The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-28 00:00:00

five principal compartments, light is liberally intro-
duced through elegant horizontal glazing. But the
principal of Lloyd's apartments, for size and symme-
try, is the subscribers'- room which looks into the
quadrangle at its eastern end, and is an oblong of
98 feet in length by 40 in width. It is divided in
length into six compartments, by members very simi-
lar in effect to those in the room last described, though
their detail is totally different. Like that, it has its
ceiling commenced with a cove-like arrangement, but
pierced in each compartment into a half-groin,
' through the top of which light is introduced by an
ornamentally glazed hexagon. The chief supply of
light, however, is obtained reflectively, down the centre
1 of the room, each of the six compartments of the ceiling
being there elevated into a dome, with a window be-
neath it, springing on each side. The effect of this
mode of lighting is less brilliant, perhaps, than of that in
the commercial-room, but it is beautifully diffusive
and gentle, while abundant in its supply. The de-
corative detail in this room is very considerable, but
far from overpowering : we observe in it the frequent
repetition of the heraldic bearings adopted by the
establishment of Lloyd's.

Leaving this room by an archway on the south-
east, we enter the reading-room, an apartment 40
feet long by 25 wide, lighted by a lantern and fitted
at mid-height with a gallery on each long side, ap-
proached by a double staircase on the east. The de-
corations of this room are not so elaborate as to detain
us for a description : and we turn, therefore, by the
north, successively through the secretary's-room, its
anti-chamber under the tower, a clerk's office, and the
kitchen of Lloyd's, which suite completes the circuit
of the eastern court, and brings us to the captains'-
room. More need not be said of this apartment than
that it is a cheerful combination of three rooms in
one, connected by wide archways, and occupying the
north-east angle of the building; from this we are
led out again upon the great lobby first noticed, and
from which we retreat without thinking it necessary
to carry the reader through a series of various other
and less accessible apartments of no public interest.
Here, then, we conclude our review of this impor-
tant structure, and in doing so we shall not pay the
architect or his co-operators the adulation with which
the crowd are too apt to laud every new building of
magnitude when clean from the mason's hands, as a
superb edifice, magnificent pile, and whatever else the
use of equally discriminative terms can make it. Be
it enough that we offer the expression of our opinion
that the building has merit sufficient to secure for it
the approbation of futurity, which is the highest ob•
led a true artist aims to secure.

That we may not leave our account incomplete, we
subjoin the names of those gentlemen who have been
immediately and statedly engaged in superintending
the building, or conducting its decorative departments,
not omitting to recognise at the outset the services of
Mr. Richard Lambert Jones, as the Chairman of the
controlling Gresham Committee :

Mr. William Tite, architect.
Mr. Ebenezer Trotman, assistant.
Messrs. G. and R. Webb, builders of the founda-
tions.
Mr. Thomas Jackson, builder of the superstruc-
ture.
Messrs. Westmacott, Relines, Carew, Joseph,
Lough, and Watson, sculptors.
Mr. C. H. Smith, architectural carver.
M. Frederick Sang, decorator in fresco and encaus-
tic painting.
Mr. A. Singer, maker of tessellated pavement.
Mr. E. J. Dent, clockmaker.
Messrs. Mears and Son, bellfounders.
In conclusion, we derive satisfaction from a belief
that the general state of professional and even of pub-
lic taste, as well as the recently increased facilities for
building, are in favour of great advances in architec-
tural excellence. Within less than an interval of 20
years, we find that an edifice, not far differing in size
from the General Post-office, and displaying incom-
parably more studied composition and elaborated de-
tail, can be raised at about half the cost which that
structure demanded. We wish all success to art and
its professors, and hope that, for the national credit,
its interests may never be dissociated from the favour
of those influential men who shall hereafter assemble

in the new Royal Exchange, the centre of the cow
coerce of the world.

(From the Observer.)
On Saturday a Court of Aldermen was held at Guild
hall, when, after a good deal of discussion, the Cour
agreed to the following order of procession, which wil
leave Guildhall punctually at eleven o'clock;—

ORDER OF PROCESSION OF THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD
MAYOR AND THE CORPORATION OP LONDON FROM
GUILDHALL TO TEMPLE-BAR, TO RECEIVE HER MA-
JESTY, ON MONDAY, THE 28TH Or OCT, 1844.
Police Officers to clear the way.
City Marshalman.
City Trumpeters.
Navigation Watermen, bearing colours. •
The Captain of the Thames Navigation Barge.
The Principal Assistant Water Bailiff.
Water Bailiff's Watermen, with colours.
Junior City Marshal on horseback.
The Lord Mayor's Beadle,
City Watermen in state liveries, with colours.
The Lord Mayor's Barge Master in his state dress.
Lord Mayor's Banner.
Senior City Marshal on horseback.
The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, in his state car-
riage, drawn by six horses, attended by the
Sword-bearer and Common Crier.

