The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Her Majesty rode out in
pony phaeton this morning, accompanied by the Primo.
et:6s Alice, and attended by the Dowager Latl:
Lyttelton and Lord Charles Wellesley: lii the 111.6-1--
noon her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Pribee
Prussia, went out in an open pony carriage, a 'tend,
by Lord Charles Wellesley (Equerry in Waitin,y). to
horseback. The Lady in Waiting and the AL, ids -E.
Honour followed in a pony carriage, and Court
Puckler, Baron Schleinitz, Baron de Berg, and Cou: t
Konigsmark, also followed.
Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince If
Prussia, left the Castle at a quarter before ten o'clm.:ir.
this morning, to shoot in the royal preserves. The ir
Royal Highnesses were attended by Major-Genet
Sir Edward Bowater. The Prince returned to tl e
Castle shortly before two o'clock.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were
taken their accustomed airings this morni:Ag C4l
ponies in the pleasure-grounds adjacent to the Cast/E.--
In the afternoon, the Royal Family were take% a I
airing, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelttni_
The Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady CV-
mentina Villiers, the Earl and Countess of Westmore-
land, and Viscount Melbourne, left the Castle to-day
The Earl of Liverpool left in the forenoon, but returra
to the Castle in the evening, to dinner.
The Count Nesselrode, Count D. Nesselrode, au.
Duke of Wellington, the Earl and Countess Dela-
warr and Lady Mary West, and Sir Robert and Lady
Peel, arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to Lct
Majesty.
Her. Majesty and Prince Albert, Nvith the Princes
of Prussia, inspected to-day the "Doncaster Cup
which Messrs Mortimer and. Hunt 'ha&tht honour r
submitting to the illustrious Party. The subject
the cup is henry the Eighth and Queen Catheritat
meeting Robin Hood at Shooter's Hill, May 1, 1515.

Sir Henry Wheatley arrived in the afternoon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Ladr•
Charlotte Dundas, the Countess Wratislaw, And Sir
George Couper, will join the royal circle at dinner
this evening.
The Bud of the Scots Fusilier Guards will attenil
during dinner at the Castle.
Her Majesty's private band will be in •attendaNcis
in the after part of the evening..
The Duke of Cambridge arrived'_ in town yesterday
from his residence :t Kew. His Royal Highness went;
to the House of Lords in the afternoon, and in th,:
evening returned to Kew.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yester-
day afternoon at the Foreign-office. The following.
were the Ministers present :
Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord!
Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, Earl of Ahrrdeer;,
Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancenorcat
the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Lord Gran 711.1. e
Somerset, and Sir Edward Knatchbull.
Lord Wharncliffe arrived in town yesterday morn-
ing to attend the Council from Anglesey -Villa, near
Gosport. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived from Windsor
Castle. Lord Stanley arrived early yester,slay morn-
ing from Latham House, Lancashire. Sir X. Graham
arrived from the Isle of Wight, and Lord G. Somerset
from Tunbridge-wells.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
Directly after the Council, Sir Robert Peel, accom-
panied by Lady Peel, left his residence in Whitehall-
gardens, on a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.
The Earl of Aberdeen also left the Foreign-office
soon afterwards, on his return to Windsor Castle.
The Duke of Wellington left town after the I.7:4lncit
on a visit to her Majesty.
Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an In-
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Earl of Westmoreland arrived in town yester-
day from Windsor Castle. His Lordship transacted
business in the afternoon at the Foreign-office.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Co-
lonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar, for the
Governor of Malta, and also for the Lord High Coui-
missioner of the lonian Islands.

