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    will occasionally be unsuccessful and break down , and from whatever cause such failures may take nlaee , whether from mismanagement on the ¦ part ot its conductors , or from causes external to . the compan y , there is no good reason to be advanced in favour of the continuation of the present state of the law , which holds the innocent and prudential iwlicy-holder answerable for the amount of the whole debts of the society . It is not sufficient , in , the case of a mutual society , as the law now stands , that the loss should be limited to the premiums paid to the institution , for , if need be , it must extend to the sacrifice of his whole property . In our next we shall direct attention more precisely to the real state of the law , and point out such remedies a * -appear to us calculated to place policy-holders in a better and improved condition .

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    THE ' 'EXHIBITION ¦ OF THE SOCIETY OT niiTTISH AHTISTS , SUFFOLR-STRKBT , T- \ . IA , MAIJi . The private view of . this exhibition takes place this day , and will be found much stronger than usual iii landscape and domestic subjects . As the word "improvement" may . be considered supercilious , we will only go so far as to say that several leading men have been felicitous iii their choice of scenes and subjects , and that _ many Of the yetundistinguished painters who exhibit here , wordd , in our youncr days , have been considered < -reat jruns at the Hoyal Academv . The liasbesides

    president , Mr . Ilurlstone , , some portraits , two works of the high school and of much power . One is the appeal of Desdenuma to Othello ; the other is . Hamlet , Gertrude , and the Ghost , at , the instant when the former stubs Folonius through the arras . The former picture strikes ii * as the finest'conception of the two . but both exhibit , fine ¦ ¦¦ drawing . ' Mr . Suiter has a picture , On which we cannot , congratulate him , of'Sir "Walter Raleigh ' s widow pleading before King James for her husband ' s lands . Mr . Leighr ton , whose " Procession of Dante" caused such a sensation at the Royal Acadamy live years since , has an ' historical work , which , to say the most , is 1

    very singular . This gentleman ' speculiar weakness appears to be for Titian , and with the exception of the drawing , Avhich is not good enough ,, his present ¦ p icture might be taken for * a copy from that in aster . It is a relief to turn to Mr . Deficit Francis' " Scottish Gleaner" ( 144 ) , a large and highly wrouirht female study , beautifully drawn and richly lit up . Mr . Pync has a large noble picture of Genoa , in which he has displayed all his power ;' and an Italian dreamy lake scene , to which mnuv will give the profcrenco . Mr . Cole displays a large and masterly cattle piece ; and Mr . liaxter ' some of those lovely studios « . » f heads ibr which he is renowned . Mr . De Fleury ujnl Mr . Slutldera are two landscape painters who have taken : great strides . The former would appear , from No , 4-20 , to bo a worshipper pf Pvne ; the latter , wo see by jSo . 42 * 5 , worships nature unadorned . Both these works nro ' excellent ' specimens . Mr . ; Cobbett is more than usually fascinating ; he has several powerful interiors , Breton and Kngliish , besides two hutrous bevies of outdoor beauties . Jli . s great works arc " 1 leather Belles" ( 11 ) , and "IS ' ut Gatherers " ( 188 ) , One of the best known members ' hero , Mr . Gosling , whoso woodland scones nil amateurs must well remember , has this year materially altered his . style , and has most * successfully nLsuidotiod the almost extreme bruiidtWpvhioh ot ' lato yxs {\ va characterised his work . Mr . Clint's ' ? Coast Scenes " < 27 'i and 294 ) , show decided improvement in aonseof colour . Mr . ] $ o « kUngton'n unimprovable ohofd \ euvre «' ] 8 , of course , usr / o ^ f , still pool , bathed in dim , religious twilight . Mr . J . F . Petti tt , head of the London branch of this extensive clan , and almost the fbunder of a high-chus * landscape school , exhibits , besides minor works , two ini " posing- gallery specimens of his industry nnd skill , pf these "A Salmon Tool" (/ JG'i ) , embowered in lofty trees , through which a rndinnt aunbonin plays , is a picture that the lover of nature may muse ovor ayain and again with pleasure . Tho large " VmW on tlio Conwfty , " in tho great room , by tho snmo loyal hand , is a miracle of handiwork inUoocl . This puintor delights more in onglneoring dUflouHicis than in whut vulgar mortalsuru pleased to term success , J , » tho pursuit , of tho fprmor ho leaves . samuUxnos the path of tho piuturorfuuu

    and beautiful ; and while the hundred sympathisers appreciate and admire , the million are apt to pass him by , or linger but to smile . These Conway rocks , with their cranky holes , corners , and curves , worn into basins by the ceaseless whirl of boulder stones , have given Mr . Pettitt a subject after his own heart , lie lias first got down into an almost inaccessible gully , where painter , easel , and all , must be in hourly clanger of being flooded . He has then outlined , with photographic accuracy , the most fantastically tangled forms of rock that can be conceived , even by rock and river experts . Lastlv , lie has truly coloured every ridge , and point" and hollow , in the stream bed ; exery spot of

    licheiij every streak of land drainage , and every spray of ivy . But the result , after months of mental and physical toil , is a wonder-picture that a few only can understand , and a very few adequately pay for . Mr . Yieat Cole is one of the new lights of the Society , and will in time be a very bright one ; his landscape ( 34 ) is a work of great beauty ; , the sky is somewhat low in tone , but the barked tree and clustering wild flowers of the foreground arc admirable . Mr . Ilenzell is in the track of Mr . Cobbett , and makes way very fast .

