Buckingham Palace, and of the Lord Chamberlain, in St. James's Palace. Levees are restricted to gentlemen; Drawing-rooms to ladies (principally) and gentlemen. The days on which they take place are advertised in the morning and evening papers, with the necessary directions about carriages, &c., some days before. The greatest occasion in every year is, of course, on Her Majesty's birthday (which is made a kind of moveable feast), but presentations do not take place on that day. Any subject of Great Britain, who has been presented at St. James's, can claim to be presented, through the English ambassador, at any foreign court. On the presentation of Addresses to Her Majesty, no comments are suffered to be made. A deputation to present an Address must not exceed four persons. Tickets to the corridor, affording the best sight to the mere spectator, are issued by the Lord Chamberlain to persons properly introduced. For gentlemen to be presented, it is absolutely necessary that their names, with the name of the nobleman or gentleman who is to present them, should be sent to the Lord Chamberlain's office several days previous to presentation, in order that they may be submitted for the Queen's approbation, it being Her Majesty's command that no presentation shall be made at any Levees but in conformity with the above regulations. Noblemen and gentlemen are also requested to bring with them two large cards, with their names clearly written thereon, one to be left with the Queen's Page in attendance in the Presence-chamber, and the other to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, who will announce the name to Her Majesty. In the Chapel Royal, attached to the Palace, are seats appropriated to the nobility. Service is performed at 8 a.m. and 12 noon. Admittance, 2s. ! The service is chaunted by the boys of the Chapel Royal.

3. WHITEHALL. The Palace of the Kings of England from Henry VIII. to William III., of which nothing remains but Inigo Jones's Banqueting-house, James II.'s statue, and the memory of what was once the Privy Garden, in a row of houses, so styled, looking upon the Thames. It was originally called York House; was delivered and demised to Henry VIII., on the disgrace of Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop of York, and then first called Whitehall. Henry VIII.'s Whitehall was a building in the Tudor or Hampton Court style of architecture, with a succession of galleries and courts, a large Hall, a Chapel, Tennis-court, Cockpit, Orchard, and Banquetinghouse. James I. intended to have rebuilt the whole Palace, and Inigo Jones designed a new Whitehall for that King,

William III., from the designs of Wren, and the N.W. angle by George II., as a Nursery for his children. William III. and Queen Mary, Queen Anne, her husband Prince George of Denmark, and King George II., all died in this Palace. Her present Majesty was born in it, (1819,) and here (1837) she held her first Council. The Duke of Sussex, son of George III., lived, died, and had his fine library in this Palace. The Orangery, a very fine detached room, was built by Wren. The royal collection of pictures (long famous in catalogues, and still known as the Kensington Collection to the readers of Walpole,) has, for the most part, been removed to other palaces; and the kitchen-garden has recently been built over with two rows of detached mansions, called "Palace-gardens." The chief attraction inside is a

collection of early German art, formed, with taste and knowledge, by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, to which admission may be obtained by writing to L. Grüner, Esq., 13, Fitzroy-square.

HOUSES OF THE PRINCIPAL NOBILITY AND

GENTRY.

LAMBETH PALACE, or LAMBETH HOUSE, on the S. side of the Thames over-against the Palace at Westminster, has been the palace of the Archbishops of Canterbury from a very early period, and contains many parts in its architecture worthy of attention, and various gradations from Early English to late Perpendicular. The Chapel, the oldest part of the Palace, was built by Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbury, (1244-70). It is Early English, with lancet windows and a crypt. The roof is new. There is an oak screen with the arms of Archbishop Laud, by whom it was erected. Before the altar is the grave of Archbishop Parker, (d. 1575). In this chapel all the archbishops have been consecrated since the time of Boniface. The stained glass windows were destroyed in the Civil Wars, and are feelingly lamented by Laud in the History of his Troubles. The glass now in the windows was placed at the expense of the last Archbishop (Howley). The Lollards' Tower at the W. end of the chapel was built by Archbishop Chicheley, in the years 1434-45, and so called from the Lollards, who are said (incorrectly, it is now ascertained) to have been imprisoned in it. On the front facing the river is a niche, in which was placed the image of St. Thomas; and at the top is a small room (13 feet by 12, and about 8 feet high) called the prison, wainscotted with

