Windsor Castle Treasures

Those marvelous treasuries, the gold and silver pantries, whioh lie close together in the northeast oorner of Windsor castle, at the foot of the Prince of Wales' tower, were until recent years very frequently visited by the queen, who, with her housewifely love of detail, never considered it beneath her .dignity to make intimate acqnaintanoe with the vast quantity of articles in the precious metáis, which have either been personal gifts to herself or form a hereditary appanage to her state. Even lately her majesty has visited her pantries in her wheel chair, and the present arrangement of the multitude of objects therein has been made entirely with her personal approval. Apart from the interest whieh necessarily attaches to articles which are in daily and intimate use by the queen, the plate at Windsor castle is acknowledged the finest collection in the world and is more than worthy of consideration. The two so called pantries - which in reality are strong rooms of the most approved and well arranged kind - are separated from one another by the plate cleaning rooms, which are fumished with all kinds of known appliances for the adequate polishing and burnishing of every kind of rare and delicate goldsmith's work. All the royal plate is carried to these rooms in rotation and cleaned, whether in use or not, and the system employed for giving it out anc receiving it back forms ampie and re sponsible work for the yeomen of the pantries and their assistants, many of whom are veritable giants among men, as the weisrhts that have to be moved