    He has several pictures , which show an advance within twelve months ' that we hardly anticipated . Mr . Ilemsley has a good lrw-eomedy pieture- ^ thc administration—oiy as the doctors say , the " exhibition " —of pap , porridge , or " Godfrey , " to a naturally discontented infant , by its elder brothers and sisters . Mr . Woolmer has ' h is usual pieces of bright colour . Mr . West is strong in Irish inlets and Norway Fjords ; and ' the' veteran Zeitter , whose hand" seemed , last year , to have wellnigh forgotten 'her cunning , is onee move , we are pleased to see , in form again .

    IXSTITl'TION OF FIKK ARTS , PORTLAND GALLERY , KEtJEXT ST 1 JKKT . The twelfth . exhibition of tliis prospering little society is , in landscape—to which its members and exhibitors seem to devote ¦ their almost entire attention—a good deal above its average . It ; being beside our purpose to find reasons for tlie comparative scarcity of high art works , we will proceed at once to name , with small pretence to order , the few paintings of either school that seem -best to claim a place in our first notice . Hie

    The Messrs . Underbill—by one of whom is " Jew ' s Harp " ( No . I)—have several important pictures / presenting , with one exception , their usual characteristics . In our anticipatory notes of last week we unfairly omitted to observe that one of these , at least—by Mr . If . Underbill— " The . Hose of Lucerne , " presents agreenbe points of / inference from the generality of his productions . The sweet faces of the . Trinket Seller of Lucerne are very pleasing and nicely studied . The shadows may be here and there even too thin—a , fault we have never before found with Mr . Underbill ; and there is a great deal of light in the picture . " Left in Charge " ( 6 > , by J . D . Watson , represents a pretty little girl cradleIt is

    at work hear a sleeping babe in a . a common-place subject enough bv this time * but one of the last that tho gentle-minded should scoff at . The artist woll deserves a position among the pain tens of domestic scenes . The chequered light in Mr . B . W . Leader's " Woodland Pool " ( 24 ) , is a pleasant reminiscence , and a number of the same artist ' s works promise excellent things . His " Mountain ' Top " ( 30 ) , and " Ben Voirlioh " ( 181 ) , will please all admirers of mountain scenery . His ' Warren Gate , Albury " — a phot . ogruph-liku portrait of a well-known gate and tree—must arrest all who love the simple school of fluid and hedgerow ; and his other workof tho sumo Boeotian typo ,

    , " Early Summer Time " (; J 2 . 'J ) , is a really wonderful trnnscr . pt from nature . Its springrgroon corn-flold , its self-coloured ¦ Surrey Viillfl , tho barked oak in tho foreground , and tho some-what stilF trees , may bo warranted true copies and faithful " to nature in colour . Mr . Henry Moore ' s " Gathering Bark " would bettor have boon culled a south coast or Devonshire scone ; its iidrlul perspective is excellent , A noblo bay stretches miles and miles from tho haven and tho just indicated village . Tho Ushers' boats standing sunward graduato tho distance ; thu shadows of clouds play lightly upon tho

    bluo water , but the foreground burk-gathoror is do Iron . JNlr . llorlor ' s ^ meritorious " Call and Sheep *' will claim a glanuo in pausing to tho blazing " Hanfoiu and Clover in Flpwor " of Mr . Kavon . Hero is a largo canvas dovotod to u , labour of lovo , woprosuino . Jt cannot bo doniod--in fact , it shpuld not bo —that the pa inter Itiw well ( succeeded in his aim . Tho ' hues arc garish , it is true , but time will subduo them . The slender tree ou tho proper loft of tho ploturo 1 , 3 a beautiful fvutura again , but tho gonoral ullbct produaod has moro of wonder than pleasure ibout it . " lied Wheat and Wild Slower * " ( 123 ) ,

    and " Mid-day on the South Downs , by the same hand , are , in their way , curiosities , and will not fail to attract connoisseurs . Mr . C . Rossiter ' s " Turnstile" ( 9 ?) , a minutely-. finished and amusing group of children in close confabulation must find a host of admirers ; nor will the investigative pass over his tiny work , " Too Hot * ' ( 564 ) - Mr . John Thorpe has two admirable works . " For Sale" ( 133 ) represents a beached vessel , with the besom at her mast-head , and the usual accessories around her . We demur to the very urban-looking lamii-post , which , of co \ irse , must have been on the ground to have found a place on tlie canvas , but which is , to all intents , " a sun-beam that has lost

