday last
at their residence in Carlton-gardens. At a later hour of
the evening her Ladyship received a brilliant circle of the
corps dip/omatique and nobility, among whom were his
Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein, his Excellency the
Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Dietrichstein, his
Excellency the French Minister and the Countess de Jame"
his Excellency the Turkish Minister and Princess Callimakis
his Excellency Baron de Benst, his Excellency the Bavarian
Minister and Baroness de Cetto, his Excellency the Portu-
Count Schimmelpenninek, his Excellency the Brazilian
Minister and the Marchioness di Lisboa, his Excellency
Baron Hugel, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires, and Bari:MOSS
Rehausen, Count Revel, Count G. Revel, Count' Potocki,
the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Granby, the
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Headfort end
Ladies Mary and Olivia Tayleur, the Earl and Countess 01
St. Germans and Lady Louisa Eliot, lee.
PORTSMOUTH, MAT 14.—KING'S Rooms, SOUTH-
SEA.—THE BAcHELofts' BALL—This -reunion, which - had -
been looked forward to with so much eagerness, came off in
great style this evening. The rooms, which are of large
dimensions, were on this occasion increased by the colon-
nades being enclosed and made to form a supper room, at
once elegant and commodious. By a little after ten nary
all the elite of Portsmouth and its vicinity were assemble
and dancing was kept up with trumpet- srit till nearly four
the morning, a fact that tells " tongued" how much
the assembled parties appreciated the happy though fleeting
momenta. Fiske, of Southampton, furnished the refresh-
ments, which consisted of the usual delicacies, and the ber!,
of the 43d Regiment was in attendance during the whole of
the night, and gave the highest satisfaction, their melodious
and in'piring strains giving additional grace and agility W
the clanseurs. We hope ere long to see in the same place 0
similar assemblage of rank and beauty. A report has been
circulated that the Portsmouth Theatre was to be purchasen
oraovernment, for the purpose of being pulled down, ill
paper assei J-eqe the Cambridge Bairacks; and a wee
lq
nesday last, but theatre was sold by auction on a,'
theatre is not likely, at tes..,,_,nnstance took pWe
lace. Tue
down or sold. " either to be taken