Government Offices.—A few words will suffice for the other West-End Government offices. The _Admiralty_, in Whitehall, is the head-quarters of the Naval Department. The front of the building was constructed about 1726; and the screen, by the brothers Adam, about half-a-century later. Most of the heads of the Admiralty have official residences connected with the building. The _Horse Guards_, a little farther down Whitehall, is the head-quarters of the commander-in-chief. It was built about 1753, and has an arched entrance leading into St. James’s Park. [Picture: Whitehall, Horse Guards, Government Offices, &c. (Westminster Abbey and Houses of Parliament in the distance.)] The two cavalry sentries, belonging either to the Life Guards or to the Oxford Blues, always attract the notice of country visitors, to whom such showy horsemen are a rarity. The _Treasury_, the _Office of the __Chancellor of the Exchequer_, the _Home Office_, the _Privy-council Office_, and the _Board of Trade_, together occupy the handsome range of buildings at the corner of Whitehall and Downing Street. The interior of this building is in great part old; after many alterations and additions, the present front, in the Italian Palazzo style, was built by Sir Charles Barry in 1847. The _Foreign Office_, the _India Office_, and the _Colonial Office_, occupy the handsome new buildings southward of Downing Street. The _War Office_ in Pall Mall is a makeshift arrangement: it occupies the old quarters of the Ordnance Office, and some private houses converted to public use. After many discussions as to architectural designs, &c., the so-called “Battle of the Styles” ended in a compromise: the Gothic architect (Mr. G. G. Scott, R.A.) was employed; but an Italian design was adopted for the new Foreign and India Offices. ST. PAUL’S; WESTMINSTER ABBEY; CHURCHES; CHAPELS; CEMETERIES.