The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-09 00:00:00

L'INDEPENDANCH BELGE.—Favourable to the Belgian
Government. Publishes several editions, of which one
(that does not circulate in France) is Lot favourable to
tha French Government, although the journal is said to
receive a subvention fr(m Paris. Among its Parisian
correspondents are MM. L. Faucher, Jules Le,compto,
and gavailhac ; and an Iniploy6lll one of the foreign
embassies,. Circulation, C,OOO.

The Queen gave last evening a State Bail at Bucking-
ham Palace, to which a party of 1,900 were invited,
corunr.sinc.r, the whole of the royal fa.niiy, the whole of
the diplomatic corps, foreigners of distinction at present
staying in this country, the ministers and officers of
state, the ladies and gentlemen of the royal household,
together with a numerous party of the nobility and
gentry:
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LE TELEGUANIE.—Opposition journal, representing
' the Centre Gauche. Is in communication with some
of the more moderate French refugees, and offers a
steady opposition to the French empire. M. Briavoine
is the proprietor, and M. Rayant is one of the contribu-
tors. The French correspondence is furnished by the
proprietor's son and by an Englishnnn. Circulation,
2,000.

oa-this occasion the new state room, lately added to
the palace, were opened, in addition to the ordinary
state apartmentA. The grand ball, staircase, picture
gallery, n,ml ilra,wing-roornS were illuminated and deco-
rated in the usual manner.

L'ECIIO DE BRUXELLES.—The anti-catholic organ ;
contains litt'e original matter. Proprietor, M. Bria-
voine. Circulation, 14 000.
LE BELGE.—A socialist and republican organ, opposed
to the French Government. Proprietor, M. Labarre ;
contributors, MM. D'Olivier and Madier de Moujean.
L'OBSERVATEUIL—Opposition journal, representing
the Left, and under the influence of the more moderate
refugees. Propiietor, M. Herits. C.)ntributors, one of
M. Madier de Moujean's brothers and other refugees.
Has two Paris correspondents, one a Frenchman, and
the second a German. Circulation, 1,200.
L'EroILE BELGE.—A republican and socialist organ.
Opposes the French Gyvernwent, and is under the in-
fluence of the furious refugees. Proprietor, M. Faure,
a Frenchman, and the founder of the Independance.
Circulation, 7,000 copies.

That pori.m of Buckingham Palace which contains
the new apartment were c,mstructed, from the design
and under the direction of Mr. J Pannethorne, archi-
tect, by the late Mr. Thomas Cubitt. The sculptures
which adorn them are the work (,f Mr. W. Theed, and
the decorations have been carried out from the designs
and under the sop-rintendence of Mr. Lewis Gruner, who
availed himself of the services of Mr. A. Miller and
Signor Canzuni at Rome.

