The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-07 00:00:00

THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE
NATIONAL GALLERY.
THE PROPRIETORS OF " THE WEEKLY CHRO-
Aficp.r.k,To_ THE PEOPLE OF THE BRITISH
The Proprietors of the g. WEEKLY' CHROPtict...E,•• en_
couraged by the still increasing prosperity of their Journal, Nava
determined upon the publication of a series of Portraits,
ENGRAVED ON STEEL,
To be called collectively " THE NATIONAL GALLERY;"
this title being adopted from the conviction that any other
name, less comprehensive, would be found unworthy of the
extent and high purpose of the undertaking, as well as of the
surpassing beauty with which it will be carried out. The ap-
pearance of " THE NATIONAL GALLERY," whether
considered as a work of art, or with reference to its easy posses-
sion by the very humblest of the land, will form an extraordi-
nary epoch in the history of the English Press.
OBJECT'S OF THE WORK.
The purpose of the Proprietors of " THE WEEKLY
CHRONICLE" is to assemble in " THE NATIONAL GAL-
LERY," the Portraits of those Public Alen who have most dis-
tinguished themselves during the present century; and whose
labours, whether in the field or the senate, have exercised the
greatest influence upon the age in which they live. In addition
to these will be given the most distinguished Women of the
Court of Queen Victoria; with whose own Portrait the Gal-
lery would naturally have commenced, but for the circumstance
of its having been so secently presented to the Readers of the
" WEEKLY CHRONICLE."

The Publication of the GALLERY will proceed in the fl-
lo
ing order :
DUKE OF WELLINGTON. LORD LYNDHURST.
LORD GREY. 51R. O'CONNELL.
Sun R. PEEL. DUCHESS OF NORTIIUMBIIt

MR. WILBERFORCE.
LORD DURHAM.
THE SPEAKER.

HER MAJESTY.
LORD MRLDOURNE.

DUCHESS OF KENT.

LAND.
LORD LEICESTER.
LORD SPENCER.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND.
MARQUIS OF NORMANDY.
LORD BROUGHAM.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.
ISIR JAMES GRAHAM.

IMARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.

(LORD FITZWILLIAM.
LORD STANLEY.
LORD MORPETH.

MODE OF pUBLICATION.
To each Portrait will be appended an impartial Biographical
Memoir, printed on imperial hot-pressed quarto, uniformly with
the Engraving. A Portrait will be published every other Sa-
turday, the Memoir being issued every alternate week—hence,
a Monthly Part will contain Two Engravings, with Two Me-
moirs. To those subscribers desirous of possessing THE NA-
TIONAL GALLERY, the price of THE WEEKLY
CHRONICLE will be that of other papers—namely, Six-
pence. To those, however, should there be such, who may
prefer the Paper without the Engraving or Memoir, the price
will be as at present, Fourpence-halfpenny.
THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE NATIONAL GALLERY.
The Fi st Number of THE NATIONAL GALLERY
will be published on the Ist of July next, and the correspond
ing Memoir on [the Blh ; so that in each alternate week
there will be given a Portrait or Memoir. The work will form
a magnificent annual volume in imperial quarto—a volume not
to be purchased, at the present time, at less than Five Guineas.
Every precaution has been taken by the Proprietors to be pro-
vidni with a supply—great as the demand must necessarily be--
by the erection of steam maeninery on Inc nremise.. at tee out-
lay of several thousand nounas. Specimens o. the Portraits
will be found at the principal Newsvenders throughout toe
United Kingdom. That of his Grace the Duke of Wellington
together with a Memoir, may now be received by all Agents
and Book ellers.
ARTISTS ENGAGED FOR THE WORK.

The Proprietors feel that they have only to give the names
of Hayter, Chalon, Latilla, and Stewart, as the Painters em-
ployed for the NATIONAL GALLERY, to at once assure
themselves of the confidence of the public, not only as to the
worth and beauty of the forthcoming work, but as to the feel-
ing which animates the Projectors in this national enterprise.
Among the Engravers will be found the names of Finden, H.
Robinson, Mote, Cook, Wagstaff, W. Holl, Brown, Hall,
&c. &c. &c. Hence, the Publishers have, they conceive, given
suffiicent warranty that no considerations r,f cost have weighed
with them in their attempts to make the NATIONAL GAL-
LERY worthy of its ambitious tile. Ail that modern art can
effect will be lavished on the undertaking. The same pencils,
the same gravers, employed to minister to the tastes of the
highest and richest in the land, will labour for the gratification
of th 2. humblest Englishman—the painter for the Court will be
the pointy:: for the Cottage.
MORAL INFLUENCE OF THE WORK.

