The riots this week have been slight, but burdensome to
the police, the unemployed every day parading the most thronged thoroughfares, and using occasionally most menacing lan- guage. Some of their leaders threaten a great riot on Lord Mayor's Day, the object being, apparently, to frighten the new Lord Mayor, Alderman Keyser, into opening a fund for their relief, a step deprecated by all who remember the con- sequences of the last one. The police, however, are forewarned, and the tradesmen and hotel-owners of the Strand and the streets touching Trafalgar Square have, in public meeting at Exeter Hall, implored the Home Secretary to interfere on their behalf. Their receipts, some of them say, are reduced one-half, their usual customers avoiding Trafalgar Square. It is impossible during the Recess to amend the law which forbids
meetings within one mile of Parliament when in Session; but it ought not to be difficult to make a large temporary addition to the police. There must be thousands of disciplined men available in the Port.
