The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDMISDNY, APRIL 2i, 1841

MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES.

We have already given an outline of tile estimates
for the year 1841.42, which as stated, we classed
under five heads. The following are some of the

items :

1. 11,yal Palaces—(expense formerly chargel upon
the Civil List), 49,567/. ; public buildings, 27,026/„
among which is put down 990/. 25., incurred by the
trial of the Earl of Cardigan : New Houses of Parlia-
ment, for the continuation of the River front, and the
north and south flanks, and for additional foundations,
50,000/. ; Completion of the Model Prison, Copen-
hagen-fields, 30,0001, in addition to 45,0001. alr,
voted ; Hall for the General Assembly of the Church
of Scotland, 5 0001. The proposed building is to be
erected at the joint expense of the public, and the
City of Edinburgh, and is to be also used as a church.
Tne sum to he contributed by the public is 10,0001.,
of which 5,0001. was voted last Session.
2. Sa'aries and Expenses of the two Houses of
Parliament, 58,000/., being 12,000/. less than last
year ; Treasury, 54,000/. ; Home Department,
28,008/. ; Foreign, 72 993/. ; Colonia', 24,588/. ; Pay-
master-General, 34,9781.; Penitmairy, Mi:bank,
22,221/. ; Poor-law Commissioners, and Assistant-
Commissioners, 59,531/. ; Consuls abroad, 113,592/. ;
Mint, 46,405/. ; Official Postage, (in consequence of
the abolition of franking) 38,0001., of which 23,0001.
is put to the account of the Forego-office.
3. Superanuations, 87,291/. ; French emigrants aid
America' loyalists, 7,5001. ; Refugo for the Destitute,
3,000/. ; criminal lunatics, 3,390/.
4. Secret service money, 39,200/. ; convicts at home,
58,206/. ; at Bermuda, 20,679/. ; and at New South
Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 265,0001. The num-
ber of convicts at Bermuda is about 1,000, and at New
South Wales aid Van Diemen's Land, 12,350 males
and females and 509 children ; captured negroes,
25,0001.; University of London, 6,103/. ; revising bar-
risters, 30,000/. ; Polish refugees, 12,000/. ; steam na-
vigation to India by way of the Red Sea, .50,000/.
5. Civil establishment at Sierra Leone, Gambia, and
the Gold Coast, 10,680/. ; We stern Australia, 7,099/.;
Clergy, North America, 11,590/. ; Indian Depart-
ment, Canada, 18,895/. ; Governors aad ethers, West
Indies, 18.667/. ; Justices in colonies, formerly sl ive
colonies, 58,7001. ; education, ditto, 30,000/. ; Expedi-
tion to the Niger, 39.974/., in addition to 61,263/.
voted last year ; New Zealand, 6,0001.

NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.
STATE OF THE POLL.
NINE O'CLOCK.

Walter
Larpent 264

MAjority for Walter 2BB
TEN O'CLOCK.

Walter
Larpent

1065
750

Majority ...... 315
HALF-PAST TEN.

Walter
Larpent

Mak rity
ELEVEN O'CLOCK

1252
929

Walter

Larpcnt

Majority 306
TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Walter
Larpent

