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had been some dirty weather , and both the Alert and Discovery had lost a whale-boat . The health of the Expedition is reported to be excellent , and the enthusiasm very great . As regards the supply of dogs , twenty-five have already been received at Disco , twenty more will be ready

at Ritenbenk , and the rest will be taken aboard at Uppernivik . The services of an Esquimaux have been engaged at the first of these three places , and Captain Nares expresses a hope that Hans , who was in the Polaris with Captain Hall ,

may be willing to join . The Valorous , which accompanied the ships , reached Plymouth Sound on Sunday afternoon , when the mails and parcels from the Alert and Discovery were at once dispatched . The Valorous does not appear to have had a very pleasant time of it on her return home .

Cricket is still in favour , but when we read of a sixth match between North and South in the same season it is

clear the end is at hand . It has come , indeed , to all intents and purposes , and , save a few scratch and school matches , we shall have nothing further to record this year . The matches that have been recently played have been the following : —The Return between Surrey and

Gloucestershire ended in the single innings defeat of tho former , with 84 runs to spare . Surrey made 181 and 104 , Elliott , Swann , Pooley and Humphrey being the chief contributors , while the principal feature of the Gloucestershire performance was the not out innings of 180 , Mr . W . G . Grace ( 21 ) ,

Dr . E . M . Grace ( 28 ) , Mr . F . Townsend ( 42 ) , and Mr , Monkland ( 58 ) , being the double figures . Yorkshire defeated Notts in the return match , making 49 and 183 , while the latter totalled 87 and 58 . So far as the sixth North and South has been played , eight wickets of the

latter have fallen for 88 , Mr . W . G . Grace with 29 , and B . Humphrey not out 24 , being the only double figures thus far . Soon we shall be reading of football , of the scrummages , the hots , the punts out , touches down , & c . —terms so familiar to the experienced . But should

any of our readers be in any way anxious to learn then meaning , with a view to taking part in some friendly contest , we recommend them to study Mr . Alcock ' s useful little Football Annual for the current year . There they will find all the information they need , indeed , everything

they can possibly wish to know about tho game , its rules , and the clubs that exist throughout the country . As regards the other sports , yachting is coming to a close for this season , and we shall soon have the last of the South Coast Regattas . People , indeed ,

are beginning to think of resuming work—all save oui legislators and fashionables , who have hardly yet got into the swing of their pleasure . This month , too , the London theatres will be waking up after their brief rest from labour . Meantime , the Promenade Concerts , with the

companies that play in London at this period of the year , are doing their best to enliven us , and the former , especially , nightly draw crowded houses . Signor Arditi fully deserves

the patronage of the British for the very admirable programme he arranges both on the classical and other ni ghts , while his orchestra back him up most enthusiastically with all the skill they can command .

One of the leading events of the year at Sheffield is the Cutlers' Feast , and the meeting was a more than usually brilliant one on Thursday , when Mr . Alderman Tozer was installed Master for the ensuing year . Among the guests present to do honour to the occasion were the Dnke of

Norfolk , Lord Wharncliffc , Mr . Mark Firth , Mayor of Sheffield , whose gift of a park was the occasion of the recent visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales , and Mr . Roebuck , the old and tried representative of the town . The usual toasts were proposed and cordially acknowledged ,

the speech of the evening being that of Mr . Roebuck , who spoke with his usual strong common sense , a quality which his constituents and the guests at this feast seem readily to acknowledge , but which does not always experience the same fate at other times and in other places . One of

the points on which he enlarged , and , as we think , most successfully , was the excellent effect produced by the visit of their Royal Highnesses . Wo feel that we can heartily endorse all that Mr . Roebuck said so eloquently on this subject , and the honourable gentleman

himself deserves infinite credit for having been , as he lolls us he was , the instrument for securing so splendid an interchange of kindly and good wishes between Royalty and what has always been considered a stronghold of Radicalism . The news from the Continent is more reassuring , bat the embers of general disturbance are not yet utterly stamped

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out . There is , happily , a determination on the part of the three great Eastern powers , to stop any action on the part of Servia and Montenegro . They proclaim they will have no attack on Turkey . Quite right too . A parcel of marauding ruffians set about burning , rifling , and

destroying all they can lay their hands upon , and thus expect to obtain the sympathies of Asiatic Europe with their lawless conduct . All this is done , of course , on the ground of nationality or religious liberty We wonder Turkey , like other countries , is not left to settle with its own revolted subjects .

