The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-09-24
NUMBER %.
ENGLANDS QUEEN.
Her Gorgeous Apartments at windsor
Castle.

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Castle.
Tho London correspondent of the
Chicago Inter Ocean writes OF visit to
Windsor Castle and says: "The Water
loo chamber is 93 feet long, 45 feet
high, and i7 broad; it is lighted by
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
frlits embellish all the mouIdings, and
the doors, mantle-pieces, and picture
frames are adorned with beautiful wood
carvings by Gibbons. The carpet IL
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 sty @ OF
the room) covered with crimson velvet.
The presence chamber is 80 feet long,
80 feet high and - feet broad; an I'M
meuse G thic window forGs almost one
entire end of the room, and commands
an extensive view of the park and ad-
iaccnt country. The style of the room
| is that of the time OF Louis NV, ana
the workmanship is admirable. The
ceiling is marvel of beauty, as are
also the cornices, which are ornamented
by scrollwork of the most exquisite de-
scription. Large, richly carved doors
omen into tho throne room, tho Water
loo gallery, and the banqueting hall.
The wallis are hung with SIX superb
specimens of Gobelin tapestry, repre-
santing The History OF Jason and the
Golden Fleece Splendid looking glas-
Sos occupy other portions OF the room.
Four chandeliers of ormolu, lnterspers-
ed with cut-glass branches and pend
nrts, are suspended from the ceiling.
The floor is of oak. parget, the oak be-
inc inlaid with Rc,T.dc-'s in ebony.
The furniture is solidly gilt, and is very
Gorgeous. At one end of the room
there is n large malachite vase, which
was presented to Queen Victoria by the
Emperor Nicholas of Russia. The ban
quoting hall is 200 feet long, 81 feet
high, and 81 broad. On one side OF the
room there are thirteen windows, and
opposte to them there are recesseS con-
tanning lifc.size portraits of the last
eleven sovereigus of England. In a
music gallery Mt ono end of the hall
there is an organ, aud under, upon a
dais, is the queens chair of state, maze
in imitation of the coronation char III
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
emblazoncd 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 hve
hundred years. The names OF the
knights are painted between the panels
of the windowsl; to each of them Is
t affixed q number corresponding 20 tfa'
attached to tho arms on the celilhg.
On each side of the window there are
two knights lin stucco) in complete
mmor. The furniture (of which there
is but little, the hall being very seldom
used) is of oak, covered with scarlet
velvet, aud the carpet is an oak pattern,
t in small panels, with the cross IN me
centre, and rich border OF the Garter
? and motto. In one of the department.
r we were shown IN ebony cabinet, inlait
With onyx, which had belonged to Mary
y Queen of Scots, and two large tables O
) solid silver, one of which had beer
e owned by Charles H., and a p rtralt
5 by Rembrandt, of the famous Counties,
. of Desmond at the age of one hundred