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JULY 10, 1847.

SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS.
THE FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL EXHIBI-
TION NOW OPEN, at their Gallery, 5, PALL-MALL
EAST, each day, from Ninell Dusk, WILL CLO4E. J )7.
Admittance, One Shilling. Catalogue, Sixpence.
J. W. WRIGHT, Sec.

THREE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.
Whereas about eight o'clock on the morning of Wednesday,
the 7th of July instant, a daring attempt was made by Once men,
In Mitre-court, Wood-street, Cheapsidc, to Rob the Lombard-street
Letter-carrier of the Letters he was proceeding to deliver. He was
knocked down and severely beaten with a life-preserver, which was
found near the spot.
Whoever will give such information as shall load to the apprehen-
sion and conviction of the offenders, shall be entitled to a REWARD
of THREE HUNDRED POUNDS, payable on conviction. Apply
. In M. B. Peacock, Esq., solicitor, General Post-office, London.
• % General Post-office, 7th July, 1847.
ELECTION MOVEMENTS.
COLONEL THOMPSON'S COMMITTEE TO THE
LIBERAL ELECTORS OF BRADFORD.
Gentlemen,—We congratulate you upon the improved
position of the liberal cause in this borough. An election
committee has been formed, which numbers more than
three hundred and sixty electors, pledged to secure the
return of a gentleman whore name and character are a
watchword in all places where the principles of com-
mercial freedom and of general liberty are understood
and appreciated. This number is a guarantee of success;
but to render assurance doubly sure, the numbers will
yet be increased; and electors who wish to see the
borough represented by a gentleman whOse writings have
iowerfully contributed to unshackle that commerce by
:.ich it lives and prospers, are respectfully invited to
take part .in the work and the honour, that they may
share in the reward.
We not only congratulate you, but the inhabitants
generally, on the prospect of returning Colonel. Thom-
pson to Parliament as the representative of this eminently
commercial community. He is not a merchant or a
manufacturer ; but he has demonstrated to the-world
that he thoroughly understands the principles upon
which alone merchants and manufacturers can conduct
their operations so 'as to promote the gre-
fleas of the greatest number.." Our own 3
at last admitted the soundness of the

repealing the great monopolies of cox-
man who taught Legislatures and sta,
stand and appreciate the true principles of commerce,
is put forth as a candidate for the suffrages of men
whose hopes and interests are inseparably connected
with commercial principles, in their practical operation.
The result cannot be doubtful.
We congratulate not only you, not only the inhabi-
tants of Bradford, but the nation generally, in the
prospect of your returning Colonel Thompson to the
British Parliament for though the honour will be
yours, the gain will be the nations. That Colonel
Thompson would zealously attend to the local business
and interests of the borough, there cannot be a doubt ;
but while he would be your special representative in all
local matters, he would, in all imperial questions, be the
able representative of the new truths, principles, and
policy which must henceforth guide British legislation.
In returning him to Parliament, therefore, you will not
only secure a good local. representative, but you will
have the proud satisfaction of sa3ing that your repre-
sentative is, not only courtesy, but in truth and
reality, the representative of the truths and opinions
which are uppermost in the minds of the people of
England.
Think of these things. Give them your calm atten-
tion. Think upon the commercial struggle in which
you were engaged for seven long years. Think of the
benefits you reasonably expect to reap as the reward of
your labour and the fruit of your victory. Think of
him who was the pioneer of the little band of commer-
cial reformers. And when you think of difficulties en-
countered and triumphs won—think of gratitude, and
think of Colonel Thompson ! Gentlemen, we will not
add another word. We have full confidence that you
will do your duty.
ROBERT MILLIGAN, Chairman.
Here follow 369 names.

HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, JULY B.—Their Majesties the King and
Queen arrived here on the 6th, on their return from their
visit to London. Their Majesties had arrived at Oatend
the night before; they left that place at eleven o'clock
in the morning, and were at the palace of Lacken in
three hours and a half. It is affirmed that his Majesty
Mends to visit Paris almost immediately.
The following letter has been received relative to the
treasure discovered in the grounds of la Madelaise:—
" Malines, July 4.