PUBLIC BATHS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sra,—ln your publication of the 20th current you
very obligingly inserted my letter on the -subject or
Public Baths. I feel tic, deeply interested in the
subject to allow the matter willingly to drop, and
therefore I trust you will endeavour to find space fur
this communication. I shall be as brief as possible ;
but if a word or two at a time can keep the matter
before the public eye, and should ultimately be the
means of inducing those among the working classes,
who have the power to set the affair in a, position to
be worked out to some good and practical end, neither
your labour nor mine can be considered as thrown
away.
Since I last wrote to you I have read in the news-
papers a brief notice of a great public meeting thst
has just been hold at Salford, where no less a saws
than 11,0001. was subscribed in the room for the pur-
pose, among other objects, of erecting baths for the
working classes of that locality. Here is an example
for the citizens of London to imitate. Without any
very serious difficulty some twelve or fourteen
thousand pounds has been collected in London, to
hand down to posterity, in bronze or marble, the
name of an illustrious Duke, not very likely to need
such a memento in future generations. A much
smaller sum than this would enable us to hand down
to our posterity a benefit for which they would have
good cause to bless the public spirit and enlightenect
liberality of those who would assist or encourage the
working men of London to attain for themselves so
necessary and desirable an object as the erection of
cheap and judiciously distributed baths.
That the working classes of London are not un-
mindful of the benefits to be derived from, or averse
to the use of the bath, is shown by the numbers who
have flocked to the Serpentine during the hot weather,
amounting to little short of 300,000. All this too in
the face of its numerous inconveniences and dangers,
for scarcely a week passes during the bathing season
without some fatal accident ; and the exposure is
such as must deter numbers from availing themselves
of the so-called luxury. The fact too of the Lord
Mayor having issued a proclamation against bathing
in the river, ought to act as a stimulus to our exer-
tions to supply proper means and conveniences that
this necessary may be within the reach of all.
I hinted in my former letter that Government;
might do much to assist us in the way of granting
sites for the erection of buildings. And, just to view
the matter in a practical light, I will take the liberty
of pointing out one or two situations that struck me
as peculiarly fitted for the purpose. In Orange-
street, where the well is being sunk for the supply of
water to Trafalgar-square and the public offices, is a
long vacant space of ground, close by this inexhausti-
ble supply of the needful element. The two engines
that are to be employed to raise the water, could
likewise be made available for the purposes of hot or
tepid bathing. Again, at the east end of the Serpen-
tine is a vacant space of ground, somewhat below the
level of the river. When I last passed that way, if I
remember rightly, it was occupied by a stagnant
looking ditch, which under any circumstances it
would be desirable to drain. Were a bath erected
here it might be open at all how*, the dangers and
the exposures of the river being thus completely
avoided. I need not lengthen this letter, nor will
add one word more, than just to say that a few re-
marks from your pen, :to give point and effect to my
weak attempts, would, I AM sure, be duly appreciated
by all who wish well to their kind, and would confer
much pleasure upon, Sir, yours very respecfully,
WORKIN G MA.N.
77, Harrison-street, Regent-square, Aug. 27.

TIIE LATE PITMEN'S STRIKE.—Our accounts from
the collieries are satisfactory. The pits are all at work,.
and though, from some quarters, we hear of an inten-
tion to " knock off" again, we have very little appre-
hension of the renewal of a folly that has cost the pitmen
so dear. At Wingate Grange the men turned out for st
day, with the view of securing the employment of a
delegate named Sutton ; but finding the owners deter-
mined to resist the demand, they wisely relinquished
their purpose, and resumed their labour. We observe,
from the neighbouring prints, that in various places,
the strangers" have been maltreated by the old pit ,
men, for the purpose, doubtless, of driving them from
their employment, so as to make room for the surplus
hands who have been thrown out of engagementssthtehla
strnickee b
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lawless device, they will be
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day'sto their.—Durham
Mit. BELANEY. This individual,—
eho:ii,ono.l;ycopic,:).ei
as.
poisoning tjihnuegr ye
his
ntuisa
wife, was, on the verdict of " Not Guilty" being brought
in by the jmuan,inlgibeforarted theonnorTthh.urlsdieaysp-,aBls,e.fdt
through
Newcastle the same evening on his way to North Sun-
llis return home," as well as that of some of
the witnesses who appeared in his favour on the trial.
according to a letter dated 28th inst., giving an account
of his arrival, has been the reverse of welcome. On
party, it is said, was stoned from the village : and on
Wednesday an effigy was elevated on a pole, and, after
being paraded for some time round the neighbourhood,
it was set fire to in the presence, and amidst the shout-
ings of some hundreds of the pi pulation. A letter which
appeared in the Times newspaper of Saturday last,
signed G. S., strongly condemnatory of the jury who
tried and acquitted Belaney, has also been reprintedv
Alnwiek, and extensively circulated. The excitement U.:
the locality of North Sunderland, where Belaney and his
unfortunate and much respected wife were so well known,
and where her friends most reside, is described as being
very great.—Durham Advertiser.
ENTERING OF MEN FOR THE ROYAL NAVY.—.
On Saturday orders were received from the Board of
Admiralty to commence entering able-bodied seamen
for general service at the general rendezvoui, Queen's
Head, Tower-hill. The Perseus tender, lying off the
Tower, has been getting ready for the last weei( to re-
ceive the men who may pass the doctor's examination,
until they are sent off to Woolwich, Sheerness, Ports-
mouth, and Plymouth, by steamers, to man
stchcoeomusmnhtiirps;
sign,that arein
ase orderedof to a
misuhnedeirmsttuaendaiiantgely pbet:etenintthoi
and France.