285

1778
1499

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CBRONICLE.—Mr. Walter has been returned for Not-
tingham by a majority, variously stated at 296 and 280. Mr.
Larpent resigned at half-past one o'clock. The former num-
ber is the official return of the sheriff when Mr. Larpent
resigned. It would be idle to deny that during this elec-
tion Mr. Walter has been the candidate of the multitude.
Our reporter has, we think, very fairly accounted for his
popularity. Nottingham, like all old boroughs, contains
a number of electors who expect to be paid for their
vote, hut who, at the same time, have their likings and
dislikings, and will sell themselves for less to the candi-
date of their choice than to Ids opponent. The Chartists
have performed their part of the bargain fairly to Mr.
Walter—having, it is understood, obtained many votes for him
on very favourable terms. But besides the Swiss, who are nu-
merous in Nottingham, many persons viho were not to be
bought, and who on an ordinary occasion would not.have voted
for a Tory, were induced by hostility to the New Poor-law to
oppose the Liberal candidate. This is the fact of which
there can be no question. The people in the manufactur-
ing towns say there are seasons when, from flatness of
trade, multitudes are without employment, and few wholly
employed ; and the necessitous having been aeons •
tomeit to partial relief at such times, arc horrified at
the idea of going into a workhouse. This is the
view they take of the matter, and the intensity of their feelings
is hardly to be described. Mr. Walter entered the field with
not a few draw backs in other respects. The principles of the
Times, or rather the total absence of all principles except such
as are assumed for the day, and his own shuffling with respect
to principles, would have sunk him, in spite of the most profuse
expenditure amoney, but for the hc.stility to the New Poor-
law and the mariner in which that hostility was turned to ac-
count by his active allies, the Chartists. We have confined
ourselves to a mere statement of what we conceive to be the
facts
on
nf
thethe
subjectea
se. Wefretiaibetsltla.in for the present from all discus-
sionTl IIES.—We are quite aware of the folly of imagining,
whether in public or in private affairs, that the circumstances
in which we ourselves happen to take a peculiar interest must
necessarily possess the same interest in the eyes of all other
persons. But still, after making all the allowance on this
score which we are able, it does seem to us impossible to
doubt, that the return of Mr. Walter for Nottingham is an
event of very unusual importance. The last contest which
took place in this borough was in the year 1837, when the poll
closed as follows :
Ferguson
Hobhouse
Plowden
Twiss..
But