" Having been admitted by the events of th; year
1830 to take the first rank among the nations of Europe,
it becomes us to exhume the titles which our ancestors
have bequeathed to us, to prove that we still aspire to a
nationality which was conquered with the price of blood.
" The victims of 1830 hare their monument, which
proclaims to our children our efforts and our successes.
Our ancestors were not so fortunate, and there is nothing
in the capital to call to mind the heroic endeavours of
nations to oppose the yoke of foreigners. The town has
just discovered a treasure on the spot where, according
to history, stood the dwelling-place of the first King at
Arms,Torson d'Or, and chief of the Chamber of Heraldry
instituted by Philip Duke of Burgundy in 1629. This
treasure probably belonged to Messione Van den Leene,

King at Arms at the epooh wiltYr-ttrhrtreasure was sup-
posed to be concealed. It seems as if Providence had
recovered it to this town for the purpose of giving it a
noble destination in raising a monument in the midst of
the market-place of Madeleine—a fountain, for example,
destined to recal by the attributes and bas-reliefs with
which it might be ornamented, the principal acts of our
ancient nation, &c.
BRUSSELS, JULY 7.—The average price of corn in the
week ending 3d July, was wheat 40f. 10e., rye 26f. 78c.,
being a fall in wheat 32c., rye 2f. 65c. The quantity sold
amounted to 10,531 hectolitres of wheat, and 4,830 hee-
litres of rye.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussELs, Jur 7.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent • ..• .. •. • • ....•
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •.
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four percent- •• .
Ditto Three per Cent... •.• .. • ..... • ...
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ......
Ditto,ditto,lB4o...• •••• • . • • ... 99X
Ditto,ditto,lB42 ••••• • .• . • .......... 100
Ditto, 1844... • • • • • • • • .. • • 96
Ditto, 1838 .• .. • • • • •• .• • • .• • • • • • 68%
Ditto of the City, 1832 .• •• • ..... ••• • .• 99%
Ditto, 1843 • • .•.•••••• • • • . • • • • • • 96%
Bank of 8e1gium........................-
-Brussels• Papers. July 7.
LIAMBURGII BORSENIIALLE, JULY G.
Bills. money.
Austrian 5 per Cents • • . • . • . • 107
Bank Shares .. • . • ..... . • 1610
Anglo-Russian Loan .... .. • ..... 06y,.
Russian 5 per Cent., llamb. Certificate. 101%
Ditto Ist series Inscription. • ••• • • •
Ditto,Rope and Co., 3d and 4th series..
Ditto, in Certificate— •••••• • • • • • •
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• • • •
Ditto Stieglitz •.• • • • • ••• • • •
Spanish New 5 per Cent. ••••••• • • • • • •
Ditto 3 per Cent .. •••••••• • • • • • • • .
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent ••
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••• • •
Ditto 3 per Cent. •••••••• • • • • • • • •
Polish New 4 per Cent. l,oan, 1844.. • •
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent • . 83
National Bank 5hare5................

10611

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102%

89N
8914

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 3d day of July, 1847.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
X.
Notes i55ued........ 23,5G2,330

Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities •• • • 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 8,119,030
Silver bullion . • .. 1,449,000

£23,562,330

X 23,562,330
11. MARSHALL, Chief ,Cashier.

Dated the Sth day of July, 184'

BANKING D:
X.
Proprietors' capital • • 14,553,000
Rest .... •• • 3,489,468
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-

ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) .• 9,7 :IS ,622
Other deposits ••• • • • 7,968,314
Seven day and other
bills • • . • • • 807,586

£36.556,990

Dated the Bth day ofJuly, 1847.

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Antiukty)... 11,806,356
Other securities • • • • ,18,758,130
N0te5.........•••••• _ 5,158,230
Gold and silver coin • . 831,244

