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has Sir Henry Ellis been indebted for the success with 
which he has discharged the duties of his most responsible 
office. We are sure that the good wishes which have, 
we understand, been conveyed to him from the highest 
quarters, that he may long enjoy the leisure which he 
has so well earned, will be echoed by all who know 
him. 
The columns of The Atheneum haye of late borne fre- 
uent and unmistakeable evidence of a desire on the part 
of the public for the establishment of a Nationul Portrait 
Gallery. Weare glad to see that the subject is attract- 
ing such general attention; and that Lord Stanhope has 
given notice of his intention to move, in his place in the 
House of Lords, on Tuesday next, ‘‘an Address to Her 
Majesty, praying that Her Majesty would be graciously 
pleased to take into her royal consideration, in connexion 
with the site of the present National Gallery, the prac- 
ticability and expediency of forming by degrees a Gallery 
of Original Portraits, such portraits to consist as far as 
possible of those persons who are most honourably com- 
memorated in British history as warriors or as states- 
men, or in arts, in literature, or in science.” The country, 
we are sure, will be well gleased to see this matter in 
Lord Stanhope’s hands. As the hereditary representative 
of men whose portraits should grace the walls of such a 
gallery —as himself the historian of a most important 
period in England’s history — and though last, not least, 
as President of the Society of Antiquaries, the task of 
awakening the attention of Parliament to this interesting 
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