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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Brighton Gazette.)

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 2.l.—There is a report that the War-
spite, 50, is to be forthwith commissioned here, for the broad
pendant of Commodore Sir Charles Napier, who is to have the
command in the Pacific.

The line-of-battle-ships, Edinburgh, 72, Captain Hender-
son, and Bellerophon, 78, Captain C. J. Austen, are ordered
home from the Mediterranean, to be paid off, and may shortly
be expected to arrive. The Hastings, 72, Captain Lawrence,
will leave Malta for England, for the same purpose in May next.
The transport. Belle Alliance, in command of Lieut. Densten,
has put into Plymouth from Deptford, with naval and ord-
nance stores for the squadron in the China Seas.
The Fair Rosamond schooner has been commissioned at this
port by Lieut. Bulman, for service on the coast of Africa. The
Bonetta brigantine, Lieut. Austen, fitting out at Chatham. is
to go to the same station, and to be at Spithead by the 28th
instant.

The Stag, 46, Commodore Thomas Sullivan, recently from
the Brazils, will haul down the pendant on Friday at Ply-
mouth, and be hauled into dock to be surveyed as to her fitness
for re-commissioning.
The surveying vessel Thunder, Commander G. Barnett, ac-
cording to private letters, will be in England in July next, to
be paid c,ff, from the Bahamas.
The brig Acorn, 16, Commander Adams, has reached Ply-
mouth from the Cape station, and is ordered to he re-fitted
there without delay. She left Simon's Bay on the 29th Janu-
ary. at which date Rear-Admiral Elliot had not arrived from
China on his homeward voyage. Rear-Admiral Sir Edward
King, K. C. 8., was daily expected to arrive at the Cape from
the Rio Plata, is the Southampton frigate. The Acorn brought
no news.
The steam frigate Salamander, Commander Henry, return-
ed to Sheerness on Monday, being ordered for some special
service forthwith.
The Asia, 84, recently from the Mediterranean, is to be
forthwith reported upon, for re-commissioning, at Sheerness.
Seve,.al large frigates and steam-ships are in active progress
of completion for commission, should any emergency arise.
AT SPITHEAD.—Indus, 84, Vernon, 50, Pelican, 16, and
Nautilus, 10.
IN HARDOUR.—Queen, Victory, Excellent, Royal George
yacht, Rapid, Echo, Fair Rosamond schooner, and tenders to
flag-ship.
FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT. )—The Prince George,
Captain Friend, a vessel of about 650 tons burthen, sailed
from Cowes on the 16th instant, with nearly 300 emigrants for
Canada. This fine vessel was fitted up in a very superior man-
ner, and was provided with an experienced surgeon. The pas-
sengers, for the greatest part children and infants, enjoyed
themselves during the few days the vessel was detained ; and
their friends left them in full persuasion of a fine passage and
kind treatment. We understand that the emigrants were
chiefly from Lord Portman's estates.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)
LONDON, APRIL 22.—Wind this day at noon, light breeze
from N.E., with a cloudy sky.
Mar., APRIL N.F.., strong breezes.—Arrived
from the River, and sai ed, the Maria, Grace, for Berbice ;
Catherine, Greene, St. Kitt's ; New Times, Cape Coast
Castle; Port Fleetwood; Gambia; Lady Leigh, New Zealand;
Abel, Gower, Jamaica.
FA Imo UT IL, APRIL 20.—Windt variable.—Arrived the
Jeune Joseph, Launcelot, from Nantes. Sailed the Happy
Return, for Lisbon.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 21.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Zee-
menu, from Rotterdam. Sailed the Freedom, for Quebec.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 2l.—Arrived the Sophie Catherine,
from Fcdderwardersell ; Nina, Thompson, Tournay ; George,
Frevcr, Varel. Sailed the Lumley, for Quebec ; John, Wil-
liamson, St. Übes.

