The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-20 00:00:00

• LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1827.

WINDSOR CASTLE.

The first order given by his Majesty for silk
drapery of British manufacture for the State
Rooms. of Windsor Castle, has been nearly com-
pleted, although but four looms have been em-
ployed upon it. It is almost impossible to give
any idea of the richness of the article ; and the
best judges who have seen this manufacture, are
of opinion that it :is far superior to anything
produced in France. For the principal State
Room, the drapery is composed of crimson
velvet, on the richest satin ground,- and is em-
bellished by figures of a late tulip pattern. The
superiority of the British manufacture in this
article consists in the finished manner in which
the work is cast off the loom. The French have
to dress the surface of the velvet when wove,
owing to the roughness of the manufacture. Be-
tween the patterns, a space of about one inch and
a half is left, and here appears the satin ground
corded. This forms a relief of the most splendid
character. His Majesty, it is said, on choosing
the pattern, iiinnediately perceived that something
was required to dispel the heaviness displayed by
the raised velvet figure of the tulip, and suggest-
ed with exquisite taste,tliat the satin ground should
appear prominently. This has been done, and the
effect produced when the apartments are lighted up,
will be extremely splendid. Of this colour
almost one thousand yards will be manufactured,
and thelleast that can be charged for it will be
four guineas per yard. The weaver obtains
10s. 6d. per yard for his work, and weaves about
one ,yard per day.
,The second portion of the
order given for the present is, for a similar de-
scription of green velvet, with a satin ground and
border, similar to that just described; of this
about 1,500 yards are to be wove. With this
the lower portion of the State Apartments will,
we understand, be hung, and the contrast between
the two colours will tend to show with greater

power the beauty of each. The draperies are
manufactured in looms on the French principle,
but improved by our own countrymen. This is
(lone, in order that the carded patterns used in
France might be brought into action to facilitate
the work. Each of the looms set up to com-
plete the order cost not less than from 601. to

70/. in fixing. By the use of these looms more
than a month is saved in bringing them into the
state required for weaving. By the English
practice, to set a loom for the above pattern
would require upwards of a thousand lines to be
fixed in a manner perfectly surprising to those
nacquainted with the process : the French
system of using cards on which the patterns re-
quired are punctured, does away'with the intricacy
of the English mode, and the cards acting upon
a simple machinery, bring the required pattern
without the least difficulty.

THE ARMY.

PRESENT DISTRIBUTION OF THE BRITISH
CAVALRY.
IMOISIHNTS. COLONSGS. STATIONS.
Ist Regt. Life Guards Earl of. Harrington... Hyde Park Barracks
id ditto Earl Cathcart
Royal Horse Guards H.R.H. the
Duke of Regent Barracks
Cumberland
Ist Dragoon Guards Sir Henry False Edinburgh
2d ditto
3d ditto Sir W. Payne Cork
4th ditto Sir G. Anson Dorchester
sth ditto Prince of Saxe Co- Leeds
burgh
fith ditto Hon. R. Taylor Manchester
7th ditto Sir R. Bolton.
Ist Dragoons Thomas Garth New
ridge (Ireland)
'l.ci ditto Sir James Stuart Caher
3d Light Dragoons... Lord Combermere Dublin
4th ditto Francis 11ug0nin...... Weymouth
sth ditto (extinct)
dth Dragoons Earl of Pembroke ... Nottingham
7th Hussars Marquis of Anglesey Brighton
Bth ditto Sir B. Tarleton Dundalk
9th Lancers Earl of Rossiya York
10th Hussars Marquis of London- Lisbon
Berry
11th Light Dragoons Lord \V. Bentinck Bengal
12th I.:,ncers Sir It. H. Vivian...—. Lisbon
13th Light Dragoons Hon. H. G. Grey ... Madras
14th ditto Sir J. 0, Vandeleur... Ballinrobe (Ireland)
15th Hussars ...... Sir Colqulion Grant Canterbury
16th Lancers Earl Harcourt Bengal
17th ditto Lord R. Somerset ... Hounslow
Royal Waggon Train Sir G. Scovell Lisboa, 2 troops