The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-23 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Nottingham, April 22, 1841.
Stn,—l hope and trust when a candidate again comes from
London to present himself for Nottingham your good city
will send us something better than Dlr. Walter : he has only
one idea—

The Neutralization of the Centralization of the Commis-
sioners of the Poor-law Bill."
This is all he has told us, and truly, probably all he knows.
Alteration of the Corn-laws—Alteration of Tariff, &c., he
comprehend !—No I
Ultra-Tcries, ultra-Chartists, anybody, compose his agitat-
ing associates.
After kindly relieving him of a little of his money, we will
return him—the rejected of Nottingham. t;IVIS.
[We have received another letter, signed "A Moral Force
Man," stating in most indignant language that one of the
Chartist leaders has become a traitor to his cause, and sold him-
self to Mr. Walter's friends. In a postscript the writer adds,
" the above indicates but a faint and favourable glimpse of his
real character. You may denounce him as a traitor in the
most unmeasured terms." He must be bad indeed, if the de-
scription we have received is only a "favourable glimpse," for
it is so s'rongly drawn that we should not be justified in pub-
lishing it. I

NOTTINGHAM ELECTIONS.

1818.
Members: C Joseph Birch (L.)
returned. 1 Lord Ranchffe (L.)
T. A. Smith (C.) .......

1820.
Two fJ. Birch (L.) ],891
returned. 1 T. Denman (L.) ... .
T. A. Smith (C.) 1,858
Lancelot Rolleston (C.) 1,858

1826.
Two IJ. Birch (L.) 2 234
returned. Lord Rancliffe (L.) ' .. 2,158
_ . .

J. Smith Wright (C.)
1830.

Two C Sir T. Denman (L ) 1,206
1 returned. Sir R. C. Ferguson (L.)
. Thomas Bailey (C.)

1832.
Two Sir R. C. Ferguson (L.) 2,399
I returned. Lord Duncannon (L.)
J. E. Gordon (C.)..
1834.
(Vice Lord Duncannon.)
Sir J. C. Hobhouse (L.)
W. Eagle (L.)

1835.

Sir J. C. Hobbouse Z Returned without
Sir R. C. Ferguson $- opposition.
_

1837.

Sir R. C. Ferguson (L.)
Sir J. C. Hobhouse (L.)
J. C. Plowden (C.)
Horace Twiss (C.) 1,396

