The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, TUESDAY.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness, accompanied by
the Princess Hohenlohe and younger branches of the
Royal Family, took their usual early walks and drives in
the grounds of Osborne.

His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen and Prince
Lowenstein arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon, on a
visit to the Queen and the Prince.
The royal dinner party yesterday included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Daw-
son, and the Baroness de Speth.

A deputation to Lord John Russell, from the City of
London, on the subject of the Jewish Disabilities Bill,
had an interview with the Noble Lord yesterday, at his
residence in Downing-street. The deputation consisted
of Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P., Mr. Forster, M.P., Mr. A.
Anderson, M.P., Mr. B. M. Wilcox, M.P., Mr. W. J.
Hall, Mr. R. Salomons, Mr. J. J. Travers, Mr. W. Hawes,
Mr. Thompson Hankey,jun., and Mr. S. Smith.
Mr. William P. Robertson, Consul-General of Ecuador
transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
Major-General Sir Charles Pasley had an interview
with the Right lion. H. Labouchere, yesterday, at the
office of the Board of Trade.

Mr. Tidd Pratt had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday. The Chairman of the
Excise had also an interview yesterday, with the Right
Hon. Baronet, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor of the Mauritius.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Monday, the 28th, came on the second
reading of the Savings' Bank Bill. Things were
brought out, which will perhaps fill you, as they did
me, with the most profound astonishment. Some-
body has run away, to America or elsewhere, with
some say 47,0001., and some say more, of the savings
of the Irish peasantry trying to escape from the
potato rot, and then it is discovered that the Savings
Banks have not Government security. The precise
fact, ai brought out in the course of the debate, is
this. Government acknowledges itself to be respon-
sible for the money, after it has got it; but there is
a gap left between the money's being received and
paid over to the Government, during which it may
be run away with.
I certainly should not have been more surprised,
if on going to the Bank of England for my dividends
on stock, I had been told, " Sir, a clerk has run away,
and you cannot be paid." There is such a thing as
justice for the poor as well as for others ; and
Governments are for no end but to see it done.
Nothing, I suppose, can be clearer, than that if the
runaways cannot be caught, the money must be forth-
coming out of the public purse, even though a
seventy-four is built the less, or half•a-dozen gover-
nors like him of Labuan, are put on short allowance.
There is no use in hushing the matter up. If things
are rotten now, they will be worse next week ;
nobody that has got his hands into other people's
purses ever replaces. So that it is all gain to take the
matter up at once.

At the same time it cannot be averred, that there
is any appearance of desire to hush the matter up.
On the contrary, it looks as if there was a zeal to
make the thing blaze out. A report has been framed
and forwarded from Ireland, of which so far as can
be gathered from the accounts given in the debate,
the purport is to represent that the Irish who have
been plundered of their savings, were in truth an
immoral set who deserved no better. They are
charged with having put money into the Savings
Banks, instead of giving it to their landlords. Which
is another edition of the celebrated story of the Irish
landlord, who rode fiercely to his tenant's door, and
asked what he meant by eating apples (the Irish
name for a better kind of potatoes, the others being
called liunpers) before his rent was paid. If the ob-
ject was not to represent that it was a proper thing
to run away with the Irishmen's money, or in some
way to diminish the chances of their getting it again,
I will not venture an opinion on what may have been
the conceivable drift of the proceeding.
On the same evening the second reading of the Bill
for removing the duties on foreign Copper and Lead,
being an extension of former movements in the direc-
tion of Free Trade, was carried by 77 against 21.
I took the liberty to make Bradford a kind of house-
hold word, to express all who are interested in the
permission of foreign commerce ; at which I hope
nobody will be offended.
On Tuesday, after an interesting but not very long
debate, the Diplomatic Relations Bill was read a third
time with a majority of 88 against 25, and passed.
So that after all the threats of the over-good Pro-
testants, it may be doubted whether they have delayed
the Bill twelve hours in the whole.

