The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

THE CHARTIST DISTURBANCES.

The chartist demonstrations attempted to be got up
last night in several parts of the metropolis may be said to
be, as far as the number of persona who attended them were
concerned, perfect failures. The commissioners of police re-
ceived information in the morning that two meetings would
take place in the evening at the east end of London—one
was to be held in Bonner's-flo Ida and the other on Stepney-
green. Orders were therefore given to have the ground on
which the assemblies generally take place at Stepney occu-
pied by the police an hour before the time announced for
the meeting to begin; accordingly 500 foot constables marched
on to the ground r.t six o'clock. The private officers were
placed two deep on either side of the road from King John's
Palace to the Mile-end-read. Several hundred persons
came down in the expectation of the meeting being held,
but upon seeing such a formidable force they did not at-
tempt to get up • meeting, and by sections of the police
being marched up and down the ground no large assem-
blage took place. Mounted police, with swords and fire-
arms, were quartered in various puts of Loudon, in case
their services might be required.
From the immense size of Bonner's-gelds it would have
been a work of considerable difficulty to have placed suffi-
cient constables there to have prevented any meeting being
held. Only a few officers were therefore sent, and they
were located in the church. A mounted patrol was however
In the district, to carry the information for additional assist-
ance, in case such should be required. Towards nine o'clock
Information was received at Stepney that several hundred
persons were collected in various parted' the fields, and that
they were showing every disposition to create a disturbance.
♦ strong muster of men was immediately despatched thither.
They there found a great number of rabble throwing stones
at each other, groaning at the police, and threeteuing to
serve them out. The parties were immediately ordered to I
disperse, which many did, but the others set up a cry of
Down with the police." The men were then ordered to
Blear the fields, and they immediately marched in amongst
the people without drawing their truncheons, but
lading it impossible to get the rabble ofi without the
aid of their staves, they were called into requisition,
when the majority quickly scampered off. A number
rushed late the City of Paris Tavern, where they hooted at
the cams. and their conduct being such as would incite the
mood, orders were given to the men to go in and clear the
house. A number of constables, with staves in band, entered
the menthe% sad, on going into the several rooms ordered
orrery perms to leave, which order was instantly obeyed.

At Clerkenwalireen a set of disorderly fellows rem.
menced flingieg stones at the policemen stationed there. One
of them we/ observed by Mr. Child, high constable of the
borough of Finsbury, to be most active, when he toned
himself among the crowd and seised hold of him. Just then,
a number of policemen, under the orders of Inspector Julien,
cams on the green, and the man was secured. Mr. Child having
previously received a blow on his head from the truncheon
of a policeman who thought he was about to /Mlle him.
The arrival of the additional body of polio* put an end to
the intended meeting, and the chartist delegates soon after
disappeared. Information was afterwards received that
there was a disturbance in Turnmilletreet. A sergeant
and six men, were accordingly sent there, but they were
assailed with such a shower of brick and stone, that they
were compelled to make a precipitate retreat. Inspectors
Peony and Julien instantly, with forty men, hastened to the
locality. Their appearance at once cleared the street.
Brickbats and stones were hurled at them from the houses,
scarcely one of the body having escaped without being struck.
Inspector Peony was knocked down by a blow to the neck.
The effect of these chartist demonstrations is most disastrous
to the trade of the die rict, and loud complaints are made by
the inhabitants, many of whom yesterday had their shops
closed at four o'clock in the afternoon.
A meeting for the purpose of expressing sympathy with
Mitchel, and making arrangements for "revenging the
conduct of the government with regard to the trial of John
Mitchel, by procuring arms and being instructed in the use
of them," was held at the South London Chartist Hall,
Blackfriare-road, when the following resolutions were
agreed to :
I. We, the members and friends of the John Mitchel Club, in
public meeting assembled, consider that it is our bounden duty, both
to our God and our country, to pledge ourselves to advocate a repeal
of the union with the same firm and unflinching determinatiun with
which Mr. Mitchel advocated it, convinced that It le the only and
sure way to bring about that change in our relatlonship with this
country which the Inters:eta and the welfare of Irishmen imperatively
"1".1-riat as Ood made man, and man made arms, and as It is the
undoubted right of to poesese seem and know the use of
as them, and the of them Imparts. dignity sod importance
which none but pow/ours know or can swede* we thick It
right to advise all pinions present to provide themselves with anns,
as the best and surest means of repelling a foreign foe, a midnight
burgtar,or sn armed assawba of any government that choose.. to set It-
self up sa the oppressor of the people it governs, or the antler of pub-
lic opinion honestly expressed.
After the adoption of some resolutions empathising with
Mitchel and denouncing the government, the meeting dis-
persed about midnight.

A Runt STEAM= spitz.—Yesterday at noon as
the Witch, a steamer belonging to the Old Woolwich Steam-
packet Compaq, was on her passage to London, in standing
in fur Bast Greenwich pier, she ran upon the anchor of a
brig, of whose position the master was nut aware, and sus-
tained such injuries that she sank almost immediately.
There were several passengers on board, but the tide being
low, the steamer mu not wholly submerged at the time,
though the flood tile rapidly covered her till nothing but the
top of the funnel was visible.
AN ACCIDENT TO COMMANDER CHADS, OF THE
STYX STRAM-SLOOP, occurred yesterday. It appears that
that officer was busily superintending at Woolwich the
clearing out the steamer's storm preparatory to her being
paid off, and the men were lowering these stores into a pin-
nace warped alongside the steamer. l'art of the gunwale of
the vessel abaft the
.paddle-box is nude to fall down on
hinges, and is securLd inside by bolts. It appears that this
part had been insecurely fastened, and when the commander
and two seamen were in the act of leaning against it, it gave
way, and they were precipitated into the pinnace alongside.
The two men, and a third who was in the boat, sustained
considerable injury, so much so as to cause their immediate
remov►l to the Marine Hospital. Commander Chad' was
picked up in a very deplorable state, and immediately moved
to the rmidence of Sir J. J. Gordon Bremer, where he now
lies. The amount of the injuries he received did not trans.
pin, but they an said to be sours.