The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-28 00:00:00

~ the toiling servant, the laborious farmer, the
shopkeeper! Another savings' bank gone! It
,ow Bank that has smashed. As yet, all is
Ad uncertainty. The liability may be 9001.,
~e 9,0001. The fear is that the latter sum is
Jr to the mark. Like the double smash in Kerry,
a few days may bring up the 9,0001. to 20,000/., or more.
We are told that an officer—or the officer—has thought
it necessary to retire for awhile from the scene of his
official labours and beneficial management. But it is
said—the same was said in Tralee and Killarney—that
there is quite sufficient private property of this officer to
make up any deficiency that may be proved to exist
after the books of the banks aro compared with those of
the depositors."

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Wednesday, the 23d, the Member for
Westminster made his protest against what is denomi-
nated the Rcgium Donum. This is a gift of about 17001.,
doled out annually to divers members of the Dissenting
body in sums of three or four pounds a-piece, of which
the recipients are so ashamed, that one of the first stipu-
lations is that secrecy shall be preserved. The Dis-
senters, the better class of them, have offered to raise
the sum among themselves ; but the thing goes on, maul-
festly as what the sailors call "sowing a sprat to catch a
whale," or in calculation on some overbearing advantages
to arise to the disbursers. What these advantages aro,
requires no extraordinary talent to tell. A Government
gift, distributed in secret, is no despicable instrument of
influence, and a great softener of any uneasy efforts
which might proceed from the same body on a contested
point.
On behalf of the grant it was urged, that the reci-
pients lied not complained. Did ever anybody hear
that a recipient complained ? It is the non-recipients
and the payers that complain, and are likely to do.
On Thursday was the debate in Committee on the
Diplomatic Relations with Rome Bill, as sent from the
Lords. The object of this Bill, if it has one, is to remove
a prohibition which, whatever it was with our ancestors,
is obsolete and bigotry now, as preventing the entering
into useful relations with the Head of the Roman
Catholic Church, who is also Sovereign of the
Roman States. The opponents of the Bill made
great show of resolution, and threatened loud.
The truth is they knew, that a Bill which had come
from the Lords, and consequently, had only to be ac-
cepted by the Commons, put them in a most dangerous
position; and they waxed desperate accordingly. But
when they tried a division for adjournment, it appeared
that they were only one in three. They complained of
the Bill being brought on at a late period of the session,
when their men were gone. But why did they go? If
they are gone partridge-shooting, is that a reason why
a Bill should be withdrawn? It so, there would be a
new tactic discovered for a minority, which would
be to send their men away. They pleaded that their
men had gone because they were worn out. But has
nobody else a right to be worn out? It was not from
the Liberal side of the House, that the interminable
speeches came. They tried to fix on the Government a
charge of having deceived them into the belief that the
Bill would not be brought on. In which they utterly
failed; the nearest they could come to it being to prove
that the Government had said " they hoped to bring it
on." On the whole it remains to be seen what these
threats of the minority, accompanied as they were with
much unbecoming language to the other side of the
House, are to be worth another time.
The Government, none can say why, consented to cut
out the words '° with the Court of Rome," from the Bill as
agreed to by the Lords, leaving only the phrase "Sovereign
of the Roman States," So that if the Emperor of Aus-
tria occupies the Roman States tomorrow, and declares
himself' the Sovereign, a dispute is to be raised whether
this Bill is not thereby made waste paper. I asked a
question on this point, and got for answer, that there
would be no obstacle to communicating with—who do
you think ?—the Emperor of Austria. And a Catholic
member declared the answer satisfactory. The Catholics
at large are plainly not awake to what is doing for them;
and; as universally happens on such occasions, some of
them are disposed to do all they can to keep things as
they are. From which it only follows, that the Govern-
ment whose object is to diminish a source of heart-
burning and feud, must do its good whether others will
help it or no; and we who are sick of the evil and mean
to mend it, must put our shoulder to the wheel where
we can.
The alteration in the Bill which I have described,
took place without a word of comment at the time. In
this way half the mischief in the House of Com-
mons is done. Men speak their speeches three
times over about nothing ; and then what really affects
the matter in hand, is done without being looked at.
At a subsequent period, the Member for Limerick (J.
O'Connell) observed upon the change. He was told he
could not alter ; to which he replied that he
could add. The question therefore, was how to
add. He proposed, after the designation of " So,•
vereign of the Roman States," to add " and Sove-
reign Pontiff." Perhaps it would have been better to have
said "or Sovereign Pontiff;" but where the serious
business is to talk, there is no time to attend to sense.
For my own part, I care not what the Pope is called or
is not; barring always useless dissatisfaction to any-
body. But the addition of the words " and Sovereign
Pontiff" had a tendency to define the person meant; and
therefore I voted for them. Perhaps friends may have
wondered; what interest iu the titles of the Pontiff took
me into a minority consisting of eight souls.
On Friday in the Committee of Ways and Means, it
appeared that Two Millions are to be borrowed beckuji
we cannot pay. " I guess" a e are somewhere " inor e
same fix" as the Pennsylvanians,—paying our debti 'With
orders for the interest. Will a time ever my, when
the nation will have a chance to grow rich and com-
fortable as your successful men at Bradford do? Look
(round among those who under your own eyes have risen
to wealth, and who seem now to know no limit to their
power of having and enjoying; and whatever else.
was different, one thing you will find is conj..
mon to them all. They grew rich bectraso
they did not spend everything as fast as they could get
it. They did not maintain a constant struggle between
incomings and outgoings;—and above all, they did not
go to the pawnbroker, after every shilling got in other
ways had burned a hole in their pocket. It may look
paradoxical, but the secret of their spending is that they
did not spend. Compare this with the conduct o'z
governments. Suppose Providence in some way sent ja
godsend of a million, or a score of millions. The in ,ea
would be insane, demented, senseless, who should c4,l_
ceive the possibility of there not being somebud7 or
something ready to swallow it up. Everybody knee's
the swallower would be made for the matter to be, swal-
lowed, and any expectation that the public would be in
the smallest degree removed from future distress, or as-
sured of tranquillity on the score of financial difficulties;
would be the vision of a fool. In such circumstances
there is nothing to be done, but wait to see if the man
will be wiser after he has gone through the Gazette.
On Saturday the House sat for a couple of hours, and
received the report on the Diplomatic Relations Bill.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET TuomrsoN.
Blackheath, London, Aug. 28, 1848.

