ABSTRACT
Earl Stanhope said, that, in bringing forward the Motion of which he had given notice for the gradual formation of a Gallery ofNational Portraits, he begged, in the first place, to observe that the question was not altogether new to Parliament. Four years since, just before the last general election, and while he was still a Member of the House of Commons, he introduced this project in a conversation on the Miscellaneous Estimates. A right hon. Gentleman (Mr Disraeli) who represented the Government at that time - it was the Government ofthe noble Earl (the Earl ofDerby) - expressed himself in approving terms of that proposal ...
