The Empress Eugenie's New Home

The house or "mansión" which the Empress Eugenie han just purchased was built under the supprintendence oï an eminent architect, by the late Mr. Thomas Longman. It is no flimsy, inconsistent strunture, but a substantial and admirable specimen of early Englisli, tlie lower part of red brick, vvitli dressings and mullioned Windows of stone, and the upper also of brink, but rendered over in cement, and picturesquely relieved by panels in teak. The vvhole building has a comfortable, ïoinc-like look, and the eye reste content on the beautifully-wooded and park-like grounds surrounding it. In short, the Éinpress' recent purehase is a type of an English country seat. A coüple oí' carriage drives, with corresponding lodge entrancea, leadto a handsome pórtico, paved with tiles, throfgb which you pass to the entrance hall, seventeen feet high, and bout tour f eet in length by twenty-two feel wide; beyond, up a liiglit of stops, s a stately inner hall or corridor, sixty-six feet by lifteen feet. fiere is principal stair-case leading to a magnificent suite of reception rooms, ampie testiinony tothe lavish and artistie taste of the desiirner and architect. The drawing-rooni, tliirty-two feet by twentytwo feet, is a superb piece, and the outlook throiigh lts bay and triangular Windows of the lawn and groumls, witli the groups of stately trees dotted. here and tliere, is thorouglily charming. Opening out of this stately salon is a smaller and more cosv one. The librarv i.s nearly twenty-five feet square, ;i noble, oriel-windowed chamber, hannonIzing with tlie ideas of modern reflneinent. There are tvvo dining-rooms, one called the "(Jak Room," luit the larger of these could easily be con verted into a billiard-room (a luxury which the house as it now stands does not boast) by throwing the smaller and au adjoining school-room into one, and thereby seeuring the banqueting hall. ïhen there is "the gentlenieu's" room, also entered from the inner hall, and now the description of the lower floor is complete. The picture shows the terrace running the vvhole length of the house, aiul what a panorama unfolds itself! On the first floor you enter a lengthy corridor, over the inner hall, leading to the principal bedroom, of which there are eiglit, and two dressing-rooms, wliile, in the wing of the house approaclied by a second corridor are six secondary bedrooms and a staircase by which you get to the elock-tower. n the second floor are eiglit additional iecondary and servante bed-rooms, each Hoor having its bath-rooms. The domestic offices are completely hut ofl trom the inner hall; there are a large kitehen, scullery, housekeeper's room, servante' hall, pantries, dairy, storerooms; extensive ranges of eellars, with furnace and stoke-room tor the heating apparatus aml bath-rooms. To get au idea of the eompleteness and seli-contained character of the place, reuiember that all the gas used in the hou.se is made on the estáte, that water is supplied by steam-power, and that there are hydrants both insUe and out in case of fire. There are pleasure-groimds all round the house - some six acres of velvet lawn and emerald turf; ñowerbeds, ten-ace walks, shrubberries, lawntennis, and croquet grounds, all in extreme good taste and skillfullv planned. The park, which alone covers sixty-eight acres of ground, and the woodlands have serpentine walks and drives; the timber is reinarkablv fine, and besides the ordinary forest trees, there are some specimens of yery rare coiuférsB. There should be plenty of game, and as for lishing, there 'are ornamental lakes, with wooded islands, a boat-house and a ñshing cottage, or summer-honse, with a fireplace, so that in winter it will come in well for skating partios. A cricket ground is planned, so that there will be amusement for everybody. A kitehen garden covers three acres, and there are 'green housen, vineries, peach, camellia, cueumber and inelon-houses, and tinally come a couple of three-stall atables with six loose boxes, all most complete and spacious, a-s well as the usual harneMoom, coach-liouse, a cottage for the coadunan, and bedrooms lor the groonis. There are, in all, nine cottages on the estáte, including pne for the bailift', adjoining a very extensive range of farm buildings, with the neighboring gasometer and ga.s and boiler houset. Finally, tobe quite exact, there is a farm, which is let.