The daily gazette., 1880-08-16
SECOND EDITION
FROM EDINRUAGH.

HADDoN HALL AND CHATswoRTH-
THE BED OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
SPLENDID GARDENS AND RARE
FLOWERS, TREES, &C.
Special correspondence of the Gazette.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 20.
We visited HaddoE Hall and Chats
worth the first on land Of the Duke of
Ruthland, and one of the most inter-
esting old show places in England.
Around this place Sir Walter Scott has
thrown the glamour of romance, but its
true history is SO full pf interest that
fiction can hardly add charm.
ChatsworLh, the seat Of the Duke of
Devonshire, is also only few miles
away, and Is modern in all its appoint
inents and the most richly furnished Of
al Englind's costly halls. Chatsworth
can only be seen in the absence of it's
owner and his family, but as that is
pretty much all the time, we felt quite
sure Of admittance. The Duke does
not care much for it, and his son, Mar
quis of Harrington is ed busy with his
work in Parliament that he scarce ever
sees 1t at all. BY the way lie is bach
,lor, too. Here was the home of Scott's
"Peveril of the Peak"
My poor pen would utterly fail were |
10 attempt to give you an idea of the
inagnifiicence Of the interior of Chats
worth. The exterior OF the hall itself
IS not striking, except for its size and
surroundings. 1t is in park OF three
thousand acres, in which feed over one
thousand deer. 1t is backed by lofty
rock-work, all artificia ly constructed,
over which leap water falls from artifi-
clal lakes on distant hills. Labarynthine
walks wind through this maze of rock
work aad towering shrubbery, and we
pass through gates made of swinging
rocks, tons in weight, yes, so nicely
poised that our ladies swung them 10
and fro with a single hand.
There is nothing strange, new or beau
titul that has not been brought to en-
rich the interior. Sculpture, pictures,
cwers and vases of precious stones and
Of priceless value, gifts of kings and
queens, four coronation chairs on which
kings and queens of the realm had been
crowned, frescoed ceilings, painted walls
and so many rich aud rare things that
we wonder what Cr4sus has bought
them all.
hOAV olO AAh6ioh BoIoCho hllCu WI
all heauiful flowers; Italian gardens
Sc. .~4ol sculptures; Tropical gar
dens, in which oranges, lemons, pine
apples and all tropical fruits, trees and
flowers flourish. A great glass house in
which blooms the agnificent Victoria
Regia.
When we say that Sir Joseph Paxon
was the Dukes head gardener at a sal
AIRY Of thirty thousand dollars year you
may form seme idea OF the grand scale
on which the gardening operations are
conducted.
Haddon Hall 10 representative of the
old time grandeur, and is slowly falling
into ruin. Its outside decorations have
disappeared, and but few of its inside
9lories now remain. it belongs to the
Duke of Ruthland who aims to keep it
in its present condition, as best repre-
senting its original STATE. Much of the
old-time furniture is still there, rude
and worm eaten. Several of the rooms
are hung with tapestry, some of 1t work
ed by the hands of noble ladies and
some by Mary Queen OF SCOTS. Queen
ElIzabeth's bed remains exactly i'll the
same condition in which she last slepl
in it, save lime has so handled the satin
embroidered coverings that they would
surely fall to pieces at the touch. Here,
too, is the rude cradle u which the first
Duke OF Ruthland was rocked, and the
chairs used by King George ". We
saw, too, the window from which Sir
Walter Scott tells us sprang the lovely
Lady Dorthy, heiress of the house on
The night of ball and all in her rich
ball dress rode away with her lover on
horse back, married him and thus
brought to Rutland the chief wealth and
honor Of his noble line.
The window through which the lady
sprang, however, is not very high one,
aud we jumped through it ourselves
without inconvenience.
Several fine old pictures and good
specimens of fine carving in wood, as
well as sone of the stained windows
still remain in the old building but all
have an ancient character, as we'll they
might, having been used even before
America was discovered.
The steps to the front hall Of this old
place we're carved from the roots of a
very large oak tree. They are semicir-
cular in shape, foot high and are still
in good condition. The trunk Of the
same oak was used in building the hall,
and the timber, after so many centu-
ries' use,is still sound and looks as though
1t would last as long as the stones.
The chapel is the room in which is
the greatest poverty Of decoration, whilst
the banqueting hall and ball rooms have
been richly ornamented. In the chapel,
the pulpit rem aims, ann we wonder how
the chaplain ever got into or out Of the
clumsy place. The seats were projec-
tions from the walls all around the room
and all Of rough stone.