 Amongst the latter some dissatisfaction had been expressed that the quantity of food allowed them was so little.However, accepting a good deal of grumbling, things went on tolerably well until the evening of 9 February 1851.The inmates finished their supper at a little before seven, and the governor having said grace, one of the men gave a signal, and instantly about forty of them commenced a furious attack on a wooden partition that divided them from the females' ward.