    its way" on the sea-beach : but with this most trivial exception , which a discreet purchaser would paint out by himself or his agents , the picture is a very nice one . The " Pevensey Bay—Windy Weather . " is a fitting companion for the work gust named . Mr . J . Adam is a painter of power and promise . The " Mill-stream " ( 131 ) is small and covetable ; and in various corners of the room we were attracted , as in the case of Mr . Leader , by works which turned out , en reference , to be by this artist . His " Summer Evening" ( 376 ) is of " tlie same calibre as the lastnamed . The " J ) ruids' Circle near Keswick " ( 461 ) , a picture very low hung and barely the boldest in th Tire

    visible , is one of e rooms . orange light of declining day gilds the weirdlooking circle and the vista of mountain cra ? s all in due degree , and the chill solemnity of sundown is finely suggested . " jperwent Water * " again , a shockingly dull , lifeless , lightless picture , is , iii its way , very clever . The hues of the fell-side that overhangs Grimge village , and of the grey old clay slate crags that protrude through the turf in that place , cry " stand , " to all who with eyes to see have wandered there . '' Of the rocks and stream in the same painter ' s " Otter- Hunt , " we may speak with praise , but the trees have the questionable air of lean bank

    boughs stuck , for the occasion , in the river ' s . In the lied Tarn , Helvellyn , " Mr . George Pettitt , a younger brother of the justly-eminent landscapepainter Of the name , has given a specimen of his best abilities / and the result of much study on tho spot . The Stridcn ^ Edg 3 and Catchedceaiii , drawn .. near ,.-by the clearness of the mountain air , seem to menace the spectator . In tlie middle distance the faithful dog Matches the Voily of his ^ mister , as described in Scott ' s poem ; and the dull , dead tarn reflects in the foreground all the horrors of the scene . In his "Lai ? o d'Orta " ( 418 ) and " Village oil Lake Conip" ( 486 ) he has given us elegantly ; fanciful < lt > iiiiGfttions of Italian mountains , but witji far less

    l ) OM-er . Few will be so bold iis to deny that both ( the latter especiallj' ) exhibit much talent in sketching ami chiaro-scuro ; but it were as hard to deny that both arc too transparently artificial . Two scions of this strong artistic clan—Messrs , C . and B . Tettitt—are also exhibitors . ' The former has abandoned , anil , wo hope , for a permanency ,, the uncompromising liar . lncss . that threatened to mar an industrious career , and shows at least one meritorious work . Tlie ? ' Margin of a-3 Slou . ntai . il Lake , " a stilly pool backed hy feathering woods and a crumbling mountain-slope , is ¦«« ftH respects , excellent , save in the piece of foreground , which , though well studied , seems out of place .

    This defect is , however , moro than balanced by the skill with which the artist ' has indicated—Jiot " jiig-gled out "—the stratification of the background crags and tho " scrcps , " , a 3 tho Londoners have it , tlic dCbtU which slope irom their summit . U > the bosom of tho pool . Mr . E . Pcttitt ' s works are , as may be expected of so young a professional , of the " promising" order only . His ' Juno" ( 450 ) and ' JMoimtuin Home " ( 438 ) are both true as true can be in point of sketching , though in colour , tho first especially , is over blue . Mr . W . E . ISates ' d most pleasing picture is " Dover Heach" ( M ( i ) , and his other soa-sido pieces ( VM to 428 ) , are all nienumous .

    Tho Wijliams family ure prolific as over . Were wo to detail tho charming , river and sua-coast picturos that delight , this year us over , even those to whom tho manner of theso artists it as familiar as their names , we should soon overrun our space . Whether it Wi'lintus , a Percy , n Uoddliigton , or a Gilbert selects a " Rreozy J ) ny on Thames" ( M />) , "An Kvoulntf on Thames " ( M 7 ) , a Sussox lluyfold ( with u daring and successful attempt at out hay ) , "ltupoio ' ( : )««) , a " Suiomer Kveniu « " a goin ( g'Mh or " On tho South Const" ( . "J . V . ») . or a auporl > " Welsh Autumn" ( 1 ( 50 ) , they uru always clmrining to us who , dwelling among tho house-tops , lira glud to burnish ^ ith tlielr Hynumtliotlo uld our wul L bulovod

    associations . . Wo flliull continuo our notice of this exliimtion in an i'iwly number . Orit lidvocacy of a lieurlng for tho " Oia Watorcolour Soolc-ty " Imibro tho distributors of tho UurlhigUJU-hiMMa Krttato , haa )) r < mght on us ai brisk lire of correspondence from niomboivs and patrons ot other bodluu , who conceive themselves to have tin ouuul

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 26, 1859, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2287/page/21/