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

LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1811.

JIHE MAGNIFICENT DISSOLVING
VIEWS at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTI-
TUTION, REGENT-STREET, are exhibited at One o'clock
and Half.past Four o'clock, by the OXYHYDROGEN
LIGHT, with appropriate music ; and in the Evenings, after
the MICROSCOPE, at Ten o'clock. The PHOTOGRA-
PHIC PORTRAITS, and the numerous Collection of Works
and Working Models, which display eminent art, science, and
ingenuity. The Diving Bell, Popular Lectures, and Experi-
ments. Admission, One Shilling.

EXCISE-OFFICE, OLD BROAD-STREET,
APRIL 16, 1841.
FOR SALE, by Order of the Hon. the
COMMISSIONER of HER MAJESTY'S EX-
CISE REVENUE, in a Spacious Room, at the Chief Office,
Old Broad-street, on Morin %Y, 3d, and TUESDAY, 4th May,
1841, at One o'clock in the Afternoon precisely, the following
Goods in Lots suited to various purchasers :—Scotch Whiskey,
Foreign Brandy, Rum, Raw Spirits, Scotch Ale, Mo-
lasses, Clarified Sugar, Green Tea, Soap, Oatmeal, To-
bacco and Segars, Copper Stilis, Cullett, Casks, Tubs, and
various Utensils, one Cart, one Truck, and sundry other
Goods.
Samples of the Spirits, Tobacco,& c. , and the Utensils, to be seen
at the Warehouse, Old Broad-street, three days preceding, from
Ten till Two o'clock ; and on the Mornings of Sale.; Samples
of that Day's Sale only, from Ten till Twelve o'clock, when
Catalogues may be bad at Sixpence each.

BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
THE DAGUERREOTYPE.
89, HIGH HOLBORN.
CLAUD ET and HOUGHTON beg to announce to the
amateurs of this wonderful discovery, that they are now enabled
to supply all-persons wishing to use the invention for amuse-
ment or expe:iment, with complete Apparatus, prepared Plates,
&c; &c., at a very moderate price.
They have on hand, for Sale, the finest COLLECTION of
VIEWS, obtained by the DAGUERREOTYPE, of some of
the most remarkable places am! monuments in the world, figures
from the living model, &c., from 10s. 6d. and upwards, at.
CLAUDET and HOUGHTON'S, Glass Shade and Window-
glass Warehouse, 89, High Holborn.

TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF NOT-

TINGHAM,

GENTLEMEN,
ITHANK you: for the kindness with which
you received me on my Canvass. The expectations
which I formed when I first came among you have been fully
realised, and I feel a confident expectation that I shall be ho-
noured by being your Representative.
The advantage to a trading community of being represented
by a Commercial man, has been very generally acknowledged.
From those who appreciate the inestimable benefits derivable
from Free Trade, I have received assurances of unqualified
support. The sentiments of Religious Freedom which I pro-
fess, have been responded to by the enlightened friends of the
Church, as well as by the Dissenters.
Upon the subject of the Poor-laws, on which alone my oppo-
nents rest their claim to your support, I should wish the
Electors to ask them what their vie .vs on this question are ;
they vituperate the New Law, and would get rid of it, but what
then ! would they have no Poo7-laws, or would they return to
the old system again ? Would they once snore adopt the plan
of making up the deficiency of wages from the poor-rates?
Would they do away with the popular election of guardians,
and have them appointed as formerly by the Magistrives? I
suspect they find it easier to abuse, than to amend.
Electors! I wish to be perfectly explicit on this important
subject. A Bill is now before the House of Commons for the
alteration and amendment of the New Poor-law Act, and if I
have the honour to be returned as your Representative, I shall
lend my zealous and hearty assistance in modifying such parts
of it as seem to press hardly upon the poor.
With regard to the important question of out-door relief, I
am strongly of opinion that inlarge trading towns like yours the
workhouse cannot properly be used for a test of destitution, as
it may in an agricultural district. In a time of sudden and gene-
ral stagnation of trade, we should consider well before we
break up the working-man's home • and in a case like this,
I think that a discretionary power 4:f acting may very properly
be confided to the Guardians of the poor. But after all, and
above all, the primary object of legislation should be to secure
to the working man the full value for his labour, and this object
I am confident can only ke effected by a total repeal of the
Corn•laws, as you know from experience that dear bread
lowers wages and cheap bread raises them. I want justice to
the working man, not that heshouldbedependent upon charity.
Gentlemen —I will not advert at any length to the strange
and unnatural coalition that has taken place against me.
I cannot but regret that an) real Reformers should be found
in the ranks of my opponents. but. I rely upon the sound good
sense of my countrymen to dispel the delusion, and I still ex-
pect to find them on any side at the day of election.
Gentlemen,—My cause is in your hands. Will you have a
Tory, or a Reformer? and a Reformer as anxious as any man
to vindicate the rights of the poor.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
With great respect,
Your very obedient servant,
G. G. de H. LARPENT.
Nottingham, April 22, 1841.

NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
THURSDAY Nt GLIT.—The noisy part of the election has now
commenced, bandsof music, flags, and crowds of people collecting
in every part. The canvass being nearlyconcluded. both parties
have time to give way to a little mirth and merriment. Mr.
Larpent has not received so many promises as Sir John Hob-
house and General Ferguson had at the last election, many of
the Liberal party remaining neuter ; but there is no doubt
that when the poll commences they will hasten to record their
votes for Larpent. A grand procession has been announced
in a blue Tory bill, to do honour to Mr. Walter, " for his un-
flinching advocacy of th • rights of the poor man, and his deter-
mined opposition to the iniquitous Poor law."
The flags and banes began to as'emble as early as two
o'clock. At that hour Mr. Pitkeithley addressed the first di-
vision from the windows of the Black's head, a high Tory
house, advising them to keep order, to behave with decorum,
and to let their procession be remarkable for its regularity
and quietness. All the afternoon flags were visible, parading
about the town, and at seven o'clock a meeting was held in the
Market-place to agree to the address. Mr. Edward Cox was
in the chair, and Mr. Whitehead moved an address to Mr.
Walter for his uniform kindness and exertions in behalf of the
poor, and his opposition to the unconstitutional Poor-law
Bill. The number of persons assembled composed many thou-
sands, and the address was agreed to most unanimously. Two
persons from Derby and Leicester delivered the sentiments of
the Chartists of those towns as in favour of Mr. Walter. The
address was then taken up to Mr. Walter, who returned a m.st
gracious answer to it, thanking them for their kindness in grant-
ing the address. The whole then quietly separated, nor was
the peace of the town disturbed in the slightest degree.
Mr. Larpent, at ahe close of the canvass, has issued an ad-
dress to his supporters, in which he states that the expectations
he formed when he came among them have been fully realised,
and that he feels a confident expectation that he shall be re-
turned as their representative.—[The address will be found in
another part of The Sun. j