ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS OF THE INTENDED CHARTIST OUTBREAK.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 273, 10 January 1849, Page 3

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS OF THE INTENDED CHARTIST OUTBREAK.

From the information received by the Government on Thursday, not the least doubt is now entertaiued that the Chartists contemplated walking in procession at midnight, and not merely were they determined to assaisinaie the police who were on duty in the event of their interference, but also to fire many of the public buildings, and to commit the most awful depredations. Had it not been for the timely information forwarded to head- quarters, there seemi every probability that the fellows would have carried their intentions into effect, It appears that when the room was hired at the Peacock, Frances-street, Westminster Road, the parties told the landlady that they wanted the room merely to hold a trades meeting. By some means which at present has not been ascertained, the owner of the house ascertained that the parties who had hired the place were Chartists, and that they intended to come armed. The moment they came she told them she could not allow the meeting to take place in her house. Some of the parties who had then a^sembled cried out to their companion!, " Oh, we are piped ; we had better go home." Others, more dating thin the rest, said, "Well, if we have failed heit, come along with us ; we will take you to a place with a long passage, where we can pounce upon the pol cc, should they a'tempt to attack us. Some par. ties immrdiately conveyed the intelligence to Mr. Superintendaut Ruit, who without a moment's loss of time proceeded with a strong muster of men, and succeeded, under the circumstances detailed above, in apprehending the whole of the prisoners at the present time in custody. Although very little has been done during the week in the shape of meetings, yet the private clubs have been organizing for several days by tho fellows. The meetings having been held in private, the only news the Government have been able to glean has been by stratagem. Very little, however, will in future transpire at these secret clubs but what will come to th« knowledge of the auth .ritids. Men in private clothes were placed in such directions on Thursday night that in the event of any disturbance being attempted, the intelligence could be conveyed to Whitehall in the course of a few minutes. The following is a statement of the circumstances connected with the arrest on Wednesday evening of the Clmrtisis who were holding a secret conference at the Orange Tree public-house, Ortinge«<treet, Red Lion-square. Shortly before noon on Wednesday, a man respectably dressed entered the house, mid asked Mrs. HoJges, the landbrd's wife, if she had a room in the home which could be hired {or the purpose of a private meeting of some friends of his who wished to have a consultation. The landlord was not at home at the time, and Mrs. Hodges answered him in the affirmative. '1 he man then went away, and as he did so remarked that if two young men called upon the same errand he should thank Mrs. Hodges to tell thoin he had made it " all rij^ht," and that they were to avait his return. He wsut back in the afternoon and found the two young men he had Spoken of there. After conversing in whispers with tLe young men he again went away, but returned directly after with four others. One of the young men went out and brought in three. The third also went out and returned with fou"", and they proceeded to the room in which they were found when the police arrived. The police, consisting of a strong purty of the F division, acting under the directions of Mr. Supenntendaut Pe<trce, were all well armed, and instantly surrounded and took entire possession ot the house. The bhutters were closed, and no one was allowed ingress or egress. The individuals seized were searched, but no arms were found upon them. Amongst the rest the police took into custody a man who was in possession at the suit of the landlord's brewer, but upon his producing his authority they liberated him. The premises weie searched, and two pistols and a sharp pointed file weie found concealed. On the persons of those apprehended and conveyed to Bow-street, were found papers, the precise nature of which did not transpire, but their contents were said to be of an important character. The excitement in the neighbotuhood was very great, and in Orange»street and Red Lioiwsquare there was an assemblage of some 700 or 800 persons, and some of the shop-keepers were under the necessity of closing their shutters. It it is worthy of notice that shortly after midday on Wedne.day, Supenntendant Pearce, disguised in a very plain die-s, entered a coffee-house exactly opposite Hodges' house, and asked the keeper of it if she could let him a room on thefiist or second floor ? She replied thai* she could not, and after well looking at all the persons in the coffee-room he went away. After the denouement took place in the evening, it was suspected that Mr. Pearce required this room to watch the entrance to Hodges' house, but from the fact that on the ai rival of the po ice a body of them inarched up to this coffee-house, it is infeired that at first the police were not certain whether this coffeehouse or Hodges' was the place of rendezvous. Hodges' house was entnely closed to all kinds of business the whole of Thuisday, in compliance with an order to that effect i&sued, il was stated, by the Police Commissioner.