A branch of the grand staircase of the palace leads to
the first apartment, called the promenade gallery, a
room 95 feet in length and 31 in height, with a coved
roof, from which the apartment receives its light ; this,
like all the other rooms, is decorated in the style used
in Italy during the 16th century, usually called " cinque
unto."
The lower part represents an open gallery with vases
filled with flowers under its arches ; above these a series
of panels has been introduced with chiaroscuro paint-
ings
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marble
columns.b y lN 1 i
othernvee
rwt,o ante-roomitsheb yb nqi
auregttee•
and richly-gilt folding door into the ball and concert-
room, opposite to the staircase entrance.
The ball and concert-room itself is an oblong square,
measuring 112 Let by 60, without the two recesses at
the east and west ends ; the height is 43 feet. At the
end towards the west a bold arch, supported by Corin-
thian columns, and surmounted by emblematical figures
of Fame holding a medallion, upon which are the pro-
files of the Queen and Prince, rises above her Majesty's
seat. The lunette formed by this arch will ultimately
be filled by a copy from Raphael's Parnassus ; for the
present occasior, eo never, it has been decorated by an
allegorical composition, representing "Britannia sanc-
tioning Peace," exemplified by children with branches of
olive, while a rising lion indi,atee the watchfulness and
the strength of the nation. At the opposite end another
arch, but without enrichments, confines a similar recess,
containing the orchestra and a richly-decorated organ.
At the foot of this and along the two sides of the room
a triple row of seat, covered with red silk, extends,
which with the other furniture of the apartments was fur-
nished by Messrs. Johnstone and Jeanes. The roof of this
anertment rests on a wide cove enriched with stuccoes ;
double beams of considerable projection running parallel
and transverse divide the whole roof into 21 compart-
ments, each of which is shaped into a deep octagon rece,s,
from which descends a glass lustre for gaslights. The
lustres have been executed by Messrs. Osier, of Birming-
ham. Below the cove a cornice and frieze richly ornanaented
in stucco separates the walls from the ceiling. The upper
part of each of the two side walls is divided into 13 com-
partments,
seven of which are the windows, which at
bight are filled with gaslight, and six are surrounded
Iwith large borders, and represent figures of the hours,
taken from sketches by Raphael and executed above life
size by Professor N. Conzoni at Rome, where the origi-
nals are existing. Within similar spaces on the Bides of ALL OPPOSITION VANQUISHED !
the arches the arms of Great Brita'n are suspended from Plunge a stone into the middle of a lake, and from the
flower and. fruit knets ; arabesques en gold ground and point where it falls ripples will spread in ever-widening
marble panels fill the other spaces in the corners, while rings until they reach at last every portion of its margin.
the four spandrils formed by the arches contain lour Su it is with a great discovery or invention ; wherever it
Cupids
e walls
whole from
of'a frescoes at the Farnesian Palace. may be ushered to the light, its fame is certain in the
length of the lower pars of the two end to fill the world. This has been strikingly illus-
ise Raphaelotvheer e d with a rich silk, decorated with the trated in the progress of Professor Holloway's invaluable
dhe
national devices in fl 'were) and executed front Mr. remedies. Twenty years ago they were first announced
Gruner's designs by Messrs. Jackson and Graham. On in London ; now they are the standard medicines of
the north side of this apartment are two large doors both hemispheres. Such ipstphoeserse, dsiasotlessao,feadr-cblyretihneg
with sculptures by Mr. Theed, of which the one is that sweep of a grand utilitarian discovery, when applied to
leading from the promenade gallery, and the other the highest philanthropic or
opening into a similar room called the approach gallery, motive power of the Press. Whet are the greatest
and through which the state dining-room of the palace military achievements compared with those of Thomas
is reached. Opposite to each of these doors, in the ball- Holloway If it be true that the man who causes two
viz , blades of grass to grew where but one previous grew,
rloooineieat nid)ycolns:€l3.rat-sroboemel,rapzicrerde mirror th
correspondeltrgesize, t
,wit
h the what shall be said of him who cures ten sick persons
doors. The tee candelabra of gilt bronzo which are where but one was cured before. Holloway, if the ea-
placed at the two sides of the seats of her Majesty and cumulated testimony of all nations is to be believed, has
the Royal family, and at the sides of each of the doors done much more than this. Diseases which, prior to
and mirrors, as also the two lustres in the recess on the the introduction of his Pills and Ointment, had baffled
west end, have been executed by Messrs. Barbedienne science, are now relieved with an expedition and cer-
ttai
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nsof convalescent part of the room delarat' multitudes. Professional jea-
'del b supports 43 wax candles. 1 hus for the upper
lousy and prejudice, the must formidable antagonists that
h gallery has its walls painted in imitation Truth encounters,have been vanquished by the success
The approach
divided by pilasters, with scrolls in the style of these preparations, and time-honoured medical insti•
of tapestry,
andthe two ends with hem circles ariein
Europe tutions of Continental have been constrained to
of Raphael,
the lowa. part the mellow tone of the wax.
from the curve of the roof have been adorned by Mr. admit their value and sanction their employment.
Theed with large reliefs, representing the birth of Venus, In this country, where the people are always ready
and .‘
enus descending with the armour fur Achilles, in to teat whatever is new, and equally sagacious in discri-
lifesiz'e. Round these high reliefs are suspended knots mlnating between the chaff' and the wheat of the great
of flowers and fruit, which descend to the base of the mass of novelties submitted to them, the rapidity with
'doors. which Holloway's Pills and Ointment have obtained
The last of the five new apartments is the banqueting.
uetin .
q g unver,al confidence has, perhaps, no parallel in the
room, which
forms
nearly a regular square of 66 feet, history of science. Their fame has radiated from the
with a dome in the c,ntre,
and measuring, from the local point in Now York to the remotest section of the
dome, 42 feet. A large blue leek,.
i
floor to the middle of the
tent, sown with golden stars, and bordered by cords and Usually we improve upon all foreign inventions ; but
Arabesque., extends over .eha whole of the dome.. The even Yankee acumen cannot enhance the value of these
Wellseue Lhe.upper
.part-of the room are divided into! remedies. We take them as they are, and are not-only
panels alternately painted with gaphaei's Arabesques in satisfied, but grateful.—Albany Knickerbocker.

LA NATION.—A furious socialist journal; the most
exaggerated of the Belgian opposition journals. The
organ of La Marianne. Although it has only 700 regu-
lar subscribers, it prints 6,000 and 7,000 copies accord-
in.. to the nature of the filth it contains. Propietors,
M. Laberre and Company. Two Parisian correspon-
dents des plus c.raltes.
LE NATIONAL.—A moderate democratic organ. Pro-
prietor, M. Mascart. Circulation, 1,500 copies.
LE SANCIIO.—A journal for industrial puffs, and in
which are published at times scandalous biographies.
Proprietor, M. Joly. Circulation, 200 copies.
LE CIIARIVARI.—A. journal publishing obscene en-
gravings, and articles as extravagant as those of La
Nation. Generally caricatures the French government.
Proprietor, M. D'Olivier ; contributor, M. Muset.
Circulation, 500 copies.
LE CROCODILE. —A. journal in the style of the last,
and anti-religious. Parodies daily the debates of the
Belgian Parliament. Proprietor, M. ; con-
tributor, M. Must. Circulation, 500 copies.
MEPHISTOPHELES.—A journal which is the receptacle
for the writings of authors of the worst taste. A public
insulter—reproducing all the infamous writings of the
demagogue.. Circulation, 400 copies.
LA PRESSE BELLE.—An opposition organ. Pro-
prietor, M. Heymann. Circulation, 350 copies.
L'EMANCIPATION AND L'EcEarE.—The organs of the
Right ; are said to be in the pay of the French Govern-
meat. Proprietor, M. Coomans. The former has a
circulation of 1,000 copies : the latter prints 600 copies.
LE NORD.—A. Russian organ, published at th 3 ex-
pense of its government. Represented by M. Cappel-
mans. Circulation, 1,200 copies.

.
LE JOURNAL DE BRUXELLES.—The organ of the Ca-
tholic party ; the excellent friend of the French Govern-
ment. Proprietor, M. Neuve. Circulation 2,000

copies•.

* [The epithets used as descriptive of the several
jour..als are those employed by the French officials, not
ours.]

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