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London, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

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meat, could of course if they thought proper refer to '
this matter.
Dr. BOWRING remarked that a r eturn of this kind
had. heretofore_been invariably g'ranted.
The Earl of LINCOLN, as a member of the Commit-
tee, said he was not quite sure whether this very return
was not one he had himself moved for in the aggregate
for'the information of the Committee.
Motion withdrawn.
Mr. MACGREGOR then moved for a return of
tl-f thesalaries and duties of each person in the e o
Cobaptroller of the Exchequer, specifying the average
attOndance of each person, including- the Comptroller, to
th 4 duties of that office: similar return, including the
Master, for the establishment of the department of the
Mi`nt: and; for the establishment of the Paymaster of the
Forces, including the Paymaster.
Mr. PAR sa that all the information required
bythe Honß. Member would come before the Committee
:on-the miscellaneous estimates.
iAfter a few words from Mr. MACGREGOR, the
motion was by leave withdrawn.
SLAVE-TRADE.
Mr. HUTT moved that the Committee on the slave-
trade do M
Bow
and consist of seventeen members, and that Admiral
Bo esr. Darkly be added to the said Committee.
—Agreed to.
SEAMEN FOR THE NAVY.
Captain HARRIS moved for a Select Committee to
inquire into the supply of seamen from the commercial
miarine to her Majesty s fleet, and into the effect of the
Rbgistry and Navigation Acts on that supply. If the
Committee were granted, he should be able to prove that
seen avy bad been supplied with petty officers and able
smen mainly by the apprenticeship system in the r-
me
chant service, while it was notorious that a great por-
iim of the boys enlisted in the navy deserted shortly
fiter their being entered.
Lord INGESTRIE seconded the motion
on the
I Mr. LABOUCHERE opposed the motion,
•ound that the question had already been disposed of
r an Admiralty Commission of Inquiry.
Mr. BROTHERTON moved the adjournment of the
bbate.
After a few words from Sir G. GREY.
Mr. BROTHERTON withdrew his motion, and the
slain question was negatived without a division.
PORT OF NEWCASTLE.
Mr. WAWN moved for a copy of a memorial and ap-
pendices from South Shields to the Vice-Chairman of
Qustoms; also,' copy of agreement entered into by the
deputations from Newcastle, South Shields, and North
Shields, with the names. thereto [affixed, and presented
ti) the Vier-Chairman of Customs; also, copy of the
Vice-Chairman's report thereupon to the Board of Cus-
4uns; and, further, copy of statement whereby it has
een made to appear that a saving will be effected by a
iib-division of the port of Newcastle (in addition to
apers presented 4th May last en this subject).
i Mr. PARKER agreed to the production of the whole
1; the papers, with the exc,ption of the report of the
Tice-Chairman of the Board of Customs, which was
lot a public document, but a confidential communi-
mtion.
With this exception the returns were ordered•
The House adjourned at five minutes after Ono o'clock.

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'HE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS
IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
1 During the last Easter recess, Mr. James Ballantine,
f George-street, Edinburgh, the contractor for supply-
ng the stained glass windows for the new House of
ords, has added two windows to the two previously
rented, one by himself, and the other by Mr. Hardman,
f Birmingham. The manner in which the three win-
ows erected by Mr. Ballantine hav been executed
eflects great credit on that gentleman.e The sparing
rilliancy of the colouring which is exhibited through-
ut the whole of them has been produced by an inven-
ition of his own, by which he has been enabled to lighten
;the dull uniformity produced by masses of strong colour-
ing;l a process which has never been on any former
occasion applied to glass, but which gives it that studded
and gem-like appearance, for which the ancient glass has
been so much and justly esteemed. For the information
and gratification of our readers we give the following
synopsis of the arrangement of the figures contained in
each window :—ln the upper compartment of the window
nearest the Throne (this window is executed by Mr.
Hardman, Birmingham,) are the figures of William the
Conqueror, Matilda of Flanders, William Rufus an
, d
Henry the First ,• and in the lower compartment, Ma-
tilda, Queen of Henry the First, the Empress Matilda,
Stephen, and Matilda of Boulogrst of those executed by
ne.
In the second window (the fi
Mr. Ballantine), in the upper compartment are the
figures of Henry the Second, Eleanor of Guienne,
Richard the First and Berengaria of Navarre; and in the
lower compartment, King John, Isabella of Angouleme,
Henry the Third, and Eleanor of Provence.
In the third window from the Throne, in the upper
compartment, are the figures of Edward the First, Elea-
nor of Castile, Edward the Second, and Isabella; and in
the lower compartment Edward the Third, Philippa of
Hainault, the Black Prince, and Joan of Kent.
In the fourth window, in the upper compartment,
Richard the Second, Anne, Henry the Fourth, and Mary
Bohun; and in the lower compartment, are the figures
of Henry the Fifth, Catherine, Henry the Sixth, and
Margaret of Anjou. W e understand that Mr. Ballantine
has several of the other windows in a great state of for-
wardness, and that they will be erected when an oppor-
tunity is afforded by a short recess of the House. We
.venture to predict, that if Mr. Ballantine is as successful
iu the eight windows he has yet to furnish for the House
of Lords, as he has been in the three he has already
erected, his name will be handed down to posterity as a
valuable contributor to the most splendid building of
the 19th century, in England.

