subject. It comprises whole suits of armour, consisting of hauberks, chausses, surcoats, baldricks, breast-plates, back-plates, chain-mail sleeves and skirts, gauntlets, helmets, frontlets, vamplates, flanchards, and other pieces known to the old armourers. About twenty complete suits of armour are placed upon stuffed figures of men, mostly on stuffed horses. Four of the suits belonged to Henry VIII., Dudley Earl of Leicester, Henry Prince of Wales, and Charles I.; the others are merely intended to illustrate the kinds of armour in vogue at certain periods. One suit, of the time of Richard III., [Picture: Traitor’s Gate, Chapel White Tower] was worn by the Marquis of Waterford at the Eglinton tournament in 1839. The gallery also contains some other curiosities relating to the armour of past days. _Queen Elizabeth’s Armoury_ is in the White Tower, the walls of which are 13 feet thick, and still contain traces of inscriptions by state prisoners in troubled times: the armoury contains many curious old shields, bows, Spanish instruments of torture, petronels, partisans, beheading axe and block, thumb-screws, Lochaber axes, matchlocks, arquebuses, swords, &c. Immediately outside these Armouries, in the open air, are some curious cannon and mortars belonging to different ages and different countries. The new _Barracks_ occupy the site of the Small Arms Armoury, destroyed by fire in 1841, when 280,000 stand of arms were destroyed. The _Lions_ in the Tower were among the sights of the place for nearly 600 years; they were in a building near the present ticket-office, but were given to the Zoological Society in 1834. The _Jewel House_, a well-guarded room to the east of the Armouries, contains a valuable collection of state jewels. Among them are the following:—_St. Edward’s Crown_, used at all the coronations from Charles II. to William IV.; the _New State Crown_, made for the coronation of Queen Victoria, and valued at more than £100,000; the _Prince of Wales’s_ and the _Queen Consort’s Crowns_ (the most recent wearer of the last was Queen Adelaide); the _Queen’s Diadem_; the _Royal Sceptre_, _Queen’s Sceptre_, and _Queen’s Ivory Sceptre_; the _Orb_ and the _Queen’s Orb_; _St. Edward’s Staff_ and the _Rod of Equity_; the _Swords of Mercy and of Justice_; the _Coronation Bracelets_ and _Royal Spurs_; the _Ampulla_ for the holy oil, and the _Coronation Spoon_; the silver-gilt _Baptismal Font_, used at the christening of royal children; and the famous _Koh-i-noor_, or ‘Mountain of Light,’ the wonderful diamond once belonging to Runjeet Singh, chief of Lahore, but now the property of Queen Victoria,—it was an object of great interest at the two great Exhibitions in 1851 and 1862. Strangers, on applying at an office at the entrance from Tower-hill, are conducted through a portion of the buildings by warders, who wear a curious costume of Henry VIII.’s time—some years ago rendered incongruous by the substitution of black trousers for scarlet hose.