The Projectors of the NATIONAL GALLERY feel that
their contemplated enterprise involves deeper and nobler consi-
derations than may superficially present themselves. ft is
scarcely possible that a work of such an extent, executed with
all the high refinements of art, s'aiuld not assert a great moral
influence—ass influence working for good; and tending at once
to improve the mind, and elevate the taste of the people. In
the NATIONAL GALLERY the Englishman will be con-
tinually reminded of the g, eatness, and of the consequent value
of his country ; of her gigantic power—her moral might—
her triumphs over rival nations. lie will read in the lives of
Englishmen, the irresistible force of British valour—the calm,
comprehensive, and determined resistance to wrong—the advo-
cacy of the most sacred rights of our most common nature—which
fo in the basis of our national character. All the ennobling
sentiments that constitute the lofty-minded soldier—the wise
and generous Statesman—the Patriot—and the Philanthropist,
will be felt and acknowledged by our readers ; and thus, in the
projected publication, every subscriber to " The National Gal-
lery" of " The Weekly Chronicle," will have the gratification
of possessing at the most trifling cost the most perfect record of
his country's glory.
All poisons desirous of receiving this magnificent work with
regularity and ceatainty, should immediately give their orders
to the various News-agents and Booksellers throughout the
Kngdom—a method rendered indispensable from the impossi-
bility of making any arrangements, in so gigantic an undertaking
for the supply of casual subscribers.
To Purchasers the price of a Portrait and Memoir will belOs. 6d.
Proof of Separate Portraits on India paper, 11. is.
Orders received by all Booksellers and News-agents in the
United Kingdom.
Office, 337, Strand, London.

Just ready, in 2 v 015.., Bvo.,
IRELAND: SOCIAL, POLITICAL,
AND RELIGIOUS.
By GUSTAVUS DE BE XUNIONT.
TRANSLATED (with NOTES and ILLUSTRATIONS)
By W. C. TAYLOR, L.L.D.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street,
Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.

MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW NOVEL.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
IRTHS, DEATHS, and MARRIAGES.
111 IV By THEODORE HOOK, Esq.
" This novel, which has great merits, gives us irresistible
snatches of humour in the character of a city merchant, whose
brother is an ex-Member of Parliament, an official pensioner,
and a dweller at the west-end, looking for a place, and a good
match for his daughter. The contrast between these characters
is drawn with great skill and truth."—Atlas.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

Price Is. 6d.,
DI CHANNING'S NEW WORK ON SLAVERY.
REMARKS ON THE SLAVERY
QUESTION,
In a Letter to Jonathan Phillips, Esq.,
By W. E. CHANNING.
Charles Fox, 67, and Wiley and Putnam, 35, Paternoster-
row.

Just published, Bvo., price 2s. sewed,
THE Rev. Dr. PYE SMITH and the
NEW POOR LAW.

By SAMUEL ROBERTS.
Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria-lane.

Just published, Second Edition, enlarged, 12m0., price 55.,
cloth, lettered,
yORKSHIRE TALES and POEMS.
By SAMUEL ROBERTS.
Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria-lane.

MERIMEE ON OIL PAINTING, BY TAYLOR.
Just published, 1 vol. post Bvo., price 12s. cloth,
THE ART of PAINTING in
.OIL and
FRESCO; describing all the Methods and Materials
used in the great Continental Schools of Painting during the
best period of Art. Translated from M. MERIMEE'S cele-
brated Work,
By W. B. SARSFIELD TAYLOR,
who has placed the English chromatic scale in junta-position
with that of France ; and added an Historical Sketch of the
English School of Painting, with the methods and materials used
therein.

" Mr. W. B. Ssrsfield Taylor, so well and honourably known
as the Senior Curator of the Living Model Academy, has exe-
cuted his task with fidelity, and has, to M. Merimee's History
of the various processes and materials employed from the time
of Hubert and Van Eyck to the present period, added some
original observations ofhis own. 5 * A most valuable manual
to the Artist."—Age.
" The Royal Academy has given this volume its sanction, by
permitting Mr. Taylor to dedicate it to them."—Literary Ga-
zette.

" The most practically useful publication which has issued
from the l'ress for many years on the subject of Art. "—Morn-
ing Herald.
Whittaker and Co., Ave Marin-lane.

