The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-05 00:00:00

C()URT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY—The Queen and Prince
Albert walked this morning in the grounds adjoining
th
h e Castle. The garden chair was taken in readiness
wen required, in which her Majesty occasionally
rode. Her Majesty and the Prince drove out in a
Poly phaeton, attended by Lord Charles Wellesley.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess Alice, were taken a' walk this forenoon. The
Royal Family were taken a carriage airing in the
afternoon.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, his Ex-
cellency the Chevalier Bunsen,:Prussian Minister, and
his Royal Highness's Suite, including Count Koenigs-
Mark, Count Puckler, Baron Schleinitz, and Captain
3deynell (Groom in Waiting to her Majesty), took
their departure from the Castle this morning.
Count Nesselrode, Count D. Nesselrode, the Duke
of Wellington, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Li-
verpool, the Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lady
Mary 'West, and Sir Robert and Lady Peel, left the
Castle this morning.

-er Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the
Dowager Lady Clinton and the Earl of Denbigh,
arrived at her residence, Marlborough House, in a
carriage and four, from Bushy House, Bushy Park,
aathalf-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning. Her
•ntajesty left town shortly before five o'clock, on her
return to Bushy Park.
A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, at the Foreign-office.
The Ministers present were—Sir Robert Peel, the
Duke of Wellington the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aber-
deen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Lord
Granville Somerset, and Sir Edward Knatchbull.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Aberdeen
returned to town yesterday, from a visit to the Queen
at Windsor Castle.
A deputation from the London and York Railway
,/orripany, including Mr. Beckett Denison, M.P., Mr.
-trancis Mowatt, the two Vice-Chairmen, and other
Directors, with Mr. Locke, the engineer, the solicitor,
and the secretary, had an interview with the Earl of
Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel arrived at their residence
'n Whitehall gardens yesterday morning, from a visit
to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Dean, Chairman of the Customs, and the Hon.
Edgard Stewart, Deputy-Chairman, had interviews
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Observing your remarks in The Sun of last
evening, upon the judicial distinction observed at
Gravesend between the rich and the poor, I cannot
Withhold my expressions of thankfulness that the
London press has at length condescended to notice the
vagaries of the petty Midases of this place—it is,
this town,
true that the poor are most unfairly treated in
town, and" as you have so ably exposed the donkey-
driver mode of justice with that of the nice "young
gentleman," I trust you will allow me a short space
rYour valuable paper to show how much the defence-
less Poor of this place are induced to respect even-
handed justice.
There are commissioners of the town for prevent-
alhg nuisances, and for licensing coaches, flys, vans,
.orses, donkeys, &c. The majority of the commis-
sloners are Dissenters, and consequently are horror-
struck at at the idea of Sunday travelling; accordingly
ey notified that no licenses should be given to per-
se'ns 'who would not abstain from working on the
:Sunday.
Now there is an immense demand for this
species of travelling on a Sunday, and especially at
Gravesend, and consequently the whole host of stable-
'eePers and fly-men reared up at this extreme ab-
ility,u. and resolved they would not stand it, but
,'1"1 purse and time would resist it. The conse-
:ll4 enee was, the mayor and his associates succumbed,
hackney-men, horse-drivers, and van-men, and
t e Whole of the horse and carriage tribe were licensed
2, work on the Sunday, and do, indeed, on that day
rour most hard and fast, as every citizen who
tins been at Gravesend can attest—but the poor
InkeY-drivers were a distinct class ; they could not
tiprd to give his worship a junketting on Saint
7onday for nothing—they were not members of the
neVectable united fly, van, and buss club ; they had
money to defend themselves against the public
purse of the commissioners, and so the magnanimous
aYor and his conscientious coadjutors refused to
eterlse these poor creatures, except for the six week
t,,Y82 and have fined or imprisoned those who have
seen tempted to travel on a Sunday, in imitation of
r, comparatively wealthy van-men !Is not this,
one law for the rich and another for the poor ?
that
though this is bad enough, will it be believed
:at the greater number of these commissioners deal
and trade most extensively on a Sunday, as carriers
Per steam-packets, or as butchers, &c., and that his
Worship the mayor has men actually stationed during
the whole Sabbath (not even excepting the hours of
Divine service) service) on the pier, for collecting tolls to pay
himself or othersinterest, large interest, on moneys
advanced on the speculation that the citizens of
London will travel to Gravesend on Sundays, as well
as on other days, for health and recreation.
AN INHABITANT OF GRAVESEND.