PORTSMOUTH, Aran, 21.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived the
Philadelphia, Moyan, from London, and sailed for New York ;
Lucia Maria, from Amsterdam, for Batavia, with loss of cat-
head anchor and part of chain, having been in contact with a
French schooner 19th inst., off Lowestoffe.
RYE, APRIL 21.—The Union, Webster, was got off last
night, and is at anchor in the Bay.
LivEnrooL, APRIL 21.—Wind N.E., fresh.—Arrived the
Thomas Hughes, from Valparaism, sailed 23d Dec. ; Henry,
Bliss, New Orleans; Laurel, M'Bride, Savannah ; Queen,
Higgins, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Ellen Bryson, Dick-
son, ditto ; Frances, Brown, ditto. Sailed the Delhi, Crocker,
for Manilla ; Zenobia, Putman, Macao; John Bibby, Canton ;
Eleanor. Lancaster, Calcutta; Herculean, Bombay; Trenton,
Havannah ; Limena, St. lho ,nas ; Warwick, Demerara ; Isa-
bella, Pernambuco Aderondack, New York : Oxford, ditto;
Rochester, ditto; Gondola, ditto; Susegannah, Philadelphia;
Levant, ditto; North America, ditto; Denmark, Frost, New
Orleans ; Powhattan, ditto ; London, Bannerman, St. John's,
New Brunswick; Abigail, ditto; Jane, Duffu=, ditto; Loyalist,
Pictou ; Diadem, Reeves, Liverpool, U.S. ; George, Key,
Montreal; Mary Bell, ditto; Barbara Ann, Newfoundland;
Jerry, ditto ; Elizabeth, ditto ; Rebecca, Para ; Pigeon,
Gibraltar ; Emilia, Messina; Selima, Barcelona; Edward
Aild, Messina ; Trewarthen, ditto. Arrived off port the Cam-
byses, from Calcutta. An outward-bound brig is on shore on
East Hoyle.
CORK, APRIL 19.—Sailed the Glemnibur, for Bardoes.
Arrived off, the Oronooko, from St. John's, New Brunswick.
SHIELDS, Aram 20.—Sailed the Redwir.g,-, for North
America. The William and Henry, of Whitby, in being
towed down the harbour yesterday, upset in a squall, and towed
on the Lime-kiln shore.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.-The Erm, of Limerick, ht. 8,
lon. 92 ; Napoleon, Baltimore to Rio, lat. 19, lon. 33 ; Janet,
Wildridge, lat. 44, lon. 14, by the Childe Harold, arrived off
Portsmouth ; Valium, bound westward, 10th inst., lat. 49 N.,
lon. 13, and a Dutch brig, No. 375, bound westward, 11th,
lat. 48, lon. 8, by the Charlotte Lretitia, arrived at Antwerp ;
Eliza, Jones, from Liverpool to Mobile, March 6, by the Cod-
rington, arrived at Antigua. The Breeze, from Halifax to
Berhice, was" spoken with, loss of deck, load boats, and bul-
warks, in lat. 24, lon. 45 ; Royal William, Clyde to
Bombay, 23d February, lat. 5 N., lon. 18, by the
Ellison, arrived off Plymouth; Colonist, Matanzas to
Halifax, 20th ult., lat. 25, lon. 80; Juno. Havannah
to New York, 21st; Lima, Havannah to St. Petersburgh,
22d, lat. 2700 n. 79; City of Waterford, bound to Quebec,
13th, lat. 47, lon. 17, by the Spencer, arrived at Cork; her
Majesty's ship Tweed, 71h ult., lat 39, lon. 14; Lady Seaton,
from London, 15th, lat. 47, lon. 11, by the Isabella, arrived at
Falmouth ; Ann, Whitehairen to Bay Chaleur, 13th inst., lat.
50, lon. 13, by the Reliance; arrived in the Clyde ; American,
lon. 6, and ship India,
Byron, 16th, lat 50, same day, by the
Reform, arrived in the River; Martha, bound to Tampico,
9th, lat. 41, lon. 12; Romanoff, 15th, lat. 47, lon. 11, by the
Eliza. arrived at Bristol; Perthshire, of, and for, St. John's,
New Brunswick, 9th, lat. 45, lon. 22 ; Lord Sandon, for ditto,
out seven days, lat. 48, lon. 18, by the Manby, arrived at Li-
verpool.

It is stated in the local Galway papers, that Mr.
Bodkin, one of the present county Members, will not
come forward again for its representation. It is added,
that Mr. Redington, the present Member fur Dundalk,
will be the new Liberal candidate.

NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
WEDNESDAY.—The work on both sides speeds bravely on.
The writ was received this morning, and publicly proclaimed.
The nomination is to be on Monday next, and the polling on
Tuesday. Great numbers of the poorer classes have declared
in favour of Mr. Walter on the Poor-law question, and he will
no doubt run Mr. Larpent hard; but that he will win, we do
not see much chance. The Radicals of Nottingham are the
same as ever in heart; although they may promise to remain
neuter for a time, they will on the day of polling rush to the
poll• booths and i ecorol their votes for Mr. Larpent, in spite of
the bugbear raised about the Poor-liw. In answer to a letter
of an elector, who has addressed one to each candidate, the fol-
lowing answer has been received from Mr. Larpent :-
1. It returned to Parliament, will yyu vote for a total repeal
of the existing Corn-laws?—Yea.
2. Will you vote for Free Trade ?—Yes.
3. Will you vote for the Ballot ?—Yes.
4. Will you vote for any practicable measure proposed for an
Extension of the Suffrage ?—Yes.
5. Will you vote for the shortening the duration of Parlia-
ments ?—Yes.
6. Will you vote for a plan of Natisnal Education, unfettered
by the doctrines of the Church, being made part of the system
of instruction ?—Yes.
Mr. Walter cannot vote for any of these, and he has an-
swered so. lie will only vote for a fixed duty on corn, and
against all the other questions. A bill has been published,
copied from The Sun of Tuesday, showing what good the
Whigs had done the country in lessening taxation. This has
done great good, and no doubt thanks may be given to The
Sun for securing us several votes by clearing up misrepre-
sentation.

Reports have gone abroad that have much prejudiced the
lower class of people against Mr. Larpent, namely, that he is a
Frenchman, and has but lately settled in this country. In
every Society the epithet of the " Long-named Frenchman,"
" the French Sarpent," and various other names have been used.
To dispel these erroneous inferences the following hand-bill
was very laudably issued by an elector on Wednesday morn-
ing :—" Statements having been made at a recent public
meeting, that Mr. Larpent is a Frenchman, and his name giv-
ing some pretext for such an assertion, I have been at some
pains to ascertain the fact, and to learn the origin of this gen-
denim. I find that llokonly was Mr. Larpent born and bred
an Englishman, but tfiat his family for four generitiOne have
been English. His ancestors were Protestants, and. driven
from Normandy by the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and took re-
fuge in this country from the persecutions of Louis the
Fourteenth's tyranny and bigotry. They left their native land
to maintain the freedom of their religious opinions."

A catalogue of Mr. Walter's pet:formances in Parliament,
showing that he voted in favour of the corrupt Stafford writ—
against the Ballot—against the abolition of Church-rates—and
absent on the great question of shortening Parliaments—taking
off the Window Tax—repealing Newspaper duty—repealing
Septennial Act, &c. This has done much good by showing
Mr. Walter in his true colours, and stripping him of his pre-
sent borrowed plumes.
As a proof that the Chartists abroad are disgusted at the
base conduct of those in Nottingham who have sold themselves
for gob!, the following Address from the Chartists of Mans-
field, has reached Nottingham. The Chartists in Mansfield
muster in great numbers.
April 20, 1841.

The Chartists in Mansfield to their Brother Chartists in I
Nottingham--
Fellow Labourers, we feel it a duty -we owe to ourselves,
and to the Chartist body generally, to avow at once empha-
tically and publicly, our thorough detestation of the conduct
and imbecility of your Committee, in Nottingham. We have
long and painfully watched their vacillating proceedings, and
we deeply regret the traitorous and inconsistent part they
are acting in your present election. Conduct like theirs ought
to be sc.s.uted by every member of your body, and we hope and
trust, for the sake of our suffering patriots, you will proceed at
once to choose those who walnut be bought by the mammon of
the Carlton Club, or are not already bought. We are not,
and we trust for the good of our cause, for the rike of
all we hold dear upon earth, you will not be thus cajoled by
either Mr. Walter or his sweet abettors. Suffer not your-
selves to be bought and sold by renegade leaders, but in-
stantly discard them. Depend upon it they are leading ynu
wrong, and will prove your ruin ; and instead of the " death-
knell of Whiggery," it will prove the hath-knell of Chartism.
We would rather see you still in your houses, or be silent ob-
servers of the two contending factions, than one single vote
should be given to those who for ages deluged our country in
the horrors of blood and warfare ! 'Tis cowardly, 'tis a dis-
grace beyond all precedent. You will be rendered the laugh-
ing-stock of all around you, by your co-operation with the
Tories. Beware, for depend upon it you are in the wrong;
therefore be determined to stop before it is too late.