436,r156,990
[. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

MUSIC AT NORTHAMPTON.—At the approaching
meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society music will
form an important portion of the amusement provided for
the.visitors. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Henry Phillips have
both announced their entertainments, and a morning
concert will be given, for which the great contralto
Alboni is engaged, as als6 Madlle. Corbari, Signor
Tagliafico, John Parry, and M. Benedict.
THE OBSERVER OF SUNDAY, JULY 11.—The Ob-
server account of the Three Days' Proceedings at Cam-
bridge picturesquely illustrated. A sixpence enclosed
to Mr. Clement, jun., 170, Strand, will ensure a copy by
return of post to any part of England, Scotland, or Ire-
land. There is scarcely a club-house, institution, library,
or news-room in all England, Scotland, Ireland, the
Continent, East and West Indies, or America, in which
the Observer is not taken in, and in many instances du-
plicate copies. The extensive publication of the Observer
commences at six, and concludes at ten on Sunday
mornings. A Monday edition of the Observer,
pub -
adapted _t
adapted for the country and abroad, is regularly
lished at four o'clock on Monday afternoon.
Mdlle. Catharine Hayes, who created so profound
d at Milan,
a sensation as a prima donna at Venice
has taken the good folk of Vienna b
yasntorm
0 a
livia e
s the
heroine in one of Doniaettes early operas,
Pasquale. She was enthusiastically encored in the
principal cabaletta, called before the curtain at the end
of each act, and at the conclusion was summoned forth
amidst the cheers of the audience, and was complimented
with a superb wreath.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE EARL OF ALDBOROUGH
AND HOLLOWAYS YILLS.—AD astounding cure by Ws miraculOus
n , after every other means bad failed. See extract from his
terdds6hipe's letter, dated "Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845.
professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint you that your pills have
effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach all the most
eminent of the facnlty, at home and all over the continent, had not
been able to effect; nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Ma-
rienbad. (Signed) " ALDBOROUGH." These wonderful pills will
cure any disease of the liver or stomach.—Sold (also Holloway's
Ointmentmic) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, and
io uiac yenk,torp thrtnlghtalt civilised wOrld.

LORD FITZHARDINGE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—llaving seen a letter in the Titizes, addressed to
you by Lord Fitzhardinge, I trust you, will give this au
equally fair Insertion.
You can put no other construction upon the offer made
tand
represented Grenville Berkeley. lie
to me by Lord Pitzhardinge than that it was an attempt
to purchase " the representation of a county."
.His Lordship finds there is an objection to swallow
his nominee,i
this, fir.
it
benig
him on the constituency while lam on the field. On
finding h
to him can'tth that many
e
of the nominee's supporters have struck work, he asks
them if they cannot make terms with me.
They then, on his Lordship's part, offer me, the pre-
sent representative and successful opponent of the no-
minee, money for my retirement; and they propose to
bind me, not only not to sit if elected, but also if I retire
I am not to make use of my vote as an elector according
to my conscientious desire; and I am to discountenance
in my friends all opposition to the lordly will.
I say, Sir, that a more gross violation than this of
principle and privilege of Parliament, or an attempt at
greater variance with the duty of a Peer and Lord-Lieu-
tenant, never outraged the history of county repre-
sentation.
Add to this the fact, that to aid the return of the no-
minee, and to cast a shadow of unpopularity upon me,
the Lord-Lieutenant coerced his tenantry to desert my
troop of yeomanry, through fear of losing their farms,
and you have the most flagrant interference with the
freedom of election before you that can well be
imagined ! .
The last paragraph in the Lord-Lieutenant's letter
states " that no such consideration as the purchase of
the representation of the county influenced him in ac-
ceding to the terms proposed to me. Ile had family
reasons for the concession he made."
It is somewhat late for his Lordship thus vaguely to
talk of " family reasons," and it would be curious, after
all that the world knows of this quarrel, to hear what
those " family reasons" were, of so much weight with

high or low, who sanctioned such proposals as those
made to me (they are in writing, and can't be flown
from), coupled as they were with political contingencies,
venal and disgraceful, not only collectively insulted or
endeavoured to entrap a gentleman who now holds them
in utter contempt, but also they were guilty of conduct
unconstitutional, unparliamentary, and infractive of all
usages of society. No matter who sanctioned it, the
monstrous fact cannot be changed.
I am a soldier, a magistrate, and a Member of Par-
liament. The Lord-Lieutenant, colonel of militia, and
head of the local magistracy, who now talks of " family
reasons inducing him to concession," has made public
charges against me, for political and private purposes,
which I have proved, and am ready to prove, to be false.
If his charges had been true, so disgraceful and grave
were they (in writing too), that they ought to have re-
moved me from every honourable and gallant commission
I fill.

