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National Drug and Chemical Company ; 
capital £250,000, in 10,000 shares of £25 
each. 
National Poultry Joint-Stock Company ; 
capital £200,000.—Solicitor, G. P. An- 
drews- 3 
New Levant Free Trading Company ; 
eapital £2,000,000 in shares of £100 each. 
—Solicitors, Bowden and Walters. 
Newspaper Investment Society ; capital 
£21,000, in 210 shares of £100 each.— 
Solicitor, Wm. Tooke. 
New Street Company, for forming a 
New Street from the North End of South- 
wark Bridge, to the Royal Exchange ; 
capital £600,000, in shares of £200 each. 
—Solicitors, Ravenhill and Crook. 
New Zealand Company ; 
£1,000,000. — Solicitor, Swaine, Stevens 
and Co. 
Norwich and Lowestoff Navigation Com- 
pany; capital £120,000.—Solicitors, Hall 
and -Brownley. 
Palladium Life and Fire Assurance So- 
ciety ; capital £2,000,000.—Secretary, Wal- 
ter Cosser. 
Patent Steam Canal Company, for 
England and Wales ; capital £600,000, 
in 6000 shares of £10 each.—Solicitor, 
W. J. Willett. 
Peruvian Trading and Mining Company. 
—Solicitors, Nind and Cotterell. 
Polyhymnian Company ; capital £100,000. 
Protector Fire Insurance Company ; 
capital £5,000,000.—Secretary, W. Harris. 
Rio de la Plata Agricultural Association. 
—Solicitor, Maxted. 
Rock Reversionary and Loan Society. 
Solicitors, Blacker and Gaitskell. 
Royal Stannary and British 
Association. 
Scottish National Mining Company.— 
Solicitors, Blunt and Ray. 
.Sea and Inland Coal Company.—Solici- 
tors, Maughan and Fothergill. 
South American Company.—Solicitors, 
Maughan and Fothergill. 
The Surgeon and Apothecary’s Drug 
Company, formed November 1824; capital 
£200,000.—Solicitors, Burn and Durrant. 
Timber and Wood Company; capital 
£1,000,000, in shares of £100 each — 
Solicitor, William Chisholme. 
United Empire and Continental Life 
Assurance Association.—Solicitor, Christo- 
pher Godmond. 
United Kingdom Estate Association ; 
eapital £2,000,000, in 20,000 shares of 
£100 each.—Solic., Fisher and Norcutt. 
United Medical, Chemical and Drug 
Company ; capital £250,000, in shares of 
£25 each. — Solicitors, Oliverson and 
Denby. 
United Pacific Trading, Mining and Pearl 
Fishery -Association,—Solic., G. Gregory. 
_Welsh Copper, Lead and Slate Mining 
Company.—Solicitors, Wilks and Verbeke. 
Welsh Iron and Coal Mining Company. 
Secretary, John Lawford. 
Mining 
Topic of the Month :—Fine Arts. 
capital , 
[ May 1; 
Toric of the Montu:—FINE ARTS. 
_ SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS, 
HE strength of this exhibition consists, 
as already admitted, in its landscapes ; 
and, of these, there are many of which the 
pictorial genius of our country may be fairly 
proud. Though we cannot be quite so 
patriotically partial asto admit that we have 
yet actually produced a Claude (although 
we remember that we have had a Wilson), 
yet we have, at least, twolandscape painters, 
at this time, whose names will shed a lasting 
lustre over the English school. Their 
merits are sufficiently distinet to bear com- 
parison, without exciting an envious rivalry, 
or betraying into invidious partiality. In 
composition and design, and fidelity to 
nature, they, perhaps, are equal. In selec- 
tion and variety of subject, Glover has 
evidently the advantage : he indulges more 
in the poetry of his art—he creates more ; 
and does not cramp his genius so much by 
the more profitable transcript of localities. 
He stores his mind with the picturesque 
materials of nature, and then makes of 
them a world of his own. And, we con- 
fess, it is always with regret, that we 
see an artist embued with the genuine 
feeling of poetic landscape, depart, even 
occasionally, from this exalted path, to 
measure with mincing-step the enclosure 
of the ornamental park, with its spruce 
temples and fantastic pavilions, its clean- 
swept walks and nicely weeded borders ; 
or pausing to transfer, to his canvass, an 
exact resemblance of every new-painted 
window-frame in the stately mansion that 
overlooks them. In handling such subjects, 
even the most inspired pencil loses its vivi- 
fying power. Imagination falters as it 
approaches the trim parterre, the velvet 
lawn, and artificial clump. It is no longer 
the creation, but the mechanism of art 
that is exhibited; and the phenominal 
fidelity of historic landseape degenerates 
into the egotistic insipidity of mere local 
portrait. With all our admiration of Hof- 
land, we cannot but lament that he should 
find it expedient to devote himself, so fre- 
quently, to such subjects; the more es- 
pecially, as we cannot but perceive that it is 
not in his minuter imitations of local scenery 
that his style of execution appears to 
most advantage. In his sketches of Derby- 
shire scenery, even his Jittle bits—his peep, 
for example, from “ the peak cavern of in- 
fernal Lok” (the more popularly poetical 
name, of course, we must not mention)— 
we see the pencil of the artist; for the 
scenery is calculated to awaken the 
feeling of the art: but in scenes where 
the locality, merely, is the evident’ object of 
selection, it is obvious that he frequently feels 
the poverty and tameness of his subjects, 
endeavours to relieve their monotony by 
something that approaches to a sparkling 
