The soldiers stationed along the stairway & occasionally along the [?oons?] [chose?] the old Elizabethan Costume such as we saw in the [lores?] - As a spectacle it was very inferior to what we Saw at the Twilleries - the "Cent gardes" We united perhaps a half hour in a large Salon [chisely?] for the diplomatic Corps The Master of Ceremonies as Lord Chamberlain ("Sir Seward Casty?] came up & asked Mr Dallas present him to Mrs Bigelow - we talked a few moments when he proposed introducing me to Lady John Russel - who of course like every body she asked how long we had been in London, how we liked England & such like interesting queries She is a handsome lady like woman dressed in black, otherwise her dress was not striking. Mr Dallas presented the Archbishop of Canterbury in a powdered wig - a tall pleasant old gentleman - who made himself as polite & agreable [sic] as ten minutes would