Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-02-06
Rread Rlofs.
from the London Time. Jan II,

FROM the LonuOn Times, Jan. ilth.
bread riot is very old and vulgar thing. There
we're bread rotsa few months after the enactment of the
Corn Laws of 1915 and they required at rather short in
tcryals till 1916. Indeed there have been bread riots In
all ages when the bread is DEAR and the people nnem
ployed-two things very likely to happen toge,her-th,
people being hungry andhavng nothing else to do mr.,
apt make rush at the bakers Shops when they hay,
exhausted both thercash and their credit We saw .ihe
people, though il is wonderful how a mere handful nj
fellows, nobody before, emerge from some.
where nobody knows, and get up riot for any purpose
whatevsr the stupid respecabes going round with them
simply Whatever ia to be seen but thereby giving
body to the movement. But bread riot, after all ia
flash in the pan. There is method or dan
ger augury Of any sort in bread riot than in town
and gown row. in the snowbang match on the
Liverpool Exchange, Or, to the point In
the circumstance of disoderlcs being released
from gaol breaking some large plate glass shop panes in
order to exort money from Poor Law guardians in the
act of the half starved mother, who slips bit Of bacon
from a shop under her shawl. Anybody who plun-
dcrs n shop procams himself in the wrong There
is is no argument or preience OF argument in the
case, unless the fact of person being hungry and
of temper j. TO he considered justification for
crime. When twenty years ago, agricultural mobs went
about breaking thraing machines and when half az long
ago. agricultural abores went about firing stack there
might he a shadow OF bad argument III these outrapes
There il that much Of reason or sophsry in
bread riot IL ia mere act OF hunger and passion
Bread Is sometimes cheap, and sometimes dear For the
last years the complaint the part OF the acrcu
;uris has been that cheap, and so far from
excessive fluctuations period can DO shown in which
the price of bread uniform. The result l. that
for these seven years have had no bread riots, and
when people in London told that the bakers sops
Exeter pagcd the other day. forth with some peop.
with short memories pretend to think il quite n sign of
the times modern invention, natural result from the
repeal 81 the Corn Laws and never heard of before
Nay an aniable aud Jndiciou contemporary goes
further, and sugge's that hunger is very good excuse
for robbery, violence, aud theft II man has been led
expect that he will have cheap bread and has had il
cheap enough for good many year, the instant be.
comes dear he may, 1t seeis so and take it without pay.
ing for il, aud break the bakers head windows INFO
the bargain. We cannot congratulate these would be in.
ccudiaries their prospect Of flaming the flame for
fame there is none, and II it were, all the putting and
blowing of the anic pair Of checks in question would new
get up Think Of these writer's telling few in con.
ditioned yhgabOnds in low part of Exeter that they had
been goadef to cStremc', by 'illogtmate practices
meaning by that singular phra1e the arguments in favour
Of Free Trade Think Of changing Free Traders exclu
siyely with "waging inst lbour" by the introduce
ton of machinery when every labourer knows that ma
chinery had been introduced into agricultural
fast the farmer could afford IT, long before Free
| Trade question Of the day we are then
grnvcy Informed that these ragamuiIins al Exeter
had "seduced by the sophilns of Free Trade ema
REG, and that having consequently, anticipated great
anuoration IN tile external conditions of life on the eS
posure Of the alscy they had considered themselves 40
grieved and mpelcd by the cruel pnchnga Of hunger
had risen up against their bcrayers"-vz the poor ttle
bakers provision Dealers and other purveyers Of the Ia
boring class. Nay II the fame cannot be famed at least
II can be fc and tue writer up with his com
disordered Imagination, and he IL prepared TO excuse IL
"If rebellion ia ia tie slightest degree excuslble-iuif
able IL scarcely bet il when men are driven to
ii by want" Why, Who does not wanty ftlat ia an or
cuse everybody bas only take what he wants and the
law ofmlght at once becomes the onl law Of tho land
But agricultural rebellion wOnld be n very poor thing
So besides tanning the flame, further attempt Is rad,
TO direct t,-just TO throw fake two over IN,
wall to tho manuaclurers and br ing the hungry an,
therefore quite "eIcusab rebels about their factories
eve very much fear lest the people In tho fnannactn
ring districts should embark in similar course Of vic
lcncc.' What kind interest 10 take IN tho welfare nnt
pence Of the milowncr and how surprised he must be
this expression Of sympathy from unexpected quar-
teri Whatever you do don't nail his ears TO the pump
"Bnt" continues "Mannfcturef's Friend
tbe Preston urnouts, fail before the difference betwee
"he employer and the employed is settled and shou
hoy be then rendered desperate by want ue cannot an
stssr for HE eonsegsnec'." We believe all,y tn
greyous apprehcnsons Of our contemporary w
will "hnsWer for the consequences We will pledge nj
political reputation that If mob Of Preston turnout
attacks either bakers shop manufictory aud docs
little pIhnder destruction, the mischief will stop there
and Parliament won't think II necessary to pass hast
bill re- enactng the Corn Laws.
Spurious quarters Of the issue are circulating Tb
counterfeit bears date 1884, aud resembles the genun
coin closely shat the best judges liable be deeey
cd. The ,ze Of the spurious coin corresponds e1actl
with Genuine, but being made OF type metal gilya nized
the bogus imitation weighs rather heavier THAI the Simo
Pure aiyfdr NsvS.
HAuyGI AND THg DASyILLE RoAp. .Wetako pleasure 1
announcing the TACT, that the county court Of Hall
January Term last made rar submitting the yot