ARREST OF ARMED CHARTISTS IN LONDON. (From the Weekly Chronicle, August 3.)

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

ARREST OF ARMED CHARTISTS IN LONDON. (From the Weekly Chronicle, August 3.)

On Wednesday night a scene of the utmost confusion took place in Webber-stieet, Blackfriars, which, for two or three hours, excited considerable sensation in the neighbourhood, It appeui-b that from private information received by the government, a strong muster of the P division of police wai ordered to assemble at the L diviiion in Tower-street. The men were immediately placed in reserve, armed with cutlasses, and were joined by about 150 constables and sergeants of the L dsvision. The men belonging to the M section were also on duty at tbe Stonei-end station, under the duectien of Mr. Superintendent Evans. About half-past nine o'clock, on a signal being made, Mr. Supeiintendant Rutt and Inspectors Carter, Evans, Arnold, and Rogers, with nearly 300 men, marched to the Angel Tavern in Webber-street, kept by Mr. Smith. Mr. Rutt, with a pair of loaded pistols and a cutlass at hit side, entered the house, accompanied by a strong body of constable*, and at the same time upwards of a hundred officers were drawn up in front of the piemises under arms. The moment the police enteied the tnp.room or parlour a general movement took place on the part of the persons assembled there, and Mr. Rutt cried out, " If aoy man offers the.lt-ast resistance, I will run him through," at the same time showing his drawn cutlass. This had the desired effect, and little or no resistance was atempied. The police, then, in a body, seized fourteen men who were in tbe room, and conveyed them under a strong puard, to Tower'street, wheie upon being searched, pistols loaded to the muzpie, pikes, three corner daggers, spear heads, and gwonU, were found upon their persons, and othds were found secreted under the seats on which they had been Bitting. Some of them wore iron breast. plates, and tow balls. Under one nun no less than 75 rounds of ball cartridge were discovered. The prisoners were all placed in front of the lobby, and having been duly chir.ed, their names and addreises were taken, and scarcely a man was biought forward who was not well Lquwu to the police as being « prominent Chartnt. j

At four o'clock a strong body of police, under the direction of superintendent! Pearce and Gritmvood, of the E and F division, proceeded to the offices of the Mendicity Society, fted Lion Square, where they were kept in reserve until about five o'clock, when, from information received by superintendent Pearce, the latter, accompanied by superintendent Grim wood, went to the Orange Tree public-house, in Orange-Street, and having satisfied themselvees that a number of armed Chartists were in the house, proceerded with several constables into the place, arrested about eighteen men, armed with pistols, pikes, and blunderbusses. The landlord was also arrested, and several cabs having been procured, the whole of the prisoners were handcuffed and conveyed to the police itation in Bowstreet. The public-house in question ii now cloied. Upwards of 300 ball cartridges were found secreted in St. James's Churchyard, Clerkenwell, by one of the constables, on duty, who took possession of them and cairied them to the station.