Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-15
ENGLAND'S QUEEN.
Her Gorgeous Apartments Mt Wind
sOr Castle.

BOE OhDNACs
The London correspondent Of the
Chicago Inter-0cean writes of visit to
Windsor Castle and says: The Water
loo chamber is SO feet long, 45 feet high
and Al broad; it is lighted by a lantern
of ground glass extending the whole
length of the room, and is divided into
five compartments by light, graceful
arches. At each end Of the room there
are galleries for musicians, formed o'
richly carved oak. The walls and cell.
iugs are decorated in white and gold re-
lief, with armorial bearings, and in
serted in the paneling round the room
are portraits of all the eminent men who
we're connected With the battle OF Water
loo. Lions, masks and grotesque heads
holding wreaths of flowers and fruits
embellish all the mouldings, and the
doors, mantle pieces and picture frames
are adorned with beautiful wood cary
ings by Gibbons. The carpet is dark
maroon, paneled and figured with the
stars of the civil and military orders OF
the Bath, and the furniture is OF oak
corresponding with the style of the
room) covered with crimson velvet.
The presence chamber is 80 feet long,
33 feet high, and "a feet broad; an i'm
mense Gothic window forms almost one
entire end of the room, and commands
AN extensive view of the park and ad-
iacent country. The style of the room
is that of the time of Louis XIV, and
the workmanship is admirable. The
ceiling is marvel of beauty, as are also
the eornices, which are ornamented by
scrollwork of the most exquisite de-
scription. Large, richly carved doors
omen into the throne room, the Water
loo gallery, and the banqueting hall.
The walls are hung with six superb
snecimens of Gobelin tapestry, repre-
senting The History of Jason and the
Golden Fleece Splendid lookingglas-
ses occupy other portions of the room;
Four chandeliers of ormolu, interspersed
with cut-glass branches and pend
ants, are suspended from the ceiling
The floor is of oak, parget, the oak be-
ing inlaid with feurde tis in ebony.
The furniture is solidly gilt, and is very
0orgeous. At one end of the room
there is a large malachite vase, which
was presented to Queen Victoria by, the
Emperor Nicholas of Russia. The ban
ouetiug hall is 200 feet long, 81 feet
high, and "a broad. On one side of the
room there are thirteen windows, and
opposite to them there are recesses con-
tanning life-size portraits OF the last
eleven soyereigns of England, In q
music gallery at one end OF the hall
there is an organ, and under, upon a
dais, Ia the queens chair Of state, made
in imitation of the coronation chair IN
Westminster Abbey. In the spaces be-
tween the portraits there are large brass
shields, with the cross Of st. George and
the Garter motto. Brackets supporting
lamps project from each side, OF the
shields and above them are steel helmets
with cross spears. The ceiling is almost
entirely covered with shields emblazoned
with the armorial bearings OF all the
Knights of the Garter, from the institu-
ton of the order down to the present
tIme--a period of about five hundred
wears. The names of the knights are
painted between the panels OF the win
dows: to each of them is attached a
number corresponding to that affixed to
the arms on the ceiling. On each side
of the window there are two nights lin
stueeo) in complete armor. The furni
ture (of which there is but little, the hall
beiue very seldom used) is of oak, COW
cred with scarlet velvet, and the carpet
ia an oak pattern, in small panels, with
the cross in the center, and a rich border
of the Garter and motto. In one of the
departments we are shown an ebony
cabinet, inlsid with onyx, which had be-
lonred to Mary Queen of Scots, and two
large tables of solid silver, one OF which
had been owned by Charles H., and
portrait by Rembrandt, Of the famous
Countess OF Desmond at the age oil one
hundred and twenty.