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following was the situation of the Bank on Thurs-
day evening, Aug. 24, 1848:

ASSETS.
Cash in coin and ingots . . f. 110,746,463 06
Ditto in branch banks ••• . . 83,828,122 00
Bills over due 376,690 77
Bills becoming due in Paris ... ... 86,316,995 58
Bills in the branch banks ... ... 128,459,261 45
Advances on coins and ingots... 15,366,b47 10
Ditto on French public securities ... 34,242,396 65
Ditto by branch banks... ••• 1,359,544 00
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tr6sor... 50,000,000 00
Advance to the State on the loan of
150,000,000 f. ••• -
Stock forming reserve
Rentes, disposable funds „.
Investments of the new branch hanks in
the public funds ... ••• •• 12,806,741 39
Hotel and furniture of the bank .• • 4,000,000 00
Real property and branch banks ... 2,521,757 00
Interest in the branch bank at Algiers... 1,000,000 00
Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 00
Bills Protested in the Bank ... ... 19,142,959 43
Ditto in the branches ... ... 10,038,437 00
Expenses of administration of the bank 134,943 58
Ditto of the branches 130,905 00
Miscellaneous ••• 1,201,477 27
Repayment of shares of Algiers Bank 1,749,880 00
Interest in old Departmental Banks in
National Banks of Towns ...
Consolidation of Treasury Bonds

... 25,000,000 00
... 10,000,000 01.)
13,203,003 1.1

230,000 00
1,749,880 00

:r.619,055,394 39

LIABILITIES.

Capital
Ditto of the new Branch Banks
Reserve fund ... ...

... f. 97,900,000 00
... 23,350,000 00
... 10,000,000 00

Ditto of the branch banks

... 2,980,650 14

Reserve-immobiliere
......
....
......
14711,,,,407960585051,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation
......
...... 320445,,,08806271:,;871411092:8907448 040130047001
Ditto of the branch banks ... .., 61,263,675 00
Ditto to order (post-bills) ... ... 771,499 62
Account-current with Treasury
Various accounts current ... ... 81,769,511 86
Ditto in branches ...
Bills payable at sight ... ... •.• 2,077,800 00
Ditto at branches
927,217 75
Bills of the branch banks payable by
the Bank ... ...
...
...
Ditto of the Bank payable by branches..
Dividends payable ...
...
Branch Bank of Algiers, sum nut yet
employed in Treasury Bonds
Discounts, diverse interests, &c.
Ditto branch bank
...
Re-discounts of the last six niont.h. s
Ditto in branch banks ..
Miscellaneous

••• 4,472,979 04
••• 1,035,302 81
••• 1,179,342 00
.•• 422,932:27
••• 441,216 00
••• 363,464 39

Certificate confirmed,
The Governor of the Bank,

f. 619,055,394 39

D'ARGOUT.

VißscrouTnutßlNlarodrin
rrle.aorßrEivediiiAnßtoDv‘l.NnGoEn.—FrLidiaeyutn.-i Ghetnfreorma I
Ireland. On Saturdayai the Gallant Viscount hadg a pro-
tracted interview with the Duke of Wellington, and sub-
sequently waited on Lord John Russell, at his Lordship's
official residence in Downing-street. The Noble
Viscount afterwards left town for South Park, Pens-
hur4t. Kent, to visit Lady Hardinge and family. It is
said that the Noble Viscount does not intend to return to
Ireland before the middle of next month.
TILE BRADFORD CIIARTISTS.—The ten Chartists
and Confederates apprehended at Bradford on charges of
conspiracy and sedition, after a brief examination before
the Mayor of Bradford and a bench of West Yorkshire
magistrates, were remanded until Thursday next.