The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-09-09

quadrangle Of stately dimensions. II
called in the aid Of all the most emf
nent artists and eeulptors of tho day /
decorate the state apartments, and die
with a god heart, leaving, Is ! 2legac
to some future desccodeut, tho entir
completion Of tho task. There hay
been many illustrious 2Cavendishes be
tween the first duke and the presen
;possessor Of Chatsworth. There VI
the Hon. Henry Cavcndish, famou
10 the scientific world as one Of tn
greatest disciples. Of Sir Isaac Newton
aud store Of whose writings may IL
fouua in the "Philosophical Transac
tions' Of l786.. The present duke il
the eldest son Of the 9Th duke, and hi'
mother Was none other than "Georgiana
Duchess of Devonshire," !" 'sround v hom,
Macaulay tells US, on the occasion o.
Warren Hastiugs's trial, "thero shone
those ladies whose lips, more persuasive
than those Of Fox himself, had carried
the Westminster election against palace
and treasury" The present illustrioua
possessor of Chatsworth it is who has
given the finishing stroke to the grand
eur of the Palace Of Peak, as Chats.
worth may be and is, without any exag-
geratlon, called. A huge wing 1856
feet in length, has been projected from
the east front and, at the advice of
the architect employed, Sir Jeffreys
Wyatville, 4 variety of alterations and
additional improvements have been
made. The northern entrance to
Chatsworth is through kind Of It.l-
ian tower; east and west run the great
wings, the sides Of which, with other
,utsrseot;sg wings, form quadrangles
and i!oourts. have now passed
through. one Of these, and, Is vas b.
fore:statsd, and a the reader, perhaps,
viii kindly imagine, have been handed
over to tho care Of one Of tho house
keepers In the sntsanee:hall.
There seems 70 BE- ! kind Of 2regula-
tion tone which these: :ssiight.,houers
think it necessary to adopt. It appears
to be indispensable that every sentence
Of explanation with which they favour
you should be marked by strong nasal
twang, and shall be uttered in one
breath. These certainly are the con-
vereational characteristics of the good
woman who condesceuds at present to
lionize us. "This," she obligingly in
forms US, ''is the Derbyshire marble,
and that is the Indian caneso" I write,
so far IS the housekeeper is concerned,
phonetieally): We advance and We
6nd ourselves in = gallery which looks
down upon the great hall; and which
serves y ths- connecting link between
the old and new parts Of the house.
The ffcecoes here are simply magni6-
cent, and they are from the hands Of
Verrio:aud Laguerre.. Their subjects
are the "Passing Of the Rubicoon by
Julius Cesar" (as our cieerone dsscrib-
ed it, it sounded very like tn, ,"Passing
Of the Rabrio BY Judas the Gar }
and several other events ia the life OF
the great Roman general, Next comes
tho region Of picture galleries. The
south gallery principally contains
sketches Of Claude Lorraine, Titan,
Carracoi, Correggio, Salvador,
Rubens, and host Of others. Other
galleries there are-tae north, and the
east, all hung with paintings Of the
principal European masters. The
Dukeslof Devonshire have one after the
other been great picture collectors, and
in these galleries are seen the accumu-
lation Of centuries Of laborious striving
after artistic treasure. Wards cele-
brated painting Of "Bolton Abbey in
tho olden Time" is in the Chatsworth
collection: Bolton Abbey, by-the-by, +,
is the property of the Duke Of Devon
shire. On the two walls frorting that
on which "Bolton Abbey. hangs, are
five or six pictures, all we'll known,
from the brush Of Sir Edwin Landseel
-"Dignity and 1mpudence,' "The
Beggar's Petition" 10. '..- -. =.
= But the grea> .,'' glory. Of Ch,tsvorth
is its estate Rooms - suite Of some
h.ledo1en splendidly-decorated apart
ments and it is these to which, aite,
On inspection q, the alrsady.mentioned
apartments, that we are led. Herr
again, al the ceilings Of tho exceeding
ly lofty rooms are adorned will supert
fresooes from tho brushes of the artist
d those Who have decorated tho grea'
h.ll-Vsrrio3 sad sLasusrrs: As 10
their sides, they principally oonsist .
the most perfect carving il, wood eve
witnessed, except perhaps, that i,
Trinity College Ch.pel, Oxford, which
by-ths-by, il from the same hand i.
that to which the Chatsworth chet
deavre are usually accredited-Gib
bons. It is most probable, howeve,
that much Of the elaborate carving q
Chatsworth vas performed #Watso
the native genius Of Derb, ~ire. Z,
cry manner of thing is here depicted
birds, fishes, clusters Of fruit ), and ),
you look at the partridges and til
EEat =. j I.