The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-20 00:00:00

P ÜBLICATION S.

Published this day, price 25..66,!.. illustrated by a Map,
DEFENCE of 131-11116 I-1 INDIA from
RUSSIAN INVASION.
fly Major CHARLES F. HEAD,
Now employed on a particular Service in Canada.
Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill.

ASSAM COMPANY.
Now ready, with maps, price 23. 6tl.
A. BRIEF SKETCH of the COUNTRY
of ASSAM—its Productions and Soil—of the disco-
iery of the Tea Plant, the formation of the Company, with its
prospects, and a short account of the adjoining countries.
' Smith. Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill.

THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE
NATIONAL GALLERY.
THE PROPRIETORS OF THE WEEKLY CHRO-
NICLE" TO THE PEOPLE OF THE BRITISH

EMPI RE.

The Proprietors of the " WEEKLY CHRONICLE'," en-
couraged by the still increasing prosperity of their Journal, hay.)
determined upon the publication of a series of Portraits,
ENGRAVED ON STEEL,

To be called collectively " THE NATIONAL GALLERY;"
thi, title being ado:aed from the conviction that any other
name, less comprehe,.sive, 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 " IHE 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.
OBJECTS 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 Men who have most dis-
tinguished themselves during the present cen'ury ; and whose
labours, whether in the field or the senate, have exercised the
greatest influence upon the age in which hey live. In ~Edition
to these will be given the most distinguished Women id 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 tecently presented to the Readers of the
" WEEKLY CHRONICLE."
The Publication of the GALLERY will proceed in the fol-
io ,ing order :
DUKE OF WELLINGTON. LORD LYNDHURST.
LORD GREY. MR. O'CONNELL.
SIR R. PEEL. DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBER
MR. WILBERFORCE. LAND.
LORD DURHAM. LOD LEICESTER.
THE SPEAKER. Loan SPENCER.
HER MAJESTY. THE QUEEN DOWAGRR.
LORD MELBOURNE. SIR JAMES GRAHAM.
DUCHESS OF KENT. ILORDMARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.
Loan JOHN RUSSELL.
DUCHESc OF SUTHERLAND. Loan STANLEY.
MARQUIS OF NORMANBY. ILORD MORPETII.
LORD BROUGHAM.
MODE OF PUBLICATION.
To each Portrait will be appended an impartial Biographical
Memoir, printed on imperial hot-pressed qua; to. 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 TAO Engravings, with Two Me-
moirs. fo 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 'nice
will be as at. present, Fourpence-halfpenny.
THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE NATIONAL GALLERY.

A Portrait will be delivered with a Paper on the payment of
One Shilling ; and at the same time a Ticket, which will en-
title the holtter to a Paper and a " :Memoir," on the following
week, for " nothing." The first number of " The -N,,,tiotal
Gallory" %via be poblisli,d on the 01 July next, and the cur-
responding Memoir on the Bth ; so that in each alb irate week
there will given a Portrait or Memoir. The work will form
a magnificent annual volume in imperial quarto—a volume not
to be purchased, at the presenttime, at less than Five Guinean.
Every precaution has been taken by the Proprietors to he pro-
v,dAl with a supp!y—great a; the demand must necessarily be—
by the erection of steam machinery on the premises, at the out-
lay of several thousand pounds. Specimens of the Portraits
will be found at the principal Newsvenders throughout the
United Kingdom. That of his Grace the Duke of Wellington
may, together with a Memoir, be received by ill Agents by
the 20th of April.
ARTISTS ENGAGED FOR THE WORK.

The Proprietors feel that they have only to give the names
of Hayter, Chalon, Latina, and Stewart, as the Painters em-
ployed for the NATIONAL GALLERY, to at once assets
themselves of the eonfidente 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 Findcn, 11.
Robinson, Mote, Cook, Wagstaff, W. 8011, Brown, Ball,
&c. &c. &c. Hence, the Publishers have, they c:toceive, given
sufilicent warranty that no considerations cost have weighed
with them in their attempts to make the NATIONAL GAL-
LERY worthy of its ambitious title. 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 the humblest Englishman—the painter for the Court will be
the painter for the Cottage.