hunger in their robust and angry stomachs. Crime will :land
this winter—crimes of violence and hateful excesses ; and extraordinary precautions must be taken to check the lawless, if we would not have the horrors of stormed cities in our towns and rural districts.
The promised revival in the manufacturing districts has not yet made any decided progress ; though the accounts of unglutted markets for goods, of cheap cotton, and of abundant corn, are cheering. The factitiously-exaggerated dearth of cotton has evidently undergone a corresponding reaction. Although the distressed operatives have begun to parade their destitution in i doleful and ominous procession, there is still a ray of hope.
The worst dark spot in the prospect for the winter lies in the discharge of railway labourers. These men are not numerous enough, perhaps, to impart anything of an insurrectionary cha- racter to the disturbances which they are sure to create in want and idleness; but they are strong brutal men—they have been
raTithey will feel the pinch of destitution, and will be exasperated by the appetite for enjoyment and the gnaw-
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