27 OCTOBER 1855, Page 18

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THE NATIONAL GALLERY.

In calling attention last week to the then forthcoming reopening of the National Gallery, we threw out some conjectures by way of question as to any novelty that might possibly be found there. It is unsatisfactory enough to revert to the subject for the sole purpose of reporting that there is nothing to report. The "Religion and the Virtues " of Angelica Kauff- mann, which we had missed from the Gallery, not reluctantly, for two or three years past, is restored to a dark part of the staircase ; and, if our memory serves us, some of the other pictures here and there are altered in their hanging. Beyond this nothing is new—neither acquisition nor "restoration." But we have no intention of grumbling before thetime.