Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-06-29
From the New York Tribune.
Food EgiOtS iEA Europe.

1t is really painful to read the accounts
of famine and poverty which are waited
across to US from Germany, the British
isles, and the other countries in Europe;
but there is much hope in the future.
Large supplies of food have been purchas.
ed for England at ST. Petersburg, Riga,
and Alexandria; and although there is a
great scarcity Of grain in several parts of
England, yet ''ia Scotland the quantities
still ON hand in the best coBditio are said
to be immensely Iarge-a great deal lar
ger than has been known for many years
past. France and Germany and the
United States. The growing crops look
ed remarkably we'll in Britain andIreland;
and the French government have official.
y announced in the Chamber of Depu-
ties, that ALL.ACCoUNTs speak of the crops
in France in the most cheering terms.
The London Morning Advertiser of the
18th ult., while it argues that ian i'm
mense tall in prices may be expected be-
fore many weeks have elapsed admits
the Canger ofthe crisis, and believes that
''there is not nation on the earth that
could have survived the terrible tempests
by which the people of England have been
so fiercely assailed for the last six
months"
That there would be disturbance among
. population almost furnishing in the midst
of wealth. was to be expected; and the
following extracts from the latest foreign
journals may serve TO show that there
have been riots of a very serious chara-
cler, but not like those in Paris during a
period of the revolution, when England
had almost shut out France from the re-
ceipt ofsupplies Of grain from any other
country, for the poor laws preclude the
possibility Of starvation from utter desti,
tuition.
In Devonshire. there was great alarm
and excitement. The scarcity of food
had driven the people of the peaceful city
of Excite to riot: the women opened the
attack, the men following:
About noon yesterday (Fritlay)a general
attack was made on the bakers and pro.
vision shops. The rioters proceeded TO
the market and made clamorous attack
upon the formers. Their yells we're fear
full, and the agriculIurists, anticipating
the most awful consequences made their
escape. The women opened the attack,
and the men followed them. One res
pectable yeoman was feiled TO the ground
by heavy stick, and another had his
head cut open. The phrensy Of the wo-
men was terrific. A young female. with
an infant in her arms, was advised to
go home: $50 home - she replied. with
a fierce inyective, shelter bid her to be
killed at once, than go home 10 Starre. "
A general cry was raised 10 the quay,
and rapid movement in that direction
ensued, land a shower OF stones soon broke
the windows ofthe corn stores of Messrs.
Sercomhe. The women wildly exclaim-
ed that they had children at home crying
for bread. The residence of Mr.. j. C.
sercomble, in Colleton. crescent, was
next attacked, and considerable havoc
took place. Many Of the bakers threw
The bread in their shops to the infurtated
crowd. and the women hurried away with
itin their aprons to their starving families.
The city authorities adopted measure
for the suppression of tho riots. A large.
party Of police and special constables.
headed BY the mayor and town clerk
marched out, and the principal leaders