1,640
1,639
1,148
1,147

the numbers polled yesterday were—
Walter .
Larpent 1,722
The Whig majority, therefore, of 492 was turned into a mi-
nority of 296, making a clear difference of 788 votes. Now,
allowing, as we must always do, for the constant declension of
the Whigs, by the ever-increasing disgust of the people, still,
this circumstance of itself cannot sufficiently account for this
enormous defalcation. It is quite useless for any one to at-.
tempt to deny that the detestation felt for the New Poor-law
is one main cause of the defeat sustained by the Whig nomi-
nee of yesterday on Nottingham hustings. But, this feet
being admitted, we should next consider the great power
of this new element, thrown into our popular elections.
It has wrested Nottingham from the Whigs ! Can
a stronger proof be required of the potency of the
public feeling Nottingham, the safest and closest
of all the large Whig boroughs ! Nottingham, which has
witnessed about seven severe contests in the last thirty years,
and seen the Whigs victorious in every one ! Nottingham, to
which Mr. Larpent was recommended, as to "a perfectly safe
speculation"—he having previously declined East Surrey,
on the plea of being engaged to start for the City of London !
Nottingham, with its Whig corporation, filling every office in
the town with electioneering agents ! Nottingham, the strong-
est hold of Dissent that England can produce ! Nottingham
itself has postponed or cast away all the seductive theories of
Ballot, Extension of the Franchise, Abolition of Church-rates,
&c., and has eagerly returned the man who stood boldly and
honestly on his opposition to the Somerset-house
triumvirate. We say boldly and honestly. The Ministerial
Journals are often ready to taunt us with the conduct of cer-
tain Conservatives, who they tell us use the New Poor-law as
a hustings topic, and then utterly forget it when they reach
the House of Commons. If such there be, with them we have
no sympathy; and we may perhaps hint, that the reason why
mere hustings declamation on the New Poor-law has never
worked such wonders as we have seen at this Nottingham elec-
tion, has been, that seldom before has any body of electors
had the tender of the services of one on whose sincerity they
might so thoroughly rely as the men of Nottingham felt they
might on the earnestness and steadfastness of Mr. Wal-
ter. They knew that the cause which brought their
Candidate to Nottingham, was—not to advance his
own personal interests, or even to serve the cause of a
mere political party, but to raise a banner on which was in-
scribed, whether mistakenly or not we shall not now argue, but
at all events honestly, the cause of the labouring poor. But
Nottingham is not a strange and outlandish place, affording no
clue to the feelings of the people of England. Will any man
be so weak as to suppose that the power which has brcken in
that borough a yoke which had been quietly borne for more
than 30 years—will any man imagine that the same spell would
be powerless in Halifax, in Bradford, in Leicester, in Sheffield
—in fact, in an hundred other places that might be named ?
And is not this a point worth considering ; nay, is it not a
point that must be considered? Is not a dissolution, in the
present state of affairs, at all times just in sight? Think of
this, gentlemen representatives, whether on the one side of the
House or on the other ; and turn your thoughts, while there is
yet time, to the removal of the deformities of this detested law.
HERALD.—It is exceedingly amusing to observe with what
eagerness the morning ministerial print " came out" to repu-
diate the notion that their defeat on Monday night could pos-
sibly induce Ministers to resign. Lord John Russell's request
for a week (not for a day as the Chronicle says) to consider
which way he was to turn himself, " led to a very ridiculous
misconception of the object of it, which obtained currency in
the clubs—that Ministers were contemplating a resignation."
Such a rumour as applied to any other party in a similar po-
sition would be the most semblable in the world ; and we
presume that the Chronicle only means that it is a ridicu-
lous misconception as applied to the Whigs. Taken in
this sense, there is some reason in its prompt and
indignant refutation of the supposed sensitiveness of
her Majesty's Ministers ; and the clubs were very
wrong to entertain the rumour of such a miracle, until po
i-
tively assured by Lord John Russell himself of the fact. They
should have remembered how many affronts of the same sort
her Majesty's Ministers had already endured without showing
the slightest milkiness with office, before helieving (except on
the best att'bority) that the drubbing of Monday night would
induce them to budge. Indeed, if Lord Melbourne nimself
had sent them the good news, they should (as the phrase goes)
have "suspended their judgment" until they had seen his Lord-
ship's chattels fairly " bundled out" of Downing-street. At
any rate the public (after what has passed in the way of bed-
chamber intrigue) will look for some such conclusive sign
before they are satisfied that the Whigs hare resigned,
and that .his Lordship has really reconciled himself to
quitting the " gay and festive scene," which has been to him
as the air which he breathes, and without which it seems as
if he would die. But, badinage apart—notwithstanding all
we know of their mean tenacity of office, of the indignities
they will endure, and of the tricks they will resort to far its
retention—it is difficult to imagine how they can avoid resign,-
in;; after their signal discomfiture on Monday night. By re-
signing, we do not mean the farce of tendering their resig-
nations to her Majesty, and then preventing her Majesty
from conclusively accepting them, by intrigues which resider
it impossible for any upright set of men to take their
offices off their hands. We. mean honestly quitting office
" bag and baggage," and leaving a fair field for their
successors to conduct the public service to the best of
their ability. The Citron:etc considers that this would
be ridiculous, and cannot see why they should hesitate as to
continuing the Government. The defeat, it contends, was
no defeat, because a portion of their old allies contributed
to it. This we take to be the worst and most fatal of all
defeats. What general would continue a campaign with an
equal force opposed to him, when in every pitched battle a
part of his own troops turned round and assisted in routing
him ? With an opposition all but equal to them in number,
and far superior to them in talent, a Ministry must necessarily
be lamentably weak, however zealous and compact its own
party might be. But for a Ministry, so held in check by
a powerful Opposition, to pretend to carry on the Go-
vernment (in a manner deserving the name of Govern-
ment), when, upon a measure on which its reputation was
staked, its own party contributed to swell a large
majority against it, would be "ridiculous" indeed. What mea-
sure, involving any principle to which it is committed, can the
pi event Ministry, after the event of last Monday, propose with
any confidence of carrying it? And without such confidence
they are utterly useless for all purposes of legislation, in most
of the important branches of which the Ministry of the day can
alone take the initiative. They must remain in power—no, in
place, each the mere nominal representative of his office (ex-
cept so far as the receipt of its salary and the command of its
patronage are concerned), without weight in Parliament, with-
out service to the country, and without credit to themselves;
and this, after all they have done and suffered for the sake of
office, would, if possible, be unworthy even of them.
VOST.—We sincerely congratulate the public on the rescue
of the borough of Nottingham from the hands of the Whig-
Radical faction. This is another Conservative triumph,
scarcely inferior in value to that which was achieved in the
House of Commons on the preceding day. What a change
has taken place in the relative strength of parties in this
borough in the short space of four years ! In P... 437 the Whig-
Radical candidates triumphed by a majority of seven hundred,
and row we behold a gentleman of the same political school,
and of personal pretensions in no respect inferior to those of
the former candidates on the same side of the question, re-
jected by a majority of three hundred.
The numbers at the final close of the poll yesterday were at
follow t
Pot Mr. Walter
For Mr. Larpent • • 1,722
Majority ... ... .
Our Ministerial Contenip.eraries Must endeavour to console
themselves undtr this defeat, as they do under that with which
we have Ventured to compare it, by the persuasion that the
question at Nottingham was not a party 'qUestion, and that
there cannot possibly ka a*:- patty triumph, because the Minis-
terial defeat has been in part occasioned by a diVision in the
Ministerial ranks.
ADVERTISER. —The defeat of the Mitiigtry on Lord
Howick's amendment on MOtidAy night is Considered in all
quarters as one of tht most contemptible manoeuvres that was
ever attempted against an Adminittration. That it can ht tidy
possibility disturb its existenN, •kVe khow to be utterly and to-
tally out of the question. The Administration relies on the
force of public opinion. It relies wpoti the justice of its cause
and upon the utter imphssibillty, of any Tory Government
supplanting it, whith has net the interests of Ireland at heart.
The Duke of Wellington and Sir R. Peel at the beginning of
the Session told their adherents, that they would net support
them in any factious movement ; and if ske guts§ right, it is to
be in'erred from this deelaration on their
.part. that they are
more inclined to support the present Administration than to'
Right
ht trifling no gu comparedoet
have
eaasnuyreoscCuarsv,i7):rabte.ver to consider
Nvith ithtetirand ittither the Noble Duke nor the
the amount of salary as a thing in the slightest degree,
calcu-
latesenn e promoteetote(l

