The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The illustrious and distinguished visitors honoured
with invitations to the Christening of his Royal Iligh-
ness the Prince of Wales, began to assemble in the Wa-
terloo Gallery in Windsor Castle, at eleven o'clock yes-
terday morning.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke
of Wellington, the Marquis of Anglesey, the Duke of
Hamilton, the Duke of Rutland, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, and other Knights of the Garter, wore their
splendid mantles and collars. Sir Robert Peel, Lord
Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Fitzgerald,
Sir Edward Knatchbull, Sir James Graham, the Earl of
Haddington, the Earl of Ripon, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and other Cabinet Ministers, appeared in
their full dress official costume ; the Lord Chancellor in
his State Robes ; the Bishops of Winchester and Ox-
ford in their splendid mantles, as the Prelate and the
Chancellor of the Order of the Garter ; the Lord Mayor
and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex in their
civic robes '; the Great Officers of State and the Officers
of the Household in the full dress uniform of the House-
hold ; and the Master of the Buck Hounds, the Captain
of the Gentlemen-at-Arms, and the Captain of the Yeo-
men of the Guard, wore their respective State uniforms.
The greater portion of the company was set down at
the portico leading to the grand staircase, which, as
well as the entrance-hall, was lined by the Yeomen of ,
the Guard in their Coronation costume, commanded by
Sir Samuel Hancock, the Exon in Waiting. The officers
of the corps present were Sir Edwin Pearson, the Lieu-
tenant ; Sir George Houlton, the Ensign ; Mr. Eller-
thorp, Clerk of the Cheque ; and Captain Seymour
Sadler and Captain Nuttall, Exons.
'The Waterloo chamber, in which the guests assembled,
had, in common with the other State-rooms, been embel-
lished and decorated for the occasion. This room is very
nearly one hundred feet long, having a gallery at each
end of it. From the walls are suspended the portraits
of the distinguished persons who were connected in
some way or other with the event from which this cham-
ber takes its name. In the centre of the north side is a
whole length portrait of George the Third, having on
one side a whole-length portrait of George the Fourth,
and on the other one of William the Fourth. Next to
this is a half-length portrait of the Prime Minister at
the time of the Battle, the Earl of Liverpool, while next
to that of George the Fourth is the portrait of the then
Foreign Secretary, Lord Castlereagh. The line of pic-
tures on the side of the room is completed by a whole-
length of the Duke of York at one end, and one of the
Duke of Cambridge at the other, a half-length of Lord
Hill being placed over that of George the Third. On
the opposite side of the room are the portraits of the
illustrious foreigners, viz., the Emperor Francis Fre-
derick the Third of Prussia, the Emperor of
Russia, Count Nesselrode, Baron Hardenburg, General
Czernicheff, Pope Pius the 7th, and Cardinal Gonsalvi.
At each end of the room are smaller portraits of
warriors and statesman, the splendid and well known
full-length of the Duke of Wellington, bearing the
Sword of State, being in the centre of the east end, and
one of Prince Schwartzenburgh being over the west

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