The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-06 00:00:00

TRII NATIOffAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.

The trustees of this gallery, in their report
jailed to-day, acknowledge seven further donations. They
have also jai:ceased the purchases from 118 to 133. Since
the Easter opening of the gallery, at 10 o'clock instead of
12, as announced in the last report of the truelove to the
Treasury. and up to the present date, 2,990 persons have
visited the gallery before 12 o'clock. The total number of
visitor to the gallery during the lad few years has been
as follows :-1859, 5,305 ; 1860, 8,392 ; 1881. 10,907 ;
1862, 17,927 (exhibition year) ; 1863, 10,475 ; 1864, 14,885.
The trustees have been encouraged by the great swoons
of the experiment in recent year to open the apartments
during the first three days of Easter week, and they have
again been gratified at the results. On Easter Monday the
visitors amounted to 783, on Easter Tuesday to 667, and on
Easter Wednesday to 467. These were for the most part of
the working-cismes, who would find it dimcult to obtain a
holiday for such visite at other periods of the year. The
secretery reports throughout in most satisfactory terms of
their conduct and demeanour. Of Easter Monday he mays
more especially, " All persons were remarkably quiet sod
well-behaved, and not one single attempt to touch the pic-
tures wee observed. . . . I was again pleased to
see how very much reedy knowledge those of the
bumbler classes brought with them. . . . From
casual oonversation, I found many were printers
and werehousemeo, only able to get out once
a year on these holiday, and that they had been at the
gallery last Easter also. They said that they still kept the
misted list of the former year, and would now compare it
with the new, to see what changes and additions had been
made." The great drawback, however, to the satisfaction
of visitors on these and the like occasions, is the narrowneee
and inconvenience in all respects of the apartments which
now form the National Portrait Gallery. The trustees find
themselves debarred from all attempts at aryangerneet or
classification of the present picture., and from all power to
piece them in favourable lights, and they have no space re-
rosining for such accessions as they may continue to re-
ceive. They desire, therefore, to renew most earnestly the
representation on this subject which in their reports of the
last two year they have felt it their duty to address to her
Majesty's government.

On Whit-Tueeday (June 6) the Fairchild lecture
will be preached at the ehureb of St. Leonard, Shoraditok,
eu "The Wonderful Works of God In the Creation ; or, on
the Certainty of the Resurrection of the Dead, proved by
certaiii cheeps of the salami and vegetable pests of the
Creation." Fairchild had the Ivy (Unties, at Hostas ;
snd, dyiag rich, he left to St. Leonard's 601. Decreased by
the parishioner' to 100 k), the interest to be devoted to this
lecture. And on Whit-Tuesday will be plead the
utsl " Flower Sermon," at the church of St. James, Mitre-
square, Aldgate ; each of the congregation has to beer a
nesegay, however each. The sermon is always founded
twos some dorsi Wit.
The foundation-stone of the new spire of
Chichester Cathedral was laid on the god inst. The resto-
ration of the cathedral will met 52,0001., sod 46,0001.
has boss subscribed towards it.
Prince Napoleon seta out on the 10th for Ajaccio'
Conies, to be meat at the tueoverbeg of the Matme el
the Emperor Napoleon 1., •rho is represented cei Ursa. ;
bask, with his four brothers, Joseph, Ladies, Jima% end
Leeds, ea their feet, and at him feet. The wino raellins
bat three days la the illsod. It is said that the Swam
will on hi return from Algeria speed a day at Meade.
A lamentable accident occurred three days back
in the theta of fit Pad as Trines in Prussia. A member
of young girls were taking their Ant ceseravaden, wham •
lighted paper fell on roe of their thin aqua drums,
whisk was eat ea dew ; the deans inthantly spread to
others, and although extinguished in a shirt thee several of
the children wen burnt ; one so severely that fears ass
entartathed far her life.