thisVw x , -
1,-,:n--"1-01.-01;1;t*ri 2(Blsb Atilnlij 1 has
aans
excellent-'bill of 'fatv. On Monday-eyning he appeared for 1
leC,kr orrß6lvAi
provided
di' llforr. tiliiTs II
the first tine this selton as - Don '.‘,-31vi
tide Calatrava, in the I
Bloch pomblo, or 21/ystery, which s "-really been got up
i
with very great splendour, and does in nite credit to all the.,
artists connected with the establishment, aS,Well as to the ma-
nagement.
Alin Vincent perforrnedthe. three chs.racters of
the Black Domino, the Maid of .Aragoit,.ioa Siter, Angela,
with her usual spirit., discrimination, and judginent,arid,eang a
very Pretty song. Osbaldiston both played and . looltedit_the-
character of Don Sylvio, to the - evident satisfaction pf,every
one. The Circular Chamberhad.a very, novel appearance,-end.-
the Court yard of the Convent of Santal Agatha, introducing.
the beautiful effect of a - double stage, with varied light and.
shade in the rear, was veheinently applauded; indeed it is one,.
of the most splendid scenes we have seen for a long time.- The
Dumb Recruit was afterwards played, introducing. Frampton •
and his clever pupils.- - The 2114/ of Berezina closed the evenz
ing's performances, in which Saville and others exerted them
selves to the utmost. The house was very full.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS PAY.

TINIES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 7i per mille,
which, at the English Alint price of 31. 17s. 10%d. per ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 34, and the ex-
change at Paris on London at-sit-di-I li6ng-25.-4-.24, it follows
that gold is 0 3ent. dearer in London than in Paris.
. . _4:pr cent.

By advices froni.Hamburgh the price Of gold is 4281 per mArks.
which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. l otta. per ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 64, and the ex-
change at Hamburgh on London at short being 13. 7i,.it fol-
lows that gold is 0.34 per cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgh.
There is still an evident tendency in the English securities
to decline, and though there was not much business done dur.
ing the day, the offers of money stock for sale acted prejudi-
cially on prices in general.

POST.—The English Funds fell again this morning, in
consequence of the decided defeat of the Ministry last night in
the House of Commons. With so large a minority there ap-
pcirs to most people to be no alternative but for the present
men to go out of office; and every crisis of the kind, causing,
as it must, a demand for money for electioneering purposes. is
found to have an unfavourable influence on prices.
It would seem that the Decayed Members' Fund of the
Stock Exchange has suffered more seriously by the reported
breach of trust on the part of a trustee than had been supposed.
A further deficiency of from 5001. to 6001 is said to have been
detected.