Aldermen who have passed the Chair, in their Scarlet
Gowns, in their carriages.
Aldermen who have not passed the Chair, in Scarlei
Gowns, in their carriages.
The Sheriffs in their state carriages.
Members of the Court of Common Council in carriages

Police Constables.

Upon the arrival of the procession at Temple Bar, the
Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and those Members who are to
ride in procession, will be received at the banking-house
of Child and Co., where thoy will remain until her Ma-
jesty's approach.
ORDER OF PROCESSION

FROM TEMPLE-BAR, ON RECEIVING HER MAJESTY IN
MER PROGRESS TO THE NEW EXCHANGE.
poli„.officers on horseback.

Carriages of the Members of the Court of Common
Council.
The State-carriages of the Sheriffs.
Carriages of the Aldermen.
The above portion of the procession will prece3e the
'detachment of Life Guards conducting the members of the
Royal Family, and her Majesty's immediate attendants.
The Junior City Marshal on horseback.

,Members of the Court of Common Council, in their
Mazarine Gowns, on horseback, each with an
attendant.
Henry Muggeridge, Esq. William Gresham, Esq.
Samuel S. Edkins, Esq. W. J. Frodesham, Esq.
James Bayley, Esq.
Wm James Ander '
ton Esq.
Thomas Q. Finnis, Esq. . Collingwood,
Edward Godson, Esq. Joshua G. Bedford, Esq.
Walter A. Peacock, Esq. Richard Dixon, Esq.
The Senior City Marshal on horseback.

The Sheriffs, in their Scarlet Gowns and Chains, on
horseback, each attended by a Sergeant and a Groom.
Thomas Sidney, Esq. William Hunter, Esq.
Aldermen in their Scarlet Gowns (those past the Chair
in their chains) on horseback,
each attended by a Beadle and a Groom.

Thomas Farneomb, John A. Hooper, Esq.
Sir George Carroll, Bart. John Johnson, Esq.

Thomas Wood, Esti.
Sir Peter Laurie, hut.
Matthias Prime Lucas, Esq.

C. Farebrother, Esq.
Sir John Key, Bart.
Sir C. S. llunter, Bar

........ .
Right Hon. MICHAEL GIBBS,
Lord Mayor elect.
. The Common Crier, on The Sword-bearer on horse-
horseback, S. Bcddome, back, Charles W. flick,
Esq., carrying the Esq., with the
. City Mace. Cap of Maintenance.
Three The LORD MAYOR, Three
Footmen The Right lion. Wm. Magnay, Footmen
in in a crimson velvet robe, and in

State a collar— SS., on horseback, bearing ' State
Liveries. the City Sword of State, Liveries.
immediately before
HER MAJESTY.
The Royal Procession will here fall in.
On Saturday the Gresham Committee sat from twelve
o'clock until a late hour. completing the necessary pre-
liminaries for the reception of her Majesty and the
Prince Consort. Mr. Jones, the chairman, presided, and
among the more active members were Sir Chapman
Marshall, Alderman Humpherv, and Mr. R. Taylor. All
arrangements were finally and satisfactorily completed
for putting the civic orders and the entire machinery of
the occasion into active operation and correct execution
for the events of this day.
On Friday letters were received by the Gresham
Committee from Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham,
and the Duke of Wellington, for tickets of admission,
which were immediately sent to them, and this led to the
suspension of all further tickets being issued, so as to
provide against any exigence in the event of other ca-
binet ministers making applications for the same.
For the last three or four days, the Gresham Com-
mittee have continued their sittings at Mercers' Hall
up to three and four o'clock in the morning, and a very
warm discussion has taken place upon the question of
the members of the corporation appearing in court
dresses instead of their ordinary robes. Letters were
received from the houses of Messrs. Baring, Hankey,
wereand others,to
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discussion which followed the reading of these co/limn_
nications ended in a resolution being agreed upon, that
those who were anxious to appear in court dresses igll-t
do so, but that it should be left entirely to theirm on
option instead of laying down any regulation.
On Saturday the Earl of Jersey, master of the horse,
drove up to the Exchange for the purpose of
going
over it.

The hanquetting room appropriated to the entertain-
ment of the Queen, was completed on Saturday evening.
The tesselated pavement of the merchants' area has
been cleansed, and boards have been put down in front
of the grand entrance, which are to be covered with
scarlet cloth. _

The ringers practised at intervals on Saturday the
tunes of " Rule Britannia" and the national anthem.
The various workmen continued their labours
throughout Saturday night and Sunday, and the hoard-
ing was removed shortly after midnight.