The riots at Stuttgardt, which were due, apparently at least,
to the hereditary quarrel with the Jews, were paralleled at Frankfort on Monday by a great beer riot, said to be due to the high price of beer, in which sixteen breweries were wrecked, twelve persons killed, and a hundred and twenty arrested. A correspondent of yesterday's Times, who was in Frank- fort and saw the riot; regards the deeper and more remote cause as being the thorough dissatisfaction of the people with the Prussian system of government. The conduct of the troops, as he describes it, certainly was of a kind to excite popular violence. He met the German troops going to the scene of riot, which was just round the corner of the street in which he was, and he says that no sooner had they turned the corner, than without a moment's time to allow of calling upon the crowd to disperse, the soldiers fired upon the people. Similar circumstances occurred. in the evening, and he asserts that one poor man had his wife killed far from the scene of disturbance. This witness at least, who may, of course, be prejudiced, speaks in the severest way of the conduct of the soldiers.
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