To show that there is no real cause for despondency with res-
pect to the President steam-ship, we desire to call the atten-
tion of the publ c to the case of a vessel bound from Halifax,
Nova Scotia, to Jamaica, which was dismasted on the 10th of
February last, in much the same situation in which the Presi-
d nt may be supposed to have been a month subsequently. We
allude to the ship Ellen, Captain Brown. This vessel was the
other day placed on the hooks at Lloyd's as having arrived in
distress at Antigua on the 17th of Alarch, after a tedious pas-
sage of thirty-five days from the point at which she had suf-
fered the loss of her masts, lat. 40. long. 63. Assuming
that the President may have found herself in circumstances
similar to those of the Ellen, and like her have pro-
ceeded to Antigua—for there is not much probability of
her making Bermuda—it will be right to allow till the
middle of April for the purpose. To hear of her having
reached Antigua would require, upon a fair average computa-
tion of the time consumed in the passage thence to England,
at least thirty days, which will give the missing steamer about
three weeks longer. It may be further stated, that, some
years since, a frigate was dismasted in the month of Septem-
ber about 300 miles to the south of St. John's, Newfoundland,
and that, with all the, strength of her crew, she could not be
put in a condition to get to that port in less than seventeen
days. Many other instances, some quite recently recorded on
the books of the underwriters, might be adduced in support of
the impression that the President will still eventually be heard
of. The fact that calms had succeeded the heavy gales of
the 12th, 13th, and 14th ult. is to be regarded as favourable to
such a result.

3 U N.—The defeat of Ministers in the House of Corn.
mons, though not expected to lead to any change in the
Government, as some of the Tory prints would fain have
us believe, has necessarily caused some flatness in the
public securities, for our readers must be made ac-
quainted with the fact, thet there are Tory stock-job-
bers as well as Tory p!acetnen, and that an opportunity
is seldom lost by either to turn a penny at the expense
of the public at large. Hence the attempt now to get
down the funds, on the plea of the Ministry being in
danver. For immediate transfer, Consols realised 90i
in the morning, subsequently-receded to 898, and left off
at 90. For the 25th proximo, the opening quotation
was 901, and the subsequent transactions were at 90k
to 1. Exchequer were not quite so good, being at 15
to 13 prem. ; India Bonds were marked 4 to 2 prem. ;
the Reduced Three-stud-a-Half per Cents. receded to
971 and 97k ; the New Three-and-a- Half per Cents.
to 981 and 988, and the Three per Cent. Annuities to
89k and to 89.
The Foreign Securities and the Railway Shares par-
ticipate in the dullness of the English Stocks. The New
Five per Cent. Portuguese Bonds were at 331 to 34,
and Spanish Active Bonds were nominally at 23k.
The accounts by express from Paris of Cabrera having
entered Spain again, not being credited, did not lead
to any movement in the latter. Mexican Bonds of
1837 were worth 294 to 301, Columbian Bonds 221,
Chilian 61k, Brazilian 69, and Peruvian 178 to 1.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 52} to 521,
and the Five per Cents. 991 to -a.
Great Western Railway Shares were at 29 the
New, 131 to 148, the Fifths at 71, and the South-
Western at 198 to 198 premium. Brighton Shares
were up to 11, and Eastern Counties were at 14 dis-
count. Australasia Bank Shares realised 18 to 8, Co-
lonial Bank 118, London Joint• Stock 21 to 8, and
London and Westminster 21 to 3 premium.
This afternoon the Foreign Exchanges were again in
a depressed condition, chiefly as regards the rate on
Paris, whither it is said large remittances are making,
to complete instalments on shares in the Rouen Rail-
way. The quotations were for three months' Bills as
follow :—Paris 25f. 60c. to 621 c., Amsterdam 12 3,
' Antwerp 12 34, Ham burgh 13 91, Frankfort 1498,
and Trieste 10 to 10 1.

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
This magnificent exhibition has been the point of
immense attraction during the holidays. Independent
of the extensive museum of rare specimens of the
productions of nature and works of art, and the nu-
merous practical models in operation, there arc a
number of things to be viewed, each of which might
rationally be considered entitled to rank individually as
an exhibition worth all the charge for admission, and the
different lectures, illustrated with first-rate apparatus,
among which is Mr. Green, the celebrated aeronaut's
newly-constructed balloon. The cosmorama comprises a
great variety of views, several of which are paintedon glass,
and they arc very much admired for their brilliancy of
effect in their colouring, as are also those which are
2:minced by the new process called Daguerreotype.
There is one view, which at the present moment is
likely to command more than ordinary attention,
namely, a panoramic view of the city of Canton, painted
by a Chinese artist. Then there is the beautiful model
of the Isle of Wight. The diving-bell, and the sub-
marine explosion-experiment, always proves attractive.
One of the most recent introductions to the Institution,
and certainly not the least astonishing to the ordinary
observer, is that of