In rebutting those charges, I made accusations against
him in return, which, if true, as I publicly uphold them
to have been and to be, coupled with this attempt to
purchase the constituency, ought certainly to remove
him from our Lord-Lieutenancy and colonelcy of the
South Gloucester. On the other hand, if false, my name
should be erased from the commission of the peace for
having made them.
The Lord• Lieutenant is rich, and by acres and posi-
tion powerful, and lam poor. Hence the difficulty of
obtaining redress or investigation into oppression.
I hold it, Sir, to be time for the Government to inter-
fere, and to revoke their appointment to the highest
local office under the Crown, all just claim to the conti-
nuance of which the individual in question has forfeited.
Your most obedient,
GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY.
Cox's Hotel, July 9.

AND HIS NIGHTCAP..
Havre relates an incident in which
the chief actor is one of the kings of European finance..
The journal prefaces its observations by showing the
danger which there is in delaying the departure of rail-
way trains, a piece of imprudence which has already
caused many accidents. " After such lessons," it says,-
" as have already been received, it might be supposed
that no motives would induce the infringement of the re-
gulations of the service, and that the fear only of making
the public run such a risk would be sufficient to en,
sure their maintenance by the companies. If we are
well informed, however, an incident very recently took
place on the Havre Railway, which has fortunately been,
fraught with no bad consequences, but which shows
that, in the balance of companies, the grave interest of
public security does not always weigh against the value
' of a nightcap! The circumstances are these :—A wealthy
banker, king of his kind, was called by important buss,
ness to Havre. He had decided upon leaving that town
by the ten o'clock train on the Saturday following his
arrival. Being made aware at a short notice of the
little time left him to get to the train, he quitted the
Hotel Frascati, where he had been staying, and hast-
ened to the station, the preparations for his journey
having been slightly hurried. He reached the station
just as the train was about to start. He had barely time
to jump into the carriage prepared for him, and the
signal was about to be given for starting, when he
perceived that that indispensable covering, with which
lie was wont to preserve from the dampness of the
night the seat of those vast speculations which move
the world, had not been left ready for him. His ser-
vants, being instantly called, said that in the hurry of
departure the precious night-cap had been packed up in
the luggage, which was already placed in the truck,
and the time and the hour did not permit even
the thought of getting it out. But no regulation,
however rigorous, can stand against the danger of
exposing so precious a head to a current of air,
which might, by embarrassing the brain, exercise on
the morrow a disastrous influence upon the money
market, and, perhaps, change the destinies of Europe.
The station master was called, and, being informed of
the gravity of the matter, gave instant order for the
stoppage of the train whilst search was made for the ar-
ticle required. A quarter of an hour was taken up in
this operation, and after the delay, of which the
other travellers vainly tried to ascertain the cause,
the train started, and regained by an increased
-speed the time which had been lost in searching for
the nightcap of M. de Rothschild. This incident gives
rise to serious reflections. We merely give an account

tqf it, concluding with a remark which was made by one
Of the passengers, to whom the affair was explained, and
who felt astonished at all this fuss about a nightcap,
saying that he never should have thought of such a thing
froin M. de Rothschild, who cannot but have been born
" with a caul."

THE PRISONERS OF TORRES
VEDR AS.

The following is quoted by an evening contemporary
as an extract of a letter from Colonel Forman to Count
Mello:

" Fort St. Michael, Loanda, April 12.
" We arrived here on the 25th of March list, and, on
die 27th twelve of us were transferred to this fort, in-
cluding General Celestino, and have remained in close
confinement ever since, divided in two prisons.
Daring the day our door is allowed to remain
open, but at sunset the adjutant comes to, close it
read first
himself. All letters
that
Oliveira,ar the
are either
gseenvetrbnyer of theusorre ceived
are fort.
The remainder of the prisoners were left on board.
Count Bowfin, and his son Lewis, were sent on board
the corvette Relampago. Six were afterwards sent to
the fort of Penedo, situated at the entrance of the bar,
and 'six to that of St. Peter. Count Bomfin's son, Joze
Bento, and Major Hotta, were sent to Benguela; Girao
and Surumenbo to Golego Alto ; Moraes and three
others to Massagano. Count Villa Real and Don Jamie
were sent here yesterday. On the 28th my companions
in this fort addressed a petition to the Governor of 'An-
gola to grant us some means of subsistence, but up to the
present time we have had no answer. The gen-
rosity of the merchants of this town and ladies, however,
thank God, has preserved us. The first subsciied
1,700,000 milr. (3901.), the latter 800,000 milr. (1801.),
not forgetting that of the naval officers on this station,
of 335,000 milr. (801), as well as that of the Noble Mar-
quis of Fayal, who sent us, before we left Lisbon, all
sorts of provisions, clothes, &c., and placed at the dis-
posal of Count Villa tteal the sum of 100 moidores, to
be distributed among us on our arrival at our destination.
You will, therefore, perceive, my dear friend, Should you
be unlucky enough to fall into their hands, what you
may hope for."

