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ErariSH institutiox. 



On the £lst of November a meeting of the com- 

 mittee of directors of the British Inslilution was held at 

 the Gallery in Pall-mall, for the [)Lirpose of adjudging tlni 

 premiimis offered for the. three best companions to pictures 

 selected from the works of the old masters. — I'he foUowine: 

 was t!jc decision : 



To Mr. Pocock, jun. the premium of one hundred pounds 

 for his picture of " Archbishop Beckct's Insolent Visit to 

 the Palace of Henry the Second, with the Intention of 

 excoran)unicatiiig that Monarch." Painted as a companion 

 to Mr. Angcrsteiu's " Theodosius" by Vandyke. — To Mr. 

 James Green tb.e premium of sixty pounds, for his picture 

 of " Gadshill and the Carriers j" from the second act of (he 

 iirst part of Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth. Painted as a 

 companion to Mr.Duncombe's " Candlelight" by Rubens. — 

 To miss Reinacle the premium of forty pounds, for her 

 " Landscape with Banditti." Painted as a companion to 

 lord Granthani's " Mercury and Admetus" by Salvator 

 Kosa. 



The stimulus thus atforded not onlv to those artists who 

 have been so deservedly successful, but also to their less for- 

 tunate competitors (among v.hom are several who have pro- 

 duced works of considerable merit), will doubtlessly be 

 evinced ,in their future performances. Indeed, we confidently 

 anticipate that the governors of the British Institution, if 

 they pursue the liberal line of conduct that they have hither- 

 to adopted, will ultimately enjoy the satisfaction of brino-- 

 ing the arts to a stale more nearly approximalino- to perfec- 

 tion, than they have ever yet arrived to in this country. 



FRENCH NATIONAL INSTITUTE. 



[Concluded from page 187.] 



Medicine, which is nothing else than the application of 

 the laws of the animal oeconomy to the cure of diseases, has 

 lately made one of its most important discoveries, viz. Vac- 

 cination. Its preservative properties pre nt pil-chcnt sufiiciently 

 demonstrated j but observations are still wanting, as to the 

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