NEW PALACE OE WESTMINSTER.

charged with the armorial bearings of the Barons who wrested Magna Charta from King John , and whoseeffigies, in all eighteen, will be placed in the niches.

Stephen Langton , Archbishop of Canterbury .William, Earl of Salisbury.

Henri de Londres, Archbisop of Dublin.William, Earl of Pembroke.

Almeric, Master of the Knights Templars .Waryn, Earl of Warren.

William, Earl of Arundel.

Hubert de Burgh , Earl of Kent.

Richard, Earl of Clare.

William, Earl of Aumale.Gcoffry, Earl of Gloucester.Saher, Earl of Winchester.Henry, Earl of Hereford.Roger, Earl of Norfolk.Robert, Earl of Oxford.Robert Eitzwalter.

Eustace de Yesci.

William de Mowbray.

The demi-angels, pillars, pedestals, and canopies, are all gilded, and the interiors of the niches elegantlydiapered. Above the niches are corbels, whence spring spandrils to support the ceiling.

The Ceiling is flat, and is divided into eighteen large compartments; these are each again divided,by smaller beams, into four, having in their centres lozenge-formed compartments, deeply moulded.Different devices and symbols, carved, fill the lozenges, and all of them are gilded. Amongst the devices,and immediately over the Throne, is the Royal monogram, crowned, and interlaced by a cord, theconvolutions of which are so arranged as to form loops at the corners; whilst similarly crowned anddecorated, the monograms of the Prince of Wales and Prince Albert fill the lozenges over their respectiveseats. The cognizancest>f the White Hart, of Richard the Second; the Sun, of the House of York ;the Crown, in a hush, of Henry the Seventh; the Ealcon, the Dragon, and the Greyhound, are in someof the lozenges; whilst the Lion passant of England, the Lion rampant of Scotland , and the Harp ofIreland, fill others. Sceptres and orbs, emblems of regal power, with crowns; the scales indicative ofjustice; mitres and croziers, symbols of religion; and blunted swords of mercy; add their hieroglyphicinterest: while crowns and coronets, and the ostrich plume of the Prince of Wales, form enrichmentsmore readily understood, and equally appropriate. These devices are encircled by borders, in admirableintricacy; and all of them are most elaborate in workmanship. In the vacant corners, between thelozenges and the mouldings of the beams, the ceiling is painted of a deep blue, and surrounded by a redborder, on which are small yellow quatrefoils. Within the borders are circles, Royally crowned; andfrom them proceed sprays of roses, parallel to the sides of the lozenges. The circles contain variousdevices and shields : amongst the former are the rose of England, the pomegranate of Castile, theportcullis of Beaufort, the lily of Erance, and the lion of England; and in the latter are the fancifularmorial hearings of those counties which ages since composed the Saxon Heptarchy. Where thelozenges are filled with the mitre, the circles are gules, and charged with a cross; and issuing from thecircle are rays, instead of sprigs of roses. The whole are gilded, and enriched by colour. The ceiling is,as may he inferred, most striking in its appearance; the massy tie beams, apparently of solid gold,rich as they are with that precious metal, and the minute carving which fills up the lozenge-formed