We are, yours sincerely,
THE COMMITTEE AT MANSFIELD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR— Let the Chartists of Nottingham be reminded that
Mr. Times Walter published an abusive attack on the
Government for treating Mr. Frost, in the colony to which
111 was sent, as a person superior to a common criminal.
Mr. Walter and the Tories desired to see this popular
champion of the Charter visited with the most extreme
severities of the law, and now they ask for the support of
his fellow-Chartists, whom they would rejoice to perse-
cute, as they would have persecuted him. In the House
of Commons Mr. Walter will scorn all connection with
those men he is now seeking to deceive. He belongs to
a party which never will even acknowledge the grievances
of the people. His paper has denounced the Ballot, and
now opposes a Bill to extend the franchise. So that he is
a decided opponent to the Charter. He will not repeal
the Corn laws, which lower wages and produce poverty,
but claims popular favour because he is against the New
Poor-law, as if a man could support bim who reduces the
poor to starvation, and then clamours about what sort of a
workhouse they shall have. Mr. Walter and the work-
house go together, for Toryism in one class means misery
and poverty in another.
Mr. Walter has none of the principles of the Charter.
In everything his opinions differ from it. If to enforce the
Charter is to bring happiness to the people, it will abolish
pauperism. Mr. Walter lives upon pauperism, thus he is
an anti-Chartist; therefore no Chartist can vote for him.
A CHARTIST IN THEORY.
Islington Institution, Wednesday Evening.

