The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAICIU

immense wreaths of holly, interspersed with ?CIA
the whole looped tip with red, white, and blue
ribbon. There were also two flags at each window,
and four ou the roof of the bonne. The count and
countess occupied seats on the balcony. Baron
Meyer de Rothschild's (member of parliament for
Hythe) residence was neatly decorated, and the
apartments were filled with elegantly-dressed !adieu.
The shops between the baron's mansion and that
of the late Henry Thos. Hope, recently deceased,
were profusely decorated with roses and drapery,
ou which were inscriptions for the health and
happiness of the royal pair. The mansion of the
late Mr. Hope was conspicuous front its dull appear-
ance, from every white blind being drawn down, and
from no person being visible at the windows. The
Doke of Cambridge's house, at the corner of Park-
lane, was handsomely decorated with crimson
cloth and evergreens, the whole relieved with white
ribbon and large rosettes. In the centre of the build-
ing is a crystal Prince's plume, which will be very
effeative on the night of the illumination. At the
corner of Hanithon.plaoe is the mansion of Sir
Edward Clarence Kerrison, Bart., member for
Rye. Extending from the upper windows to the
lower were mauve, yellow, and crimson draperies,
looped up with white and red roses, and in the
front of the building, from the roof to the ground,
was a large number of flags of all colours.
Among the company in the balcony and the erected
seats we noticed Earl Stanhope, Viscount Castle-
roam, and the Duke of Marlborough. At the
opposite corner of Hamilton-place stands the
elegant mansion of the hereditary Lord Great
Chamberlain, Lord Willoughby d'Eresby ; the
front of the house was hung with blue satin,
covered with gold stars • on each side of a star
of the Order of the Garter in gold, surmounted
wits a crown, and wreaths of holly and laurel
were ranged along the whole front. In the
court-yard seats were erected for about 200
visitors, who were in the course of the day supplied
with refreshments—the royal bargemen being the
waiters. Among the visitors in the balconies were
Lord Proby, Admiral Dunoombe, and Sir Stafford
Northcote. In front of the new, but uncompleted,
mansion of Baron Rothschild, member for London,
an immense erection was placed, but the decorations
were not worthy of any notice. Apeley House, at
the corner of Hyde-park, the residence of the Duke
of Wellington, was only slightly decorated, but the
building from the top to the bottom was fall bf
ladies and gentlemen and attendants, and it pre-
sented a very animated appearance. On a board
with a black ground were the words, "Long may
they Live." The noble duke was one of the royal
procession through Westminster. At the base of
the late duke's equestrian statue, and in the ad-
jacent vacant space of ground, seats were erected
for the royal servants and others, and they were
well tilled with persons of both sexes ; while the
the summit of the statue was covered with gentle-
men, who must have had a good view of the royal
procession through Hyde-park, one individual being
quite conspicuous from his standing fearless end
alone under the body of the bronze horse.
The procession as it passed the mansion of Lord
Palmerston slightly slackened its pace, and both
the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandra
bowed to the noble Premier and his party.