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The Morning Chronicle and the _Horning Post state that apprehen- sions of a Chartist outbreak in the Metropolis, last night, caused the 'authorities to be unusually alert for the preservation of the peace. The Morning Chronicle says— "We ascertained that there was a meeting of the Chartists last night at the Hall of Trades, Abbey Street, Bethnal Green, attended by numbers variously estimated at front 600 to 1,000; but if they had any mischievous intentions, no evidence of them was afferded, for they separated quietly and proceeded to their respective places of abode. In C011 Sept! [ICC of communications from the Home Office, orders were transmitted from the Horse Guards to the different Barracks and the Tower, to have the men under arms, and the different Police- stations were also ordered to be on the alert. The intelligence having been communicated to the Lord Mayor, precautions were taken for the salbty of the City. We conceive these dispositions were made with a view to convince the evil-disposed of the hopelessness of any endeavour to disturb the peace and order of society, if an intention to do so were really entertained, and at the SIMIC time to in hire the well-disposed with the most perfect confidence in the ability of the laiblic authurities to provide a force on every point inure than sufficient to insure the public salty in every quarter. Our readers may be assured that the authorities are quite alive to all that is passing, and both ready and able to protect the public against any mischievous attempts. As, however, it is barely possible that advantage may be taken of the very vigilance of the authorities to fill the um:fleeting with endue apprehension of danger, we deem it our duty to assure our readers that there is not the slightest occa- sion for alarm, and to cautian them Lg:,inst lending an ear to auy exaggerated rumours of danger."
Reports were circulated that the Metropolis was to be set on fire in several places, and given up to pillase ; and the managers of the Lon- don Docks and the St. Katherine's Docks were informed that their establishments were to be attacksd. On Thursday night, the Chartists held au adjourned meeting at the of Trades, "for the purpose of making known to the inhabitants of the Metropolis the extraordinary and unprecedented state of' misery, destitution, and despair to which the industrious classes are at the prasant moment reduced." About 600
persons were preseat. While the business of the meeting was going on, and several speeches had been made,—one of the orators ridiculing the alarm of the Government l',71 Tuesday night. mid declaring himself as loyal us Daniel O'Ciinnell, though he advised his friends "to put
their trust in Cad and keep their pawder dry,"—ir body of Police rushed in with drawn swords, and secured several persons. Some protested against the interruption ; others, including Benyouski the Pole, ran away ; and the Chairman dissolved the meeting.. On searching their prisoners, the Police found a quantity of sabres, pistols, knives, and dirks. The pistols were loaded with ball, and some of them primed.
Yesterday, twelve of the prisoners were brought before the Magis- trates at Bow Street, and remanded till Tuesday next.
The Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, refused an application for a rule to set aside the verdict in the case of Harvey versus Norton, made on the ground that the evidence did not support the verdict given for the defendant, and that the Judge had misdirected the Jury. The Court said the case had been properly left to the Jury, and the evidence was sufficient to justify the finding.
In the Insolvent Debtors Court, on Tuesday, Mr. Cooke applied for a rule calling on the Sheriff of Middlesex to hold and retain the damages of 600/. awarded against Messrs. Hansard; and on Mr. Stock- dale to show cause 'why the money, or such suns as the Court should think fit, should not be paid to the assignee to be appointed for the benefit of his creditors. The learned counsel said the application was made under the 89th section of the 1st and 2d Vic., c. 110, as subse- quently-acquired property. He read an affidavit from Mr. Chamberlain, coach-builder, in Great Newport Street, stating that Stockdale was dis- charged under the Act in January 1831, and no assignee had been appointed, and that the Sheriff of Middlesex had 600/. in his hands, paid under a ,fieri ludas against Messrs. Hansard. The Court granted the application as prayed—a rule nisi.
Mr. Richard Bradshaw, who stands charged with an assault of a pe- culiar nature upon Mrs. Cullum, in a carriage of the Midland Counties Railway Company, and against whom a true bill had been found at the Central Criminal Court by the Grand Jury, has exercised his privilege of traversing the indictment until the next Sessions; and his bail has accordingly been enlarged until that period.
Mr. Benjamin Powis, a City merchant, drowned himself in the water in the Green Park, last week. He was not embarrassed, but had suffered heavy losses. A Coroner's Jury found a verdict of "Tempo- rary Insanity."
The Queen has given 50/. to the "Manor Hall Refuge for Destitute Females," released from prison.
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