10 JULY 1830, Page 11

THE LYING-IN-STATE. —This ceremony will be observed on Wed- nesday the

14th, and Thursday the 15th inst. No tickets will be re- quired, but every person that is decently dressed will he admitted to the sight. The Windsor Express says—" It is arranged that persons on foot shall be admitted at the new doorway in the north terrace, proceed along the north terrace until they arrive at King George the Fourth's doorway ; then ascend a temporary staircase fitted tip for the occa- sion, which will take them to the presence-chamber, through which and the audience-chamber they will proceed to the King's drawing- room, at the m.rtli end of which the body will be placed in state. The egress will be from the ante-room, down a staircase into the Brick Court,' through King John's Tower, and out at Park Bill. King George the Third's drawing-room, at the top of the grand staircase lead- ing to the state apartments, will be lined throughout with purple cloth, hanging in rich festoons. At the eastern end of this apartment will be placed a profusion of wax tapers in silver sconces, and under the canopy at the other end of the apartment the arrangement will correspond. On each side of the bier will be placed three wax candles of extraordinary size, in massive silver candlesticks. The coffin will be covered with a white Holland sheet and a velvet pall hanging down in ample folds, and displaying the splendid escutcheons. The foot of the coffin will be exposed to view. On the top of the coffin the Royal Crown of Hanover, and the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom, will be displayed, the latter nearest the head. At the foot of the coffin are to stand two _heralds in theirlstate dresses. On each side, six of the band of Gentlemen Pen- sioners; and nearer the coffin, two of his late Majesty's pages ; next the coffin, on each side, two of the King's Gentlemen Ushers ; and at the head, in a state chair, one of the Lords of the Bedchamber, sup- ported on each side by a Groom of the Bedchamber."