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COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert left town yesterday
morning, for her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne,
Isle of Wight. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort,
with the Royal Family and the Ladies and Gentlemen
in Waiting, left Buckingham Palace in five carriages and
four, for the terminus of the London and South-Western
Railway, at Nine-elms, atlten minutes past ten o'clock.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were in the first
carriage and four. Prince Alfred, the Princess Helena,
and the Princess Louisa, and also Lady Portman, the
Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Hon. Matilda Paget, Colonel
the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Major-General Bowles, Colonel
the Hon. Charles Grey, and Captain the Hon. Alexander
Gordon, occupied the other carriages.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were conducted to
thuir carriage by the Master of the Horse, the Vice-
Chamberlain, the Earl of Morton, Colonel Berkeley
Drummond, and Captain Francis Seymour.
The august party left the railway terminus by a special
train for Gosport.
The Queen and Prince Albert inspected on Saturday
a proof of " The Expulsion," whch was submitted by
Mr. F. Sexton.

111. •
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Mt, ate Kentnded
by Lady Augusta Bruce, dined with her ajesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday evening at Marlborough
House.
Sir William Henry Clerke, High Sheriff of the county
of Flint, had an interview with Sir George Grey yes-
terday, at the Home-office, to present an Address to her
Majesty.
Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister, transacted
business yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
A deputation of distillers, consisting of Mr.
nett,a Seger,
Dir. G. Smith, Mr. 0. Smith, Bur Mr.
J. Gaitskell, Mr. J. Scott Smith, and Mr.
inte William
rview
Nicholson, attended by Mr. BroartiOg, had an
with Earl Granville yesterday, at the office of the Board
of Trade, respecting the exception of distilleries and
rectifying distilleries from the Smoke Prohibition Bill.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of the Mauritius.
Colonel Anson had an interview ;yesterday with Sir
George Grey.

ROGERS'S BABY-JUMPER'
" This is the patent age of new inventions,",.sung
Byron some thirty years ago ; and if he was astonished
at " vaccination, galvanism, and gas," what would have
been his wonder could he have seen the invention of a
mechanical nursemaid? Yes, we say a mechanical
nursemaid, for not more surely will the railway even-
tually supersede every other method of conveyance than
will the baby-jumper supersede every other method of
exercising infants. It is in appearance an elegant tunic,
but within it contains a softly-padded seat, in which the
baby is securely fastened in a sitting position (a me-
chanical nurse's arms, in fact), while the machine is
suspended from the ceiling by means of elastic straps so
contrived as not to press upon or gall the child, at such a
height that its feet touch the ground. In this manner
the baby jumps itself by means of the elastic cords by its
own exertions, and frequently jumps itself to sleep.
This invention must supersede all cradles, go-carts,
and such like inventions, and eventually, as we said
before, to a great extent, nursemaids themselves. It is,
without a joke, " a real blessing to mothers," and, we
may add, to infants as well.

NEW EDITION OF PEPTS' DIARY.—WO are re.
quested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marl-
borough-street, has just published the First Volume of
" The Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys,
F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns
of Charles 11. and James II." Edited by Lord
Bray brooke. A New Edition, with Numerous Passages
now restored from the Original Manutcript, and many
additional Notes, with Portrait, &c. 105. 6d. bound.
Also, now ready, " The Court and Times of James
the First," Illustrated by Authentic and Confidential
Letters from various Public and Private Manuscript
Collections. Edited, with an Introduction and numerous
Notes, by the Author of " Memoirs of Sophia Dorothea."
2 vols. Bvo., 28s. bound.
THE BIRKENHEAD Docas. There is now
on be a
strong probability that terms will be agreed up-
tween the Liverpool Dock Trustees and the Birkenhead
Dock Commissioners and bondholders for the purchase
of the Birkenhead Docks for the Liverpool corporation.
Proceedings have been suspended before the Parlia
mentary Committee, to give time for negotiations and a
meeting of the parties fixed for Tuesday. —Liverpool
Albion.
TEE PEOPLE'S KITCHEN.— pp
appears by a report
by Mr. Barry that the kitchen of the new P
ei alace at
Westminster won't be in working order for ghteen
months yet. The Kitchen Committee,
they can't therefore,
have a
report
to the House, in moving terms, that
chop in the new House till the beginning of 1850, and
therefore they resolve to set up three cooking-stoves, to
eddwarilt
mtolNke an additional dining-room, transfer the tea-room
the o. 3, at 1601. expense, and vest the patronage of
housekeepereisathinogp
Sessional Committee to control the arrangements of the
ntatys' thTehsese
will stay
in the Sergeant-at-Arms, subject to a
of unhappy Members
until a cuisine worthy 0,. tomachs
and British
provisional arrangements, it
I a Soyer as cook, a
Senate as feeders,