The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-25
ENGLAND'S QUEEN.
Her Gorgeous Apartments at Winds
CaSfIe.

Her Gorgeous Apartments at Windsor
CASTLE
The London correspondent of the
Chicago Inter Ocean writes of visit to
Windsor Castle and says: "The Water
loo chamber is 90 feet long, As feet
high, and AZ 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, grace
full arches. At each end of the room
there are galleries for musicians, formed
of richly carved oak The walls and
ceilings are decorated In white and gold
relief with armorial bearings, and in
serted In the panelling round the room
are portraits of all the eminent men
who were connected with the battle of
Waterloo. Lions, masks, and grotesque
heads holding wreaths of flowers and
fruits embelIish all the mouIdings, and
the doors, mantle-pieces, and picture
frames are adorned with beautiful wood
carvings by Gibbons. The carpet is
dark maroon, paEnelled 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 90 feet long,
SO feet high, and 81 feet broad; an i'm
nense Gothic window forms almost one
entire end of the room, and commands
an extensive view of the park and ad-
jacent country. The style of the room
is that of the time of Louis XIV, and
the workmanship IS admirable. The
ceiling is a marvel of beauty, as are
also the coTnices, which are ornamented
| by scrollwork of the most exquisite de-
scription. Large, richly carved doors
| open into the throne room, the Water
loo gallery, and the banqueting hall.
| The walls are hung with six superb
! specimens of Gobelin tapestry, repre-
| senting The History OF Jason and the
Golden Fleece Splendid looking las
ses occupy other portions of the room.
| Four chandeliers of ormolu, interspers-
ed with cut-glass branches and pend
ants, are suspended from the ceiling.
The floor is of oak, parget, the oak be-
ing inlaid with fe1tr-de-Iis in ebony.
| The furniture Is solidly gilt, and Is very
gorgeous. At one end of the room
there is large malachite vase, which
was presented to Queen Victoria by the
Emperor Nicholas OF Russia. The ban
quoting hall is 200 feet long, 80 feet
high, and 81 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 .sOvereigns of England. In a
music gallery at one end of the hall
there is an organ, and under, upon a
dais, is 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 sup
porting 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 institution of the order down to the
present time-a period of about five
hundred years. The names of the
knights are painted between the panels
of the windOwsI; to each of them Is
affixed number corresponding 20 that
attached to the arms on the ceiling.
On each side of the window there are
two knights Gn stuccO) In complete
armor. The furniture (of which there
is but little, the hall being very seldom
used) is of oak, covered with scarlet
velvet, and the carpet is an oak pattern,
in small panels, with the cross in the
centre, and rich border of the Garter
and motto. In one of the departments
we were shown an ebony cabinet, inlaid
with ONYX, which had belonged to Mary
Queen of Scots, and two large tables Of
solid silver, one of which had been
owned by Charles II, and q portrait,
by Rembrandt, of the famous Countess
of Desmond at the age of one hundred
and twenty"