The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert left town yesterday
morning, tbr 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 tin 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,
anti 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
Go rdon, occupied the other carriages.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were conducted to
their 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 woof of " The Expulsion," which was submitted by
Mr. F. Sexton.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lads- Augusta Bruce, dined with her Majesty 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•offrce, 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. Seager,
Mr. G. Smith, Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. J. R. F. Burnett, Mr.
J. Gaitskell, Mr. J. Scott Smith, and Mr. William
Nicholson, attended by Mr. Browning, had an interview
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 " ,raccination, 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
con trived 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
beiore, to a great extent, nursemaids themselves. It is,
without a joke, "a real blessing to mothers," and, we
me‘y add, to infants as well.

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meeting of the parties fixed for Tuesday.
Albion. —Liverpool
THE. PEOPLE'S KITCHEN.—It appears, by a report
by Mr: Barry that the kitchen of the new Palace at
Westminster won't be in working order for eighteen
months yet. The Kitchen Committee, therefore, report
to the House, in moving terms, that they can't have a
chop in the new House till the beginning of 1850, and
therefore they resolve to set up three cooking-stoves, to
ni.Ake an additional dining-room, transfer the tea-room
to No. 3, at 1601. expense, and vest the patronage of
the housekoeper in the Sergeant at-Arms, subject to a
Sessional Committee to control the arrangements of the
eating departments. These provisional arrangements, it
is hoped, will stay the stomachs of unhappy Members
until a cuisine worthy of a Soyer as cook, and a British
Senato as feeders, can be prepared.

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