(From the Times. )
The Ministerial scribes arc. as might be expected, highly
indignant that the Chartists of Nottingham should presume
to give their support to Mr. Walter, and that Mr. Walter
and his friends should be willing to receive it. Accustomed,
as their masters have been, to fawn upon Chartism from
the hustings and at Liverpool dinners, and afterwards to
trample upon its professors when safely ensconced behind
their bureaus in Downing-street, they are now astonished
to find that the crushed worm can turn again and sting,
and that the working man (ignorant, as he is alleged to be)
can appreciate the difference between plain-spoken friends
who act as they speak, and oily-tongued tyrants who flatter
to betray.
We should be glad to know what is the consideration
which ought to prevent the Chartists of Nottingham from
supporting Mr. Walter rather than Mr. Larpent ? Is it be-
cause Mr. Walter is an anti- Ministerialist, and Mr. Larpent
a nominee of the Treasury? We never heard before that
Chartism committed its supporters to become the
humble tools of the dominant party, or that it would be
very consistent with their principles to assist any political
party in fastening upon their native town the fetters of De-
vonport or Portsmouth. We know of no peculiar sym-
pathies of Chartism which should bind it to alliance with
an Administration existing solely by the personal favour of
the Crown ' • we know of no ties of gratitude which should
endear to Chartists a Government whose leader first ex-
horted them to agitate, and then prosecuted them for agi-
tating, and visited their agitators with the severest penalties
of the law. Rather,—we do not understand how those
who profess Chartist principles could with common honesty
support a party whose wholesale creation of costly patron-
age has thrown the days of Walpole (himself a Whig) in-
to shade ; whose swarms of Commissioners overrun the
country, eating up the public bread, which their parsimony
withholds from the poor ; who have added a heavy load to
the burdens of the people; who have cast the officers of
the law into prison for refusing to violate their oaths ; who
have everywhere endeavoured to deprive their fellow-citi-
zens of the rights of self-,government, and to concentrate
all power in their own hands and those of their creatures;
who have created a rural gendarmerie ; who have converted
poor-houses into prisons ; who have removed the poor re-
ceiving relief out of the pale of law, and interposed every
species of personal ignominy, and moral as well as physical
privation, between them and their rights. The mere fact
of a man coming forward as an avowed opponent of such a
Ministry as this, furnishes a strong prima facie claim upon
the support of every honest Chartist, which it would require
the strongest conceivable contrariety of views to displace.
-In the case of Mr. Walter, as compared with
Mr. Larpent, there is this prima facie claim, and
whatever difference there may be between his poli-
tical creed and that of Chartism, there are several
points, and those of no small importance, to which
that difference does not extend. Mr. Walter has
the peculiar merit of having supported the present
Ministry while he believed them to have the welfare of the
people at heart, and of having afterwards withdrawn from
their part, when he found them trampling upon the rights
of the working class. So far he aad the Chartists agree;
and they are united in hostility to the measure which Mr.
Walter has dedicated all his energies to oppose.
And what is this ? It is the New Poor-law—of all exist-
ing evils cr abuses, that which comes most thoroughly
home to the working class, and touches them in the
tenderest point—which injures them, not by any dis_
tent tendency, any constructive or collateral influence,
but by direct and necessary operation, in their cot-
tages, in their properties, in their persons, in their
children, in their wives. To tell men who have the
terror of the workhouse before their eyes of wonders
to he achieved by the ballot, or an extended suffrage,
or Annual Parliaments, is much like asking a convict with
the rope round his neck to sign a petition for en inquiry
into Bentharn's theory of jurisprudence. It is quite as
natural and reasonable for the former to say, let us fight
against the Poor-law now, and when we have secured our
personal, then we will attend to our political interests, as
it would be for the latter to exclaim, get me a reprieve
from hanging first, and I will talk about the theory of
jurisprudence afterwards.
If Mr. Walter is elected for Nottingham, the Chartists
will not have a Chartist member. But what of that? Do
they hope for one? Would Mr. Larpent be one ? The
Chartists %sill not, in that respect, be worse off than other
political parties at Nottingham ; for if Mr. Walter were
elected, he would not be a Tory member, or a Whig member
—he would be an Anti-Poor-law member, and on this car-
dinal point would be the most efficient possible re?resen-
tetive of all who agree in thinking the present Poor-lave
' oppressive and unconstitutional. Mr. Larpent would be
the representative of nobody, except one or-two overgrown
mill-owners, and the money-bags of her Majesty's Treasury.
There is, therefore, every possible reason why the Chart-
ists at Nottingham should in this case vote for the anti-
Ministerial candidate. And, on the other hand, neither Mr.

PRICE sd.

Walter nor his Conservative friends lay themselves open in
the slightest degree to the charge of compromising their prin-
ciples, because they thankfully accept support when gene-
rously tendered from whatever quarter. Mr. Walter makes
no professions for the occasion, like his opponent; he hangs
out no false colours to catch either Radical or Conservative
votes. He appeals to his past life, to his recorded views ;
and promises to act only as he has hitherto acted. If
the Conservatives support him, they do so because they
are satisfied with his past character and conduct, ens!
perceive Coe impossibility of carrying Conservative princi-
ples to any ustfal or honourable issue without doing justice
to the poor. If Radicals support him, they do so be-
cause they hate oppression and tyranny, and arbitrary
power, in fact a; well us in name, the things themselves as
much as the political machinery which, in their judgment,
has a tendency to produce them. They see in Mr. Walter
a person whose hatred of these things is as heart-
felt and honest as their own, who recognizes them
in effect as" they do, and who will contend against
them as manfully as they would, though be
may not adopt the same theory of their remote
and ultimate causes; but Mr. Walter, to ex-
press the whole matter in one word, unites the voices of
both these parties, because neither of them is willing to re-
cognize the principles of humanity, charity, and respect for
the national and constitutional rights of Englishmen, as the
exclusive property of the other. Long and often may they
strive together in such a jealousy as this 1 It will teach
them to know each other, and to overcome each other by
by the most honourable of all victories—that which
displaces unkind thoughts, and enforces sympathy and
esteem. Both sides will learn that differences as to the
th-ory of government do not always involve disagreement
upon practical questions. Radicals will perceive that it is
possible to be Conservative without loving tyranny, or sa-
crificing the common good to class-interests. Conserva-
tives will learn the still more important lesson, that R.tdi-
cslism has its root in real evils and real grievances, by re-
moving which they may hope to disarm the hostility of Ra-
dicalism itself.