Germany has been in the full tide of celebrating the victory of Sedan . The rejoicings are only natural , but we wish they had been in honour of some less desperate struggle than the recent contest between Germany and France . There is no question that the Alphonsist troops have made

considerable progress latterly . We hope the pacification of Spain may be not so very distant , but we confess that , at present , we see no beginning of the end . There is little else to record , except that there have been some financial difficulties in California . It is satisfactory , however , to learn that confidence is returning .

The fifteen sections will be worked in the Dalston Lodge of Instruction , Havelock Tavern , Albion Road , Dalston , on Wednesday , 8 th instant , at 7 p . m . precisely . Bros . Gilchrist P . M . 933 W . M ., Howe P . G . P . Middx . P . M . 1445

S . W ., Lee W . M . 1524 J . W . 975 J . W . FIRST LECTUEE . 1 st Section , Bro . Stock No . 1178 2 nd „ Bro . Marsh No . 1326 3 rd „ Bro . Lister J . W . No . 1524 4 th „ Bro . Christian ... D . C . No . 1278 5 th „ Bro . Fieldwick ... I . G . No . 1364 6 th „ Bro . Finder S . W . No . 15 , Sec . 1445 7 th „ Bro . Salisbury P . M . No . 901 and 403

SECOND LECTUEE . 1 st Section , Bro . Chapman S . W . No . 1524 J . D . 869 2 nd „ Bro . Leo W . M . No . 1524 J . W . 975 3 rd „ Bro . Gross W . S . No . 1278 4 th „ Bro . Howe P . G . P . Middx . P . M . 1445 5 th „ Bro . Fieldwick I . G . No . 1364 TIDED LECTUEE .

1 st Section , Bro . Walliugton W . M . No . 860 2 nd „ Bro . Stephens W . M . No . 14 S 9 P . M . 1365 3 rd „ Bio . Leo W . M . No . 1524 J . W . 975

Bro . J . R . Mayo , 46 ' Devonshire-square , Bishopsgate , is a candidate for the Vacant Gown in the Court of Common Council caused by the decease of the late Mr . Heeps . This Ward is the most populous in the City of London , and numbers 1 , 182 voters .

We would beg to call the attention of our brethren to the Historical Picture of the Installation , the advertisement of which appears in another page . The artist is , we are informed , now in Paris , arranging respecting the engraving of it , and it is receiving the patronage of nearly all the

Grand Officers and distinguished Masons . The M . W . Grand Master having carefully inspected it , has specially sanctioned its dedication to himself . This AVC regard as a guarantee that it is what it is represented to be , namely : a faithful record of au event unparalleled in Masonic history .

An extraordinary feat was performed , b y Geo . Boden , aged 15 , on a bicycle ; he started from Loudon at half-past eight on Monday morning , and arrived in Brighton , at the

Aquarium Hotel , Bro . M . Van Diepenbeim ' s , at a quarter to two o ' clock , accomplishing the feat with perfect ease . He had previously done 1 mile in 3 minutes and 25 seconds at tho Kennington Oval .

The Vezm-Chippendale Company Lave been playing " The School for Scandal , " "As you Like it , " aud " " She Stoops to Conquer , " at the Theatre Royal—Bro . Nye Chart ' s establishrnent—Brighton .

A great Masonic Conference is announced to take placo at Lausanne next month . Delegates from every Grand Lodge in the world arc expected . It seems that there is a dreadful schism among Swiss Masons . Until a few years back they lived in Republican sty le , without a Grand