On the same evening the Bill purporting to amend
the laws relating to Savings Banks, went through
Committee. The striking characteristic of the Bill
is its extreme incompetence, amounting to caricature.
An in,lifferent person reading it, would suppose that
the object was to limit the responsibility of Mana-
gers of Savings Banks to a hundred pounds. If the
Government means to do anything towards setting
the minds of the depositors at ease, it must give no-
tice of a Bill to be brought in at au early period of
next session, to take the Savings Banks under Go-
vernment responsibility, as is done with similar in-
stitutions in France and elsewhere.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheatit, London, Aug. 30, 1848.

DEATH OF SIR JOHN OSBORN.—We regret to
announce the death of Sir John Osborn, of Chicksands
Priory, Bedfordshire, in the 76th year of his age. In
early life he was attached for a short period to Lord
Whitworth's embassy at the Court of Russia, after which
he returned from St. Petersburgh, and was elected for
the county of Bedford in the year 1794. Lie subsequently
represented that county in several Parliaments, as well
as, at different periods, the boroughs of Cockermouth,
Queenborough, and Wigton, and retired in the year
1824. lie was one of the Lords of the Admiralty irem
the year 1811 to the year 1824, when he was appointed
one of her Majesty's Commissioners for auditing the
public accounts, the duties of which he fulfilled until
witbiu a short time of his decease. For many years he
had ceased to take an active part in politics. By his
death a Commissionership of Audit and the Colonelcy
of the Bedfordshire Militia become vacant. Ho is suc-
ceeded by his eldest son, who is married to a sister of
the Earl of Antrim.
SUICIDE BY A LICENSED \TIVTUALLER.—Yester-
day Mr. Wm. Payne, the Coroner, held an inquest at the
King's Head, Newington Causeway, on the body of Mr.
Thomas Penfold, aged 45, proprietor of the Duke of
Wellington public-house, York-street, Southwark. The
evidence taken proved that some time back the wife of
deceased left her husband and lived upona separate al-
lowance, but lately she had taken lodgings immediately
facing the deceased's place of business. This circum-
stance preyed heavily on his mind, and when he saw her
go out or enter her lodgings he would frequently burst
out crying. A few nights since he told one of the wit-
nesses that his wife watched him wherever he went. If
he was ascending the stairs he there met her ghost, and
when he was undressing himself of a night he found her
standing at his bedside. He deputed a person to go to
his wife and ask her whether she would have any objec-
tion to come back again. To this she replied that she
should be delighted to return back; but when deceased
was a
it would bfoerbheefoirnethonedtood to
took her back,
he replied, sell his
business and get a situation for himself as a waterman."
On Sunday morning last, after his children had retired
to rest, he committed suicide by hanging himself to an
psllieedd, how
"Fulll°nsigx
iron stanchion in the bar. Verdict, " Temporary in-
sanity."
[ADVERTISEMENT.]--A most awful Wound Cured
by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—George Morris, a
mechanic, of Newport, was for months rendered totally
unable to work, or even move about the house, from
the effects of a dreadful abscess which had formed in his
thigh, and which had been repeatedly lanced, under the
advice of various surgeons; ultimately he was admitted
into the hospital, from whence, after the best medical
skill had been tried, he was dismissed as incurable. Yet,
to the astonishment of all, this dreadful bad wound was
soundly healed by the use of Holloway's Ointment and
Pills, a supply of which was kindly presented to him by
the minister of his parish. Sold by all druggists, and
at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand,
London.
CHELTENHAM, TUESDAY EVENING.—The writ for
another election arrived here this morning, and has been
proclaimed by the returning officer, H. Strafford, Esq.,
who has fixud. the nomination to take place on Saturday
next, at Sandford Mead, and the polling, if any, will fol-
low on Monday. No candidate has yet formally an-
nounced himself, though there is little doubt that there
will be a contest. Mr. Grenville Lennox Berkeley (who
is now in Scotland) will be the Liberal candidate, and
several are named as about to offer themselves on the
Conservative interest,