oak above an inch thick, on which several names and broken sentences in old characters are cut, as "Chessam Doctor," "Petit Iouganham," "Ihs cyppe me out of all el compane, amen, ," "John Worth," "Nosce Teipsum," &c. The large iron rings in the wall (eight in number) seem to sanction the supposed appropriation of the room. The Post-room in this tower contains an ornamented flat ceiling, of uncommon occurrence. The Gate-house, of red brick, with stone dressings, is said to have been built by Archbishop Morton, Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, (d. 1500). The Hall, 93 feet by 38, was built by Archbishop Juxon, the bishop who attended Charles I. to the scaffold. Over the door (inside) are the arms of Juxon, and the date 1663. The roof is of oak, with a louvre or lantern in the centre for the escape of smoke. The whole design is Gothic in spirit, but poor and debased in its details. The bay window in the Hall contains the arms of Philip II. of Spain (the husband of Queen Mary); of Archbishops Bancroft, Laud, and Juxon; and a portrait of Archbishop Chicheley. The Library, of about 25,000 volumes, and kept in the Hall, was founded by Archbishop Bancroft (d. 1610); enriched by Archbishop Abbot (d. 1633); and enlarged by Archbishops Tenison and Secker. One of its greatest curiosities is a MS. of Lord Rivers's translation of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, containing an illumination of the earl introducing Caxton, the printer (it is said), to Edward IV., his Queen and Prince. The portrait of the Prince (afterwards Edward V.) is the only one known of him, and has been engraved by Vertue among the Heads of the Kings. Of the English books in the library printed before 1600, there is a brief but valuable catalogue by Dr. Maitland, many years librarian. The whole habitable Palace was erected by the last Archbishop (Howley) from the designs of Edward Blore, and contains a few good portraits, such as the head of Archbishop Warham, by Holbein, (the picture really from his hand,) and the portrait of Archbishop Tillotson, by Mrs. Beale. The income of the Archbishop of Canterbury is 15,000l. a year.

LONDON HOUSE, No. 22, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, the residence of the Bishop of London. It has no architectural pretensions. The income of the Bishop is above 15,000. a year, but the bishop's successor will be fixed at 10,000Z. The house belongs to the See.

APSLEY HOUSE, HYDE PARK CORNER. The London residence, since 1820, of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington,

built by Henry Bathurst, Baron Apsley, Earl Bathurst, and Lord High Chancellor, (d. 1794,) the son of Pope's friend, to whom the site was granted by George III., under letters patent of May the 3rd, 1784. The house, originally of red brick, was faced with Bath stone in 1828, when the front portico and the W. wing, containing on the upper stories a gallery 90 feet long, (to the W.,) were added for the Duke by Messrs. S. & B. Wyatt; but the old house is intact. The iron blinds-bullet-proof it is said-were put up by the Duke during the ferment of the Reform Bill, when his windows were broken by a London mob. They were the first of the kind, and have since been generally copied.