HIRED BREAD TAXERS DIS-
GUISED AS CHARTISTS.
(From the Anti- Bread- Tax Circular, late Anti- Corn-law
Circular).
In our last we alluded in general terms to the circumstance
that. Nightingale, the Manchester Chartist leader, had been
hired by the Gladstone party to go to Walsall to oppose. Mr.
Smith. The following particulars of the bargain entered into
on the occasion can be substantiated on oath, and we dare the
parties implicated to disprove our statement :
" It was Mr. Wilkins who suggested that Nightingale should
be sent for. The messenger sent from Walsall took with him
a letter from Mr. Wilkioa, introducing him as a trusty emissary
of the Carlton Club ; and to whom do our readers suppose this
letter was addressest? Why to Mr. Sowler, of the Manchester
Courier ! The messenger delivered his credentials on the Sun-
day morning, and then Mr. Sowler, jun., accompanied him to
Nightingale's tap-room. Nightingale bargained fur thirty
pieces of gold and his expences, and accompanied the messen-
ger to Walsall on Sunday afternoon, selling his services for the
same number of pieces (thirty) for which Judas Iscariot
agreed to betray his Lord and Master. It was a sore disap-
pointment to the bread taxers that the people at Walsall, in-
stead of listening to Nightingale, walked quietly away as soon
as he commenced speaking. The bread taxers, enraged at his
failure, then broke faith with the traitor, and would pay him
only fifteen pieces of gold, with which the creature took his
departure. It is said of the traitor Judas, that after he be-
trayed his Lord he went out and hanged himself. We have
not heard that the Chartist traitor has followed his example,
but we hope the exposure will induce the honest portion of
the Chartists to inquire into the character of the men who set
themselves up as their leaders."— Manchester Times.
These facts are not only important as proving an individual
case, but they afford a clue to the secret motives of others who
are still acting the very same part as Nightingale. There are
two or three men in Manchester, whose ostensible occupation
is that of Chartist lecturers; that is, they pretend to be the
missionary advocates of the principles of the Charter. '1 hose
principles are universal suffrage, vote by ballot, annual Parlia-
ments, paid representatives, and no property qualification.
These men profess to aim at carrying the Charter, not
by physical force, but by moral means—by reason and ar-
gument. The avowed object is to convince the public
mind of the justice of their cause. What then would be
the natural and rational course of such lecturers if
true to the principles of Chartism? Why, obv;eusly,
to take the Charter in hand, and to make converts to it dog-
trines. But the actual employment of these men is to follow
our lecturers and attend public meetings for the purpose of
obstructing, by a variety of manoeuvres, every demonstration
against the bread tax. Mark the actual circumstances under
which they can find leisure and means to travel from place to
place to oppose our agents! Twenty to one at least of the Mem-
bers of the douse of Commons arc against the five points which
they pretend to wish to see become the law of the la;.d ; they con-
stantly assert that the entire middle class are also against
them ; and yet with these formidable impediments to overcome,
instead of labouring to convert the public to the principles of
the Charter, they bestow their time and attention, and employ
the money which they say is furnished by Chartists, is ob-
structing anti-bread-tax meetings! Last Monday Mr. Paulton
delivered a lecture at Oldham, when lo! three of these Char-
tist. lecturers were there to oppose him. A short time ago
another of our lecturers was at Leicester, and one of these
worthies started up against him. Yet these men profess to
reside in Manchester!
We can vouch for the expense that attends the labours of
our Lecturers. How do these poor working-men find the
money for travelling expenses and support, to say nothing of
salaries, during thew excursions ? Our ways and means are
published to the world in the munificent subscriptions of the
members of the League, but where does the money come from
for our opponents, who profess to be poor labouring men ? We
think there can be but one answer to this inquiry after the dis-
closures made before the Walsall Election Committee.
We shall be greatly obliged if our friends of the press and
speakers at anti-bread-tax meetings will direct public atten-
tion to the practices of these characters. The Examiner, of
Saturday last, has well remarked, that " it is only necessary to
expose this system of hiring brawlers, contrary to the English
system of fair play, to ensure its destruction." The fact once
known, there will soon be an end of the disgraceful nuisance ;
while the detection of the pay-system accounts readily for the
small number of the disturbers, the perseverance of their vir-
tue, and the loudness of their cries. It also accounts for the
secession of the more rational Chartists, who are manifestly
ashamed of their company.
" Mr. Pitkeithly and the hired Chartists at Nottingham la-
bouring on tehalf of Mr. Walter may take a hint from this.
Their mission, and that of Nightingale to Walsall, have the
same moving cause.—En. Sun.

STATE 01? TRADE.
We regret to state that after a year's prosperity the
drawer and pantaloon trade has met a sudden depression.
This is principally attributed to our unsettled relations
with tha United States; should it unhappily continue, it
will be much felt in this district.
The plain silk hose branch, once the main support of
Nottingham, keeps constantly dwindling, and has sunk
into a :Late of insignificance. In London it has wholly
disappeared; the same may be said of Godalming, Dub-
lin, and Northamptonshire, and even in Dtrbysnire
the frz.mes arc principally employed in making gloves.
It has been remarked that this branch of manufacture has
ral idly declined since the repeal of the sth Geo. 111., in
1826, as by that law silk hosiery was prohibited ender the
peria'ty of forfeiture of goods, and a fine of 100 L Franca
at that period, 1765, on account of the cheapness of la-
bour, ari,ing from low living, hiving obtained a great pre-
ponderance of silks in the English market. Most of tho
English gentry now provide mernselves with silk hosiery
from France and Italy, in their continental excursions ; the
greater part of the silk hose made in Engllnd being slop
goods.
The warp Berlin glove trade in Leicester has bacome
depressed ; these looms, as they arc termed, are prin-
cipally owned by butchers, bakers, publicans, and other
tra'lesinen, who partly work and partly let them to hire
to the warp master.. A great number of the hands
have been suddenly stop Fed in the warp purse and brace
trade. Owing to the great skill of the Notingham
dyers in cotton, many of these purses are now made of
that material ; the brilliancy of the colour nearly ap-
proaches to silk. Most of the Leicester hosiers have
their cotton yarn and webs dyed at Nottingham. On the
contrary, most of the black silk hosiery are dyed in Lon-
don, though the Nottingham dyers have of late years so
far imprQved, as in many fancy colours to be nearly equal