SLAVERY in the UNITED STATES.
The following is an extract of a letter from a gentle-
man in New York—an offiee-bearer in a Presbyterian
church:—
" The Bible Society has declared that it will not give
the Bible to slaves even where they are able to read.
The Tract Society has positively refused to publish any
tract against slavery, and the other societies stand aloof
from the subject. I would say further that the slave-
holders have declared that they will not tolerate the cir-
culation of any book or tract if it contains a:word
against slavery. Therefore the American Tract Society.
the Methodist Tract Society, Baptist Publicatioxac_asdo-e
ciety, and Presbyterian Board of Publication,. 1
they from their lists every book that has a woorwderagai
,
ex-
tinguish all light on the subject which might otherwise
very. Thus, crouching to: the slave pnat sla-
mong the popula-
tionthal
I never knew the
admission to any
would find any difficulty
beciorcfutlhateedsoiunthth. e firedeostantoetosb,htaieflininlorntega
me Aber o
•put to an applican y
question _thechurchesoafeession
self), Are you connected with
apaplmyinister or
- I have put the question, the other
slavery ? And when
sessionhave looked as if I had asked a
members of the
(exceptweret they
i2xin
t toh
I 11
question. n a the churches the same
very improper .
prevails as in the pro.slavery chirches
- distinction p
The all have the negro pew ; al),:admi-
.of the'south. - cy
• the sacraments to the coloured members after the
luster
whices,,:-A.large majority of the ministers here have
not opposed' public opinion by honestly espousing the
cease of the slave. They find the mass of ' their
!churches' throughout the states so violently opposed to
the abolition of slavery that their characters and their
livings would be at stake. Nor is this all ; the greater
part of the ministers themselves are opposed to the
freedom of the slave, and being linked together•by ec-
clesiastical bodies, it requires a much larger share of in-
dependence of character than falls to their share to take
a manly firm stand against the crime of slaveholding.
They have quite enough light and quite enough con-
, science to feel its deep iniquity, but they have too much_
t regard for their reputation, and too much fear of o.ffendo_
ing their colleagues, to risk the honest expression f
their opinion."—Scotsman.'

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HERRING FISHING—WICK JULY le--Littie has .
Donald I3ain again brought ashoraebeca
yet been done in the fishing. On Weclizt
rmorning,crap; but
t
essful, until this
morning, made by others were un
individual brought ashore up-
wardsmorning, when the same ind _usctlYc
another boat had about
05 12 crans of capital fish..
and another 5. We believe they have been sold
7 crans, 24s. The fishermen •
at 265. per barrel, and part at . in-
hat Reiss Bay is full of herrings, but that they
form of t
are still small, and the nights are yet rather clear. They
are, however, in high hopes of success, at the proper
time. During the past week, 605 barrels of herrings have
been landed here from the Lews, Lochbroom, and Scal-
lowsh making a total import, since the 10th of May, of
3,667 barrels. Since last report two vessels have cleared
out with cargoes for the Continent, consisting of 620
barrels.—John 0' Groat Journal.
A report having been industriously circulated that
it is intended by the Jewish electors of the city of
London to vote for Baron Lionel de Rothschild only, and
not for the other three Liberal candidates, we deem it
our duty to state, without fear of contradiction, that it is
the determination of the Jews, as a body, with respect to
this important election, to give their entire support to
the whole of the Liberal candidates, viz., Russell, Patti-
sou, Larpent, and ilythschild,---Jewish Chronicle.-

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him
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.• ° the lightning." .
awn Le“iblature has
42.- - i -As to lug having had , the sauctlon of persons of
.the.
,hese principles,,oy .
highest rank and character," &c:, all I can say is, that .
rn and sugar. The BANKEIt
all " the sanction" in the world can't mend tlie—Matter, A.
atesmen to under-
and that the man or men, whoever they be, whether : 'The Journal du