Observe.-George IV., full-length, in a Highland costume, by Wilkie. -William IV., full-length, by Wilkie.-Sarah, the first Lady Lyndhurst, by Wilkie. This picture was penetrated by a stone in the Reform Riot, but the injury has been skilfully repaired.- Emperor Alexander. -Kings of Prussia, France, and the Netherlands, full-lengths.-Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon in the foreground (Sir William Allan). The Duke bought this picture at the Exhibition; he is said to have called it "good, very good, not too much smoke."-Many portraits of Napoleon, one by David, extremely good.-Wilkie's Chelsea Pensioners reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo, painted for the Duke.- Burnet's Greenwich Pensioners celebrating the Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, bought of Burnet by the Duke. Portraits of veterans in both pictures.-Colossal marble statue of Napoleon, by Canova, with a figure of Victory on a globe in his hand, presented in 1817 to the Duke by the Prince Regent.-Christ on the Mount of Olives, (Correggio,) the most celebrated picture of Correggio in this country; on panel, and captured in Spain, in the carriage of Joseph Buonaparte; restored by the captor to Ferdinand VII., but with others, under the like circumstances, again presented to the Duke by that sovereign. Here, as in the Notte, the light proceeds from the Saviour; there is a copy or duplicate in the National Gallery.-An Annunciation, after M. Angelo, of which the original drawing is in the Uffizj at Florence.-The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Sogliani.--The Water-seller, by Velasquez. "We see," says Waagen, "from this picture how much Velasquez served Murillo as a model in such subjects."-Two fine portraits by Velasquez, (his own portrait, and the portrait of Pope Innocent X.)-A fine Spagnoletti.A small sea-piece, by Claude. "Has all the charm of this master," says Waagen, "and of his best period."-A large and good Jan Steen (a Wedding Feast, dated 1667).-A Peasant's Wedding (Teniers).—Boors Drinking (A. Ostade).-The celebrated Terburg, (the Signing the Peace of Westphalia,) from the Talleyrand Collection. Singularly enough, this picture hung in the room in which the allied sovereigns signed the treaty of Paris, in 1814.-A fine Philip Wouvermans (the Return from the Chase). -View of Veght, by Vanderheyden.

The Crown's interest in the house was sold to the Duke for the sum of 95301.; the Crown reserving a right to forbid the erection of any other house or houses on the site.

NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE, CHARING CROSS, the town-house of the Duke of Northumberland, (with rich central gateway, surmounted by the Lion crest of the Percies,)

and so called after Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland, (d. 1668,) the subject of more than one of Van Dyck's finest portraits. It was built by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, (son of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, the poet,) Bernard Jansen and Gerard Christmas being, it is said, his architects. The Earl of Northampton left it, in 1614, to his nephew, Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, (father of the memorable Frances, Countess of Essex and Somerset,) when it received the name of Suffolk House, by which name it was known until the marriage, in 1642, of Elizabeth, daughter of Theophilus, second Earl of Suffolk, with Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of Northumberland, who bought the house of James, Earl of Suffolk, for 15,000l., and called it Northumberland House. Josceline Percy, eleventh Earl of Northumberland, (son of the before-mentioned Algernon Percy,) dying in 1670, without issue male, Northumberland House became the property of his only daughter, Elizabeth Percy, heiress of the Percy estates, afterwards married to Charles Seymour, commonly called the proud Duke of Somerset. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset lived in great state and magnificence in Northumberland House, for by this title it still continued to be called, as the name of Somerset was already attached to an older inn or London town-house in the Strand. The duchess died in 1722, and the duke, dying in 1748, was succeeded by his eldest son, Algernon, Earl of Hertford and seventh Duke of Somerset, created Earl of Northumberland in 1749, with remainder, failing issue male, to Sir Hugh Smithson, Bart., husband of his only daughter, which Sir Hugh Smithson was raised to the Dukedom of Northumberland in 1766. The present duke (1851) is the grandson of this Sir Hugh Smithson, Duke of Northumberland. The house originally formed three sides of a quadrangle, (a kind of main body with wings,) the fourth side remaining open to the gardens and river. The principal apartments were on the Strand side; but after the estate became the property of the Earl of Suffolk, the quadrangle was completed by a side towards the Thames.

The date, 1749, on the façade, refers to the work of reparation, which commenced in that year; and the letters A. S., P. N., stand for Algernon Somerset, Princeps Northumbria.

Observe. The celebrated Cornaro Family, by Titian. Evelyn saw it here in 1658. It has been much touched upon. St. Sebastian bound, on the ground; in the air two angels: a clear, well-executed picture, by Guercino, with figures as large as life. A small Adoration of the Shepherds, by Giacomo Bassano. Three half figures in one picture, by Dobson, representing Sir Charles Cotterell, embraced by Dobson and Sir Balthazar Gerbier in a white waistcoat. A Fox and a Deer Hunt; two admirable pictures by Franz Snyders. A genuine