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ONE-VOLUME NOVELS

... benefit, The vast sums sent to the Mint for coinage soon lead to money becoming, too plentiful, and priccs rising too high. Bread riots occur, and the inancial world is thrown into a state of hopeless anarchy. finally, an international council has to be summoned ...

THE HAUNTED CRUST

... consent, alone, and to her own people. Three years afterwards a model machine was at work in Bolton. There had also been bread riots and mill-burning in the teeth of the soldiery. But Arkdale was a wealthy man with a fair house and grounds, ard he went ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... Thus, baldly and feebly described, we have the rebellion in Ireland of '98, the Union in iSoo, the mutiny of the :Nore, bread riots, the doings of the press-gang, the abolition of the slave trade; and, as if that were not enough, the whole of the Peninsular ...

MR. CHAS. HALLE'S CONCERTS

... ulmagistrates havo decided to da-. allow all claims made by householders for damage done to - their premises duriug the late bread riots, unless it could be shown that the iitention of the rioters was to demq.ishl, the houses, or that demolition had been effected ...

THE BRAN-PIE OF CURRENT LITERATURE

... country by attempting a futile raid onl the Continent. The authors of When War Breaks Out maintain that, though there are bread riots and though there is scarcity, we have enough tood to tide us over the first four months. By this time our Admiral has caught ...

THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... tho hlong and a-boost, romantic story of thle comiuti'nctilelnet of thle business ait Eye. Some NO years ago there wvere bread riots in that ncighbonrhiood ; for the habouring classes haid not food enouigh to eat, and work wa-is 8carco. lin that I diaiturbiauco ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... immigration and machinery have made matters two hundredfold worse than they were when. Mr.- Macleod wrote. There have been bread riots twice in the lest few years-one at Montreal, and the other day at Quebec, when a four store was plundered by a hungry crowd ...

LITERATURE

... W]y -useless. Demonstrations in Hyde-park would not Ge take place amongst an educated people. If you want Ru to repress bread riots, to lessen crime, to reform cri- Se, minitals, to make the population clean, happy, con we tented, industrious-give them ...

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW

... and then Italy will he without a policy or a reliable Chief, at a time when her Treasury verges upon bank. ruptmy and bread riots threaten her streets. What the country needs is a general recognition of the crisis in her affiiirs, the temperance of parties ...

[ill] AMUSEMENTS

... Eupatoris, Is55. 1S. TBURSLAT.-Lluther died, 1546,S-Moon's first quarter. 6 min. pool 5 afternoon.c . . S9. JFIDAY.-LIVerpool bread riots, lSSS. 20. SATuRDAy.--joseph Humo died, 1SS.-M1oon rsees s mim past 11 moWbig; Sett S 5min, ?? 1 Morning. ...

LITERATURE

... shihldrea: Take out his toeth, (From AV.) ILL-nmsED.-We have It on good autbority~thes this ring- leaders In the lat~e bread riots at Delifr were reguarn loafers. I ; I 'YOnVz*, FWDS 30 CnA0~dn'm M'-4ce &imat flw5 estatin. Train just *9,f.Old lady fatal)H- ...

THE Great Exhibition building, the subject of so many adverse criticisms, is in course of demolition

... themselves. There hasprobablybeen ' internalldissatisfactionexpressingitself here and there. We have heard something about bread riots and the t scarcity of provisions, and we kniow something of the I miseries which the conscription has caused in tle t North; ...