The Paris papers of Thursday report a bread riot in
the French capital on the previous evening. The price of bread, for the first fortnight of October, had been raised to 43 centimes per kilogramme for the best quality—nearly 9d. the four-pound loaf,--12 per cent higher than in Dub- lin. We give the following account from Galignani's Messenger- " The inhabitants of the Rue du Faubowg St. Antoine and adjacent streets, chiefly inhabited by cabinet-makers, whitesmiths, &c., assembled in considerable numbers at seven o'clock yesterday evening, and proceeded to the bakers' shops in the vicinity, in order to lay in provisions of bread, in consequence of the rime ha price commencing this morning. The quantity left after the sale of the day was soon disposed of; and the crowd, increasing, became riotous, and broke the shop- fronts and several of the gas-lamps. " This scene continued for some time; and about half-past nine the mob can- menced raising a barricade across the Rue du Faubourg St. Antoine, with the stones of the Rae Lenoir, which they unpaved with incredible oelerity. The Horse Municipal Guard soon afterwards arrived, and rode among the crowds several times; but they always opened their masses, and gave them free passage, closing immediately behind them. A battalion of the Forty-eighth Foot, Leaded by its Colonel, afterwards came to the spot. They were received with cries of Vive la Ligne! 'and the tumult having lasted until near midnight, the populace began gradually to disperse, and the streets became comparatively quiet.
The rioters did not, however, separate without making an appointment for rendezvous at the same quarter this evening.
" The bakers having been prevented baking in the night, carts Jowled with bread this morning arrived from all quarters, and the bread they contained was sold in the street.
"Our private advices from Paris," says the Morning Post, a despatched at a later hour, also state that the Faubourg St. Antoine mob were thrmt- ening another riot in the evening."
The Lisbon correspondent of the Morning Chronicle says—" The failure of the crops of all kinds of grain has caused a very considerable rise in/ the price of bread; and that failure, coupled with the deterioration of po- tatoes, not in particular districts, as occurred last year, but generully throughout the country, has excited very serious apprehensions of a scarcity of food."
Accounts from Berlin state that the price of food in Prussia is extremely high; the rye crop baying failed.
In Belgium and the North of France the potato crop is reported to be not only good, but abundant; the unsound crop of last year being succeed- ed by one perfectly healthy.
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