The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-20

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 How much these heroes wrought Goy England, and the English nation Is as grateful for and as appreolative ot | their achievements to-day as they were when their great successes were fresh heraldcd throughout every hamlet Of ! England, saint Georges Hall is two hundred feet long; here are kept the armorlal bearings of the Knights of the Garter since 1850, and here are pre. served the portraits of the sovereigns 1 of England from James I, to George ". Then there are many other rooms, such as the Throne Room" Grand Recep- ton Room," state Ante-Room" and others which are filled with fine works by Grlndllng Gibbons, Rubens, Lely and other masters.
 The Council Room" contains forty valuable works by Italian painters; then there is the Wan Dyke Room" with many portraits of that famous painter, and in the Rubens room are eleven pictures. the works of that pro- | life artist.
 The private apartments of the Queen are very interesting, and few palaces in England can furnish such @ treat in an artistic point of view as these apart ments afford,
 The collection of china to be seen here cannot be eXcelled anywhere in 1 Europe.
 The terrace adjoining these apart ments is more than eighteen hundred | feet long, and free admittance is grant ed to the public. The Royal News near by are we'll arranged and the cost of their construction was over three hundred thousand dollars.
 was disappointed in the horses and carriages; these were good enough in | their way but not at all to be compared | to the establishments of European monarchs. For example, they cannot
 be mentioned with the magnificent sta bles of the Emperor of Austria. The | horses were dull with sort of British | heavness, and with few exceptions were merely ordinary animals. Some indeed were regular "old screws" One of these horses. the, groom informed
 me, had been there eighteen years. As | for the vehicles, they were old and din 1 gy in appearance and not by any means as nice as an ordinary London 1 tradesman would own. My visit to the ! Royal News, l must confess, sadly dis appointed me. for the English, being such a 'horsey" people, l certainly | looked for something smart" Gin the English signification of that term) and grand in the private establishment Of the Queen of England. l found every
 thing very ordinary, and all who visit ! Il. ;1, Ia; r,,Ni,,
 ion.
 By far the most impressive portion of l the castle, externally at least, is the old | Keep or Round Tower. This was built upon the spot where King Arthur used
 to sit, surrounded by his Knights of the Round Table. Up to two hundred and l fifty years ago this was a prison; it is surrounded by a, moat and rises eighty 1 feet above the ground: the walls are very thick, the whole diameter being
 trifle over one hundred feet: the bell in the tower was taken from the Crimea and weighs more than a ton. The view
 from the battlements is grand beyond expression, and the eye pierces into no less than a dozen counties
 Just below this tower stands very
 fine bronze statue of Charles the IL
 The bas-reliefs on it's base are by Grinding Gibbons. Close by is Home
 Park" about four miles in circumfer-
 ence Hernes Oak (Falstaff's old haunt formerly stood in this park; twenty years since it was struck by | lightning and destroyed. Fr0gmOre Lodge is but a little distance away; here is buried the Duchess of Kent, mother of the Queen of England; here
 the Queen caused to be erected a splen- 1 did mausoleum over the remains of l Prince Albert. Just south of Windsor is the Great Park" of nearly two thousand acres in extent, It is grand
 park with giant trees and more than two thousand deer feeding and scam-
 pering over the lawns The Long Walk consists of a fine avenue of elms
 extending for three miles through the park and leading as far as pretty 1 place known as Snow Hill. But let us reGace our steps to the castle and en-
 ter Saint Georges chapel. This is the chapel of the Knights of the Order of
 the Garter. It was begun little over
 four hundred years since. It was built ! or rdlner CO0llneUCGu DS G'uNd u l ' . pli
 a spot where formerly stood a chapel built by Henry l. about the year HOO
 It was completed in 1530 by Henry 1 VIII The Beaufort chapel is situated 1 within this building and close by the came is the tomb of the Duke of Kent,
 father of Queen Victoria. It is a mag nifcent alabaster sarcophagus and one of the finest tonlbs in England. The monument of the Princess Char 1 1otte is a. wonderfully beautiful piece of sculpture; an angel is leading a beauti- l ful female from tomb within a pyra-
 mid and in her arms rests an infant. It is most impressive tomb, if I may be
 allowed that expression, and l found
 myself lingering before it a long time I could not for the moment place the | Princes Charlotte; so I asked one of the vergors to inform me. I nearly screamed outright as he placed his
 palm to his mouth and gently whis- pered, "A daughter of George ". She
 was poisoned in childhood;' and l be- Iieve the whisperer was about right. There is also a tomb here which was erected to the memory of the Prince Imperial of France; it is of white mar | ble and of course a cenotaph. The rc1