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The DIRECTORS of the MIDLAND COUNTIES
RAILWAY COMPANY having, in pursuance of the pro-
visions of the Act of Incorporation, passed a resolution, calling
for a Ninth instalment of 101. per Share, to be payable on or
before the Bth day of June next, the Proprietors are required,
in conformity with such resolution, to pay the sum due on their
shares to one of the following Bankers .
London ...... Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co.
Liverpool The Bank of Liverpool
' Manchester
Bin-fling-ll,m
Leicester The Leicestorshire Banking Company
IVot ring-ham Messrs. I. and I. C. Wright and Co.
Derby
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Should the call remain unpaid after the appointed day, the
Bankers have been severally required to demand interest
thereon, after the rate of five per cent. per annum, from the
Bth day of June to the, day on which the payment shall be
actually made. By order,
J. F. BELL, Secretary.

THE CHARTISTs IN THE CITY
OF LONDON.

The LORD MAYoa received on Friday last, a letter
from Mr. WALL, the Secretary to the Committee of
the London Chartists, on the subject of the Meeting of
the body calling themselves by that, name, in conse-
quence of which his Lordship appointed to see the
Secretary yesterday morning.
The Secretary attended yesterday at the Mansion
House, accompanied by Mr. Ferrar, a leading man
amongst the Chartists. They were both persons of
respectable appearance, and very respectful in their
conduct.

The Loan MAYOR said, that he had sent for Mr.
Wall in consequence of having heard that another
Meeting of the Chartists was appointed to take place
in Smithfield on that evening.
The SECRETARY assured the Lord Mayor, that the
last Meeting was not held by the 'Chartists whom he
recognised as the body whose officer he was, but by
persons who arc doing injury to the cause which the
friends of liberty were supporting and promoting.
The LORD MAYOR observed, that the fact just
stated, was an additional reason for the circumspect
conduct of those who were generally supposed to be the
promoters of the Meetings, and ought to guide them
against attending the meeting of that day. They had
had one or twn meetings in Smithfield, and he thought
they ought to be satisfied with that extent of indul-
gence. At all events he was determined to put an end
to the matter. However harmless the intentions of
those who called the meetings, and of those who assem-
bled, a great deal of alarm was excited in the minds
of the peaceable inhabitants of the neighbourhoo I, the
free passage along the public highway was obstructed,
and remonstrances were made to him for having allowed
•so offensive a nuisance to be perpetrated.
Mr. FARRER said that the object of the Chartists,
whom he and Mr. Wail represented, was not to create
disturbance. They had always entreated the people to
behave in an orderly manner, and to avoid the slightest
imputation of having any idea of violating the law.—
Their meetings were not like those which bad been held
by Henry Hunt in Spafields, when that gentleman used
to address the people, who never separated without
breaking windows and doing other mischief.
The LORD MAYOR said that calling upon the people
to attend the meeting armed, and arms having been
brought into and deposited in Smithfield, as he knew
was the case, proved quite sufficient ground to convince
him that persons assembled there for illegal purposes,
and should any disturbance take place the speakers and
holders of banners would be implicated in all the conse-
quences. As the Secretary and Mr. Farrar had called
upon him he did not hesitate to tell them that if they
met in Smithfield after the proclamation they would

incur a serious responsibility.
Mr. WALL said that they had no wish to meet night
after night as had been' proposed, and that they did all
they could to prevent last Monday evening's meeting,
and certainly would nut attend the meeting aApointed
for that night.

LORD LINDSAY'S LETTERS ON TIIE HOLY
LAND.-The whole of this work is well worthy of diligent
and attentive perusal by any one who feels an interest in
the by-gone glories and future destiny of the Holy Land.
It is no more than just praise to say of Lord Lindsay, that
he has given us a book which combines instruction and
amusement in a very singular degree—exhibiting a just.
ness of thought and feeling which would become the ex-
perience of maturer years. • The account of his Journey
to Upper Egypt, and of his visit to all those ancient cities
of the Nile, is highly entertaining ; the letters are lively
and instructive; enriched by notes and extracts from va-
rious authors. The second volume is devoted entirely to
an account of the author's wanderings in the Holy Land,
and the countries adjacent, inclusive of Pore. It is supe-
rior, we think, to the first volume. We arc not carried
away by that Pegasus of speculation and eloquence, which
here and acre, is too strong for his amiable master—" We
creep aloes by the earth," as is the most fitting where the
"place whereon we are standing is holy ground."—
Quarterly Review. A third edition or. this excellent Rork
has just appeared.

DREADFUL DEATH ON TIIE KINGSTOWN
RAILWAY.—A sailor was killed near Salt Hill station-
house on Thursday evening, at about ten tnihutes after
four. The train passed over his head, and almost cut it of.
The accident occurred by his having been soved out of
one of the third class earrioges in a sqsubble With
another passenger.—Dublin Post.