The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-08 00:00:00

Bread Riot in Venice.

The Rinnovaniento of Venice gives the following
in its impression of the Ist inst.:—
" A body of workmen, who had apparently ar:
ranged the matter on the previous day, appeareu
this morning at 8 o'clock before the windows of the,
Town-hall, and began crying out, Bread, work..
So far the affair was not alarming, but little by
little the crowd increased, and the uproar Wail
greater, and the militiamen on duty endeavoww
without effect to restore order. Two of our (115-
tinguished citizens, with the commander of the,
Guards of the Treasury, M. Ventella Raffael, did
all they could to iuduce the rioters to disperse, ad-
wising them to appoint a committee to state then
desires to the municipality in a regular and legal
way ; but their exhortations produced no effect, and
every attempt at reconciliation failed. To make
matters worse, one of the officials of the minuet'
pality, prompted by his evil genius, appeared °°
the balcony of the Town-hall, and applied to the
demands of the crowd by some rough language'
After that there was no further restraint over the
mob. They forced an entrance to the Town-hall'
but fortunately the parties in charge had tiros
shut the iron gates of the staircases. The magistrate
the assessor Ricco, the chief secretary, and other
persons, assembled and consulted as to what was t°,
be done. But the workpeople, highly exasperate('
at the insults they had received, would not eve°
listen to the voice of the chief of the municipalitlf
audit was solely owing to the determination of CaPt
Ventella that the second gate was not forced. .
a happy inspiration M. Zanzi Antonio, a Gariha
dian captain, addressed the crowd, and by COl
Timing arguments induced them to select hiwse,"o
with some others, as a deputation to wait upon the
magistrate to ask for work, and demand satisfaetl°,
for the insults. Count Giustiuiani declared that .t'loie
party who had been guilty of insulting the peel) t
should be called to a strict account and, having sea
for certain officials, proceeded to collect infornaatle,
as to any public work which could be commenced
a
at once. Subsequently the magistrate prowlset.o
that on Monday morning the demolition a tDs..
Privo Priuli S. S. Apostoli and that of the ogni.
santi should begin, and that thus 400 werku/ee ib
would find occupation. Shortly afterwards °
magistrate and the assessor, Ricco, appeared on th°
balcony of the Town-hall, and the same Garibalclia,
captain declared to the people (who had inthe nOtt'
a
time, by his persuasion, retired from the hall,
assembled on the Fondamenta) that during the `4O;,
the magistrate would do all that he could atioy,
arsenal and with the authorities to secure earl' e 0
malt for the men out of work. He assured tPi.ty
at the same time that anotice from the municica'lto
should inform the town of the decision c°7:13,..
with respect to work to be done. A general e:`, ;11
ping of hands followed this announcement, ali..ub,l
dispersed, especially after some additional wornol'a
the magistrate, who said thtit those works sbetlo
not be handed over to the contractors, but that
1,1 0
local authorities themselves should cause then' t oca
carried out. lie further said that a list was ePe
a to
for all workmen out of employment who wlsuc
cuter their names."

IMPORTED JOINERY. —On Wednesday last 111;
than a thousand deal moulded doors with 1011,,
thousands of feet of jamb lining and skirtings, fllse'"
Stockholm, were sold by auction at the Albert Warelloli
Limehouse. We hava seen the doors. They are vie,
made, principally by machinery had frain England, 3°d le
our usual sizes. There are several other cargoes to colo;
and there is little doubt they can be soil at a profit .1
very little over what the labour alone in producing sin
of
work would cost English builders. The cleaning '4' 0,
the doors might be improved, but this could be do"
Even that part of the work, however, is not had.-13111`—